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weekly schedule for march 8 through 14. sunday, march 8 at 1pm edt: resting. discord watch party: fullmetal alchemist brotherhood episodes 16-20. monday, march 9: offline for appts. see you tomorrow. tuesday, march 10 at 10am edt: co-working and on-together with max ads. wednesday, march 11 at 10am edt: co-working and on-together with max ads. thursday, march 12 at 10 am edt: co-working and on-together with max ads. friday, march 13 at 10am edt: fields of mistria. winter, year 1. saturday, march 14: offline resting. unplug / no socials day. schedule graphic placed on a blue underwater background with seaweed and fish shown to be swimming around it. each day is blocked out in a square like a little pop-up ad, containing the date and the day's activities. my pngtuber is shown in the bottom left corner with credits to maichuxo for the art. the png is smiling, has white skin, one seafoam green eye & one rose pink eye, pink hair fashioned into fluffy space buns with long fringe on one side, pink sea creature ears & tail, a black necklace, and a black crop top with a sheer blue cover over.

꒰ weekly schedule: mar 8-14 🐳

i hope the week ahead treats you all well. please take care & stay safe.

oh, don't forget daylight savings starts sunday (st → dt) for those that are affected by it. remember to be kind to yourselves while getting used to the time change.

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The first major update for our virtual coworking game is HERE

Including:
⭐14 facial hair options
⭐Secret room makeover
⭐New minigame.. 👀🔑
⭐More focus locations 🍄

YouTube video by Ellipsus How to use the Ellipsus Dashboard - Start writing, import your documents (including .docx!)

New to Ellipsus? Let’s take a quick look around. We’ll walk you through the dashboard, show you how to start writing, import your existing work, set themes, and lots more! More tutorials on the way.

youtu.be/s27RewO_pqk

A reminder in stream chat etiquette that foreshadowing is also spoilers. Someone last night said “get tissues” and it instantly gave away what was about to happen taking away the surprise and emotion from the moment. Please have self control and let people experience things 😑

Visa brake imposed on 4 countries after widespread visa abuse Government to end study visas from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan, and work visas for Afghans.

Haven't seen the mutuals repost it here but fyi

CW The British government

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Foreign Office was told by UK ambassador in Israel an attack on Iran was highly likely weeks ago Ameer Kotecha said the prime minister and his cabinet failed to take sufficient action to defend British interests in the Middle East and Cyprus, blaming the lack of preparedness for war on decades of...

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The UK's ambassador to Israel alerted London weeks in advance that an attack on Iran by US and Israeli forces was highly likely, a former diplomat at the embassy has revealed.

news.sky.com/story/foreig...

To those asking how can they help

1) Yell at your politicians, be the most annoying person in their inbox or voicemail

2) Donate to trusted organisations

3) If you are able, join a protest

4) Boycott,the Boycat or No thanks apps can help

Be consistent in your refusal to accept the situation

Israel is announcing that the entirety of Dahieh is being ethnically cleansed a day after announcing that the entirety of South Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed.

“Save yourselves and evacuate immediately”

Covid infections are asymptomatic half the time but can still leave you disabled long-term.

If you don't care that's on you but I won't stop protecting both of us by wearing a mask and reducing the chain of airborne transmission

Lift Lebanon Emergency Relief As I write this, Lebanon is under a barrage of attacks from the Zionist entity. The south of the country, the Bekaa and the capital, Beirut, are all being hit continuously and indiscriminately. This a...

"Israel" has ordered an illegal forcible evacuation of ALL Southern Lebanon. If you’d like to support the displaced, you can do so by making a donation here: gogetfunding.com/lift-lebanon-emergency-relief/

You know what kills me? Other than the fact that the suburbs of Beirut are home to an estimated 400,000 people, including refugees from Palestine, it's the sheer idiocy of countries like the UK, France and so on coming to "defend" the region while letting another ethnic cleansing to happen.

We don't want AI-generated stories.

We want stories that are beautiful and weird.

Mistakes and obsessions. Labyrinthine worlds; love poems that break us.

We want the wild stroke of chance, the stray detail.

We don't want soulless slop.

We want work *written* by HUMANS.

a black and white edit that reads "the future includes trans people". around the text is a floral pattern. the image is grainy

the future is for trans people

Cannot tell you how depressing it is to read that people are simply refusing to read nonfiction after you’ve worked really hard to write a nonfiction book you believe in, in case anyone is wondering why I’m posting so much about my book which comes out in a few weeks #BookSky

Google’s sneaky trick to sidestep an Iowa county’s data center zoning rules Just convince a nearby city to annex the land.

Whatever happened to that whole "don't be evil" thing?

No amount of cutesy tshirts or products are gonna make me forget the communities you betrayed and the principles you advertised standing for that you so quickly abandon when a new power threatens you even a little bit 🤷

"I don't care, there's too many different kinds of labels for sexual/gender/relationship orientations"

Or maybe you would just rather be willfully ignorant and stay in your heteronormative conditioning.

Heal Minds Gaza: empowering Palestinian children who were in detention Palestinian children in Israeli occupation prisons face severe psychological violence that deeply impacts their sense of safety, identity, and community after their detention. The Heal Minds Gaza…

Hoping prison abolitionists will bite and share this one: research-informed, Palestinian-led mental health support for nearly a hundred kids who suffered in occupation detention.

You support goes towards materials & facilitation. We have FOUR WEEKS: chuffed.org/project/hmg

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

Mine collapse in eastern Congo leaves 200 dead, authorities say. But rebels dispute the number A mine collapse at Congo’s key Rubaya coltan site has killed a number of miners. Officials and rebels sharply dispute the extent of the death toll.

The looting of African resources by outsiders & its tragic consequences for African people is an old story. Gold, diamonds, ivory, rubber... And now coltan, so that we can have fancy phones. apnews.com/article/cong...

It's not what Casey was wanting but there is a browser extension to detect AI usage in Steam games. You'll get a pop up informing you of it, especially if they didn't disclose it.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

Gen AI game that steals artists work ALSO spies on you.

bluesky feels like a site of two halves in the chronically online posters (largely made of queer, poc, and other marginalized folks) + facebook liberals

but operated by silicon valley techbros who have no understanding of the thing they built

Censorship Does Not Keep Kids Safe KOSA is an alarming bill that would enable censorship and violate young people’s First Amendment right to freely access information. We must call on Congress to act now and protect free speech online.

Congress is taking up an alarming bill that would empower the government to decide what content is deemed dangerous to young people, encouraging censorship of content it doesn’t like.

Tell your members to support free speech and vote no on censorship.

Remind me: when you bomb an elementary school, lure the survivors into a false sense of safety, and then bomb the survivors, leaving behind dozens and dozens of dead school children... are you the good guys?

Like, you care enough to point out appropriation, dehumanisation, tokenism, etc. in other cases... what makes ours so different?

And if you don't point out that stuff in other situations then well, fuck you, I don't care about your racist ass opinion anyway.

And not calling shit out AND not hitting them where it hurts with your money when you can? That's just letting them get away with it.

It's also telling us who are effected by Orientalism that you just like... don't care to even just /say something/ about the media you're consuming that does it?

Why *would* the public care when so many portrayals are of us as "barbaric" and subhuman? When our cultures are demeaned and belittled into caricatures for the Western gaze?

It's propaganda, whether intended by the companies who continue to perpetuate it or not...

Wars continue to be waged in the SWANA region *because* people think the region and it's people are less worthy of respect & safety.

Which is directly tied not only to Xenophobic, Islamaphobic & Racist politicians {and the rich stealing SWANA Resources} but ALSO to the media we're fed...