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[podcastwizard]

LIKES TO CHARGE REBLOGS TO CAST

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

you people aren't CASTING

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

NO

[aminiyard]

dreaming of the stars

[hagiomoto]

Daily reminder to Americans on this website that American war on Iran is bad because Iranians are getting killed not because you can no longer afford going to the movies in the weekends or refill your car 😒

[hagiomoto]

Y'know what, this reminder also includes non-Americans. Let's watch our words and keep the victims of American aggressions in our heart always

[mewnosodenwyma]

[asturlavi]

the picture of dorian gray

[asturlavi]

the moon & its most radiant star

[asturlavi]

will make a more formal announcement soon but... i've finally made a vgen! if anyone wants to commission me through a fancy, pristine website there's the opportunity for you, might open up some more slots that are far more affordable as well

[onlytiktoks]

[garfs-7thlife]

Don’t Press Those Keys! How to Spot the New "Captcha Scam"

A new CAPTCHA scam tricks users into running malware that steals personal data. Learn how to spot the fake pages before it’s too late.

Added the article just for extra explanation :P stay safe yall (if you saw me fuck this up No you didn't)

[aminiyard]

a couple hsr sketches i managed while taking a break from tomodachi life

[dduane]

Nasty and sophisticated scam: BEWARE of this!

That "Pending PayPal Charge" Email Is a Scam — Even Though It Really Came From PayPal

If an email recently landed in your inbox with a subject line like "Pending charge of USD 987.90 for account activation. Questions? Call 855

Don’t get caught off guard by this. It’s quite a slick one.

[kerryweaverlesbian]

What to actually do If you get one of these, the answer is boring and it works every time: Don't call the number. Don't reply. Don't click links in the email — not even the unsubscribe link. Open a fresh browser tab, type paypal.com yourself, and log into your account. Check your activity. You'll see either nothing, or a tiny incoming payment from a stranger that you can ignore. Then forward the original email as an attachment to [email protected] and delete it. If you want to go a step further, report the phone number to the FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov — every report makes it slightly harder for these operations to keep running. And if you've already called? Don't beat yourself up — these scams are designed by professionals to fool smart people. Hang up, run a malware scan if you installed anything they asked you to install, change your PayPal and bank passwords from a different device, and call your bank's real fraud line (the number on the back of your card) to flag your accounts. Move fast, but you don't need to panic.

from the above linked article. For the UK the email to forward phishing scams to is [email protected], texts can be forwarded on to 7726 (for free!) and as a victim of fraud you can report it here (or here for Scotland)

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

— If an email recently landed in your inbox with a subject line like "Pending charge of USD 987.90 for account activation. Questions? Call [phone]" — don't call that number. Don't click anything. And whatever you do, don't panic-dial to "stop the charge."

You're being targeted by one of the cleverest scams going right now, and the reason it works is uncomfortable: the email genuinely came from PayPal.

The trick is in the subject line, not the email

When most people think "phishing email," they picture sketchy senders, broken English, and links to weird domains. This scam is the opposite. The email passes every authenticity check — SPF, DKIM, DMARC, all green. It comes from PayPal's actual mail servers. The fonts are right. The footer is right. The unsubscribe link works. If you forwarded it to a security expert and asked "is this really from PayPal?" they'd have to say yes.

So how is it a scam?

Scammers have figured out that PayPal lets anyone send small amounts of money to anyone else, and that PayPal will dutifully email the recipient a notification. The scammer sends you a payout of, say, one Hungarian forint — about a quarter of a cent. PayPal's system then automatically generates and sends you a real, legitimate, fully-authenticated email confirming the transaction.

Here's the catch: the email's subject line is whatever the scammer typed when they set up the payout. PayPal doesn't sanitize it. So they write something terrifying like "Pending charge of USD 987.90 — call this number with questions" and PayPal's servers cheerfully deliver that subject line straight to your inbox, wrapped in a perfectly legitimate-looking notification.

The actual transaction in the email body is for 1 forint. There is no $987.90 charge. There never was. But by the time most people read carefully enough to notice that, they've already dialed the number. —

[melongifts]

Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.

[melongifts]

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.

[melongifts]

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

I AM SO SICK OF DEFAULT AI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[asturlavi]

[jayevrd]

witch kitty pile :]

[hagiomoto]

[bearballing]

i feel like the rest of that tweet should be shown:

[hey-there-22]

Headcanon that, after years on the run, Neil develops an inhuman ability to spot anyone watching him (especially cameras). It's usually when they are out and a fan spots them or some reporters trying to get a story, but it also happens during press time after games; the main camera pointing at them as the reporter asks them questions and Neil can't help but notice that other one in the back from another News channel filming even if it's not their turn yet.

