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Arkyn | they/she | Lover of audio drama podcasts, books and musicals | Canadian | The ebb and flow of my many interests | Fanart blog (sometimes) | icon made by lunevani
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"It's got a look of desperation in its eyes. It knows if it can't eat this symbol of serenity, it may starve."

I adore X's vision for Annabelle of the mangy wolf trying to devour the tarnished gold crown 🐺👑

BONUS: It seemed like there wasn't a general consensus of what the vision actually meant so Jason Carl kindly explained on Twitter:

"🐺The message of the vision was thematic rather than specific, and it was a warning. The wolf represents Hunger and the Beast. The crown represents Humanity. If the Beast and its Hunger win this struggle, it devours and destroys Humanity.👑" link to the tweet below

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[Original Image Description: Derived from the vision described in Episode 3 of L.A by Night. Bright red/orange background with a black wolf trying to devour a gold tarnished crown. The Crown is depicted with the symbol of the Camarilla. Theres Garnet gemstones and the wolf is biting so hard that the sharp top of the crown is sticking through the lower jaw. The wolf's eyes are glowing red and crying golden tears]

#la by night#la by night x#vamily#vampire the masquerade#wolf illustration#jason carl#x the malkavian#annabelle li#eyestrain#eyestrain tw#world of darkness#strikes a chord la by night#art#fanart#digital art#my art#wolf art#wolf horror#animal horror#cw eyestrain
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shutyourmoustache

If you have the means to donate gifts to toy drives or shelters, please keep the above tips in mind so you can help meet people’s wants and needs! 💓

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meduseld

Just gonna go ahead and plug one of my fave charities, since it has a lot of these elements and you can fulfill what kids asked for! Especially now that the holidays are coming around:

Grant a wish. Change a life.
One Simple Wish empowers you to brighten the lives of individuals impacted by foster care & crisis by sharing their wishes for you to grant.
onesimplewish.org
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themaxbox
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kaapstadmk

Thank you for sharing.

Remember, folks, Wetlands are nature's water treatment facilities. Protect them!

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wizardhecker

I fucking hate game apps. I wanted to play tetris the otherday so I figured there must be a simple tetris app out there its the most basic game. But every app is like heres your daily log in bonus of 10 gold! You get 5 free plays a day. Here's an ad. To replay a level costs 1 diamond. You can eart gold by earning points in levels. 1000 points = 1 gold. You can exchange 550 gold for one diamond but we have a sale right now that they only cost 500 gold. Heres an ad. You can buy a loot crate of diamonds for 5.99$! You leveled up! Heres 1 free diamond. Youve run out of free replays for today, would you like to buy some more diamonds? Heres your daily tasks, make sure to log in every day this month for a free reward chest. its free! Heres an ad. Would you like to sign up for this credit card to recieve 10 free diamonds? Invite a friend and you can earn points! Ding! Youve leveled up. Heres an ad. This is our special bonus play weekend, you get one free replay and a pack of diamonds only costs 4.99$. You can use your gold to purchase new skins for the tetris blocks. This ones shaped like cats! It costs 100 diamonds. You need to collect them all. Free to play, may be some in-app purchases.

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lucyvaleheart

I agree with literally everything op is saying and I don't want to detract from their point but this website here, specifically for mobile games (though they intend to eventually branch out to other types) is creating a database that flags those exact types of predatory things. It also flags games as safe, so if you want to look for safe mobile games this is an invaluable resource.

https://www.darkpattern.games/

It also has definitions, explanations, and examples of all the different types of psychological manipulations games pull on the website so if anyone ever tries to give you "just don't spend money, it's easy" you can send them this

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mothman-etd

Oh thank god, I lost my link to dark pattern some time ago and I thought I would never find it again.

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marlynnofmany

If that doesn't have potential for some fairytale nonsense, I don't know what does.

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b6th

In the right wintry conditions, an ice bridge forms between the Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait. Theoretically, this is the only place where you can walk from Russia to the United States (and vice versa), however travel between one Diomede to the other is strictly forbidden.

On the West side sits Russia’s Big Diomede with a population of 0. The smaller Little Diomede to the East has a small population of 82 (as of 2021).

[Source]

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marlynnofmany

A bridge between Today and Yesterday, you say? Only there at the right time of year, with a certain amount of luck?

That absolutely has the makings of a quest destination.

