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There's research showing the body doesn't tend to absorb more than 500mg at a time anyway! You'll be fine

(I stopped it because it's hard to find a supplement that both a) contains nothing I'm allergic to and b) contains no vitamin D, which I have to be incredibly careful with because I am taking fuckoff levels of prescription vitamin D supplements.)

It's what I'm stuck on craving lately! I think I'm low on calcium or something, lol. I should start taking my supplement again and see if the urgent cravings subside

Occasionally I get stuck on craving a thing and apparently this month it's ice cream mochi! (The worst is when you stock up in bulk right before the thing abruptly becomes Not Food. We have a few things waiting to cycle around to bring Food again.)

I do not know why ice cream mochi is The Current Thing That's Always Food but I guess I need calcium or something, lol

Rice paste wrapper around Stuff, in this case ice cream!

*If* we have to have age verification instead of parents parenting their fucking kids, device OS signaling is *probably* the way to do it I hate least, but that's a gigantic fucking "if" I'm not prepared yet to concede

Sure does! I hope someone sues them over it (it is, alas, not within Netchoice's remit). California is just racing to the bottom on tech lately and I hope someone primaries the fuck out of Buffy Wicks, who's behind most of it

I was sitting up for too long, sigh, but I accomplished some very useful things! Also I have mochi now

A picture looking down into our freezer, which is now full of mochi (and I mean FULL of mochi), from both MyMochi and Bubbies. Flavors include mango, vanilla, green tea, churro, cotton candy, cookie dough, cookies and cream, and pistachio. She basically bought me two of everything. I love my wife and our freezer is very colorful.

I forgot to post this public appreciation for my wife: she's way more reliable than a gig app and also takes tips in kisses

A user sent me a delightful link about that one (you can blame California for it): goblincorps.com/ageless-linu...

You'd be surprised how many of these bills get introduced and never go anywhere, too, sigh.

I'm not positive any of those are going to go anywhere but the session is so long it's a good idea to register your displeasure anyway!

The FSC's tracker (action.freespeechcoalition.com/age-verifica...) looks like it's a Wordpress plugin or I'd ask then if they'd share their code, but I'm envisioning something very like it!)

Anyway, I abruptly ran out of sitting up time for work on the post, but expect it this weekend sometime, and if someone wants to team up to make an easily updatable version like the FSC's legislation tracker that would be fantastic

This has been your semi-regular "why rah is very very tired" update on age verification legislation.

The Shenanigans: yesterday they passed an amendment to include most of LB 1119 plus a few more provisions into LB 838: legiscan.com/NE/amendment...

Nebraska: the standalone bill is legiscan.com/NE/bill/LB11... and the bill that is having Shenanigans is legiscan.com/NE/bill/LB83...

Michigan:
legiscan.com/MI/bill/SB07...
legiscan.com/MI/bill/SB07...

Listed as "referred to committee", but the committee had a hearing on them this week.

The four bills:
legiscan.com/NJ/bill/S341...
legiscan.com/NJ/bill/A401...
legiscan.com/NJ/bill/S341...
legiscan.com/NJ/bill/A273...

(That last one looks Good, Actually on its face, but remember: you can't treat children differently unless you know who's an adult and who's a child.)

New Jersey: I'm up in the air as to the likelihood of these and it's the one I'm most hesitant about adding to the list, but they have a legislative session that goes out until 2028 and plenty of time.

Kentucky: legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB22... (the current version of this one is particularly contradictory nonsense, but since their legislative session ends 15 April, there's a flurry of activity on it)

Idaho: legiscan.com/ID/bill/H054...

(*Possibly* also Nebraska; there's been some shenanigans afoot this past week with throwing the age verification bill that's not going anywhere into an unrelated bill that you'd have to kick kittens to want to veto, etc.)

I am working on the Giant List of Social Media Age Verification Bills for posting to our advocacy comm, but at minimum right now I also gauge Idaho, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Michigan at high risk.

There's no alt text on these screencaps but the doc they're taken from is linked in the next post in the thread. Like I've been saying all along: he's known what his tattoo meant since 2009 *at minimum*.

(specifically pinging @questauthority.bsky.social on this one!)

Hawaii: you're up. Call your House representatives and tell them to oppose SB 2761, which is heading to the House from the Senate: it's a total ban on social media for under-16s, not made any better by the obvious typo in the effective date of 2077. legiscan.com/HI/bill/SB27...

....oh my, lol

(By which I mean, there were enough models that can generate CG-CSAM even more convincingly than Grok but are released openly and can be run locally that Grok is just a drop in the bucket.)