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Personal Assistant - EARLY ACCESS

Upgrade your Sims' lives with the revolutionary "Personal Assistant" mod! Introducing a sophisticated helper that not only autonomously manages household chores but also offers a range of interactive tasks to make your Sims' lives more exciting and dynamic. Your personal assistant is a hirable NPC from the 'home' icon in your phone.

Please read entire description!

Key Features:

Autonomous Household Management:

Your personal assistant takes care of the basics, from taking out the trash to reading to toddlers and infants, ensuring a clean and nurturing environment for your Sims.

Rapport System:

Each interaction will cost a certain amount of rapport you have with the personal assistant. You can gain rapport with the personal assistant by praising them and giving them tips. You can lose rapport by reprimanding the personal assistant. Each task will have a specific rapport level needed for the personal assistant to complete the task.

Access a menu to choose specific tasks for your personal assistant, including:

Write Blog Post:

Let the assistant craft engaging blog posts, with a chance to earn your Sims some extra Simoleons based on the post's success. Requires 75 rapport.

Sell Canvas Painting:

Your personal assistant can market and sell finished canvas paintings, contributing to your Sims' financial prosperity. If the personal assistant fails to make a sale, they will become frustrated and try again. Requires 80 rapport.

Water Plants:

Keep your garden flourishing by instructing the assistant to water plants regularly. Requires 30 rapport.

Cook Food:

Delegate meal preparation to the assistant, ensuring your Sims enjoy delicious homemade dishes. Requires 90 rapport.

Order Groceries:

Simplify shopping by having the personal assistant order groceries for your Sims. Requires 75 rapport.

Pay Bills:

Ensure bills are paid on time without any hassle, as your personal assistant takes care of financial responsibilities. Requires 50 rapport.

Check Email:

Stay connected and informed by having your assistant check and manage your Sims' emails. Requires 30 rapport.

Check Social Media:

Stay up-to-date with the virtual world by monitoring and updating your Sims' social media accounts. Requires 30 rapport.

How to Use:

Hire an NPC Personal Assistant through the phone under the 'home' icon.

Choose from a variety of tasks and interactions to tailor your assistant's actions to your Sims' preferences and needs. You can select up to six, and you may also revoke the task by clicking it again to deselect.

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Public access 2/13

[emptydoorways]

COMMISSIONS OPEN!

Hey everyone! My commissions are officially open! You can check out the picture below for the basic price info, and see everything under the cut for everything else!!

PRICE INFO:

BASE PRICES:

Headshot: $5

Bust: $10

Half-Body: $15

Full Body: $20

COLOUR PRICES:

Sketch: + $0

Lineart: + $10

Flat Colours: + $15

Shading + Colour: + 25

NOTE: These prices DO stack! Let's say you wanted to commission a half-body lineart! A half-body commission is $15 at its base price, and adding the lineart price on top of that is an additional $10. Your commission would come out to be $25 total.

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ADD-ONS:

Any extra characters will be an additional 50% of your total. If you wanted a full colour bust commission of 2 characters, it would be $47.50 [Full colour + Bust price + 50% of that total price]

BACKGROUNDS:

Flat Colour: + $0

Simple Pattern: + $5

Simple Scene: + $10

Detailed Scene: + $15

NOTE: When it comes to total commission price, the background price is separate. The background price will not affect the 50% Extra Character fee.

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WILL:

- Anthro/Furry, Pokémon, Humans, and Ponies (MLP)

- Character reference sheets

- Fanart/Canon Characters, and Original Characters

- Ships (OC x OC, OC x Canon, Canon x Canon)

- Mild blood, bones, and any kind of scars

WILL NOT:

- Full Armour or Mechs

- Fetish/NSFW, or heavy/extreme gore

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T.O.S.

I, AS THE ARTIST...

- Maintain the rights to post my work in any form.

- Maintain the rights to post (WATERMARKED) commissions as marketing, so long as the client does not request otherwise.

- Maintain the rights to decline or cancel any commission, so long as payment has not been received. If payment has been received, I, the artist, will issue a full refund.

YOU, AS THE CLIENT...

- May NOT use my work in a commercial setting, regardless of how it is used. This includes prints, stickers, buttons, keychains, etc.

- May NOT feed my art into AI of any kind, or use my art to generate other AI works.

- May request changes and edits during the sketch and lineart phase. I will send progress pictures of both.

- May post your commission to your own social media or website, so long as I am credited or linked back to somewhere.

- May use your commission as an avatar, banner, icon, etc. so long as I am credited or linked back to somewhere.

- May crop, edit, or resize the commission to your liking. However, if you are sharing it publicly, please credit and/or link back to me.

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HOW TO REACH ME

discord: @emptydoorways

tumblr: @emptydoorways

tiktok: @emptydoorways

email: emptydoorways@gmail.com

ACCEPTED PAYMENTS

I do request that payment is given up front once the commission is confirmed. If you are not comfortable with this, please tell me, and I am willing to negotiate.

I take PayPal and Venmo!

If you don't have access to either, we can negotiate other routes of payment.

You can also donate to my Ko-Fi for tips!

HOW TO ORDER

Please do not dm me just going "hi!", or something similar. I will ignore any sort of messages such as this. If you are interested in buying a commission, please message me stating that you are looking to commission, and send a filled out order form for what you would like to buy. We can discuss other details after confirming your commission. :-]

ORDER FORM

Payment Type:

Commission Type:

Reference Image(s):

Details (Pose, Expression, etc):

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SOME OF MY WORK!

[atlafanzine]

Mod Applications Now Open.

We are in the process of creating an ATLA fanzine where all the proceeds go to Care for Gaza. As of now, we are recruiting mods to help run the project. Undercut you will find links to each application form as well as a brief description on the responsibilities of each mod. The application period ends on the 29th of May, meaning you have 2 weeks to apply.

hyperlink to application form on the bold text

Co-Head Mod - keeping everyone else on schedule, ensuring future tasks are covered ahead of time, having an overall vision of what the project can become. Think project management!

Graphics Mod - Creating the graphics, icons, headers, edits and carrd for social media. Working closely with the communications and marketing mods.

Social Media/External Communications Mod - Managing the different social media sites, answering any questions by applicants and buyers via social media and email.

Discord/Internal Communications Mod - Setting up discord, discord posts and managing contributor emails.

Marketing Mod - Coming up with new ideas to keep the zine at the top of people's minds during periods where there is not a lot of activity, works closely with the external communications mod and graphic mod.

Supplier Mod - Sourcing quotes, negotiating prices, evaluating suppliers, and staying on top of your chosen suppliers for both merch and the zine itself.

Fulfilment Mod - Receiving, inspecting, and packing all the products for shipment. Someone who has the time to spare.

Finance Mod - Co-managing the PayPal account, budgeting, help guide prices, keeping track of expense.

Artists/Writer Admin - Managing artist/writer contributors, managing their details and check-ins. This is a two person position, one admin will be looking after the artists and one the writers. Both admins should work together to keep track of buyers orders when the time comes.

[pawborough]

June 2024 Check In

Hello everyone! Happy update day! 

First off, Alpha news! 

We are closing applications Monday 06/17 at midnight EST! We will be taking the time then to sort through applications and hand out acceptance emails. 

Currently we are working on player markets and forums. We’ll describe more on those in the Development section of this update! But here is what we have left before the full loop is complete:

Site Markets (very similar to player markets.)

Cooking / Crafting 

Farming 

Item Seeding (inputting item gains with the how and where) 

And then that's it for a full loop! We are very close to finished! No date yet, as we're hesitant to overpromise in case anything goes wrong, but we’re on track to wrap up with a start date by the end of this month. 

