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Spain's ESC entry

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“If an alien lands and asks what Eurovision is, we should just show him this”

- Edward af Sillén, Swedish commentator, about Poland

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this down detector comment is so real

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My Din & Grogu comics 💚

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#they’re the same thing

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The Mandalorian S03E08 - Iron Man (2008)

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Things today’s taught me:

Download fics you really like because you never know when you’ll need them

Support and donate to sites you use a lot (ao3 is a knee-jerk reach daily for me and basically the whole internet and I will be donating to them next time that season rolls around as I hope many others are)

Ao3 volunteers are under appreciated without question for all they do for this site

Please show the site some love once it’s back up and thank the vols too

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day 1 without ao3: i have gone through all 5 stages of grief multiple times and have invented a 6th. i will not disclose what the 6th stage of grief is.

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me when ao3 is down so I'm forced to go to bed early and have a good 8 hours of sleep before going back to work tomorrow instead of burning my retina on my screen phone reading about the same guys falling in love over and over until 3 am

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Saw this on Reddit: ORIGINAL POST

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Just sos you knows, AO3 is down under a DDOS attack right now. They’ve been coming back in little blips and then disappearing again. It’s been several hours. (For reference, it’s currently 3 p.m. eastern, July 10, 2023.)

https://twitter.com/AO3_Status/status/1678468065070030856

The culprit (as with a few other DDOS attacks recently) is Anonymous Sudan, a group that is likely Russian, not Sudanese. The ‘reason’ they gave–that AO3 is “full of disgusting smuts and other LGBTQ+ and NSFW things,” is thin and probably not completely legit, though still legitimately concerning.

The AS claim: https://twitter.com/FalconFeedsio/status/1678397195039526912

Reporting on AS: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-28/anonymous-sudan-does-group-behind-microsoft-cyberattack-have-ties-to-russia (you can use archive.ph to get this one, 12ft doesn’t seem to work)

As noted here, https://twitter.com/honeyskeleton/status/1678449598703050769:

DDOS protection is expensive especially for a high traffic site like ao3. And it’s uniquely vulnerable as an independent site without ads or other corporate support. SPECIFICALLY targeted bc of its queer works and yet ppl will still complain every time they ask for donations lmao 

So, again, when AO3 comes back online, please don’t go hard with refreshing all your tabs. Please do remember to download fics you love early and often as  you continue in your whole ~reading journey~. And please do support AO3 through a dono or becoming a donating member, if it is possible for you to do so.

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In the middle of a fanfic and this shit happens

The world hates me

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there are very few things in life you can count on, but the tag #ao3 trending number 1 on tumblr.con every time the site is down is one of them. (and also the fact that the first post will be the castiel supernatural confession scene template)

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ao3 being down is very sad

but also love the people who run it. they keeping everyone up to date

which if you dont know ao3 has been down since miday ish. it is bc of a DDOS (i dont actually know what its called i just breifly skimed the acronism) attack which is basically a hacker overloding the servers with requests

hopefully its sorted soon and there are updates reguarly

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super special award for every1 who survived 🥇

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So who had “former bake-off presenter Mel Giedroyc seductively churning butter á la Poland 2014” on their eurovision bingo card?

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