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Sacred Cat

Artist: Zezhou Chen TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Thank you for sharing. Can you donate for my son’s treatment and to help my family? I am very sorry that I am asking this of you

Of course!

I donated 100kr, and I hope you reach your goal as soon as possible!

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My art/sketch

Also my art/sketches

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0.52 Mm 650GSM 1000D23X23 Inflatable Seam Tape PVC Airtight Fabric

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Half a mile in 5 minutes :-)

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Prison-tech company bribed jails to ban in-person visits

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in BOSTON with Randall "XKCD" Munroe (Apr 11), then PROVIDENCE (Apr 12), and beyond!

Beware of geeks bearing gifts. When prison-tech companies started offering "free" tablets to America's vast army of prisoners, it set off alarm-bells for prison reform advocates – but not for the law-enforcement agencies that manage the great American carceral enterprise.

The pitch from these prison-tech companies was that they could cut the costs of locking people up while making jails and prisons safer. Hell, they'd even make life better for prisoners. And they'd do it for free!

These prison tablets would give every prisoner their own phone and their own video-conferencing terminal. They'd supply email, of course, and all the world's books, music, movies and games. Prisoners could maintain connections with the outside world, from family to continuing education. Sounds too good to be true, huh?

Here's the catch: all of these services are blisteringly expensive. Prisoners are accustomed to being gouged on phone calls – for years, prisons have done deals with private telcos that charge a fortune for prisoners' calls and split the take with prison administrators – but even by those standards, the calls you make on a tablet are still a ripoff.

Sure, there are some prisoners for whom money is no object – wealthy people who screwed up so bad they can't get bail and are stewing in a county lockup, along with the odd rich murderer or scammer serving a long bid. But most prisoners are poor. They start poor – the cops are more likely to arrest poor people than rich people, even for the same crime, and the poorer you are, the more likely you are to get convicted or be suckered into a plea bargain with a long sentence. State legislatures are easy to whip up into a froth about minimum sentences for shoplifters who steal $7 deodorant sticks, but they are wildly indifferent to the store owner's rampant wage-theft. Wage theft is by far the most costly form of property crime in America and it is almost entirely ignored:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/wage-theft-us-workers-employees

So America's prisons are heaving with its poorest citizens, and they're certainly not getting any richer while they're inside. While many prisoners hold jobs – prisoners produce $2b/year in goods and $9b/year in services – the average prison wage is $0.52/hour:

https://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2024/0324bowman.html

(In six states, prisoners get nothing; North Carolina law bans paying prisoners more than $1/day, the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution explicitly permits slavery – forced labor without pay – for prisoners.)

Likewise, prisoners' families are poor. They start poor – being poor is a strong correlate of being an American prisoner – and then one of their breadwinners is put behind bars, taking their income with them. The family savings go to paying a lawyer.

Prison-tech is a bet that these poor people, locked up and paid $1/day or less; or their families, deprived of an earner and in debt to a lawyer; will somehow come up with cash to pay $13 for a 20-minute phone call, $3 for an MP3, or double the Kindle price for an ebook.

How do you convince a prisoner earning $0.52/hour to spend $13 on a phone-call?

Well, for Securus and Viapath (AKA Global Tellink) – a pair of private equity backed prison monopolists who have swallowed nearly all their competitors – the answer was simple: they bribed prison officials to get rid of the prison phones.

Not just the phones, either: a pair of Michigan suits brought by the Civil Rights Corps accuse sheriffs and the state Department of Corrections of ending in-person visits in exchange for kickbacks from the money that prisoners' families would pay once the only way to reach their loved ones was over the "free" tablets:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/jails-banned-family-visits-to-make-more-money-on-video-calls-lawsuits-claim/

These two cases are just the tip of the iceberg; Civil Rights Corps says there are hundreds of jails and prisons where Securus and Viapath have struck similar corrupt bargains:

https://civilrightscorps.org/case/port-huron-michigan-right2hug/

And it's not just visits and calls. Prison-tech companies have convinced jails and prisons to eliminate mail and parcels. Letters to prisoners are scanned and delivered their tablets, at a price. Prisoners – and their loved ones – have to buy virtual "postage stamps" and pay one stamp per "page" of email. Scanned letters (say, hand-drawn birthday cards from your kids) cost several stamps:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/14/minnesota-nice/#shitty-technology-adoption-curve

Prisons and jails have also been convinced to eliminate their libraries and continuing education programs, and to get rid of TVs and recreational equipment. That way, prisoners will pay vastly inflated prices for streaming videos and DRM-locked music.