There have been a lot of bumps and unexpected new challenges during our development. Particularly, different team members being infected by Covid at different times. But we’re all very excited for how close things are going! We’ve come a long way, and the game sports many things we can say that we're proud of! 

FAQ Update 

We posted a small sub-update in the form of an updated FAQ! Kickstarter does not let us edit the FAQ tab on this page, but backers may read our new and improved FAQ: 

Here! 

Update on Moontails: 

So far, Moontails are completely done save for a single gene illustration and glow colors. 

Moontails were a heavier task because we dedicated ourselves to five different wing colors per palette. This meant that we had to hand pick over 1100 more hex codes! However, those are done!

Here are some examples of palettes we made with this five-color system: 

Nutmeg, Ocean, Oak, Chameleon, Wolfsbane, Arctic, Vanilla

We call these palettes the "appendage palette." This means that, in the future, these colors will sometimes accentuate custom mystic traits. For example: a fish tail, horns, or wings!

We don't know when these will be completed, but we’re starting file formatting now! To be clear, Longhairs started file formatting about two weeks before they went on the site. 

And when Moontails go up, any errors of the other breeds should be fixed. We’ve been slowly updating the queue, including writing a script for catching and fixing white coverage problems, and our next push should have everything covered! 

Asset Updates

Users have noticed little tweaks to the mystic breeds. This is true! We've slightly updated the Bovines and Fyrets before allowing them to enter the queue. 

Bovines

Fyrets

+ previews on experimental eye coloring!

These breeds have entered the queue!

New Backdrops!

New backdrops! 

The Metropolis Outskirts 

Illustration by Giulia (@giuliabiazus on Instagram)

(That's Cogwheel in the back!) 

Cogwheel Outskirts 

Illustration by Kzart

Cogwheel and Metropolis, being right next to each other and cross-sharing the majority of their populations, have largely similar architectural, color, and cultural aesthetics. We're excited to explore the differences as we render out more inner-location backdrops. 👁️⚙️

And with that, that's all our Outskirts backdrops! We’ll be working on a few more individual backdrops, then move onto the inner locations! 

Incense

We’ve completed icons for all seven of our incense items! 

Illustration by Tybaxel

As a reminder, incense is the method of obtaining an instant generation 1 cat. There is a separate incense item for every Borough. 

Incense items will be rare craft-ables, made with different plant items! I'm particularly tickled by just how much personality having scents associated with each Borough adds. 

Accessory Recolors

We are beginning to make a dent in accessory recolors! 

All accessories will have 12 standard recolors. Here is the official list: 

White, grey, black, red, orange, yellow, green, teal, blue, purple, pink, and brown

Below are finished recolors for the Jute set and the Sweetheart set! 

Flea Market

We have updates on the Flea Market: the player-ran marketplace! 

Our MVP will start with two listing types! Flat Sales and Bundles! 

Flat Sales will allow users to sell stacks of items at a price per item, while buyers can choose how many to buy at a time.

Bundles are a set amount of several different items for a single price, which users can only purchase all at once.

Listings will have user comments, which can help provide extra context, especially for cat listings!

We're especially excited to show off our Price History feature! 

Price history will show up whenever you list a single item. This history will give you the lowest price listed for the item, the highest, and a median of the two! But, we know this data can be messed with. And inflation effects these numbers on a holistic scale. So, price history can be searched in a timeframe of your choosing. You can choose to look at the history for just last week, or for the entirety of the site! 

Note: These are mockups! Sizes may differ on your screen when browsing the game. 

Forums and Forum Boards

Next, we want to show off our forum designs! 

Users will have access to a host of official boards which will cover the majority of game-relevant topics. 

Users will be able to create boards which may foster more unique topics. For example, perhaps you want a board dedicated to fancats! Or a board dedicated to collecting odd cat IDs. A board dedicated to a hyper-specific cat breeding program? You can make it! 

Lastly, we've implemented a reply and "upvote" system as a way for threads to feel more like engaging conversations! 

We want to stress that downvotes will never be visible, as we're hyper-aware that visibility can lead to bullying and dogpiling. We may choose to remove them all together, depending on player opinion and feedback during testing. Right now, our intention is to make forums more entertaining to read through by allowing players to uplift discussion, art, or community contributions that they deem worth recognition. You may also choose to filter by most recent or oldest comment instead. 

We'll potentially be experimenting with emoji interactions and general size formatting to make things feel more cohesive. 

We want to stress that this is incredibly experimental. We don't expect it to immediately appeal to all players. And what we're doing here may change as we test and recieve feedback. 

Forums as they have been historically done in our genre have been on the decline in usage for some time, and this is in part due to modern UI setups having more sleek and easier to navigate methods of interaction and discussion. We're not blind to these statistics, and we're trying to combat the issue at the source. We understand that there are pros and cons to a system like this and that it's very new. 

However, we're setting out to push the envelope and create something invigorating for our genre of game. This first and foremost means a refreshment of old systems. We feel it's worth a shot!

We've heard discussion on the plans to close our Discord, and how little traditional forum formats tend to keep player engagement in comparison to modern socials. We stand by that we will not rely on a third party to officially host our community, but we hope that we can provide more tools from the start to foster and nurture the community in our game. 

Please note that while this does look modernized, we will never be incorporating ads into these threads, nor scrape data. The often predatory practices of modern social medias are practices we are actively avoiding. We're just trying something different that seems to work this day and age!

Also note that this does not replace traditional posting. We are working on a notebook system which would allow players to post longform, customized "notes," and for other players to comment on said notes in a more traditional format. We believe a system like this will better accommodate things such as status updates, user lore hubs, and anything which a user wants to store on their page for a long time. Think traditional web journal systems! 

To summarize: We shared our expectations for Alpha in the coming days, Moontail progress, Bovine and Fyret adjustments, new backdrops, incense icons, and UIs for the market and forums!

What to expect next month: Functionality updates, further UI and asset renderings, general meaty beginnings to letting players on the site! 

[eraepoch]

[Full Text] Emerging Media Companies, Tracking Cookies, and Data Privacy -- An open letter to Critical Role, Dropout, and fellow audience members

Summary / TL;DR

Both Critical Role (CR) and Dropout have begun exclusively using links provided by third-party digital marketing solution companies in their email newsletters.

Every link in each of the newsletters (even the unsubscribe link) goes through a third-party domain which is flagged as a tracking server by the uBlock Origin browser extension.

Third-party tracking cookies are strictly unnecessary and come with a wide array of risks, including non-consensual targeted advertising, targeted misinformation, doxxing, and the potential for abuse by law enforcement.

You are potentially putting your privacy at risk every time you click on any of the links in either of these newsletters.

IMO these advertising companies (and perhaps CR/Dropout by proxy) are likely breaking the law in the EU and California by violating the GDPR and CCPA respectively.

Even if Critical Role and Dropout are not directly selling or exploiting your personal data, they are still profiting off of it by contracting with, and receiving services from, companies who almost certainly are. The value of your personal data is priced into the cost of these services.

They should stop, and can do so without any loss of web functionality.

1/7. What is happening?

Critical Role and Dropout have begun exclusively using links provided by third-party digital marketing solution companies in their email newsletters.

[ID:  A screenshot of the Dropout newsletter alongside the page’s HTML source which shows that the target destination for an anchor element in the email leads to d2xR2K04.na1.hubspotlinks.com. End ID.]

[ID: A screenshot of the CR newsletter alongside the page’s HTML source which shows that the target destination for an anchor element in the email leads to trk.klclick.com. End ID.]

The domains attached to these links are flagged as advertising trackers by the uBlock Origin browser extension.

[ID: Screenshot of a Firefox web browser. The page displays a large warning icon and reads “uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading [...] because of the following filter: `||hubspotlinks.com` found in Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list. End ID.]

