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[rjalker]

Hello,

My name is Aya. I am reaching out from Gaza to seek your help in saving my family. I am raising funds to evacuate my family from war-torn Gaza. Every passing minute endangers our lives and increases our suffering, especially with the constant bombing and the lack of food and water supply. 😞😞 Please, extend a hand to save our souls and make the world hear our cry. 💔

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Best regards,

Aya

https://gofund.me/4f615392

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For every $10 donated, I will create a public domain character design! Send your donation receipt and design requests, and check my pinned post for more info!

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tldr: the crime itself happened but a crowd cheering was likely made up by the writer potentially for malicious reasons#What happened was an awful ceime that we shouldn't ignore#but to suggest that we stand alone against the world is baseless and damning fearmongering#In many places we stand against the law yes#but we all should know by now that the law represents neither the public at large nor our allies in particular

This is where we are. Anti-trans pogroms have begun and the community is living in fear. Things are so bad that some of us are unable to live anymore.

Where is the left? Where are our allies?

#TDoR2024

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maybe someday we'll convince our mom to get a pet pigeon instead of a parrot.

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free crochet pigeon pattern

original page (Archived link)

PDF link here. (Archived link)

if you follow the original pattern with the yarn sizes and stuff it's 15 inches or 38 centimeters tall.

Basic pattern with symbols to simplify, no color change suggestions so you can do whatever you want:

Body: End all rows with a slip stitch and a chain 1 to start the next row.

Chain 2, 6 single crochets into the first chain. Or use a magic circle. But I don't like them.

VVV

IV

IIV

IIIV

IIIIV

IIIIIV

IIIIII(6)V

III

III

IIIIIII(7)V

III. Place a stitch marker in the 7th, and 18th stitches to mark where the legs will go. (Or don't)

III

IIIIIIII(8)V

III

III

III

III(30)X.III(11)X. Place a stitch marker for the tail. X. Repeat III(11),X, until end of row.

III(30)X.III(7)XXXX III(7)X

III

III(39)X. III(8)

III

III(27) Repeat until the end of the row: X.IIIII.

III

III

III(7)X.

III. Place stitch markers in the 6th and 26th stitches for the wings. Or don't. You can always just…wing it.

III(7). IX, IX, IX, IX, I, repeating. Add filler.

III

III

III(27).XIX

III

III

III

III

III

III

III

IIIIIIII(8)X.

III

III

III(7)X.

III

IIX

IX

XXX Close with drawstring method, cutting a tail (does Not have to be super long despite the original instructions). Use your hook to pull the tail through the top loop of each remaining stitch, pulling it toward the center. When you get all the way around the circle, pull the tail to close it, then secure with a slip stitch anywhere.

Tail:

Chain 2. 4sc into the 2nd chain from the hook.

III

VI

III

VI

III

VI

VI

Back loops only if you're fancy: III

BLOIYF: III

BLOIYF: III

VIIIII(5)

VIIIIII(6)

III

III

VIII

III

III

IIIIII(6)VVV III(12)VVV. III

III. Place marker in 18th stitch for tail placement. Fasten off and cut long tail for sewing in. Add filling. Line up the markers on the tail and body and sew together.

MY simplified wing.

Chain 2. 6sc into 1st stitch.

VVV

18 rows of just plain single crochet.

5 rows with 1 decrease each.

Fasten off and leave a tail for weaving.

actually the original pattern for the wings is so obnoxiously overcomplicated and over-written I'm not even gonna write it out. sorry not sorry.

Thighs:

Chain 2. 6sc into 1st stitch.

IV

IIV

IIV

IIIV

III

III

III

IIIIV

IIIII(5)V

III

III Fasten off leaving a long tail for sewing.

Feet:

Chain 2. 6sc into 1st stitch.

III

III

III

III

III

II, Chain 5. 1sc into 2nd chain from hook. III. Repeat 3 times to make the toes. single crochet in last stitch. Fasten off, leaving long tail for sewing.

Legs:

Ch2. 6sc in 1st stitch.

Chain 5. 1sc into 2nd chain from the hook. 1sc into the next 3 chains. Slip stitch into the next sc. Repeat 3 times. Fasten off.

Beak:

Chain 2. 6sc into 1st stitch.

III

III.

Fasten off with a long tail for sewing. fill beak.

Sew the beak onto the face.

Add some white detailing to the top base of the beak for fanciness with whatever the heck a satin stitch is.

Eyes: Chain 2. 8sc into 1st chain. That's it. Fasten it off. With a little bit of white yarn, ~satin stitch~ triangle highlights into the eye. Or just change color for the last stitch around but whatevs.

Attach everything.

There you go you have a pigeon now.

[rjalker]

there was a scientist in my dream named Ga Brae, pronounced "Guh bray".

Possibly he was an evil scientist. I couldn't tell.

