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[ID: Art of Jinshi from the Apothecary Diaries. First image is a heavily simplified doodle of him in watercolor, he is drawn with soft and round shapes. Second image is a page of many doodles of him, the largest one being a colored full body drawing of him smiling to the side, standing neutrally. All the other doodles are in pencil: there are a few screenshot redraws, various tiny doodles of him, Jinshi as a cat, and a few proto designs of the previous image's simplified Jinshi. There's also a stamp with a frog on it. /end ID]

old as fuck jinshis that i said i'd post and then forgot !!!

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3.5 is like...What if you wanted to play The Sims but when you loaded an old save all the sims you made looked directly up at you through the screen and started telling you to "Kill Yourself", then started turning themselves and each other into viruses and revoking your control over the device you're playing on and somehow letting people that hate you gain total access to said device and your location so they can beat the breaks off of you.

And this is all because you hate your child that went no contact years ago

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So if Lygus had just kept his stupid mouth shut Irontomb would've already been born and he wouldn't be getting jumped by a pack of lesbians and their homosexual lizard while gaywrath.exe attempts a freestyle backalley abortion in the background.

Lessons can be learned here I suppose

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some organizations working on the ground in gaza right now

gaza soup kitchen

the sameer project

salam charity

watermelon relief

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I am a survivor of the genocide in Gaza.

My only child was killed in the war

Donate my family ! Here

I am Moataz, I work as a journalist in the field of humanitarian journalism, I tried to spread the humanitarian issues and solutions journalism, I escaped with my wife from death several times, my wife was seven months pregnant, there was no water or food, she was drinking sewage water, until she got blood poisoning that almost killed her, today I publish my story and ask for help even for just one meal worth $ 35 to save my family from the risk of starvation, I hope to find the appropriate way to collect $ 15,000 to leave the country of death forever! Please I don't want to lose hope, any help saves my family $ 25, $ 30 please save my family 💔🥹

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Everytime someone posts the Top ships on AO3, you see H*rry Potter Fans pulling unheard of, unnecessary, unwanted characters out of their ass. Like who the fuck is Dorcas? Just move on. You're taking the piss.

How far will you go to support That Terf that you're pulling up these? Those aren't even characters. Leave it alone and find other interests. My god.

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Small Wei Wuxian just because

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Yesterday, my mother fractured her arm while trying to get aid. I couldn’t go with her because I’m severely malnourished. She smiled through the pain so we wouldn’t worry, but I could see it all in her eyes — and it broke me.

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Uk media reporting on the OSA:

Reality:

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Mastercard and visa have reported to a couple news outlets that they are currently being swamped with calls and complaints. Keep up the pressure and try to (politely) insist that you leave a complaint via phone instead of letting the rep direct you to emails. It's way easier to be overwhelmed by a much smaller number of calls so each one counts for a bit more!

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being so staunchly anti generative ai while everyone around you is "i used chatgpt" and "i asked grok" and google search is useless and every company is implementing ai and every single celeb is taking ai money and partnering with ai is like... it's so jarring. why can't you see the harm like i can? why are you so lazy? why are we making society this stupid? can we please stop? it's killing people does that not matter to you?

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this is not my screenshot

discord has been pushing its new uk online safety act changes early for some users. this screenshot belongs to a 32 year old who used discords built in face scanner to verify their age. the scanner said they were 11 years old, and instantly suspended the account, with no option to try again or appeal, and the suspension will automatically end in 2027, when they’re “old enough” to use discord.

DO NOT SCAN YOUR FACE TO VERIFY YOUR AGE

if you really want to verify your age, use a different option available. don’t trust the face scan.

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Reading the new checks that might come in due to the Online Safety Act in the UK and this is actually bullshit

[Image Transcript:

And how will I prove my age?

There’s a number of methods a site or app might use to ask you to confirm your age. They might do this check themselves or use another company to do the check. These methods include:

Facial age estimation – you show your face via photo or video, and technology analyses it to estimate your age. 

Open banking – you give permission for the age-check service to securely access information from your bank about whether you are over 18. The age-check service then confirms this with the site or app.

Digital identity services – these include digital identity wallets, which can securely store and share information which proves your age in a digital format.

Credit card age checks – you provide your credit card details and a payment processor checks if the card is valid. As you must be over 18 to obtain a credit card this shows you are over 18.

Email-based age estimation – you provide your email address, and technology analyses other online services where it has been used – such as banking or utility providers - to estimate your age.  

Mobile network operator age checks – you give your permission for an age-check service to confirm whether or not your mobile phone number has age filters applied to it. If there are no restrictions, this confirms you are over 18. 

Photo-ID matching – this is similar to a check when you show a document. For example, you upload an image of a document that shows your face and age, and an image of yourself at the same time – these are compared to confirm if the document is yours.

End Transcript.]

Not only is this such a fucking breach of privacy, but this is going to hurt adults in vulnerable and abusive situations. Some adults don’t have bank accounts or credit cards or even a fucking phone. I’m one of them. I could not give half of this information even if I wanted to. What the fuck is this. Fuck the UK government. This isn’t going to protect kids, this is just going to hurt adults, and I know full well when they say “sites that allow pornography” they’re going to be going after sites that have huge amounts of queer content, like tumblr and Ao3. Queer kids are gonna lose their fucking communities because of this shit. Abuse victims are going to lose online support systems because of this.

I’m genuinely fucked off about this, and worried about whether I’m going to lose every single one of my online friends. Anyone in the UK, please email your MP and sign this petition. It needs to reach 100k signatures to pass through Parliament.

I’m only hoping the backlash will be big enough for them to stop implementing these measures.

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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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