#30 january 2024

[northgazaupdates]

30 January 2024

Journalist Hossam Shabat reports a gruesome discovery this evening. He writes,

A major crime has been uncovered in northern Gaza. The bodies of citizens were discovered handcuffed with cloth over their eyes, and they had been executed. We found them under a mountain of rubble and garbage.

Resistance News Network on Telegram provides additional details:

🚨 30 bodies left in plastic body bags were discovered in the Khalifa bin Zayed school in Beit Lahia in the northern #Gaza Strip following IOF withdrawal.

All 30 people were executed by the IOF, with their hands tied behind their backs, eyes covered with cloth, and their bodies concealed in zip-up bags buried under the sand by the zionist occupation forces.

[sunshineandlyrics]

Who hurt you Louis? 🤺

Holding on to Heartache, FITFWT Brisbane, 30 January 2024

[chainsawl]

I lost the tumblr post where i got the screenshot from. But ithoughht it was them.

[louiswearbook]

Louis Tomlinson performing in Brisbane, Australia for show #82 of the Faith in the Future World Tour | 30 January 2024

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Stone Island 32519 Nylon Metal in ECONYL®️ Regenerated Nylon Track Pants in Dark Green

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Axel Arigato Marathon R-Trail Sneakers in Black/Dark Gray

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📸 @kealijoanstudios for @scenestr

[59-146houserenovations]

Day 30 - Tuesday 30 January 2024

[royalarchivist]

Fit: Thank you. Thank you for accepting me for who I am, Ramon. Yeah, let’s go, let’s- [realizes Ramon was writing a sign] oops.

Ramon: i’d accept u for anything 💚

Fit: Aw, thank you, Ramon.

Ramon: especially if u marry pac 😊

Fit: [Puts his head in his hands and leans completely off-camera, coming back up after a few long moments with a laugh] Of course, Ramon. If you desire it, child, it shall happen. Uh, but- but maybe more of like a– you know, like a long-term partnership, ‘cuz– Marriage is like a big commitment, Ramon! And there’s also like, tax implications, and like... Um, I would want to have a prenup, obviously, but…

Ramon: spring wedding

Fit: Um.

Ramon: we don't pay tax

[Long silent pause as they stare at each other]

Fit: Yeah, well– You know, it's just—

[Full Clip]

[dogstomp]

Dogstomp #3273 - January 30th

Patreon / Discord Server / Itaku / Bluesky

[card-of-the-day]

Today's Card Is: Yogg-Saron, Hope's End

[nando161mando]

DC! #StoptheMVP!

@antifainternational @anarchistmemecollective @radicalgraff @left-reminders @kropotkindersurprise

[ms-m-astrologer]

The Week Ahead: December 30, 2024 - January 5, 2025

Lunar Phases

Monday, December 30, 22:27 UTC - New Moon, 9°44’ Capricorn

The key phrase for the New lunar phase is “set a new intention for the month” - nothing extreme, just a good habit you think you can establish in one month’s time. Excellent for planning long-term, for adding structure and discipline, and for hard work that pays off.

Friday, January 3, 07:46 UTC - Crescent Moon, 28°23’ Aquarius

The key phrase for the Crescent lunar phase is “gather and mobilize resources.” The Moon happens to be void of course, when this phase matures, so it would be better to wait for her to enter Pisces (15:21 UTC) and then use intuition.

Void of Course Moon

Sunday, December 29, 23:34 UTC (Sagittarius) - Monday, December 30, 04:37 UTC (Capricorn)

Wednesday, January 1, 06:02 UTC (Capricorn) - 10:50 UTC (Aquarius)

Friday, January 3, 04:13 UTC (Aquarius) - 15:21 UTC (Pisces)

Sunday, January 5, 14:30 UTC (Pisces) - 19:01 UTC (Aries)

Retrograde/Direct/Etc.

