#no verified proof

[psalm40speakstome]

Love Next Door. Rewatch.

Purely conjuncture but I’m rewatching and

Knowing Dan Ho was never married to Yeon Du’s Mom is making me see all these tiny interactions and I just wonder…like I’m literally getting the distinct impression he’s never had a girlfriend. Like when she kisses him it really feels like his reaction might be a first kiss?

And the way he’s the cutest most adorable slightest amount of awkward about his crush on her but trying to pretend he’s not because he’s trying to discourage her from liking him.

And mostly it’s just a vibe I’m picking up that may be my wishful thinking but like he was so dedicated to his job and then he was the best Uncle turned Dad…and the thought that we might be seeing him fall for the first time after all that!?

Axfgscfhschgahgchs

The thought is sending me in so many ways I mean

WHAT if they are both each other’s first(and last love!)!

[brucespringsteensborntorun]

Please Read

I am speaking on behalf of @eslamfa1, who has her own campaign for her and her family so they may survive under the harsh conditions in Gaza. She is very thankful for all the support she's had, but she needs more help.

She has asked me to host a fundraiser for more of her family, namely for her parents and siblings who desperately need funds for food, water, and medical treatment. They have been displaced multiple times and have only been able to contact Eslam through an unreliable internet connection.

Here is their story as written by her sister, Aya:

"Hello friends, we will tell you our sad story

I am Aya, an outstanding high school student. I was very happy to be on the verge of achieving my dream of finishing my school studies and achieving what I aspired to, which is to become a doctor.

My family of 8 and a beautiful cat named Katie were living a beautiful and peaceful life, each of us striving to achieve our dreams.

We had our beautiful house in Khan Yunis. Recently, we were celebrating my sister Heba’s fourth place in the Gaza Strip in the Arabic language recruitment exam. Our life was like material and emotional perfection. We did not feel deprived or lacking anything.

My sister Lina is a university student. Her dream was to become a psychologist to help mentally ill people in the Strip.

My brother Ahmed was the most beautiful gift from God. He came after 20 years of being deprived of male siblings. After completing his studies, he became a water carrier and took on a great responsibility beyond his capacity.

We also had two little butterflies, the apple of the house, and Jana, the favorites of their teachers and friends at school.

Then the war broke out and everything was turned upside down. We were forced to leave the house after quadcopters surrounded us, tanks surrounded us, and we saw death right in front of our eyes, but we miraculously escaped.

We were displaced several times on foot. Feet, then our end was in a tent that did not protect us from the cold of winter or the heat of summer, and there were poisonous insects and scorpions around us, there was no clean water or healthy food, so my family and I got hepatitis and a lot of intestinal infections.

We were shocked that our house was bombed and destroyed and the features of the house disappeared from the face of the earth, so we felt very sad and despair took over us.

Life here in Gaza is expensive, we cannot buy the minimum necessities of life, imagine that the price of a kilo of tomatoes is $50, and the price of a bag of flour is $200, life here is like a famine! My father is a nervous patient and my mother suffers from chronic pressure and they need continuous treatment and medications. We suffer from bringing water from long distances, and from the high prices of food and cleaning materials and water pollution. What we have suffered most in this war is the loss of members of our family, and this is the hardest thing we have been through. We have lost 20 members of our family. Please help us bear the very high cost of living until we evacuate from Gaza and save our lives. The cost per person is $5,000. Help us, you are the only hope left."

These are some of the photos she's managed to receive of some of her family (Aya, Ahmed, Hala, Jana, and their cat) and of the conditions of the areas they've been displaced from and to:

Note: Due to mentioned lack of internet connection, Eslam has not been able to receive more photos yet. There will be more updates to come when, hopefully, more communications are made.

