#IMPORTANT INFO

[acepumpkinpatrick]

Happy to report that I was finally able to donate eSims to [email protected] !!!!!

I followed instructions from @gothhabiba 's blog (their blog got all the information u need about this process) here's a master post with all the info about this

If you're more of a instructions-video kind of person, here's a reel by Islam on ig

There's also ppl giving out referral codes (It's like a discount coupon) for 1st time purchases on here. Just scroll through the most recent posts in the name tag of the app you're using.

It's important to keep donating eSims bc they're always short on them and alot of ppl need them and need alot of them. In an interview Anas Al-Sharif (one of the last remaining reports in the north of the strip) said that he goes through at least 5 of them each day. So keep on donating.

The information might be a little daunting at first and that's ok, the important thing is to be courageous and take action. You got this! Go donate <3

#esims #important info #nomad esim #simly #holafly #airola #nomad #mogo #esims for gaza #please donate #donate #palestine #gaza #israel #free palestine #genocide #gaza strip #free gaza #current events #important #important!!! #information #always reblog #colombia university #tel aviv #jerusalem

[jessiarts]

Hey, PSA:

On your phone, go to Settings> Security and Privacy> Privacy> Other Privacy Settings> Ads> Delete Advertising ID

Then go back to Other Privacy Settings> Google location history> Turn off Location History &/or Turn-on Auto-Delete (you can set a time period of how long to keep it)

Then, staying on Other Privacy Settings, go to '+ See all activity controls'> Web & App activity> Turn off (you can also turn-on Auto-Delete for here too)

Then Scroll down to Personalized ads> My Ad Center> Turn Off Personalized Ads.

Google has no business knowing/storing everything you do online, and knowing/storing where you go everyday. Turn it off.

These instructions are for an Android phone, IOS might be different. If you have IOS or another operating system feel free to add on with your own map to where they've buried these settings in your phone to help others.

#fuck ads #advertising #psa #phone safety #internet safety #important info #idk what to tag this #reblog to boost #google #location #fuck google #privacy #internet culture #internet privacy #turn off tumblr live #android #ios #samsung #tech #technology

[littlemssam]

!Important Warning!

These Days some Mods containing Malware have been uploaded on various Sites.

The Sims After Dark Discord Server has posted the following Info regarding the Issue:

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Malware Update: What We Know Now To recap, here are the mods we know for sure were affected by the recent malware outbreak: "Cult Mod v2" uploaded to ModTheSims by PimpMySims (impostor account) "Social Events - Unlimited Time" uploaded to CurseForge by MySims4 (single-use account) "Weather and Forecast Cheat Menu" uploaded to The Sims Resource by MSQSIMS (hacked, real account) "Seasons Cheats Menu" uploaded to The Sims Resource by MSQSIMS (hacked, real account)

Due to this malware using an exe file, we believe that anyone using a Mac or Linux device is completely unaffected by this.

If the exe file was downloaded and executed on your Windows device, it has likely stolen a vast amount of your data and saved passwords from your operating system, your internet browser (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Firefox, and more all affected), Discord, Steam, Telegram, and certain crypto wallets. Thank you to anadius for decompiling the exe.

To quickly check if you have been compromised, press Windows + R on your keyboard to open the Run window. Enter %AppData%/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/UserData in the prompt and hit OK. This will open up the folder the malware was using. If there is a file in this folder called Updater.exe, you have unfortunately fallen victim to the malware. We are unware at this time if the malware has any function which would delete the file at a later time to cover its tracks.

To quickly remove the malware from your computer, Overwolf has put together a cleaner program to deal with it. This program should work even if you downloaded the malware outside of CurseForge. Download SimsVirusCleaner.exe from their github page linked here and run it. Once it has finished, it will give you an output about whether any files have been removed.

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For more Information please check the Sims After Dark Server News Channel! Or here https://scarletsrealm.com/malware-mod-information/

TwistedMexi made a Mod to help detect & block such Mods in the Future: https://www.patreon.com/posts/98126153

CurseForge took actions and added mechanics to prevent such Files to be uploaded, so downloading there should be safe.

In general be careful, where and what you download, and do not download my Mods at any other Places than my own Sites and my CurseForge Page.

