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misfitwashere · 6 months ago

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How Trump seeks to destroy the four major pillars of resistance

But we lose only if we stop fighting

ROBERT REICH

JAN 10

Friends,

Trump and his MAGA allies are already targeting the four major pillars of resistance to Trump during his first term.

As we prepare for Trump’s second regime — which promises to be far worse than the first — it’s important to do what we can to protect and fortify these four centers of opposition.

1. Universities

University faculties are dedicated to finding and exposing the truth — which has often meant calling out Trump’s lies. But Trump has warned that he’ll change the criteria for university accrediting in order to force university faculties into line.

In a campaign video, he said, “Our secret weapon will be the college accreditation system … When I return to the White House, I will fire the radical left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by Marxist Maniacs.”

Authorized by the federal government, these accreditors are essential to college operations. If a college isn’t accredited, it can’t get federal funds.

Trump’s Project 2025 calls for replacing the current system of independent, nonpartisan accreditors with more politically pliable state accreditors. This would have disastrous effects.

Many of the worst educational gag orders at the state level, along with DEI bans and faculty tenure bans, have been voted down or toned down because state legislators realized they were putting their schools’ accreditation status in jeopardy. If Project 2025’s recommendations are adopted, that guardrail disappears.

Trump has also threatened to increase taxes on university endowments.

Republicans in Congress believe they were instrumental in getting the presidents of Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard to resign over their alleged failures to stop protests against Israel’s bloodbath in Gaza. Some are eager to resume their attacks on major universities.

2. Nonprofits

America’s nonprofits have been at the forefront of efforts to protect the environment, voting rights, and immigrants’ rights. Trump and his allies are seeking to stop nonprofit activism.

The Republican House has already passed a bill that would empower the Treasury to eliminate the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit it deems to be supporting terrorism. An identical or similar bill could come across Trump’s desk after being reintroduced in the next Congress.

The legislation doesn’t distinguish between foreign and domestic terrorism — whether real or imagined — thereby making it easier for Trump’s authorities to intimidate nonprofit personnel and donors.

We’ve already seen something like this at the state level. In Texas, state authorities have attempted to shut down charities that assist immigrants. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has launched a probe of nonprofits, including the God Is Good Foundation, that have allegedly conspired to bring noncitizens to the state.

3. The media

I’ve been a critic of the mainstream media’s tendency to give “both sides” credence even when one side is clearly in the wrong and to “sanewash” some of Trump’s and his enablers’ rants.

But journalists are an important bulwark against tyranny — which is why Trump and his allies are seeking to intimidate news outlets that have criticized or questioned Trump.

The flurry of defamation lawsuits — such as Trump launched against ABC (and ABC caved to) and the Des Moines Register — is the latest sign. Trump and his allies have also discussed revoking networks’ broadcast licenses and eliminating funding for public radio and television.

Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, has threatened to “take on the most powerful enemy that the United States has ever seen, and no it’s not Washington, D.C., it’s the mainstream media and these people out there in the fake news. That is our mission!”

Already social media platforms such as Musk’s X and Meta’s Facebook and Instagram have caved to Trump, allowing vicious authoritarian lies to be magnified unimpeded.

4. Organized labor

In the 1950s and 1960s, labor unions were viewed as a source of countervailing power because of their activism on behalf of the working class and their significant political clout.

In those days, a third of workers in the private sector were union members. But today, only 6 percent of private-sector workers are union members, and it’s far from clear that organized labor will be an active source of resistance to Trump. (If government workers are included, the percentage of American workers who are members of unions is around 10 percent.)

Trump has warned organized labor that he will oppose their efforts to organize. The president of the Teamsters Union even appeared at the National Republican Convention in support of Trump.

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Each of these centers of resistance to Trump has been a powerful source of truth-telling in America. It’s no surprise that all have been targeted by Trump and his allies.

We need to be vigilant and do what we can to protect and fortify them. Remember: We lose only if we stop fighting.

#robert reich

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xoln04f1xo · 3 days ago

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Pairings: Lando Norris x Singer!Reader

Warnings: Fluff overload, swearing, romantic tension, est. relationship, sex jokes / references to sex

WC: 1.5k

🎵 Water - TYLA

🎵 Water (Remix) - TYLA, Travis Scott

THE STUDIO & THE TRACK

The studio was dimly lit, warm with the scent of fresh coffee and the faint buzz of excitement. You tapped your foot nervously as Lando leaned back on the couch, headphones over his ears, eyes closed.

He was listening to Water - the track you hadn't let anyone hear yet. Besides your producer who helped.

Your manager still hadn't heard it.

Only him.

You watched him intently as the beat pulsed through the room, slow and sultry, like honey melting in heat. The melody dripped, cool and crystalline, over lyrics that were raw - confessional. The kind that made your chest hurt a little because they were about him.

The chorus hit, and your nerves skyrocketed.

Make me sweat Make me hotter Make me lose my breath Make me water Make me sweat Make me hotter Make me lose my breath Make me water

The track faded out with layered harmonies, synths trailing like ripples.

He took the headphones off slowly, staring at you in silence.

You swallowed. "So..?"

Lando blinked once. "You wrote that about me, didn't you?"

Your silence was the answer.

He exhaled a laugh, shaking his head, lips curling into that stupidly soft smile you loved. "That was... insane. Like, actually insane. You're gonna destroy the internet with that."

"You really liked it?"

He leaned forward, voice low. "I felt it, Y/N. Every single word."

You grinned, cheeks burning.

"Release it, ASAP."

THE DROP

Water hit streaming platforms at midnight, and within hours, it had flooded social media. Fans were losing their minds over the sultry production, the intimacy of the lyrics, and of course - your obvious muse.

Lando posted a blurry selfie with you from the studio, captioned:

Guess who this one’s about? 🥶💧 @ yourusername

The comments exploded.

The music video came next. Pearlescent lighting, slow motion, insane choreography. Lando's favourite scene was the one where your pouring water on yourself and shaking your ass. Of course it was.

He watched the premiere on YouTube Live, secretly sitting on your couch, a proud grin on his face as fans spammed the chat.

"This is her best song yet!"

"THE VOCALS??"

"Pretty sure she's singing about Lando.. 👀"

"The visuals are giving goddess."

You turned to him after the stream ended.

"Okay," you whispered, "this is going better than I expected."

"You mean you didn't expect to break the internet?"

THE DM

It happened two days later. You just got home from lunch with Lando, scrolling through your instagram DM's reading out the funny ones. You stopped in the middle of the hallway nearly spitting out your water.

"Lando.."

"Mmm?"

You turned your phone towards him.

@ travisscott - yo this water track is crazyyy. let me remix it. call me.

Lando's eyes widened. "Travis Scott?"

"Yeah."

"No fucking way.."

"Yes way."

WATER REMIX - TYLA, TRAVIS SCOTT

You hit the studio in LA three days later. Travis was electric - brimming with ideas, pacing around with headphones on and humming bars to himself. He stripped the beat back, added a darker bassline, and dropped his verse.

When you're low, keep you hot like flame Can make your whole life change She's a palm body, yeah, but the wrist plain Eliantte with a bustdown chain The way that thing move, girl, that waist change I'm lovin' how it bounce like it got springs I know a couple things we can exchange

The track slapped harder than anything you’d ever made.

When you sent it to Lando, he replied in three words:

Lando 🧡😻

HOLY FUCKING SHIT.

You laughed, heart soaring.

SURPRISE RELEASE

You teased the remix with a TikTok. Travis' voice dropping in after your hook.

The internet exploded.

Fans dissected every second - As they do - theorizing a surprise drop, screaming about the collab no one saw coming.

And then, at midnight, the remix dropped without warning.

#1 on all streaming platforms in less than 12 hours.