PLEASE DONATE !!!!! Aya, Lina, Ahmed, Hala, jana, and their parents' well beings are at stake! Starting goal is $10,000

@90-ghost @gaza-evacuation-funds @gazavetters

[princess--bongwater]

Hello dears ! I am asking you to support my campaign to help me to reach my goal. I am now in bad need to your support to help me stay alive and safe. Gaza is a very dangerous place either on the level of livelihood or on the level of souls. I need your monetary support to ensble me to get the basic needs for my family till Rafah crossing point reopens to move my family to safety and peace.Pleasd help a family be alive through your small donations or througn your shares to others.Thank you so much for your stand beside people in need .

[this fundraiser has been verified by @/90-ghost.]

Yes, of course. I hope and pray that you and your family will find safety. Please donate.

$13,165/$50,000

[dukeofdelirium]

“I know Michael Jackson is guilty”

Then fucking prove it, bitch. The FBI couldn’t. CPS couldn’t. LAPD couldn’t. 70+ sheriffs tearing up his properties and doctor’s offices couldn’t! DA Prosecutor Tom Sneddon couldn’t! The worldwide media couldn’t!

Go on and drop the proof of his supposed guilt. I dare you. Come on, don’t be shy. Do it! I’m sure you know more than the intelligence agencies that investigated the man for over a decade. I’m sure you, random tumblr users, have managed to find something that the prosecution overlooked?

I’ve been demanding proof of Michael Jackson’s guilt beyond reasonable doubt for years on here. Years. I’m still waiting. If you claim to have proof, then stop being a coward and drop it. Otherwise, shut the FUCK UP!

[neechees]

dear Our children love you and need your help. Create a special post for us and our campaign. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.🙏❤️🙏

This blog has been vetted by gazavetters, below is their gfm! Please consider donating, and if you cant right now, bring attention to their fundraiser and blog!

I am sincerely touched that you wrote that message for me, I will do what i can to help.

[narudoodles]

Update! A kind soul over on twitter let me know that there are pretty reliable AI art checkers online, that have been developed by people specialising in AI and machine learning!

An NYT article also talks about the pros and cons of a number of them.

I tested all the 3 free open access sites (Illuminarty, Optic AI or Not, Umm-Maybe) and only Illuminarty and Optic AI or Not gave consistent results on both art and photographs.

I'll put the links below so anyone can go and check for whichever art they want to (download the original images from tumblr posts, and upload them)

https://www.aiornot.com/#home

https://app.illuminarty.ai/

These are the results :

Optic flagged it as AI immediately.

But Illuminarty had very interesting aspect : when I uploaded the full image, AI probability was 10%. but, on cropping out the bottom of the image (jacket) the probability jumped to 73.9%

This is consistent with my original comment on the art here

My limited understanding of these programs indicate that they scan the entire image including all the individual pixels. AI programs like Stable Diffusion, Mid Journey, DallE all leave signal artifacts when they process an image, which is then left on the final pic generated!

Compare these two @/skykashi original arts, that are immediately flagged as human made.

And now I get to my favourite AI art bro in the fandom @madasama! I commend you for admitting that you not only use AI, but are proud of producing a large number of "real" arts in such a short time!

Here's your "art"s results!!

@elhnrt made a far more detailed and organised post about this specific weirdo, feel free to check it out!

I will be using fandom tags on this particular post so that it has a broader reach. Especially for genuine digital artists and art lovers. Save the links, and always keep an eye out for AI, it's everywhere these days.

[having-a-hyperfixate]

Don’t mind me sprinting to try and get this thought in order before the Anime Expo panel. I need it to be out in the wild Just In Case.

So, a few of the Gung Ho Guns have gotten reworked for Stampede, yes? To varying degrees.

Ninelives is apparently not a horrific flesh mech, Dark Souls boss thing, according to the end credits of episode 3.

E.G. the Mine just got a HUGE upgrade and didn’t get owned 3 seconds after he showed up.