Neil can't help the anxiety spike triggered by trauma and years of hiding, so when he usually hides behind Kevin and Kevin will take the spotlight without arguing understanding of Neil's reaction. It's always discreet with them, but if Kevin is not there, Neil tends to hide behind Matt.

It takes Matt a few times to understand what's going on, but after a few incidents of Neil suddenly stopping talking and moving to Matt's side, he starts to spot the cameras and realise what's going on too. But he isn't like Kevin, just accepting his role as a human shield. No, Matt starts smiling at whichever camera Neil is running away from and sticks his tongue out. Every time.

It goes low-key viral and it's one of the first things to pop up if you google Matt.

Years later, after Kevin and Matt graduate, Neil gets the feeling someone is filming him again and his first instinct is to hide. There is a really weird moment when Neil realises Matt's not there but instead of using another person as a shield, Neil looks directly at the fan's camera, smiles and sticks his tongue out in Matt's honour.

A few days later, Matt sends him a screenshot of that moment with the message "haha, miss you buddy".

It becomes their thing and they both do it whenever they spot a camera they shouldn't. Neil isn't sure when it happened but he slowly stops feeling the anxiety and is eager whenever he spots a camera because he gets the chance to do it again and knows he'll see Matt a few days later doing the same thing.

There are hundreds of compilations of them sticking their tongues out. It becomes a well known inside joke in the exy world; Matt Boyd and Neil Josten being best friends.

[opencommunion]

how are westerners so thoroughly programmed that even when you see the violence of your empire, you parrot the same lies used to sell that violence. "bombing a school is wrong but the iranian people should be freed from the regime—" "abducting a president is wrong but the venezuelan people should be freed from the regime—" "starving people with sanctions is wrong but the cuban people should be freed from the regime —" the western people need to be freed from the regimes that brainwashed you, and I mean that

[opencommunion]

#this isn't 'westerners'. this is people in the US. you can just say that.

I said what I said. the US is absolutely not alone in the genocidal project known as "western civilization"

[huzni]

Craven Europeans give US and Israel a blank check for illegal war

They frame the crisis not as an act of war against a UN member state, but as a natural consequence of Tehran’s failure to capitulate uncondi

In the aftermath of the new U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, the transatlantic alliance has offered a response that confirmed what many both in the West and outside knew all along: that for London, Paris, Berlin, and Brussels, the "rules-based international order" has been reduced to a simple, brutal premise: might makes right, provided the might is Western.

The joint statement from the E3 — France, Germany, and the United Kingdom — is a master class in evasion. "We did not participate in these strikes, but are in close contact with our international partners, including the United States and Israel," they declared. The text also lists all the references and rationalizations used by Iran hawks — “nuclear program, ballistic missile program, regional destabilization and repression against its own people.”

Not a single reference to the international law that explicitly prohibits aggression. It is particularly Orwellian that the European leaders “urge the Iranian leadership to seek a negotiated solution,” when Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was literally doing exactly that the day earlier in Geneva.

By failing to condemn the strikes, the E3 has given the Trump administration and the Netanyahu government a blank check. They frame the crisis not as an act of war against a UN member state, but as a natural consequence of Iran’s failure to unconditionally accept its capitulation. The logic is perverse; the target is blamed for the attack, and the aggressors are seen as restoring order.

March 1st, 2026.

I wouldn't trust this outlet on all their pieces, and their usage of the adjective "Orwellian" is such a say-whatever-for-whatever's-sake thing to say, but this one is fairly clear about the issue at hand. These are the very statespeople you northerners have allowed to be voted for all along, your electoral democracy and its export throughout the world via colonial imperialism enable all of this.

[hagiomoto]

[asturlavi]

the day that no one has been waiting for: preorders for the photocards, mini-prints, and a hades 2 themed "deco" sticker sheet are finally up! link in the comments

[asturlavi]

oh and before i forget to also mention this here, let me know if shipping is stopping you and you wouldn't mind your order arriving in a stamped envelope (you only have to cover for the price of a stamp which is ~$1 for domestic and ~$2 for international)! i wish there was a way to provide this option at checkout, but unfortunately that's too complicated for bigcartel's frontend...