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otomiyaa · 1 year ago

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PSA: Back up your blog, check your tumblr e-mail for copyright strikes

Hi everyone, after suddenly losing my account with main blog + sideblogs last week, I would like to share the following warning with y'all. Not to scare you even though it is shitty, but to raise awareness. If this somehow results in me getting kicked off the platform again, so be it lol.

If you post anything fandom* related on your tumblr blog**, whether that's gifs, screenshots, videos, cosplay pics or even fics (?), you may risk getting a copyright strike (up to 3 in 18 months) or even immediate account termination. The chance is still rather small, but just know that it can happen.

*I say fandom in the broad term, so blogs that post about movies and series, anime/manga, games, celebrities, models, sports/olympics, etc. and it goes for gif and fic creators too. Not just accounts that post music or videos for example.

**I say tumblr blog, but this goes for all of the internet ofc. People have been getting this problem on any platform, from insta to etsy, youtube and twitter.

Disclaimer: I am no legal expert, just an unlucky blogger who lost her silly multifandom fic blog after 7+ years.

This will be a bit long and detailed so I proceed under the cut!

What can you do?

...To make sure you don't suddenly lose days, months, and years of content:

CHECK THE EMAIL LINKED TO YOUR TUMBLR. I know a lot of people don't do it, myself included. Tumblr does send warnings (though not always). It wouldn't have changed anything for me because I wouldn't want to appeal - since I don't want to go into this "fair use" discussion for just a fic & editing blog. I personally don't know the chances of retrieving your blog if you protest against the claims, so can't say much about that.

Back up your Tumblr blog if you can. Also save your Tumblr chats with people dear to you if you can. Account termination seems to work differently than deactivation. I was still able to see chats with people who deactivated long ago. But my blog that got terminated has vanished from everyone's DMs and ask boxes à la Thanos snap. I mourn my years of Tumblr chat with my best friend. It was not as if we even considered exporting/copying it just for the memories of the start of our friendship. But now that it's entirely gone, hehe, well. It is sad.

Save URLs and masterposts outside Tumblr. After losing your account, for I thiiink about 24-48hrs (I didn't clock, but it was temporary) you will be able to access it at least temporarily through cachedpages, if you have the URL. It doesn't seem to work for everything, but most of my Tumblr posts I could still see shortly through this site, even after I got wiped off the platform. I did this by googling my tumblr username + certain keywords, and the posts would pop up and give me the URL.

...To prevent getting copyright strikes and losing your account?

Probably nothing - but like I said, I'm not the expert, just the fool who lost her account. The termination e-mail will give you a numbered URL so it's not easy to see which post resulted in the account loss, but for me the keywords were:

Despite the 7+ years of posts, many followers and a lot of memories, I did not gain anything else from this blog and didn't think it was worth the (legal-) risks and effort to try and get it back. It would require filing an objection against the copyright claims with personal info from home address to name, and consenting to USA legal law stuff.

Even if I don't know the exact details, I'm sure they're not wrong, because whether it's fair or not, most fandom stuff has copyright issues in the end, so I can't protest against the claims with 100% certainty it won't get me in real trouble. Besides, I read about similar cases, lost cases, and admitted defeat right away.

They work with manual reports and most dangerously, bots, who seem to be randomly picking unlucky people to take down their posts and possibly the entire account.

So besides putting an entire halt to fic writing, gif making, video editing and other fandom indulgement, or the inconvenient act of censoring every single word and image, I don't think there is a way to entirely prevent getting targeted.

The one that treated me to the strikes leading to account termination was a certain Mr. Green who seems to have targeted mostly people on Etsy. But apparently now also on Tumblr. More about this I can share here for further information. I also share some other links that can inform you about how far the copyright problem can go. Again, no reason to panic. It's rare and I was unlucky. But it happens.

About Mr. Green, using bots all over the internet to take down fandom related material:

Tumblr post about his attack on fandom.

Long detailed doc from an Etsy user.

Insta post about also loss of Etsy account.

Also Etsy related, but same Mr. Green and his bots taking down something only because it used the NAME of an anime character.

Tweet about him and his company not being officially contracted but getting compensated.

About copyright claims on Tumblr - they are still rare, no panic, I just call it russian roulette and these are all unlucky people like me :')

Post by user @/marilynjeansiims about claims against users who post about Sims, including a petition against it.

Post by user @/happyheidi about Moomin posts facing issues.

Post by user @/hanyusan about olympic related claims.

Example by user @/koov about what a vague copyright warning looks like.

Good news, post by user @/yunghos about getting their account back after filing a counter notice. It seems to be possible.

Post by user @/iamkatehardy about getting a strike for using a gif.

Post by user @/stxrshxpxd about getting their acc terminated for no 100% clear reasons.

Post by user @/tekweela about getting terminated mercilessly because of a reblog.

Post by user @/fromanotherroom-revived about losing their account with similar advice as I write here.

Post by user @/ladyphasma about gifs and US law

Knowing this won't bring lost accounts back, or change the law, I do hope at least you can be better prepared just in case it happens... Better prepared than I was at least.

#psa #fandom #copyright #no panic but just be careful<3 #signal boost #important

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dimalink · 9 months ago

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Virtual spaces in a grid

Drawing about theme of virtual space. Such a grid. Which often you can see as a theme for wallpaper. If to surf net. So, it is a typical image, it is connected with aesthetic of retro wave. And everything that is similar, like 8 bit, virtual space, retro wave. And it is now a moment for me to create something like this, image with space made of grid. I was all the time impressed how other can do this.

And this is my drawing about the same theme. Two pictures. One is made in palette with parameters CGA RGB Color OFF, and second is made with palette from Nes 8 bit.

Let’s move to grid CGA. At first. We have here a space. With clouds and stars. It is simply space. Dreams in retro clouds. Flight amongst the clouds. Retro. And not to be lost here - there is a grid here. For navigation in this space. It is more simple space. You can test flight here. Or just walk. There is no gravity here.

And now let’s move to space Nes 8 bit. It is a filed. With chamomile or sunflowers. 8 bit flowers and grass. So here it is going a raining. Which is giving water to little flowers. It is already more made retro 8 bit space. It exists with more length in time. And it is updated with objects. So, here it is gravity. And already plants are growing. Clouds are making a rain. And you can have a walk into this 8 bit field.

Maybe to remember your country house memories. As you play 8 bit Nes videogames at the country house. For example. Or some another system. Watched VHS videotapes. Moment of nostalgia about 80s. 8 bit field is calling you to run here. And get yourself under the rain. And with a fun to run back to your house.

Grass is such green and so familiar, which you can see in the field. Chamomile and sunflowers also are well known for you. Even form of clouds, looks like, is taken from 8 bit games from cartridges. From some kind Adventure Island. But, well, no, not out of this game. Grass will grow. And maybe even birds will fly and a little house to appear.

Dima Link is making retro videogames, apps, a little of music, write stories, and some retro more.

WEBSITE: http://www.dimalink.tv-games.ru/home_eng.html ITCHIO: https://dimalink.itch.io/ GAMEJOLT: https://gamejolt.com/@DimaLink/games

BLOGGER: https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/

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grits-galraisedinthesouth · 2 years ago

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Another good article from The Cut

MEGHAN MARKLE MAR. 13, 2023

Is Meghan Markle Getting Back Into Blogging?

By Claire Lampen, a staff writer for the Cut

After six long years, famed blogger Meghan Markle may finally be resurrecting her defunct lifestyle site, the Tig. Markle pulled the plug on her “passion project” in 2017, shortly before becoming engaged to her partner in crimes of corniness, Prince Harry. But now? Now she may be bringing back her beloved Tig: According to the Mirror and the New York Post, Markle has filed with the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office to launch a “revamped” version of the site — covering “food, cooking, recipes, travel, relationships, fashion, style, interior design, lifestyle, the arts, culture, design, conscious living, health and wellness” — as soon as next week.

A natural next question for you to ask at this juncture would be: What is a Tig? Debuted in 2014, Markle’s Tig took its name from Tignanello, the wine that finally allowed her to “get” wine and thus became her shorthand for the feeling of suddenly understanding something. Thus her site was devoted to “those Tig moments of discovery,” if that makes sense to you, and also to topics like her dog, cooking, fashion, avocado toast, books and her “badass reading list,” personal revelations, self-love — the list goes on. Here’s her 2015 entry on Valentine’s Day, via Cosmo, to give you a feel for the genre:

This Valentine’s Day, I will be with friends, running amock [sic] through the streets of New York, likely imbibing some cocktail that’s oddly pink, and jumping over icy mounds in my new shoes through the salted snowy streets of the West Village. But those shoes, by the way, were my gift to myself. Because I’ve worked hard, because I’m not going to wait for someone to buy me the things I covet (nor do I want to), and because I want to treat myself as well as I treat those dearest to me. Because I am my own funny Valentine.

