#Global geeks

[sakuramoussy]

Hey everyone!!! Not sure if anyone remembers, but sometime last year I wrote a cute mini story called Paranormal Geek and published it through Lulu Bookstore!

I have just recently update this listing and decreased the price on it - previously $20, now its $15 (and this is permanent! Not a sale or limited time thing)

Its $15 for a physical copy of the book - its 107 pages, a good chunk of which is full page art relating to the story!

You can buy Paranormal Geek HERE on Lulu Bookstore!

Please consider sharing this and/or puchasing a copy of my book to support me <3

[gryffindorconsultingtimelord]

Pandora at night is just a vibe💖

[freshthoughts2020]

[nerdby]

If you guys have never heard of the FX series Pose, I suggest you hop on Hulu and start streaming before it no longer exists. Pose is a 2018 dramedy set in the late 1980s and early 1990s. An era of time most queer people will remember as the AIDS pandemic. The series tells the story of a group of queer individuals -- both cisgender and otherwise -- who seek out found family in the world of NYC ballroom culture which would go on to be appropriate by Madonna.

The series is worth watching not just for it's drama and romance, but also for it's amazing fashion and soundtrack.

And why do I think it might not long before this show ceases to exist?

Just a feeling 🤷🏻‍♀️

[northernirelandengima]

Well then.... to over the gamers over 25 out there feel free to share how much gaming helps you. 👀

[songofheroesgame]

Overview of online TD&RTS modes for Android Song of Heroes: Online TD, RTS BATTLE OF WARRIORS

Strategy games have always attracted players due to their replay value and the ability to make their own decisions. One of the modes in our game is the Warrior Battle mode, in which one to eight players compete, develop their fortresses and units in order to survive and win.

In this mode, you start the game with a fortress and five units that will need to be improved. Improvements can include attack power, health, regeneration ability, walking speed, and much more. You can also make the castle stronger or increase the maximum number of units.

In this game, as in any strategy game, tactics play a key role. You must decide when to attack other fortresses and when to strengthen your defenses.

One of the key aspects of this game is the ability to play with both bots and other players online. This gives you a wide range of options to play with. You can choose to play with bots to practice and develop your strategic skills, then move on to competitive online matches against other players.

The goal of this game is to be the last player standing. This means that you will have to fight other players until you are alone. This creates a tense and exciting atmosphere where every decision matters and one mistake can cost you victory.

[vodkamademedoit]

Eiscue is coming for you (with a vengeance)

hmmm

[compellingselling]

Try to make just another discount not just another discount

People like gaming the system. I bet this does well for... um... what was the name of the advertiser?

Just kidding. There's no mistake this is for Seat Geek. Their logo is onscreen for most of the commercial.

I think it's also funny that the Seat Geek guy would be classified as, well, a geek. His deadpan performance is dead on. The woman is also funny.

Agency: Slap Global, New York. Director: Craig Ainsley.

[carlocarrasco]

Several Chinese nationals arrested in Parañaque City for kidnapping, qualified trafficking and other charges

Recently in the City of Parañaque, elements of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG)’s National Capital Region field unit raided a house in Multinational Village and arrested ten Chinese nationals who allegedly kidnapped seven Filipinos, according to a Philippine Star news report. To put things in perspective, posted below is the excerpt from the Philippine Star report. Some…

[rewiringangel]

Patience in Flow

Approve of going slow.   Writing to my teacher about going slow,  I proffered, in my case, “Patience In Flow.” It’s not wait and see. It’s awareness as a continuous stream, streaming seamlessly seems, like a definition of Patience. So, what you’re doing, by       ‘going slow’ it’s a change of consciousness,where patience is one of the religious checkpoints on the path of life. Buddhism says,…

[furygamers]

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[nando161mando]

Hot Take: Gamers lash out against single companies because they fail to understand the economic system behind the companies

[esonetwork]

Science In 2023: Is This The Year of AI??

New Post has been published on http://esonetwork.com/science-in-2023-is-this-the-year-of-ai/

Science In 2023: Is This The Year of AI??

While AI has been stealing the spotlight this summer, Mike, Mike, and Chip Johnson break down the components of controversy and discuss some other intriguing items on the science horizon. All this, along with Angela’s A Geek Girl’s Take and Shout Outs.