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carys-the-ninth

The reason Big Diomede (Imaqłiq) has a population of zero today is because the USSR forcefully relocated the native Iñupiat population to the mainland during the Cold War. People had traditionally travelled back and forth between the islands, families were broken apart and given no way to communicate post relocation. Efforts to reconnect families were made in the 1990s and 2010s, but most people on both sides have lost their Native language through forced assimilation under both Soviet and American education systems.

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woefully-undercaffeinated

An incomplete list of things that employers commonly threaten that are 100% illegal in the United States

  • "We'll fire you if you tell others how much you're making" The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 specifically protects employees who discuss their own wages with each other (you can't reveal someone else's wages if you were given that information in the course of work, but you can always discuss your own or any that were revealed to you outside of work duties)
  • "If we can't fire you for [discussing wages/seeking reasonable accommodation/filing a discrimination complaint/etc], we'll just fire you for something else the next day." This is called pretextual termination, and it offers your employer almost no protection; if you are terminated shortly after taking a protected action such as wage discussion, complaints to regulatory agencies, or seeking a reasonable accommodation, you can force the burden onto your employer to prove that the termination wasn't retaliatory.
  • "Disparaging the company on social media is grounds for termination" Your right to discuss workplace conditions, compensation, and collective action carries over to online spaces, even public ones. If your employer says you aren't allowed to disparage the company online or discuss it at all, their social media policy is illegal. However, they can forbid releasing information that they're obligated to keep confidential such as personnel records, business plans, and customer information, so exercise care.
  • "If you unionize, we'll just shut this branch down and lay everyone off" Threatening to take action against a group that unionizes is illegal, full stop. If a company were to actually shut down a branch for unionizing, they would be fined very heavily by the NLRB and be opening themselves up to a class-action lawsuit by the former employees.
  • "We can have any rule we want, it's only illegal if we actually enforce it" Any workplace policy or rule that has a "chilling effect" on employees' willingness to exercise their rights is illegal, even if the employer never follows through on any of their threats.
  • "If you [protected action], we'll make sure you never work in this industry/city/etc again." Blacklisting of any kind is illegal in half the states in the US, and deliberately sabotaging someone's job search in retaliation for a protected action is illegal everywhere in the US.
  • "Step out of line and you can kiss your retirement fund/last paycheck goodbye." Your employer can never refuse to give you your paycheck, even if you've been fired. Nor can they keep money that you invested in a retirement savings account, and they can only claw back the money they invested in the retirement account under very specific circumstances.
  • "We'll deny that you ever worked here" not actually possible unless they haven't been paying their share of employment taxes or forwarding your withheld tax to the government (in which case they're guilty of far more serious crimes, and you might stand to gain something by turning them in to the IRS.) The records of your employment exist in state and federal tax data, and short of a heist that would put Oceans 11 to shame, there's nothing they can do about that.
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daydreaming-scheming-demon

fucking australia’s trying to get everyone to link their government id to their social media accounts else you cant use them anymore, the actual fuck is wrong with this country

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daydreaming-scheming-demon

please, actually, get fucking mad over this, the entirety of australia basically just banned all social media for anyone who doesnt want to give up their privacy to the government, there was no vote on this, no nothing, they just went ahead and fucking passed this ridiculously privy law and barely anybody’s talking about it the actual fuck

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daydreaming-scheming-demon

okay so to actually explain what exactly is happening, it’s an age thing. theyve used ‘protect the children’ and ‘let kids be kids’ as a weapon again. anyone under 16 is banned from social media, but to enforce this they have openly admitted everyone will need to link their government id to their social media. this whole ‘protect the kids’ thing was a very obvious trojan horse for getting ppl to give up their privacy.

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daydreaming-scheming-demon

and yknow, that alone is a very shitty law even without the whole surrendering your private information to the government thing.

theyve made outside uninhabitable, there’s nowhere left to go. public areas have degenerated, theyve turned hanging out into a crime with loitering, streets feel unwalkable sometimes, parents are more wary of letting their kids walk around on their own than they used to be, and now theyre trying to ban one of the main ways kids manage to distract themselves inside the house.

when i was 15 i was depressed and lonely, unable to leave the house very far, no friends, nobody. the one place that helped me feel less alone was online communities. i wouldve killed myself if it werent for the support i recieved on there. and now theyre trying to ban that for future generations, in a world that hates them being both outside and inside.

and even still, this is still a fucking trojan horse to get you to give up your privacy.

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tzikeh

Please be aware this also exists in PowerPoint (turn it off the same way), and I wouldn't be surprised if it exists in all Microsoft products - so be safe and check your privacy settings in all MS products.

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