Before you get too excited about Tig 2.0, I will simply caution you that its author has renewed her trademark on the site in the past (in 2019, for example) not to revive it, but to prevent frauds from posting under her byline. That said, our funny Galentine is in a different position now, having taken her final curtsy as a working royal three years ago. She and Harry preside over a burgeoning entertainment empire, which includes a podcast and books and Netflix docs and a lot of oversharing. No better way to best the media than by becoming the media, so why not add a blog to the roster? Why not feed us informative posts on how to pack up your royal cottage in one fraught weekend after your husband’s estranged family evicts you via email? Why not give us tips about how to host a children’s birthday party that doubles as a “proxy war” in the ongoing beef with your in-laws? Why not tell us how to deal when your husband tells millions of readers around the world about his frozen penis? Live laugh love, girl! Live laugh love.

Meghan didn't mention Chef Cory, her live-in partner, in this blog post.

"This Valentine’s Day, I will be with friends, running amock [sic] through the streets of New York, likely imbibing some cocktail that’s oddly pink, and jumping over icy mounds in my new shoes through the salted snowy streets of the West Village. But those shoes, by the way, were my gift to myself. Because I’ve worked hard, because I’m not going to wait for someone to buy me the things I covet (nor do I want to), and because I want to treat myself as well as I treat those dearest to me. Because I am my own funny Valentine."

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#the cut #revenge #tom bower #megxit #waaagh #worldwide privacy tour #fraud #sussex #spare us #Youtube #tig

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inhersepulchrebythesea · 1 year ago

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Evelyn 10/7/23

Evelyn and I got dinner together last night to try to help me take my mind off of what's going on in my apartment. She asked me about my program, and I told her I’ve always been really interested in books. How they’re written, the exact choice of words authors use, the hidden meanings you can get to if you keep digging. I think it’s beautiful when people die but live on in their writing.

“Why are you in the pharmacy program?” I asked her.

“I was a biochem student,” she said. “I wasn’t all that certain what to do with that, and my family told me to go into pharmaceuticals.”

“Is that what you want to do, though?”

“It’s not all that awful. I just keep thinking that in a few years, I’ll be making pretty decent money at some CVS.”

“Why not open your own pharmacy? Like the apothecary down the road?”

“Do you know how hard it is to have your own apothecary shop? Big retail stores are driving them all out of business. The only way that that old man is staying in business is because he has natural remedies, and there’s enough broke college students around him that’ll take that over $40 prescriptions for anti-anxiety meds. But once those college students graduate and start making money and move to big cities—they no longer want the snail serums and the crystals. They want Xanax and Prozac.”

“I heard snail serum is good for your skin. They do it in Korea, apparently.”

“Yeah. It is. Really good.”

“There have to be some people who want natural remedies.”

“Well, there are. There’s all the crunchy mommy bloggers who won’t vaccinate their kids.”

“Yikes.”

“And they’re not the type to go to an apothecary shop anyway. An apothecary shop is, like, three degrees too weird for them. They don’t want the frog oil or the fermented worms. They want to rub crystals on their armpits and put an onion on their kid’s foot when they get measles.”

“And you wouldn’t want to serve them anyway.”

“I don’t want their home schooled kids messing up my shop!”

We started walking back to my apartment (I still pay rent and really have nowhere else to stay, so I'm still living there despite the horrors. And at least with Evelyn there, I feel safer). Evelyn held half of a burrito bowl that she was going to save for breakfast the next morning. I was thinking about buying an aloe plant and how much an aloe plant costs and how hard it is to keep an aloe plant alive.

“I also would have no idea how to start a business like that. And apparently if you want to open an apothecary shop, you have to, like, file all this specific paperwork and get rated every year. And if you’re violating these specific laws, you get fined and the fines are big enough to bankrupt your business.”

“That’s balls,” I said.

“It’s so balls! And then there’s so much politics in the independent apothecary game. Best to leave it alone.”

“Damn. Tell me more.”

And she did. We went back to my apartment, and we talked all night. She told me about her older brothers. I told her about my mother. She told me she’s thinking about shaving her head. I told her I’ve wanted to try going vegetarian if I have the money to support the lifestyle.

We went out in the middle of the night to get ice cream from the gas station around the corner, and we ended up buying armfuls of junk food to go with it.

When we got back, she strung up more crystals around my bed. Midterms are soon, she said. Some good crystals help with mental clarity which makes studying much easier. I asked how she knows so much about crystals and candles and stuff, and she didn’t really give an answer. Her mother had a Wiccan phase when she was a kid.

By two in the morning, we were half-asleep and watching Bob’s Burgers. Again on the couch. Again under the same blanket. She rested a fuzzy-socked foot on my leg. I pressed my thigh against hers.

And that’s it. That’s the update this time. No cats or ghosts or weird clawing at my walls. Just Evelyn.

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brf-rumortrackinganon · 2 years ago

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Divorce Rumor Round-Up

By popular demand! All allegedly, for entertainment purposes only. I do not subscribe to nor endorse any of these.

In parenthesis are when the rumors/theories first popped up.

Also, I won’t provide links to where these rumors came from as I do not wish to send any abuse towards those bloggers/forums/social media accounts, but:

Most of the rumors that are very specific and detailed, particularly those involving specific dates, tend to come from tarot readers, astrology blogs, and gossip vlogs from YouTube.

Ones that sound wildly far-fetched and over-the-top (or tinhatty) tend to come from very vocal “anti” or “hater” royal watchers on all sides.

Ones that sound more “normal” or generally speculative tend to come from more “neutral” royal watchers and mainstream media/press.

Divorce rumors about William and Catherine

Meghan propositioned William in late 2017/early 2018 to create a crisis that would require him to divorce Kate and marry her instead. (2018)

Kate is leaving William and moving back to Berkshire with the children (September 2021)

William and Kate are moving to Windsor Castle under the guise of George going to Eton but it’s a cover story for a divorce. (September 2021)

William and Kate are married in name only (all but divorced on paper). Moved to Windsor to hide this better. (June 2022)

William to divorce Kate now that he is Prince of Wales and doesn’t need her anymore. (October 2022)

Kate to leave with the children over the lack of support from Charles and emotional abuse from Meghan. (December 2022)

William to destroy his marriage with Kate. (February 2023)

Divorce rumors about Mike and Carole Middleton

Carole and Mike are separated, not really married. Everyone knows. (May 2018)

Carole and Mike are secretly divorced. They appear together publicly and live on separate sides of the house to keep the divorce a secret. (May 2018)

Carole and Mike are in an open marriage since they can’t divorce because of Kate/relationship with the royals. Mike has an official girlfriend he prefers to spend his time with, a redheaded woman who often accompanies both Carole and Mike to royal events as a perk for keeping silent about the Middletons’ open marriage. (May 2018)

Divorce rumors about the Yorks

Sarah to give a tell-all interview to pressure Andrew into remarrying her. (October 2022)

Andrew to have another public downfall/hit rock bottom sometime during 2023 - 2025. This meltdown and the allegations of Andrew it reveals will cause Edo to leave Beatrice and they will divorce. (January 2023)

Beatrice will remarry after divorcing Edo. It will last and she will be much happier. (January 2023)

Jack has been cheating on Eugenie since 2021. They moved to Portugal to work on their marriage. It will not last and they will divorce. (January 2023)

Divorce rumors about the Sussexes

Sussexes to divorce before first anniversary. (Betting odds, May 2018)

Sussexes to divorce before third anniversary. (Betting odds, May 2018)

Sussexes to divorce before fifth anniversary. (Betting odds, May 2018)

The Sussex divorce will take place in wintertime, when it is snowing outside. Meghan will shock everyone with the announcement. Harry will be caught totally off-guard. (2019)

Megxit because Meghan threatened to leave and divorce Harry if he didn’t support her. (January 2020)

Harry’s diplomatic immunity as a Counselor of State will force California to send their divorce proceedings to London. Any of California’s laws dictating divorce proceedings or custody will not be applicable. (April 2021)

Harry to file for divorce or leave Meghan if his Counselor of State status is revoked because it conveys a certain diplomatic immunity that would invoke the State Department to move divorce proceedings to London. (April 2021)

Lili is a save-the-marriage baby. (June 2021)

Sussexes are secretly divorced. (November 2021)

Harry will return to the UK/BRF on the original half-in/half-out scheme after the divorce. (March 2022)

Harry left Meghan and bought an apartment in Turtle Bay, NYC, near the UN. He lives there full-time. (March 2022)

Secret Sussex visit to Windsor to initiate divorce proceedings. (April 2022)

Harry and/or the BRF to get full custody of the children after the divorce. (May 2022)

Harry will remarry and adopt more children after leaving Meghan. (May 2022)

Meghan to have a third marriage to a Saudi/Middle Eastern businessman and live quietly in the UK with shared custody of Archie and Lili after the divorce. No more children for her. (May 2022)

Harry and Meghan to divorce in 2025. (May 2022)

If Meghan leaves Harry and initiates the divorce, she will use Diana’s divorce timeline. (June 2022)

Harry will give up titles received for the wedding before the divorce so Meghan cannot use the titles post-divorce. (June 2022)

Harry will leave Meghan and blame it on a mental health crisis. (June 2022)

Meghan will leave Harry and blame it on his insulting/attacking the US Constitution. She will use the divorce announcement/timing to announce political candidacy or other political aspirations. (July 2022)

Meghan to appear on the cover of US Vogue as a condition of the divorce settlement. (August 2022)

Meghan will sell her private journals from royal days for profit after the divorce. (August 2022)

Meghan has moved out of Montecito and into the Beverly Hills Hotel to be with her new boyfriend. (August 2022)