[ID: Screenshot of a Firefox web browser. The page displays a large warning icon and reads “uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading [...] because of the following filter: `||klclick1.com` found in Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list. End ID.]

In both cases, every link in the newsletter goes through the flagged third-party domain, and the intended endpoint (Twitter, their store page, etc.) is completely obscured and inaccessible from within the email itself. Even the unsubscribe links feed through the tracking service.

You can test this yourself in your own email client by hovering your cursor over a link in the email without clicking it and watching to see what URL pops up. You may have noticed this yourself if you use uBlock Origin as an ad-blocker.

I don’t know for certain when this first started. It’s possible that this has been going on for a year or more at this point, or it may have started just a few months ago. Either way: it ought to stop.

2/7. What is a tracking cookie?

A tracking cookie is a unique, universally identifiable value placed on your machine by somebody with the intention of checking for that value later to identify you (or at least to identify your machine).

Tracking cookies are used by companies to create advertising behaviour profiles. These profiles are supposedly anonymous, but even if the marketing companies creating them are not lying about that (a tough sell for me personally, but your mileage may vary when it comes to corporations with 9-figure annual incomes), the data can often be de-anonymized.

If this happens, the data can be used to identify the associated user, potentially including their full name, email address, phone number, and physical address—all of which may then be associated with things like their shopping habits, hobbies, preferences, the identities of their friends and family, gender, political opinions, job history, credit score, sexuality, and even when they ovulate.

Now, it is important to note that not all cookies are tracking cookies. A cookie is just some data from a web page that persists on your machine and gets sent back to the server that put it there. Cookies in general are not necessarily malicious or harmful, and are often essential to certain web features functioning correctly (e.g. keeping the user logged in on their web browser after they close the tab). But the thing to keep in mind is that a domain has absolute control over the information that has been stored on your computer by that domain, so allowing cookies is a matter of trusting the specific domain that wants to put them there. You can look at the outgoing information being sent from your machine, but its purpose cannot be determined without knowing what is being done with it on the other side, and these marketing companies ought not to have the benefit of your doubt when they have already been flagged by privacy watchdogs.

3/7. What’s the harm?

Most urgently, as I touched on above: The main source of harm is from corporations profiting off of your private data without your informed consent. However, targeted advertising is actually the least potentially harmful outcome of tracking cookies.

1/6. Data brokers

A data broker is an individual or company that specializes in collecting personal data (such as personal income, ethnicity, political beliefs, geolocation data, etc.) and selling or licensing such information to third parties for a variety of uses, such as background checks conducted by employers and landlords, two universally benevolent groups of people.

There are varying regulations around the world limiting the collection of information on individuals, and the State of California passed a law attempting to address this problem in 2018, following in the footsteps of the EU’s GDPR, but in the jurisdiction of the United States there is no federal regulation protecting consumers from data brokers. In fact, due to the rising interest in federal regulation, data broker firms lobbied to the tune of $29 million in the year 2020 alone.

2/6. De-anonymization techniques

Data re-identification or de-anonymization is the practice of combining datasets (such as advertising profiles) and publicly available information (such as scraped data from social media profiles) in order to discover patterns that may reveal the identities of some or all members of a dataset otherwise intended to be anonymous.

Using the 1990 census, Professor Latanya Sweeney of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School found that up to 87% of the U.S. population can be identified using a combination of their 5-digit zip code, gender, and date of birth. [Link to the paper.]

Individuals whose datasets are re-identified are at risk of having their private information sold to organizations without their knowledge or consent. Once an individual’s privacy has been breached as a result of re-identification, future breaches become much easier: as soon as a link is made between one piece of data and a person’s real identity, that person is no longer anonymous and is at far greater risk of having their data from other sources similarly compromised.

3/6. Doxxing

Once your data has been de-anonymized, you are significantly more vulnerable to all manner of malicious activity: from scam calls and emails to identity theft to doxxing. This is of particular concern for members of minority groups who may be targeted by hate-motivated attacks.

4/6. Potential for abuse by government and law enforcement

Excerpt from “How period tracking apps and data privacy fit into a post-Roe v. Wade climate” by Rina Torchinsky for NPR:

Millions of people use apps to help track their menstrual cycles. Flo, which bills itself as the most popular period and cycle tracking app, has amassed 43 million active users. Another app, Clue, claims 12 million monthly active users. The personal health data stored in these apps is among the most intimate types of information a person can share. And it can also be telling. The apps can show when their period stops and starts and when a pregnancy stops and starts. That has privacy experts on edge because this data—whether subpoenaed or sold to a third party—could be used to suggest that someone has had or is considering an abortion. ‘We're very concerned in a lot of advocacy spaces about what happens when private corporations or the government can gain access to deeply sensitive data about people’s lives and activities,’ says Lydia X. Z. Brown, a policy counsel with the Privacy and Data Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology. ‘Especially when that data could put people in vulnerable and marginalized communities at risk for actual harm.’

Obviously Critical Role and Dropout are not collecting any sort of data related to their users’ menstrual cycles, but the thing to keep in mind is that any data that is exposed to third parties can be sold and distributed without your knowledge or consent and then be used by disinterested—or outright malicious—actors to de-anonymize your data from other sources, included potentially highly compromising data such as that collected by these period-tracking apps. Data privacy violations have compounding dangers, and should be proactively addressed wherever possible. The more of your personal data exists in the hands of third parties, the more it is to be de-anonymized.

5/6. Targeted misinformation

Data brokers are often incredibly unscrupulous actors, and will sell your data to whomever can afford to buy it, no questions asked. The most high-profile case of the consequences of this is the Facebook—Cambridge Analytica data scandal, wherein the personal data of Facebook users were acquired by Cambridge Analytica Ltd. and compiled alongside information collected from other data brokers. By giving this third-party app permission to acquire their data back in 2015, Meta (then Facebook) also gave the app access to information on their users’ friend networks: this resulted in the data of some 87 million users being collected and exploited.

The data collected by Cambridge Analytica was widely used by political strategists to influence elections and, by and large, undermine democracy around the world: While its parent company SCL had been influencing elections in developing countries  for decades, Cambridge Analytica focused more on the United Kingdom and the United States. CEO Alexander Nix said the organization was involved in 44 American political races in 2014. In 2016, they worked for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign as well as for Leave.EU, one of the organisations campaigning for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.

6/6. The Crux: Right to Privacy Violations

Even if all of the above were not concerns, every internet user should object to being arbitrarily tracked on the basis of their right to privacy. Companies should not be entitled to create and profit from personality profiles about you just because you purchased unrelated products or services from them. This right to user privacy is the central motivation behind laws like the EU’s GDPR and California’s CCPA (see Section 6).

4/7. Refuting Common Responses

1/3. “Why are you so upset? This isn’t a big deal.”

Commenter: Oh, if you’re just talking about third party cookies, that’s not a big deal … Adding a cookie to store that ‘this user clicked on a marketing email from critical role’ is hardly [worth worrying about].

Me: I don’t think you understand what tracking cookies are. They are the digital equivalent of you going to a drive through and someone from the restaurant running out of the store and sticking a GPS monitor onto your car.

Commenter: Kind of. It’s more like slapping a bumper sticker on that says, in restaurant-ese, ‘Hi I’m [name] and I went to [restaurant] once!’

