OverlyAbstractNonsense

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[Glenn Meder @GlennMeder]

1/ Your daughter is 16.

She reads about a protest happening downtown. Police brutality. Government overreach. She does not know what to believe. The news says one thing. Social media says another.

She wants to investigate. She wants to find the truth herself.

So she opens her phone. Tries to access independent journalist accounts. Citizen reporters who were actually there. Raw footage. Unfiltered perspective.

Access denied.

Reason: Age verification required. Content flagged as potentially harmful to minors. Online child safety laws prohibit access without parental consent and identity verification.

Your daughter cannot search for truth. The system decides what she is allowed to know.

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

We’re one bad deal away from the era of online government censorship. The White House and Congress are negotiating away your rights as we speak.

FIRE urges lawmakers to reject any deal that includes the Kids Online Safety Act, the NO FAKES Act, and age verification requirements.

[OverlyAbstractNonsense @AbstractOverly]

@EggButEvil I can't imagine how you must feel rn. I feel terrible for everyone.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children.

History's first trillionaire.

[🍀Anna🍀 @banannerbread]

TADC fallout is like the perfect encapsulation of how fandom is just about waiting for a person to misstep so you can bully them without consequences

[OverlyAbstractNonsense @AbstractOverly]

@bi_lex_ual @AlHendiify I'm from a similar area. I can hardly recognize my home town.

[Rainbow Toffees @RainbowToffees]

The Star of David was used by the Nazis to identify Jewish people, while the pink triangle was used to mark those persecuted for being homosexual. At the time, homosexuality was criminalised in Germany, and many of the Allied countries that liberated the concentration camps including Great Britain also had laws that criminalised gay people. As a result, some survivors who were freed from Nazi camps continued to face discrimination, prosecution, and imprisonment after the war. The pink triangle was later reclaimed by the LGBT community as a symbol of remembrance, resistance, and pride, particularly in recognition of those who suffered persecution because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

[Natillas💚🖤 @GreenBlackHeart]

Call-out culture ruined a whole generation's minds and made them into self-proclaimed vigilantes who can't have normal relationships with people because everything the other person does will be used against them once they inevitably fall out of friendship

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

The White House will reportedly block states from making their own AI laws and, in exchange, it's indirectly backing a national age verification push.

So to post online you'd upload a government ID or do a face scan through the Kids Online Safety Act and the NO FAKES Act...

[OverlyAbstractNonsense @AbstractOverly]

@GooseworxMusic Good to see you! 😊

[OverlyAbstractNonsense @AbstractOverly]

@Grogposter @hellspatisserie Oh thank God someone else has this opinion! I also have the same feelings about wojaks.

[Nico Perrino @NicoPerrino]

Anonymous communication has protected whistleblowers, journalists, dissidents, abuse victims, and ordinary Americans for generations. In fact, our country was founded by anonymous speakers.

The FCC should not create a de facto phone registry in the name of fighting robocalls.

[OverlyAbstractNonsense @AbstractOverly]

@SK_Jynx Yeah, I'm just starting to learn Python and I'm not using AI because I don't want to learn bad habits from it. I know a lot of beginners use it, but it's so bad that I think there's going to be a demand for people who don't use that stuff.

[OverlyAbstractNonsense @AbstractOverly]

@Mangaka_Circle @criticalcryo DNIs always struck me as something slightly more effective than chanting "Swiper, no swiping!" at your smartphone.

[OverlyAbstractNonsense @AbstractOverly]

@avislazuli @Mangaka_Circle @criticalcryo My absolute favorite grouping is the "basic DNI criteria" one. Like, what? 😭

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Let's walk through what actually happened here, in order.

DOGE cut the USAID program specifically designed to prevent screwworm from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. DOGE cut USDA's animal disease control and prevention funding. That funding had supported more than 180 outbreak investigations in 22 countries and capacity-building in more than 160 laboratories. The screwworm monitoring and response program that watched the border for exactly this parasite - cut.

Then screwworm showed up in Texas cattle. Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a disaster for Zavala and Uvalde counties this week.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins went on CNBC this morning and blamed the Biden administration, 17 months out of office.

Her specific words: "obviously not much had been done to push back."

The program that was supposed to push back existed. DOGE eliminated it in March 2025. Rollins has been Agriculture Secretary since February 13, 2025. The cuts happened on her watch.

Beef prices are already high. Ranchers in south Texas are now dealing with a flesh-eating parasite that was eradicated in this country in the 1960s - eradicated, specifically, using the sterile fly program her department defunded.

The flies existed. The program existed. The budget existed.

Until it didn't.

[f4mi ‼️ @f4micom]

this is literally how north korean phones are said to work according to defectors lol what the fuck

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: We're suing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over their plan to give away 715 acres of a public wildlife refuge to billionaire corporation Space X.

Americans shouldn't be sacrificing their public lands to subsidize a company owned by the richest man in the world.

[OverlyAbstractNonsense @AbstractOverly]

@SageGarnish Same here. If I see a kid, it's an immediate block.

[Dilan Esper @dilanesper]

A reminder that the USAID shutdown was a gross violation of the Constitution, and was permitted by the Supreme Court on the shadow docket for no valid reason at all (literally almost no serious scholars think POTUS can shut down a program funded by Congress).