There’s a lot of big, wordy articles going around tumblr right now, and they’re all great. But I wanted to make a mastpost of sorts of all the actions you can take and sites/bots that are here to help.
battleforthenet – The main hub for all things net neutrality. Fill out a form in seconds to e-mail your rep, or enter your phone number and a prerecorded message will call you, tell you exactly what to do and provide a script before connecting you with your representative. You can also set up a daily call.
Verizon Protests – Protests are happening at Verizon stores across the country on Dec 14th.
5 calls – This site is my favorite for calls. They provide a script and directions for calling the FCC, senators, and local state rep.
Resistbot – A phenominal service for those who cannot call, this bot will contact your rep on your behalf. However, every time I try to use it, they are busy.
Many of you are hitting the same roadblock I am: Mailboxes are full. So what do we do at that point? We send letters. Go to WhoIsMyRepresentative.com and enter your zip code to find addresses for your senators and house reps. You can use the phone script from the sites above, or compose your own note, or simply write “I am your constituent and I want you to fight to keep net neutrality.”
I know a lot of this is very overwhelming and hopefully this makes things easy and straightforward. You can send an e-mail, make 4 phone calls, and write a letter in less than 10 minutes. Please take the time to do so.
Very, very important. Please take 5 minutes out of your day and speak up.
Have you ever wanted to save someone from their own darkness so badly that you are willing to set yourself on fire just to light the way?
Even if it melts your flesh and cracks your bones, you’d be okay with keeping them warm.
You left and you said you wouldn’t. Just like that because one day you got up and didn’t feel anything. It’s the same old story. Maybe if you actually grew up and realized there will be times when you’re not going to feel anything, but you stay with someone and you get through it. When you start to lose feelings for someone, tell them as soon as possible so you can work through it and if you do break up, you won’t be as surprised and it will be a lot easier on your heart. You work together. You don’t just hide it and leave. Because that’s really shitty. You don’t tell someone you love them when you don’t. I mean I get things don’t work out sometimes, but you didn’t even try to fight. And I trusted you. And you lied to me.
It will be hard. Suddenly small things will become big and tricky, people will keep asking if you’re okay, and you will say yes because it’s easier, but really you’re hurting. You may have a period of time where you don’t want to eat much, because you feel sick at the thought of a world without them or you might eat too much, you might have sleepless nights but you might sleep to get away from it all. Everything will remind you of them. Occasionally you may just be getting along with your day and catch a scent that reminds you of a time you spent together, and suddenly you’re a mess. You might be having a great day with friends and out of the blue you have to excuse yourself because someone mentioned something related to them and you got that burning feeling in your throat again.
You may play moments you shared over and over and wonder whether you were stupid to end it, but please remember to not regret it. You made that decision for a reason and don’t go back to them just for fear of being lonely. You deserve someone who gives you the things that they didn’t give you.
The best thing you can do is fake it until you make it. Take photos of yourself laughing uncontrollably, dance around when nobody is watching, tell yourself you are better off without them, and slowly you will start to believe it. It may take weeks or months or years, but one day there won’t be a pile of screwed up tissues by your bed, and you won’t have that dream again. One day you won’t check their Facebook before you go to sleep, you will just fall asleep, the way you did before. One day you will be able to eat their favourite food without thinking about them. One day you will be able to go to that cinema where you had your first date, and you won’t be consumed with memories, you will just be going to see a movie.
They may still cross your mind occasionally, but one day you will wake up and they won’t be your first thought any more.
losing an argument when you are right just because the other person is too stupid to understand what you’re saying is probably one of the most infuriating things the entire universe
god these people are functioning on levels i cant comprehend
Holy sh i t
IT’S NOT FUCKING PEDOPHILIA, OH MY GOD. IT’S GROSS, YEAH. NOT PEDOPHILIA. STOP USING PEDOPHILIA AS A BUZZWORD OR A SYNONYM FOR UNHEALTHY OR DISTASTEFUL. Pedophilia is the sexual attraction to prepubescent children and using the word as anything else creates alarm fatigue and spreads misinformation. 13+ and ESPECIALLY 18-year-olds are not prepubescent fucking children.
give me your teeth emily
I think at this point we can accept that “anti-anti” people just straight up advocate pedophilia
Literally, how is this advocating for pedophilia? I’m trying to get you to understand the meaning of the word pedophilia and stop misusing it. I said this in my post. When you misuse the word, you’re making the situation worse. That’s a real weighty word to throw around when you’re not even using it correctly. I don’t advocate for 18 year olds to date 89 year olds. I also said this in my post. That’s gross. But how can you fight against pedophilia when you don’t even know what it fucking means. I don’t advocate for pedophilia and the fact that that’s all you got from my post just proves you either A. didn’t read it, or B. are extremely stupid. There’s no coming back for you. I also don’t advocate for adult/teen relationships (with the exception ofc of 18/19 year olds who can date whoever the fuck they want as long as they’re happy and it’s healthy), if that’s what you thought. But it’s still not pedophilia. Bad, distasteful, unhealthy. But you can’t just use the word pedophilia whenever you want for whatever you want. It’s a serious thing.
Now, “give me your teeth”? How childish and immature can you get?
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