This is actually an accurate correction. My metaphor was admittedly overly simplistic, but the correction specifies only so far as is comfortable for the commenter. If we want to construct a metaphor that is as accurate as possible, it would go something like this:

You drive into the McDonald’s parking lot. As you are pulling in, unbeknownst to you, a Strange Man pops out of a nearby bush (that McDonald’s has allowed him to place here deliberately for this express purpose), and sticks an invisible bumper sticker onto the back of your car. The bumper sticker is a tracker that tells the Strange Man which road you took to drive to McDonald’s, what kind of car you drive, and what (if anything) you ordered from McDonald’s while you were inside. It might also tell him where you parked in the parking lot, what music you were listening to in your car on the way in, which items you looked at on the menu and for how long, if you went to the washroom, which washroom you went into, how long you were in the washroom, and the exact location of every step you took inside the building.

Now, as soon as you leave the McDonald’s, the bumper sticker goes silent and stops being able to report information. But, let’s say next week you decide to go to the Grocery Store, and (again, unbeknownst to you), the Strange Man also has a deal with the Grocery Store. So as you’re driving into the grocery store’s parking lot, he pops out of another bush and goes to put another bumper sticker onto your car. But as he’s doing so, he notices the bumper sticker he’s already placed there a week ago that only he can see (unless you’ve done the car-equivalent of clearing your browser cache), and goes “ah, it’s Consumer #1287499290! I’ll make sure to file all of this new data under my records for Consumer #1287499290!”

You get out of your car and start to walk into the Grocery Store, but before you open the door, the Strange Man whispers to the Grocery Store: “Hey, I know you’re really trying to push your cereal right now, want me to make it more likely that this person buys some cereal from you?” and of course the Grocery Store agrees—this was the whole reason they let him set up that weird parking lot bush in the first place.

So the Strange Man runs around the store rearranging shelves. He doesn’t know your name (all the data he collects is strictly anonymous after all!) but he does know that you chose the cutesy toy for your happy meal at McDonald’s, so he changes all of the cereal packaging labels in the store to be pastel-coloured and covered in fluffy bears and unicorns. And maybe you were already going to the Grocery Store to buy cereal, and maybe you’re actually very happy to buy some cereal in a package that seems to cater specifically to your interests, but wouldn’t you feel at least a little violated if you found out that this whole process occurred without your knowledge? Especially if you felt like you could trust the people who owned the Grocery Store? They’re not really your friend or anything, but maybe you thought that they were compassionate and responsible members of the community, and part of the reason that you shopped at their store was to support that kind of business.

2/3. “Everyone does it, get over it.”

Commenter: [The marketing company working with CR] is an industry standard at this point, particularly for small businesses. Major partner of Shopify, a fairly big player. If you don't have a software development team, using industry standard solutions like these is the easy, safe option.

This sounds reasonable, but it actually makes it worse, not better, that Critical Role and Dropout are doing this. All this excuse tells me is that most businesses using Shopify (or at least the majority of those that use its recommended newsletter service) have a bush for the Strange Man set up in their parking lot.

Contracting with these businesses is certainly the easy option, but it is decidedly not the safe one.

3/3. “They need to do it for marketing reasons.”

Commenter 1: Email marketing tools like [this] use tracking to measure open and click rates. I get why you don’t want to be tracked, but it’s very hard to run a sizeable email newsletter without any user data.

Commenter 2: I work in digital marketing … every single email you get from a company has something similar to this. Guaranteed. This looks totally standard.

I am a web programmer by trade. It is my full time job. Tracking the metrics that Critical Role and Dropout are most likely interested in does not require embedding third-party tracking cookies in their fans’ web browsers. If you feel comfortable taking my word on that, feel free to skip the next section. If you’re skeptical (or if you just want to learn a little bit about how the internet works) please read on.

5/7. Tracking cookies are never necessary

We live in a technocracy. We live in a world in which technology design dictates the rules we live by. We don’t know these people, we didn’t vote for them in office, there was no debate about their design. But yet, the rules that they determine by the design decisions they make—many of them somewhat arbitrary—end up dictating how we will live our lives. —Latanya Sweeney

1/3. Definitions

A website is a combination of 2 computer programs. One of the two programs runs on your computer (laptop/desktop/phone/etc.) and the other runs on another computer somewhere in the world. The program running on your computer is the client program. The program running on the other computer is the server program.

A message sent from the client to the server is a request. A message sent from the server to the client is a response.

Cookies are bits of data that the server sends to the client in a response that the client then sends back to the server as an attachment to its subsequent requests.

A session is a series of sequential interactions between a client and server. When either of the two programs stops running (e.g. when you close a browser tab), the session is ended and any future interactions will take place in a new session.

A URL is a Uniform Resource Locator. You may also sometimes see the initialism URI—in which the ‘I’ stands for Identifier—but they effectively refer to the same thing, which is the place to find a specific thing on the internet. For our purposes, a “link” and a URL mean the same thing.

2/3. What do Critical Role and Dropout want?

These media companies (in my best estimation) are contracting with the digital advertising companies in order to get one or more of the following things:

Customer identity verification (between sessions)

Marketing campaign analytics

Customer preference profiles

Customer behaviour profiles

3/3. How can they get these things without tracking cookies?

Accounts. Dropout has an account system already. As Beacon is a thing now I have to assume Critical Role does as well, therefore this is literally already something they can do without any additional parties getting involved.

URL Query Parameters. So you want to know which of your social media feeds is driving the most traffic to your storefront. You could contract a third-party advertising company to do this for you, but as we have seen this might not be the ideal option. Instead, when posting your links to said feeds, attach a little bit of extra text to the end of the URL link so: becomes or or even These extra bits of information at the end of a URL are query parameters, and act as a way for the client to specify some instructions for the server when sending a request. In effect, a URL with query parameters allows the client to say to the server “I want this thing under these conditions”. The benefit of this approach is, of course, that you actually know precisely what information is being collected (the stuff in the parameters) and precisely what is being done with it, and you’ve avoided exposing any of your user data to third parties.

Internal data collection. Optionally associate a user’s email address with their preferences on the site. Prompt them to do this whenever they purchase anything or do any action that might benefit from having some saved preference, informing them explicitly when you do so and giving them the opportunity to opt-out.

Internal data collection. The same as above, but let the user know you are also tracking their movements while on your site. You can directly track user behaviour down to every single mouse movement if you really want to—again, no need to get an outside party involved to snoop on your fans. But you shouldn’t do that because it’s a little creepy!

At the end of the day, it will of course be more work to set up and maintain these things, and thus it will inevitably be more expensive—but that discrepancy in expense represents profit that these companies are currently making on the basis of violating their fans’ right to privacy.

6/7. Breaking the Law

The data subject shall have the right to object, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her [...] The controller shall no longer process the personal data unless the controller demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. Where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. Where the data subject objects to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data shall no longer be processed for such purposes. At the latest at the time of the first communication with the data subject, the right referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be explicitly brought to the attention of the data subject and shall be presented clearly and separately from any other information. — General Data Protection Regulation, Art. 21

Nobody wants to break the law and be caught. I am not accusing anyone of anything and this is just my personal speculation on publicly-available information. I am not a lawyer; I merely make computer go beep-boop. If you have any factual corrections for this or any other section in this document please leave a comment and I will update the text with a revision note. Before I try my hand at the legal-adjacent stuff, allow me to wade in with the tech stuff.

Cookies are sometimes good and sometimes bad. Cookies from someone you trust are usually good. Cookies from someone you don’t know are occasionally bad. But you can take proactive measures against bad cookies. You should always default to denying any cookies that go beyond the “essential” or “functional” categorizations on any website of which you are remotely suspicious. Deny as many cookies as possible. Pay attention to what the cookie pop-ups actually say and don’t just click on the highlighted button: it is usually “Accept All”, which means that tracking and advertising cookies are fair game from the moment you click that button onward. It is illegal for companies to arbitrarily provide you a worse service for opting out of being tracked (at least it is in the EU and California).

