I Can Has Cheezburger? ([syndicated profile] icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2025-09-17 10:00 am

28 Cat Memes to Pspsps Some Laughs Towards You

Posted by Ayala Sorotsky

People sometimes underestimate just how funny cats truly are. Sure, they look majestic, mysterious, maybe even aloof - but if you've ever lived with a cat, you know the truth. They carry this natural silly aura around them at all times, even when they're doing absolutely nothing. A cat can be loafing on the couch, eyes half-shut, looking like a soft bread roll, and somehow he's still hilarious. That's the magic of being a cat: they don't even have to try to be silly - it just happens automatically.

If you're a cat pawrent, you've probably seen this firsthand a thousand times over. The dramatic zoomies at 2 AM, the random side-eyes, the chaotic decision to knock something off a shelf just because… cats are naturally born comedians. And if you're not sure you agree yet, well, allow us to pspsps some laughs your way with a fresh batch of cat memes.

Right here in this cozy little internet corner, we've gathered these cat memes that show off exactly the kind of silly billy vibes we're talking about. Just like real cats, they don't need to do much to make you laugh - they just exist, and suddenly everything's funnier. Scroll down, and let these feline funnies prove once again why cats are the ultimate comedy icons.

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I Can Has Cheezburger? ([syndicated profile] icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2025-09-17 09:00 am

Smol Ray of Sunshine Made of 22 Itty Bitty Kitten Memes

Posted by Ayala Sorotsky

It's a universal truth at this point: cats rule the internet, our homes, and our hearts. Some people might claim they're not cat people, but deep down? They know the truth. And while we could go back and forth about whether everyone loves cats, there's one argument nobody can win against: everyone loves kittens. End of discussion. Tiny fluffballs with big eyes and smol squeaks -  yeah, resistance is futile.

Kittens are basically little bundles of sunshine in fur form. They're so tiny, so sweet, so playful, so wobbly, so fluffy - you could stack up a hundred adjectives and still not capture their full cuteness power. Just one look at a kitten doing literally anything - rolling over, trying to pounce but missing, snoozing with their tongue blepping - and your heart is instantly melted into a puddle. Honestly, it's unfair how cute kittens are.

And since kittens grow up to be cats (which means more love for the future, really), it only makes sense to start at the very beginning and appreciate them while they're still smol chaos nuggets. So naturally, we did what we always do when cats take over our thoughts: we made a meme collection about it. These itty bitty kitten memes are pure, paw-sized doses of joy - teeny tiny rays of sunshine ready to brighten your day.

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goddess47 ([personal profile] goddess47) wrote in [community profile] no_true_pair2025-09-17 01:55 pm

Power to the People (Stargate Atlantis; Richard Woolsey, Rodney McKay)

Title: Power to the People
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing/Characters: Richard Woolsey, Rodney McKay
Word Count: 493
Content Notes: none
Prompt: [community profile] no_true_pair September 17 - Rodney McKay & Richard Woolsey - energy

Also for [community profile] sweetandshort September 2025 prompt - light


Link to fic: Power to the People (on AO3)
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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-09-17 06:48 pm

Amazing Spider-Man #113

Writer: Gerry Conway

Pencils and inks: John Romita, Sr.


If Doctor Octopus is on one side of the gang war, then which exciting new super-villain is his opposition?


Read more... )

Deeplinks ([syndicated profile] eff_feed) wrote2025-09-17 05:19 pm

ICE 🤝 Cyber Mercenaries | EFFector 37.12

Posted by Christian Romero

It's easy to keep up with the fight for digital privacy and free expression. Our EFFector newsletter delivers bite-sized updates, stories, and actions you can take to stay informed and help out.

In this latest issue, we show how libraries and schools can safeguard their computers with Privacy Badger; highlight the dangers of unaccountable corporations and billionaires buying surveillance tech for policeand share news that EFF’s Executive Director, Cindy Cohn, will be stepping down in mid-2026 after more than two decades of leadership.