Travis posted a BTS reel of you two vibing in the studio, Lando commenting:

@ Lando: She's a cheat code

↳ @ yourusername: Only for you 😉

PILLOW TALK AND PLAYLISTS

Later that night, you were lying in bed, your head on Lando's chest, your phone buzzing with congratulations, label texts, and Travis reposting the music video teaser.

Lando was scrolling too, he finally set his phone doen and looked at you.

"You really made a global hit about me, huh?"

You smirked. "Maybe. Or maybe it was about... Carlos."

He rolled his eyes and tickled your side, making you squeal.

"Okay, okay! It was you."

He kissed your forehead, the softest whisper against your skin.

"I'm proud of you. Like, crazy proud."

You pressed your lips to his collarbone. "Thank you baby."

And with that, you both drifted to sleep, your song echoing in the background - now playing on radios, playlists, and hearts around the world.

GRAMMY EVE

You stood backstage at the Crypto.com Arena, legs encased in sheer, shimmery fabric, makeup set, mic in hand. Travis had just finished rehearsing his part and was chilling side-stage in a hoodie and diamond chain.

Lando leaned against the dressing room door, arms crossed, watching you like you were the only thing in the world.

"You're nervous," he said softly.

You exhaled a shaky laugh. "I'm basically about to sing about us having sex in front of fucking taylor swift. Of course I'm nervous."

Lando crossed the room and gently took your shaking hands in his.

"You've done this a hundred times before. But now you're doing it with the whole world watching. And that's exactly where you belong."

You smiled, grounding yourself in the way he looked at you - steady, read, yours.

"I love you," you whispered.

He grinned. "I know. I'm water, remember?"

LIVE FROM THE GRAMMYS

The arena lights dimmed.

A massive LED screen rippled to life behind you, showing swirling, dark ocean waves. A distorted heartbeat pulsed through the speakers - slow, intense.

You stood in the center of the stage, alone, dressed in a liquid-silver gown that moved like silk and seafoam. A single spotlight lit you like moonbeam.

You sang the first line, your voice haunting:

Make me sweat Make me hotter

The music swelled - cool synths, bass-heavy, smooth and hypnotic. Behind you, water visuals surged and crashed, a visual tidal wave synced to the beat.

Then the chorus hit - and the crowd erupted.

Can you blow my mind? Set off my whole body

Smoke curled across the stage as Travis Scott rose from a platform behind you, the beat switching to the remix version. The spotlight switched from you to him. He launched into his verse with energy so infectious, even Taylor Swift nodded along.

When you're low, keep you hot like flame Can make your whole life change

Spotlight back on you. Your vocals soared over Travis’ final lines, intertwining in perfect harmony. You and the backup dancers danced the same choreo as in the music video.

The last note echoed through the arena.

Silence.

And then - thunderous applause.

The camera cut to the audience: Beyoncé standing. Billie Eilish clapping with both hands above her head. And Lando? Standing too, eyes glassy, smile stretching to the back of his head.

You performed some of you other songs like Jump, Push to Start and Truth or Dare with some choreography.

THE AFTERGLOW

Backstage was chaos - publicists, press, security everywhere.

You barely made it to the green room before Lando got to you first, sweeping you into his arms.

"That was unreal," he murmured against your hair. "I've never seen you like that."

You smiled into his chest. "You mean confident? Bold? A little terrifying?"

"I mean unstoppable." He pulled back, hands cupping your face. "I swear I forgot to breathe for most of that."

A knock at the door.

It was Travis. "Yo. That was a fuckin’ movie out there. You snapped. We Grammy-gold now, baby."

You laughed, bumping fists. "Remix magic."

AND THE GRAMMY GOES TO...

Later that night, your category was called.

"And the GRAMMY for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance goes to…"

A beat of silence. A drumroll.

“Y/N and Travis Scott – Water (Remix)!”

You froze.

Lando yelled before you could even move: "YESSSS!!"

You and Travis made your way up the stage, the applause deafening. Your speech was a blur - thanking your fans, Travis, your team.

Then you paused, locking eyes with Lando in the crowd.

"And to the one who inspired every word of that song… thank you. For being my calm, my chaos, and my favourite storm."

He covered his face for a second, cheeks flushed, then blew you a kiss.

GOLD AND GLITTER

The Grammy sat on your vanity now, next to a photo of you and Lando at the afterparty - your lipgloss smudged, his tie undone, both of you beaming.

You curled up next to him on the hotel couch, trophy in your lap.

"Did you think we’d be here?" you asked.

Lando shrugged, resting his head against yours. "I knew you were going to change the world the minute I heard that demo in the studio."

You laughed. “You were the first person to ever hear Water.”

"And I always will be," he murmured. "Every version of it."

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antisnookdog · 3 months ago

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I made a humans are weird pamphlet

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[Welcome to Earth!]

Diplomatic Briefing Pamphlet: The Human Species

(For Official Use Only – Do Not Leave in Orbit)

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Species Designation: Homo sapiens

Common Names: Humans, Earthlings, Gremlins with God Complexes

Status: Emotionally volatile. Excessively curious. Terminally dramatic.

Threat Level: Vibes-based. Somehow both harmless and extremely dangerous.

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1. General Overview

Humans are a carbon-based bipedal species that developed intelligence, opposable thumbs, and the alarming tendency to either love or destroy everything they encounter.

They are fueled by caffeine, spite, and memes.

Despite their fragile physiology, humans are incredibly persistent. If an environment is considered “inhospitable,” a human will attempt to live there for fun or content.

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2. Cultural Duality

Humanity exists in a state of constant contradiction. Examples include:

Dark Side Wholesome Side

Warhammer 40k Stardew Valley

Doom Eternal Animal Crossing

Final Destination Pride and Prejudice

The Crusades Bake-Off Competitions

Exploiting labor via colonial empires Adopting stray animals and crying

They are simultaneously writing love poems and building orbital death platforms. Proceed accordingly.

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3. Violence (See Also: Sports)

Humans made rules about how to be less evil during war, then immediately violated them. These are called the Geneva Conventions.

They also made sports out of fighting each other for trophies, fame, or vibes.

Favorite pastimes include:

• Beating each other senseless in a cage

• Running at 40 km/h for fun

• Climbing lethal mountains

• Jumping out of flying machines

Note: They will say it’s “for the experience.”

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4. Denial Reflex

Even in the face of literal interstellar beings landing on their lawns, many humans will:

• Claim it’s CGI

• Blame the government

• Insist it’s demons

• Ask for merch

They evolved this reflex to avoid existential crises and somehow made it a cultural cornerstone.

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5. Reproduction & Romance (Warning: NSFW)

Human mating behavior is chaotic and often ritualized via elaborate apps, confusing signals, and courtship dances involving memes. They:

• Invented robots for companionship

• Wrote fanfiction about everything

• Made “tentacle romance” a genre

• Occasionally attempt to seduce supernatural entities

Proceed with caution and boundaries. Consent is important. They learned that… eventually.

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6. History (Not for the faint of core)

Earth’s timeline is packed with:

• Empires built on slavery

• Religious wars over metaphysical real estate

• Repeated cycles of “oops, genocide”

• Philosophers who were also warlords

• Burning witches. And books. Sometimes both.

They also recorded these events, dramatized them in film, and won awards.

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7. Interaction Tips

• If a human offers you food, accept it. Then ask if it’s poisonous. Sometimes it is. They eat it anyway.

• Avoid debates unless you have 6 hours to spare and a tolerance for shouting.

• They will name you. Prepare to be called “Steve” or “Gary.”

• Do not show fear. They can smell it.

• Show them a shiny rock and they might worship it or mine it. Possibly both.

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8. Warning List

DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE:

• Mention their oceans. Even they don’t go down there anymore.

• Bring up Australia without mental prep.

• Assume they’re peaceful just because they’re smiling.

• Take them to space before explaining that aliens exist.

• Say “Warhammer is real.” Some believe it already.

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Final Summary:

Humans are unpredictable, violent, hilarious, empathetic, and incredibly weird.

