kaijuno:

kaijuno:

kaijuno:

And in a shocking twist, Elon Musk has not kept his word on helping Flint residents afford water filters

‪You know what? I have a lot of followers. If I could get a list of contacts for people who need filters I bet I could wrangle enough donations to pay for them ‬

Okay! I have a plan! Here is the link to the Flint Water Fund by United Way: bit.ly/FlintStrong

It 100% goes towards buying bottled water for residents. The government has cut off aid to us and these charities are all we have.

I do have one request though! On the page provided it asks for your affiliation (if you have one) and if you guys could put ‘kaijuno’ in that box, it will help me know how much money you guys have raised!

Please consider donating if you can 💜

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lauralot89:

Because I remember disinformation being spread around the last election and I’m sure Russia will bring it back:

• YOU CAN’T VOTE ONLINE.
  
• YOU CAN’T VOTE FROM YOUR PHONE.
• IN MANY STATES THERE ARE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES FOR PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR BALLOT.
• DO NOT WEAR CAMPAIGN GEAR TO THE POLLS.
• DO NOT TRY TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR A CANDIDATE AT THE POLLS.
• DO NOT ENGAGE IN ANY KIND OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE AT THE POLLS.
• NO ELECTION IS EVER A SURE THING, EVEN IF YOU’RE IN THE BLUEST OR REDDEST OF STATES.  IF SOMEONE TRIES TO TELL YOU THAT YOU CAN SIT THIS ONE OUT, THEY ARE EITHER IGNORANT OR MALICIOUS.
• VOTE.

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aampharros:

hey dudes i am Running Out Of Money and am a College Student so like if yall want to commission me i would appreciate that i need food and i dont get paid until friday

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chiibbo:

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maramahan:

808lien:

colacharm:

wildlyannoyingdoofus:

colacharm:

by me, a fool who doesnt wanna die anymore 

1. never make a suicide joke again. yes this includes “i wanna die” as a figure of speech. swear off of it. actually make an effort to change how you think about things.
2. find something to compliment someone for at least 4 times a day. notice the little things about the world that make you happy, and use that to make other people happy.
3. talk to people. initiate conversation as often as you possibly can. keep your mind busy and you wont have to worry anymore
4. picture the bad intrusive thoughts in youe head as an edgy 13 year old and tell them to go be emo somewhere else
5. if someone makes you feel bad most of the time, stop talking to them. making yourself hang out with people who drain you is self harm. stop it.

… 8|

That’s some pretty good advice. I don’t know what’s left of my humor after ‘guess I’ll just die’ jokes but it’s worth a shot.

Personally i went from “guess I’ll die” jokes to “IF I HAVE TO BE HERE FOR 5 MORE MINUTES I PROMISE YOU I WILL BUY JUST, AN ARRAY OF CLOTHES.” and other wild hyperbolic stuff. Just replace the death part with something ridiculous and off topic. Its very entertaining

This also works with calling myself things like stupid, worthless, trash, etc. Even if you do this jokingly to yourself, your brain still believes it, and keeps up the cycle. Seriously, I found that when I stopped saying these things about myself, even jokingly, it made a massive difference.

Here’s a tip I picked up from a friend that’s helped me a lot — replace self deprecating jokes with ironically self aggrandizing jokes

Like every time I trip and fall, instead of saying “l’m just a disaster human” I say “I’m the epitome of grace and beauty”

Or like, when I draw a picture I’m not 100% happy with, instead of saying “my art is trash” I say something like “you know I think it’s time we replaced the Mona Lisa”

When you do that you get to make a joke, but you’re ALSO getting practice building yourself up, y’know?

And eventually it becomes a reflex and you get so used to it that you can say nice stuff about yourself even when you AREN’T joking

This is so important

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elvencantation:

nobszone:

vest816:

First off, this is not a political post. This is a scam awareness post. Hopefully people help spread the message, considering this is US Voter Registration Day according to today’s Google doodle. You also don’t have to spread this entire post to be helpful, just the two links at the end. I apologize it’s long, it could be as short as “don’t use TurboVote, they give your information to multiple partners who bolster their company value with it, FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST, IGNORE THE TWITTER NOTIFICATION YOU WILL RECEIVE.”

But I also don’t want it to appear as some low-effort grab for attention. This is the kind of thing that needs lots of proof and explanation. People are exploiting the current political environment to scam young Internet users into giving away swathes of personal information to access services that shouldn’t require anything more than a ZIP code.

This one is particularly bad.

Because it will affect millions.

This evening, I got an odd sponsored post on my Twitter feed. It appeared as so:

I’ve seen sponsored links like this before. A large corporation like Twitter would create expedited guides to help their users participate in their national elections, but would also collect this information for figuring out voter behavior and trends. These would then be offered to the political parties so they know where to focus their efforts better. It’s a pretty basic business.

But the thing that caught my attention was that upon following the link, I was immediately asked to fill out personal information.

 The landing page takes you here:

“After all, we’re going to be friends.”

Somebody actually approved that copy. Because that’s not creepy or anything.