Meghan’s new boyfriend is wealthy, connected, and white. (August 2022)

Meghan does not want custody of the children but will fight for it in the divorce. (August 2022)

Meghan moved back into the Montecito Mansion to create the illusion of a single mom with a playboy husband, who only has her mother for support, for her divorce narrative. (August 2022)

Meghan will work with Sunshine Sachs to tear Harry down the moment the Sussex divorce is public. (August 2022)

Meghan and Harry separated, on the way to a 2023 divorce. Harry travels frequently to the UK when it’s not his time with the children to re-establish domicile for custody fight. (August 2022)

Charles to accept Harry back into the firm as a full-time working royal after the divorce. (September 2022)

Meghan threatened to leave Harry if she was uninvited or sidelined during the Queen’s funeral. That’s why he was demanding she travel to Balmoral with him. (September 2022)

Sussex divorce to be handled in England. Meghan will be represented by a bulldog American lawyer. It will be similar to the Paul McCartney/Heather Mills divorce - as acrimoniously and with Meghan doing some kind of stunt that backfires. (September 2022)

Harry to leave Meghan by the end of 2022 in response to his stripped status at The Queen’s funeral. (September 2022)

Harry to get full physical and legal custody of the children in the divorce and live in Frogmore Cottage with them. (September 2022)

Harry to leave Meghan between October 15, 2022, - November 14, 2022. (September 2022)

Meghan’s threat in The Cut about not signing NDAs and having journals was a threat to Harry to stop him from leaving her, not the BRF. (September 2022)

Meghan to publish her own memoir about Harry post-divorce. (September 2022)

Sussexes had a private meeting with Charles while in London for Queen’s funeral to negotiate terms of the divorce, including timing and announcement. (September 2022)

Harry to physically, mentally, and publicly leave Meghan to return to the BRF by October 31, 2022. (September 2022)

Meghan will give an exclusive Oprah-like interview but not to Oprah, in which she pops off about “her truth” and how the BRF mistreated her during the jubilee, The Queen’s funeral, and Charles’s coronation. This will cause Harry to leave her. (September 2022)

Charles will not accept Harry back into the firm at all after a divorce. (September 2022)

Sussexes to divorce after Netflix and PRH book obligations end. (September 2022)

Meghan is cheating with a married man and wants to leave Harry for him but the new partner has said he doesn’t want a future with Meghan and it’s just a fun affair for him. (October 2022)

Sussexes to divorce by March 2023. (October 2022)

Sussexes have begun divorce proceedings and have formally separated. (October 2022)

If Harry returns to the UK without Meghan and divorces her, then Charles will pay back the remainder of the PRH book advances and sort out financial/legal troubles with Netflix. (October 2022)

A Sussex scandal will precede Harry’s divorce announcement. Both the scandal and the announcement will catch Meghan off-guard. (October 2022)

Harry and Meghan are separated. Harry will spend Christmas at Sandringham with the BRF. (October 2022)

Meghan to launch a PR war against Harry for leaving her at Christmastime. (October 2022)

Meghan and Harry have been separated since August 2021; Harry lives in San Francisco. (October 2022)

Harry left Meghan and lives with Eugenie in Portugal. (November 2022)

Harry went into involuntary rehab after a drug- and alcohol-fueled fight with Meghan following The Queen’s funeral and his public “demotion.” Courts forced them to separate and they are not allowed to live together. Charles will pay Meghan a huge settlement when they finally divorce to keep the court details sealed/private. (November 2022)

Sussex divorce announcement on or by December 17, 2022.

Sussex divorce announcement on or by January 23, 2023.

Charles/the BRF will influence Harry’s terms of the divorce settlement: they will allow Harry to return and have his IPP/security detail back, but he will not be a working royal and kept out of the public eye under very strict parameters. Meghan’s access to the BRF will be cut off and any attempt at a compromise that sees her coming back to London or attending royal events will kick Harry out of both the firm and Britain, and the BRF will take custody of the children. (November 2022)

Sussex divorce by March 2023. (November 2022)

Divorce/separation negotiations are going poorly and Meghan is lashing out via Kerry Kennedy’s criticism and the Kennedy Do-Good award. (November 2022)

Pictures of Archie on a Zoom call were leaked with Meghan’s authorization and indicate that she and Harry are separated, because Harry is the only one who demands and expects the children’s privacy. (November 2022)

Meghan has tapes, audio and video, of Harry being wildly drunk and/or abusive, which will come out in the divorce. Divorce will be acrimonious and messy like the Heard/Depp divorce. (December 2022)

Harry suspending his press lawsuits signals that the divorce is imminent and he is moving back to London. (December 2022)

Harry and Meghan to divorce when the money runs out and they cannot make profitable multi-million dollar deals anymore. (December 2022)

Meghan to leave and divorce Harry when America turns on her. (December 2022)

Sussex divorce announcement to come on the eve of Charles’s coronation, overshadowing the weekend. (December 2022)

The BRF intends to prove/accuse Harry and Meghan as unfit parents to take custody of the children during divorce proceedings. (December 2022)

Doria will testify on Meghan’s behalf about the children’s custody during divorce proceedings to help Meghan win custody; however, the court will question Doria’s absence from Meghan’s childhood and uncover something that will undermine her credibility, which tanks Meghan’s case for custody. (December 2022)

Meghan to leave Harry and use Spare as evidence/justification. (January 2023)

Meghan to file for divorce citing irreconcilable differences. (January 2023)

Sussex divorce to be epic, on par with War of the Wales. (January 2023)

Sussex divorce to begin after Harry’s book tour obligations end. (January 2023)

Harry has a pre-separation agreement in place with Meghan that protects him from all business arrangements and debts made during the marriage in return for silence on certain topics. (January 2023)

Meghan to announce the divorce after William and Kate announce a fourth pregnancy or birth of a fourth child. (January 2023)

Sussex divorce announcement between February 19, 2023, - March 21, 2023. (January 2023)

Sussex divorce to take place in California so Meghan can keep primary custody of the children and earn monthly alimony/child support from the BRF. (January 2023)

Meghan has created an extravagant life in Montecito so when she divorces Harry, she can argue to the court that the children have an exceptional standard of living, which the court will require Harry/the BRF to maintain with alimony/child support payments equivalent to current standard. (January 2023)

Meghan and/or the BRF to use Harry’s admissions of drug and alcohol abuse in Spare and the promo tour against him during the divorce and custody proceedings. (January 2023)

Harry to be placed under a 5150/conservatorship due to his addiction and other issues by the BRF or Meghan in divorce proceedings to show he is unfit for custody. (January 2023)

Sussex terms of divorce to include an agreement that anything of Diana’s (including trust money and jewelry) will automatically go towards the children and cannot be used or accessed by Meghan. (January 2023)

Harry’s dirt from California will start leaking in March as a precursor to the divorce. Meghan will be the one leaking and use it as threats to get what she wants. (January 2023)

Harry to have a catfish scandal on Instagram after divorcing Meghan. (January 2023)

Charles will give Meghan $50 million and generous child support to divorce Harry and return him to London. (January 2023)

Dirt on Meghan’s use of surrogates will be revealed during divorce proceedings. (January 2023)

Charles to be implicated in the cover-up of the Sussexes’ use of a surrogate and he will abdicate or be forced to step back in the fallout. (January 2023)

Sussex divorce in November 2023 (January 2023)

Meghan’s “revenge dress” moment will be related to the Hollywood awards season. (January 2023)

Meghan has a sex tape on the dark web, which will be published/leaked to the “regular” web during the divorce. (January 2023)

Harry will remarry in 2030 - 2031. Meghan will be a non-issue and won’t bother with his new wife. (January 2023)

Security camera footage of Meghan mistreating Charlotte exists and will be leaked during divorce proceedings, causing her to lose custody. (January 2023)

Meghan and Harry have been separated since late 2022. (January 2023)

Sussex divorce between June 2023 and September 2023. (February 2023)

Meghan and Harry are currently legally separated and “will they/won’t they” about the coronation is to keep news of the separation from going public. (February 2023)

#rumors #theories #divorce #round-up

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foreverlogical · 2 years ago

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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida Sen. Jason Brodeur (R-Lake Mary) wants bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, and other members of the Florida executive cabinet or legislature to register with the state or face fines.

Brodeur’s proposal, Senate Bill 1316: Information Dissemination, would require any blogger writing about government officials to register with the Florida Office of Legislative Services or the Commission on Ethics.

In the bill, Brodeur wrote that those who write “an article, a story, or a series of stories,” about “the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, a Cabinet officer, or any member of the Legislature,” and receives or will receive payment for doing so, must register with state offices within five days after the publication of an article that mentions an elected state official.

If another blog post is added to a blog, the blogger would then be required to submit monthly reports on the 10th of each month with the appropriate state office. They would not have to submit a report on months when no content is published.

For blog posts that “concern an elected member of the legislature” or “an officer of the executive branch,” monthly reports must disclose the amount of compensation received for the coverage, rounded to the nearest $10 value.

If compensation is paid for a series of posts or for a specific amount of time, the blogger would be required to disclose the total amount to be received, upon publication of the first post in said series or timeframe.

Additional compensation must be disclosed later on.