EFFector isn’t just for reading—you can listen, too! In our audio companion, EFF Senior Staff Technologist Cooper Quintin explains why ICE’s contract with Paragon Solutions is so dangerous. Catch the conversation on YouTube or the Internet Archive.

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EFFECTOR 37.12 - ICE 🤝 Cyber Mercenaries

Since 1990 EFF has published EFFector to help keep readers on the bleeding edge of their digital rights. We know that the intersection of technology, civil liberties, human rights, and the law can be complicated, so EFFector is a great way to stay on top of things. The newsletter is chock full of links to updates, announcements, blog posts, and other stories to help keep readers—and listeners—up to date on the movement to protect online privacy and free expression. 

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goddess47 ([personal profile] goddess47) wrote in [community profile] no_true_pair2025-09-17 01:13 pm

Making Something from Nothing (Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1; Jack O'Neill, Miko Kusinagi)

Title: Making Something from Nothing
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1
Pairing/Characters: Jack O'Neill, Miko Kusinagi
Word Count: 490
Content Notes: none
Prompt: [community profile] no_true_pair September 16 - Miko Kusinagi & Jack O'Neill - bring your own craft supplies


Link to fic: Making Something from Nothing (on AO3)
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Lynn | Settiai ([personal profile] settiai) wrote2025-09-17 12:28 pm
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Yuletide!

Yuletide nominations are officially open, which means I have to get my ass in gear and actually figure out what I want to request and nominate this year.

A couple of my usual requests are almost always nominated by other people, so I can hopefully scratch those off the list. That doesn't help narrow it down a lot, though, because I've written down a frankly ridiculous number of fandoms this year that I've been considering requesting.

Right now, I'm leaning towards the following for my nominations:

Black Ships - Jo Graham OR Hand of Isis - Jo Graham OR Stealing Fire - Jo Graham
Home Alone (Movies) (mainly because of this post)
Hornblower (TV)
Peacemakers (2003)
The Witch Wolf (Webcomic)

My other requests will depend on what does or doesn't get nominated, but some of my ideas for fandoms that tend to show up in the tag set regularly are:

Gargoyles (Cartoon)
Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (Movies)
Justice League International
The Martian (2015)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
Titanic (1997)
Treasure Planet

Of course, there's always a chance that I'll see something in the tag set that I wasn't expecting that calls to me. That's definitely happened before, and it'll probably happen again.
I Can Has Cheezburger? ([syndicated profile] icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2025-09-17 08:00 am

Kind woman takes in pregnant cat that was dumped all alone at her apartment complex, the cat has 6 k

Posted by Mariel Ruvinsky

Abandoning a cat is one of the worst things that you can do to it. Our cats not only trust us, they depend on us. We don't know the last time that you have looked at your little house cat, but that spoiled fluffy creature could not survive without you, they just couldn't. So dumping your cat somewhere outside is not just breaking their heart and their trust, it may very well be giving up on their lives entirely. 

It's bad enough to do it as it is, but to abandon a pregnant cat… that's just cruel. And that is what happened to the cat momma in this story. At a time when she needed help the most, her humans decided that she was not worth it, and they threw her out - at her most vulnerable, most scared, most in need of help. It's a good thing that there are still decent people out there, good people even, and this pregnant momma found herself in some good, kind hands, just in time. 

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Dinosaur Comics! ([syndicated profile] dinosaur_comics_feed) wrote2025-09-17 12:00 am

twinkle twinkle little star, i'll just wait

archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - search - about
September 17th, 2025next

September 17th, 2025: In the other part of my life (writing comics for Star Trek and Marvel and DC Comics) I have four (four!) new books out today! If you head down to your local comic shoppe, be sure to check out KRYPTO: THE LAST DOG OF KRYPTON #4, and/or FANTASTIC FOUR #3, and/or STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS: SECOND CONTACT (the collection of my new run on the book!) AND/OR Deadpool/Batman #1, for a li'l 3-page backup story that brings back something I am really excited to see return! Thus concludes the pitch for Ryan's books here on Ryan's Webzone. :0

– Ryan

Deeplinks ([syndicated profile] eff_feed) wrote2025-09-17 03:50 pm

When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of “Content Jail”

Posted by Rindala Alajaji

This is the second instalment in a ten-part blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. 