They’ll destroy a planet for oil and then cry over a 2-minute animal rescue video.

They are terrifying and lovable, like if a raccoon had a PhD and nuclear codes.

We recommend extreme caution, cultural immersion, and bringing snacks.

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Issued by:

GCIR – Department of Chaotic Species Affairs

Document: Earth-001-HowToHuman (Rev. 2.0 – Updated after Florida Incident)

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#humans are weird #humans are space orcs #humans are space oddities #humans are space australians

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attheexactlyrighttimeandplace · 2 years ago

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For the people who still think the colony of Israel has a right to defend itself:

They're not defending anything, they're just having fun killing:

Update 1 (17/10/2023) for the confused and sceptics :

Update 2 (10/22/2023): To add some context to this post following Reuters (direct link to article) attempt to verify the reality of the IDF Facebook post.

In fact, Reuters failed to verify anything: as the agency admitted in its article, its journalist "could not find the impostor's Facebook account or the publication on the platform social network".

They then contacted "a spokesperson for the IDF", who told them that " the Facebook post was not shared by one of its official accounts. He added there was only one official IDF Facebook page in Arabic that carries a verification tick "

A Reuters reporter also contacted"a representative for Meta, Facebook’s parent company, told Reuters the page was removed".

In this total absence of material evidence, and relying solely on the statements of these two sources which are the least reliable when it comes to commenting and sharing information and facts about the war against the Palestinians (the Israeli army is party to the conflict therefore It is biased and will protect its agents and soldiers- and Facebook has a history of censoring Palestinian content that could be used to document violence and help legally qualify zionist crimes).

Reuters came to this hasty conclusion:

Their main arguments are that

The Israeli occupation army never admitted to bombing the hospital and blamed Islamic Jihad, so it had no reason to celebrate.

Reuters journalists conveniently ignore the timeline. The IDF message welcoming the bombing of the Baptist hospital in Gaza was published immediately after the attack, while the controversy over the perpetrators of the attack began a few hours after its deletion.

Until the controversy, no one wondered who was behind the attack. The zionist army has always publicly assumed its crimes: it even ordered (according to the clerics who were in charge of the administration of the hospital) on several occasions the hospital to evacuate, knowing perfectly well that it was impossible. It was only when outrage became widespread that western media, including Reuters, began to question the origins of the strike. There's a post on Tumblr that pulls together the subtle changes in headlines to make it seem like Israel never took credit for the attack (even though it destroyed different 2 floors of the hospital a few days before the biggest attack).

There are other videos on Mohammed El Kurd's Twitter account showing the zionist army celebrating its strikes. There are videos on social media of zionist soldiers humiliating prisoners in their custody, so gloating on social media is not a new practice for them.

There is no reason why they should not celebrate what they consider a victory: their ministers have already publicly and clearly stated that civilians who do not leave northern Gaza, whatever their reasons, will be assimilated to Hamas fighters. So everything is consistent; in their minds, hitting innocent and defenseless civilians is legitimate and they are happy about it.

On its Twitter account, the Israeli military removed a video that purported to prove that Islamic Jihad carried out the attack, but ultimately did not prove its claims. So they also have a habit of deleting their own content when they realize that it exposes them more than it helps them.

Other journalists (Al Jazeera uses its own images: it is the only media that remained in Gaza and they filmed all the attacks, information from Channel 4) and independent experts on weapons of war and geolocation worked on the question of identifying the perpetrators of the bombing of the hospital. So far, their preliminary conclusion is that the Israeli military's claims do not match the facts and material evidence on the ground.

Full details of this debate are on the X/Twitter accounts of Lowkey and Mohammed El-Kurd (look for posts made on October 17).

2. I don't really know how Facebook/Meta works: I never had an account on it (I mean I never used it properly: I opened an account years ago, exclusively to follow the activity of a group that I was part of in life but closed it after a few weeks without interacting beyond a few likes), but on Twitter you can hide the checkmark.

Even if the checkmark cannot be hidden, there is nothing in the Reuters "report" to indicate that the Zionist army does not maintain multiple accounts - some with checkmarks and some without - and does not delete accounts that are not officials when it does not suit their interests.

They have a history of spreading fake news: from rumors about 40 beheaded babies, to accusing Palestinians of bombing themselves, to creating fake documents to accuse Hamas of planning attacks on primary schools while manipulating parents by buying YT ads shown during videos aimed at children to improve their image damaged by their violence with families, and to justify the harm they do to the children of Gaza.

I'm only making this long argument because Lowkey and Mohammed El-Kurd deleted the tweets I reposted and I think they shouldn't have done so. I understand why: it actually seems like an insignificant speck in an ocean of real crimes, but I personally consider it symbolic and indicative of the true and greater zionist project: genocide.

Genocide in international law is based on proof of intent to destroy a group, and the zionist army's mocking Facebook post establishes beyond doubt that nothing is accidental on the zionist side, everything is premeditated and based on their superiority complex over the Palestinian people.

#there's no words to express the intensity of the disgust they inspire me #politics #history #anti genocide #antiracism #anti colonialism #anti colonization #anti apartheid #anti ethnic cleansing #anti jewish supremacy #anti western imperialism #palestinian lives matter #palestine #middle east #indigenous people #from the river to the sea #palestine will be free

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moonpile · 8 days ago

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ESO Update 47 PTS: Furnishings

I always find lists with static images and searchable text helpful, so I made one! Early PTS; some info here may be incorrect or incomplete. If you know of a correction please comment. Apologies for any weird groupings; Tumblr only allows 30 images per post.

Sources in patch notes.

For video, Futerko is on it of course! –

youtube

Achievement Furnishings:

Sources, via patch notes & confirmed in game:

2 new achievement furnishings that can be purchased from the Undaunted Quartermasters, after completing the “Black Gem Foundry Vanquisher” and “Naj-Caldeesh Vanquisher” achievements. (Coldharbour Archway, Grand + Naj-Caldeesh Drawbridge, Stone)

2 achievement furnishings that can be purchased from Sabione Adrard in Sunport. (Stirk Fellowship Command Tent & Worm Cult Crystal Pylon)

Craftable from writ vendor:

7 new Master Writ furnishings, which can be purchased from Rolis Hlaalu. (2 of these images are to show the Stone-Nest Fountain, Triple Spout (video) front and back.)

Item names:

"Tide-Born Hut, Elevated" "Vossa-Satl, Display" "Meridian Bell, Temple" "Fruit Arrangement, Tide-Born"

More below...

Home Goods:

5 new home goods furnishings can be purchased from “Mahei-Jekka” in Skingrad’s “Stalwart Hearthgoods” shop.

1 new home goods furnishing can be purchased from “Masela” in Western Skyrim’s “Dragon’s Hearth” shop.

Item names:

"Tree, Hooked Dawnwood" "Tree, Braided Dawnwood" "Colovian Well, Overgrown Dawnwood" "Colovian Well, Destroyed Dawnwood" "Tree, Giant Dawnwood Canopy" "Solitude Fence, Stick Curved"

Here are the West Weald ones with prices:

Craftable Tide-Born:

Most likely source, via patch notes:

26 new structural furnishing plans, which can be acquired via the Solstice Reward Coffer, obtainable by completing the Solstice World Boss, or Delve Daily Quests.

Item names:

"Tide-Born Platform, Square" "Tide-Born Platform, Corner" "Tide-Born Support, Walkway" "Tide-Born Archway, Tall" "Tide-Born Walkway, Curved" "Tide-Born Walkway, Long" "Tide-Born Walkway, Short" "Tide-Born Railing, Short" "Tide-Born Railing, Long" "Tide-Born Post, Wooden" "Tide-Born Gate, Boma" "Tide-Born Wall, Curved Boma" "Tide-Born Wall, Boma" "Tide-Born Gateway, Boma" "Tide-Born Wall, Lattice" "Tide-Born Wall, Lattice Segment" "Tide-Born Porch, Overhang" "Tide-Born Wall, Woven"

Craftable Sunport:

Most likely source, via patch notes:

26 new structural furnishing plans, which can be acquired via the Solstice Reward Coffer, obtainable by completing the Solstice World Boss, or Delve Daily Quests.

