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ICE is in Los Angeles conducting raids and arresting families and children on their way to their court dates and raiding workplaces. Trump has called the National Guard in to stop protestors and is spreading a false narrative about violence, raiding, etc. to distract from the fact that ICE is abducting children in a SANCTUARY CITY.

Do not look away, do not be silent. If you or a loved one is detained by ICE, stay silent except to ask for your lawyer. Keep your documents on you. Call legal aid foundations who are standing by.

If you are NOT in LA and want to help, you can contact rapid response networks and ask how to help or donate. Donate to ACLU, the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF), or the Immigrant Defense Project.

Here are some slides with good tips to share and a list of SoCal rapid response networks:

DO NOT LOOK AWAY!

And as a not so gentle reminder, if you voted for Trump or his ilk you can unkindly get the fuck off my page. You're not welcome here.

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Stream Watching Anniversary

It's been about a decade since I started watching streams regularly.

Originally, I only intended to watch Let's Players I already watched on YouTube, but that quickly changed, the night I found someone streaming Super Mario Sunshine.

A lot has changed since then, and I've had many ups and downs even as a viewer.

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This image was created with Picrew’s “Character Creator“!! https://picrew.me/share?cd=xFMax5KqsR

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So, Discord has added a feature that lets other people "enhance" or "edit" your images with different AI apps. It looks like this:

Currently, you can't opt out from this at all. But here's few things you can do as a protest.

FOR SERVERS YOU ARE AN ADMIN IN

Go to Roles -> @/everyone roles -> Scroll all the way down to External Apps, and disable it. This won't delete the option, but it will make people receive a private message instead when they use it, protecting your users:

You should also make it a bannable offense to edit other user's images with AI. Here's how I worded it in my server, feel free to copypaste:

Do not modify other people's images with AI under ANY circumstances, such as with the Discord "enhancement" features, amidst others. This is a bannable offense.

COMPLAIN TO DISCORD

There's few ways to go around this. First, you can go to https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/requests/new , select Help and Support -> Feedback/New Feature Request, and write your message, as seen in the screenshot below.

For the message, here's some points you can bring up:

Concerns about harassment (such as people using this feature to bully others)

Concerns about privacy (concerns on how External Apps may break privacy or handle the data in the images, and how it may break some legislations, such as GDPR)

Concerns about how this may impact minors (these features could be used with pictures of irl minors shared in servers, for deeply nefarious purposes)

BE VERY CLEAR about "I will refuse to buy Nitro and will cancel my subscription if this feature remains as it is", since they only care about fucking money

Word them as you'd like, add onto them as you need. They sometimes filter messages that are copypasted templates, so finding ways to word them on your own is helpful.

ADDING: You WILL NEED to reply to the mail you receive afterwards for the message to get sent to an actual human! Otherwise it won't reach anyone

UNSUSCRIBE FROM NITRO

This is what they care about the most. Unsuscribe from Nitro. Tell them why you unsuscribed on the way out. DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY. They're a company. They take actions for profit. If these actions do not get them profit, they will need to backtrack. Mass-unsuscribing from WOTC's DnD beyond forced them to back down with the OGL, this works.

LEAVE A ONE-STAR REVIEW ON THE APP

This impacts their visibility on the App store. Write why are you leaving the one-star review too.

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Regardless of your stance on AI, I think we can agree that having no way for users to opt out of these pictures is deeply concerning, specially when Discord is often used to share selfies. It's also a good time to remember internet privacy and safety- Maybe don't post your photos in big open public servers, if you don't want to risk people doing edits or modifications of them with AI (or any other way). Once it's posted, it's out of your control.

Anyways, please reblog for visibility- This is a deeply concerning topic!

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BAN ON CONVERSION PRACTICES IN THE EU. GO SIGN IT. DEADLINE IS FUCKING MAY 17. WE'RE STILL MISSING 800.000 signatures. FUCKING DO IT.

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Happy Mother's Day to all the good mothers.

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Reminder for those who are going to PAX East… please mask up!

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Happy Superhero Day!

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Happy Earth Day!

Remember that we need to take care of our planet.

That also means no using generative AI, as it contributes to worsening the environment, among other unethical things.

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So it's Bat Appreciation Day.

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Happy Anime Day!

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Happy International Beaver Day!

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Happy International Asexuality Day, from a fellow Asexual!

Remember that Asexuality is valid, and everyone deserves to be seen, heard, and respected.

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As it is Autism Acceptance Month, here are some reminders.

Autism is a spectrum. It's different for everyone who has it.

Listen to Actually Autistic people. Don't speak over them.

Don't support Autism Speaks. Support Autistic Self Advocacy Network or Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network instead. Here's a blog post with more good and bad charities.

Do not use puzzle pieces. Use the infinity symbol instead.

Do not light it up blue. Light it up red or yellow instead.

"Asperger's" is a dead term and should not be used.

"Functioning" labels are harmful.

Stop using the "R-E-E-E" sound as it is offensive.

Self-diagnosis is valid.

BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ Autistic people are valid.

Support Autistic artists, authors, and creators.

Support Autistic people year round.

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Happy Transgender Day of Visibility!

Trans rights are human rights.

Trans men are men.

Trans women are women.

Support Trans artists, authors, and creators.

Support Transgender people year round.

Trans BIPOC and disabled people are included.

Trans people need out support now more than ever.

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ok so the new Sonic Channel fursona maker is in Japanese. Obviously. So for those of us who can't read Japanese very well, here's a rundown of the Profile page translations so you can work it accurately without defaulting to a translate page every five seconds!

Special thanks to @krafterwrites and @sonicbible for their help!!!! Esp sonicbible for helping me translate what my websites could not lmao

Selections under the cut!

Favorite Character

Can I just say? Sticks being included FLOORED me. Like there's my GIIIIRL. Also Maria??? MEPHILES??? Hello???

Favorite Game

SONIC SHUFFLE AND CHRONICLES APPEARANCE?????

What was your first Sonic experience?

What is your favorite fan activity?

What do you like about Sonic?

ALRIGHT GANG GO FORTH AND MAKE YOUR OCS. AND LET THEM KNOW WE LOVE SONIC SHUFFLE