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do not let up the pressure

https://yellat.money/

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Helpful and Preventative Stretches for Writers, Artists, and Gamers 💪🎨✍🎮

If you type, write, draw, game, or generally use your hands a lot (especially if you’re prone to RSI or Carpal Tunnel!) try these stretches as both a preventative measure, and on the spot relief. Take care of yourself and your body, friends!

Start with hands up, fingers stretched out.  Stretch your thumb as far as you can over your palm. Hold and repeat 4 times.

Touch each finger to your thumb. Hold each for 30 seconds. Repeat on each hand 4 times.

Start with a fist. Open half way, hold for 2 seconds. Stretch fingers out, hold for 2 seconds. Repeat 4 times.

Start with one arm out, palm up. Pull your fingers back with your other hand. Hold for 10 seconds. Do the same with your other hand. Repeat 4 times

Start with arms up, palms out. Bend wrists down until you feel the stretch, but keep your fingers loose. Hold 10 seconds. Bend wrist upwards, until you feel it in your wrist and arm. Hold 10 seconds. Repeat 4 times.

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Hey guys let me tell you about advance fee scams

I hope y'all are familiar with these in this day and age, especially my artists out there, because they're incredibly common.

About half an hour ago I posted a drawing and tagged it #artists on tumblr, and very quickly received this comment.

My scam radar went off immediately, due to the generic blog name and lack of any emotion in the comment, but I decided it might be an entertaining venture so I dmed them. They asked for a drawing "of these", and sent me a random selfie. I got the details and told them it would be $15, and they promptly offered me $300. At this point I know it's a scam, but I play along for funsies and give them my paypal. Shortly, they send me this image for "confirmation" (I blocked out my email)

And they began to insist that I checked my email. I looked in my spam folder and found the following email.

This is fake. This is not a thing. And the "you're to refund the $200.00 back" is the scam. They send vaguely official-looking emails at you to "prove" that they sent you the money, then have you send them $200 (or however much the scam is for). Then, surprise surprise, you're out $200.

I continued to play along for a bit, and in the second email "Paypal" told me that I had to refund the $200 before they could "credit the $300 to my account", along with these lovely threats.

And yeah, it's silly. But it's not silly if you don't know and get scammed. So. Spread, please! And thank you very much to @mlaurel for the opportunity to get these screenshots.

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Gaige the mechromancer is a character of all time. She's an anarchist. She's an honour student. She's a podcaster. She murdered a rich classmate (by accident) AND a fascist tech CEO (on purpose). She's a treasure hunter. She's a wedding planner. She cut her own arm off for science. She's a daddy's girl. Her best friend is a murder robot she built that she regularly flirts with and calls "babe." She's constantly yelling sci-fi references. She has a bounty on her head in the billions. She's got adhd AND autism. She's even a my little pony fan

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Exalted: Aspect Book - Earth ~ White Wolf (2004)

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yeah this is where this was always gonna fuckin go, unfortunately

she’s 35 years old, by the way

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the People cheer to see their god-forged Champion of war stride across the battlefield, eight and a half feet of gilt-bronze muscle, shaved-brass curls cascading down to her thighs. her shoulders flex, her tegmina part, and her Semiotic Flare Projectors slide out, great filmy orichalcum fins that unfold to double, and then triple, her height, shivering wetly for a moment before stiffening to attention as they come online. test patterns flare across their lengths in fiery magenta-yellow-cyan, rippling stripes, starbursts and arrows, and then lettering: not prayers to Debok Moom or a mocking avete vos thrown at the chittering gremlinized horde, but her own name, in elegant Old Realm cuneiform, in swirling Autochthonic calligraphy, in Mercenary alphasyllabics. Brazen Incandescence Howitzer. Brazen Incandescence Howitzer. the soldiers are screaming it now, beating their shields with every pulse, hammering their pikes upon the ground.