There were also for-sure evil overlord people made of metal....I hope, who would do a whole bunch of evil crap, and then order a tiny bit of molten lead to be poured into their head to erase the memory of the evil stuff they'd done so that they didn't have to feel bad about it. They lived on top of a giant furnace/smelter/idk what you call it.

Also, some of the metal they used to erase their memories turned into a little spark of fire and came alive and then was able to shift between the spark form and the molten metal form and was a little tiny vampire.

Ga Brae lived with his wife (whose name I didn't learn) and their baby daughter (whose name I also didn't learn) in a little cabin in the woods, and the little molten vampire found their house and decided the baby was a really good source of food as long as it didn't get caught.

But it left little round burn marks on the baby's skin, so obviously that was noticed, and Ga Brae's wife accused him of experimenting on their daughter, since he worked with the giant evil overlords and she knew he helped design the metal and stuff for them.

They were arguing about this and the little fire vampire decided well the jig is up, and decided to possess the baby entirely so that it could get it somewhere else where people wouldn't be able to interfere with its feeding.

So it phased into the baby's chest and transformed it into a weird, very wrinkly mutated bat looking thing, with the arms that match a bat's wing, but without the webbing, and not as fragile. Extremely wrinkly, with a big sticky outy bat nose.

The vampire-possessed baby climbed out the window and jumped into a tree, then just kept jumping from tree to tree like a little frog.

Eventually the parents realized the baby was gone and ran out to look for her, but did not think of looking up the 50+ft trees, so they never found her.

The vampire possessing the baby managed to keep itself and the no-longer baby hidden for years out in the wildness living in a cave and stuff. As the baby grew up, the vampire grew up with it, gaining more intelligence and understanding of things outside of "want food, protect food".

At some point the doctor from The Mad Monster found them while on a hike and was like hey I know a vampire when I see one, come here and I'll help you both. And convinced the vampire to un-possess the now-teenager and feed on him instead. He brought the kid to the local village to get help, and then went on his merry way with the vampire sustainably feeding off of him.

feel free to use any or all of this as a writing prompt. Public domain because I said so.

(the reason I couldn't tell if Ga Brae was evil or not was that he might have been trying to poison the evil overlords, but I couldn't tell if it was to stop them becuase they're evil or because he wanted their job for himself)

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Hello everyone, I hope everyone is well. I have re-shared my story and I hope that this time it will receive more interaction and that a donation will be made to me, even a small amount, knowing that the total donations so far do not exceed 245 euros out of a goal of 55,000 euros. Believe me, we suffer a lot. We lost our home and our job, and now we don't even have food. Donate to me for my children. Donate to us to survive and survive

https://gofund.me/02d4dfa1

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Dear reader,

I am Hanan Al-Qazzaz, wife of Hossam Al-Qazzaz, from Gaza, and this is our story

I am writing to you at a very difficult time. The war that swept through our region left us with no choice but to face the painful reality. My house was demolished, I lost my job, my children were separated, and we were living in tents under harsh conditions.

Our health situation is at risk. My mother suffers from high blood pressure, and her health condition is deteriorating. My father suffered serious burns and is now in intensive care, which increases our anxiety and pain. We have four children, Bashar, Hani, Diana, and Habiba, and my last daughter was born during this war just one month ago.

We urgently need your help. Every donation, no matter how small, can make a real difference in our lives. We are looking for hope and support in these difficult times, and we hope you can lend us a helping hand.

I love you very much, and I hope that you will stand with us in this ordeal. Thank you for everything you can provide.

With sincere regards,

Hossam Al-Qazzaz

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https://www.gofundme.com/f/From-Gaza-donate-for-us

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For every $10 donated, I will create a public domain character design! Send your donation receipt and design requests, and check my pinned post for more info!

[rjalker]

Why does this keep happening?

[ID: An MS Paint drawing showing a scribbled hand holding up a grey square labeled, "A. Square, everything wrong with society", with the person holding up the square saying from offscreen, "This is the narrator, A. Square. He's a horrible person who's wrong about everything. He supports eugenics, slavery, the oppression of women, and the murder of children." Across the image is a cartoon face with big eyes with dilated pupils and sparkles, labeled, "(too many people), grinning and saying, He's right about everything and has never done anything wrong in his life!". End ID.]

The reason Ladd Ehlinger glossed over all of the politics from the novel is that if he criticized A Square's bigotry, he'd have to criticize himself. Because he's a racist misogynistic conservative who thinks feeding school kids is the same thing as slavery and that black people are all violent and if we don't jail them at disproportionate rates they'll just go around killing people all the time.

This also applies to the fandom if people are gonna keep woobifying A. Square and pretend he's "just a silly guy" while ignoring all of the politics of the story.

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I need live action television in particular to have groups of friends going out and doing like, karaoke or something, and one or more or most of the group is singing off key or out of sync with the song and literally no one comments on it or makes a big deal out of it because most normal every day people are not going to be starring on American Idol or have been enrolled in singing lessons.

