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every time things are finally looking up for me financially something stupid (in this case 2 stupid things in the course of a week) happens to take it all away 🥲

Consider checking out my ko-fi, I have a few commission slots open that I'll be working on on stream today

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Today, I sent my little daughter Judy with her friends to the WFP food distribution point to get some food. Judy was very late, and I became extremely worried and anxious. I went looking for her amidst the heavy crowd. I looked right and left but couldn’t find her. I started calling out her name loudly, but no one answered. Then I heard some people saying that some individuals had been suffocated and taken to the hospital.

My anxiety increased, and I couldn’t concentrate, fearing for my daughter. I asked them what happened, and they said the injured were transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital. I rushed there and found the hospital overcrowded with martyrs and people severely injured from the bombing.

I searched for my daughter while crying. I asked the emergency department if my daughter Judy had arrived with the WFP group. They said yes — she is on bed number 5, and her condition is stable. I said, "Thank God," and ran to her, kissed her forehead, and asked what happened.

She said, "Daddy, I went into the crowd to get food, and people started stepping on my body until I lost consciousness."

Please, help us with your donations. We are now without food or shelter. Please, you are our only hope. We haven’t had food for more than three days.

Please donate from here.

by Gazavetters (#21)

el-shab-hussein @90-ghost

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As the man-made famine in the Gaza Strip worsens and access to food becomes increasingly difficult, we've decided to extend our support beyond agricultural inputs. We are currently working to connect grassroots initiatives with local farmers-allowing crops to be purchased well below the soaring market rates and directly distributed to those unable to buy or access them.

Read more about and donate to revive Gaza's farmlands, a project by APN that aims to rehabilitate the agricultural sector and restore local food systems to combat famine.

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I hate to go through this all over again. Last night, Itch.io, one of the most popular platforms for hosting queer and adult independent media, went through a large-scale crackdown on adult content.

This was primarily aimed at games, but novels and comics were hit in the process. Most adult content has been de-listed from the site's search, but some creators were banned without warning, and any funds they have not been paid are currently being withheld by Itch.io.

This crackdown was done, as it always is, because of payment processors threatening to pull their services.

The payment processors caved to an influence campaign by Australian extremist anti-pornography group Collective Shout, who have been inundating Visa and Mastercard with calls to force video game platforms to stop hosting adult content - which, of course, includes anything queer.

Collective Shout claim to have sent in 1000 emails to get this result, but there are a WAY more than a thousand of us. We need as many people as possible to make as much noise as we can!

Below the cut are numbers and scripts, all you need to do is follow the step by step guide!

Info compiled by voiddebris on Bluesky, also available collected in a handy document:

Paypal:

Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161

Phone (outside US): 1-402-935-2050

Hours: 6am - 6pm PT

Mastercard:

Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372

Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111

Online form

Visa:

Phone (US): 1-800-847-2911

Non-US numbers

Online form

Script:

Customer Complaint Dept, This message is to lodge an official complaint about the ongoing rampant restrictions your company has placed on legal sales made by legitimate businesses. These restrictions are not only counter to the concept of freedom of speech and expression, but they harm consumers, businesses, and they harm your company’s bottom line. The following actions are absolutely necessary to protect the freedoms of your client base and the sustainability of legitimate business practices: 1. Remove from your Terms of Service any mention barring the use of your service for sale and purchase of legal products. 2. Contact Steam (Valve), Itch.io, and any other company you have previously put pressure on to retract your content restrictions. Put in place protections to prevent such restrictions from being put in place in the future without ample warning and time to contest them. If these changes aren't made then I, along with many others will be forced to seek other options for processing payments. Sincerely, A Concerned Customer

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OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO

Sign this petition from the ACLU

Americans - contact your representatives about payment processors acting as censors! You can find their contact information on 5calls.org.

Script, from here:

Hello Representative/Senator [LAST NAME], -or- Hello office of Representative/Senator [LAST NAME], My name is [YOUR FIRST NAME/SCREEN NAME] and I am one of your constituents. I am calling today to express my concerns with technological censorship. Legal and legitimate adult entertainment is being banned in this country. These bans are not by legislators, but by payment processors like Mastercard and Visa. Mastercard and Visa are improperly creating legislation online through their user and merchant policies. They are banning creator and user access to content that is legal and legitimate. They are inciting fear and panic to encourage censorship. Please take a stand against this impermissible censorship. This is a direct attack on an adult's right to legal content. No one but the legislative branch should be allowed to create legislation. Please support the Federal Trade Commission in their stand against technological censorship to protect the first amendment. Thank you for taking the time to listen today.

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I wonder if Shadow's inhibitors require occasional recalibration/tuning/maintenance/whatever

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Heir to Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Ferdinand and his spouse Sophie dressed as a Mummy and a Sphinx respectively during their trip to Egypt in 1894.

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What if Umarak was in g1

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matoro where he shouldn’t be day 357: disassembled

NOOOOOOOOO

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"The creator definitely didn't put that much thought into it" well then clearly someone else has to and I think I'm the weirdo for the job

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You can REALLY tell Toby was a tumblrina with this dialogue

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it's really embarrassing how much self control i have to exert when you put me in front of a tray of convenient and tender meat like if you put meatballs in front if me the fuckers are gone in milliseconds. same true of roadted brussels sprouts or basically anything that's a nice little dense and textured morsel. i am the hors that d'ouvres

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By the way, the prosecution just violated Luigi Mangione's HIPAA rights and I have not seen people talking much about it

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i was opening up the nature center and a little wasp flew by while i unlocked the door so i let him out. then i looked down, and there was a spider, a millipede, and two rollie-pollie bugs waiting at the door and they all walked out in a line like they’d been at a party together overnight.

it’s been two weeks and i can’t stop thinking about it.

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My favorite banned terms on this site are "suicide prevention" and "safe sex"

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"Maybe I'll kill that reporter who does all your interviews. Maybe I'll kill Clark Kent."

This is the most important line in the movie. I'm 100% serious. It tells you everything you need to know about Lex Luthor's character. It shows the audience that, despite being almost omnicognizant from the get-go, Luthor clearly has no fucking idea who Superman is, only what he does.

I've never seen anyone go from All-Knowing Evil to Absolute Fucking Loser so fast. In fifteen words he went from unstoppable criminal powerhouse to flailing manchild moron. He gave his Evil Dictator demonstration and then turned around, dropped his pants and showed his entire ass. He proclaimed his manifesto of unrelenting ego, turned around, slipped on a banana peel and landed on a whoopie cushion.

And he was so mired in his own sense of superiority that he never even knew it.

Lex Luthor, folks. Ten out of ten, no notes.

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Definitely not jealous that your game is on steam before mine. Definitely not 1000000% jealous and seething over it. Super calm and peaceful, absolutely serene. Definitely not tearing my hair out and beating my head into a wall while cursing God and all creation because my game is a broken pile of spaghetti code and programmer art while you have actual game play footage available. Luv ya British twink

pls keep in mind that

1. the game has been in development for over 2 years

2. the lead developer has many years of actual game industry experience

3. it's being worked on by multiple people in both minor & major roles

4. it has cost a lotttt of money to the point where breaking a profit will actually be a miracle

not saying this to discourage, my point is that comparing yourself to people with more resources than you is bad and you should cut yourself some slack, game development is hell and anyone who manages it alone deserves to be recognised for that. idk anything about your spaghetti game but im sure it's epic, set yourself some reasonable deadlines & goals & treat yourself better for your hard work

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Deciding to show off my trio design here! ^^