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guysss 300 notes!!! from the bottom to the very tippy top of my heart- thank you thank you thank you!!!!! <3

sappy rant below

wahhhh getting sappy and personal here but i wanted to keep it on my blog regardless if anyone reads it because of how much canis major in particular means to me and what she represents. i wish i had the time and the braincells to write the words i actually want to say so i'll attempt here

in the grand scheme 300 notes might not seem much at all- back in my old fic writing days i had a longfic for another fandom that hit 800k reads, and yeeears'worth of comments and messages daily- but canis major, adlerbell, and the introduction to the cod (cw/bo) fandom in particular is something so special to me that idc if i had 5 notes or 5000 notes. i'm just touched that it's canis major in particular that has gained the attention and enjoyment of lovely lovely people!!

she's the first piece of writing i posted for the first time in years on the internet, but most important to me personally is that she's the first major piece of writing i successfully finished after about a year long 'hiatus' from writing; and i use quotation marks because it wasn't a deliberate hiatus. getting personal here so tw// abuse mention

that 'hiatus' was actually a whole year and a half where i was in an abusive relationship with a narcissist. writing has been my main hobby and my joy since i learned how to pick up a pencil, and yet it was the hateful and insipid treatment of an insecure man that managed to suck the joy out of it for me. he made living a gruelling experience and i felt i couldn't even run to the refuge of writing because apart from the constant stress i was under, if i did end up writing anything, it would only ever be about him and the agony he was putting me through. so i stopped, because even writing had become a torture that he seemingly had control over. a part of myself so intimate that i previously believed he could never take away from me, was.

i left him for good in february of this year, and have grieved and healed a thousand times over- i'm not only a different person entirely but i feel like i've forged a whole new life that he has no claim over. but even then when i wrote, it was either processing that grief and trauma, or they were scattershot ideas that remained unfinished.

then in about october (after i'd filed a police report over his ongoing harassment and abuse lol) i found the cod games and begrudgingly fell in love w a series i had always swore to hate. and then i fell in love with adler and bell and wrote canis major.

after years of leaving every scrap of writing unfinished, i sat and worked through this vague idea as a labour of love- a labour nonetheless, and sometimes i fucking hated it, but i really did put so much heart and care into those measly 2000 words. when i posted it on here i really only thought i'd get like 12 notes at most, and stay in my quiet corner of the fandom lurking on 'better' and bigger bloggers. but i was blessed to have it seen and enjoyed by so many wonderful people, and all of yall who have just been the kindest and most welcoming of any fandom i've ever been in. i can't believe that some vague, hazily executed drabble i wrote could be liked at all let alone loved by some. and as much as i love my other fics too, it always hits harder when people express their enjoyment of canis major in particular, because of what she means to me- she really is my baby lol.

canis major to me isn't just my debut into posting online again, nor do i think she's particularly all that good- but it's proof that i can reclaim the joy i felt my abuser took from me, from my love of writing, as my first piece i finally completed after i left him. i suppose to the average reader these things don't seem connected at all, but to me, after all the pain i experienced, after how many deaths of self i have grieved over and over again this year, and how much i've changed, all i really wanted was to fall back in love with writing again. and canis major is something i'm immensely proud of- not because i believe it's all that good, because, well, i've seen the absolute insane amount of talent this fandom has to offer and i barely hold a candle to any of them- but i'm proud because of what she represents to me; finally putting the stars back in the sky i felt he stole from.

i remember some nights i used to point out the big dipper to him and he would belittle me, one time even pushing me over when i looked up to admire the constellation unaware. canis major, my small little labour of love, is the constellation i can admire at all times of the day, that i put there, that he can never take from me. that is wholly my own.

yeah i'm a total sap and i'm cringe and it's just a stupid cod fanfic but idgaf she is my baby and nobody knows what an achievement she is for me >.<

my goal this year after i left and worked through my healing was only just to write again- i never imagined i'd post anything, gain any sort of recognition whatsoever, and certainly never thought i could hit anywhere near to this many notes on something i wrote as an expression of love and ghosts and delayed grief.

tldr; from the bottom of my heart- thank you!!!

canis major

adler x bell!reader

summary: adler doesn’t go back to berlin to forget, but he isn’t so eager to remember, either. after leaving you for dead on that clifftop in the arctic, he knows best to leave the past well alone. too bad that past seems to be alive and walking right in front of him; though where he wants to forget, it seems you’ve already beaten him to the punch. or; bell survives solovetsky and only has a hole in her head and amnesia to show for it. read on ao3

tags/cw: bell!reader, amnesia, light angst, referenced adlerbell, somehow bell survives the ending of cw, adler can't let shit go, adler is not capable of remorse but mayyybe a lil guilt?? dog symbolism always, no pairing yet but hopefully i continue this as a spicy drabble series idk wc: 2.7k

a/n: sooo this is my first fic for the cod fandom and the first fic i've posted online in a long time so hopefully this lil ramble suffices!! i've had adlerbell brainrot and wanted to get at least something out before bo6 ruins all of my headcanons so here's a snippet of something i hopefully find the motivation to continue into a mini series. enjoy :')

Sometimes, he goes back to Berlin.

Stumbling out of the muggy bar into the dank alleyway out the back, Adler fishes out a pack of cigarettes from the front of his jacket; two firm knocks of it against his palm before he plucks one out with his mouth, pockets the box, and flips open his lighter. The clink of the metal echoes into the empty around him, the sudden quiet suffused with the sounds of passing cars on the street, muffled laughter from inside the bar, and the distant barking of dogs. Strays.

The cigarette ignites, glowing a cherry red, and he gasps around the filter greedily. Upon exhale, he sighs.

Adler isn’t a sentimental man by any means. What little he clings to, he does so with a loose grip, less than happy but stolid enough to allow whatever else he deems unnecessary slip through his fingers. Places, people. Things. Memories. Tucks the important things- logic, rationality, work, duty- into orderly compartments at the forefront of his mind, archived and marked off ‘til he needs it, while the rest, the mess, gets done away with, thrown into the great black gorge of oblivion. Anything else that stays- more often than not a thorn in his side, an unbidden, wriggling tumour he can’t find let alone cut out- is sequestered to a dark aperture in the back of his mind, anchored deep where it can’t come back up. Yet somehow, some nights, they always do. The smell of his ex-wife’s hair. The day he got his scar. Vietnam. The lab. Solovetsky—

The next word, the name, forks across his mind like lightning, and he bites his tongue before he can think it. It sits at the back of his mouth, nestled like an aching cavity in his molars. A tremulous breath that he forces down with another drag of his cigarette. Out with the rest. Out with the rest.

The barking doesn’t cease. Dogs, a pair of them, he can hear a couple streets over. He pictures them from the gravelly register of their snarling- maybe German Shepherds, a Bullmastiff or a Rottweiler. Their fight enunciated by the violent rattling of chain-link fences, segregated, the only threshold that keeps teeth from necks.

But no, not a sentimental man. He tells himself that the itch to revisit Berlin every Summer is for superficial reasons, and by no means is renting out a shithole hotel room opposite a sewer-laden river considered a vacation from anything other than the luxuries he gorges himself mindlessly on at home- maybe this is to keep him humble, more than anything. It doesn’t do well to remind himself of old times, not when he’s lived the life he has. Remembering seldom accompanies itself with the bittersweetness of reminiscence, and the taste it leaves in his mouth is always acrid. He doesn’t miss Berlin any more than he misses that dismal safehouse, or that sterile room he wheeled you into, questioned- tortured- no, interrogated- well, he doesn’t care to remind himself of the picture. Or the person he strapped to the gurney. But he catches himself thinking back to the city divided more than he likes to admit, and for whatever ostensible reason it is that drags him back here, he relents to it every time.

He tells himself it’s the weather, the cool rain a nice reprieve from the scorching California heat. Or that the food is better, not so much overprocessed shit and sugars. Can take his coffee as black as he likes without the waitress turning her nose up about it and double-triple-checking if he’s sure. And it’s the people, maybe, who leave him well enough alone. Or the drinks. The views, some places. The- air.

Not like Arctic air. Not like—

The one dog’s snarl rips bloodcurdling through the night, all froth and venom, and as the chain-link fence screeches and judders in its rusted welding the other mutt quiets a moment. Cowers under the meaner dog’s ferocity. Then, like it had been wounded, it lets out a low, anguished howl, beast reduced to a scared little pup. Adler holds the smoke in his chest around a stifled breath anticipating a release. But the first dog just grumbles, the fence clinks, and there isn’t much noise after that.

But the quiet doesn’t last long- just as Adler drops his cigarette and snuffs it with a wrench of his heel, another sound resonates, yowling through the alley.

The grinding of tires upon wet asphalt crunches from just beyond the alleyway entrance. The streetlamp overhanging the entryway glares bright yellow as it bounces off of the garishly coloured taxi cab, pulling up to a groaning halt outside the bar.

He thinks nothing of it, pulling at the collar of his leather jacket. It’s getting cold, and he’s left his drink inside. Wouldn’t want to waste good beer. Adler turns, and makes for the door.

And you step out of the car.