Monev was an actual character with a fubar backstory and emotional impact instead of just Some Guy who trained in a basement for years specifically to kill Vash. (and Orange is SO EVIL for this)

Elendira is. *gestures futilely* There is so much going on there but yeah. She’s going to be terrifying once she achieves adult body and loses (drops?) the childish attitude. Also because of the whole Plant hybrid thing her nails truly are literally infinite sooooo.

So I have some thoughts about Hoppered the Gauntlet.

In Trimax, Gauntlet’s narrative weight comes from the fact that he makes Vash remember, which by extension makes US, the reader, understand what July really meant. Before that we had heard mention of it a few times as ‘a city destroyed in a single night’ and talk of there being ‘no survivors’ but we had no actual connection to it, and also no real idea if that was even true. But in Stampede, we saw July happen. We were there. So even if Vash’s memory is still shot afterwards, and he doesn’t remember Lost July, we the audience DO. So having the Dragon’s nest play out exactly the same isn’t going to have the same narrative punch in the gut that it did in Trimax. It can’t.

There’s also the fact that, given how we’ve met most of the major players in the story, or had them mentioned at least (hi Milly), it feels kind of Odd™ that we haven’t seen someone has emotionally impactful as Gauntlet yet.

Unless we have.

We saw with Rollo/Monev that Orange is willing to have the person’s regular name be one thing and then have a second Eye of Michael code name. I suspect that is going to happen with Gauntlet; either because EoM or because he has decided on his own to lie about who he was.

And yes, I do in fact have someone in mind.

I checked myself the translation there is accurate; the only change I would make is calling the gun ‘gaudy’ instead of ‘shiny’ but that’s not a huge deal. Also for the record, the original tweet is from Jan. 11, well before he makes his reappearance for the season finale. So when it talks about a ‘reappearance’, it is talking about seeing him again in July. Original tweet here, tweet containing the translation here.

I think Chuck Lee is going to be our Gauntlet. That he made it just far enough out of the city to survive, but that he was badly maimed in the process, and that his family didn’t make it. He’s the ONLY member of the military police with a unique design. He has an actual name, and the director himself tweeted about his backstory. His gun is so unusual that we would recognize it anywhere. Hell, I referred to him as ‘the gold gun guy from episode one’ when one of my friends didn’t recognize him immediately. His gun is so incredibly recognizable. Almost like we need to be able to recognize him by that alone, when everything else about him has changed.

THIS could be how narrative weight for Gauntlet is established in the Stampede universe when it can’t be done the same way as in Trimax. Taking a character who has, in a way, also been with the audience ALL ALONG, who was there with us for two pivitol moments, the beginning and the awakening, but who comes at it from such a horrifically different angle and bringing him back in such an agonizing way. Because he was very much in the wrong with his stunt at Jeneora Rock, but his rage over the loss of his family in July would be justified, even if we know it wasn’t Vash’s fault.

(Also, the IRONY of him ending up as one of Knives’s lackeys when Knives is the one that caused all of this? Damn.)

Footnote: I have Thoughts on why they can get away with adding Milly to The Squad late. That is a whole other Thought but tldr; (and also I haven’t actually written it out) Milly is the most perceptive of all of them she doesn’t NEED an extended intro to Vash to Know.

[janmisali]

did you see about the aperiodic monotile (hat)

I did! [source] very exciting, love how relatively basic of a shape it is

[burning-sol]

(I CAN'T BELIEVE SOL STILL GETS LIKES AND REBLOGS ON THAT POST ABOUT JINX AND CHARLIE) (ARE YOU GUYS GOING TO CONTINUE KICKING THE CORPSE OF THE DEAD ACCOUNT OR WHAT) (YOU ONLY FOUND OUT ABOUT THEM BECAUSE SHE HAD HER PRIVATE STORY LEAKED BUT NOBODY WANTS TO HOLD THAT PERSON ACCOUNTABLE) (GET OVER YOURSELVES)