It is my opinion (and again, I am not a legal professional, just a web developer, so take this with a grain of salt) that the links included in the newsletter emails violate both of these laws. If a user of the email newsletter residing in California or the EU wishes to visit any of the links included in said email without being tracked, they have no way of doing so. None of the actual endpoints are available in the email, effectively forcing the user to go through the third-party domain and submit themselves to being tracked in order to utilize the service they have signed up for. Furthermore, it is impossible to unsubscribe directly from within the email without also submitting to the third-party tracking.

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As a brief aside: Opening the links in a private/incognito window is a good idea, but will not completely prevent your actions from being tracked by the advertiser. My recommendation: install uBlock Origin to warn you of tracking domains (it is a completely free and open-source project available on most major web browsers), and do not click on any links in either of these newsletters until they change their practices.

Now, it may be the case that the newsletters are shipped differently to those residing in California or the EU (if you are from either of these regions please feel free to leave a comment on whether or not this is the case), but ask yourself: does that make this any better? Sure, maybe then Critical Role and Dropout (or rather, the advertising companies they contract with) aren’t technically breaking the law, but it shows that the only thing stopping them from exploiting your personal data is potential legal repercussions, rather than any sort of commitment to your right to privacy. But I expect that the emails are not, in fact, shipping any differently in jurisdictions with more advanced privacy legislation—it wouldn’t be the first time a major tech giant blatantly flaunted EU regulations.

Without an additional browser extension such as uBlock Origin, a user clicking on the links in these emails may not even be aware that they have interacted with the advertising agency at all, let alone what sort of information that agency now has pertaining to them, nor do they have any ability to opt out of this data collection.

For more information about your right to privacy—something that only those living in the EU or California currently have—you can read explanations of the legislations at the following links (take note that these links, and all of the links embedded in this paper, are anchored directly to the destinations they purport to be, and do not sneakily pass through an additional domain before redirecting you):

7/7. Conclusion

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence. —Hanlon’s Razor

The important thing to make clear here is this: Even if Critical Role and Dropout are not directly selling or exploiting your personal data, they are still profiting off of it by contracting with, and receiving services from, companies whom I believe are. You may not believe me.

I do not believe that the management teams at Critical Role and Dropout are evil or malicious. Ignorance seems to be the most likely cause of this situation. Someone at some marketing company told them that this type of thing was helpful, necessary, and an industry standard, and they had no reason to doubt that person’s word. Maybe that person had no reason to doubt the word of the person who told them. Maybe there are a few people in that chain, maybe quite a few. I do not expect everyone running a company to be an expert in this stuff (hell, I’m nowhere close to being an expert in this stuff myself—I only happened to notice this at all because of a browser extension I just happened to have installed to block ads), but what I do expect is that they change their behaviour when the potential harms of their actions have been pointed out to them, which is why I have taken the time to write this.

PS. To the employees of Critical Role and Dropout

It is my understanding that these corporations were both founded with the intention of being socially responsible alongside turning a profit. By using services like the ones described above, you are, however unintentionally, profiting off of the personal datasets of your fans that are being compiled and exploited without their informed consent. You cannot say, implicitly or explicitly, “We’re not like those other evil companies! We care about more than just extracting as much money from our customers as possible!” while at the same time utilizing these services, and it is my hope that after reading this you will make the responsible choice and stop doing so.

Thank you for reading,

era

Originally Published: 23 May 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024

[thepixelelf]

I have a really random question: do you have two Tumblr accs, and if you do, how do you manage them (if on phone)??

also, any tips for someone who wishes to start a svt scenario blog...

I have a bunch of semi-to-completely inactive sideblogs, which I can switch through using the quick reblog/queue function, by holding down on the little person icon, or tapping on my username in the top left corner of my blog. I don't use any separate accounts (different email & password) anymore, but when I did, I'd just have to log out on my phone and manually log into whichever blog I'd want to use. You can ask me more specific questions about navigating sideblogs if you'd like!

As for tips... I think the best way to get your works read is to make friends with other writers! I find that reblogging and commenting on their works is a wonderful way to do this. If you like to read fics, then definitely try this out. Whenever people reblog and comment on my stuff, I always check to see if that person is a writer-- when I used to read a lot more, I would sometimes check out their work, then reblog and comment. It's very give and take!

Also, I think I should emphasize that -- as weird as it sounds to say -- the svt fic market is pretty saturated compared to some other kpop fandoms. Just looking in one of the tags, 17 fics/chapters/blurbs/etc have already been posted today, and it's not even 5pm where I am. I guess what I'm saying is that no one should feel discouraged if their fic doesn't always reach all the people who will love it, simply because there's so much content out there

But the most important thing about writing on here is to have fun! If you love your stuff, others will too <3

[jess-moloney]

Signs An Online Storefront Is A Scam

I was doing more research into this and came across an interesting article about this and though this IceStudios website doesn't meet all of the criteria they meet a lot of it. Check it out:

5. Amateur website design

However, fraudsters tend to move quickly and often don’t want to take too long to build a fake shopping website, as it could easily be identified as fraudulent and get taken down. This is why they tend to opt for simple, inexpensive website templates that come with limited features—often just enough to convince unsuspecting customers that they’re the real deal.

No one can tell me this isn't one of the most amateurish websites they've ever seen for someone who allegedly has a degree in marketing from LCF.

7. Limited contact details

Raise your suspicions if the site only has a fill-in contact form, the customer service email is a random Yahoo or Gmail account instead of a corporate one, or the contact details are non-existent.

I mean this is literally all you get for contact info it's on form and it seems to go absolutely nowhere. Like it's just there for decoration. They don't even have a note up saying how long you should wait for a reply or email addresses/regular addresses/phone numbers or any sort of support for customers.

8. Complex or non-existent returns policy

To ensure they comply with the laws surrounding consumer protection rights, reputable retail brands are transparent about their return and refund policies. Scammers, on the other hand, often don’t bother putting much thought into the return policies that feature on their sites—if they choose to include one at all.

You can read through their entire (and extremely confusing TOS) and never actually find what their return policy is. There are also several red flags in this about how they are not responsible for basically anything including false advertising or if you get your item or not.

9. Questionable payment options

Legitimate brands will always give you the option of paying with traditional and secure methods—including credit and debit cards, cash on delivery, or pay later options, such as Klarna and Afterpay.

You get one payment option with them. Though you can put in any card I suppose since it's GPay they should still have way more than one option here for people who want to buy their stuff.

10. Bad social media

Most legit businesses have some sort of social media presence as it serves as one of the best ways to advertise their products and services. If an online retailer doesn’t have an overt social media presence—or the social media icons displayed on their site lead nowhere—the chances of it being fake are high.

We already know how poorly this is run. Their most recent post is a stolen magazine cover from 1968 that Ice Studios has nothing to do with. They constantly say they are about to drop items then never drop them. They don't ever reply to customers asking questions about when certain items are coming back. They have falsely advertised that camo suit I don't know how many times (it looks extremely different on the actual website).

So the list of how to identify a scam store online is a list of 10 things and Jess's Ice Studio's shop meets 50% of that criteria. I'm not saying this proves it's some kind of scam but some of these things should just be basic knowledge if it's not a scam. If it isn't, then it's run by the most stupid people on the planet and there's no way Jess has a real degree in marketing, that's for sure. [Source Article]

Edit: Forgot to add

1. URL red flags

The fastest way to tell if a site is secure is by checking for HTTPS, with a padlock next to it, in the URL. HTTPS indicates that the site uses SSL encryption, which is superior to HTTP. With HTTPS, nobody between the website and the user can read the data.