A half-finished cigarette bounces on the sidewalk before you exit, the softened heel of your boot following soon after in a splash upon the flooded curb. Your German is rusty- always has been- but it’s easy enough to utter a quick and easy danke as you pull yourself up out of the cab. The door shuts with a slam, and you tilt your head back to gaze up at the sign above the bar- Der Fluss Lethe glaring in faded lightbox red- and you let out a contented sigh, your breath suspended in the frigid air. Pink, bitten fingers pluck at your gloves, fingerless faded green knit, shovelling them into your jacket pocket.

Adler’s fist is already curled around the handle of the back door as he clocks your presence in his periphery, a stranger like any other- but your image resembles the one that coagulates in the borders of old memory, the dried blood of you he hasn’t been able to wash his hands of since ‘81. Enough that he does a double take, his eyes wide behind tinted glasses, and he stops, his heart following suit.

He’s seen enough bodies in his time to fill the morgue in his mind twice over, and plenty ghosts to wander coldly among the unmarked graves. Vietnam alone is an unwinding cemetery stretching endless, catacombs along the inside of his skull, lined with what his old shrink would call remorse. Guilt. As if the feeling mattered. As if self-reproach could turn self-flagellation into something so incandescent as redemption. As if the bile in the back of his throat could bring back the dead.

And it couldn’t, because it isn’t… that’s not—

Bell.

It’s in the way you stand, your back rigid, that slight slouch to your shoulders, always dragged down upon you like they bore the weight of the whole world (and they did, once, do you remember?). The pelting of rain smacks off of the lapels of your jacket and ricochets like stars, caught in the light of the streetlamp overhead, but for all he knows or cares it could be raining diamond and all he sees is you- the wrinkling of your nose as you accommodate to the cold, how your cheeks flush at the chill (as they had those nights he pulled you into the darkroom, evidence of your apprehension drowned in the red glow of safelights); your hair is longer, unkempt, but still that same colour (clumps he’d find in his clenched fist when you’d argue yourselves into a wrestling match, pinning each other by the throats to dented walls in Die Landebahn); that scar upon your brow; that wavering line of your lip, pursed and hiding behind your reticence as you always did, and your eyes- your eyes—

—you feel someone watching—

—your eyes turn, and fix upon him with the startled softness of a doe, hunter betrayed by the snapping of a branch underfoot. Adler’s heel crunches against broken glass, his hand lingering right in that threadbare threshold upon the doorhandle, and he can’t speak, can’t move, can’t think—

Open the door, Bell, open the door—

—and you stop outside the cab, your breath caught in your throat. You see a shadow in the alley, in the shape of a man.

The darkness of the alley gives enough cover that you don’t see much, but what you do make out of the man prickles at a part of your mind long dormant: the haughtily broad set of the shoulders; the halo of blond tinted red just beneath the flickering exit light above the door where he stands; the shadow of a strong, clenched jaw; and in the brief glinting of passing headlights as cars rush on behind you, you see a face half gorged by a thick, forked scar, a fissure struck down his furrowed expression. A pair of dark aviator glasses hide those eyes that you know are looking at you, reflecting back nothing but your own bewilderment.

There is something you know. Deep inside that half rotted head of yours, where an incomplete recollection of your existence before you awoke bleeding on that clifftop lies, you feel a twinge of recognition. Familiarity. Something. Something stirring deep in your marrow- a fear inherited, a conditioned surrender, a faded polaroid, a kiss? Your migraine, chronic, comes clawing back with a vengeance, as it does most nights, but this time with a savage fervour that wrenches your face into an involuntary grimace. Where the hole in your head had once been all those years ago it tickles and burns, burrowing into your brain and groping greedy fingers along remnants of memory. It claws at you, digging through your amygdala to find something fresh, something old, something palpable, real, something- anything. Searching what little remains visible to you in the thick fog of your own mind to pin a meaning to this feeling, an answer to your question, a name to that face.

You’ve seen him before. You swear. Somewhere. In a dream, reoccurring, behind a red door. You don’t know how, or why you’d think you recognise him- in those dreams, the door never even opens. Your hand ever stuck on the handle, jammed and impenetrable, what sits behind it forbidden to you. Like not even your own mind wants you to know. It confines you to your ignorance, almost blissful.

Adler’s heart kicks violently in his chest. He shot you. He killed you. He’d heard your death rattle on that clifftop in Solovetsky and the sound was almost like singing, your last word, your last breath. A miserere for your short and fractured life. And he’s looking at your ghost, standing there all owl-eyed and as beautiful as the day he found you bleeding out on that airstrip. Before he took you. Before he took you and collared you and made a damned mess of things.

The only thing separating you from the Bell he knows he killed- his Bell- is the star-shaped scar split across your left temple. The only wound he never had to sit and heal as he belligerently patched you up, poking and preening you like his prize dog. Yet in spite of never seeing it before, he recognises the wound all too well. He put it there himself.

And as you stand there for that brief moment- no more than twelve seconds stretched to an eternity- he thinks for a moment that you’ve put it together. You recognise him. You see him. As he is. You’ve figured him out, Bell, as you always do. You’re the only one to have gotten away with it, nearly. Or so he thought. And now he’s watching a corpse having dug itself out of the grave he put it in, standing there, staring at him. Suppose you’ve always been a dead man walking.

You could do it, he thinks. Turn. Fling your heel round and barrel towards him with all the enmity of a cornered animal. He thinks of the strays, barking. Can picture your mouth frothing at the sides as you sink your teeth down into him- gnarled canines, hooked to your chain-link fence- which he probably deserves. Not an unfamiliar feeling by any stretch, but one faraway enough to seem almost sweet now through the hazy lens of nostalgia. If there truly is a sentimental bone in his body after all, then maybe it’s just for that. Still, he holds his breath, awaiting the killing blow he’s surely due. But it never comes.

You release your held breath, finally, tearing your eyes away from the callous faced stranger. It’s a ridiculous notion. Just an uncanny instance of déjà vu. You don’t know that man any more than you know yourself. You settle on a more rational answer- just one of those faces. And with a disgruntled sigh you rub the scar upon your temple to soothe the ache, turn around, and enter the bar alone.

Adler sighs, his heart sinking from up high in his throat back down to his chest. His hand has latched onto the doorhandle for so long it’s gone numb from the cold, bruised knuckles bluer than they were before (bar fights- not here, but another, as there will always be). He wrestles his jaw pensively, knowing he ought to take it off, keep the door closed, turn away, and leave. Slink back, tail between his legs, to that shithole hotel room to drink himself into a stupor. Let you haunt him there, instead. As you always have.

But he doesn’t. He has no idea what idiocy compels him, what soft, dewy-eyed weak link in him snags on that chain, to willingly wander back into the viper den of reminiscence, but he wrenches his fist around the handle, pushes, and lets himself back into the bar, the thick, hot air hitting him like a drug that he breathes in, tart and sour with the cloy of sweat and alcohol but still faintly- just faintly- of you. Like rain carried along the wind.

And Russell Adler is not a sentimental man.

But from across the bar he hides behind his beer glass, watches as you move about, a phantom, weaving through the faceless mass of people celebrating a championship he cares nothing to follow. You take your order at the bar with a smile he’s never seen on you before, boots folded to tip-toes as you lean over the liquor-stickied top, your perfect mouth pink and sweet and laughing and alive. The world seems to move about you in a haze, an indistinct mist of blurred faces and bottled voices and beyond all the light and life and joy that seems to burn bright around you like a halo all he sees is you.

Maybe, then, he’s a fool.

But it isn’t lost on him, how your fingers skirt across your hair in an attempt to hide the scar upon your temple. Nor is it lost on him how you wince at the feeling, the stars in your eyes dimmed for just a split second as you shiver, like a touch imperceptible running fingers down your back. Nor even the way you fight the urge to look, to follow the feeling of his eyes fixed upon you, and surely not the way you lose that fight, surrendered to it, your sweet face turning and finding him in an instant. Without so much as trying, like instinct, like something as pathetic and saccharine as fate. Your heart called to it, a lighthouse in the fog. Port in the storm. Ships passing in the night but called crashing to the same shore.

(The pieces of you are scattered everywhere, Bell. He finds you in every split seam inside himself. Splintered shrapnel dug through his temporal lobe, severing synapses ‘til they go dark. Even stars die quicker than that. Quicker than you. Is that what it felt like for you, too? When the lights went out, was it him you last saw- or the sky, waxen, over the Arctic? A waning night, a distant moon. The inconsequence of death- brief celestial ephemera.)

The stranger across the bar looks at you, offering nary a smile, eyes indiscernible behind shadowed sunglasses. And where you ought to find his apparent coldness disconcerting, instead you wring out of your chest with a white-knuckled caress a feeling like… comfort.

Sometimes, Bell, you go back to Berlin. You don’t quite know why.