Pre-retrograde shadow: Juno/Scorpio

Retrograde: Mars/Leo, Jupiter/Gemini, Uranus/Taurus, Eris/Aries

Post-retrograde shadow: Mercury/Sagittarius (until Friday the 3rd), Saturn/Pisces

Transiting Mercury exits its post-retrograde shadow on Friday, January 3, 03:14 UTC, at 22°40’ Sagittarius. Yippee!

Ingresses

Thursday, January 2, 23:09 UTC - transiting Vesta enters Scorpio

Vesta enters her pre-retrograde shadow in a couple of weeks. This first part lays the uneasy groundwork for what lies ahead.

Friday, January 3, 03:24 UTC - transiting Venus enters Pisces

Venus also will enter her pre-retrograde shadow before the transit is complete. There’s a lot of Piscean uncertainty and fog for her, in the next few weeks.

Et Cetera

There are two Opportunity Periods this week:

Monday, December 30, 21:57 UTC - 22:57 UTC. This is one-half hour before and after the Capricorn Mew Moon. “If you have something important to start around now, this is a great time to do it.”

Sunday, January 5, 11:57 UTC - 14:30 UTC. “This Sunday OP is good for play, meditation, helping others, etc.”

Just below here (scroll down a bit!) are some excellent suggestions to take into the Capricorn New Moon. We have a really good chance at success if we’re willing to work hard and be patient. (All that Capricorn stuff!)

Very early Friday, we have the second Mars Rx-Pluto opposition. Please be careful as 2025 gets officially underway! Don’t take any unnecessary physical risks, try to put out vibes of being honest about & with ourselves (before putting the hammer down on others), and have a good outlet for excess physical energy. (I always say, clean the bathroom - maybe excavate the debris in the corners of your room, and throw away what you don’t need any more.)

In the mundane world: It’s interesting that right now as this opposition nears its second pass (of three), some of the DonVict’s supporters are waking up to their idols’ real opinions about them, via the H-1B immigration controversy. The first opposition matured back on November 3 (two days before election day!), when Mars was in Cancer and Pluto was finishing up in Capricorn. The third & final opposition happens Saturday, April 26 - stay tuned!

[moonfromearth]

My Top 24(-ish) Screenshots of 2024!!

Thank you so much for the tag @salemssimblr!! I thought I wouldn't even find 24 screenshots to post but turns out I had more than I thought 😅

January

Me Before Looking Through Archive: I haven't been playing or posting that much so nothing really changed in 2024.

Me After Looking Through Archive: What do you mean Thunder was still a foal in January?? 😨

So this is about when I realized that I had done more during the year than I thought 😆 This tag was actually really good because I've felt bad about how little I did but looking back we actually made a lot of stuff and now I'm happy! 🥰

February

February was a slower month (and about when I started stalling on a big HR edit that didn't get posted until the end of the year 😆😅).

However, I did finished these sims to submit to @bunnithechubs and @butteredfrogs and I still think they're adorable.

March

I was so sad because I thought I didn't do anything with Corey this year but I forgot about the trading cards I can't believe that was just in 2024!! 🤩🤩

Credits to @squea and @butteredfrogs for the challenge and template it was a highlight of my year. So much fun to see everyone's cards and I learned some new editing tricks making them that helped me later in the year 😉

April

I made up the entire cast of the book I was writing that month (to procrastinate working on said book) and I'm so proud of how each of them turned out! Originally I had all of them in here but I ran out of image space so I had to narrow it down 😢

Anyway, the two on the left are the main characters and they look exactly like they do in my head which is so cool. Also the other character on the right turned out awesome. This year I downloaded a lot of wrinkle details to make better adult/elder sims and they look so good I'm so happy with them now and I've even gotten better at using them throughout the year than even here (sorry that was long lol).

May

Thank you again @havenroyals for putting together the simblr MET gala because it produced some of my best screenshots of the year!! 🤩 It was my first time experimenting with deco sims which was fun and I had an amazing time dressing my sims to theme. And giving them after party looks was the best.

