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I will not be intimidated. I will not be silenced. I will seek the truth and I will speak it loud and clear. 🗣️📢

Israel is indeed an apartheid state, and is committing genocide against the Palestinian people as we speak.

Hamas did not start this war, because there IS no war. There was, there is, and there will be an occupation, unless we do something about it.

You cannot occupy a land, put people under blockade and expect them to just sit there and comply. Resistance, rebellion, retaliation, and revolution are inevitable.

The oppressed do not want peace, they want freedom. So you either give it back to them, or they snatch it back from you. And that with any means necessary.

Palestinians in the West Bank including kids and women, get bullied, mocked, brutalized, beaten, imprisoned, tortured, evicted from their homes, used as human shields, attacked while they pray in Al Aqsa Mosque, shot dead, and killed by the Israeli forces and armed and unarmed settlers alike.

Palestinians in Gaza are under blockade, they have NOWHERE else to go, they can't do anything without Israel's permission. They get punished for whatever Israel accuses Hamas of doing, they get bombed, they get starved, no water, no electricity, no food, no medical aid whenever Israel is pissed.

And they are refered to as animals on national TV, by Israeli leaders, and mocked by influencers on Social media, no shame, no embarrassment, nothing!

Do NOT talk to me about October 7th, if you're NOT ready to hear about the past 75 years.

Do NOT call us Hamas sympathizers, we are not Hamas sympathizers, we are Pro-Palestinians, we are fighting for freedom, we are standing with the oppressed.

Do NOT call us antisemite (especially not me, I'm an arab, arabs are semite themselves), we do NOT hate the Jews, our fight is not against the Jews. In fact there are many Jews fighting this fight alongside us.

We stand against Zionists.

Educate yourself, read, seek the truth, free yourself from the shackles of western media.

From the river to the sea, Palestine WILL be free. ✌️🇵🇸✊

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This was shared with me by a follower. It comes from within the curseforge dev discord. This confirms this account has been discussed within the server. This is what popular mod creator Littlemssam had to say:

This is the message she is replying to:

I'm going to be more personal here. If all you can take away from this blog is that it is "pro Hamas" for caring about Palestinians, then you need to take a hard look at yourself. A genocide does not right the wrongs of Oct 7th.

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📌 Mutual Aid, Fundraisers, and Actions

a white heart "🤍" denotes GFM campaigns who have reached out to me via in my inbox

I will be updating this as frequently as possible with new information, campaigns, and forms of supporting displaced and vulnerable folks in Palestine, Sudan, DRC, and elsewhere.

Palestine 🇵🇸

🤍 Donate to Khader and Ragheb - [€708 raised of €55,000 goal]

🤍 Donate to Amira - [€5,118 raised of €20,000 goal]

🤍 Donate to Fadi Ayyad - [$9,530 raised of $35,000 goal]

Donate to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society - humanitarian org serving the health and welfare of the Palestinian people

Donate an eSIM for Gaza - helps Palestinians to connect to the outside world

Donate to Gaza Direct Aid - small volunteer-run program funding humanitarian aid in Gaza

Donate to Care for Gaza - supporting displaced families in Gaza

Donate to GazaFunds - find a struggling fundraiser to support

Sudan 🇸🇩

Donate to the Sudanese American Physicians Association - provides critical medical aid, food, and water

Donate to Sudan Solidarity Collective - provides direct financial assistance to civilian-led groups

Sudan Diaspora Network's Sudan Benefit Fundraiser - supports displaced Sudanese by providing medical equipment and food

Fight Hunger in Sudan: The Khartoum Kitchen appeal - feeds the hungry, up to 1,250 people daily, in the greater Khartoum area

Help Sudan- Sudan Relief Fund - helps people on the ground with immediate needs such as food, water, shelter and medication

Congo 🇨🇩

Donate to Focus Congo - partnerships with local grassroots organizations and access to resources necessary for survival

Support Friends of the Congo & the Basandja Coalition - provides food, delivers reporting, rescues children from the cobalt mines and supports diggers and miners demanding accountability, combats sexual violence and provides care for women’s health

Action Kivu - dedicated to repairing the harm done by years of violence and neglect in this region with focus on women and children.