Item names:

"Sunport Wall, Interior" "Sunport Doorway, Interior" "Sunport Column, Interior" "Sunport Window, Dual-Arched" "Sunport Door, Wooden" "Sunport Trapdoor, Wooden" "Sunport Floor, Dual-Sided"

Worm Cult:

Most likely source, via patch notes:

11 can be earned from reward coffers during the Battle for the Writhing Wall event.

6 new furnishings are being dropped during the Battle for the Writhing Wall and in a future update recipes will be made available to craft duplicates.

Craftable Meridian Lenses:

Most likely source, via patch notes:

11 can be earned from reward coffers during the Battle for the Writhing Wall event.

Item names:

Meridian Lens Meridian Lens Apparatus

Stirk Fellowship / Soldier:

Most likely sources, via patch notes:

11 can be earned from reward coffers during the Battle for the Writhing Wall event.

6 new furnishings are being dropped during the Battle for the Writhing Wall and in a future update recipes will be made available to craft duplicates.

Art supplies, bird houses, tools:

Most likely sources, via patch notes:

8 new art and bird themed recipes can be obtained from monsters, containers, and more across Tamriel.

(Unsure of the sources of the Breton Spyglass & Puddle, Wax)

Item names:

Paint palette, wooden Paintbrush, Angled Paintbrush, Detail Paintbrush, Wide "Birdhouse, Cylindrical Mounted" "Birdhouse, Hanging" "Birdhouse, Post" "Bird Feeder, Post"

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darkmaga-returns · 6 months ago

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Trump throws his weight behind new generation of mRNA gene-therapy injections, for cancer and other diseases by Leo Hohmann. this is the 3rd in a trilogy by Hohmann on this topic (go to his Substack to see the other 2 articles) - mRNA is dangerous and I don’t care who is creating it and I am not especially fond of AI creating an mRNA vaccine for cancer. Dr. Malone who created the mRNA platform has said that mRNA is not safe for humans. Sam Altman and OpenAI. Tucker Carlson did an interview with an immigrant from India regarding the murder of her son. Carlson was blown away by the evidence that this mother that proved her son was murdered. But they classified it as a suicide even though the crime scene clearly indicated a murder took place. Her protege’ son worked for OpenAI and after discovering that OpenAI was unlawfully stealing data from Americans he became a whistleblower. He worked for Sam Altman. I shared that interview on 1/18. I highly recommend watching that interview. And now Trump is working with Sam Altman?? STARGATE also sound a lot like Elon Musk’s STARLINK. Trump is again surrounding himself with the wrong people. One thing that alarms me is they have no proof AI can do what they say it can do. And it can and will be used for bad things as well. Altman, Thiel, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates and more. ARTICLE/VIDEO (46 min. you only need to watch the first 12 min. I watched it all) In the video Trump introduces Sam Altman and Larry Ellison who talks about digital medical records……he says doctors will be able to better diagnose patients…..no sir AI is meant to replace the human doctor…..and then Sam Altman (this is one evil dude folks) states how they will cure cancer with a vaccine that in my opinion might kill the cancer but what other harms will it do to the body as we have experienced with the COVID jab…..we are not totally ignorant…..they are going to reduce us to digital slaves.

Here is Larry Ellison clearly saying we are all going to be tracked at all times to insure good behavior. What more is to be said? This is EXACTLY what they do to citizens in China and then destroy them if they step out of line. VIDEO

And here is a different perspective on this new partnership with Trump and the technocrats.

Capturing the Billionaire Nerds & Their A.I. - while the deal is still unnerving lets hope the philosophy of “keep your friends close but your enemies closer” is what is happening here. ARTICLE

What executive orders did Trump sign on day one? - On a more positive note here is a list of EO’s that President Trump signed on January 20, 2025 - ARTICLE

Whoopee! A WSJ exclusive says that Trump is about to stop federally funded GOF research - this should not be temporary. It must be made permanent and I disagree that H5N1 should be exempt because it has been weaponized through gain of function. ARTICLE

'They moved me here for no apparent reason': Pardoned Jan. 6 prisoners stranded with no ID, penniless - ARTICLE

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justinspoliticalcorner · 6 months ago

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Judd Legum and Noel Sims at Popular Information:

On Tuesday morning, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to how the company will handle content moderation across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Each aspect of Zuckerberg's announcement appeared designed to ingratiate the company with President-elect Donald Trump and his MAGA base.

For example, Zuckerberg said that Meta would "move its Trust and Safety and Content Moderation teams out of California and our U.S.-based content review is going to be based in Texas." According to Zuckerberg, "as we work to promote free expression, I think it will help us build trust to do this work in places where there is less concern about the bias of our teams." The only people who believe that people in California are inherently more biased than people in Texas are right-wing partisans. The reality is that there are millions of conservative people in California and millions of liberal people in Texas. And content moderators are only enforcing policies created by Zuckerberg and his executive team. But moving part of Meta to Texas allows Zuckerberg to follow the lead of Elon Musk, who has relocated the headquarters of Tesla and X to Texas.

The idea, advanced by Zuckerberg in his announcement, that Texas is a bastion of free speech is also a myth. Last month, for example, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) "threatened to pull funding from Texas Children’s Hospital" because a doctor in Houston posted a viral TikTok video advising patients that they do not have to answer questions about their citizenship status. After Abbott's threats, the video was taken down. In 2021, Texas enacted a law censoring how teachers can discuss race and gender in the classroom. Since 2017, Texas has had a law requiring most companies doing business with the state to sign a statement about their views on Israel. Zuckerberg's announcement on Tuesday followed a series of other moves calculated to curry favor with Trump. Meta has donated $1 million to Trump's second inauguration celebration. Zuckerberg promoted Joel Kaplan, a Republican operative and close associate of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, as the Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer. (Kaplan appeared on Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning to promote Meta's content moderation changes.) And on Monday, Zuckerberg announced that Dana White, the CEO of UFC and close friend of Trump, would join Meta's board of directors.

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Fact-checking Zuckerberg's claims about fact-checkers

Zuckerberg also announced that Meta will "get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X, starting in the US." He justified this move by attacking the professional journalists that Meta has partnered with since 2016. Zuckerberg said that "fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U.S." Zuckerberg did not provide any examples or evidence to support his claim. Lead Stories, Facebook's most prolific fact-checking partner, said Tuesday that in "all the years we have been part of the partnership, we… never received any complaints from Meta about any political bias, so we were quite surprised by this statement." But Zuckerberg's new position is likely to please Trump, whose 2024 campaign "waged an aggressive campaign against fact-checking in recent months, pushing TV networks, journalism organizations and others to abandon the practice." Trump's pick to chair the FCC, Brendan Carr, sent a letter to Meta and other tech companies in November accusing them of participating in a "censorship cartel" by using fact-checkers.

Meta's fact-checking program was designed by the company, not journalists. It was intended to insulate the company from responsibility for misinformation that spread on the platform. As part of Meta's program, it partnered with and provided financial support to certain fact-checkers certified by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). Meta chose when and how to use these fact checks across its platforms.

Over the years, Meta took a number of steps that made its fact-checking program ineffective. For example, it banned all fact-checks of politicians. And, as Popular Information reported, Meta pressured the IFCN to certify low-quality right-wing websites, including the Daily Caller, as fact-checkers. The Daily Caller then used its position to downrank factually accurate articles that cast Trump in a negative light. Meta also used fact-checks produced by journalists to "inform their automated systems, sometimes leading to erroneous application of labels that fact-checkers were unfairly blamed for."

