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i know I’ve only mentioned it a few times on here but I wanted to kind of quickly send out a post because I won’t be as active on here for the next two weeks.
April the 12th is the anniversary of my mom’s death. It’ll be 9 years this year. I’ve shared that on February 23rd my brother passed by suicide as well. A few months ago I was notified that I was accepted to run the Chicago Marathon on behalf of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention with team Race for Hope. I will be running that race in honor of both my mom and my brother.
Today is a national collective fundraising effort for the AFSP. If my story resonates at all with you, I ask that you please consider donating. If you can’t, please call and let somebody know you love them.
If you want to keep track of my progress for training, I actually have a personal tiktok that documents this, you can find me here
#suicide prevention#marathon#runblr#American foundation for suicide prevention#Chicago marathon#AFSP#race for hope#running
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I am loving these photos from Zack Snyder’s Full Circle AFSP fundraiser!
#dc comics#dc heroes#dc cinematic universe#dceu#superman#dc extended universe#zack snyder#henry cavill superman#henry cavill#clark kent#Kal-El#man of steel#zod#general zod#michael shannon#afsp#American Foundation For Suicide Prevention
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In a conversation with #JoeRogan, #ZackSnyder expressed gratitude for fans who raised over a million dollars for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in response to his films.
He emphasized the movies' dual impact, serving as both cinematic experiences and reflections of real-life struggles. Snyder encouraged open discussions about mental health and challenged the notion of a toxic fanbase, recognizing fans' passion as a sign of deep investment in the films, akin to other fervent fandoms.
Rogan echoed this sentiment, understanding these iconic stories' profound significance for fans.
#dc comics#DC Universe#Zack Snyder#Batman#Superman#Henry Cavill#Ben Affleck#AFSP#American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
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It’s charity fundraising time! Raising money for @afspnational to help show support by those affected by suicide and share the importance of the conversation surrounding mental health! Stop by on July 18 over on YouTube and consider donating! #mentalhealthmatters #stopthestigma #suicideawareness #youtube #tiltify
DONATE HERE: https://tiltify.com/@galsal/you-matter
#galsal#afsp#american foundation for suicide prevention#charity#livestream#mental health#suicide awareness#suicide prevention#mental health matters#stop the stigma#gaming#youtube gaming
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My friend Blue is currently doing a charity month for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention on Twitch, and tonight he's playing It Takes Two for the first time if anyone wants to join in and watch
#twitch#afsp#american foundation for suicide prevention#twitch streams#charity#charity streams#it takes two
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SHINEDOWN RELEASE THE LIBRARY SESSIONS INSPIRED BY CROSSOVER HIT SINGLE "A SYMPTOM OF BEING HUMAN"
Releases The Library Sessions
Inspired By Crossover Hit Single
“A Symptom Of Being Human”
Special Giving Tuesday Broadcast Benefiting American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
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Somewhere In The Stratosphere 2011 Live Album Limited-Edition 4LP Vinyl Set Out December 8th
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Multi-platinum, chart-topping band Shinedown has released The Library…
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#A Symptom of Being Human#American Foundation for Suicide Prevention#Atlantic Records#Get Up#new release#Shinedown#Somewhere In The Stratosphere#The Library Sessions
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#day of hope#American foundation for suicide prevention#suicide#suicide prevention#mental health#mental health awareness#mental health support#hope#support#you are not alone#you are not a burden#you are loved#you are valid#you are worthy#you are heard
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Charity Auction for AFSP at Final Boss Con
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#charity#keith milano memorial fund#american foundation for suicide prevention#mental health awareness
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Comments for a Cause- Giving to Uvalde
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It’s June! Wow! Summer has arrived in Brevard, NC and this weekend we will be celebrating with the White Squirrel Festival. After a two year hiatus due to COVID we are happily embracing the wonderful outdoor festival filled with music, vendors, food and fun. It is sure to be a great weekend and the town is hopping already this week.
