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Tiktok algorithm no one will ever understand me like you did my beloved </3

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Buggie :)

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Sorry to all my followers I will be posting hella tiktoks for the next few days to save them somehow. Please mute until monday if it is bothersome thank youu

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since mrs, ms, and mr are all descended from the latin word magister, i propose the gender neutral version should be mg, short for "mage"

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y'all ever reach the end of google

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I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.

I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."

Feel free to repost, no need for credit

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Other accounts:

bone-hymn (usually poetry, art stuff, and misc)

LoversLoch (fnaf, tma, fanart, ocs, nsfw? )

—Idk i mainly just reblog on whatever account feels right lol—

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Y’all I used

“Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves.”

In therapy the other day,

Someone was fronting the that day and they didn’t have the right interface for the body so every usually automatic thing—like breathing-stopped working as they tried to be in front enough to speak with our therapist.

I was like “fuck, I need to make our body work how??” When I was focusing too hard they couldn’t communicate so I had a thought of “i need something thats focused, repetitive, and non-invasive”

So I started chanting away “Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves.” in the background ask they tried communicating and it worked???

I was able to fade back enough to give them space to communicate and still keep the body working.

:,) yay!

Lol thanks slay the princess development team for accidentally creating a grounding / make body work again strategy for my system.

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Dear people who have spoiled the new Minecraft live announcements for me:

Booo!!! BOOO!!!

You suck!!! Not even a single second of “in the new Minecraft live they said…” no! Just automatically in the thumbnails and the first words in the shorts and comments and titles?!

Ive been avoiding spoilers about the chambers for so long and haven’t even gotten the chance to explore them yet and one day in after Minecraft live every YouTuber decides to put the coolest thing in the thumbnail?? Bro I would’ve been so….

Spoiler below cut

…Freaked out to see that creature in game if I didn’t know it was in there (no i don’t want to know what it does) and the new biome (all ive seen are the trees and sky) ugh im so disappointed

Like you could’ve did the silhouette?? And said something vague like “new mob” in the titles/thumbnails but noooo. I didn’t even have to click anything to be spoiled.

Ugh anyways I might try and play some Minecraft and explore the chambers/the newest update soon so I can finally start watching YouTube videos about it again.

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Apollo Citharoedus

Roman marble

Copy from the first half of the 1st century CE after an Hellenistic original.

Museo nazionale romano di palazzo Altemps, Role, Italy

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My Experience Buying eSIMs for Gaza by Maia Kobabe

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Full transcript below the cut:

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My Experience Buying eSIMs for Gaza 

Project organized by @ connectinghumanity_

by Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks 

Page 1 

In Fall 2023, I saw instructions on instagram for how to purchase an eSIM card and submit it to be distributed to someone in Gaza. 

Download an eSIM app-> Select Middle East as the region-> Purchase-> Screenshot the QR code-> Do not activate-> send to gazaesims@gmail.com 

Image of Maia looking at eir phone. “That sounds easy, I’ll buy one.” 

I emailed an Airalo eSIM QR code to gazaesims on Nov 17 2023. 

Page 2

By January 2024, it hadn’t been activated yet. I bought a second one from Nomad and sent my new QR code and resubmitted my old one. 

Image of Maia looking at eir phone. “How long does this usually take, I wonder?” 

By February neither had been activated, but Connecting Humanity kept posting about needing more. I bought a second Nomad and resubmitted all of them on February 15, 2024. 

Page 3

The Nomad eSIMs are much cheaper than Airalo, but what I didn’t realize is that they expire even if they haven’t been activated. At the end of February I decided to try a third company, Simly. Here’s a price comparison: 

AIRALO: $39 USD for 3GB, never expires 

SIMLY: $22 USD for 3GB, never expires 

NOMAD: $16 USD for 3GB, expires after 8 weeks even if unused, only offers in-app refunds 

Page 4

Connecting Humanity asks folks to wait at least 3 weeks before resending a QR code that hasn’t been activated yet. On March 7 Mirna Elhelbawi posted: 

We send EVERY esim we receive. Bear in  mind that we are dealing with people at a war zone. They might take it and get killed before activating it, they might take it and their phone gets lost or destroyed. They might take it and search for days for stable internet connection to activate it, and some of them activate it unsuccessfully due to lack of knowledge and the horrific situations they are in. ~Connecting Gaza 

By early April, my first Nomad eSIM expired unused. I resubmitted my three remaining eSIMs. 

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Suddenly, two of my eSIMs were activated on the same day! The Airalo I’d purchased 4.5 months earlier and my second Nomad. 

Image of Maia looking happy and surprised. 

Image of Maia looking very intensely at eir phone. “I have to make sure these don’t run out!” 

I began buying top-up packages immediately. 

Page 6

I felt like I had planted a seed in the fall and waited all winter for it to sprout. Seeing it activated was like watching the first new leaves break the soil. 

Image of Maia with a watering can labeled “data”, sprinkling water on two little sprouts. “Watering my eSIMs!” 

Sadly, only .07 GB of data was ever used on my Nomad. It was never used again after that first day. 

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But my Airalo has been in constant use for over a month now. I check on it every day. 

I will never know the person I am buying data for and they will never know me. But we are connected by the same strings of hope and grief that connect us all. 

Image of two hands holding a phone, which is connected to a flying kite. 

Page 8

On April 5, 2024 Connecting Humanity reported they had sent more than 250,000 eSIMs to Gaza, equivalent to approximately $6.3 million donated! You can visit gazaesims.com for more info, instructions, and discounts. Here are my referral codes: 

MAIA5367 for $3 off Airalo 

MB772 for $3 off Simly 

MAIA66GF for $3 off Nomad 

If you need more incentive, the Cartoonist Coop is doing art rewards. Visit cartoonist.coop/esims4gaza 

Page 9

Image of Maia, weighing two options. “Buying an eSIM is easy and can make a very direct impact. It can also take a lot of patience and could get expensive over time if you commit to keeping the eSIM topped up indefinitely.” 

If an immediate one time donation is more your speed, I recommend Operation Olive Branch and Gazafunds, two places to find Gofundmes aiding Palestinian families. 

gazafunds.com

@ operationolivebranch on insta

linktr.ee/opolivebranch 

-Maia Kobabe 2024