Already, they are asking for your first and last name. Note that online registration for voting is legal in 39 states, so the first check should be to confirm if the user is even able to utilize the service. Also, to help direct me to a verified site that would be able to process my voting application, it wouldn’t need to know my first or last name, it would just need to know what State I resided in.

The next page gets worse.

I cropped out a lot of text in between, but basically, the next page doesn’t waste any time asking for even more personal direct methods of contacting me. Probably for “special offers” and “updates” from sponsored candidates and action committees buying their way into my inbox.

They’ll surely ask for my State to get the actual process underway, yes?

Nope. Next page is just me confirming that I am a live and active recipient of their “services.” Note they already have my name and Email/phone number, so selecting “Yes” would automatically put me on their recipient list to be pestered. But what’s interesting is if you select “No/I’m Not Sure”…

Hey, there’s the State pull-down menu! But it’s with…ehh, a lot of very personal information that’s definitely not needed to verify if I’m eligible to vote, or to redirect me to an official government source to actually register.

Let’s put in some fake credentials. Note I’ve been using a browser with cleared cache and incognito mode, so it can’t siphon off my browsing history to circumvent my trickery. I am also using a VPN, so they can’t figure out my location either.

Now I’m very concerned. 

So I’m not filling in an application at all. As speculated. I’m just giving a whole bunch of extraneous information, and after giving them my name, my phone number, my Email, my street address, and my current voting status, I’m simply provided with links to the actual government resources and registration page.

I’ll register online.

I get kicked back to the landing page. The link does not work. Everything I sent in just returns me to a “null” subdomain.

Alright so this is very suspicious. Who the heck even are these guys? Let’s check the privacy policy.

Confirmation that they do store all the information you sent them. However, they assure that it’s not sold.

They also claim that their partners do not sell the information either, and they are only given that information simply to perform the services they use.

Unfortunately…

What curious findings have we here?

Basically, the company is not going to delete its databases of user information if they’re purchased by another entity. Not even the entire company, just a “division or subsidiary” of the company, like the “database of their collected addresses and user names” division.

Don’t be fooled.

TurboVote is exploiting National Voter Registration Day to data mine you. They claim neither they nor their partners sell user information, but they do collect it, store it, and they will hand it over if an interested party decides to purchase it. Not TurboVote directly, but their “partners” will. They accumulate it, all the while saying they aren’t selling it, and what’s deceptive is they’re telling the truth, it’s not being sold. That is…until they put themselves up for sale, and use that gigantic address book to bolster their company value through the roof.

You don’t have to do this. They do not need your home address to relay you to your registration form. They don’t need to keep your information stored on file. They don’t need your name, your voting eligibility, your party affiliation…any of that information. DO NOT give your personal information to third-party “voter assistance” scams like this. It’s absolutely abhorrent that Twitter is sending mass notifications to people to use this data mining service, when there are plenty of simple non-committal websites already in existence to provide you the services you need.

Use a trusted .org like NonprofitVOTE instead.

And remember. Please vote. If you’re confused about ballot measures and local election information without the hyperbolic nonsense blasting out of the TV ads, and wish there was some sort of Ballot-type Wikipedia site out there, Ballotopedia is a fantastic source that lays out all the information you need for every ballot out there. Even you, Mr. Ezekiel Zebadiah Abraham of Muttonbutt County, Kentuckabama, they’ll even have comprehensive guides to help justify re-electing Officer Fuzzwhistle The Cat for his fifth term as mayor.

Again, I’m fully aware this is such a long post. Hopefully this helps you guys figure out how to get involved in the legislative process, and moreso, provides you the links necessary to give actual help to others without compromising their security. You don’t have to send them this post (please don’t, it’s gigantic), just the alternate site suggested at the end.

Thanks.

Hey, Twitter, this is how the Russians get their info.

i saw this on snapchat too

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mamoru:

Posted Oct 5th, 2018

Many users are reporting massive data loss following the October 2018 Windows 10 update. Personal files are being deleted and hard drives are being corrupted in addition to several performance glitches. Users who have received the update are reporting all of their personal files such as documents, music, pictures, and videos being deleted following the update.

Some people have lost hundreds of gigabytes of data. These files are completely disappearing following the update – they do not wind up in the recycle bin, they are completely gone. Other users are reporting their entire hard drives or SSDs becoming corrupted, making rollback and recovery of said deleted files impossible.

In addition to the file deletion, devices with 6th generation Intel processors and newer are reporting awful battery life and CPU usage following the update.

Long story short, hold off on the October 2018 update for now. There are too many glitches and way too much to lose. If you attempt it,

BACK UP ALL OF YOUR FILES FIRST.

More information:

Digital Trends

Forbes

Cnet

ZDnet

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ojamayellow:

ojamayellow:

ojamayellow:

New post! I’m selling a bunch of random stuff and would appreciate support!

I’m jobless and don’t have time/mental capacity atm to earn my money normally (commissions) and need to make money quick to support myself! (And buy new headphones which I need to manage with everyday life). Spreading this would be extremely helpful too! 

Just saying I desperately need headphones being an autistic fucker with misophonia so I’d like to buy some ASAP!!