During our Stop Censoring Abortion campaign, we set out to collect and spotlight the growing number of stories from people and organizations that have had abortion-related content removed, suppressed, or flagged by dominant social media platforms. Our survey submissions have revealed some alarming trends, including: if you don’t have a personal or second-degree connection at Meta, your chances of restoring your content or account are likely to drop significantly. 

Through the survey, we heard from activists, clinics, and researchers whose accounts were suspended or permanently removed for allegedly violating Meta’s policies on promoting or selling “restricted goods,” even when their posts were purely educational or informational. What the submissions also showed is a pattern of overenforcement, lack of transparency, and arbitrary moderation decisions that have specifically affected reproductive health and reproductive justice advocates. 

When accounts are taken down, appeals can take days, weeks, or even months (if they're even resolved at all, or if users are even given the option to appeal). For organizations and providers, this means losing access to vital communication tools and being cut off from the communities they serve. This is highly damaging since so much of that interaction happens on Meta’s platforms. Yet we saw a disturbing pattern emerge in our survey: on several occasions, accounts are swiftly restored once someone with a connection to Meta intervenes.

The Case Studies: An Abortion Clinic

The Red River Women's Clinic is an abortion clinic in Moorhead, MN. It was originally located in Fargo, North Dakota, and for many years was the only abortion clinic in North Dakota. In early January, the clinic’s director heard from a patient that she thought they only offered procedural/surgical abortions and not medication abortion. To clarify for other patients, they posted on the clinic’s page that they offered both procedural and medication abortions—attaching an image of a box of mifepristone. When they tried to boost the post, the ad was flagged and their account was suspended.

They appealed the decision and initially got the ad approved, yet the page was suspended again shortly after. But this time, multiple appeals and direct emails went unanswered, until they reached out to a digital rights organization that was able to connect with staff at Meta that stepped in. Only then was their page restored, with Meta noting that their post did not violate the policies but warning that future violations could lead to permanent removal.

While this may have been a glitch in Meta’s systems or a misapplication of policy, the suspension of the clinic’s Facebook account was detrimental for them. “We were unable to update our followers about dates/times we were closed, we were unable to share important information and news about abortion that would have kept our followers up to date, there was a legislative session happening and we were unable to share events and timely asks for reaching out to legislators about issues,” shared Tammi Kromenaker, Director of Red River Women's Clinic. The clinic was also prevented from starting an Instagram page due to the suspension. “Facebook has a certain audience and Instagram has another audience,” said Kromenaker, “we are trying to cater to all of our supporters so the loss of FB and the inability to access and start an Instagram account were really troubling to us.” 

The Case Studies: RISE at Emory University

RISE, a reproductive health research center at Emory University, launched an Instagram account to share community-centered research and combat misinformation related to reproductive health. In January of this year, they posted educational content about mifepristone on their instagram. “Let's talk about Mifepristone + its uses + the importance of access”, read the post. Two months later, their account was suddenly suspended, flagging the account under its policy against selling illegal drugs. Their appeal was denied, which led to the account being permanently deleted. 

A screenshot of an instagram post from @emory.rise that reads "let's talk about mifepristone" in bold black font "+ its uses + the importance of access" in blue

Screenshot submitted by RISE to EFF

“As a team, this was a hit to our morale” shared Sara Redd, Director of Research Translation at RISE. “We pour countless hours of person-power, creativity, and passion into creating the content we have on our page, and having it vanish virtually overnight took a toll on our team.” For many organizational users like RISE, their social media accounts are a repository for resources and metrics that may not be stored elsewhere. “We spent a significant amount of already-constrained team capacity attempting to recover all of the content we’d created for Instagram that was potentially going to be permanently lost. [...] We also spent a significant amount of time and energy trying to understand what options we might have available from Meta to appeal our case and/or recover our account; their support options are not easily accessible, and the time it took to navigate this issue distracted from our existing work.”  