Mutual Aim team fundraiser for Congo, Sudan, and Tigray - campaign collecting money that will be will be divided between the DRC, Sudan, and Tigray

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a lot of people in the community are outing themselves as zionists nine months into a genocide and i just... wow.

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are you going to go back and update older heels to be sliderless? or at least the sneakers and flat boots that need the slider for some reason?

Hi, I'm glad you asked. Yes, I'll update my old shoes little by little. There are some that I think are very beautiful, and it's a shame to leave them forgotten. However, they are very bad in terms of usability. In addition to needing a slider to work, there are no good weight paintings, some don't have morphs and the mesh is very disproportionate. There are some shoes that I want to cry when I open them in Blender, they are 2/3 times bigger than the foot, they are so ugly. hahah 😂🤣🥲 But I want to update them slowly, and along with that bring new shoes. Like in my last collection, we had updates, but we also had new shoes. Thank you! ❤️

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If you are actively paying some "creator" who does commissions or early access for:

conversions

recolors

sims with cc they did not make

builds with cc they did not make

cc folders full of cc they did not make

please understand this -- you are wasting your money. you are paying someone for putting in the bare minimum of effort. you could be spending that money toward a creator who does actual good work deserving of support, you could even pay for a fucking TSR account for all that.

don't support these absolute losers who cannot create something of their own and must steal content to "create"

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shout out to tiasha sims for paywalling one of my mods in their collection despite my TOU saying not to and her TOU thinking she deserves the same courtesy extended to her

btw if you pay people for their mod folders full of publicly available content, you're part of the problem and a bit of an idiot really. all the creators are asking for is traffic to their pages and ur like nah gonna pay someone else instead.

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Idk if others have already posted about this, but The Henford Hen on Twitter has created a petition asking the Sims team to collaborate with black cc creators to implement makeup that is compatible and functional with darker skin tones. As we all know, a lot of the makeup we currently have is not compatible with darker skintones, even with the implementation of sliders. They've been working with cc creators more frequently, so this is definitely a doable request from the community.

Here's the original tweet:

You can click here to sign the Petition. Please feel free to reblog this!

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sometimes i wish there was a place like this irl that i could go to

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Statement from Overwolf

...Okay, first of all, this whole statement is sadly nothing but them taking the same exact route as before: misdirecting & changing the narrative to only be about "victims" when their Home Support initiative is partnered with the ILF, an openly Zionist organization. This isn't about innocent parties only when they're partnered with an organization that contributes directly towards IDF Military Intelligence. All of the money from the fund goes to the ILF's bank account to distribute, per their own FAQ page. And even without that, the association alone is enough to boycott. Overwolf and Curseforge cannot be "clean of politics" while their CEO partners with and therefore directly supports Zionist parties.

Screenshots directly from Home Support website & ILF website

This statement overall stinks because it puts the blame fully onto people with legitimate concerns by calling them all harassers. Have some people gone too far towards creators? 100%. I know that well. But Overwolf is clearly using that to deflect off of themselves, and this is why it never should have been done in the first place. Y'all focused on the wrong shit- the smaller targets instead of the big ones, and the wrong claim that they're directly funding the IDF with CF revenue, and now they're doing exactly what I said they would: once again using the fact that that's not technically true to weasel out of people's concerns. They even directly call out the fact that it's misinformation like I said they would! They clarified fucking nothing, they repeated the same shit they already said because they know they can. We need to change the focus of the boycott so that they are forced to address their actual wrongdoing! Stop spending all your time sending threatening messages on anon and instead spread factual information with sources and reach out to creators in good faith effort to get them to speak without the fear of being attacked. They will stay silent as long as the negative consequences (financially & socially) is all on them and not Overwolf & EA.

I'm still working on a comprehensive post with everything, but in the meantime, please spread this post around.

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Amiyah Harley

a very new sim of mine from a throwaway save may end up migrating to my big edited base save. i made her for playing around with some basemental stuff and ended up falling in love slightly. in this save she's a model and i may have to keep that going in the main one

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hi hello i updated this today pls redownload

Services Are Luxuries

it's way too easy to make money in this game, there I said it! Even though I regularly play a rags to riches story, I find that the riches quickly build up. Doing the supersim challenge? Then you know you end up with a lot of excess Simoleons very quickly, same with the nectar makers (vitality nectar is so OP why would you make money any other way?), and everything becomes too easy.