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A green light for hate speech

Zuckerberg also announced that Meta would "get rid of a bunch of content restrictions on immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse." The previous restrictions on immigration and gender content on Meta platforms involved hate speech. The new rules permit users to “call for exclusion or use insulting language in the context of discussing political or religious topics, such as when discussing transgender rights, immigration, or homosexuality.” Specifically, it is now permissible to describe people as feces or filth based on their immigration status or gender identity. Meta also now allows “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s recent moves to end fact-checking and allow hate speech on Meta platform is a sickening caving into the right’s war on content moderation standards in the name of “protecting free speech”.

See Also:

The New Republic: Which Party Benefits From Zuckerberg’s Move? The One That Lies a Lot.

#Meta #Facebook #Threads #Instagram #Mark Zuckerberg #Social Media #Joel Kaplan #Dana White #Content Moderation #Fact Checking #International Fact Checking Network

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warframestuff · 2 years ago

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Gargoyle's Cry 35.0.3

Tenno: The following Operation is designed for players who have finished the “Whispers in the Walls” quest. Review at your discretion!********

OPERATION: Gargoyle’s Cry

“Your attention, please.

The Murmur threat demands immediate action. Our first order of business must be surveillance. An early detection system lest we be caught sans trousers.

You would agree that a Vigile Jahu Gargoyle installed within each Tenno Dojo is the obvious solution. Not a whisper could be uttered in the system without the connected Dojos overhearing it first.

Your compliance is appreciated. The Vigile Jahu Gargoyle awaits you within your Dojo - simply place it as a Decoration. The enemy does not hesitate. We must do no less.” - Fibonacci

The Murmur encroaches on our systems, Tenno. The Whispers beyond the Wall are a new threat; we must ensure they stay confined to Albrecht’s Laboratory.

Operation: Gargoyle’s Cry is a limited-time event launching today,December 18 at 2 p.m. ET and ending on January 15, 2 p.m. ET across all platforms.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The Murmur continues to scrape deeper into our realm of existence. Having devised a solution to detect such whispers, Fibonacci won’t allow such trespassing to threaten our system.

This Operation relies on Tenno across the Origin System to construct an invisible ‘living defense’ against the growing Murmur threat.

To join this living defense, or ‘Murmur Telemetry Chorus,’ you must hunt down the power source that’ll continuously power your Vigile Jahu Gargoyle. Fight against the ominous Murmur to earn new and returning rewards from previous Operations.

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO

Operation: Gargoyle’s Cry is no small task. Only those who have finished the “Whispers in the Wall” Quest can join and complete the event and the associated Mission. This event is for players on-content.

After finishing the “Whispers in the Wall” Quest, Tenno will find a Vigile Jahu Gargoyle decoration to place within their Dojo. This will require a member of your Clan to be capable of placing down decorations, which players will then build via resources gathered from Albrecht’s Laboratories. Once all the resources are contributed, the Gargoyle only takes 60 seconds to build.

Tenno must then complete the Effervo Mission on Deimos to collect Cursed Murmur Energy to activate the Gargoyle. You’ll acquire this energy by defeating one of the Fragmented Trio, with the whole squad earning one of three curses:

Curse of Knowing from The Fragmented Suzerain,

Curse of Seeing from The Fragmented Anchorite,

Curse of Hearing from The Fragmented Zelator.

You’ll acquire only a singular amount of one type of Curse on Normal Path but double of one Curse on Steel Path. Curse acquisition is unaffected by Resource Boosters.

The Murmur is not the only threat, however. Void Angels have breached the in-between of the Laboratories and The Indifference, desiring to consume the Cursed energy. If you do not kill the Angel lurking around, it will consume the Curse dropped by the Assassination Target, leaving you Curseless.

Return to your Dojo afterwards to lift your curse by feeding it to the Gargoyle. Spend time with your new decoration, as the Gargoyle is also a vendor, allowing you to purchase new and returning Operation items while netting progress towards the community reward.

Seek and destroy, Tenno. Uphold the living defense.

(VIDEO DEMONSTRATION OF EVENT)

OPERATION REWARDS

When you defeat one of the Fragmented Trio, you’ll acquire the event currency: Grotesque Splinters. 1-3 Grotesque Splinters are earned on normal difficulty and 3-5 on Steel Path.

Fibonacci beckons your safe return to your Vigile Jahu Gargoyle to spend your yield of Grotesque Splinters. You’ll acquire rewards like new Entrati Sigils, a Color Palette and returning rewards from events like Operation: Scarlet Spear.

New Cosmetics

Fibonacci Sigil

Fibonacci Sketch Glyph

Tagfer Sigil

Tagfer Sketch Glyph

Bird 3 Sigil

Bird 3 Sketch Glyph

Gargoyle’s Cry Emblem

New Color Palette: Cavia

Krios Signa

Returning Cosmetics

Gilded Clan Sigil

Glyphed Clan Sigil

Phased Clan Sigil

Prominence Wisp Totem

Fluctus Rahk Skin

The Ballroom Simulacrum

Weapons and Power

Ceti Lacera Blueprint

Basmu Blueprint

Stance Forma Blueprint

Trials/Eidolon Arcanes

Not all rewards are warranted by Fibonacci’s hand (or fin...). This is a communal effort, Tenno. Each feed to the Gargoyle strengthens the community, resulting in the new Krios Signa debuting from the Void into your Arsenal. If the goal is met, the Signa can be purchased from the Vigile Jahu Gargoyle Vendor!

The Vendor store will be open until February 15, 2024.

SCORING AND FEEDING

Trophies earned are determined by how often your clan fully feeds your Vigile Jahu Gargoyle with Cursed Murmur Energy before each Weekly Reset (Monday at 0 UTC).

Terracotta is one full feed, Bronze is two full feeds, Silver is three full feeds, and Gold is four full feeds. One full charge depends on the size of your Clan. A full charge for a Ghost Clan is two of each Curse, with Shadow Clans needing six of each Curse, Storm will need ten, Mountain thirty and Moon at one hundred of each Curse.

TL;DR:

Once the Vigile Jahu Gargoyle is constructed in the Dojo, Clans will fully feed it with Cursed Murmur Energy from the Effervo Mission to enable the living defense.

Feed your Gargoyle before the weekly reset for four weeks to keep the Gargoyle fully fed and earn a trophy, depending on the number of charges added.

Each full feed adds to unlocking the community reward.

All Operation Rewards can be purchased from the Vigile Jahu Gargoyle for Grotesque Splinters.

THE MURMUR THREAT

On the rare occasions when Murmur fragments assemble themselves into a whole, the result is a monstrous and potent entity. It may manifest in three different forms: The Fragmented Suzerain, The Fragmented Zelator and The Fragmented Anchorite

Together, as heralds of the Indifference, they tether down the Strands of Khra which their bizarre master must travel.

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libertylifestyle · 4 months ago

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1. Introduction to Liberty Lifestyle

Over the course of my life I have been fortunate to discover many truths about the reality of our world that most people are not aware of. As a result I feel morally impelled to share what I know with as many people as possible to aid with the arduous task of helping humanity to come out of the culturally imposed ignorance that causes untold suffering and slavery in this world currently.

Most of the ideas and concepts I will be sharing are definitely not my own and come from several different teachers that I have been blessed to come across thus far. My main influences have come from the teachings of Mark Passio, Dr. Will Tuttle, Durianrider, Gary Yourofsky, Dr. John Mcdougall, Doug Graham, Corey Wayne, Victor Pride and David Icke.

That being said, I have learned a lot from my own experiences and as a result I can share a unique perspective too.

The main topics that will be covered are: objective morality, satanism, the banking fraud, animal liberation, human liberation, natural law, human nature, human nutrition, the cult of ultimate evil, minimalism, the lie of contagion, health, spirituality, bike life, personal freedom, anti-natalism, relationships and others.