No padlock

[vimdrugs]

Buy Drugs Online Safely and Conveniently | Vim Drugs

Nowadays, everything is digital. Starting from shopping to education and every little day process. But when the advent of the digital revolution was on its verge, certain industries were skeptical about taking the plunge into the same pool. They are not to blame; they were just concerned about a very sensitive product. If food is bad, you could have a bad stomach the next day, but if medicines are not delivered in time or in the condition they are supposed to be delivered, it could cost lives.

But the fact is, when the world is evolving, one cannot stick to the old ways because nobody else will engage in that mode. To cut a long story short, the pharmaceutical companies eventually figured out various stages of checks and safety measures to digitize their online drug supplies. But how do consumers approach this model? How do they check where to buy what and whether it is genuine? In this blog, we will look into some aspects that would make buying drugs online safely and conveniently easy.

Choose a Licensed and Reputable Online Pharmacy

In this saturated market, medical stores are everywhere, and it is pretty common for unlicensed or unregistered drug dealers to rip you off. But to avoid such trembles, it is recommended to research and find a reputable and authorized pharmacy with all the required licenses, registrations, and certifications to run that store. So rest assured, when you buy from that shop, you know you are buying genuine drugs.

Consult Your Healthcare Provider

It is more dangerous to have little knowledge than to have no knowledge. People tend to get confident with little wisdom and make mistakes, so many directly visit medical stores for quick relief pills without consulting a physician. Although the medical store would only give you drugs with proper prescriptions, some would be okay with doing so even without a prescription.

But this may prove harmful in the long run because a physician would rather have multiple vitals of yours in mind while jotting down your prescription, and he may be prescribing something that is custom crafted to your bodily behavior. By overriding the physician's perspective and prescription, you would be causing critical damage to your health. So consulting your healthcare provider is another step that one must follow before buying any medicine online.

Check for Prescription Requirements

People who have nothing to hide go by the books. So when the law states that you must hold a prescription to get medications from a medical store, you should hold the prescription, and pharmaceutical companies that demand your prescription indirectly prove that they are genuine. Having that said, beware of websites or portals that are there to issue you drugs without a prescription, those are mostly unregistered or non licensed medical stores, and one should even report such websites if one feels like a socially responsible human being.

Verify Pharmacy Credentials

As we discussed briefly, a registered pharmacy will always have its license and registration. Always look for proper credentials or brand establishments before choosing the right online store for your drug delivery. A genuine document always has a physical address, operational phone number, email ID’s, etc. So if you, in fact, approach them demanding it, they probably wouldn't mind showing because they won't have anything to hide, but those who get impulsive or angry when you raise such a request may have something fishy with their documents.

Protect Your Personal Information

While making online payments, it is important to notice if the payment gateway is well-protected and encrypted. You must keep your financial data safe to avoid cyber threats or theft. While at the payment page, check for your browser's address bar for the padlock icon, indicating that it's a secure payment gateway.

Read More: https://vimdrugs.com/index.php/blog/post/buy-drugs-online-safely-and-conveniently

[centizen]

Campaign Management in Marketing

Features of campaign management are creating automated campaigns for a variety of different purposes. Campaigns are automated workflows to determine a set of specified actions to be automated by Agile CRM, combined with transition points between those actions that determine when and how each action takes place. Campaign management tools are used to automate a great deal of the work involved in engaging prospects and customers.

1.Email campaigns

Email marketing is one of the most important place in marketing and giving variety of close contact with their leads and clients. The steps are 1. Select the email to send. 2. Insert the time that the system wants to wait between each email. 3. Select the criteria for your campaign member list. 4. Then turn it on and the system will continue the work. It’s a great way to manage B2C or B2B email marketing efforts.

2.Multichannel campaign

It is very easy to create complex, multichannel marketing campaigns. We can generate campaigns that leverage email sends, SMS text messaging, automatic social media posts, landing pages, web forms by choosing more campaign nodes. Smoothing multichannel campaign management, focus more on measuring results and refining the approach.

3.Lead processing

Leads can be processed as part of marketing using so many built-in automation features. Campaigns are used to score leads as moving through the funnel, point them as marketing qualified and pass them over to sales, send alerts and tasks to sales for immediate follow up and add qualification and other tags to leads.

4.Automated deal creation

New deal can be created automatically by using campaign management tools if lead becomes qualified and moves to sales. Campaign nodes are used to add deal milestones, assign the deal to a specific owner, set the deal source so that the correct lead generating tactic gets credit for creating the deal. This all gets tracked back to the campaign that are running, making analysis and measurement of results easier than ever.

5.Newsletter campaigns

If you send recurring email newsletters to your prospects and/or customers, you can set up a campaign to manage this as well. If you send your newsletter for every two month, then you can set up a campaign that will send every one of those newsletters for a year or more. You will just need to update the campaign email node with the name of your new newsletter each time you create one, and the campaign will continue to run until it’s exhausted all of its sends.

6.Add contacts to live campaigns

If you have a drip marketing campaign, or other campaign that is continuous over a significant stretch of time, you can include a campaign node that pulls new contacts into that campaign. For instance, on the off chance that you have a continuous dribble crusade that traverses the course of a couple of months, you might need to add new leads to that campaign when they buy in to your bulletin. At the point when that activity happens, the campaign will automatically pull them in and they will begin toward the start of your campaign stream, following same steps and cadence from every other person that has gone through it before them.

7. Campaign reporting and analytics

As your campaign steps, you will probably need to check in periodically to see how things are coming along. With campaign reporting and analysis features, you can do as such matter of minutes. Basically explore to the campaign being referred to and click the reporting icon to show campaign metrics, for example, messages opened, email joins clicked, email bounces, unsubscribes, and spam complaints related to the campaign. You can see campaign report information in a chronological timeline view, and drill down into singular measurements for an more granular view. Campaign reporting provides you with significant understanding that causes you continually enhance your outcomes.

[fromdevcom]

Baby Boomers are no strangers to technology and are currently buying and researching products online nearly as often as millennials. According to Nielsen research, older generations make up about 40% of total online shoppers and Baby Boomers are 10% of that number. If you are targeting that particular group, you need to be very specific in both your overall marketing campaign and online shop design.  Readability, simplicity, and quality are the most important concerns when appealing to those over 50. How to Succeed in E-commerce When Targeting baby Boomers: Top 4 Tips Forget about influencers and focus on brand quality If your targeted audience is over 50, influencer marketing isn’t for you. Studies show that this type of marketing works effectively only for teens and people in their early 20s (Ecommerce Guide). Baby Boomers, on the other hand, put much more stock in brand reputation and product quality (Medium). Focus your marketing campaign on showing off the quality of your products and the trustworthiness of the brands you work with. Be sure to include research, testimonials, and expert opinions into the ads. Consider including a detailed information package with this data into your email marketing campaign. Make a readability-optimized website When targeting Baby Boomers, you need a website that will provide excellent performance as well as a high level of readability. WordPress is, probably, the best platform for this kind of online shop because it’s extremely flexible. It’s also easy to find reliable hosting for WordPress that will give you an uptime of 99.9%. Remember that Baby Boomers prioritize quality and professionalism. A website that doesn’t crash, freeze-up, or takes ages to load is sure to make a positive impression. The result of this is a higher conversion rate. The website itself also has to be designed for maximum readability. This includes: Prioritizing typography and use big, easy-to-read fonts. Removing distractions (abundance images, icons, buttons, etc.). Minimize the use of toggles. Cut the size of the pages so the users don’t need to scroll down for long. Display contact information on every page (consider adding a Callback button). Have all textual content checked with a readability tool like Readable.io. Be generous with coupons and special deals About two-thirds of Baby Boomers are looking online for the best price and discount coupons (Inc.). The surprising thing is that this number is higher for the people who make over $100,000 a year as compared to those who make less. If you want your eCommerce business to succeed, you should spread your coupons through popular platforms as well as by email. Note that Baby Boomers are much less likely to use social media for product research. This means you should focus on Google ads, press releases, and email marketing when trying to appeal to them. Word of mouth is also a very effective tool when marketing this group. Be sure to encourage reviews and establish a referral program for your customers. Baby Boomers are the generation that seeks to establish a good relationship with a business. That’s one of the reasons why they are ready to pay more to a trustworthy brand. You can use this to enhance your customer loyalty and conversions by offering personalized specials and discounts. Delivering top-notch customer service should be your priority when dealing with Baby Boomers. Give a face to your brand As Baby Boomers want to connect, you need to put more focus on establishing a personal brand for your eCommerce business. Nowadays, the majority of online stores are nearly the same. The graphics might differ, but all of them run on the same basic principle. You open the catalog, then the product page, and complete the order form. There’s nothing personal about this. You can easily fix that by posting a presentation video on the product page. However, you’ll need to make it personal, which means one of your staff or yourself should be in that video telling people about what an amazing thing this is and how to use it.