Oh and if you’re wondering, I am job hunting and have been for months.

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yusei-fudo:

I’m looking for blogs who post about Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, 5D’s or Vrains. My dash is filled with nothing but Arc V and I kind of want a bit more variety so if any of you post about these series I’d love to follow you! 

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deadfishmarket:

We NEED to get Net Neutrality trending again.

This is enough. Ajit Pai has already succeded MULTIPLE TIMES and you can expect the full removal of net neutrality on APRIL 23RD OF THIS YEAR. We can still contact our senators, we can still fight as hrd as we can, but even though 23 states are suposedly suing for the repeal of this, we need to help it along.

In case people forgot what Net Neutrality is: it is a series of laws that ensure everyone free and fair access to the internet. Without them, you will be charged for the sites you use on top of an already high internet bill. This means creators like us cannot post and be seen. Thia means that smaller schools will havebto switch to out of date text books. This means that starter IT projects that could make our lives better will die because noone can support an online presence that noone can afford to see.

And the list goes on and on and on. I have frienda who have to make their livings through commissions and working online because of multiple health issues. I have friends trying to publish books, post art, post voice acting snippets that will not be seen without these laws.

Please support Net Neutrality and contact your senators!!! This is so important to everyone you know, AND WE JUST NEED ONE SENATOR TO TURN THE TIDE!!!

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thatmew:

Welp

I’ve reached e begging rock bottom

Long story short my recent check from work was short by several hundred dollars and due to bills I have set to autopay my bank account is now sitting at a nice big negative amount along with some nifty overdraft fees and I still have more bills to pay in the next two weeks before I get paid next. Nevermind food and gas, whoops.

So my PayPal is thatmew@gmail.com . I don’t want to guilt trip anyone so please don’t send me anything unless you both want to and most importantly can. I can figure out some way to take care of myself, somehow, even with negative money, but I don’t know, I’ve gotten to the point where I have to swallow my pride and ask for help because my luck has not been too great these last few months.

Thank you for even reading this and I’ll try to make up any help in any way I can in the future.

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pendulum-sonata:

Yup, you read that right, as you know Flame (@flameofswords) and me organized the Arc V zine “Pendulum of the Soul” (@arcvzine) and now that the zine has been shipped and we are on our final stages, we want to gauge interest for a new zine this one focusing in a crossover type of content with all the series we haven’t defined the details yet, since we plan to start on either July or August.

But this post isn’t just for that, you see, since the zine will be convering all the YGO series, we expect more participants and probably more content, which means we will be in need of another moderator, preferably someone from the U.S that can help us handling shipping, but we are open to anyone who might be interested!

(Note that you need to be completely sure that you can compromise to the work that will ential and not get cold feet mid-way stuff please, we also need someone who can be neutral and not play favorites either with the participants or with the series, but who can also be firm when the need arises.)

That said since Flame and I kind of “represent” (inside the zine) the gx, arc v and 5ds fandom, we both feel it would be more balanced and fair if we can get a mod who is more involved with fandoms of the other series, but like the living part, is not mandatory.

Either way, if you are sure you meet all the requirements and have time during those months, feel free to message me or Flame, or just mention it in the tags and we will contact you :D

skagra3482:

skagra3482:

I’m bedbound with CRPS.

I can’t even walk to food/water. Without disability assistance, I CANNOT POSSIBLY STAY ALIVE.

Feb 3: ONLY 1 HOUR LEFT to raise *$1338* for disability care . Unless care fees are paid, I COULD BE KILLED by neglect & dehydration. 

NO DONATIONS RECEIVED SO FAR. 

1. My complex regional pain syndrome leaves me permanently bedbound, unable to even walk to food/water  [MEDICAL REPORTS HERE]. 
2. Without paid carers, I could STARVE AND DEHYDRATE. 
3. Lack of paid cleaning could also breach my lease and get me PERMANENTLY BANNED from rental subsidies. 
4. Being BEDBOUND, HOMELESSNESS COULD KILL ME. 
5. $2386 in current care fees & $2303 for care debts must be raised urgently through daily deadlines to avoid care termination.  
6. Because a widely criticised [1] [2] [3] [4] gov. disability service is refusing me care, raising donations is now A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.

PLEASE DONATE HERE (PayPal + card accepted)
Counter must reach $39,559 AUD
To exclude expended old donations

RECURRING DONATIONS for my care can be made here & must be **registered at this link** to be valid. They could guarantee my ongoing care and would PREVENT THESE CONSTANT THREATS TO MY LIFE

Funds raised are managed on behalf of the recipient by The Developing Foundation (ABN 58903560400)

No donations received
No donations received
No donations received

UPDATE: ONLY. 8. MINUTES. LEFT. TO RAISE $1338!

I am PLEADING with you for MY LIFE.

Please, PLEASE DONATE SOMETHING. I’m bedridden - losing care could KILL ME. Without help, I COULD QUICKLY DIE FROM DEHYDRATION & NEGLECT.

PLEASE DONATE HERE 
(Donations counter must reach $39,559 AUD)

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