#littlemssam #sims 4 mods #important info

[kyra45]

If someone messages you on Discord claiming they accidentally reported you, it’s a scam. You don’t need to pay anything either if asked to verify things. Just block the sender and don’t click anything your sent. People are actively falling for this very common scam on a daily basis.

Steam also has the exact same scam format.

#scam #psa #discord scam #important info

[shadowfoxsilver]

Some quick tips to spotting accounts that are pretending to be a Palestinian needing mutual aid. Please keep in mind that not all of them are scam accounts, and that some may legitimate blogs who just aren’t too knowledgeable on how tumblr works. This guide is based around what I go by when checking certain blogs and usually it’s a quick giveaway the blog is a scam.

1. You was sent the ask as someone who regularly shares Palestine related content such as regular news updates of posts by other Palestinians who are regularly giving updates. You may also get these asks from sharing a popular post that is from the Palestine tag. If you post often about Palestine, you will always start getting these asks. These askers don’t care if you state don’t send the asks. They will anyway. Unfortunately minors also get sent asks.

2. The ask has odd formatting such as having odd quotation marks in it or unusual formatting that may indicate it’s been edited and copied from somewhere else. Often the ask is the same thing as the post itself minus a link to a donation site. These asks rarely change so searching it should pull up if it’s been sent to other bloggers.

3. The account is almost always a few days old or a week old or long depending on how often they have sent asks.

4. The blog has a few Palestine related posts or posts from random tags reblogged to pad out length and then no more. They will have no original posts besides the pinned post while occasionally answering asks that they may have received but otherwise nothing else and no further updates given either.

5. They may have a Linktree link that is called “GoFundMe” as if indicating they have a GoFundMe there. However, they don’t. When clicked on, the Linktree actually goes to a PayPal account whose name may not even match the one their supposed name is. They’ll say it’s a friend, but it’s just the same person not someone else. You’ll see this same name across multiple accounts after a while usually giving away it’s not legitimate even under a different theme.

6. The text used by the blogs are often real stories stolen from legitimate fundraisers and searching parts of it in your preferred search engine should pull up the sources. These sources make no mention of a tumblr account either or don’t have the PayPal account associated with them in the info. Scammers often impersonate a real person in need and will ignore you if you show them the source they copied from.

7. Legitimate Palestinians often link to their own GoFundMe posts that their friends have set up or post links to other social platforms they are found on. They will regularly post updates when possible, post sources to support them when necessary, and also generally have some method of verifying their legitimacy. They may often share links to support others as well or give links to charities that have been shown as reliable. They will have more original posts than just a single pinned one and regularly speak to other tumblr accounts beyond just an ask. Please don’t bother them with asks about possible scam accounts. There are many guides out there that can do that for you if you search.

8. Scammers don’t know anything about Palestine and will often have trouble once you ask them anything beyond the mutual aid post. They don’t know the languages decently and you can tell it pretty easily if you’re one who uses it regularly. Whatever the scammers use is often just copied off the site they got the post from.

9. These scammers can and will use names stolen off real Palestinians to look more legitimate and trustworthy. They change names constantly once one of their PayPal accounts is shut down.

Please don’t let these scams deter you from sending support where it needs to go. Even if you can’t donate personally, there are other ways to help. If you are sending money, please make sure that it’s going to where it’s needed and the place it’s sent has been verified accordingly. If you find a blog is a scammer, and have been able to prove it, please make sure to alert anyone sharing the post and report the account.

#how to spot a scam blog #scam #Palestine #psa #important info #long post is long

[favorablehorseofskinnycave]

just thought y’all should know that the tagline for the re-animator article in fangoria is “a mOiSt zombie movie” 

#important info #do with this what you will #re-animator #herbert west #jeffrey combs #dan cain #bruce abbott #reanimator #david gale #fangoria #fangoria magazine #barbara crampton #re animator #stuart gordon

[nonsensical-pixels]

u/ailathan on reddit has just made an amazingly detailed write-up on my lindasims saga, over at r/hobbydrama! consider this a masterpost for anyone who's interested in learning more about what i found, as well as the backstory and effects of linda's cc! thank you very much for doing this, ailathan!