Then you’ll need to include that person’s images on some other pages so the buyers see that it’s not just some random model. What you should strive to accomplish is to make your business seem ‘real and relatable’. Note that you’ll also need to continue in the same vein with your customer support service. You should also consider adding a few ‘behind the scenes’ videos to your blog and Meet the Team page to your website. E-commerce Business Targeting Baby Boomers: Final Thoughts Baby Boomers aren’t the group of buyers who will be attracted by flashy ads and empty promises. If you want your online shop to succeed in selling to this target audience, you need to put a focus on quality and make sure your customers get 100% satisfaction from dealing with you. Encourage them to share those positive experiences and bring new customers to your door. However, don’t forget that they will be as quick to share negative experiences. Therefore, you have to ensure your shop is always at its best and that your customer support is friendly, professional, and available 24/7.

[qnewsau]

Mardi Gras Film Festival calls for volunteers

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Mardi Gras Film Festival calls for volunteers

Love films, meeting like-minded people, and supporting an inclusive community? Volunteering at the 32nd Mardi Gras Film Festival is your chance to do all that and more!

Running from Thursday, 13 February 2025, this year’s festival features nearly 150 of the world’s best LGBTQI+ films across 72 sessions at some of Sydney’s most iconic venues, including Event Cinemas, Dendy Cinemas Newtown, and Ritz Cinemas Randwick. There are also special events at the State Library of NSW and unique screenings at The Rocks Laneway Cinema and Bank Hotel, creating an unforgettable celebration of queer stories.

Volunteers are the heart of Queer Screen, driving the success of its festivals at every level. From box office and ushering to digital marketing and film pre-screening, dedicated volunteers bring their passion for queer film to life.

As a Mardi Gras Film Festival volunteer, you’ll:

Receive a complimentary ticket for every shift completed, valid during the festival.

Enjoy a stylish volunteer t-shirt to wear with pride.

Celebrate your hard work at the exclusive volunteer wrap-up party.

Meet wonderful people and be part of a vibrant community that values diversity and inclusion.

Signing up is simple! Queer Screen has already published most shifts, so you can start selecting your preferences straight away. Visit www.timecounts.org/queerscreen-vollies to get involved.

Queer Screen welcomes everyone, regardless of identity. If you have a disability or require any accommodations, email volunteers@queerscreen.org.au.

For the latest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) news in Australia, visit qnews.com.au. Check out our latest magazines or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

[beatverse1]

How to Submit Your Song on Spotify with 100% Royalties Using Deliver My Tune

As an independent artist, every penny of your hard-earned income matters. Retaining 100% of your royalties ensures that you benefit from your creative work without sharing a portion with labels or intermediaries. Thanks to platforms like Deliver My Tune, you can now submit your song on Spotify with 100% royalties, a game-changing opportunity for independent musicians.

When you release music independently, you maintain control over your revenue streams. This not only boosts your income but also helps you reinvest in future projects, marketing campaigns, and collaborations. With services like Deliver My Tune, the dream of full royalties is closer than ever.

Understanding Spotify’s Potential for Artists

Spotify has transformed the music industry, offering unprecedented access to millions of listeners worldwide. It provides a platform where independent artists can stand shoulder to shoulder with global icons. By using a reliable distributor like Deliver My Tune, you can tap into Spotify’s potential and reach a vast audience without compromising your earnings.

Spotify’s algorithms and playlisting features make it possible to expand your reach organically. A well-submitted track can land on editorial and user-generated playlists, giving you a chance to gain traction and grow your listener base. But to achieve this, you need to follow a strategic approach.

Steps to Submit Your Song on Spotify with 100% Royalties

Work with a Trusted Distributor

The first step to getting your music on Spotify is selecting a trustworthy distributor. Platforms like Deliver My Tune specialize in helping artists release their music while ensuring they keep 100% of their royalties. This eliminates the need to work with traditional labels or middlemen that might demand a share of your income.

Distributors act as the bridge between your music and streaming platforms. When you choose one that supports independent artists, you retain full control over your music and finances. Deliver My Tune stands out for offering a streamlined process tailored to artists looking for complete ownership of their earnings.

Prepare Your Track for Submission

Before submitting your music, ensure it meets Spotify’s technical and creative standards. High-quality recordings are essential to make a lasting impression. Ensure your files are in WAV or FLAC format to maintain sound clarity.

Metadata is equally crucial. Double-check that your track’s title, artist name, and album details are accurate. Add visually compelling cover art that aligns with your music’s theme. A professional-looking cover often helps grab attention and builds your brand’s credibility.

Sign Up for Spotify for Artists

Spotify for Artists is an essential tool for anyone releasing music on the platform. This feature-rich dashboard allows you to monitor your song’s performance, customize your profile, and pitch your tracks to Spotify’s editorial team.

Once your distributor, such as Deliver My Tune, uploads your music, you can claim your Spotify for Artists profile. Use this platform to update your bio, add engaging photos, and even share behind-the-scenes stories about your music.

Plan a Strategic Release

A carefully planned release strategy can maximize the impact of your music. Submit your song at least four weeks before the official release date to give Spotify enough time to process your track and consider it for playlist placement.

During this pre-release phase, build anticipation among your audience. Leverage social media, email newsletters, and influencer partnerships to generate buzz around your upcoming track. Pre-save campaigns are another effective way to secure early listens and signal Spotify’s algorithm about your song’s potential.

Promote Your Song Aggressively

Once your track is live on Spotify, promotion becomes the key to success. Share the link across all your social channels, embed it on your website, and encourage fans to add it to their playlists. Collaborate with content creators, bloggers, and podcasters who align with your genre to reach a wider audience.

Deliver My Tune’s tools can also assist you in optimizing your promotional efforts. From playlist pitching services to detailed analytics, these features help ensure your song gets the attention it deserves.

Benefits of Using Deliver My Tune to Retain Full Royalties

Deliver My Tune empowers artists by offering a transparent and cost-effective way to release music. By partnering with them, you can focus on creating and marketing your music without worrying about losing a percentage of your income.

Some of the standout benefits include:

Financial Freedom: Every dollar you earn stays in your pocket.

Global Reach: Access Spotify’s massive listener base without barriers.

Artist-Centric Tools: Comprehensive resources to help you manage and promote your music effectively.

Avoiding Common Pitfalls

Many independent artists make mistakes that can hinder their success on Spotify. For instance, uploading low-quality tracks or neglecting metadata can hurt your chances of playlist placement. Similarly, failing to market your release might leave your music undiscovered.

By choosing Deliver My Tune, you avoid these pitfalls and gain access to a professional support system that ensures your music is presented in the best light.

