hey netizens! i’m not sure how many people are aware, but youtube’s been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can’t be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate
BUT, if you’re a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!
[ID: Two tweets by Steven Dozinger (@sdozinger@bird.makeup). The first reads: “Breaking: The historic “Cop City” protest movement today forced the city of Atlanta to allow a citizen’s vote on the construction of the police complex to go forward. Need 75,000 signatures to get on the ballot in November. The vote will happen; Cop City will not. 👊 👊” An image in the tweet is labelled: “Protesters just after the Atlanta city council ignored comments from 400 citizens and approved the cop city training academy.” The image shows a courtroom with about a dozen protesters visible, some of them masked; one of them leans far over a barrier to point at someone on the judges’ bench; another leans over the barrier and has their mouth open, as if yelling. The second tweet reads: “The “Cop City” referendum campaign needs resources to succeed. To support it click on this link:” The link is the one provided at the bottom of OP’s post. End ID]
ActBlue provides software that facilitates donations to various progressive groups (groups that use it pay a 3.95% credit card processing fee).
Donations will fund an initiative led by New Disabled South Rising that seeks to “bring awareness to the movement and collect the 70K signatures necessary to get the Referendum on the ballot.”
I’m actually serious about this, if at all possible, right now is a very good time to request queer books from your local library. Whether they get them or not is not in your control, but it is so important to show that there is a desire for queer books. I will also say getting more queer books in libraries and supporting queer authors are pretty fantastic byproducts of any action.
This isn’t something everyone can do, but please do see if you are one of the people who has the privilege to engage in this form of activism, and if you are, leverage that privilege for all you’re worth.
For anyone who can’t think of a queer book to request, here is a little list of some queer books that I think are underrated and might not be in circulation even at larger libraries:
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