Notices by The Trandalorian 🏳️‍⚧️ (charliejane@wandering.shop), page 4

My crankiest opinion: I hate apps.

Most apps are just clingy bitches. They want to collect too much info, they take up too much space, they want to notify you of trivial bullshit. Most apps should just be websites.

The Sacramento Bee quoted me in an article about #KOSA.

"As a trans woman, but also as someone who has found community and fellowship in many ways online, I am desperate to protect the internet from the new wave of repression that KOSA would bring."

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article280213074.html

Just to be clear: #KOSA is a horrible piece of legislation that could utterly wreck the internet, especially for LGBTQIA+ folks.

But you could fix the worst problem pretty easily, by taking out the part that allows every state attorney general to sue at will. Just make it the FTC instead.

Just a heads up: it's very likely that KOSA will pass and trans people will get silenced on social media sites like this one. Please take time NOW to subscribe to newsletters and Patreons of trans creators, because we won't be able to each you otherwise.

As someone who strongly supported Elizabeth Warren's run for president, I'm utterly devastated that she's signed on to co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act.

I cannot believe that she would throw LGBTQIA+ people under the bus like this. If this bill passes, we'll be cleansed from the internet entirely, at a time when our voices and our communities are more important than ever.

They're claiming KOSA has been fixed — it hasn't been.

@shimst3r Suck fubstack.

@shimst3r Don't thank me, thank buttondown! <3

I wrote kind of an angry newsletter

https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/queer-liberation-means-smashing-capitalism-into/

And yeah, I recognize the irony of being like "fuck capitalism, oh and by the way, please buy my stuff." Hahahahaurk

@Cyberpreppy I'm profiting from the labor of editors, copy-editors, marketing people, book cover designers, booksellers, etc etc etc

John Wookiee. He goes on a murderous rampage after someone murders his pet human.

"Are you back, John Wookiee?"
"WHRANAAAAAAAAAAAOOOH"

He looks *really* good in a suit. But no shoes.

"What if I told you that there was a nationwide bill currently working its way through the U.S. Senate which, if passed, could be used to censor LGBTQ+ content on the internet? And what if I told you that it has bipartisan support and that President Biden has indicated he would sign it?"

https://juliaserano.medium.com/kosa-a-nationwide-anti-trans-lgbtq-bill-in-all-but-name-d6d9f8b8ec6c?sk=0bfad95c1ed6da0a82cd67bef8659ce1

Y'know, it really seems like 1970s Doctor Who was trying to warn us about something, but I'm not sure what.

PS: If you're going to call or write your reps, I would focus heavily on the enforcement mechanism of this bill. It would allow the attorney general of *every single state* to sue over any content they have reason to believe harms kids. This is an open invitation to censorship.

This is legit scary. Marsha Blackburn is openly admitting that her bill KOSA will be used to drive trans people off the internet.

But Democrats are lining up to support it, and LGBTQIA+ orgs have dropped their opposition. WTF WTF WTF

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/senator-admits-kids-online-safety?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=994764&post_id=136690186&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

In US econ policy we're supposedly all about personal responsibility. If you get ruined it's your problem and you probably made some bad choices.

But when real estate developers massively overinvested in building office space that was clearly not needed, and now are left holding the bag, that's somehow our problem. We're supposed to save them from the hangover after their wild party.

The story is not that downtowns are fucked. The story is that developers went overboard.

FYI after three-plus years of dodging it, I finally have covid. Seems to be a mild case, and I'm on paxlovid. I'm going to basically hole up for the next five days and not try to do much, so if you email me, you might not get a reply right away.

The Kids Online Safety Act would wreck the internet as we know it and cause widespread censorship of LGBTQIA+ discussions. This article from Ars Technica is a great explanation — this bill could pass in the *next few weeks* so it's urgent to let your Senators know that you oppose it.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/the-kids-online-safety-act-isnt-all-right-critics-say/

Feeling kind of annoyed that right-wing country music anthems keep getting rammed down my throat by press coverage lately.

And meanwhile, I can't remember the last time an openly anti-capitalist or anti-fascist song was allowed to become part of mainstream culture.

It's today! Bandcamp Friday is happening! If you buy music on Bandcamp today, the artists *get all the money*.

I just bought so much great stuff: some Bernie Worrell I hadn't already owned, the new Problem Patterns songs, a new mashup album by Vixoria Drift, and some old-school funk compilations.