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pickingoutchinapatterns · 4 years

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So, I just found out you’re a nurse. Thank you. 🙏 What is happening for you at the moment?

Ok, so I’m a nurse and admittedly I’m angry and frustrated. This is gonna be a non-filtered rant (I may go into details about some points later). Also, before I get any shit bc I’m “just a nurse” (which happens), I’ll say that nursing is actually my third degree, my other 2 (undergrad and graduate) are also in the sciences. Ok, let the rant begin.

First, when this is over, we need to fund education. EVERYONE should have a basic knowledge of math and biology. Seriously, have some of you ppl never heard of exponential growth? Let’s say an organism in a petri dish replicates once a day. At the end of the first day, you’ll have 2, but at the end of the 14th day (I’m using that bc of the current “2 week isolation period” currently being advised right now), you don’t get 28 organisms in your dish (2x14), but 16,384 (2^14) organisms. The growth of this organism will only slow down once it starts running out of resources (which is why you get an S shaped growth curve).

WHY YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO WHAT PUBLIC HEALTH IS SAYING: This is similar to disease spread. If you infect one person, you’re literally making things exponentially worse. And guess what, if you self-isolate you are GETTING RID OF THE VIRUS’ RESOURCES. Viruses, unlike bacteria, cannot replicate on their own. THEY NEED YOU TO GROW. Plus, based on the data from the Japanese cruise ship, about half of those infected were ASYMPTOMATIC. This means that we don’t know how many ppl are infected but we literally have THOUSANDS of Typhoid Mary’s out there. Plus, given that it often takes about 2 weeks to develop symptoms of the virus, so even if everyone is at home on lockdown, we won’t see how bad it actually is NOW for at least 2 WEEKS FROM NOW.

STOP HOARDING AND STEALING MASKS AND PPE (personal protective equipement). Yes, ppl are literally stealing PPE from hospitals. JUST STAY THE FUCK HOME.

I know that a lot of ppl have the attitude of “oh, it’s mild for most ppl” or “it just kills the elderly.” First, “it just kills the elderly” is NOT true. The ppl it hits the hardest INCLUDE the elderly, but ALSO INCLUDES ppl with comorbidies like diabetes, cardiac conditions and high blood pressure (SOUND LIKE ANYONE YOU MIGHT FUCKING NOW???) and HEALTH CARE WORKERS. No one knows why front line health care workers are hit so hard (my hypothesis is bc we are exposed to higher viral loads, plus we work in a stressful, germ infested place AND we do shift work…not exactly the best combinations for a healthy immune system. Plus, many of us also suffer from comorbidities as well.) The health care system was stretched tightly enough before this pandemic (cancer, flu season, infectious diseases and drug epidemics), so imagine us dealing with a pandemic AND our regular workload AND being SUPER SHORT STAFFED (which many of us are already before this began). Italy has already announced a while ago that they’re just deciding that some ppl are not gonna get any treatment bc they HAVE NO MORE RESOURCES.

A note re the N95 (airborne) mask (these are not the basic surgical masks). Did you know that we have to get trained on how to use them? And then we have to do a test to make sure that each one of us is using the right brand and size? (That’s right, it’s not a one size fits all.) Plus, men have to shave before using one bc even a bit of stubble makes it ineffective? Now imagine HCP’s are out of N95 masks (used for AIRBORNE precautions like TB, measles and shingles; surgical masks are used for droplet precautions, like the flu). We still have ppl in hospitals with TB, measles and shingles…what if these spread too now that we don’t have N95 masks?

Also, please stop using anti-bacterial soap. First, COVID 19 is a virus, not a bacteria. We already have A LOT of antibiotic resistant bacteria out there. (Ex. MRSA, VRE, C-difficile, literally called difficile bc it’s so hard to treat and kill). Back when I was working in a microbiology lab, we were extra careful using vancomycin bc it was considered a last resort antibiotic and didn’t want to accidentally have bacteria develop and spread resistance to it. Now, I see vancomycin being used in hospitals daily. (VRE literally stands for Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci.)

This pandemic is gonna hit every health care system hard worldwide. If we’re already full, how do you think we’ll handle you coming in needing emergency surgery? What about during the high smog warnings in summer and ppl come in with heat stroke or a severe asthma exacerbation? What if you’re going to deliver?