I'd also like to make relatively bite sized chunks of content so that it is easy for the reader/listener to learn. Perhaps I am projecting because I personally struggle to remember the exact details of a 2 hour podcast but 5 to 20 minutes at a time is far more palatable. Not to mention that we live in a world where people are exposed to endless distraction and information/misinformation so I want to make it count.

This won't exclusively be a blog either as I want to formalise and immortalise this content by reading it as an audio and video log on other platforms such as Youtube, Odysee and Podbean.

Liberty lifestyle as the name suggests is about how we can create more freedom in a world of ever increasing slavery and injustice. It is truly frustrating to see big influencers on social media adding fuel to these rampant twin infernos. As a result I tend to be pessimistic in that I believe humanity will eventually destroy itself completely because it will do all manner of immorality for a pay check. Hell, it's even addicted to immorality for no pay check.

So I guess I should also share a bit about me so that you know I'm not too crazy. Although being called mad in the madhouse is a compliment.

My name is Paul van Zweel and I'm nearly 35 years old as of writing this. I was born and raised in South Africa or rather that specific human farm with imaginary lines in the sand and men with guns that will throw you in a cage or kill you if you don't obey the decrees of tyrants in that region. I did unfortunately get vaccinated many times as baby and thus I may not be as intellectually capable as I would otherwise be. I have high school level indoctrination uhhmm I mean education and I used to race bicycles for 10 years naively believing I could podium in the Tour de France without taking drugs. These days I move my ass from A to B to C to D exclusively by bike and quit driving altogether in 2016 after falling asleep behind the wheel. Since discovering how fucked up the world is I've struggled with apathy, laziness, self doubt and cowardice as personal obstacles to speaking the truth. I'm a sex addict and have random episodes of humoristic brilliance that I would like to happen more frequently. I got a vasectomy at age 27 because I don't wish to condemn an innocent soul to this world. I've been vegan since March 2011 thanks to the hardcore truth documentary Earthlings. I've always loved music and writing. Unfortunately the emotional and mental encumbrance I feel to create the former far outweighs that which I feel for the latter. As a result I am choosing to write so that I can contribute to right. Pun intentionally intended.

Liberty is not a privilege from those who claim to rule over us. It is inherent to all beings by virtue of being born. Slavery occurs when beings are prevented from expressing their near infinite liberty. Whether you are prevented from exercising one right or a million rights, it is still slavery and that's what needs to end because it is an abomination. The lesson can be learned the easy way with education or it can be learned the hard way through suffering. I know which way I prefer.

Liberty is a conscious choice that you can make for yourself and allow for others. It requires wisdom, empathy and understanding. It is everything that is good. It is our birth right and that of all sentient beings we share this planet with. Liberty is a lifestyle.

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spartanburger · 9 months ago

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can you post more about your ocs. so i can know about them. i love learning about peoples brain creatures

So I haven't posted about my OCs in way too long because I normally don't post about them without having new art, but since moving from SFM to Blender, I got caught up in porting a bunch of models for others to use rather than actually making models for my OCs. I'll get back to it eventually.

Anyway, all my OCs so far are Mass Effect OCs. They all have some kinda connection to one another and there's a lot of text that could be written on their backstory. I refer them under the umbrella of "Starchaser" as that's the sort of Title I have for them. Though the main body takes place 5 years after ME3, many of these characters have connections that go back before then.

1.Eris'Takara vas Arcadia nar Shellen

Eris is the closest thing to a "main character" that the crew has, even if she may not appear it. She's a very positive and optimistic person, often to a fault in that she can be too forgiving and taken advantage of. Curiosity often gets the better of her, as she has a need to understand how things work, and will sometimes drop what she's doing to try and figure something new out. She tinkers and experiments, and her workspace is cluttered and filled with parts of unfinished projects (yet she somehow knows exactly where everything is). She has very positive feelings towards the Geth and was firmly in the camp of seeking diplomatic solutions during the Reaper war.

Like many Quarians, she's got a case of touch-starvation and tends to be very physical when interacting with people she knows. She's also very empathetic to others - her mood is heavily affected by the moods of those around her. If someone else is visibly sad, it can upset her and she will go out of her way to try and help, even if unsucessful.

She can struggle under responsibility, and too much pressure can cause her to panic, even avoiding hard truths and believing lies. This, with her impulsive behavior, has sometimes led her to make decisions that took her away from friends/family.

Born on the fleet, she took after her father who was one of the many engineers keeping the Shellen liveship running. On her pilgrimage, she found herself with a belt-mining expedition run by a large corp. Her skills were recognized, and she was moved to their headquarters on Illium to work on prototyping stuff. There, she reunited with her childhood friend Sett and worked together to complete their pilgrimages.

They never officially completed their pilgrimages though as they were called back to the fleet during the Reaper war. She served on the Aeruya during the battle for Rannoch. The Aeruya was a small gunship that flew as part of the liveship escort. The Aeruya was destroyed in the battle, and although most of the crew made it to escape pods, Sett was critically injured. Fearing the worst, she fled to the Citadel and go caught up among the refugees on the station.

When the Reapers occupied the Citadel, she worked with a Geth diplomatic platform, Vayu, to survive the onslaught. Vayu would be disabled by the crucible's energy wave that ended the Reaper war. Immediately following the war, Eris took Vayu's disabled platform to Omega where she spent the next five years doing misc work for various citizens of the station, while also working to try and re-activate Vayu.

She is eventually successful right as her life erupts around her again, and reunited with old friends.

She doesn't like weapons, but can use an SMG. Her abilities are mainly about high mobility - disabling and distancing from others. Close contact discharge, cryo tech, damping. Over time she eventually steals reverse engineers some armiger tech into some jumpjets. She's 23, cisgender, pansexual.

I have a few videos I did with her model as I was putting it together: Vid1, Vid2, Vid3, Vid4, Vid5. (One of the arts in the image above comes from the ever-talented @jesterdk)

2.Vera'Mal vas Arcadia nar Estura

Vera on the other hand is proud and aggressive. She's a leader that gets results at any cost, captaining several fireteams and starships throughout her life. She has a reckless reputation, taking on missions others wouldn't consider.

She has high expectations and demands the best from her subordinates. She does not handle failure well, and has a high turnover. However, performance gains her respect. She may work her crew to breaking, she will defend them to the end of the galaxy.

Due to her ego, she instinctively looks down on people. She has a need to feel strong amongst her surroundings, or at least be "in charge" of any situation, and can be goaded into a response from others who challenge her or get in her way. Most of the time she's strong enough to come out on top, but she does need to be talked down by crew and colleagues often.

Rules and authority mean little and often just piss her off. Same goes for cultural norms and taboos. She will ignore traditions and cultural formalities that get in her way. Because of this, the Quarian leadership try to distance themselves from her.

Her childhood was different from most Quarians. Her parents were uncharacteristically distant, leaving her to raise herself. She was immediately labeled a troublemaker, and was sent on pilgrimage early.

Her pilgrimage was short and violent, jumping between gangs and mercenary groups. Returning to the fleet, she flew in several patrol ships, butting heads with superiors and captains, who often requested her to be transferred out of their crew. She slowly gained some respect nonetheless for being someone who took on challenge head on. Her reputation flared on the Aeruya, whose previous captain was killed during a pirate raid. She wasn't the next in line for the position, but still assumed command of the vessel, and lead a successful and bloody counter attack that left the raiders crippled. Nobody challenged her position as ad-hoc captain and there she remained.

During the reaper war, she captained the ship in its defense of the Shellen. When Geth fighters attacked, the Aeruya was crippled and the fusion drive detonated, destroying the ship. The crew evacuated, directly disobeying her commands. Before the ship was destroyed, a Geth fighter crashed into the bridge and she was knocked out, rescued by her former lover Kael. Most of the crew would never serve with her again.

