Killgore the Trout
@somenobody24.bsky.social
Formerly 1000-THR “Earthmover” on Tiktok, just some autistic guy trying to make it through the hellworld
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"A full “sunset” of Section 230 would help Trump carry out Project 2025’s anti-LGBTQ+ agenda, which describes all queer and trans content as “pornography” and proposes making it a crime to promote or distribute it....(Cont)."
KOSA NEEDS TO BE STOPPED FROM PASSING ANYWHERE
KOSA NEEDS TO BE STOPPED FROM PASSING ANYWHERE
December 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"A full “sunset” of Section 230 would help Trump carry out Project 2025’s anti-LGBTQ+ agenda, which describes all queer and trans content as “pornography” and proposes making it a crime to promote or distribute it....(Cont)."
KOSA NEEDS TO BE STOPPED FROM PASSING ANYWHERE
KOSA NEEDS TO BE STOPPED FROM PASSING ANYWHERE
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Inshallah.
Incredible:
"Nancy Mace of South Carolina has told people she is so frustrated... that she is planning to huddle with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia next week to discuss following her lead and retiring early from Congress."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
"Nancy Mace of South Carolina has told people she is so frustrated... that she is planning to huddle with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia next week to discuss following her lead and retiring early from Congress."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
December 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Inshallah.
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Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their datasets - this bill would force them. If you're pro AI regulation (esp if you're in Bay Area), please show up and offer your support for this bill! If you can't make it, help spread the word!
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
December 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their datasets - this bill would force them. If you're pro AI regulation (esp if you're in Bay Area), please show up and offer your support for this bill! If you can't make it, help spread the word!
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
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I emailed my representative yesterday expressing concerns about this set of bills and got a call back back that was incredibly thoughtful, thanking me for reaching out and reiterating its on my reps radar and she appreciated me sharing my opinion
Keep calling and messaging your reps!
Keep calling and messaging your reps!
Some potential good news out of yesterday's theatrical House hearing on internet censorship bills. A pre-emption provision has even KOSA supporters like NCOSE abandoning the House version.
With ten days to go, there seems to be little appetite for KOSA or age-verification bills in general.
With ten days to go, there seems to be little appetite for KOSA or age-verification bills in general.
A leading kids safety bill has been poison pilled, supporters say
App store age verification is beginning to take center stage.
www.theverge.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I emailed my representative yesterday expressing concerns about this set of bills and got a call back back that was incredibly thoughtful, thanking me for reaching out and reiterating its on my reps radar and she appreciated me sharing my opinion
Keep calling and messaging your reps!
Keep calling and messaging your reps!
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this is why we need feminism
December 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
this is why we need feminism
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Incredible:
"Nancy Mace of South Carolina has told people she is so frustrated... that she is planning to huddle with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia next week to discuss following her lead and retiring early from Congress."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
"Nancy Mace of South Carolina has told people she is so frustrated... that she is planning to huddle with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia next week to discuss following her lead and retiring early from Congress."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Incredible:
"Nancy Mace of South Carolina has told people she is so frustrated... that she is planning to huddle with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia next week to discuss following her lead and retiring early from Congress."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
"Nancy Mace of South Carolina has told people she is so frustrated... that she is planning to huddle with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia next week to discuss following her lead and retiring early from Congress."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
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you should definitely do this nancy, your trump+13 district is very secure in a special election
Incredible:
"Nancy Mace of South Carolina has told people she is so frustrated... that she is planning to huddle with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia next week to discuss following her lead and retiring early from Congress."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
"Nancy Mace of South Carolina has told people she is so frustrated... that she is planning to huddle with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia next week to discuss following her lead and retiring early from Congress."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
December 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
you should definitely do this nancy, your trump+13 district is very secure in a special election
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Really great coverage from @wired.com about our week of action against online ID verification and how these bills are setting a dangerous precedent by making the internet more exploitative rather than safer.
www.wired.com/story/age-ve...
www.wired.com/story/age-ve...
The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back
Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.
www.wired.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Really great coverage from @wired.com about our week of action against online ID verification and how these bills are setting a dangerous precedent by making the internet more exploitative rather than safer.
www.wired.com/story/age-ve...
www.wired.com/story/age-ve...
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Online age verification is a tempting idea. I'm a dad, I get it, but what's being proposed isn't just an ID check, it's a list of your kid's faces and data. A list in the hands of increasingly totalitarian governments, tech companies, and dysfunctional AI.
It's not protection, it's surveillance.
It's not protection, it's surveillance.
🚨 EVERYONE PLEASE RESKEET THIS FOR VISIBILITY!!! 🚨
A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.
Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.
Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
December 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Online age verification is a tempting idea. I'm a dad, I get it, but what's being proposed isn't just an ID check, it's a list of your kid's faces and data. A list in the hands of increasingly totalitarian governments, tech companies, and dysfunctional AI.
It's not protection, it's surveillance.
It's not protection, it's surveillance.
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Leaving Spotify can be difficult, that’s why we had @janus.bsky.social put together this guide to find a more sustainable way to release, discover, and listen to music so you can kick Spotify for good 😜
touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/how-to-ditch...
touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/how-to-ditch...