Seeing everyone's sims attending the event was just such a good time and a great moment in the community this year 🥰

June

I almost forgot about the music tag that went around this month and these have to be some of my best of the year 😆 It's some of the most editing I've done and I love how they turned out!! These two especially were the best because they translated from concept to actuality so perfect and I can't wait to actually post the stories they're from 🥰🥰

(there are too many good screenshots from this month I didn't even get to the Edgewave submission!! 😭)

July

July I had several sim submissions I did, but this sim for @thebramblewood is my favorite! I finally got to use some of the historical cc that I download once in a while, plus her cane and personality were so clear and I love her (also the post she featured in was amazing thanks again bramblewood!!).

August - September

I moved during August and apparently forgot how to post because it took me forever to get back into it (and I'm still working on consistently posting but that's a problem for 2025 😆).

October

October is my favorite month for posts because of my beloved Slashed challenge by @folkling. I'm too much of a baby to even watch slasher films but these are some of my favorite characters and I have so many scenes with them that I will finally make one day!!

Unfortunately I couldn't fit all of their 2024 makeovers here, so just a few favorites. Carrie our final girl is iconic as always. Her design has been so consistent since I made her the first time with only a few upgrades in skin/blood details. Also Keaton the hunter got a major glow up from his first edition, which I liked the concept of but wasn't in love with the execution of. And Alicia is still one of my favorites she's so cool 😆

Also included is my experiment with my Rose gen sim from the Not So Berry Challenge in a move that re-inspired me to work on the challenge again (coming some time in 2025 😉). I literally went into cas just to put her in these two cc outfits and got totally invested in going back to the challenge 🤣

November

I finally decided to make myself finish the screenshot retakes I'd been putting off since January and I'm so happy with how they came out. So much had to get done for those scenes, from building the competition grounds from scratch, to retaking the screenshots three times, to editing this article about our favorite mysterious benefactor (who I can't wait to write more of)!!

Even though there's some things I'm still not totally happy with, I'm so glad I finally posted it, and proud of the skills I've learned over the year that made it possible (like the trading cards, which taught me new editing tricks that I used in this and some future websites and articles that you'll see next year 😉😉).

December

Aaaaand theres's nothing except this for December (oops 😅).

This reflection actually turned a bit into a gratitude post because I tagged so many people who used my sims or who's challenges I loved (sorry hopefully that wasn't annoying!!). Given how little I worked on my actually gameplay/story this year, it was the challenges made by other talented people here that really kept me involved with the community, and who made all of the creative screenshots I took this year possible. So, thank you to the simblr community for another amazing year (I'd list you all individually but I'd run out of space 😆).

Anyway, a final thank you to anyone who read this, which turned out way longer than it was supposed to be, and turned into a vent about how happy I am that I had more screenshots than I thought (seriously thought I'd only have two months filled in I posted so much more than I expected 😭).

Happy holidays to anyone celebrating and see you next year! ❤️

[northgazaupdates]

Civil Defense rescuer Nooh Al-Shaghnobi is trying to raise funds to evacuate his family from north Gaza. The situation is extremely dangerous, and due to the danger of his work, he is concerned that if anything happens to him, he will no longer be able to provide for his elderly parents. Please consider donating, or share the link.

[sunshineandlyrics]

📢 The announcement by Louis' team before Louis came out to meet the fans after the concert, FITFWT Brisbane, 30 January 2024

[camelspit]

The first Keeper Sexyman pairings are dropping at 9:30 pm est tonight! Interact with this post if you want to be tagged.

[louiswearbook]

Louis Tomlinson meeting fans after his performance in Brisbane, Australia | 30 January 2024

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Neil Barrett Metal Eyelets T-Shirt in Black

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📸 @jjessicafoote

[ldshadowdoodles]

[68] Lizzie lighting the way with a lantern

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