But as my readers know the beginning of the month is dedicated…
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#American Foundation for Suicide Prevention#comments for a cause#suicide#suicide prevention.#Uavlade TX#University Hospital - Uvalde#Uvalde Victims Relief Fund
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month
https://afsp.org/
#afsp#american foundation for suicide prevention#mental health awareness month#the month of May#mental health#depression#anxiety
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September Events: RuPaul Drag Race & the American Transplant Foundation Fundraiser
Join us for the 4th annual Trivia for Life campaign will be held at the DaVita Sky Lounge in downtown Denver on Friday, September 30th, at 6:00 PM. Please bring your friends and build bragging rights with a friendly trivia competition all while raising fu
Wow! Time is just flying by as we conclude September in a matter of days! We have done so much this month already from the #RnBRewind concert to the Walk for Suicide Prevention in downtown Denver.
We will conclude this months events by joining the fun and excitement at the #RuPaulDragRace concert on 9/25 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver (pictures and videos will be posted).
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Cw: Discussion of Suicide
James Somerton, a youtuber who recently has been under heavy criticism for plagerism, has released a post on his private Twitter account that appears to be a suicide note. There are posts by other accounts saying they are attempting to contact the local authorities to do a wellness check. Whether or Somerton has passed away or any information about his current physical well-being is unknown.
The reason I have brought this up is because there are guidelines that should be followed when discussing suicide on social media. The American Foundation for suicide prevention recommend these guidelines from Orygen for discussing suicide. I have the full sources linked, but I have also provided images of what I believe is the most relevant section to this situation.
I am sincerely hoping for the saftey of James Somerton. As it states in the guidelines above, suicide is complex, and many factors contribute to someone ending their life. If you or someone you know is struggling, here are some resources. Recovery is possible for everyone. Regardless of what someone has done or has had done to them, it's a beautiful world, and no one should have to miss it.
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Not they tryna reenact KOSA… anyway yall, here’s why KOSA is bad!!
If you don’t already know, KOSA, or Kids Online Safety Act is a bill that was proposed to keep children safe on the internet. You might ask ‘why is this bill bad if it’s in favor of supporting the safety of children online’? Well, according to stopkosa.com, it puts pressure on platforms to add even MORE filters on anything they think is inappropriate for children. This is especially harmful for LBGTQIA+ youth because the knowledge about this topic would be censored, as well as knowledge on suicide prevention and LGBTQIA+ support groups. Do you see how this an issue? For those children who are wanting to learn more about these topics they’d be turned away because of this bill. It would also be likely that it’ll allow the shutdown of websites that allow them to learn about race, sexuality and gender.
This bill would also add more internet surveillance for all users across all social media platforms. It would expand the use of age verification and parental monitoring controls. These things in itself are already very invasive, but doesn’t take into consideration the children who live in unsafe environments where they are domestically abused and/or are trying to escape these situations. To add my two cents onto this, I strongly believe that the KOSA bill is an unnecessary violation of our first amendment rights (if you’re American), and doesn’t really make the internet any more safer. It actually makes it more unusable for youth. Hypothetically, if this bill were to be passed, then this would make social media unusable for literally anybody. To censor content from the youth about wanting to learn about their identity is extremely harmful. Blocking them from accessing resources that may prove as helpful in their scenarios is outlandish and unneeded. We try to shelter our youth so much to the point where we try to boil them down to only being with their parents want them to be and also not being able to let them learn and explore about other things that they may want to identify themselves with. This is very harmful.
This is a list of companies who are saying no to KOSA ..