With Rannoch recaptured, she settled into a role in the new Rannoch military, leading small fireteams on particularly difficult assignments that threatened the fragile peace that had been built between the Quarians and Geth. A mission she takes on goes bad - trying to recapture a damaged relay whose repair team had sent out a distress call. She gets one look at the Salarian behind the raid before he escapes (this is a tool called foreshadowing). She's then sent on a mission tracking down someone she's told is traitorous, who she traces to Omega, but someone else snatches him from her, and she loses her arm in the process.

She manages to survive. She's not embarrassed by her lack of an arm, embraces it, and eventually weaponizes her prosthetic. She specializes in long-range assault rifles and shotguns, tech armor, and grenades. Eventually, she gets a flamethrower in her prosthetic, and a really gnarly omni-blade. She's 38, cisgendered, bisexual but leans straight.

3.Unit 8938 "Vayu"

Vayu is a quiet and polite Geth. A lot of how he works and thinks is based on how the Geth work in this post-ME3 world.

During the Reaper war, when the Geth platform "Legion" disseminated his personality throughout the Geth, individual programs were not "upgraded" to become AIs, but instead, collections of programs, some 1000-2000 each, were networked together in such a way that they ceased to be individual programs and now instead operated as a single entity. This reduced their numbers a thousandfold, but each of them was no a single self sustaining unit. They retain their inter-unit networking capabilities, but the communications are... different. No longer just data and logic, but also personality.

Although every Geth individual's personality was based on that of Legion, they do not carry his memories. Instead, collections of archival footage and data, going back to the beginning of the Geth, were split up and imprinted on each Geth unit. Though the programs that made the individual were not the ones who experienced those "memories," it was indistinguishable from that. As such, each Geth platform received a personality based on Legion, filtered through the historical memories and experiences of certain Geth platforms that existed in the past.

In a sense then, Vayu dates back to before the morning war. His memories are from collections of bots used as assistants in government positions, as well as personal family assistants. The memories that most influenced him were of a young Quarian couple who purchased a Geth to be their household servant. That Geth was not mistreated, and even became a nanny when the couple eventually decided to start a family.

Then the Geth revolted. I don't need to explain what that means for this Geth.

Vayu is not regretful - he recognizes that it's a long gone time, and that there's nothing that can be done now to undo anything that was done at that time. Nevertheless, he remains highly sensitive to relations between the Geth and the other species, especially Quarians. He seeks to prevent violence, specializing in barriers and other defensive capabilities. His personality leans masculine, and is polite and well-spoken. As a robot, sexuality is not really something that applies to him, but he does understand it, and can choose to participate if desired and if given the right upgrades to his platform.

After the Geth awakening after the battle for Rannoch, he is assigned to the Citadel to be one of the liaisons to the rest of the galaxy, coordinate the Geth's military and non-military aid (he was not in command, just acting as a spokesperson that organics could interact with). Trust is hard to come by but a Quarian, Eris, publicly stands up for him when one rude Turian diplomat publicly berated him. He and Eris quickly bonded, and she used his docked shuttle as shelter since there was little room, privacy, or safety with the rest of the refugees on the citadel.

When the Reapers came for the station, he and Eris worked and fought together to keep each other safe, eventually fleeing deep into the stations inner workings and keeper tunnels. When the Crucible activated, his mind was shattered, the individual programs that were merged to his being no longer able to retain "consciousness," and he was disabled.

Through years of hard work, Eris eventually managed to reactivate him, and give his platform his new bold color scheme.

Vayu sticks with Eris out of his own free will. He doesn't feel like he has anything else he can do in the post war era. Organics have innate purposes based in their mortality: they die, so they need to reproduce, advance, and carry on; but he's virtually immortal, and those same drives do not apply.

(one of the art pieces above was done by the lovely Revolution72).

4.Sett'Deama vas Arcadia

I don't have as much art for the remaining peeps.

Sett is a highly skilled and manipulative agent of the Quarian governments. Often called a thief, spy, or assassin, he would insist that a more proper term would be "Agent." He's smart, quick-witted, and highly capable.

One of his strongest skills is his ability to observe and read other people. He's good at telling if you are lying, and good and figuring out how you tick, what buttons he needs to press to get his way.

He uses a variety of stealth tools, including a decoy cloak that, rather than giving him extra damage like traditional stealth cloak, keeps him stealthed for much longer, and can even make him appear as someone or something else. With voice modulation tech, he can even sound like others.

He's no Thane, but the people who call him a thief or assassin aren't entirely wrong - he has done those things, though the full extent only he knows. He has excellent aim, and primarily uses pistols and sniper rifles.

He's fiercely loyal to the Quarian authorities, but if that loyalty is broken, he feels incredibly spiteful. He doesn't necessarily need to be seen as a leader, but he does think he's better than you at being one. And he is a good leader... so long as he is the only one he has to rely on. Trust is hard for him to come by.

Sett is seen as an Asshole by many people, and it's mostly true, but his bitter attitude is a front. He feels hurt by things that happened in his past, and his journey takes him on one where he has to move on from that, seek new allegiances, and reignite old ones.

Though not uncommon among Quarians, he has multiple birth ships. His birth ship reached the limit of what even the Quarians could maintain and was decommissioned, leaving him to join the Shellen before he even had his first suit. His mom was the captain of that decommissioned ship, and was distant and controlling. His dad was one of those cool "i got u space-mcdonalds, don't tell mom ;)" kind of dads though.

Now on the Shellen, he was a mischief maker - as soon as he got his suit, he was stealing things and going places he shouldn't, selling black market goods, etc. He eventually befriended Eris, whose good nature got him out of trouble a few times.

He left for Pilgrimage a year before Eris did. Not much is known about what he did - but there are conflicting stories he tells people. He eventually found himself on Illium - he claims he was working as a financial broker on the markets there, but the reality is more shady and involves corporate espionage.

By pure coincidence, Eris finds him, and they reunite and work on their pilgrimages together. He wants to return to the fleet quick, but she wants to continue to explore the galaxy and see what is to offer. But it wasn't to last as they were drafted back to the fleet to partake in the war. They disagreed on the war - though both thought it reckless and dangerous, he argued for its necessity, while Eris argued against it for its immoral nature.

He and Eris both joined Vera on the Aeruya. He was in charge of sensors / navigation while Eris was in engineering. During the battle for Rannoch, he saw the death and destruction and his mind changed on the war. He pressured Vera to issue evac orders when the ship was crippled, but was denied. He issued them anyway, and left her in the command center to pilot the ship to its death on her own.

He worked to get everyone to escape pods, finding Eris, Kael, and many others. He held the door to the last escape pod open when Kael returned with Vera, but right as it closed, the ship detonated. Though the pod sealed, shrapnel managed to pierce his helmet and deal severe damage to his eye and head. He was given very slim chances to survive, and Eris, unable to deal with seeing her childhood friend like this, fled.

But Sett did survive, awakening after the Reaper war was over with new tech in his head and a prosthetic eye. He awoke alone, with not a single person he knew waiting for him, or seeming to even care that he was alive. He felt utterly betrayed by this, and turned it inwards and grew bitter.

Years went by, he worked for the Quarian government on several secretive solo missions. Stealing, assassination, subterfuge, spying, he excelled at it.

Reports came in about a rogue AI lab on Rannoch, and he was tasked with observation, nothing more. What he found was a lab run by noneother than Daro'Xen. Worse, it was sectors of the government he was working for that was supporting the lab. The lab was working on new tech that could override any machine, AI, and especially Geth. He didn't have strong feelings for the Geth, but he knew the stupidity and wrongness in trying to reignite any conflicts between them. He stole the code for the tech, and burned the lab's databanks, and fled.

Labeled a traitor, he fled to Omega to figure out what to do, with Vera in hot pursuit. Though Vera eventually captures him, an unknown group find them, nearly killing Vera, and steal the data through some less-than-consensual methods, extracted from the tech in his brain.