Meta restored the account only after RISE was able to connect with someone there. Once RISE logged back in, they confirmed that the flagged post was the one about mifepristone. The post never sold or directed people where to buy pills, it simply provided accurate information about the use and efficacy of the drug. 

This Shouldn’t Be How Content Moderation Works

Meta spokespersons have admitted to instances of “overenforcement” in various press statements, noting that content is sometimes incorrectly removed or blurred even when it doesn’t actually violate policy. Meta has insisted to the public that they care about free speech, as a spokesperson mentioned to The New York Times: “We want our platforms to be a place where people can access reliable information about health services, advertisers can promote health services and everyone can discuss and debate public policies in this space [...] That’s why we allow posts and ads about, discussing and debating abortion.” In fact, their platform policies directly mention this

Note that advertisers don’t need authorization to run ads that only:

  • Educate, advocate or give public service announcements related to prescription drugs

Additionally

Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of prescription drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements. 

Meta also has policies specific to “Health and Wellness,” where they state: 

When targeting people 18 years or older, advertisers can run ads that:

  • Promote sexual and reproductive health and wellness products or services, as long as the focus is on health and the medical efficacy of the product or the service and not on the sexual pleasure or enhancement. And these ads must target people 18 years or older. This includes ads for: [...]
  • Family planning methods, such as:
    • Family planning clinics
    • In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) or any other artificial insemination procedures
    • Fertility awareness
    • Abortion medical consultation and related services

But these public commitments don’t always match users’ experiences. 

Take the widely covered case of Aid Access, a group that provides medication abortion by mail. This year, several of their Instagram posts were blurred and removed on Instagram, including one with tips for feeling safe and supported at home after taking abortion medication. But only after multiple national media outlets contacted Meta for comment on the story were the posts and account restored.

So the question becomes: If Meta admits its enforcement isn’t perfect, why does it still take knowing someone, or having the media involved, to get a fair review? When companies like Meta claim to uphold commitments to free speech, those commitments should materialize in clear policies that are enforced equally, not only when it is escalated through leveraging relationships with Meta personnel.

“Facebook Jail” Reform

There is no question that the enforcement of these content moderation policies on Meta platforms and the length of time people are spending in “content jail” or “Facebook/Instagram jail” has created a chilling effect

“I think that I am more cautious and aware that the 6.1K followers we have built up over time could be taken away at any time based on the whims of Meta,” Tammi from Red River Women’s Clinic told us. 

RISE sees it in a slightly different light, sharing that “[w]hile this experience has not affected our fundamental values and commitment to sharing our work and rigorous science, it has highlighted for us that no information posted on a third-party platform is entirely one’s own, and thus can be dismantled at any moment.”

At the end of the day, clinics are left afraid to post basic information, patients are left confused or misinformed, and researchers lose access to their audiences. But unless your issue catches the attention of a journalist or you know someone at Meta, you might never regain access to your account.

These case studies highlight the urgent need for transparent, equitable, and timely enforcement that is not dependent on insider connections, as well as accountability from platforms that claim to support open dialogue and free speech. Meta’s admitted overenforcement should, at minimum, be coupled with efficient and well-staffed review processes and policies that are transparent and easily understandable. 

It’s time for Meta and other social media platforms to implement the reforms they claim to support, and for them to prove that protecting access to vital health information doesn’t hinge on who you know.