• Access Now
• ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
• Black and Pink National
• Center for Democracy & Technology
• COLAGE
• Defending Rights & Dissent
• Don’t Delete Art
• EducateUS: SIECUS In Action
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Equality Arizona
• Equality California
• Equality Michigan
• Equality New Mexico
• Equality Texas
• Fair Wisconsin
• Fairness Campaign
• Fight for the Future
• Free Speech Coalition
• Freedom Network USA
• Indivisible Eastside
• Indivisible Plus Washington
• Internet Society
• Kairos
• Lexington Pride Center
• LGBT Technology Partnership
• Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition
• Media Justice
• National Coalition Against Censorship
• Open Technology Institute
• OutNebraska
• PDX Privacy
• Presente.org
• Reframe Health and Justice
• Restore The Fourth
• SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change
• SWOP Behind Bars
• TAKE
• TechFreedom
• The 6:52 Project Foundation, Inc.
• The Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center
• Transgender Education Network of Texas
• TransOhio
• University of Michigan Dearborn – Muslim Student Association
• URGE
• WA People’s Privacy
• Woodhull Freedom Foundation
There is something you can do to stop the KOSA bill from being passed! On the website I linked, there is a petition. All you have to do is fill out the information and it’ll send off an email for you. The email reads as follows:
I’m writing to urge you to reject the Kids Online Safety Act, a misguided bill that would put vulnerable young people at risk.
KOSA would fail to address the root issues related to kid’s safety online. Instead, it would endanger some of the most vulnerable people in our society while undermining human rights and children’s privacy. The bill would result in widespread internet censorship by pressuring platforms to use incredibly broad “content filters” and giving state Attorneys General the power to decide what content kids should and shouldn’t have access to online. This power could be abused in a number of ways and be politicized to censor information and resources.
KOSA would also likely lead to the greater surveillance of children online by requiring platforms to gather data to verify user identity.
There is a way to protect kids and all people online from egregious data abuse and harmful content targeting: passing a strong Federal data privacy law that prevents tech companies from collecting so much sensitive data about all of us in the first place, and gives individuals the ability to sue companies that misuse their data.
KOSA, although well-meaning, must not move forward. Please protect privacy and stop the spread of censorship online by opposing KOSA.
The website also gives you like a format of what you can say if you chose to call your representatives. If after reading this post, you feel inclined to do something then I would say just go ahead and do it. My first time learning about KOSA was today immediately after seeing the post I felt inclined to send my lawmakers an email. Please try to help when you can and this will only take a few minutes so I think this is something that you can consider. This post is getting a little long now, so I’ll stop here. There are more resources online if you would like to learn more about the cons of this KOSA bill, thank you for reading.
#wlfabby#fuck kosa#kosa#internet censorship#stop kosa#lgbtqia#lgbtq community#laws#stop this bill from being passed. 🙏
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It’s frustrating and disappointing to see nominally social justice-focused eating disorder organizations (like Project Heal and the Alliance for Eating Disorders) support the passing of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). KOSA is opposed by more than 90 civil rights and digital rights groups, including GLAAD, GLSEN, the ACLU, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the American Library Association, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. KOSA also contradicts the U.N.’s Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states that children should not be subjected to “unlawful interference with [their] privacy.” One of KOSA's main premises — the belief that increased parental surveillance of children’s Internet use will protect children’s mental health — is inherently flawed, and it is of paramount importance for abused and marginalized children that mental health organizations don’t buy into this belief.
This open letter signed by several organizations details the many dangerous implications of KOSA’s overreach. While KOSA aims to protect minors under 16 from the negative effects of social media use (such as “addictive” design features and content that “promotes” eating disorders, self-harm, or substance use), its vague language enables increased surveillance of children’s Internet use, increased data collection on both children and adults alike, and the power for parents and state government officials to decide what content is “appropriate” for children. With some states increasingly legalizing the idea that any kind of content that acknowledges the existence of queer people or the U.S.’s legacy of racism is inherently “inappropriate” for children (by banning books and preventing school curriculums from mentioning these realities), KOSA has the potential to prevent children from accessing these topics online, too.