[lesbianralzarek]

why does every article reporting on idf war crimes go "hamas, who started the war on october 7th with their brutal terrorist attack slaughtering innocent israeli civilians, has condemned the idf's use of-"? like, nearly verbatim every single time. we know about october 7th. we know by now. half the time, hamas isnt even relevant but they gotta find some way to sow doubt and numb any potential compassion responses. will you get fired if you show sympathy for murdered palestinian civilians without first adding a disclaimer saying its all their fault for being born in gaza? if you call "palestinians under 18" children? if you use the words "murdered" or "brutal" or "massacre" for acts that didnt occur on october 7th? if you call a spade a spade? why are israeli reports front page news without proper fact-checking but palestinian reporting is always "allegedly" even when theres video evidence? why does the idf not get the hamas treatment of reminding everyone that theyre biased before treating their words as law, like they havent been caught bold-faced lying again and again?

[clairenatural]

where are we as a society (spnblr) if we no longer trust our institutions (fandom debunker)

[unsettlingcreature]

I personally find it a little strange that none of the four organisers for Dashcon 2 have any form of social media presence besides some LinkedIn profiles. I know we aren't owed those things but considering they are aiming for some transparency, the fact that if this goes horribly wrong they could just disappear into the ether is... hm.

[aspirationatwork]

for someone so open about caring about people of all religions and letting people freely express themselves you sure are a dick about otherkin and reincarnation

someone being otherkin doesnt impact you. thats the basis of it. it doesnt matter how you feel - its their own personal life. so if someone is otherkin because it feels right, dont be a dickhead. and no, its not "crystal nonsense" - crystals and usage of them is non scientific and can harm due to the mining industry, while people being otherkin is either a religious, spiritual, or psychological thing. some people are genuinely delusional about being nonhuman- and they still deserve respect. reality checking is not always safe and can harm their mental health. otherkin of all kind genuinely experience the things they describe, regardless of how bizzare it feels to you.

and "reincarnation is bullshit", huh? yeah? you got proof? you ever died before? has god come down from the heavens to let you know that reincarnation isnt real? or, maybe, is it just an excuse to be an asshole towards a community that just wants to exist in peace?

i was going through your blog because you had good takes, and then suddenly i see that youre anti-otherkin and proud to be a dickhead about it. what a fucking shame.

if youre able and willing to advocate about those with disabilities, then you should advocate for mental disabilities too, including delusions that make them feel nonhuman. if youre able and willing to advocate for those who have different religious beliefs, then you should advocate for weird religious beliefs, including those who believe in reincarnation and those who feel they remember their past lives.

it isnt hard to be kind.

If you can't criticize any false beliefs because some people are delusional, that's going to be a big non-starter for a lot of conversations about important things.

Someone being a flat-earther doesn't affect me. Doesn't mean the idea isn't as stupid as willfully thinking you can be "non-human" and it doesn't mean you can't be criticized for willfully holding a false belief. Because that's just as non-scientific as thinking crystals are magic. There is a scientific understanding of what constitutes species and what constitutes a human and that understanding does not include "but you can just stop being human if you feel like it or something."

[californiaquail]

in august i was advised by a hospital financial advisor that i could hold off on reporting my income to medicaid until "at least" october but i've been looking into it this morning and i actually think the state might take me to court over the last two months of healthcare including an mri and some very expensive drugs if i'm honest about when i started getting paid. (chuckles) i'm in danger

[tcypionate]

seeing that post comfortably accusing most palestinian gfm asks/posts as scams and pointing out ''proof'' that so insanely racist and all of the notes being like "yes this is why i block and delete every ask i get and never reblog donation posts" are you a fucking baby? do you need someone to hold your hand? and actually when someone makes it EASILY verifiable you're still like "but who verifies the verifiers" because apparently you're unable to actually do more than a quick glance

[philologique]

just looked up the new rules for my old municipal pool and holy shit is someone on an HOA style power trip