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americans making this shit about them “WHAT ABOUT ME OMG WHATS GONNA HAPPEN TO US” nothing. you know who’s gonna suffer? iranians. iran’s ppl will suffer from this, not us. u guys aren’t the ones that are fucked. iranians are. not us. not everything is about us.

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Me: I'd just like affordable housing, everyone being able to have healthcare including mental, dental and vision and being able to afford healthy alternatives at the grocery store.

America: best I can do is going to war with whoever Israel says to.

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I think my biggest issue with a lot of the storytelling decisions in C3's finale is that it seems like the story prioritized being nice over being interesting.

It's nice that ultimately the gods-become-mortal plan went off without a hitch and Predathos left without complications, but it would have been more interesting to see one or two gods be uninterested in it and get consumed or flee. It's nice that Ashton choosing to allow the Matron to use them to catalyze the ritual didn't permanently kill him, but it would have been more interesting as a character beat if it did (or as per this previous post a resurrection skill challenge occurred). It's nice that serving as the Vessel of Predathos didn't permanently change or kill Imogen, but it would have been interesting for all the unknowns about what serving as the Vessel means to come to something other than "not much as it turns out". It's nice that Opal is not longer obligated to serve Lolth, but it would have been more interesting if her obligations as a Champion stood (and she got to attempt to reform Lolth's image by influencing her from infancy). It's nice that the leadership of Vasselheim is mostly understanding of the Hells and bares them no ill will, but it would have been more interesting to see the Hells held to account for betraying the Accord. It's nice that Orym is not (and indeed never was) bound to serve Nana Morri, but it would have been more interesting for him to have to grapple with paying that debt now that the threat has passed and he's also starting a romantic relationship with Dorian. It's nice for Keyleth that divinity being reorganized means Vax can exist on the mortal plane now and they can start a new relationship, but it would have been more interesting to see her have to come to terms with the fact that with the Matron gone from her realm into that of mortals, it is not her, but rather Vax and his choices, that is keeping them separated.

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It’s April, which means we’ll soon see posts bashing AO3 for asking for donations during their regular donation drive all because people should be spending money on (insert tragedy of your choice here), and I just have a couple of things to say about this:

Websites cost money to run. Server space costs money, domains cost money, and programming requires time and work that people should be compensated for performing. The only reason you think websites should magically be free is because you’ve spent a large percentage of your life acting as the product for most of the websites you’re on. If a website isn’t asking for money, it is either self-funded, running on ad revenue, or selling your data (sometimes all three!). If something is touted as being free, you are likely the product that’s funding the free thing.

Just because someone throws a few bucks at AO3 doesn’t mean they aren’t spending money on causes you might deem more worthy. People can care about more than one thing at a time, and also, it’s literally none of your business what someone else has decided deserves of a portion of their income.

If you find yourself unable to ignore a relatively unobtrusive banner for a handful of days out of the year, you would absolutely not fare well on a version of AO3 that sells advertisements to fund the site.

Okay, that’s all! Give to AO3 or don’t, but don’t shame people for giving just because you’ve decided there are more worthy causes for other people’s money!

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Leyendecker-inspired fancy Jarlaxle!

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seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors

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Also, I am just going to say it:

If your CEO is so inconsequential to the success of your company that he can be gunned down in the street like a dog and it has absolutely no impact on your company whatsoever, maybe he doesn't actually need to be paid several hundred times as much as your median employee.

Maybe you could get away with, like, ten to fifteen times and spend the extra tens of millions of dollars you save on something else.

Just thinking out loud.

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FUCK THIS COUNTRY

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Whoever invented "open in app" links that redirect you to the app store instead of actually opening the app even when you already have the app installed on your phone should be involuntarily turned into a beanbag chair

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im cooking

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The UNRWA is concerned that if they do not receive more funding they will run out by the end of February please spread this message

in case any of you missed it, despite the ICJ's ruling for Israel to facilitate MORE aid into Gaza, the global west has responded by cutting funding to UNWRA, which is responsible for delivering significant amounts of aid into Gaza, as well as surrounding areas such as Lebanon. The countries cutting funding consist of the US, Australia, the UK, the Netherlands, Swritzerland, Italy, Germany, Finland, Canada and Japan. This was all due to a claim by Israel that members of UNWRA were Hamas-members or sympathisers which, at the end of the day, is a claim that concerns only 12 members in a total of 30,000.

Without proper funding, UNWRA is likely to run out of resources by February of this year (only another month) and urges the countries that have suspended donations to reconsider. This is a blatant move from the colonialist countries of this world to starve Palestinians even further when they are already facing unforeseen levels of famine.

Please take some time out of your day to call your reps, your political leaders and urge them to restart their funding. In the meantime, here is a link to donate to the UNWRA.

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ASTARION.

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Things Joe Biden is too "powerless" to do:

Cancel student debt

Deschedule and legalize marijuana

Cap inflation

Protect the legal status of abortion

Effectively combat COVID-19

Meaningful healthcare reform

Combat climate change

Things Joe Biden is perfectly capable of doing with zero support:

Fully enable a genocide of the Palestinian people

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This genocide is the second instance in the last five years that really highlights that the permanent members of the security council should not have a voice if they are involved in an issue

Russia should not be able to veto resolutions on ukraine, America should not be able to veto resolutions on israel

Like Secretary General Guterres said in the meeting; “the eyes of the world and the eyes of history are upon us”

The American exceptionalism propaganda is failing and rotting, I will never forgive nor forget the country who didn’t listen to the world and it’s own people begging it to stop funding extermination, not in a million years

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