Introducing Services are Luxuries! This mod makes all hireable NPCs much more expensive for both upfront costs and the hourly rate.

Full info and download under the cut

Maids: §40 upfront/§20 per hour -> §100 upfront/§50 per hour

Repairs: §100 upfront/§10 per hour -> §100 upfront/§25 per hour

Nanny: §60 upfront/§10 per hour -> §100 upfront/§75 per hour

Butler: §175 upfront/§12 per hour -> §500 upfront/§30 per hour

Gardener: §50 upfront/§30 per hour -> §150 upfront/§50 per hour

Ranch Hand: §100 upfront/§12 per hour -> §150 upfront/§30 per hour

Eco Inspector: §225 upfront/§0 per hour -> §300 upfront/§50 per hour

Zoomers Food Delivery: §10 upfront -> §35 upfront

Pizza Delivery: §25 upfront -> §35 upfront

Grocery Delivery: §20 upfront -> §75 upfront

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Because of the way I made this mod and because I have all the DLC packs, this mod requires: Vintage Glamour (Butler), Eco Lifestyle (Eco Inspector), Horse Ranch (Ranch Hand) and Cottage Living (Grocery Delivery). If you don't have one of those packs, you'll end up with a llama option in the Hire A Service menu. I recommend using another mod if you do not own all the mentioned packs.

Speaking of other mods, there are some conflicts to be aware of:

LittleMsSam: 

Better Nanny: Conflicts with the files that allow for a second nanny and modify the working hours, but compatible with all other parts of the mod

Better Butler: Conflicts with the Cost Fix file, but is compatible with the rest of the mod

Gardener and Maid Service: resets Maid prices to the original

Food Delivery: this mod overrides the pizza delivery option and therefore my upfront cost increase, but no errors are caused

Waffle: More Expensive Maid Service - modifies the same resource

Faith93: Higher Cost for NPC Services - modifies the same resources

Simvasion: Butler Tweaks - modifies the same resource

This mod will conflict with any other mods that modify the following files

ServiceNpc_Maid 

serviceNpc_EcoInspector

serviceNpc_Gardener_Service

serviceNpc_Nanny

ServiceNpc_Repair

ServiceNpc_PizzaDelivery

serviceNPC_Deliveries_GroceryDelivery

serviceNpc_RanchHand

serviceNpc_Butler

serviceNPC_Deliveries_FoodDelivery_New

Download here: Patreon (always free) // SFS

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I’m sure this has made the rounds already, but I thought I’d add to signal boosting this. Protect your game, your computer, and stop the spread of malware.

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Thursday, February 1.

Black History Month 2024.

Get ready to immerse yourself in a month-long celebration of Black joy, Black excellence, and Black art. Following the Association for the Study of African American Life and History's announcement that the theme for Black History Month 2024 is "African Americans and the Arts," we're thrilled to shine a spotlight on Black creators of all stripes right here on Tumblr.

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the templeton family

we met matriarchs marissa and marisa in my last post, now let's meet their kids. to keep her own name in the family, both daughters have tracey as a middle name.

the eldest child is marysah tracey. marysah is a bit of a supersim. her ambition has made her a force to be reckoned with within the family, having completed all of her aspirations as a kid. her current goal is to graduate top of her class to choose any degree she wants to.

next is marisza tracey. a performer through and through, marisza isn't far behind her sister in completing aspirations. the bold kid, marisza is already the type to be voted most likely to start a cult be president one day, though her commitment to drama club suggests a future as a silver screen icon is likely.

trey and trace were very unexpected twins when the marissa's decided to have one last science baby. trace feels like he has middle child syndrome being sandwiched between the bold marisza and trey, and plays music to make up for his feelings. in fact he can usually be found at his keyboard or the family piano. trey is a born prankster, getting away with his tricks since marisza is usually a participant and you can't fight how confident they both are together.

the marissa's have talked about maybe having another science baby, but maybe not until the twins are at least teens.

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how we started and how it went

meet my first real attempt at a legacy family, the templetons. when horse ranch came out i decided to go back and play vanilla and just enjoy the game. my sim marisa templeton fell in love with her neighbour, pre made marissa tracey, through some autonomy actions and they never looked back. from barely scraping by to now being millionaires with a large ranch and four kids, the marissa's will be together forever