I want a friend group where a main character starts singing "badly" and no one bats an eye or makes fun of them and everyone's just enjoy themselves and joining in because singing is meant to be a fun social thing even if you're not a fucking flawless opera singer.

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the Saga is in beta >:)

Create the Wolf Quest propaganda you want to see in the world.

Check out the official Wolf Quest youtube channel!

[ID: The Geordi La Forge version of the yes/no meme format.

The "No" section reads, with Geordi holding up a hand disapprovingly:

"Buying the newest unplayably broken Pokemon game for $60 and showing game companies that they can treat their employees like shit and sell literally unplayable games and people will still throw money at them"

The "Yes" section reads, with Geordi pointing in approval:

"Buying Wolf Quest Anniversary Edition for $20 and helping to support people who actually care about making a good game and love wolves and want to educate the public to dispel myths about wolves being pests and making sure people can have fun and play a game they can enjoy over and over again

End ID.]

Buy Wolf Quest 3/Anniversary Edition, $20:

"https://eduweb.itch.io/wolfquest"

Buy the Lost River map, $12: (Just released yesterday 12/15/22!!!)

"https://eduweb.itch.io/wolfquest/purchase?sub_product_id=17"

Buy the Wolf Quest Original Soundtrack, including 84 tracks so far, for $10:

"https://eduweb.itch.io/wolfquest-music"

Or you can just donate directly to them!

"https://fundly.com/wolfquest#"

I literally cannot stress to you enough how much these people care about this game. I cannot. They apologized for making the game cost $20 instead of $15 like the original that was made in 2003 was.

Edit:

Oh also I forgot, it has multiplayer, too! You can play with your friends!

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imagine if instead of a live action remake for HTTYD they actually did an animated television series where each season was a miniseries covering the events of one of the books in exquisite, stylized detail?

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if you blame addicts or people using drugs recreationally for making ur medicine harder to get instead of blaming the war on drugs and the stigma against people that use drugs then you are a dick and are also directly siding with the people who are making your meds harder to access

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[ID: a screenshot of a Tumblr post by midwinter-dream, showing a snowy owl with a nest in a tree with three owlets, with the adult owl using its wings to cover the owlets from the falling snow.

The adult owl's wings are shaped and contorted in an impossible position so they look more like shoulder pads, it has no visible beak and instead a repeating grey v pattern on the center of its face, and the owlet's faces are distorted and are a strange, airbrushed grey.

This video is AI generated. It is not tagged by the OP as AI.

Do not reblog it thinking it is real, please.

If an owl was actually trying to shield their chicks from the weather, they would literally just sit on them.

Snowy owls also next on the ground, not trees.

Here's some real life pictures of baby snow owls in all of their hilarious, bedraggled glory:

[ID: a photograph of a snowy owl on a ground nest. It is laying in the nest and looking directly at the camera, with a clearly visible black beak. Im front of it in the next are three snowy owl chicks which are dark grey with their faces not fully covered so their beaks look very large in comparison. End ID]

[ID: a photo of a different snowy owl on the ground with two snowy owlets. The ground is gravel, and the adult owl is perched with its wings partially spread, visible from the side. The two owlets in the picture are facing away from the camera, sitting underneath their parent as two fuzzy grey shapes. End ID]

There is an excellent BBC Documentary narrated by Paul Mcgann if you want more details about them.

Tw: animal predation, blood

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anybody want to volunteer to make a subtitle file for The Mad Monster 1942? (HD on the internet archive)

I made a transcript of all of the dialogue

and we have an automatically generated subtitle file started that can be use as a base and just needs editing.

All of the above are public domain, I'm trying to make a version of the videos that's as HD as possible, has the correct subtitles, and maybe has better audio quality if I can figure that out, so people can watch it for free in the best quality possible.

I also novelized it lol, that will get uploaded soon.

well, next time now I know to just write the timestamps for the dialogue and do that first before doing literally anything else...

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

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Color planning template for my crochet rabbit pattern. which you could easily turn into any other animal by changing the ears lol.

Download and color in to make your design. If you're really into it you can also add vertical stripes to show individual stitches.

[ID: A black and white MS Paint diagram of different parts of a crochet stuffed animal: four limbs, which are ovals with two bars across the top, a body and head combined, and two ovals for the rabbit ears, each with lines going across. A large black arrow points upward, noting, "All made from the bottom up", and has extra lines next to it for copying and pasting. Text at the bottom reads, "November 20 2024 planner / template for crochet rabbit". The bottom of each ear and limb is marked, "start", with "attach point" at the top. The bottom of the ears is also marked "top of ear'. End ID.]

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you’d think she’d be better at this by now

[video id: kamala harris is at a podium giving a speech. she says “we are fighting for america“ when she is interrupted by someone in the crowd shouting “no more gaza war” she tries to restart a few times but there is booing and shouting from the crowd. she tries to wait for the protestors to stop but looks increasingly helpless and desperate before giving up. end id]

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Hello how are you

‎‏Please see the latest post on my account, and thank you very much for your kindness and generosity

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