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No Amazon. No Walmart. No Target. No Disney. No Google. No Apple. No Visa or Mastercard. And especially no Facebook. I will not be posting on Meta platforms for the next 24 hours in support of the economic blackout.

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👉👉👉Please don't ignore me and look at me with compassion‼️‼️

✅️ Vetted clickhere✅️

My friend, I tried hard to summarize what happened to me during the entire period of war through this video.

My husband's educational centers were completely destroyed, leaving us with nothing😭😭😭

Please sympathize with me and my family 💔💔 and help me by donating to my family. Any donation, even if it is small, will help my family and my children.

To donate clickhere

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These men just stole the personal information of everyone in America AND control the Treasury. Link to article.

Akash Bobba

Edward Coristine

Luke Farritor

Gautier Cole Killian

Gavin Kliger

Ethan Shaotran

Spread their names!

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Hey kid you want a job?

Great get online and go to a job board. Indeed, Linkedin whatever. Now you're gonna search for a role that's in your city, fits your qualifications, and doesn't seem like a bad time.

See that easy apply button? Don't hit it they just throw those in the trash. Now you're gonna want to go to the company's website and check their careers page.

Oh? That job doesn't exist anymore. Cool go back to the job board and find another one.

Great you found another job, you're on the company's career page and the job exists!! So you're going to need to make an account on the career page website. They're using Workday, the same site as the last job you applied for? Who cares? You need to make another account for THIS job's workday page.

Now you're going to upload your resume. That'll autopopulate about 15 boxes with everything on your resume, except formatted wrong and with tons of errors. So just go through and painstakingly check the dates on all of that and rewrite everything you already laid out in an aesthetically pleasing format on your resume.

Ok time for the cover letter, explain why this specific job and company are deeply important to you. You love their mission statement and wouldn't even laugh if their ceo was gunned down in the street. You'll really want to reiterate the things you just spent the last 20 minutes filling out on the resume section

(Remember to include language from the job description, people who work in HR are lower than dogs and they need patterns or they get confused.) Write about a page, but hey don't sound too desperate or robotic this is where they judge your character!

Maybe add your portfolio site at the end here, who knows if that helps no one has ever clicked mine haha.

Anywayyy time to hit apply! Congrats! You'll see that confirmation email come in and you should be getting the rejection letter in about 2 weeks. Unfortunately your resume didn't have the right buzzwords and the AI auto rejected you :(

Time to start again and try not to kill yourself!

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If you’re an American federal employee and got an email saying “it’s ok to quit your job.” Do not, for the love of everything, quit your job. This is purely a scare tactic to get rid of as many people as possible without legal consequences.

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Donate or reblog the ACLU to help support immigrants and to protect their rights, along with supporting other marginalized groups affected by the new administration.

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🎨color study note

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UPDATE: NEW LINK! Yahya and his family were displaced by the IOF, and are currently residing in Deir al-Balah, south-central Gaza.

Life as displaced Gazans was already extremely difficult for them. Food is very scarce, and their living conditions leave them exposed to the elements. Here is the frequent condition of their tent now that the winter rains have come:

Then, Yahya’s father was injured. Some cartilage was damaged in his neck, and doctors say he requires IMMEDIATE surgery to avoid permanent paralysis.

Yahya and his family previously had another campaign, but it was suddenly shut down by GFM with no explanation. They have created a new one, but it has EXTREMELY LOW FUNDS.

The surgery is a stifling €15,000 euros (about $15,729 USD). Yahya and his family have no hope of paying for it without your help.

I am currently watching an elderly loved one lose their mobility, and it is an extremely heartbreaking and isolating situation. I cannot imagine what Yahya and his family are going through, having no social or financial support and only minimal medical care.

Please give what you can to this family. You are their only hope to save their beloved father’s mobility!

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i feel so incredibly lucky to call mohammed ayesh my friend. i've only known him for a handful of months but my life is better for having him in it. he is the most compassionate and determined person i know, and the strength of his character is rivaled only by the generosity of his heart. mohammed has been working incredibly hard and risking his health and safety to verify campaigns on the ground in gaza for quite a while now. i cannot overstate how much he has done and continues to do for others. i am humbly asking you to consider donating to his family's campaign to help them raise the funds they need to rebuild their lives in the face of the devastation israel has wrought. they are close to their goal- there is less than £9,000 until their campaign is complete!

mohammed runs the blog @gaza-evacuation-funds and has been vetting campaigns for el-shab-hussein and nabulsi for many months. please consider showing your appreciation for his hard work and dedication to his people by sharing this post and donating what you can! let's work together to help mohammed and his family!

