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More about humanitarian aid going into Gaza during the war...

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

#I/p conflict

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Superwholock (+ guests) : Happy Birthday Doctor! - (2024)

"Hey, angel! Why are we even here? It's the fifth time we're celebrating the Doc's birthday this year! Being a time traveler, it doesn't even make sense anymore! He's so old, I'm sure he doesn't even remember how old he is anyway. And there are two of them today? Shall we celebrate this one's birthday too? How does this even WORK?

Can you behave for a minute? We are here because it's fun, because it's a great occasion to be together again, and because he's our FRIEND. We are enjoying ourselves!

Are we? I mean, is he going to regenerate and go PshHhiTt at the same time as the candles? *That* would be entertaining!"

#superwholock #good omens #supernatural #sherlock #dr who #ineffable husbands

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Tony - (2024)

One of the latest RDJ pictures from Esquire gave some serious Tony vibes.

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I think it's so weird when lefties see other lefties criticizing other lefties again, and are mad about it. Like... Idk, is it a cultural thing that you don't wanna criticize someone of "your own" belief system? It often also goes after a hierarchy, but like... yeah? Of course I'll criticize people "on my side" in the broadest sense of the word, because I don't actually think it's bad to keep people in check? Me criticizing political "opponents" is possible at the same time as well. Like... yeah

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People fear eating our own so much we don't make common cause against the really dangerous people.

It's a legitimate problem, much more so on the left than the right, but the concept can be overapplied.

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Let us suppose that the "average" horse would have equal proportions of all these parts. The degree to which each part in this poll deviates from the "average" size (20% of total) will determine how large or small that part of our horse will be (i.e a horse with only 10% in Legs will have legs half the size of the average horse).

I will draw a picture of the horse we make!

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MISS CONGENIALITY 2000 — dir. Donald Petrie

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Ahhh my Avengers cape is done apart from hemming! Green is hard to phone-photograph but it’s about four yards of wool crepe, dyed with @dharmatradingco acid dyes, and there are so many pleats. 😍

#loki cosplay

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I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.

- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.

- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.

- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.

That's love. 🐈‍⬛🐈❤️

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I just watched 20 days in Mariupol - the first Ukrainian movie to win an Oscar, the footage of the first 20 days of russian full scale invasion of Ukraine as seen from Mariupol.

As the director Mstyslav Chernov said, “It is painful to watch. But it should be painful to watch.” And I ask everyone, especially non-Ukrainians, to watch this.

Other than that, I can’t find any words to describe what I just saw. I can only add that I agree with the director’s words: “I wish this film was never made.”

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The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

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when I was a kid for some reason I thought Lola Bunny's last name was "Rabbit" and that she was actually Jessica and Roger's daughter. And the reason she wasn't in the original Loony Tunes is just that she wasn't born yet

I mean can you blame me. Look them and look at her. She's got a good blend of both of their features.

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Listen if the study of ancient humans doesn’t make you at least a little bit emotional idk what to say.

I started crying today at the museum because they had reconstructed the shoes of Otzi the iceman.

Either he or someone he knew who cared about him made these shoes out of grass and bear skin and twine and he was wearing them when he died over five thousand years ago.

And a Czech researcher and his students did reconstructions of these shoes and wore them to the same place where he died to test them out and they were like yep! These shoes are really cozy and comfy and didn’t give us blisters while hiking!

Is that not just the coolest shit ever????

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We didn't almost died trying to free our country from dictator so that now you can take his side and cheer for the fascist regime who hasn't stopped fucking with us for 40_50 years

#iran #free iran #woman life freedom #mahsa amini

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As an Iranian person

Nothing in my life is more shameful and pitiful and embarrassing than seeing people who support the corrupt government of my country without knowing the slightest thing

Just go search (mahsa amini) or something

So that you might be a little ashamed of your behavior and support of an dictator

#iran #free iran #woman life freedom #mahsa amini

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

#ao3