#wahhh sorry im such a sap #also extensive georgia lore drop that literally 0 people asked for or care about #but idgaf this is my blog and my personal achievements mean as much as the silly writing ones #so #anyway thank you everyone who read liked and reblogged!!!!!#georgia rambles

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van-yangyin · 8 months ago

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Following Custom Content I shared the other day, here is EyeTree Head Set that contain a EyeTree head and Eyes of Tree Accessory for all ages. Hope you enjoy this one! 💗

Short brief when this post is published: I'm currently without pc because it's being repaired since it was failing me, so I leave you this publication that I left prepared. Until I have it back, it's possible that I won't be much on my social medias. When I return I'll answer to your lovely asks and replies. @lea-heartscxiv will probably lend me his, but it will only be for occasional times like posting things we've worked on together or new CC if pc takes too long to repair. Thank you for your patience with me ❤

They look at you, they judge you, they discriminate against you. From a planet far away from Sixam, called Lerighett, reside these tree-headed beings with eyes. They're said to be of many varieties and species, though residents of the hidden lands of Heyadee are one of the most frowned upon for being so perceptive and judgmental. If they have more eyes around them, they may be even more judgmental for being able to see beyond your soul. 👁️🌳

Download under keep reading ↓

If you download my CC it means your agree with my T.O.U (English/Español/日本語).

EyeTree Head

General Info:

13 swatches

Base game compatible

Located on Detail Skin, Forehead

all ages

disable for werewolves (don't show good on them)

all LOD's

All Maps (Diffuse, Normal, Specular)

Mesh and texture made from scratch by me

Custom Thumbnails

Compatible with higher and lower game sliders

Known problems: Some parts of the trunk may go deeper into the skin. Since is placed in Skin Details, Forehead, both packages are shown, no matter the gender, but they're written as Male Frame and Female Frame on thumbnail so that they can be easily recognized. Try to use them properly so they don't look bad unless that is the result you want to achieve.

LOD Information: LOD0: 7232 poly | LOD1: 3615 poly | LOD2: 1806 poly | LOD3: 903 poly

IF YOU LIKE MY WORK PLEASE CONSIDER BECOME A PATREON OR TIP ON KO-FI. ANY HELP IS ALWAYS WELCOMED BUT ALWAYS OPTIONAL. YOU CAN ALSO COMMISSION ME HERE OR FROM TUMBLR, IF YOU WANT ME TO DO SOMETHING SPECIFIC FOR YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

※Choose download the one/ones you want the most or only download Merged: "_T-E_Merged" or "_AllMerged" where all the files are together.※

✨DOWNLOAD LINK✨ (Patreon ~ Always free, no adfly) [Same link]

✨DOWNLOAD LINK✨ (SFS ~ Always free, no adfly)

Photo in CAS and in-game photo without shaders:

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Eyes of Tree Accessory

General Info:

1 swatch, since use eye texture

Base game compatible

Located on Detail Skin, Crease

all ages

all LOD's

Mesh made from scratch by me

Custom Thumbnails

LOD Information: LOD0: 2880 poly | LOD1: 1440 poly | LOD2: 720 poly | LOD3: 360 poly

Do you want to know what else I'll be releasing this month and on what day? You can support me on Patreon or Ko-Fi and find out in this posts, here (Patreon) and here (Ko-Fi).

※Choose download the one/ones you want the most or only download Merged: "_T-E_Merged" or "_AllMerged" where all the files are together.※

✨DOWNLOAD LINK✨ (Patreon ~ Always free, no adfly) [Same link]

✨DOWNLOAD LINK✨ (SFS ~ Always free, no adfly)

Photo in CAS:

Compatible with LightHead/EyeHead and without LightHead:

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Btw, do you saw my last CC post? ⬇️

HERE

This CC is made in part in honor of the fucking eyes (the big one and the little ones) of Arc the Lad the Twilight of Spirits, who gave me and Lea a hard time many many years ago to defeat them. They aren't the same, but every time I was doing it I was thinking about them. Has anyone else played this game? I loved it and I love it!

Let me know if you find any problem. 🙏❣️ Also if you use this or any of my CC, feel free to tag me so I can see your sims, it will make me very happy to see it!

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Happy simming! 🍀

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basketleaftea · 2 months ago

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Top SEO Tips for Your Small Tea Business - Basketleaf

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Use Recipe Schema for Tea Recipes: If you share tea recipes, apply recipe schema to increase the chances of getting featured in search results.

Add Local Business Schema: If you have a physical location, include local business schema to help search engines show your business in local search results

10. Monitor and Adjust Your SEO Strategy

SEO is an ongoing process, so it’s important to track your results and make adjustments as needed.

Use Google Analytics: Monitor traffic, bounce rates, and the performance of specific pages to understand what’s working.

Track Keyword Rankings: Use a tool like Google Search Console to see how your keywords are ranking and make adjustments to improve.

Stay Updated on SEO Trends: SEO practices evolve, so keep learning about updates to algorithms and new strategies to maintain your site’s visibility.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q1: How long does it take for SEO to show results for my tea business?It usually takes 3-6 months to see significant results from SEO, but this can vary based on competition, keyword choice, and your site’s initial SEO health.

Q2: Can I do SEO myself, or should I hire an expert?If you have the time to learn, you can handle basic SEO yourself, especially with a smaller budget. However, if budget allows, hiring an expert can expedite results and ensure more advanced tactics are implemented.

Q3: How often should I update my website’s SEO?SEO is an ongoing process. Aim to review and adjust your strategy every few months, and keep an eye on algorithm changes and your performance metrics.

Conclusion

Optimizing your tea business website for SEO helps you attract organic traffic without a large budget. By focusing on keywords, creating valuable content, improving site speed, and leveraging local SEO, you can increase your visibility and drive more traffic to your store. With consistent effort and by monitoring your progress, you can successfully grow yourbest business under ₹1 lakh.

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Judge promises swift decision on fate of Missouri digital wagering initiative - Notice Important Internet https://www.merchant-business.com/judge-promises-swift-decision-on-fate-of-missouri-digital-wagering-initiative/?feed_id=191106&_unique_id=66db4a3a43b30 #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER An all-day hearing Thursday (5 September) in a Missouri federal court did not yield a decision about whether or not a sports betting ballot initiative could move forward. But it was good theatre.Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel R. Green did not rule Thursday in Jacqueline Wood et Al v. John Ashcroft, but did say to expect a quick decision.In the lawsuit, Wood and fellow political consultant Blake Lawrence claim the voting districts used by the secretary of state to certify the Missouri wagering initiative are incorrect. In Missouri, a proposal needs verified signatures from 8% of voters in six of the state’s eight voting districts. Lawmakers redrew the congressional districts in 2020.According to the lawsuit, the secretary of state’s office used old districts to determine if enough verified signatures were collected. It then used the new districts to determine where voters live.Essentially that means that even if a signature came from a person who remains at the same address, it may not count in the same district now as it did prior to the 2020 redistricting.It also claims that some signatures are invalid.Despite the legal challenge, proponents Winning for Missouri Education have already begun campaigning. The initiative would go on the November presidential ballot.Winning for Missouri Education, the group behind the state’s sports betting ballot measure, says it will “continue to work tirelessly to inform voters about the benefits of this initiative” now that it will be on the election ballot this November. pic.twitter.com/w7F0banpG7— Geoff Zochodne (@GeoffZochodne) August 13, 2024Pro teams back proposalMissouri’s professional sports teams back the Missouri wagering initiative, which would leglalise statewide digital wagering. Some of the digital sportsbook-only companies have contributed to the campaign. But the state’s casinos are not all on board.The initiative would allow for existing casinos and professional sports venues to partner with commercial operators. Each casino company and venue would be allotted one skin, or platform. Under previous proposed legislation, the casino companies could have had one skin per location, up to three. But state lawmakers have failed to legalise despite repeated tries.DraftKings donated an additional $3.5 million to Winning for Missouri Education, a ballot initiative to legalize sports betting in Missouri.https://t.co/e4mVt6NVBU— Bennett Conlin (@BennettConlin) August 21, 2024Green listened to about seven hours of testimony, including going through signature rolls from Missouri’s District 1. Marc Ellinger, who is representing the two political consultants that brought the lawsuit, said his clients are focused on 768 questionable signatures from that district.During the hearing, both sides offered up signatures for discussion. If the ones Ellinger pointed to are deemed invalid, it would mean that the initiative does not have enough signatures to move forward.“In the course of review and evidence, you’ll find there are 768 signatures that were counted that were simply invalid,” said Ellinger in his opening statement. “Evidence will overwhelmingly show that petition did not receive necessary signatures to be placed on the ballot.”Proponents filed 370,000 signatures ahead for a 5 May deadline. The state requires 170,000 verified signatures from 8% of voters in at least six of eight voting districts.Piles of questionable signatures presentedMissouri Assistant Attorney General Eric Kinnaw is representing Ashcroft, the secretary of state. Kinnaw said that the signatures provided by local election officials are valid, and if they are found not to be, “Everything we’ve done in the last 20 years in ballot petitions would be thrown out.