I am a nurse and I do what I can to help ppl out. I base my nursing practice on the fact that if I’m seeing you in hospital I’m likely seeing you during the worst time of your life. This job is a roller coaster, both physically and emotionally. I will say though, it is absolutely horrible treating ppl in respiratory distress. It’s like you’re watching someone suffocate and drown at the same time. You see the panic in their eyes and in their families as they try to get enough air. You do all that you can, and even if the intervention is successful, you still feel useless and shaken. It is HORRIBLE. Please, do all that you can to stop this spread and to keep yourself healthy so that my colleagues and I won’t see you anytime soon in any one of our facilities.

End of current rant.

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hchano · 7 years

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ARTISTS BEWARE

Avoid collaborations with dubious monetized YouTube channel GeekyComTV

I’ve held my tongue about this channel for almost a month and I can’t frickin’ do it anymore. This is a call out post.

[WHY?] To make a long story short, this user has been posting videos for over a year now, using miraculous art. Although in some cases he has asked permission to repost, he began monetizing [making money off of] his videos at some point without notifying any of the artists.

None of the artists agreed to monetization.

@maristoryart is only one of many artists that reported him upon finding the monetization, but for some reason, Geeky has focused on her as the reason his channel is being reported [for a second time at least, since this isn’t the first account he has lost]...

GeekyComTV’s creator has resorted to blackmail, to defamation, to actual threats, and finally to identity theft, in an attempt to bully mari and others into complying with his wishes.

It’s gross and it is NOT okay. [short version of this post]

[^^^ just 20 of the 200+ videos being monetized]

[WHY? part 2: the long version] And now the entire thing. Strap in and get ready to get real damn mad. And apologies in advance for the lack of a read more, but I need to avoid censorship of this post. So yes, this post is VERY LONG, but this needs to be seen.

For ease of reading, I will do a bullet list+screenshot setup.

July 9th, GeekyComTV’s channel is linked amidst 4 others by a discord user on a small ml server.

Geeky’s is shown to be directly monetizing most of the videos.

Maristoryart is the only one active at the time whose art is on there, so she reports the videos using her content.

[censoring names for protection from this creep]

A few days later [the 13th], the owner of the channel begins to message Mari via her social media and email

He reminds her she gave him permission to post the artwork on his channel and asks why she reported him; he reveals her reports put two strikes on his account

He says he will remove the videos if she retracts her claims

^^^ to explain: He has 2 strikes on his account. He counterclaims them, which means he is disputing the strikes and youtube cancels the deletion of the videos. If he deletes the videos now, the strikes remain on his account. If Mari retracts her claims, his account is in the clear.

Mari asks for advice from the chat and we unanimously tell her not to retract her claims, since he monetized without notifying her OR ANY OF THE 100+ ARTISTS HE IS STEALING FROM

During this conversation, another user who dealt with him previously points out Geeky’s previous channel was shut down for the same reason, so we learn he is a repeat offender

Mari ultimately decides to tell Geeky she will not retract her claim due to the monetization of hers and others art without their permission

At the same time, I share Geeky’s channel with the main public ml art server and begin to contact artists on tumblr

[in which a user lets us know geeky tried to find out who ‘told on him’ lol. spoilers: it only matters cos he wanted to send threats and blackmail to the person lol]

yes, geeky:

[just one of a few ppl who likely ended up reporting him lol]

[lol yea that 2 years of hard work putting songs on top of ppl’s art and making money off it, boo hoo lol]

[^^^ talking about his previous channel, which is deleted now. jan 11 is when the posts about his new [current main] channel started to appear for a while.]

Immediately after Mari sends her explanation, Geeky tries to claim he only monetized a month ago

Another user calls bs; she had tried to contact him several months prior about removing videos with her art because she didn’t allow monetization

Geeky offers to pay Mari the money he made off her work, if she will remove the strikes

Geeky begins to message Mari incessantly, repeating that he will pay her

He tries to claim it wasn’t he who ‘decided to monetize the videos’ ... [note: heartbeat indicates nearly all his videos are monetized by him DIRECTLY, save for one or two, which are monetized by WMG for music used]

Meanwhile, I have gotten in touch with one of the artists on tumblr and explain the situation to them