This is the second post in our blog series documenting the findings from our Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. Read more in the series: https://www.eff.org/pages/stop-censoring-abortion   

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Muccamukk ([personal profile] muccamukk) wrote2025-09-17 08:56 am
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Music Wednesday


Anyone else remember this band? I was very fond of them.
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sanguinity ([personal profile] sanguinity) wrote2025-09-17 08:51 am

The Brownstone Scrabble Championships (Elementary)

A few of you may remember "Score: Q to 12," in which Sherlock refuses to confine himself to the Scrabble Official Club and Tournament Word List, and Joan refuses to spend any more time trying to make him. (Elementary, Joan & Sherlock, 453 words)

At the prompting of a friend, now there is a sequel, "Score: i√2 to 𓅧," in which the game has continued to evolve. (Elementary, Outsider POV, 221b ficlet)


While I was posting last night, I also archived the DVD commentary I did for "Score: Q to 12" back in 2014. Last month, [personal profile] mific in [community profile] fan_writers was bemoaning the death of the DVD commentary on AO3. And I thought: I've written a bunch, they're just not on AO3; they're all on tumblr and DW. I usually link the main story to them, but I haven't been actually archiving them on the archive site, as I haven't wanted to clutter up the main story with a bunch of extraneous material. But based on that [community profile] fan_writers convo, I thought I'd pull this one over as an experiment. Depending on how it goes, I might pull over the rest of my "DVD extras" -- commentaries, deleted scenes -- for other stories, too.
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Humph ([personal profile] spiralsheep) wrote2025-09-17 04:40 pm
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In which me / trainspotting otp

- Book blurbs: the trend for covering the outside of a book with meaningless blurbs (often from off-putting authors) while hiding any description of the actual contents, such as whether it's even fiction or non-fiction, on an internal dust jacket flap is annoying to me, especially when browsing in one of those posh bookshops with rubber bands around the books to prevent them being opened by anyone except the purchaser. And if I use my phone to look up whether Tom Cox's latest hardback is another novel or more essays then the sales assistant probably assumes I'm checking if it's cheaper online (which, yes, it would be). /grit in my book oyster

- Reading: 92 books to 17 Sept 2025.
- To Read shelves 8 September 2025: 78 (down from 90 on 1 Jan but up from 68 at lowest ebb this year so far).

85. Endemic, Exploring the Wildlife Unique to Britain, by James Harding-Morris, non-fiction natural history, 5/5.
Engaging citizen science via travel memoir, but probably only of interest to UK readers for obvious reasons. I would happily have read a similar book twice the length, even though some of the individual chapter subjects don't especially interest me (the Elms are haunting me though). I can see why the author is employed as a science communicator.

89. Lady Susan, by Jane Austen, 1794, epistolary novel, 4/5.
This is not a moral tale, lol. Fun though, and I note that ALL the women get more or less what they wanted: Lady Susan ensures her place in society at the expense of a gullible man, the Vernons and De Courcys keep their precious respectability, Frederica remains unmarried, and Mrs Johnson remains secure although she gets her comeuppance to some extent for being a Bad Friend - the one sin Austen never forgives in a woman. The 2016 film, confusingly titled Love and Friendship, was also fun with many glorious costumes.

90. The Hotel Avocado, by Bob Mortimer, 2024, comedic crime novel, 5/5
Entertaining sequel to The Satsuma Complex. Very Bob Mortimer. Better read with the first novel freshly in mind. I sensed the set-up for a third novel featuring the corrupt councillor and Brighton underworld.
Warning for descriptions of physical violence, including to children by other children.

92. Current reading quote: pg28 [Corrour railway station] "was featured in the film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, the remote station to which Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, and Tommy travel in a bid to remove themselves from the pharmaceutical temptations of Scotland's Central Belt." (I'd just borrowed this train-based travel book from the library yesterday when Born Slippy drove past so fate clearly decreed I would simultaneously indulge two types of trainspotting.)
Deeplinks ([syndicated profile] eff_feed) wrote2025-09-17 03:02 pm

Mexican Allies Raise Alarms About New Mass Surveillance Laws, Call for International Support

Posted by Karen Gullo

The Mexican government passed a package of outrageously privacy-invasive laws in July that gives both civil and military law enforcement forces access to troves of personal data and forces every individual to turn over biometric information regardless of any suspicion of crime.   