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there's been a bunch of buzz about switching/dumping streaming services lately for a lot of reasons, which feels like a good time to mention: this friday (august 1st) is a bandcamp friday!

for the uninitiated, bandcamp friday means the site doesn't take their usual cut, and the artist you're buying from gets it all. it's like an inverse of spotify's business model.

moving away from streaming services costs some convenience, of course, but it's also a lot harder for the whims of a platform or payment processor to zap a folder full of mp3s off of your devices! consider it!

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Begging all the freaks (affectionate) I follow TO PLEASE TAG YOUR FREAK SHIT. Please. PLEASE. I'm really sick of running into porn I'm super not into because it bypassed my filters. I don't wanna have to unfollow or block you.

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FINALLY got around to dumping Spotify after their CEO continued to prove he's a fresh turd. (As if being a billionaire, not paying musicians, shoving AI garbage at us, and having an atrocious carbon footprint wasn't bad enough, he's now the chair of a AI-based weapons manufacturing company.)

I used TuneMyMusic ($24 annual fee you can cancel immediately, effectively paying only once) to transfer almost every single song from our Spotify account to Tidal. Tidal already has much better sound quality and they pay their artists much better. It migrated over 99% of our music, too, so there wasn't a huge loss.

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Hope you're sitting down to receive the SHOCKING NEWS that ICE Gestapo lied through their teeth about protestors they arrested in LA in June!

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This post was honestly too perfect not to attribute it to her.

(x)

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Finally finished this maaaaassive piece for Whiplash :D Meet Surrus, a Solar with an affinity for the sun, and one hell of a fighter

#exalted #art

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Reading the new checks that might come in due to the Online Safety Act in the UK and this is actually bullshit

[Image Transcript:

And how will I prove my age?

There’s a number of methods a site or app might use to ask you to confirm your age. They might do this check themselves or use another company to do the check. These methods include:

Facial age estimation – you show your face via photo or video, and technology analyses it to estimate your age. 

Open banking – you give permission for the age-check service to securely access information from your bank about whether you are over 18. The age-check service then confirms this with the site or app.

Digital identity services – these include digital identity wallets, which can securely store and share information which proves your age in a digital format.

Credit card age checks – you provide your credit card details and a payment processor checks if the card is valid. As you must be over 18 to obtain a credit card this shows you are over 18.

Email-based age estimation – you provide your email address, and technology analyses other online services where it has been used – such as banking or utility providers - to estimate your age.  

Mobile network operator age checks – you give your permission for an age-check service to confirm whether or not your mobile phone number has age filters applied to it. If there are no restrictions, this confirms you are over 18. 

Photo-ID matching – this is similar to a check when you show a document. For example, you upload an image of a document that shows your face and age, and an image of yourself at the same time – these are compared to confirm if the document is yours.

End Transcript.]

Not only is this such a fucking breach of privacy, but this is going to hurt adults in vulnerable and abusive situations. Some adults don’t have bank accounts or credit cards or even a fucking phone. I’m one of them. I could not give half of this information even if I wanted to. What the fuck is this. Fuck the UK government. This isn’t going to protect kids, this is just going to hurt adults, and I know full well when they say “sites that allow pornography” they’re going to be going after sites that have huge amounts of queer content, like tumblr and Ao3. Queer kids are gonna lose their fucking communities because of this shit. Abuse victims are going to lose online support systems because of this.

I’m genuinely fucked off about this, and worried about whether I’m going to lose every single one of my online friends. Anyone in the UK, please email your MP and sign this petition. It needs to reach 100k signatures to pass through Parliament.

I’m only hoping the backlash will be big enough for them to stop implementing these measures.

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The EVIL QUEEROTICA BUNDLE That Kills You

me n my buddies were about to do an EVIL curated itchio bundle a couple days ago, but it took us a few to set this up instead. theres no payment involved now, just promoting EVIL scary sexy games

click the link for a full description and get your hands on all the deleted games

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Every queer friend group got the:

- invulnerable butch herbo

- luscious dark elf gun for hire

- profesional wizard athlete with unclassified spells

- government official with rare magic

- fat goblin witch