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Hi Prideknights!

You're based in Europe, right? Could you help out signal-boosting this European citizens initiative to ban conversion therapy in the EU?

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

I don't think I have to explain the horrors of conversion therapy to you, so let me explain how this initiative works.

For it to get taken seriously by the EU, we need two things:

7 countries need to reach the minimum threshold of signatures for their country. We're currently at 6 out of 7! Slovenia only needs 300 more signatures to become country number 7!

We need a total of 1 million signatures. This might look daunting, but there days ago we were still at 200.000. Yesterday we were at 450.00. We are at 535.000 right now. So we have a long way to go, but we are moving fast!

The deadline is in a few days, on May 17.

Anybody with a European citizenship can add their name to the pile! If we reach the right amount, the official citizen initiative will be put before the EU Commission.

With lgbtq+ rights getting rolled back across the world, including Europe, there is no time to lose to demand stronger protections.

MAY 14, 2025 (VERY RELEVANT) SPREAD. THIS. LIKE. WILDFIRE!!!

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Help my Son " Ezzdeen "

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I want you to know that my ezzdeen is "ADHD" and very picky in his food, and now he is suffering from huge weight loss, because the crazy expensive prices for the food ,so that we can't afford to buy what he accepts, without you ezz will not regain his health.

We needs your support more than ever, the daily costs of living, the expensive treatments, I hope that through your support I can reach safety with my family.

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@itsapmseymour

An orphan develops the habit of talking to the moon as if it were a parent—just telling it about their day, and occasionally announcing milestones in their life, like their admission to college. Unbeknownst to them, the moon has been listening all along, and it's so very proud.

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playing erdtree with my pal we get invaded by someone named "Drip Inspector" and im like "waitwaitwait. ok lets just pose leaning back to back and wait for them to show up maybe our outfits will be so good they wont kill us"

so we wait until they show up and then they get reaaaal close to us . and then pull out their telescope and start circling around us and zooming in for a good 30 seconds. then they clap, use the "wonderful" and "youre beautiful" prattling pates, and jump off a cliff. invader vanquished

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And here are the images I sent:

CW: Politics

How do I convince my mom to vote for Joe Biden?

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Here are the links I’ve sent her:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68790777.amp

https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-rematch-policies-abortion-immigration-gaza-1a904cd70f14581f264b851a5cb2f9e4

https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4656405-donald-trump-transgender-students-athletes-title-ix-lgbtq/amp/

https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-revoke-trans-protections

For this next one, I specifically told her to read the “Campaign issues” section.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election

Here’s the summary I mentioned earlier.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Defeat_Project_2025/s/Eq3LIxIGo1

https://www.mediamatters.org/heritage-foundation/guide-project-2025-extreme-right-wing-agenda-next-republican-administration

https://19thnews.org/2024/06/lgbtq-trump-trans-second-term/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/s/BUtAyhkKdH

https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/s/fnWvDw2kRI

CW: Politics

How do I convince my mom to vote for Joe Biden?

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I’ve also sent her various articles (most of which have SOURCES) and images about how Joe Biden is the better option, which she has said she’ll read, but I have no real way of knowing how much she has read.

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How do I convince my mom to vote for Joe Biden?

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That’s why I sent her a summary of what it intends to do, but she doesn’t seem to think the summary is legit because of something about how the person who wrote the summary could’ve lied.

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How do I convince my mom to vote for Joe Biden?

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She knows that Project 2025 exists but doesn’t want to read through the whole thing (to be fair, it IS more than 900 pages).

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How do I convince my mom to vote for Joe Biden?

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She knows that he was found guilty of 34 felonies, but says that it wasn’t legit because “the judge was rude to him and his legal time compared to how he acted toward the prosecution, and he didn’t let Trump’s legal team summon a vital witness.”

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How do I convince my mom to vote for Joe Biden?

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Based on what she says, it seems like she’s gonna vote for Donald Trump.

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How do I convince my mom to vote for Joe Biden?

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CW: Politics

How do I convince my mom to vote for Joe Biden?

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Game concept that's probably already been done: A videogame about possession, where you, the player, are the foreign entity possessing the character you are playing as.

The story's whole point is to get you out of the protagonist's head, and since you want to complete the game, it's presumable that you therefore want to help the protagonist get rid of you. While you control the playable character's body, their narration is their own, and frequently comments on what you're making them do, with remarks like "ugh, can we focus? we need to go to the thing" when you start twiddling with pointless things instead of progressing the plot.

And occasionally the character just refuses to do what you want them to do. Instead of an invisible wall barring you from going beyond the boundaries of the game, the character consciously halts and tells you "no, that's far enough. We can't just wander off." If you try to make the character attack NPCs that you can't fight, they shudder and shake their head, going "no, what's wrong with you? She's my friend!"

At first the game kind of railroads what you need to do next, which is specifically by the character you're controlling refusing to do what you're trying to make them do. Their whole goal is to get rid of you, get this evil damn thing out of their head. But gradually you can build up trust with the character, by leading them to things they want or need, and keeping them out of danger.

Consequently, allowing the character to die or get injured makes them harder to control, and more likely to refuse to do as you want. And the less they trust you, the harder the game is. While the sliding scale of trust might not be a visible mechanic in the game, you can hear it in the tone in which they talk to you. The voice lines are mostly the same, but when you start leading the character to a random direction, the same "where are you taking me?" can either be calm but intrigued, or distressed and afraid.

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First panel

Top left: Saturn moons Stable

Middle left: Mars moons Stable

Bottom left: Jupiter moons Stable

Beside Cyana’s head: Neptune moons Stable

Below Praesidium: Acai: On Grape: On Lunari: On

Beside Cyana’s hand: Qwerty-style keyboard in Cosmythios

Second Panel

Top left: Motion joints - Stable -

Top right: Core changer installed - And stable -

Bottom left: Cooling systems - Normalized -

Bottom right: Neural link - Connecting -

Third Panel

Top left: Link connection established

Bottom right: All systems stable, beginning powering unit up

Fourth panel

Powering on… 15%… 56%… 87%…

Fifth Panel

Cybot online!

‘A Creation of Acceptance’

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‘A Creation of Acceptance’

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31 Days of Sonic Challenge Day 27: Crossover

my arm is dead this took me like 6 hours, but it was also worth it