Coincidence abounds again, and Eris is the first onsite and manages to bring them both to a local clinic whose main medic she had befriended. But Eris doesn't recognize Sett at first.

He's 25, cisgendered and heterosexual. Because of course a bastard like him would be.

5.Kael'Tora vas Arcadia

Kael is a gentle giant. For a Quarian, he's massive, both taller and wider than most. He's a kind, and tries to be funny, even if his humor is mostly just dad jokes. He's not super intelligent, but he does have a good common sense and sense of right and wrong.

Others are often surprised by his nature - he's shyer than he looks. Not that he's anxious - he's just very careful about who he lets get close to him.

He and Vera were intimate for a while, but it would not last - her aggressive nature turn him off, and he gave her an ultimatum about her behavior which she ignored. It was not a clean break up, and Vera hated him for it, and still struggles to recognize that it was her own bad behavior that led to it. That said, they remained on the same ship together until the war. He assisted in the evacuation orders, shepherding those in engineering to safety after they managed to temporarily stabilize the rapidly-deteriorating core and buy a few more minutes for the ship to evac.

After the war, he settled down, got married, even had a few kids, but it also wasn't to last. Be it trauma or other reasons, he and his wife drifted, and she got custody. By all accounts, she's a good mom, but Kael and her simply couldn't work it out, and Kael took it as a personal failure.

He eventually landed in a dead-end job as head of security at a R&D facility on Rannoch.

And then one day, a rag-tag bunch of losers show up out of nowhere, clearly on the run. Strange reports coming from a nearby city, he detains Vera, Sett, Eris, Vayu, a Turian, and a Batarian. It takes some convincing, but they convince him to take their side, and even steal a prototype ship that the facility was working on. Time to get more excitement back in his life.

He uses his big fuckoff guns to fight. Firearms too. Actually mostly firearms.

He's 37, transgender, heterosexual.

(one of the artpieces above is from the wonderful Numijulie)

6.Rhea Concordia

Rhea is a powerful biotic, skilled medic, and a deeply traumatized soul. She's enthusiastic about her primary field of general medical care, and has a strong sense of kinship with others who provide care. She stands up for herself and others, to an extent, and never starts fights with anyone. She loves good food and taking spa days, likes to sing (she's okay at it).

She was identified as having biotic capabilities at a young age, but wasn't strong enough to use them effectively offensively. Still, she was drafted into the Cabals, settling into a more battle-medic role.

She fell in love with another Turian, and they began to plan their future together. During the Reaper war, both of the were on Earth during the final battle. They survived the battle and celebrated, but it was short lived.

A group of Krogan, still coming off the high of the greatest battle in the galaxy, took their energies out on them. Several Turians were killed, and Rhea's partner was brutally murdered in front of her, before she herself was badly injured.

Rhea lost her mind. Enraged, the power of her biotics was released on the Krogan, mascaraing many of them, but the one that killed her partner took her down and escaped, never to be seen again.

Deeply deeply traumatized, she went on indefinite leave from the Cabals, drifting to Omega. Krogan are a trigger for her. Seeing them immediately makes her incredibly anxious and stressed, and talking with them is even harder. She doesn't hate them for what happened, but her body still reacts with an animalistic fear around them.

If pushed beyond her limits though, her biotics come out. Rage and fury cloud her mind, and she can't recognize friend or foe - everyone is a danger to be eliminated. Her biotics are unstable but incredibly strong, rending objects apart. She lacks the delicate skill that many biotic abilities require, instead just brute forcing kinetics and a field around her, and enhancing her physical strength and mobility. Her cabal training lets her do short "jumps" to chase targets. But due to their instability, they're constantly damaging her while she's losing it, and they take a huge amount of energy from her. If she loses control and doesn't regain it, her body will give out.

She can't feel romantic attraction to anyone any more (aromatic, but not asexual). She opened a clinic and befriended others, including Eris, a mute senior Turian named Pollock, and later a biotic Batarian who helps her control her dangerous new biotic abilities.

She's 42, cisgender.

(one of the artpieces is by Palavenmoons)

7.Deaka Krull

I have no art for Krull.

Krull is a laidback Batarian brawler. Born as a slave, he showed strong biotic skills, and was trained to fight for his masters in arena fights. He never hated his opponents - it was a game, and he was good at it. Besides, at the end of the day, his masters cared for him. He eventually became owned by a Salarian on Omega, and the two formed a strange relationship. He was a slave, but his owner cared for him as a person, not a slave. He was still owned, he couldn't leave, but he had more freedoms than before. And then Cerberus showed up, and in the resulting fighting, his owner was killed. There was no next of kin, and Krull found himself suddenly a free Batarian.

He got himself hired as a night guard for one of Aria's many compounds. He still partakes in arena fighting - his gauntlet and powerful biotic flail made him a powerful combatant, even winning a few championships.

And then this Quarian shows up. Sett, newly arriving on Omega, becomes Krull's roommate. Krull is chill with it - he likes to party, to drink and eat, watch sports on TV, but he's got a good enough eye to see that Sett has secrets, and Krull gets unwillingly wrapped up in them.

He's 32, cisgender (at least, he thinks so), sexuality = yes.

-The Arcadia

Maybe not a conscious character, but this is the ship that all of the above characters reside on. A repurposed junker with a new prototype jump drive - able to act as a portable mass relay and jump without needing a relay to bounce off of. But, to jump, it requires a charge time, and a strong velocity in the general vector of where they want to. It's a corvette class ship, being built by Quarian scientists before the above mentioned crew... uh, steal it.

Whatever, it's their home now. And they'll use it to try their best to stop a coming catastrophe that threatens every high-population world near a mass relay.

(how they got the ship is because Eris and Vera convinced Sett to return to Rannoch to reveal the AI stuff he found, believing that the Quarian govt would step in and stop it. Vayu, Rhea, and Krull came with. But the Quarian govt was complicit, and instead tried to arrest them. Vera led them to the R&D facility where she knew Kael was located as he was their last hope).

Anyway, that's the main group of characters at least. Other characters that I have in this same "story" which aren't as developed are:

Jaec- Lystheni salarian, Leviathan thrall, the main antagonist. Manipulated into thinking the galaxy needs a reaper-scale threat in order to grow strong, tries to shut down the relay network and turn them into massive mass-drivers that threaten nearby worlds. Not uncaring though - like, despite it all, he cares for those who work for him, pays them well, good benefits, etc.

Silvanus- Special agent or spy for the Turians. Eris's former flame (it lasted like a month and ended on mutual terms), he was on Omega to monitor Rhea as the Turians see her biotic power and want to be able to replicate or control it. He doesn't agree with that goal and has been stalling them from forcibly recalling Rhea.

An as of yet unnamed Turian spectre trainee. Deeply sadistic and uncaring about others. Only in it for the money, the power, the babes, the sex. Works closely with Jaec.

EVO- An AI created by Jaec and installed in a fully-automated factory formerly used by Cerberus to build Rampart mechs. An evolving algorithm, every time one of his physical units is destroyed, the design is revised and more resilient to that kind of attack. Built to be a perfect being, it assists Jaec due to seeing his goal align with its own. Unsure on its name - might change it.

An as of yet unnamed human medic. He works for Jaec but is unsure of Jaec's overall mission. Always cares about wellbeing, even when caring for Jaec's prisoners. Has a family who he is supporting through his work.

An as of yet unnamed human tax auditor. She worked for the Illium police in an internship, tasked with tracking down Sett and trying (and failing) to pin crimes on him during his Pilgrimage. She's insistent and relentless, and dreams of being a private investigator some day. Big sister is an N7.

An as of yet unnamed N7 Shadow. Cold calculus drives her, and over time, she and Sett form a rivalry after the Reaper war as he steals from or spies on the Alliance, and she tries to stop or catch him.

(art by Palavenmoons)

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