This artist chooses to contact Geeky personally

When this artist asks Geeky to remove the video with their content, he claims he can’t remove any videos until Mari removes her strikes from his account [note: this isn’t how youtube works lol. this is also part of the blackmail aspect]

During this convo, Geeky has caught on that artists in this community actually talk to each other and he begins to set his videos to private so that no one else can claim their artwork

Thankfully I still have the window with all the videos still loaded, so I begin to send individual urls to the artists i recognize from the thumbnails, so they can remove their work from his channel

[^screenshot the tumblr artist sent]

The third and final strike on Geeky’s account comes from @ferisae, who sometimes allows dubs, but does not allow monetization

Despite being private, Feri still had the URL, so she was able to report her video

Geeky emails Feri, saying she made a mistake, she doesn’t want to do this etc

Feri clearly tells him she never gave approval for her work to be monetized, and he repeatedly messages her and tries to tell her he wasn’t monetizing, that she is making a big mistake, etc

Feri lets him know she has an app that lets her see when a video is monetized and by who, says she won’t talk about it anymore, and blocks him

[^ i don’t have screenshots of this exchange, it was relayed on voicechat]

Geeky begins to message all the people who contacted him to remove their art, asking them if they know Feri and Mari, could they message them about the issue, etc etc

He begins to message Mari multiple times per day, interrupting her daily life

[she ignores the messages]

He also makes a new email account and begins to message Feri again, begging her to resolve this

[she ignores him as well]

[^from the new email to feri. bigger image ... pls note the lie about removing the videos. they were all still on private, NOT deleted.]

Finally, when no one responds, he resorts to threats [on the 14th and 15th]

Mari asks for advice on how to respond, and one of the users in the chat helps her craft an email to send him.

We advise her to do what Feri did, to simply block him, but he responds again before she has a chance to and threatens her again

Mari is understandably stressed out and logs off for a while

[^^^ sorry but if simply ignoring your attempts to guilt trip her into removing rightful strikes on ur account isn’t ‘peaceful’, i don’t know what is lol]

[response ^^^ bigger image]

[bigger image]

[bigger image - ^^^ in which he sends basically the same message twice??? and my, i’m so glad ur a good person because you chose not to hack. much brave, very morals, wow!! ]

After seeing this, I am raging, so I start looking into this guy, hoping I can find his family and show them the emails he has been sending to Mari, so maybe they will straighten his ass out :P

I don’t have luck finding his family [aside from a possible sibling], though I do find out where he lives and works

I kick it up to a friend of mine [@seibatooth] who digs up a lot more info on him, including work history

We learn is a college student from Morocco, who hasn’t held a stable job for more than 6 months

I share this all with Mari to reassure her that this guy has no power and to not worry so much lol

In light of all this new information, no one responds to him

[^^^seiba is a boss. again... no one used this information against him, no one contacted him, and it was all obtained by simple google searches.]

He is quiet for a few days, then on the 19th, a very badly worded email from Geeky’s “Lawyer” comes

It is sent to Feri, Mari, and a Third Artist who did not want to be named in this post

It claims he is seeking legal action against all three artists and lists an email, a website, and a linkedin url

A quick search shows this lawyer to be a real person, but that the contact info in the email is incorrect

So here, we learn here that Geeky is impersonating Real Lawyer [which is where we get identity theft]

Seiba calls Real Lawyer to appraise him of the situation

Seiba and Feri then respond to Geeky [on the fake lawyer email] to let him know that Real Lawyer will be contacting him soon

When I check on Friday, his account is still up, but monetization appears to be disabled ... YAAAAAAAAAAS

Also, the Third Artist who did not want to be named offered some screenshots from an exchange they had with Geeky:

[Translation: “everyone else is stealing from you so why can’t i????” gross.]

[^^^in which he pretends to be the lawyer from his own acct........wowww x’DDD]

The next day [i think? it was during SDCC which was chaotic lol], Real Lawyer calls Seiba

Real Lawyer lets her know that he is pursuing legal action against Geeky... fite!

Another few days pass and Geeky begins advertising his new channel on instagram

In each post, he publicly announces that Mari is the reason he is losing his account, that she doesn’t love the miraculous fandom anymore [????] and that he is just a poor wee bab victim who did no wrong guys really ;0;/

[about page on his new channel. goo.gl link just makes you directly subscribe to this new channel >>; ugh.]