Why Now Is the Best Time to Act

The music industry is evolving rapidly, and independent artists are at the forefront of this revolution. Platforms like Spotify are leveling the playing field, but the key to success lies in leveraging the right tools and strategies.

With Deliver My Tune, you can submit your song on Spotify with 100% royalties, paving the way for financial independence and creative freedom. Don’t let traditional industry structures hold you back—embrace the power of modern distribution and take charge of your music career today.

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Free IconAdda robot resources available

Are you looking for free robot stickers, free robot icons, or free high quality robot illustrations? Well, not to worry about it! You have a huge variety of good-looking robot-based resources at IconAdda to make use of, free of charge! As a developer, designer, or content provider, our assets in robotics come very handy to enhance some technology flavor in your designs.

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Free for everyone: Yes, you heard that right! You can download all of our robot assets free of cost.

Check out our sections on robotics

Free robot icons Our list of robot models has something in store for every one of us, be you looking for that friendly robotic character for your presentation or a simple robotic design to go with your software, the models have all been carefully made to meet those artistic needs in role.

Free robot illustrations Make your creative process easier with our free robotic icons. These icons come in flat, and outline and are perfect for UI/UX applications.

How to download free robot assets

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Installation Steps for WooCommerce in WordPress: A Step-by-Step Guide

Perhaps, amid all WordPress eCommerce solutions, WooCommerce is the one which easily can be turned any site on WordPress to a typical Web-Store. Below follow all instructions of installing WooCommerce in your WordPress site.

Step 1 Getting to Your WordPress Dashboard

First find WordPress Admin Page Dashboard should be located using this address `yourdomain.com/wp-admin` after one inputs his or her own username and password.

Step 2: Find the Plugins Section

Log in and head over to your left-hand menu, click on "Plugins," and then click on "Add New". Now you will be taken to the main plugin installation page.

Step 3: Locate the WooCommerce Plugin

Scroll over to the right-hand of your screen and locate the search box. Type in "WooCommerce." Results will drop down and WooCommerce should top it.

Step 4: Installation of WooCommerce Plugin

Locate and click the "Install Now" icon beside the WooCommerce plugin. WordPress will immediately download all of its files then installs them into your WordPress site.

Step 5: Activating the WooCommerce Plugin

The button installed will now read "Activate." Clicking the "Activate" button enables WooCommerce to be used on your site. Once you activate the plugin, the setup wizard runs automatically for WooCommerce.

Step 6: Configuration of WooCommerce settings via the setup wizard

The WooCommerce setup wizard will walk you through the basics of your store. Here are the do's for each step:

Step 1: Info for Your Shop Enter your store address, currency, and check if you sell physical or intangible goods.

2. Industry: Choose what your store is in; for example, fashion, health, electronics, etc.

3. Product Type: Type of products you will sell. WooCommerce supports both physical and digital products. Some extensions are specific to subscription, membership sites, etc.

4. Business Information: Let them know the size of your business and maybe the preference on selling such as in-person selling, running ads regularly, or email marketing.

5. Theme: Choose a theme for your store, or use an existing WordPress theme. WooCommerce plays very well with nearly any theme, but an eCommerce optimized theme makes it so much easier.

Well, now that is done, you have your WooCommerce store up and running. You will probably want to go through the various settings however, and these are found at WooCommerce > Settings. There you can

Accept PayPal, Stripe, and other gateways and also bank transfer

Established shipping rates and rules

Personalize your e-mail and notices

Add tax rates if needed

Step 8: Products for Your Store Now you add products. Create an account Products > Add New. Start adding your products, descriptions, images, prices, and all that other information. Do this for each product on your shop. 

Step 9: Preview and launch your store

Preview your WooCommerce store on your site to have one last look. Test the check-out process so everything runs right before launching your store. --- Summing Up That's it! You have now installed and configured WooCommerce right on your WordPress site. Therefrom, you'll be able to manage any small detail relating to your products, payments, or orders right from the dashboard of your WordPress site. With this, you can just continue developing your business with some add-on options available for functions such as SEO, marketing, or analytics. Happy selling!

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With Tiktoklogin.com, we bring you the most engaging platform for youths to share short videos, text & snaps. The easier navigability feature attracts users through searches for favorite creators and videos.

Mastering the skill of navigation, this digital platform is easy-to-use and creates content and engaging videos. Knowing how to navigate the platform is essential for beginners or experienced creators. This is where our role becomes a trailblazing step in TikTok Login.

Therefore, today, we discuss everything from TikTok login to strategies for making money by creating videos and a gist on when to post and how to go live.

TikTok Login: Getting Started

A simple process and users following this process can log into their existing video-creating account with just a few steps. Have a look below.

TikTok Login Through Username

If users want to access their TikTok account through a username, then it's manageable, there are simple processes through which users log in with a username. Below are the steps to access the platform’s account using the username:

Open the app on your phone or tablet.

You will see the login button on the welcome screen.

Registered users can enter their registered username and password.

Cross-check the details and ensure accuracy.

Finally, enter the login button and stream your favorite videos.

TikTok Login in Chrome

Users who prefer a desktop or a laptop, need not worry, because such users can also log into this digital platform’s account through Chrome. Below are some simple steps for accessing a TikTok account through web browsers like Chrome:

Visit the official website of the digital platform.

Click on the login button on the top right corner of the page.

Choose your login method, i.e., email, phone, username, or others.

Finally, enter your login credentials.

Cross-check the data carefully to ensure it is correct.

Hit the submit button.

Best Time to Post on TikTok

In today’s era, finding the best time to post is confusing as it impacts the overall content’s visibility. However, the best time to post content may vary on your target audience and location. Additionally, if you analyze your TikTok analytics, and gain insight into when your followers are online, this will further allow you to optimize your posting schedule. Below are some general times for posting content on the platform:

Weekdays - On weekdays, users must consider posting on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Peak hours - Generally, the peak hours are in the morning (7 AM – 9 AM) and in the late evening (7 PM – 11 PM).

Experiment - Try posting at different times to see when your audience is most active.

How to Go Live on TikTok

Going live on the platform allows you to engage with your audience and showcase your personality and creativity to them. This feature helps the creator build a real-time connection with the audience. Below are the ways users can access TikTok live:

First things first, you must have at least 1,000 followers to access this feature.

Open the app and log into your account.

At the bottom center of the homepage, click on the (+) icon.

Select the live option on the recording screen.

Need to write a catchy title for viewers to engage before going live.

Finally, tap on the “go live” option to start streaming.

How to Make Money on TikTok

Monetizing your TikTok account can be an exciting journey to be independent and earn a lot. However, there are certain ways through which you can earn through your TikTok account. Here are the ways of earning through this digital platform:

TikTok creator fund - Eligible creators can join the fund, depending on the views and engagement of the content.

Brand collaborations - Contact the brand and create sponsored content, promoting their brand.

Affiliate marketing - Earn commissions by sharing affiliate links for products in your bio or videos, receiving a percentage for every sale generated via your link.

Selling merchandise - Once you have built a significant following, consider selling your merchandise or products.

Virtual gifts - During live streams, viewers can send virtual gifts to the creator that may be converted into cash.

When is TikTok Getting Banned?

Issues about data privacy and security on the platform make it a topic of discussion concerning various bans. But still, to date, no appointed date has been announced. The service continues to operate as the regulatory issues are sorted out. Stay updated with reliable news sources to learn if indeed there will be changes in the access availability of TikTok in the coming years.

In conclusion, TikTok has become a dominant social media platform with a wide audience. From its user-friendly interface to the vast array of features available, there’s no doubt why millions are taking to this platform for both entertainment and business opportunities. Remember to apply the right strategies to gain followers and maximize your experience on the app.