”Kinnaw also argued that not only does case law support the existing process, but that the plaintiffs must prove individual signatures are invalid. Ellinger’s team attempted to do that during the hearing. National Political Consultants, hired by the plaintiffs, combed through signatures ahead of the hearing. It compiled a list of what it says are invalid signatures.The group, represented by Kevin Oglesby, however, has a questionable history, according to the Missouri Independent, which reported that National Political Consultants was previously “investigated for misrepresenting initiative petitions they were hired to canvas for in Michigan in 2020 and 2022”.Will judge examine signatures himself?But Oglesby said that in reviewing signatures for the Missouri wagering initiative, he found many that did not match voter registration cards. He also said that some had different names than those on voter cards. But the defense said that there is a process for verifying signatures that do not match voter registration cards. For example, signatures from married women who have changed their names would be counted.Deputy chief of staff for the secretary of state Scott Clark said the state uses two software programs to validate signatures. At least one of those programs shows a voter’s previous name and signature history.At one point during the hearing, Green asked if the attorneys expected the court to review the signatures for matches. Ellinger replied by saying that if the judge didn’t accept a witness’ testimony as fact, the he should review them. Green replied by saying, “I’ll take that as a yes”.The deadline to remove an initiative from the ballot is 5pm local time 10 September. Green ordered both parties to submit proposed judgements by Friday afternoon. His ruling could come any time between then and the deadline.“An all-day hearing Thursday (5 September) in a Missouri federal court did not yield a decision about whether or not a sports betting ballot initiative could move forward. But it…”Source Link: https://igamingbusiness.com/sports-betting/missouri-wagering-initiative-hearing/ http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/pexels-photo-6065141.jpeg An all-day hearing Thursday (5 September) in a Missouri federal court did not yield a decision about whether or not a sports betting ballot initiative could move forward. But it was good theatre. Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel R. Green did not rule Thursday in Jacqueline Wood et Al v. John Ashcroft, but did say … Read More

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The way DMCA ("Digital Millenium Copyright Act") takedowns work under U.S. law is that you have to submit some contact info along with your complaint. And then a full copy of that complaint — including your contact info — is sent to the person you're complaining about. Because theoretically they might need that information to contact you if there's a lawsuit.

The DMCA law is actually a little vague about how much contact information a website needs to move forward with a DMCA takedown. As far as I can tell, Google only makes you give them an email address...if you're submitting a complaint about content on Blogger. But if the infringing content is on YouTube, they require a full legal name and a physical address.

It's very easy for large corporations to submit DMCA takedowns. They have a legal corporation name and corporate offices with public addresses. Or they pay for a legal representative and that person's law firm uses the address of their legal office. But for a random freelance journalist? They might not want to give their personal address to a stranger, and they might not have the money to pay for a legal representative. And what if you're just a blogger using a pseudonym? You reeeeally don't want to hand your full legal name to somebody who thinks it's fine to steal from you. They're probably not very motivated to keep that information private.

That part of hbomberguy's video where he says he's dealt with content theft and he "nearly had to give a Nazi my home address"? The DMCA process is almost certainly what he's referencing.

I'm aware of the issues here because a few years ago I was thinking about starting a nonprofit to help indie creators file takedowns without having to doxx themselves. That was about art theft on twitter, but it has exactly the same problem:

Yeah.

Part of the reason sites do this is to cut down on frivolous requests, but mostly the result is that corporations who already have money and power make a ton of frivolous requests while indie creators get shafted.

The swiftness and brutality of Hbomberguy’s complete evisceration of James Somerton’s career cannot be overstated.

#let me learn you a thing #eat the rich #dove.txt #if there are any american lawyers out there who wanna help me make that nonprofit...someday....

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Judge promises swift decision on fate of Missouri digital wagering initiative - Notice Important Internet - BLOGGER https://www.merchant-business.com/judge-promises-swift-decision-on-fate-of-missouri-digital-wagering-initiative/?feed_id=191104&_unique_id=66db4a381984b An all-day hearing Thursday (5 September) in a Missouri federal court did not yield a decision about whether or not a sports betting ballot initiative could move forward. But it was good theatre.Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel R. Green did not rule Thursday in Jacqueline Wood et Al v. John Ashcroft, but did say to expect a quick decision.In the lawsuit, Wood and fellow political consultant Blake Lawrence claim the voting districts used by the secretary of state to certify the Missouri wagering initiative are incorrect. In Missouri, a proposal needs verified signatures from 8% of voters in six of the state’s eight voting districts. Lawmakers redrew the congressional districts in 2020.According to the lawsuit, the secretary of state’s office used old districts to determine if enough verified signatures were collected. It then used the new districts to determine where voters live.Essentially that means that even if a signature came from a person who remains at the same address, it may not count in the same district now as it did prior to the 2020 redistricting.It also claims that some signatures are invalid.Despite the legal challenge, proponents Winning for Missouri Education have already begun campaigning. The initiative would go on the November presidential ballot.Winning for Missouri Education, the group behind the state’s sports betting ballot measure, says it will “continue to work tirelessly to inform voters about the benefits of this initiative” now that it will be on the election ballot this November. pic.twitter.com/w7F0banpG7— Geoff Zochodne (@GeoffZochodne) August 13, 2024Pro teams back proposalMissouri’s professional sports teams back the Missouri wagering initiative, which would leglalise statewide digital wagering. Some of the digital sportsbook-only companies have contributed to the campaign. But the state’s casinos are not all on board.The initiative would allow for existing casinos and professional sports venues to partner with commercial operators. Each casino company and venue would be allotted one skin, or platform. Under previous proposed legislation, the casino companies could have had one skin per location, up to three. But state lawmakers have failed to legalise despite repeated tries.DraftKings donated an additional $3.5 million to Winning for Missouri Education, a ballot initiative to legalize sports betting in Missouri.https://t.co/e4mVt6NVBU— Bennett Conlin (@BennettConlin) August 21, 2024Green listened to about seven hours of testimony, including going through signature rolls from Missouri’s District 1. Marc Ellinger, who is representing the two political consultants that brought the lawsuit, said his clients are focused on 768 questionable signatures from that district.During the hearing, both sides offered up signatures for discussion. If the ones Ellinger pointed to are deemed invalid, it would mean that the initiative does not have enough signatures to move forward.“In the course of review and evidence, you’ll find there are 768 signatures that were counted that were simply invalid,” said Ellinger in his opening statement. “Evidence will overwhelmingly show that petition did not receive necessary signatures to be placed on the ballot.”Proponents filed 370,000 signatures ahead for a 5 May deadline. The state requires 170,000 verified signatures from 8% of voters in at least six of eight voting districts.Piles of questionable signatures presentedMissouri Assistant Attorney General Eric Kinnaw is representing Ashcroft, the secretary of state. Kinnaw said that the signatures provided by local election officials are valid, and if they are found not to be, “Everything we’ve done in the last 20 years in ballot petitions would be thrown out.

”Kinnaw also argued that not only does case law support the existing process, but that the plaintiffs must prove individual signatures are invalid. Ellinger’s team attempted to do that during the hearing. National Political Consultants, hired by the plaintiffs, combed through signatures ahead of the hearing. It compiled a list of what it says are invalid signatures.The group, represented by Kevin Oglesby, however, has a questionable history, according to the Missouri Independent, which reported that National Political Consultants was previously “investigated for misrepresenting initiative petitions they were hired to canvas for in Michigan in 2020 and 2022”.Will judge examine signatures himself?But Oglesby said that in reviewing signatures for the Missouri wagering initiative, he found many that did not match voter registration cards. He also said that some had different names than those on voter cards. But the defense said that there is a process for verifying signatures that do not match voter registration cards. For example, signatures from married women who have changed their names would be counted.Deputy chief of staff for the secretary of state Scott Clark said the state uses two software programs to validate signatures. At least one of those programs shows a voter’s previous name and signature history.At one point during the hearing, Green asked if the attorneys expected the court to review the signatures for matches. Ellinger replied by saying that if the judge didn’t accept a witness’ testimony as fact, the he should review them. Green replied by saying, “I’ll take that as a yes”.The deadline to remove an initiative from the ballot is 5pm local time 10 September. Green ordered both parties to submit proposed judgements by Friday afternoon. His ruling could come any time between then and the deadline.“An all-day hearing Thursday (5 September) in a Missouri federal court did not yield a decision about whether or not a sports betting ballot initiative could move forward. But it…”Source Link: https://igamingbusiness.com/sports-betting/missouri-wagering-initiative-hearing/ http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/pexels-photo-6065141.jpeg #GLOBAL - BLOGGER An all-day hearing Thursday (5 Sept... BLOGGER - #GLOBAL