#lindasims2 #the lindasims saga #s2cc #sims 2 cc #ts2 cc #important info #the lindasims research and experimentation #sims 2 research #sims 2 alert #very nice surprise to come back from school to :D

[dreams-incorporated]

What is the "Safe zone" ?

#weirdcore aesthetic #weirdcore #oddcore #safe #safety #safe place #safe zone #be safe #information #important info #must know #presentation #weird #edit #nostalgia #nostalgic #dreams inc

[honkformilfs]

hi everyone!!!

would like to thank you very much for helping me reach 100 followers!!! to everyone who commissioned and helped boost my stuff, i feel incredibly grateful <3

i want to hopefully use this post and my current platform to help boost awareness for the terrible events of palestine. i will include below a few links i've gathered for anyone who wants to help, or just spread good info around tumblr.

if anybody wishes to add more, please feel free!

daily click : http://arab.org e-sims: http://gazaesims.com hygiene funds: http://piousprojects.org/campaign/2712

spreadsheet with more campaigns of people who want to leave gaza https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vtMLLOzuc6GpkFySyVtKQOY2j-Vvg0UsChMCFst_WLA/htmlview

a collection of twitter threads with links, information, etc https://twitter.com/eleganciaga/status/1763840822712111177

support displaced families in gaza https://www.gofundme.com/f/careforgaza

#free palestine #palestine #free gaza #current events #gaza #important info #info post #helpful #resources #artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration #open commissions #my art #fanart #one piece #one piece fanart #monkey d luffy #straw hat pirates #strawhats #one piece luffy #op fanart #commissions open #dms open

[geekstudio]

#important info #spill your vices darlings #I’m a sucker for time travel #poll #fan fiction #ao3

[emj4yart]

Hey y'all! I know tomorrow is the 12th anniversary of the fuckass movie that lives rent free on this hellsite, but can we please focus more on using our platforms to support Palestine on strike day? All eyes need to be on Palestine right now, our interests can wait for ONE DAY. One Day to spread awareness and uplift Palestinian voices. One Day to help real people that are dying.

I'm not the best with words myself so I implore you to read these for more information on the strike and the genocide. DO NOT IGNORE THIS.

Remember to do your daily clicks (it is FREE and helps Palestine with a SINGLE CLICK!)

That's all from me for now, I will reblog any information that I can. From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free 🍉

#important info #free palestine #activism #onceler fandom #the lorax

[littlemssam]

Just a heads up

EA changed something, which affect some of my Mods. Those Mods will not work 100% for Users, who don't have all Packs.

Each Tuning has a Group ID, and these Group IDs are now bound to certain Packs. So an Interaction that worked fine before, will not show up anymore because the Group ID is from a Pack, the User does not have. I will have to go though all my Mods one by one and check each custom Tuning, if they have the correct Group ID.

This will take a while.

If you have all Packs, or most Packs, you will probably not have any Issues, but if you don't own all relevant Packs, it might be that some Interactions, Buffs etc don't work until I change the Group IDs.

#littlemssam #sims 4 mods #important info

[kyra45]

Important warning regarding new phishing email based around tumblr

Hey everyone! Recently I was shown a screenshot of an email claiming to be from tumblr. The title read as follows: “Urgent: Verify Your Tumblr Account” claiming it’s from “Tumblr Officer”. However, with a little help, I have been able to confirm this is NOT a legitimate tumblr email! If you get this kind of email in your inbox, do not give them any of your information. I do not know where the email itself is from specifically, as the screenshot didn’t show it but hopefully this will help anyone who may be getting this now.

From my source, it is suggested to report this email to tumblr via support and refer to it as phishing since this seems to be a rather recent occurrence that has popped up. If you get the email that has the following, please do not give them any info:

“Urgent: Verify Your Tumblr Account” claiming it’s from “Tumblr Officer”

I have been able to verify it is a phishing email! Just so it’s clear that this isn’t an official tumblr email. This is a phishing email.

If you already gave your info to this phishing one, please change your passwords and enable any extra security methods and send tumblr support any details regarding where the email is being sent from so it can be looked into further!