[^^^his posts are decently popular]

[...lol fake claims my butt.]

[my fave part about this is that he claims mari incited a buncha artists to riot against him, when in actuality it was the fact he was MAKING MONEY ON OUR ART. mari had nothing to do with it, aside from sharing his gross guilt trippy and then THREATNING responses lmao. sorry bruh, u did it to urself.]

[.....sigh.]

Alright, so while I was tidying up everything to post, Geeky actually has done more things I need to post about. Literally in the past 24 hours, heck, in the last HOUR, he is still screwing artists over and taunting everyone about it. I have permission to name a few artists effected, so I will not censor their names here.

Today, I found out that Geeky has counter-claimed Mari, Feri and the Third Artist

This means his account is still active, despite the previously pending deletion

He has turned on monetization again, so he is again making money off everyone’s artwork

He is publicly taunting everyone about what he has done

[^^^ the comment in yellow has since been removed by geeky]

[^^^ bragging and more threats....also, just lying out his ass. sorry but i have receipts, bruh.]

[^^^ ANOTHER threat/brag. they deleted this comment pretty much immediately but bbwolf was kind enough to screenshot her activity feed so we can still see it lol. also, like how his time frame keeps changing? interesting lol]

[^^^ one of the counterclaims, shared by the Third Artist. Geeky’s explanation (the english bit) as to why he’s allowed to make money on someone elses work is that it’s okay that he is making money off ppl’s work cos we didn’t create the characters...... what??? ?????? ? ? ??? also he lives in morroco, so he can’t actually claim fair use because it doesn’t apply to him lol... alsoalso, NONE OF US ARE MAKING MONEY ON OUR WORK. HE IS. WHICH NEGATIVELY EFFECTS US BECAUSE IT IS AFFECTING HOW WE W. DERP]

[eden is allowing me to name her in this post now]

[^^^ just one of a few that was linked]

[^^^^ proof that he was contacted 6 months ago about monetizing videos. despite the fact he said claimed he only started 1 month ago. proof that he waited a bit and then just turned it back on when eden stopped checking.]

[^^^setting this here as proof he is monetizing in case he turns it off lol]

Aaand that is where we are at this very minute. I will likely update this post via reblog as the situation changes, but good lord, y’all. Can we please work together to take care of this guy? I can’t stand that he seems to be getting away with this behavior.

[THE ACCOUNTS] (as tempted as you may be after this post, DO NOT HARASS THIS USER. just look for your content and report it at your own discretion. if you do harass him, he might use your words as proof he is being ‘wrongly harassed’ ... and he will definitely hide the videos again, so that no one can report their artwork. please report discreetly.)

Youtube channel #2 [monetized - channel #1 is gone, deleted by youtube sometime in january] Youtube channel #3 [new channel; as of 7/25, it is not yet monetized] instagram tumblr

#i'm really sorry this is so long guys but i am freaking l i v i d that he is treating my friends and other artists like this #i don't like call outs but this guy will not stop #we have to work together to stop people who take advantage of loopholes like this #please signal boost and contact the artists you recognize #thanks for reading and let's keep fighting art theft!#art theft #long post #geekycomtv #youtube