We want to hear from you! Feedback is always welcome. Please write to us at feedback@earthstationone.com and subscribe and rate the show on Apple Podcast, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, wherever fine podcasts are found, and now we can be found on our own YouTube Channel.

Links The Earth Station One Website Earth Station One on Apple Podcasts The Earth Station One YouTube Channel Earth Station One on Stitcher Radio Earth Station One on Spotify Past Episodes of The Earth Station One Podcast Angela’s A Geek Girl’s Take Ashley’s Box Office Buzz Michelle’s Iconic Rock Talk Show Justine Bateman’s Newsweek Piece Hope by Justin Gray

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[slumbering-shadows]

So threads is like geeking but instead of surprise porn you get to see surprise racism

[theottersamurai]

Come check out my YouTube channel, The Otter Samurai!!! I also stream nightly between 8 and 830pm PST!!

[covid-safer-hotties]

To My Unmasked Friend in the Fifth Year of COVID - By: Anna Holmes - Published Aug 17, 2024

I’m going to be honest with you, because I love you, and you deserve nothing but honesty. I’m going to try really hard not to be angry while I do it, but it’s probably going to slip out every now and again. But I need you to hear me out, all right?

By now, we’ve talked about my reality. My personal struggle with long COVID, the isolation I live in, why I am so angry all the time.

But let’s talk about you. You just went to a big convention overseas. You got on a plane, got a little gussied up, talked shop with some insiders, geeked out over awards and merch, ate, drank, were merry, left with your social cup and your heart full.

You’re a good person. We wouldn’t be friends otherwise! You’d never dream of tripping a person with a red and white cane, using the r-word, excluding a disabled person from an event because of something they can’t help.

You might even acknowledge that the COVID response from governments and organizations has been ableist and inadequate.

But you didn’t wear a mask.

For whatever reason — you wanted to show off your makeup, it makes you itchy, you believed the messaging that COVID is endemic (what does that actually mean?), you just don’t think about it anymore — you made a choice that actively excludes people like me from participating not only in an event like a convention, but society at large. And yes, it is a choice. Every time you step out into the world without a mask on your face, you have made a decision that your very good reason, whatever it is, supersedes the right of disabled and at-risk people to exist safely in your orbit.

Well, hold on, you say. It’s not any one individual’s fault, it’s the inadequate public health messaging. Isn’t that what you’ve been saying?

And I have. In the past, I have talked about how it is unconscionable that health authorities have thrown their hands up and rescinded guidance that would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and prolonged a pandemic that, to hear them tell it, has been bested. It hasn’t. Worst of all, the financial motivation that we all know is driving this premature victory lap isn’t even being fulfilled. Long COVID and other post-COVID complications are costing the global economy one trillion a year. Meanwhile, article after article handwrings about nobody wanting to work anymore, about the sagging college application scene, about declines in military enlistment, and the strain on our healthcare systems.

All of this is very much the fault of our leaders, who have decided the political ramifications of “normalcy” are more important than the health and lives of the 400 million people living with long COVID across the globe, the immunocompromised folks who are increasingly being shut out of every conceivable public space, and the disabled community which has been screaming into the wind about our marginalization since before the virus even hit US soil.

But I want to be very clear. You are helping them do this.

The reality is that we have been living in this deeply flawed landscape of “personal choice”, and you’ve made yours. You’ve opted not to look into how densely clustered cases are. You’ve stopped listening to your friends who have informed themselves. You’ve given yourself permission to put COVID on the back burner. You’ve earned it, right? Four and a half years of trauma?

COVID doesn’t care if you’re tired of being scared or careful or considerate. COVID is not something you can personally overcome by being smart or virtuous or brave. It is a virus which only seeks to infect and replicate, and it is getting very good at those things. While you’ve looked away, my community has been scrambling to avoid variants that skirt immunity and don’t show up on rapid tests until day five-seven. The constant battle has changed since you were last in it. It’s not sufficient anymore to get your shots and test before a big event. You could well be asymptomatic and infectious, or have symptoms and convinced yourself it can’t be COVID because that second line hasn’t popped up.

You have come to the conclusion sometime between 2022 and now that you just have to decide what level of risk you’re comfortable with and live with it. The problem with that is scale. It’s you and everybody else doing that, and a lot of people have decided they are comfortable with a high level of risk. Despite what you’ve been told, you’re not just making that decision for yourself. You are making it for every person you come in contact with.