The icing on the cake? If the prison changes providers, all that data is wiped out – a prisoner serving decades of time will lose their music library, their kids' letters, the books they love. They can get some of that back – by working for $1/day – but the personal stuff? It's just gone.

Readers of my novels know all this. A prison-tech scam just like the one described in the Civil Rights Corps suits is at the center of my latest novel The Bezzle:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Prison-tech has haunted me for years. At first, it was just the normal horror anyone with a shred of empathy would feel for prisoners and their families, captive customers for sadistic "businesses" that have figured out how to get the poorest, most desperate people in the country to make them billions. In the novel, I call prison-tech "a machine":

a million-­armed robot whose every limb was tipped with a needle that sank itself into a different place on prisoners and their families and drew out a few more cc’s of blood.

But over time, that furious empathy gave way to dread. Prisoners are at the bottom of the shitty technology adoption curve. They endure the technological torments that haven't yet been sanded down on their bodies, normalized enough to impose them on people with a little more privilege and agency. I'm a long way up the curve from prisoners, but while the shitty technology curve may grind slow, it grinds fine:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware

The future isn't here, it's just not evenly distributed. Prisoners are the ultimate early adopters of the technology that the richest, most powerful, most sadistic people in the country's corporate board-rooms would like to force us all to use.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/02/captive-customers/#guillotine-watch

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[tarobii]

Meet underpolochka! the object of my spite right now.

They have 159 posts, all of which are reposts. Some posts contain multiple stolen pieces! So the total stolen art count is actually at 191 (192 if you count the pfp).

I messaged them two months ago to try to be cordial about getting my work removed from their page, but they have done nothing, and even continued to repost my art.

Additionally, they blocked elizakai, who was going through their posts, commenting about how they are a reposter.

As such, I have decided to go through their posts, compile data, and give proper credit to as many artists as I could find! Enjoy.

===== Affected Artists =====

underpolochka has stolen from a grand total of 118 artists, with 23 unknown pieces! This means the total amount of artists stolen from could actually be 141, if we assume every unknown piece is by one person each.

edit: changed to actually tag the artists concerned who are on tumblr + fixed some links (also I somehow managed to forget the person who had the most stolen 😭)

Artist: Amount of works stolen

Unknown Artist: 24 (12.57%)

@imjustalazycatycat: 10 (5.24%)

@zucchiyeni: 9 (4.71%)

ut_barista: 7 (3.66%)

@tuxibirdie: 6 (3.14%)

@kwai0: 4 (2.09%)

kaemi39128279: 3 (1.57%)

nazvakanalu_vityahahaha: 3 (1.57%)

cero_09051: 2 (1.05%)

cotpyzero: 2 (1.05%)

gafka_xo: 2 (1.05%)

Hakko_060 / @haako060: 2 (1.05%)

haz3run3 / @hazerun3: 2 (1.05%)

hoangvu8607: 2 (1.05%)

@idnikomattao: 2 (1.05%)

ItssAliyaz_Arts / @starzeah123: 2 (1.05%)

nagi1242: 2 (1.05%)

nGrcuDS: 2 (1.05%)

penneko20: 2 (1.05%)

ProductionRoxy / @itsxroxannex: 2 (1.05%)

samuraybesceli: 2 (1.05%)

@smileunicorn: 2 (1.05%)

sunJopan: 2 (1.05%)

_3_points_: 1 (0.52%)

_Akasy_: 1 (0.52%)

_ramu__8_: 1 (0.52%)

1530ry_3: 1 (0.52%)

@3mko: 1 (0.52%)

6rokkoli: 1 (0.52%)

@aeliem: 1 (0.52%)

AliceTemnova: 1 (0.52%)

@amarumasposts: 1 (0.52%)

ArtOfLi: 1 (0.52%) (I LOST THE LINK AUGH)

@b-shell: 1 (0.52%)

BBKKCAATT: 1 (0.52%)

bro_bt: 1 (0.52%)

Buubblecorn_: 1 (0.52%)

CakesMelons / @cakesmelons: 1 (0.52%)

chillkooooo29: 1 (0.52%)

club177174143: 1 (0.52%)

@cornmayor: 1 (0.52%)

dadmareau / @dadmareau: 1 (0.52%)

DevCAT17234205: 1 (0.52%)

@dulltoymaker: 1 (0.52%)

Fiance_owo: 1 (0.52%)

fionaxinyyyy1: 1 (0.52%)

@freshlyepic: 1 (0.52%)

GinXue: 1 (0.52%)

Glitch1e: 1 (0.52%)

godouyu_n (deleted): 1 (0.52%)