#scam #psa #phishing #important info

[shadowfoxsilver]

A very simple quick way to tell if the blog sending you an ask to share their pinned pet post is a scam with timestamps enabled:

They followed you randomly and sent the ask seconds later

The posts before pinned are reblogged minutes apart and are fit to a certain trending theme

They told you to answer PRIVATELY despite their post being public meaning they could be trying to hide their asks

The pinned post is not very old and at best is hours/days/weeks old

Things you should do:

Search the ask in tumblr search to see if it was sent to other users

Search the name on their address to see if it is known to belong to someone who isn’t being truthful and steals fundraisers

Check to see if the fundraiser is copied from Facebook/Gofundme by going to those sites and either searching the pet name or part of the story. Most likely you will locate the source unless it was posted to a private group in which you won’t be able to locate it

#scam #important info #donation scam #pet donation scam

[butch-reidentified]

MRA's love to claim that if women were in charge the world would go to shit bc we'd "get our periods and declare war," which is obviously a batshit insane, uneducated, and maximally misogynistic belief to begin with. I shouldn't have to tell you that our periods don't actually make us emotionally unstable, that in fact fewer than 20% of college-age women (women who aren't even old enough for the prefrontal cortex to finish developing, and thus are far from old enough to, for example, be eligible to run for US president) even report "severe" psychological symptoms of PMS - and this includes symptoms like depressed mood and anxiety.

in fact, PMS isn't even something all women experience. and of those who do, there's a huge variety of ways it can present. most symptoms women associate with PMS are not emotional: bloating, body soreness, headaches, oversleeping, food cravings, nausea/vomiting, hot flashes, breast tenderness....

from the article linked above: "Definitions of PMS and diagnostic criteria to identify cases have varied substantially over the years and across studies, in large part due to the heterogeneity of women’s menstrual symptom experience. Over 150 symptoms have been associated with PMS."

overwhelmingly, research shows that the effect of PMS on women in the workplace is the same as that of any other medical problem/illness: some people miss some work if it's severe enough. which, considering that symptoms can often include various types of pain that can be quite severe, as well as common illness symptoms like nausea and vomiting, it makes perfect sense that some women would need to take a day off or leave a bit early at times. what the research does NOT say is that PMS causes women to behave in irrational ways that negatively impact the quality of her work.

so let's be truthful. why would female leaders mean more war when women and girls are so overwhelmingly and horrifically sexually victimized as a result?

if most women don't even experience severe mood symptoms with PMS, and having mood symptoms doesn't mean one is unable to control her actions/behaviors (I know this concept of self-control is foreign to most men, but we're pretty good at it!), and there's absolutely zero evidence to suggest that severe PMS mood symptoms would or could ever lead to declaring war, and women old enough to hold office in most countries have many years of experience managing their pre/peri-menstrual symptoms (if they even have any), and most world leaders are past the age women stop even having periods at all, and we see that women in other leadership positions are absolutely crushing it all over the world, and there IS significant evidence showing that women in numerous fields actually outperform male peers (despite feeling significantly less respected in higher-rank positions than males feel, as well as feeling more discouraged and frustrated) and are more emotionally intelligent, there IS evidence that women are less influenced by and better at regulating anger in the workplace, and there IS indisputable evidence that men are more violent than women in general, regardless of the reason, and there IS indisputable evidence that women and girls suffer mass victimization by men during wartime... then maybe, just maybe, women are actually less likely than men to start wars. but there's only one way to find out for sure 😏

#most of the data supports female superiority if I'm honest... #like there's endless evidence of the bias against us EVERYWHERE #especially career wise in every field #and we aren't accommodated at all despite having different needs from men #in so many ways the world is built to boost men and hold us back #yet look at these links #women stay winning #mine #radblr #data tag #data #important info #reference #ref #hope for Women

[nonsensical-pixels]

Dear Sims 2 Community,

Or really, just about anyone who does the stuff this post mentions...

Forewarning: this is a LONG post.

For the last few years I've just kinda bottled this rant inside of me. But I've just gotten tired of trying to be patient.

Yes, Abhijeet is a real name--and quite a famous one. Yes, there are millions of people out there with Ng or Wong as a last name. Yes, Pong is a real name too.

Abhijeet - 'victorious' or 'conqueror' in Sanskrit

Ng/Huang (黄）- 'yellow', to 'fall through'

Pong - 'noble'

The same goes for almost every first and last name in The Sims 2's name generator. They're not made-up names just because they don't fit your image of a Western suburbia. In fact, they are taken from the developers' names. Just because they're Asian names, or non-white names, or 'spelt weirdly', doesn't mean that they're 'fake' or whatever or 'weird'.