The laws create a new interconnected intelligence system dubbed the Central Intelligence Platform, under which intelligence and security agencies at all levels of government—federal, state and municipal—have the power to access, from any entity public or private, personal information for “intelligence purposes,” including license plate numbers, biometric information, telephone details that allow the identification of individuals, financial, banking, and health records, public and private property records, tax data, and more. 

You read that right. Banks’ customer information databases? Straight into the platform. Hospital patient records? Same thing. 

The laws were ostensively passed in the name of gathering intelligence to fight high-impact crime. Civil society organizations, including our partners RD3 and Article 19 Mexico, have raised alarms about the bills—as R3D put it, these new laws establish an uncontrolled system of surveillance and social control that goes against privacy and free expression rights and the presumption of innocence.  

In a concept note made public recently, RD3 breaks down exactly how bad the bills are. The General Population Act forces every person in Mexico to enroll in a mandatory biometric ID system with fingerprints and a photo. Under the law, public and private entities are required to ask for the ID for any transaction or access to services, such as banking, healthcare, education, and access to social programs. All data generated through the ID mandate will feed into a new Unique Identity Platform under the Disappeared Persons Act.  

The use of biometric IDs creates a system for tracking activities of the population—also accessible through the Central Intelligence Platform.  

The Telecommunications Act requires telecom companies to create a registry that connects people’s phone numbers with their biometric ID held by the government and cut services off to customers who won’t go along with the practice.  

It gets worse. 

The Intelligence Act explicitly guarantees the armed forces, through the National Guard, legal access to the Central Intelligence Platform, which enables real-time consultation of interconnected databases across sectors.  

Companies, both domestic and international, must either interconnect their databases or hand over information on request. Mexican authorities can share that information even with foreign governments. It also exempts judicial authorization requirements for certain types of surveillance and classifies the entire system as confidential, with criminal penalties for disclosure. All of this is allowed without any suspicion of a crime or prior judicial approval.  

We urge everyone to pay close attention to and support efforts to hold the Mexican government accountable for this egregious surveillance system. RD3 challenged the laws in court and international support is critical to raise awareness and push back.  As R3D put it, "collaboration is vital for the defense of human rights," especially in the face of uncontrolled powers set by disproportionate laws.  

We couldn’t agree more and stand with our Mexican allies. 

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal ([syndicated profile] smbc_comics_feed) wrote2025-09-17 11:20 am

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - O Monks

Posted by Zach Weinersmith



Click here to go see the bonus panel!

Hovertext:
I believe Buddhists aren't allowed to get mad about this misrepresentation, because that'd be a form of attachment.


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duckprintspress ([personal profile] duckprintspress) wrote2025-09-17 10:58 am

This Weekend: FulMont Pride at SUNY FulMont!

a graphic on a purple-to-yellow gradeint background. Text reads "Community. Pride. Celebration." Below this is a circularly logo that says Fulmont Pride Mohawk Valley and shows a rainbow spanning a river valley with rainbow houses on each bank. More text reads Sunday, September 21st 10AM to 2 PM SUNY FMCC 2805 NY-67 in Johnstown. A photograph of a booth selling stickers and other merchandise, fronted by a banner with the Duck Prints Press logo, is below this, and there's a big pink badge that says I'm a Vendor. At the bottom, there's a Current Sponsers place with townsend leather, metroiq, SUNY Fulton-Montgomery, and A Big Gay Market logos. In the lower right corner it says "learn more" and has a QR code and the link fulmontpride.org.
This Sunday, September 21st, Fulton and Montgomery counties are celebrating Pride on the campus for SUNY FulMont/FulMont Community College from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.! News10 anchor Anthony Krolikowski is the MC, New York State Congressman Paul Tonko and other politicians will be there, and there’ll be performances, activities, a bounce house, food trucks, vendors, and more! I’m really excited for this one – Pride events are always a good time. Even if you don’t come by the vendors, I hope you’ll check it out! You can learn more at fulmontpride.org!