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Judge promises swift decision on fate of Missouri digital wagering initiative - Notice Important Internet - BLOGGER https://www.merchant-business.com/judge-promises-swift-decision-on-fate-of-missouri-digital-wagering-initiative/?feed_id=191101&_unique_id=66db4a34af0e3 An all-day hearing Thursday (5 September) in a Missouri federal court did not yield a decision about whether or not a sports betting ballot initiative could move forward. But it was good theatre.Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel R. Green did not rule Thursday in Jacqueline Wood et Al v. John Ashcroft, but did say to expect a quick decision.In the lawsuit, Wood and fellow political consultant Blake Lawrence claim the voting districts used by the secretary of state to certify the Missouri wagering initiative are incorrect. In Missouri, a proposal needs verified signatures from 8% of voters in six of the state’s eight voting districts. Lawmakers redrew the congressional districts in 2020.According to the lawsuit, the secretary of state’s office used old districts to determine if enough verified signatures were collected. It then used the new districts to determine where voters live.Essentially that means that even if a signature came from a person who remains at the same address, it may not count in the same district now as it did prior to the 2020 redistricting.It also claims that some signatures are invalid.Despite the legal challenge, proponents Winning for Missouri Education have already begun campaigning. The initiative would go on the November presidential ballot.Winning for Missouri Education, the group behind the state’s sports betting ballot measure, says it will “continue to work tirelessly to inform voters about the benefits of this initiative” now that it will be on the election ballot this November. pic.twitter.com/w7F0banpG7— Geoff Zochodne (@GeoffZochodne) August 13, 2024Pro teams back proposalMissouri’s professional sports teams back the Missouri wagering initiative, which would leglalise statewide digital wagering. Some of the digital sportsbook-only companies have contributed to the campaign. But the state’s casinos are not all on board.The initiative would allow for existing casinos and professional sports venues to partner with commercial operators. Each casino company and venue would be allotted one skin, or platform. Under previous proposed legislation, the casino companies could have had one skin per location, up to three. But state lawmakers have failed to legalise despite repeated tries.DraftKings donated an additional $3.5 million to Winning for Missouri Education, a ballot initiative to legalize sports betting in Missouri.https://t.co/e4mVt6NVBU— Bennett Conlin (@BennettConlin) August 21, 2024Green listened to about seven hours of testimony, including going through signature rolls from Missouri’s District 1. Marc Ellinger, who is representing the two political consultants that brought the lawsuit, said his clients are focused on 768 questionable signatures from that district.During the hearing, both sides offered up signatures for discussion. If the ones Ellinger pointed to are deemed invalid, it would mean that the initiative does not have enough signatures to move forward.“In the course of review and evidence, you’ll find there are 768 signatures that were counted that were simply invalid,” said Ellinger in his opening statement. “Evidence will overwhelmingly show that petition did not receive necessary signatures to be placed on the ballot.”Proponents filed 370,000 signatures ahead for a 5 May deadline. The state requires 170,000 verified signatures from 8% of voters in at least six of eight voting districts.Piles of questionable signatures presentedMissouri Assistant Attorney General Eric Kinnaw is representing Ashcroft, the secretary of state. Kinnaw said that the signatures provided by local election officials are valid, and if they are found not to be, “Everything we’ve done in the last 20 years in ballot petitions would be thrown out.

”Kinnaw also argued that not only does case law support the existing process, but that the plaintiffs must prove individual signatures are invalid. Ellinger’s team attempted to do that during the hearing. National Political Consultants, hired by the plaintiffs, combed through signatures ahead of the hearing. It compiled a list of what it says are invalid signatures.The group, represented by Kevin Oglesby, however, has a questionable history, according to the Missouri Independent, which reported that National Political Consultants was previously “investigated for misrepresenting initiative petitions they were hired to canvas for in Michigan in 2020 and 2022”.Will judge examine signatures himself?But Oglesby said that in reviewing signatures for the Missouri wagering initiative, he found many that did not match voter registration cards. He also said that some had different names than those on voter cards. But the defense said that there is a process for verifying signatures that do not match voter registration cards. For example, signatures from married women who have changed their names would be counted.Deputy chief of staff for the secretary of state Scott Clark said the state uses two software programs to validate signatures. At least one of those programs shows a voter’s previous name and signature history.At one point during the hearing, Green asked if the attorneys expected the court to review the signatures for matches. Ellinger replied by saying that if the judge didn’t accept a witness’ testimony as fact, the he should review them. Green replied by saying, “I’ll take that as a yes”.The deadline to remove an initiative from the ballot is 5pm local time 10 September. Green ordered both parties to submit proposed judgements by Friday afternoon. His ruling could come any time between then and the deadline.“An all-day hearing Thursday (5 September) in a Missouri federal court did not yield a decision about whether or not a sports betting ballot initiative could move forward. But it…”Source Link: https://igamingbusiness.com/sports-betting/missouri-wagering-initiative-hearing/ http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/pexels-photo-6065141.jpeg BLOGGER - #GLOBAL An all-day hearing Thursday (5 September) in a Missouri federal court did not yield a decision about whether or not a sports betting ballot initiative could move forward. But it was good theatre. Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel R. Green did not rule Thursday in Jacqueline Wood et Al v. John Ashcroft, but did say … Read More

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Judge promises swift decision on fate of Missouri digital wagering initiative - Notice Important Internet https://www.merchant-business.com/judge-promises-swift-decision-on-fate-of-missouri-digital-wagering-initiative/?feed_id=191098&_unique_id=66db4a324112d An all-day hearing Thursday (5 Sept... BLOGGER - #GLOBAL An all-day hearing Thursday (5 September) in a Missouri federal court did not yield a decision about whether or not a sports betting ballot initiative could move forward. But it was good theatre.Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel R. Green did not rule Thursday in Jacqueline Wood et Al v. John Ashcroft, but did say to expect a quick decision.In the lawsuit, Wood and fellow political consultant Blake Lawrence claim the voting districts used by the secretary of state to certify the Missouri wagering initiative are incorrect. In Missouri, a proposal needs verified signatures from 8% of voters in six of the state’s eight voting districts. Lawmakers redrew the congressional districts in 2020.According to the lawsuit, the secretary of state’s office used old districts to determine if enough verified signatures were collected. It then used the new districts to determine where voters live.Essentially that means that even if a signature came from a person who remains at the same address, it may not count in the same district now as it did prior to the 2020 redistricting.It also claims that some signatures are invalid.Despite the legal challenge, proponents Winning for Missouri Education have already begun campaigning. The initiative would go on the November presidential ballot.Winning for Missouri Education, the group behind the state’s sports betting ballot measure, says it will “continue to work tirelessly to inform voters about the benefits of this initiative” now that it will be on the election ballot this November. pic.twitter.com/w7F0banpG7— Geoff Zochodne (@GeoffZochodne) August 13, 2024Pro teams back proposalMissouri’s professional sports teams back the Missouri wagering initiative, which would leglalise statewide digital wagering. Some of the digital sportsbook-only companies have contributed to the campaign. But the state’s casinos are not all on board.The initiative would allow for existing casinos and professional sports venues to partner with commercial operators. Each casino company and venue would be allotted one skin, or platform. Under previous proposed legislation, the casino companies could have had one skin per location, up to three. But state lawmakers have failed to legalise despite repeated tries.DraftKings donated an additional $3.5 million to Winning for Missouri Education, a ballot initiative to legalize sports betting in Missouri.https://t.co/e4mVt6NVBU— Bennett Conlin (@BennettConlin) August 21, 2024Green listened to about seven hours of testimony, including going through signature rolls from Missouri’s District 1. Marc Ellinger, who is representing the two political consultants that brought the lawsuit, said his clients are focused on 768 questionable signatures from that district.During the hearing, both sides offered up signatures for discussion. If the ones Ellinger pointed to are deemed invalid, it would mean that the initiative does not have enough signatures to move forward.“In the course of review and evidence, you’ll find there are 768 signatures that were counted that were simply invalid,” said Ellinger in his opening statement. “Evidence will overwhelmingly show that petition did not receive necessary signatures to be placed on the ballot.”Proponents filed 370,000 signatures ahead for a 5 May deadline. The state requires 170,000 verified signatures from 8% of voters in at least six of eight voting districts.Piles of questionable signatures presentedMissouri Assistant Attorney General Eric Kinnaw is representing Ashcroft, the secretary of state. Kinnaw said that the signatures provided by local election officials are valid, and if they are found not to be, “Everything we’ve done in the last 20 years in ballot petitions would be thrown out.

”Kinnaw also argued that not only does case law support the existing process, but that the plaintiffs must prove individual signatures are invalid. Ellinger’s team attempted to do that during the hearing. National Political Consultants, hired by the plaintiffs, combed through signatures ahead of the hearing. It compiled a list of what it says are invalid signatures.The group, represented by Kevin Oglesby, however, has a questionable history, according to the Missouri Independent, which reported that National Political Consultants was previously “investigated for misrepresenting initiative petitions they were hired to canvas for in Michigan in 2020 and 2022”.Will judge examine signatures himself?But Oglesby said that in reviewing signatures for the Missouri wagering initiative, he found many that did not match voter registration cards. He also said that some had different names than those on voter cards. But the defense said that there is a process for verifying signatures that do not match voter registration cards. For example, signatures from married women who have changed their names would be counted.Deputy chief of staff for the secretary of state Scott Clark said the state uses two software programs to validate signatures. At least one of those programs shows a voter’s previous name and signature history.At one point during the hearing, Green asked if the attorneys expected the court to review the signatures for matches. Ellinger replied by saying that if the judge didn’t accept a witness’ testimony as fact, the he should review them. Green replied by saying, “I’ll take that as a yes”.The deadline to remove an initiative from the ballot is 5pm local time 10 September. Green ordered both parties to submit proposed judgements by Friday afternoon. His ruling could come any time between then and the deadline.“An all-day hearing Thursday (5 September) in a Missouri federal court did not yield a decision about whether or not a sports betting ballot initiative could move forward. But it…”Source Link: https://igamingbusiness.com/sports-betting/missouri-wagering-initiative-hearing/ http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/pexels-photo-6065141.jpeg #GLOBAL - BLOGGER An all-day hearing Thursday (5 September) in a Missouri federal court did not yield a decision about whether or not a sports betting ballot initiative could move forward. But it was good theatre. Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel R. Green did not rule Thursday in Jacqueline Wood et Al v. John Ashcroft, but did say … Read More

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