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Hey everyone! 🏳️‍⚧️

I'm super excited to announce that I'll be doing a 12-hour charity livestream this Monday on my YouTube channel to support trans rights! From 10 AM to 10 PM PST, I'll be playing Slay the Spire and chatting with an incredible lineup of special guests.

All proceeds will be going to the Transgender Law Center, the largest national trans-led organization in the U.S. They do absolutely critical work providing legal assistance, fighting for policy changes, and supporting trans folks across the country. From helping with name changes and employment issues to advocating for trans immigrants and incarcerated individuals, TLC has been at the forefront of the fight for trans rights.

More details coming soon!

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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there was a fire in the building that houses my studio on new year's eve. i'll probably elaborate on that more at some point idk but tldr

it wasn't a big fire, nobody lost any stuff, nobody was hurt. the electrical mains gave up the ghost (likely due to an ongoing leak the landlord wouldn't fix)

but because the landlords have already wanted us out for ages so they can "redevelop" (read: tear down a slightly run-down building from around 1900) the place into Yet More Soulless Shiny Flats Nobody Around Here Can Afford they decided the damage is uneconomical to repair, refused our offer to contribute to repair costs, and are kicking us all out

because there was an "accident" causing "irreparable damage" they're exempt from the usual 3-month waiting period and everyone has to vacate by Feb 1

this is a community space occupied by artists and musicians so now there are a couple dozen broke-ass bitches who have to relocate short notice. the landlord, spectrum properties, is refusing to extend the time any further

so! there will shortly be some form of gofundme type situation to raise money for the costs of doing that (like storage units if we can't find another studio space), and also to tide over any artists who relied on that space for income since they've not had anywhere to work for a couple of weeks and probably won't for several more

i'll reblog this with the link when that's up and running but uh. yeah. that's a thing. which is happening.

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https://twitter.com/coff33detective/status/1271463582312673281

“make yourselves impossible to ignore. 10,000 signatures on twitter is a lot but 10 unique personal emails is enough to derail an entire council session.”

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Listen to me. Listen very carefully:

They are trying to wear you out.

They are trying to wear you out, and they own most major social media now, along with many major media outlets. The disinformation machine is cranking along. You are going to have to slow the fuck down and read things before you help them wear out other people, too.

So you just saw a post about a real scary bill, hunh? Republicans want to make it a capital offense to pet dogs and repeal The Sky Is Blue Act of 1793, declaring the new official color of the sky to be squant? Damn, that sounds scary.

Let's go look up this fictitious "Make The Sky Squant Again Act" on GovTracker* & on the official legislative tracker on congress.gov!

Well, let's see... GovTracker estimates it has a 1% chance of even getting out of committee and a 0% chance of being enacted, while congress.gov says this bill has 2 cosponsors who have been in the House and combined total of less than a month. The bill doesn't have any actual text, and it was referred to 5 different committees.

That fictitious bill and a hundred others like it are quite literally not worth your time, and more than that, continuing to wring your hands about it and tell other people about the scary scary squant sky bill only does their work for them. It scares people, it makes them spend time and energy on it, and it wears them out. It is a legislative Gish Gallop, meant to throw so many things at people that we can't keep up.

Even calling or messaging your Rep in this case means their staffer has to waste time responding to you and letting you know that Representative Buttzonheads definitely won't support making petting dogs a capital offense, a thing that will never, ever happen regardless.

Staying engaged in this environment is going to require protecting your heart and protecting your energy, yes, but also protecting the energy of others. This is why WWII propaganda posters also included ones taking people to task for spreading panicky rumors and undermining morale.

Do you know why most observant Jews don't eat chicken and dairy together, even though the ban is on red meat and dairy together bc you're not supposed to cook the calf in the milk of its mother?** It's not because we think that chicken might secretly lactate or Just Because. It's because the rabbis decided that if I'm sitting out in public and eating turkey and cheese together, someone might glance at the turkey and mistake it for red meat and think, "oh, well, I know that Spider is a good Jew, there must have been a change, or maybe I can just justify it to myself that if Spider does it, it must be permissible to bend the rules just that much." And I would then be accidentally leading my fellow Jew astray. We are responsible for being even more careful for the sake of others than we are for ourselves.

