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If they can't pay through a normal channel they're a scammer 99.99% of the time.

Sorry for double posting but APPARENTLY those commission scammers have showed up on Tumblr at least for the first time for me.

For those who don’t know what I am talking about, there were/are commission scams going on in Instagram and even places like Artstation where people would pretend to be interested in your work and try to commission a pet or portrait for the sake of trying to get your bank details. Here’s how to (somewhat) sniff them out:

1- They don’t seem to be an average customer/ person that would be involved in your fandom, or has a blank template for an account or don’t even follow you.

2- They ask you to draw a portrait or a pet picture either for themselves or their children/family.

3- They promise to overpay you (in the hundreds) and do not listen to you even if you firmly state the price is cheaper.

4- They are constantly asking for your email name, or private details regarding things like banking details or passwords or other private information others should not know.

5- They try and over reassure you they mean no harm, try to guilt you into giving them the info, or become aggressive over you not giving them what they want.

What should you do if you come across one of these guys? My best advice is to block and report. Sadly these people jump account to account so there isn’t really much to do other than spread this info to prevent artists from being scammed.

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let's recap what we've learned about the United States in the last few days.

things that are terrorism:

allegedly shooting a healthcare CEO whose company generated more pure profit (not revenue, profit) in a year than the GDP of 94 countries, exclusively by denying coverage to people who pay for it

a 42-year-old mother of 2 using the wrong combination of 7 words during a heated conversation with a call center employee at a health insurance company who was in the process of denying her health coverage.

things that are not terrorism:

mass shooting in a Black church to incite a race war

going to a BLM protest specifically to kill protestors

a neo-nazi running over a crowd of people, killing a woman

targeting and killing 23 latinos in an el paso, texas walmart

killing 12 people in a theatre, shooting 58 others, rigging your apartment with explosives

a QAnon groyper killing 7 and shooting ~50 at a 4th of July parade

killing 3 people and shooting several others at a Planned Parenthood in defense of the unborn

stalking someone relentlessly and then killing them and their child despite months of the victim making police reports

any one of the 1,200 murders committed by US police yearly, the vast majority being minorities

tightening your border while ~100 immigrants (including children) drown every year in the Rio Grande

United Healthcare killing an unnknowable number of elderly people by using faulty AI to deny medically necessary coverage

Aetna killing a woman by refusing to cover her cancer care

Blue Cross killing a 6-year-old by denying her appendicitis surgery

Cigna killing a 17-year-old child by denying her liver transplant

the pharmaceutical industry killing half a million people with opioids in the name of producing revenues in 2023 that rivaled the GDPs of countries like Spain, Mexico, and Australia.

the United States killing 45,000 people a year because they can't access health coverage

make sure you keep this guide handy the next time you find yourself interacting with your insurance company or any other millionaire, billionaire, or an individual who is part of a protected class such as a CEO or president of a corporation.

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When you kill a healthcare ceo, it’s terrorism. When someone shoots your kid in elementary school, it’s thoughts and prayers for like a week and then they move on. It truly shows the fact that terrorism is whatever the american government wants it to mean.

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Remember earlier this year when Boeing very clearly had a whistleblower executed? And law enforcement didn't even look for anyone or release any info about it or anything?

People keep comparing Luigi Mangione's case to the subway murderer who got off because of systemic eugenics, but I think there's something more apt about the fact that a CEO had someone executed in recent memory, with zero attempts to find a culprit, while they spared no expense at all to find (and probably frame, it's beginning to look like) someone who shot a CEO. It's always fine to slaughter if you're rich, but if you kill the rich, they will hunt you down.

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FUCK YES TEAMSTERS!

This is as of December 19, 2024.

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Hubert De Lartigue

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"... imagine the exact same events except Rey is a dude named A.A. Jbrams..."

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".. This sounds like some hellish modern reboot of A Canticle for Leibowitz. After the apocalypse, the monks of the Order of Aothree preserve the remnants of the greatest surviving repository of mankind's literary works..."

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If it was more straightforward than House of Leaves I'd read this book.

I've started HoL like four times and I just can't get into it.

I love the idea of a roomba topography map being the jumping on point for a liminal horror story. House of Leaves II: Roomba.

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One of my favorite quotes I like to pull out when someone asks if Starfield is worth playing.

There's just nothing interesting going on in Starfield. It has the least interesting setting, least interesting companions, least interesting story (yes, even compared to the Bethesda fallouts), etc of any Bethesda game I've played.

It's mashed potatoes, no gravy, but the cook didn't even bother to finish mashing all of the lumps out.

steam winter sale approaching so im just asking. can starfield at least be made fun with mods or does it suck so bad that the modding scene sucks too

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David Xanatos from Gargoyles is one of the greatest villains of all time for a lot of reasons but the one I like most is this one quote in the first scene he appears in. He's talking with his assistant about relocating a haunted castle onto his New York skyscraper (he's extra like that) and he's told that it might be difficult to find workers willing to dismantle a haunted castle. He claps back with "Pay a man enough and he'll walk barefoot into hell."

David Xanatos believes in the power of fair pay. We see that throughout the series, he's got security guys who are 100% willing to take on a nine foot tall Scottish demon because they know that if they get so much as a bruise they're gonna ride to the hospital in a Ferrari and be able to pick up a diamond necklace for the wife on the way home.

He might ask his employees to reverse engineer a cursed amulet, but those paystubs make it all worth it.

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Franz Eybl (1806-1880) "Reading Girl" (1850) Oil on canvas

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"... If you hate pandering go check out Star Trek Discovery, should be right up your alley with all the fan disservice you apparently crave..."

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It is really disturbing how people can lose their humanity and threaten you just because you *checks notes* sentenced their child to death :'(

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Hand painted covers are the best!

They need to go back to the pulpy novel covers. This cover is 🔥 compared to the unsexy ones they use today.