an image i made in case you need a reminder today
Why is no one talking about what happened in São Paulo yesterday?
The sky turned completely black around three in the afternoon partly because of smoke coming from the Amazon rainforest, WHICH IS 2300 KILOMETERS AWAY FROM THE CITY, where the government has greatly increased the amount of land being burned for profit. People are getting sick, animals are dying, native territory is being lost to the flames.
This is what the sky looked like in my city yesterday, in the early afternoon.
It got so dark so fast the city had to turn on the lamp posts and night lighting.
Please talk about this. Reblog this post, non-brazilians especially.
The Amazon rainforest is also a huge regulator of greenhouse gasses. Its destruction is a significant factor in climate change.
#mood
Everyone reblog this as much as possible over the next two weeks for good luck
How is that renowned Republican brand working for you? The pictures above are a reminder of past and ongoing Republican actions and inaction so that people will remember them when they get ready to vote.
Carol Danvers + titles
captain marvel: grab your straps we have a war to win
Higher, Further, and Faster
Captain Marvel (2019) dir. Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Captain Marvel (2019) // Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
I know a renegade soldier when I see one. -Nick Fury
“War is a universal language. And I know a renegade soldier when I see one. Never occurred to me that one might come from above.”
Captain Marvel (2019) dir. Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Article 13 has been approved by EU. It’s worse than Net Neutrality has ever been. I don’t even know if we will have any access to Tumblr, Pinterest, Ao3 or even Instagram. Memes are probably dead, just like reactions, fanfictions and gifsets. Everyone in EU is in danger that they will not have access to their favorite sites. But I haven’t seen a SINGLE post about it on my dash because Americans doesn’t give a damn.
Also, I’m in Europe and ngl, had no idea this was even an article up for debate let alone it being fucking passed.
Don’t panic! This was expected at this stage and it is only the beginning. If you are a European and feel passionate about this, please keep on reading and help!
So what has happened so far … the Commission has drafted up a long overdue copyright reform. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/procedure/EN/2016_280 It contains a lot of good, and some bad: mainly Article 11 and 13.
This was put forward as a whole to the European Parlament, where it was voted down on the 5th of July 2018
This meant, this will not go through the fast way, and will be subject to scrutiny and change.
The Commission made some alterations https://eur-lex.europa.eu/procedure/EN/2016_280 and put it forward again. If Parlament would have voted it down again, it probably would have meant back to the drawing board, but most people (including me) agree that Europe does need copyright reform, so on the second vote it passed the first step:
So what happens now?
This will now go into what is called the Trilogue, where Commission, Parlament and representatives of all national governments will sit together to make alterations until everybody is happy implementing the regulation.
This means we can now influence this via our MEPs and our National Government!
In countries that are red your government is likely to support Article 13.
What to do now?
There are a lot of organisations that organise actions against article 13. Check out their websites and get in touch with your MEP or local government and let them know you are unhappy about this.
- https://www.saveyourinternet.eu/
- https://epicenter.works/
- https://www.changecopyright.org/
- https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/
… and many many more, just google to find one in your country.
Also, as @asthesea-breezehitsmylungs pointed out, a lot of people are not aware of this going on. So make them aware! Share the memes and point them to the petitions. And don’t just complain how shit this is, get in touch with your politicians!
I’m not european whats article 13?
well, i might not be the best person to be asked this, i suck at explaining things like this lol. Here’s a -i hope not a shitty- explanation:
Article 13 is a copyright law, where the internet will be censored for all countries under the EU. If that happens, it’s likely bloggers from affected countries cannot post content anymore. We wouldn’t be able to post gifs, edits, icons, video edits, fanfiction, anything anymore. Memes and vines are in danger too! Even adding links to posts could cost money.
This will monitor everything we do on the internet. Tumblr won’t be the only site affected. Such filters will be mandatory for platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Reddit and Instagram, but also much smaller websites. Others say it could also affect start-ups and forums who aren’t able to pay for those filters and might have to close down.
I mean, this is hella lot worse than that Net Neutrality.