KOSA is particularly dangerous to marginalized and abused children because of the level of inescapable parental surveillance it enables. Passing KOSA might prevent a 15-year-old from looking up how to report his abusive parents or where to seek help. It might prevent a 14-year-old whose parents will disown her if she’s pregnant from looking up sex education or abortion care. It might prevent a 13-year-old living in a homophobic household from connecting with accepting peers. It might prevent 12-year-olds who are already self-harming or eating unintuitively from looking up harm reduction techniques that could keep them alive. KOSA would not keep children safe or improve their mental health — it would make the most at-risk children even more unsafe, and it would worsen the mental health of anyone living in an unsafe household or state.
I presume that eating disorder organizations are campaigning for KOSA because they believe the unrealistic, fatphobic, and eurocentric beauty standards proliferating on social media are causing and/or exacerbating eating disorders, and they are desperate for any recourse to curtail these harms. But KOSA is premised on flawed understandings of media effects, and it is a dangerous piece of legislation that wouldn’t adequately address the very real harms of social media. Multiple studies have shown that similar content bans and increased parental control have not been effective, and have even made harmful content easier to find. Whatever good intentions eating disorder organizations might have by endorsing KOSA, it is important to note that all evidence points to KOSA harming children, not helping them.
KOSA aims to make social media companies accountable for preventing children from seeing content that “promotes” eating disorders, self-harm, suicide, and substance use. The problem is, social media algorithms are incapable of distinguishing between content that promotes these behaviors and content that discusses these behaviors in a neutral manner or provides harm reduction techniques for making these behaviors less dangerous. As the EFF notes, “there is no way a platform can make case-by-case decisions about which content exacerbates, for example, an eating disorder, compared to content which provides necessary health information and advice about the topic.” We’ve already seen Instagram repeatedly fail at distinguishing between fresh self-harm and years-old scars, censoring and removing pictures of people simply living in bodies that are scarred. If KOSA passes, any mention of the aforementioned behaviors is liable to be censored and removed from social media platforms, which may have the paradoxical effect of pushing children who want community support, neutral information, or harm reduction techniques into more harmful corners of the Internet, such as specifically pro-ED sites.
Moreover, KOSA and the eating disorder organizations supporting it buy into the same harmful narratives of social contagion that anti-queer and anti-trans groups promote so fiercely. The narrative that children uncritically adopt any behavior or identity they see online is egregious and clearly false (especially when it comes to teens, as opposed to 8-year-olds), but of course it is easier to blame social media alone rather than thoroughly examine the systems of injustice, oppression, and abuse that contribute to children’s poor mental health. While online content that promotes self-destructive behaviors is a real harm to children that should be addressed, the way to address this harm is not by mandating governmental and parental surveillance of children’s internet use. It is to equip children with better media literacy, trustworthy adult figures they can turn to for help, and tools for critically evaluating digital content.
Platforms certainly do need greater regulation, and children do need greater protection from social media companies, which don’t care about their mental health as long as they can profit off them. But children need real protection, not KOSA, which is just increased surveillance for everyone under the thin veneer of child protection. I encourage you to read some of the many, many articles detailing the harmful effects KOSA would have. We must demand better for children than surveillance under the guise of “care,” and we must prioritize the children who are already hurting when considering who this legislation would harm the most.
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SHINEDOWN PARTNERS WITH THE AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION FOR THEIR 'THE REVOLUTIONS LIVE' TOUR
Shinedown Partners With
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
To Donate $1 From Every Ticket Sold
To Their Upcoming ‘ The Revolutions Live’ Tour Kicking Off April 3rd
Shinedown’s New Hot AC Single/Video
“A Symptom of Being Human”
Out Now From Their Hit Album Planet Zero
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Multi-platinum, chart-topping band Shinedown has announced that they are…
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#Atlantic Records#From Ashes To New#Planet Zero#Shinedown#The American Foundation for Suicide Preventation#The Revolutions Live Tour#Three Days Grace
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