I am tired of going on Reddit or Discord or whatever and seeing people making fun of names like 'Ng' and suggesting that the developers were lazy to put that in the name generator. Uh, no? 'Ng' is a very common surname for Chinese people--not just in Asia, but in the West too. So either you are being grossly ignorant, or you just cannot believe that Asians exist out there.

As a South-East Asian, I am tired of this whole ‘not-white, not real' logic exercised in this community. Not everyone who plays this game is from the West. As a South-East Asian, it's quite infuriating to see people make fun of names like 'Pong' because they can't be bothered to at least Google the name's meaning.

What I love about The Sims 2 is how diverse the names that townies generate with are. The developers could have left in your average American names and left it at that. Instead, they used their own names, and it's just proof of how diverse the developer team was. If you look at the names townies can generate with, it's actually insane. There are so many unique, rare names on there that people are just... making fun of, because they have this belief that The Sims 2 is an 'American' game and as a result everything should match what your perfect American suburb would have in it.

As if there isn't a whole neighborhood inspired by Shakespearean lore in there where a child has the name Bottom--or whatever.

Maybe I am overreacting a bit. But it makes me so infuriated when people make fun of things they don't fully understand. Without even Googling it. Every other post on r/sims2 is 'Is Abhijeet a real name??' Uh, yeah, a single Google search could've told you that.

In short, I am just tired of the Sims community constantly misrepresenting people like me or acting like Asians in the game are unusual.

It's not just names, too. It's also in appearance, languages, etc. So I've compiled a small list of misconceptions you may want to avoid, because why not, too many people never seem to get them.

Not all Asians are Chinese. I've used Indian and Chinese surnames as examples because they're closest to my understanding (being part Indian, part Chinese) but I see an insane amount of people acting like Indians aren't from Asia or all Asians are Chinese. Same goes for the people who act like all Asians are Japanese. Mary-Sue doesn't have to be Chinese, she could be Japanese, Korean, or not even Asian at all. I am really tired of people acting like my HC that she is only part-Asian is weird.

Not all Asians have light skin. It's not even a regional/ethnicity thing, where Indians are also Asian and a lot have brown skin, etc. There seems to be this idea in a lot of communities that all Chinese must have ultra white skin, black hair, and brown eyes. I have never met a Chinese person outside of actual China who looks like they'd blend in with the snow. South-East Asia is not only chock-full of Chinese people whose ancestors left China decades ago, it's also smack-dab on the Equator. If you can go about your daily activities and stay pale, I am in absolute awe of you.

Not all Asians have 'slint-eyes'. I find this grossly racist and very ignorant, because even that term makes my skin crawl. Yes, some of us have our eyes slanted towards the center of our face. That does not mean that all of us do or that the Korean girl you're making must look like her eyes are sideways.

Not all Asians speak Asian. I have no idea who thinks that Asia, a continent that contains most of the world's population, consists of people who all speak the same language. Asian isn't even a language. You may be thinking of Chinese--which, although having one singular writing system (okay, it has a modern one and a traditional one I can't even read) actually consists of dozens of dialects. Most Mainlanders speak Mandarin, but around my area there are so many people who speak Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, whatever. This concept that all people from a continent must be able to understand each other is stupid when you look at the European continent.

I apologise if I've misrepresented anyone on this list--if you are a person and you speak the language Asian, do let me know you exist--but for the love of all things holy, please remember that Asians and non-Western people exist. Some of them made this very game that you play every day, and they'd be baffled, I think, to know that you believe Wong is a made-up name.

I don't mind people who use mods to change up the names used to generate townies and make them more suit their gameplay--if you want a themed neighborhood or one that's all-'American', go ahead. But if you're gonna make fun of someone's actual name because you can't fathom that not everyone has first name John last name Smith, please do educate yourself.

Thank you for reading this very long, very on-the-spot rant, have a pleasant day, and please don't be afraid to ask, comment, or give feedback on this post :]

#long post #ky rants #important info #dear sims community #sims 2 #actually #the sims #in general #i see you sims 4 players who also don't understand stuf like this #the sims 2