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saw a velvet ant in the wild for the first time, tried to take a picture but it was booking it

they are so cute but such nightmares to photograph. Saw my first thistledown velvet ant a couple weeks ago and she looks like a piece of lint in these photos.

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carmen doodle

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two women. and they kiss. think about it

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If you can eat and drink, sleep in a bed, read these words, and have a bank account—you have the power to help. Don’t stay silent. Do something for Gaza today.

The Sameer Project

Dahnoun Mutual Aid

Mona's Initiative

Hussein Team

Water is Life Gaza

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DONATE TO THE SAMEER PROJECT 🕊️

Mosab Emad Ali, part of the heart of the Sameer Project, was also martyred recently. The organizers could use all the support they can get right now.

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The Sameer Project campaign in the South Gaza needs your support

Their campaign needs about $3,600 to $5,000 every day just to cook 250 meals and prepare 10 pots of lentils or bulgur. Medical work adds another $5,000 every 10 days. Now, water trucks are becoming a top priority—but those come with a hefty price tag too. On top of it all, they have to hire a lot of labor, which has to be paid in cash.

They need to reach at least $10,000 a day for the South campaign to provide some of each of those. Please donate today and share with your family and friends:

Other ways to donate include:

p*ypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "South aid")

account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Ali (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "South aid"

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@inkyfruit

Nothing hits like "romantic couple and a third guy who's not dating either of them but is definitely a part of this dynamic"

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Columbo doodlin’. A little messy but hey, so is he

Bonus car ride

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Anas’ last message to the world

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Once before, I shared the fundraiser for the @palestine-charity-kitchen , but now that charity's founder Ahmed @ahmedgghrabli05 needs your help.

Ahmed worked hard to feed many of his fellow Palestinians, until his original charity kitchen was destroyed by the occupation. Here he is before it was destroyed.

Now Ahmed and his family struggle just to survive.

Ahmed's wife will give birth in 3 months. The conditions in Gaza are incredibly dangerous for her and their child. Hunger, disease, and lack of shelter will impact them greatly.

Ahmed has started a fundraiser for his family to survive, escape Gaza, and get to safety. Today, they were added to @gazavetters list!

✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, #689 ✅️

At time of writing, there are no donations to Ahmed's campaign. Please, share this post and give what you can to help this family! 💚

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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

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first time making a comic like this, and my schedule's been everywhere, so it's a bumpy ride ⍪_⍪ but at least i can move on now o7 i've also been on a bit of a break from social media, but i want to get back to posting more regularly ദ്ദി gotta break the habit of posting like 10 images in one go lol

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love love love when a particularly manipulative character is lying off their ass about something and then throws in one hauntingly genuine line