SADLY, TODAY MAY BE THE LAST DAY MY SISTER SEES LIGHT.
Tonight, she was admitted to intensive care after losing her ability to breathe, now surviving through machines, and I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and does not support me with a single word and ignores me.
The doctors told me her condition has become extremely critical, and without immediate treatment, she may not survive another night, so I ask, can you help me get treatment for my sister?
I am begging you from the depths of my heart—please don’t leave us alone in this moment. Donate now if you can, your donation could be the reason my sister stays alive.
i must say this almost completely online conflation of "punk rock" with "inherently morally good" is like. one of the most laughable things ive ever seen
okay guys : genocide is okay as long as you dont record yourself doing it
During a visit to Israel, American political commentator and live streamer Steven Kenneth, Known by his online name Destiny, tells a group young Israeli men to leave their phones 'at home' if they are planning to join the Israeli army.
Referencing Israeli abuses in Gaza, he urged them not to 'take videos' of soldiers going into drawers of Palestinian women and wearing their dresses 'because everyone is f***ing you with them.' Since October 2023, many Israeli soldiers have posted pictures and videos of themselves going through or posing in the lingerie of Palestinian women either displaced or killed in Gaza.16 sem
The report by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese puts the record straight: international silence and complicity contribute to the worsening situation and increase the suffering of our people. As the report states, what is happening is "genocide a mass crime." We are not just statistics in a report; we are a family facing this harsh reality daily.
I appeal to you from the bottom of my heart, a desperate child seeking safety for his loved ones. Our home has been destroyed, we have lost everything we own, and every day we live has become a miracle. In order to survive, we must provide food, medicine, water, and basic necessities. We must repair what we can of our tent before winter arrives so we can live without disease and cold.
We raise our voices and say: We will not wait for international justice, which has been long overdue. We depend on you, the people who have the power to make a difference, as Albanese stated in her post. Your donation is an act of direct humanitarian justice. Please help us by donating before it's too late.
My name is Ahmad Dany. I am writing to you from the heart of the daily suffering we … Ahmad dany needs your support for Help Ahmed And His F
For context: the reason metal sounds the way it does is because Tony Iommi, guitarist of Black Sabbath, lost his fingertips in a factory accident. Doctors told him he would never be able to play again, so he spent months burning down plastic and covering it with leather to essentially create new fingertips. Of course, he still couldn't play in the same way, so he downtuned his guitars and found new ways to play parts that made them sound even bigger and heavier than before, and that's how the sound of heavy metal was created!
Not to use him as inspiration porn but it really is incredible that an entire huge genre exists not in spite of but specifically BECAUSE of a disability
Also worth mentioning he was inspired by Django Reinhardt!
"My friend said, "Listen to this guy play", and I went, "No way! Listening to someone play the guitar is the very last thing I want to do right now!" But he kept insisting and he ended up playing the record for me. I told him I thought it was really good and then he said, "You know, the guy's only playing with two fingers on his fretboard hand because of an injury he sustained in a terrible fire." I was totally knocked back by this revelation and was so impressed by what I had just heard that I suddenly became inspired to start trying to play again."
modern Snow White where instead of a magic mirror it's just an AI chatbot driving the stepmother insane because it's programmed to agree with her and confirm her fears
Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.
op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.
for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.
so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.
This goes right along with Right to Repair! Why be allowed to keep something proprietary when you’re NOT EVEN USING IT! Duty of Service should absolutely be an ethical standard in the industry.
the abuse and humiliation Greta Thunberg is going through at the hands of the Israelis needs to be put in context with the dehumanising torture Palestinian prisoners are put through on the daily: the fact that darling Greta can be blindfolded and forced to crawl and kiss the Israeli flags - despite her international popularity and the protection her own government should guarantee her - is only possible because Israelis are allowed to beat, humiliate, starve and rape Palestinians to literal death without anyone stopping them.
For tonight's Spooktober blues set, I'm doing Devil's Blues... mostly mentioning the Devil himself but also various other spooky and funereal themes; I started off with just "Spooky Blues, young man playing blues music in a cemetery at night under a Harvest Moon in October queer academia gay interest glamour fine art photography HDR" and got some beautifully autumnal but not remotely spooky images that I will post some other time; then I changed it to Haunted Blues, and specified vampires, and then Demon Blues with demons (using my new Demon Twink look as a reference for some); I threw in Halloween, Horror, and Gothic at intervals, as well as turning my Personalize filters on and off. Came up with so many it will be hard to choose one for the poster.
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