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hellish-oc-blog · 7 years

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name: beelzebub incubus meaning: beezlebub is a devil name & incubus is a type of demon nickname: beez (only by godfrey) reason: its a cute pet name birthday: 14th feb; the year is unknown age: unknown how old they look: late teens, they often say theyre 16/17 weight: roughly 70kg height: 6 foot body build: thin face shape: rounded rectangle eye colour: none,, he just doesnt have any irises glasses etc: he sometimes wears colour contacts to fit in skin: lightish brown distinguishing marks: rounded horns & missing tooth predominant features: horns again & eyes bc all white hair: dark dark green hair type: messy floof with shaved sides & back horns: marbled pink & very rounded voice: smooth and fairly high attractiveness: v cute and occasionally can be hot af physical disabilities: none usual fashion: baggy jeans & hoodies with no designs fave outfit: these cute shorts, thigh highs & tank top they only wear for godfrey jewellery: 1st ear piercings on both ears good personality: really caring (esp abt godfrey) bad personality: theyre rlly fucking loud and never seem to realise it mood character most often in: hopeless romance or anxiousness it depends on whether theyre with godfrey sense of humour: self deprecating & dick jokes greatest joy: GODFREY greatest fear: new ppl why?: they always start worrying if the new person hates them already what event would turn life into turmoil: anything bad to do with godfrey most at ease when: watching tv & cuddling godfrey enraged when: people don’t understand rocks depressed when: his hair isnt floof enough priorities: passing their psychology degree & keeping godfrey happ life philosophy: to collect ALL the rocks if granted one wish: to not have anxiety why?: it makes life fuckin hard soft spot: ROCKS & GODFREY is it obvious: he cant tell (it is) greatest strength: his demon powers even though he cant control them fully greatest weakness: godfrey in thigh highs biggest regret: trying to cut off their horns bc they thought godfrey hated them (godfrey loves them) minor regret: blinding henri biggest accomplishment: learning all of the periodic table and impressing godfrey minor accomplishment: learning german past failures that are embarrassing: when he tried to help godfrey out of hell but messed it up completely why?: its embarrassing that hes supposed to be a rlly strong demon and cant fully control their powers darkest secret: his actual dad is an angel so hes not fully demon he just says he is does anyone know: only his 4 closest friends and godfrey motivations: to fucking defeat all the shitty ableist ppl immediate goals: get 100% on a psychology test long term goals: to control their powers how he plans to accomplish these: keep revising and practicing how other characters might be affected: someone might be blinded again like last time hometown: the outskirts of hell type of childhood: pretty lonely cause their mom was super busy and they were too anxious to make friends pets: they dont rlly like animals so they just had rocks first memory: accidentally blowing up his room cause he was messing around with his powers most important memory: being accepted as non-binary by their mom why?: because it means a fuck ton to him childhood hero: his dad even though theyve never met dream job: professional rock enthusiast education: top quality; still in uni rn religion: atheist finances: pretty damn rich current location: uni in some english speaking country living with: in a big dorm with godfrey, henri, kevin & the twins pets: henri has a german shepherd as a guide dog religion: atheist still occupation: bowling alley person finances: since they came up from hell; not too good mother: lamia incubus relationship: pretty good; beez comes back down to hell every so often to see her father: ambriel — relationship: hes never met his dad but looks up to him massively siblings: azarael incubus relationship: they used to be close but not anymore spouse: not married buf godfrey relationship: head over heels in love children: none favourites colour: the shade of green their hair is least fave colour: bright orange music: classical food: ghost chilli peppers literature: non-fiction (primarily rocks) form of entertainment: sexy times witj godfrey transport: trams prized possession: this bigg black opal azarael gave him hobbies: learning loads of random facts musical instrument?: nope sport?: lacrosse how they would spend a rainy day: cuddling with godfrey and watching netflix spending habits: they rarely buy stuff cause hes saving up but he cant remember why smokes: no drinks: sometimes drugs: no what do they do too much of?: crying what do they do too little of?: exercise extremely skilled at: anything to do witj school hes a highclass nerd extremely unskilled at: cooking nervous tics: shaky hands and bouncy leg, occasionally clapping usual body posture: completely straight mannerisms: they overuse hand gestures when explaining things peculiarities: he scratches his horns a lot optimist/pessimist: pessimist intro/extrovert: introvert daredevil/cautious: daredevil logical/emotional: mix of both disorderly/methodical: methodical working/relaxing: both; depends who with confident?: nope animal lover: nah how they feel about themself: better than they used to be but still not confident especially about him being a devil one word hed use to describe himself: nauseating paragraph hed describe himself by: a hopeless romantic with ugly eyes and horns that knows a lot about rocks and psychology damn i love godfrey what does he consider good personality trait: extensive knowledge of rocks bad personality trait: im not good enougj for godfrey best physical characteristic: probably my legs theyre fuckingg LIT worst: anything thay reveals im a demon how other characters perceive them: cute and precious MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS most likely to change about themself: demonic features opinion of other ppl: scary scary hide true opinions: not really character he hates most: he loves them all but doesnt really get along with henri since he blinded them best friend: KEVIN love interest: GODFREY character he goes to for advice: karen and he doesnt know why character he feels responsible to take care of: henri 100% character he feels awkward around: henri character he openly admires: godfrey character they secretly admire: susan

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