How To Ditch Spotify and Support Music in the Age of AI Slop
There’s no shortage of reasons to quit Spotify in 2025. Artists and fans have been departing the platform in droves because they’re fed up with the company paying artists virtually nothing, using algo...
touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org
December 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Leaving Spotify can be difficult, that’s why we had @janus.bsky.social put together this guide to find a more sustainable way to release, discover, and listen to music so you can kick Spotify for good 😜
touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/how-to-ditch...
touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/how-to-ditch...
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"Everyone on every side of KOSA and age verification... have a shared frustration in what tech companies are able to do to us every day. Congress is giving all of us crumbs rather than doing what needs to be done.” - @sarahephilips.bsky.social
www.theverge.com/policy/83712...
www.theverge.com/policy/83712...
A leading kids safety bill has been poison pilled, supporters say
App store age verification is beginning to take center stage.
www.theverge.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"Everyone on every side of KOSA and age verification... have a shared frustration in what tech companies are able to do to us every day. Congress is giving all of us crumbs rather than doing what needs to be done.” - @sarahephilips.bsky.social
www.theverge.com/policy/83712...
www.theverge.com/policy/83712...
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Funny when it's the other way around. These age verification rules/bills are still bad in any case, and they don't protect anyone. They shred our freedom of speech, invade our privacy, and puts our data at risk! #stopageverification #stoponlineidchecks
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
YouTube says it will be less safe for kids under Australia's social media ban
The Google-owned platform says parental controls will be stripped away as a result of the ban.
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Funny when it's the other way around. These age verification rules/bills are still bad in any case, and they don't protect anyone. They shred our freedom of speech, invade our privacy, and puts our data at risk! #stopageverification #stoponlineidchecks
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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i think we should chase these people through the streets
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
i think we should chase these people through the streets
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It's really fucked up that Hakeem Jeffries is defending HENRY CUELLAR more than Zohran Mamdani.
December 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
It's really fucked up that Hakeem Jeffries is defending HENRY CUELLAR more than Zohran Mamdani.
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I feel it's worth noting that in tuesday's meeting in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce about a shitton of "protect the children!" internet bills, committee members advocated for leaving carve outs in their various censorship/surveillance bills for advertisers to keep advertising at kids
The Horses situation has brought this Epic Games policy to my attention and it might be the most embarassing exception put to print
December 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I feel it's worth noting that in tuesday's meeting in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce about a shitton of "protect the children!" internet bills, committee members advocated for leaving carve outs in their various censorship/surveillance bills for advertisers to keep advertising at kids
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Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe. www.wired.com/story/age-ve...
The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back
Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.
www.wired.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe. www.wired.com/story/age-ve...
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This is a profoundly anti-Black country. Not just racist but ANTI-BLACK. It is foundational and everpresent.
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This is a profoundly anti-Black country. Not just racist but ANTI-BLACK. It is foundational and everpresent.
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I think this’ll be another perfect tool to fight #KOSA alongside other tools provided by @fightforthefuture.org and @eff.org
if you want a quick and easy way to help take down KOSA, remember that 5Calls has a section for KOSA!
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...
Oppose S. 1748 The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) ⭑ 5 Calls
Congress has again put forward legislation aimed at controlling what content children see online, known as the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). During …
5calls.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I think this’ll be another perfect tool to fight #KOSA alongside other tools provided by @fightforthefuture.org and @eff.org
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When this all pops, and it will because all of these data centers are being built on borrowed money and debt that is being passed around a few companies pretending that there is growth, I'll smile and laugh about a lot of it.
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead. It’s already getting hard to build an affordable PC, and the exit of the longstanding provider of consumer memory is going to make that even more challenging www.theverge.com/news/837594/...
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Another blow to PC gaming.
www.theverge.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
When this all pops, and it will because all of these data centers are being built on borrowed money and debt that is being passed around a few companies pretending that there is growth, I'll smile and laugh about a lot of it.
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Thank you for continuing to be loud about censorship
It's been a lot of doom lately and I want you to actually congratulate yourselves on these little victories and let them invigorate you bc they add up to a movement
Fear is a good motivator, despair is a terrible one and hope is the best of all
It's been a lot of doom lately and I want you to actually congratulate yourselves on these little victories and let them invigorate you bc they add up to a movement
Fear is a good motivator, despair is a terrible one and hope is the best of all
December 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Thank you for continuing to be loud about censorship
It's been a lot of doom lately and I want you to actually congratulate yourselves on these little victories and let them invigorate you bc they add up to a movement
Fear is a good motivator, despair is a terrible one and hope is the best of all
It's been a lot of doom lately and I want you to actually congratulate yourselves on these little victories and let them invigorate you bc they add up to a movement
Fear is a good motivator, despair is a terrible one and hope is the best of all
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Visa and Mastercard are next
bullying works
bullying works
Humble has relisted Horses.
Humble's now banned it too, post-launch:
www.ign.com/articles/hor...
www.ign.com/articles/hor...
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Visa and Mastercard are next
bullying works
bullying works