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yeah im into bdsm Be Dozing So Much

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for the past two years i have been sponsoring a tuberculosis detection rat in tanzania, her name is carolina. she sniffs sputum samples & alerts her handlers when she detects TB. recently she turned 8 & aged out of the program, so they held a retirement party for her & sent me photos.

while carolina moves on to live a life of rest & luxury in the retirement kennels, her role is being passed on to her successor, tamasha. she is 2 years old & was named after the grandmother of one of her handlers.

(with her handler priscus)

here is a description of tamasha:

"Tamasha is also quite playful! She enjoys jumping, climbing, and sometimes does a joyful little dance when placed in the TB evaluation enclosure – as if celebrating her enthusiasm for the work ahead. She’s also a big fan of avocado, her favorite treat for a job well done."

im not afraid to admit that this email made me cry like a stupid baby. you can sponsor your own big beautiful TB- or landmine-detecting rat through APOPO HeroRATS. they send you an update on how your rat is doing each month, including photos.

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Uk media reporting on the OSA:

Reality:

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when your white friends defend you

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i'm eating pringles

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outing myself as the worlds first shuttah fan

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So the new itch.io guidelines are out and they are both predictably bad and also quite unpredictably bad. There's so much to go over here but here are some of the highlights:

First we have the broadly worded content restrictions. So much of this is just strictly bad for several reasons (for example, you cannot have a NSFW game that doesn't even fetishize rape but has rape be an important thematic element under these new rules) but my personal favorite is that these are so broad that huge swaths of content are just banned from itch.io. You like VNs of monster girls having sex? Sorry, but your favorite spider girl VN is animal-related, we cannot prove that you don't want to fuck spiders so its gone.

(a real problem anyone thinks about??????)

Game where you can transformed by magical artifacts and sometimes fucked? Sorry, that's non-consensual content. Banned. You cannot be transformed into a maid against your will. You also cannot have your protagonist call an older woman "mommy" because likeeeee that's incestual right?

"Minor-presenting" what the fuck does this mean. Genuinely. If a grown woman wears a fetish uniform is that minor presenting??? What the fuck are you talking about.

Also by the way if they feel your content is "too bad" for their platform, which includes a list of conditions incredibly broad to contain things like "a woman who likes being gagged during sex", they will just steal your revenue. No no no not just the revenue from the work in question. All of it. This makes any NSFW work a ticking timebomb, especially since itch.io doesn't have the fucking staff to deal with all of this! There's no second chances. You are not protected against fraudulent report or our dumb as fuck employees.

itch.io right now is just not a safe platform for NSFW content, and honestly, it really should be said, a fair swath of SFW content too. Don't use it, find alternative ways to survive in the market right now.

It's not going to be easy, but it's necessary. Here's a link to an article going over some solutions. I cannot personally vouch for any of these in particular but you need to do what you gotta.

Also, harass VISA and Mastercard. Phone calls over emails. Ruin their workflow. Do it for weeks, don't give up.

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day 127

thank you tf2 summer update for making love real

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this is frying me so bad

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Dragonflies from “Aid to the identification of insects” by Charles Owen Waterhouse, V. 1, 1880-90. London. Via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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Wanted to share some more art I just haven't uploaded from last year! Really enjoyed doing these feline studies, dozens of hours of unseen research went into each on top of the many hours it took to draw 😵

Also shout to my cat Ezra who I snuck into the Felis study to represent the domestic cat hehe :3c

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here's my cat for your dash btw. if you even care

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this isn’t the first time the DHS has tweeted literal nazi propaganda but uuuhhhh I feel like things are going to get Very Bad unless we do something. about the nazis. who are running the US government

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To my understanding, show dogs and racehorses have the same kind of a "no two animals with the same exact name in the registry" rule, so they have to get creative with the official names.

And that's why pedigree show dogs have full legal names like Lotus Farms' Pilgrim's Light (answers to the name "Piggy"), and champion race horses have names like Cocaine Canoe Nutcracker Supreme (answers to no man nor god).

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A new official Undertale website has released!

This is a really cool way for people to share their experiences about Undertale, and feel free to share yours if you want!

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i remember years ago in my early twenties i was at a club and i ended up dancing with a gay man and we kissed on the dance floor and when my group left i could tell the vibe was super off and i was like what’s up? and it turned out two of my friends were mad at me for kissing a man because i’m a lesbian and i was so dumbfounded by this because i operated under the impression that people kiss people they aren’t attracted to all the time for any number of reasons, one being that some people just enjoy kissing other people and attraction doesn’t play a role at all. but my friends were of two opinions: if I went on kissing men, regardless of why, it was wrong and bad for me to continue identifying as a lesbian.

and worse, if i went on kissing gay men at bars and identifying as a lesbian, it would be my fault implicitly that straight homophobic creeps think they can get lesbians to sleep with them.

which i thought was honestly a lot of responsibility to put on me for the sin of drinking a long island ice tea with a gay bar pour and getting a little carried away to an ABBA remix but alright