It's the same principle here. We need to really be careful about the information we are spreading and check things past reading a news site. Is it true? Is it relevant? Is it meaningful? Is the news site one I recognize? Can I find meaningful independent corroboration on another site, which is to say, if I find an article about it on a second site, is it just quoting or rephrasing this site?

Yeah, that is a lot. But that's how we keep them from using us to lead our fellows astray.

*GovTracker is an independent site. They explain their methodology in their About section.

**I cannot say enough how I am not at this time interested in going on a Jewish Side Quest About Dietary Laws on this post. Usually, I love it, but hold off this time, please, y'all. Let's stay on target this once.

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Also, I should point out that Daisuke and Jimmy were actually on positive terms. The two of them joke around, and when Daisuke is depressed, he tells Jimmy before telling Swansea. Daisuke sees Jimmy as a trustworthy person because he does not know the depths of Jimmy’s depravity.

Anya probably never told Daisuke about the assault. How could she? She wouldn’t tell the freshly hired intern who has no real power or social sway about something so horrific. In her own way, she was trying to protect Daisuke in the same way Swansea was. And the saddest irony is that, maybe if she had told him, he wouldn’t have been so quick to accept Jimmy’s word as gospel, much in the same way how Swansea’s desire to help Daisuke forget the reality of dying on the ship lead to him influencing him to drink and to save the final cryopod for him, and ironically allowing Jimmy to paint him as a villain?

Everyone on the ship wanted to protect Daisuke from an unflattering truth, but, in their efforts to protect him, they inadvertently gave Jimmy the means to rewrite the narrative. Anya wasn’t in the medical room and trying to kill herself because of what Jimmy did, she was just unreasonably hysterical and unstable. Swansea isn’t a jaded alcoholic who’s trying to save the person who has the best chance at survival, he’s a selfish bastard who couldn’t care less about anyone and, unlike Jimmy, is using Daisuke for his own ends. Jimmy isn’t a rapist or a self-centered asshole who can’t take responsibility, he’s just a well-meaning captain who’s looking out for everyone’s best interests.

The narrative of silence inadvertently protecting abusers isn’t something solely for Curly to demonstrate. Every other character shows this. Even if Anya, Curly and Swansea all had understandable reasons for not speaking up about their suspicions, for keeping secrets from Daisuke, all it ended up doing was leaving him in the dark and vulnerable to the same manipulation they’d gone through.

Daisuke died thinking Jimmy was a good person.

I think part of why Daisuke’s death impacted Jimmy the most out of the crew was because of a few things that have to do with Jimmy’s ego and Daisuke’s attitude.

There are a few points that make it extra painful for Jimmy

1. Daisuke is the youngest of the crew and therefore has theoretically more life to live. It seems that the rest of the crew has a soft spot for him by virtue of this alone.

2. Daisuke does not have any prior history with Jimmy that causes any major beef with him. Jimmy is abusive towards Anya who’s terrified of him, and Swansea mutually dislikes him and seems to see how irresponsible he actually is. Daisuke is so new that he doesn’t have the context to know how awful Jimmy is. He probably doesn’t even know what Jimmy did to Anya.

3. Having his death be directly Jimmy’s fault in a way that cannot be spinned positively. Anya killer herself to get away from him, and Swansea was trying to rightfully kill him, but Daisuke actually did what Jimmy complains that his crew never does… LISTEN TO HIM. Jimmy laments that no one listens or does as he says, but Daisuke did! And he did it despite knowing that he probably shouldn’t. Daisuke gave Jimmy the benefit of the doubt and respected him as a leader and authority figure , and it ended up painfully killing him.

And it’s no wonder Swansea goes nuts and tries to kill Jimmy. Jimmy took this poor naive kid and knowingly put him in danger, KILLED him, to get what he wanted. Instead of risking his own life like the hero he supposedly wants to be, Jimmy has to send someone else to do the hard part.

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hey chat did you guys know there's a whole website with informational videos on the rights you hold when interacting with ICE or witnessing interactions with ICE. all written by immigrants and for immigrants. idk man it'd be a shame if people watched these informational videos y'know.