Think back to the early tense days of 2020. We were told to select a “bubble.” Those people would be our social lifelines, and through those, we could control our exposure.

My bubble is quite small. It includes my husband, my sister, and two friends I see relatively frequently.

My husband goes to work via the bus, and to the grocery store. Every person he comes in contact with there has the potential to infect him, and then he has the potential to pass it along to me. He mitigates this by wearing a well-fitted respirator at all times.

My sister goes to work at a busy public place. She masks when public facing and takes it off in the back office. She goes to restaurants, bars, concerts, hangs out with friends and her own partner unmasked. About 75% of her interactions have the heightened potential to infect her, which she might then bring into my house when she visits me.

My friends do not mask anywhere except my house when asked. They attend concerts, shows, cons, bars.

Obviously, I am in control of whether I wear a mask around these people. And as we approach one million new cases a day, I will be around everyone but my husband. But science is clear: reciprocal masking is more effective at infection control than a single person masking — especially when that single person is trying to protect themselves, not others.

This is settled science. We’ve known this since 2020. It says clearly that the choice you make is not personal- it has implications for everyone you come in contact with.

And being clear — if I could, I’d make everyone wear a mask for their own health. I don’t want people suffering with what I have. But you’ve been told this lie that you can take your risks for yourself, so you feel comfortable going out without a mask. You’ve been told this lie that it’s possible to completely recover from a COVID infection, so you assume that even if you do catch it, that’s what’ll happen to you, despite evidence showing that every body is indelibly changed by an infection, and that risk only grows with each subsequent infection.

And the greatest lie of all — that only the sick or elderly have anything to fear from COVID — has given you unfounded confidence in your own “good” genes or immune system or fitness. You can get long COVID even if you’re in peak form — in fact, may even be more likely to be hit hard.

So you have decided, individually and collectively, that only the sick or elderly should have to take precautions, and you freewheel through life, only to get surprised and dismayed when you bump into COVID in the wild. It’s back, people declare every summer or winter, as though it ever left.

But I want you to really think about the implications of your choice. Besides yourself. Because let’s be honest here, that’s who you’ve been thinking about, right? Your risk. Your comfort. Never mind your bubble, never mind the bubble of everyone you come into contact with, never mind the people like me who are literally hiding from people like you.

You’re not masking at the doctor’s office. You’re not masking at the airport. You’re not masking at the giant superspreader you just attended, and you’re not masking in the bars and restaurants where we know the virus flourishes. And then you’re bringing that exposure back to your family and friends. Back to the grocery store, where you run across people like my husband, shopping for someone who is unsafe to leave the house, or your elderly neighbors, or an immunocompromised employee.

You’re a good person, or you like to think of yourself that way. That’s why when you’re asked to mask, you dismiss it out of hand — because that changed behavior implies that you’ve been doing something wrong.

And my friend, I’m telling this because I love you: you have been. You might have been doing that on faulty information, but be honest with yourself and with me — you’ve heard me begging people to take this seriously. You’ve seen the information I’ve been sharing. You have had the opportunity to seek out the correct information all along, and you have chosen not to.

It isn’t too late to change your view of the risk you’re imposing on the people around you. It’s not too late to push public health to become more effective. It’s not too late to act in solidarity and be the inclusive person you think you are. It’s not too late to take care of yourself.

Ultimately, that’s what I have been screaming myself hoarse about. I don’t want you to end up with what I have. I don’t want you to inadvertently impose that on someone else. And yes, I’ve been angry, because you’ve been advertising your absolute lack of concern with group shots of your naked faces on social media. It doesn’t seem to bother you that I am stuck at home like it’s 2020, except for doctors’ appointments that I literally have to risk my life to go to. You’ve told yourself that it’s not your problem, because only the sick and elderly have to take precautions.

You know better. You can do better. For your community, yourself, and me, do better.

Please. I love you.

Anna

PS. If you’re feeling upset and embarrassed right now, the best thing you can do is take action. Get yourself good masks (the surgicals and cloth ones don’t cut it anymore), donate to mask blocs so others can access good masks, write to your representatives and the President, comment on upcoming CDC guidance, schedule yourself a booster, and talk to your loved ones about doing better, too. The only way we get out of this is with community care. So care.