GOMADANGO_115: 1 (0.52%)

gull_0e: 1 (0.52%)

heresexymaan: 1 (0.52%)

@hiro-doodlez: 1 (0.52%)

Iden11781: 1 (0.52%)

itikosan: 1 (0.52%)

@j-jumyplace: 1 (0.52%)

just_fenya: 1 (0.52%)

@kalidos: 1 (0.52%)

kanna_kannaoi / @aoi-kanna: 1 (0.52%)

ki51w_UwU: 1 (0.52%)

kinotura12: 1 (0.52%)

@knifewound-13: 1 (0.52%)

kolyvanovich_kolyvan: 1 (0.52%)

komahaku_244: 1 (0.52%)

kurio_ne404: 1 (0.52%)

lami_rin: 1 (0.52%)

Lanli_Shiba / @lanlishiba: 1 (0.52%)

LazyArtz11037: 1 (0.52%)

lv_de_er: 1 (0.52%)

and beyond in reblogs bc of tumblr link limit

additionally, here is a document containing works that I could not find the original artist of

===== Other Statistics =====

here is the spreadsheet I used to organize everything

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Here's a house that starts out normally. Updated 1979 4bd, 2ba home in Delavan, WI listed for $450K + $117mo. HOA. You get a lot more for the money than you'd expect. Take a look inside.

Open concept main living area has a large living/dining room area with new flooring.

The kitchen has new Shaker cabinets, but the laminate counter has a piece missing.

Mismatched appliances, no dishwasher, no backsplash, new flooring.

Office area in a corner right outside the kitchen.

Don't know if this large room that opens to the deck is a family room.

Then, the main floor opens to a catwalk and you go down the stairs.

Where there is sort of a family/game room. There are ceiling beams, but the ceiling isn't finished.

In the middle there's a pool. This is so dreary- it needs bright paint and decor.

On the other side there's a kitchenette and cabinetry.

And, there's also a sauna.

This room opens to the pool.

Smaller room is a child's bd. Do any of the closets have doors? All these rooms need brightening.

Bath #1. This bath needs color.

The primary bedroom.

And, bath #2.

Small deck in front of the house.

Large deck in the back. 0.52 Acre lot

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3578-N-Shore-Dr-Delavan-WI-53115/40733584_zpid/

[phoenixyfriend]

Me: Well, it's nice to get ko-fi donations while I still don't have a fee on there. Paypal: Hey, you know that $1.00 donation you just got? Yeah, we'll take 0.52 of that. You can have 48 cents.

What the hell kind of a fee structure is this?

[livingonthesands]

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Geralf, Visionary Stitcher

"Do you like it, Sister? Its dreadful visage was inspired by your own."

Artist: Bryan Sola TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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not a submission, but a request? could I see scav #2968? those were my discord numbers before they stole them :< so I was wondering what "my" scav would look like!

SCAVENGER I.D #2968

Hex codes

Eyes: # b22000, #4cffe2 Head/hand: # 321314 Body: # 3f2e32 Belly: #463338

Personality traits

Aggression: 0.00

Bravery: 0.52

Dominance: 0.13

Energy: 0.15

Nervousness: 0.6

Sympathy: 0.81

Other traits

Dodge: 0.05

Mid: 0.05

Melee: 0.02

Block: 0.00

Reaction time: 0.65

very silly guy

[starsisstars]

If God is real They should give me infinite money for Metamorphose Temps de Fille clothes.

Life is cruel and unfair.... They're so freaking cute.... but my current spending budget for this week is $0.52..........

[zuko-always-lies]

ATLA Book 1 Character Stats

One thing I have been wondering for a while is how many lines of dialogue each character has in ATLA. I recently figured out an easy way to calculate it, so here are the stats for Book 1.

There are 3490 total lines of dialogue in the season. They are divided up as follows:

Aang 818 lines, 23.44% of total Katara 633 lines, 18.14% of total Sokka 610 lines, 17.48% of total Zuko 174 lines, 4.99% of total (Note: if you include "Young Zuko," this jumps to 182 lines and 5.21%) Iroh 129 lines, 3.70% of total Zhao 107 lines, 3.07 of total Jet 74 lines, 2.12% of total Yue 51 lines, 1.46% of total Bumi 45 lines, 1.29% of total Mechanist 35 lines, 1.00%

Character stats for more obscure characters below:

Jeong Jeong 30 lines, 0.86% Pakku 29 lines, 0.83% Teo 29 lines, 0.83% Bato 28 lines, 0.80% Wu 28 lines, 0.80% Zhang leader 28 lines, 0.80% Shyu 25 lines, 0.72% Suki 25 lines, 0.72% Gan Jin leader 23 lines, 0.66% Haru 23 lines, 0.66% June 18 lines, 0.52% Arnook 18 lines, 0.52% Gyatso 18 lines, 0.52% Meng 18 lines, 0.52% Canyon guide 17 lines, 0.49% Fisherman 16 lines, 0.46% Warden 16 lines, 0.46% Roku 15 lines, 0.43% Chey 14 lines, 0.40% Pirate captain 14 lines, 0.40% Herbalist 13 lines 0.37% Guard 12 lines, 0.34% Calm man 11 lines, 0.32% Kay-fon 11 lines, 0.32% Tyro 11 lines, 0.32% Earthbender captain 10 lines, 0.29% Gan Jin tribesman 10 lines, 0.29% Great Fire Sage 10 lines, 0.29% Jee 10 lines, 0.29% Kanna 10 lines, 0.29% Oh 10 lines, 0.29% Senlin Village leader 10 lines, 0.29% Fisherman's wife 9 lines, 0.257879656% Hahn 9 lines, 0.257879656% Haru's mother 9 lines, 0.257879656% Koh 9 lines, 0.257879656% Captain 8 lines, 0.229226361% Mother Superior 8 lines, 0.229226361% Oyaji 8 lines, 0.229226361% Yagoda 8 lines, 0.229226361% Young Zuko 8 lines, 0.229226361% Tashi 7, 0.200573066 Shinu 6, 0.171919771 Storyteller 6, 0.171919771 Air Nomad boy #1 5, 0.143266476 Cabbage merchant 5, 0.143266476 Gate guard 5, 0.143266476 Koko 5, 0.143266476 Lin Yee 5, 0.143266476 Malu 5, 0.143266476 Pipsqueak 5, 0.143266476 Qin 5. 0.143266476 Smellerbee 5, 0.143266476 Air Nomad boy #2 4, 0.114613181 Fire Nation Soldier 4, 0.114613181 Hakoda 4, 0.114613181 Man 4, 0.114613181 Messenger 4, 0.114613181 Ozai 4, 0.114613181 Soldier 4, 0.114613181 Baboon spirit 3, 0.085959885 Little girl 3, 0.085959885 Old man 3, 0.085959885 Omashu captain 3, 0.085959885 Pasang 3, 0.085959885 Southern Water Tribe boy 3, 0.085959885 Tax collector 3, 0.085959885 The Duke 3, 0.085959885 Village girl 3, 0.085959885 Woman 3, 0.085959885 Bujing 2, 0.05730659 Chamberlain 2, 0.05730659 Firebender 2, 0.05730659 Guard captain 2, 0.05730659 Merchant woman 2, 0.05730659 Old Fire Nation civilian 2, 0.05730659 Pirate 2, 0.05730659 Village boy 2, 0.05730659 Village Woman 2, 0.05730659 Aang and Sokka 1, 0.028653295 Aunt Wu 1, 0.028653295 Both 1, 0.028653295 Citizen 1, 0.028653295 Colonists 1, 0.028653295 Crew member 1, 0.028653295 Elder general 1, 0.028653295 Engineer 1, 0.028653295 Eye-patch soldier 1, 0.028653295 Fangirls 1, 0.028653295 Farmer 1, 0.028653295 Fire Nation kids 1, 0.028653295 Fire Sage 1, 0.028653295 Firebenders 1, 0.028653295 Gan Jin man 1, 0.028653295 Girl 1, 0.028653295 Gyatso and Katara 1, 0.028653295 Li 1, 0.028653295 Lieutenant Jee 1, 0.028653295 Man with Red Shoes 1, 0.028653295 Mask dealer 1, 0.028653295 Painter 1, 0.028653295 Ping 1, 0.028653295 Poi 1, 0.028653295 Poi and Ping 1, 0.028653295 Prisoner 1, 0.028653295 Puppet Fire Lord 1, 0.028653295 Scout #1 1, 0.028653295 Scout #2 1, 0.028653295 Scribe 1, 0.028653295 Shop keeper 1, 0.028653295 Shopkeeper 1, 0.028653295 Southern Water Tribe girl 1, 0.028653295 Spectators 1, 0.028653295 Strange Man 1, 0.028653295 Together 1, 0.028653295 Tribal man 1, 0.028653295 Village kids 1, 0.028653295

[send-up-my-heart-to-you]

if worldbuilding and character building and stuff are all 50% of a novel, and the actual writing is the other 50%, and i’m done w planning and outlining and character building, and i’ve written 13/25 chapters (≈52% of the writing), and 0.5*0.52= 0.26%

that means im 76% done w my book :D (excluding redrafts)