Treat anything on Discord as media that will be lost

Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!

It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.

I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?

How many relationships? How much writing?

You may think this won't happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.

IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.

Back up your files! Download anything you've saved to Discord NOW, before the API changes go into effect! And DO NOT RELY ON THEM FOR HOLDING IMPORTANT FILES!

Here is a program that lets you download any and all of your discord DMs, your servers, everything. You can set the format (raw text, html (dark and light), and others. You can even download the uploaded files not just the text, though that may be just for the command-line version not the GUI window version.

Please back up your conversations, your stories. I have a backup of everything I care about that runs once a week, with full attachment backups every several months. I write stories on discord, and would be devastated if someone happened to them. You have to have your own local copies of every file you care about.

[ID: A screenshot of tags reading, “Weird how it says politics instead of racism but sure whatever”. End ID.]

This is the first post I saw on the matter, so the offending posts have already been deleted. However, I found screenshots from others about the situation. Ones calling out the Palestinian messages as scams, targeting a particular blog, claiming dates of blogs were changed, and that Palestinians weren’t contactable at this time:

Information regarding the UK riots

If you're worried about the riots right now and are concerned for your safety, the safety of friends and loved ones or the safety of other members of your local community, here are a few posts, organisations and social medias that may help. Feel free to add any others that you know of in the notes.

Posts:

Organisations:

Social Medias:

It's worth checking your town/local area's social media pages (if they exist) for information regarding possible planned riots and destruction. There may also be one or more pages regarding news in your county/constituency.

Additional social media pages:

Also, I've noticed that a lot of groups protesting the ongoing genocide in gaza have been very vocally against the far-right riots and have been sharing some information alongside their usual stuff. If you know of a local encampment/group, it's worth searching for their social media.

It's worth checking the lists of people that the listed groups follow on social media as well for more information regarding riots across the country.

Please, please share any more that you know of/find, and I'll update this as and when I can.

Stay safe everyone <3

Post by @octarineblues listing fundraisers to support people impacted by the Southport attack and current far-riot riots

Linked here

This post by @northern-punk-lad listing the locations and times of proposed riots today.

Tags from @faggilyeverafter

#standuptoracismuk on instagram is also a good resource for info about riot and counterprotest times and locations

wow. well that's insane.

Any way, if you're one of the people posting about Deadpool & Wolverine despite the call to boycott for Marvel's zionism then you start donating to any of these GoFundMe's. Numbers link back to the vetted fundraiser spreadsheet.

Bilal Salah (#132) (€72,794/100,000)

Abdallah Ameen (#134) (€5,136/35,000)

Momen Al Ostaz (#125) (€16,404/70,000)

Doaa's Family GFM (Vetted) ($3,123/65,000)

Mahmoud Nedal (#123) ($3,209/50,000)

Amal Ashour (#175) (€22,204/30,000)

The amount of vetted campaigns that are 100% going to help Palestinians escape the most cruel fates/ rebuild and survive without any coverage is insane. I think we should be asking ourselves more where did our rage go? Hmm…

Donate and share. Do what you can and be grateful you have something you could be doing that people are directing you towards.

my favorite breed of image ever

hey @markscherz what kind of beast is this and why does it have bell bottoms

This is Cruziohyla craspedopus, and basically it has evolved to look like a leaf and not like a frog when sitting still during the day (they are nocturnal). Apparently bellbottoms break up your outline and make it harder for predators to recognise you as a tasty morsel.

My contempt towards a brand is directly proportional to how often they interrupt my playlists.

My late father was the one who taught me to be cynical about advertising, for all that putting up ads was literally his whole job. He taught me from a very young age that advertising is expensive, and they tack that cost onto the price. That if something is heavily advertised, you can count on the fact that there's an identical product out there, usually even manufactured in the same factory, that's cheaper because they don't spend all that money on advertising.

A German friend walked me through Lidl, turning over items to show the factories where the items were manufactured and what expensive brands they correspond to, we did taste tests on some of the more pricey food things later and they were the same product. learning about food manufacturing was a hobby for her.

European glasses and sunglasses are made in the same Italian factories that make the luxury ones, they have the same quality control and warranty. You are paying €100 for a logo.

Some things cost more because they are actually made with better quality materials and where the workers are properly compensated, others are the same product as the off brand version with the brand name markup. It takes a lifetime to learn the intricacies which is why consumer advocacy associations and legal protection by (truly) independent agencies is crucial.

BIG LOBSTER NEWS apparently an orange lobster at the university of New England had babies and half of them are orange and half are normal

So the answer is yes. Weirdly colored lobsters do have weirdly colored babies.

Her name is Cheddar

everytime someone rbs this i get a notification as though it were my post, even the rbs that don’t have my addition. go away onion post i am not your mother

Abandoned by its biological mother, the onion post instead imprints on a random passerby that fed it.

it sucks being an American because people from other countries will make fun of you for liking burger and you will try to be like NO! I EAT OTHER FOOD TOO! but you can't get the words out because you're too busy salivating over the idea of burger

I can’t believe it’s already august 5th. what’s next? august 6th? get tf out of here

At least it won't be followed by August 7th

Tumblr is really the anti-Arab website. This is the website that lets fandom bloggers run scams like Dashcon and that stupid cartoon bear shit without the organizers facing any repercussions but when people want to flee genocides, they suddenly cared about scams

There's wholesome ships and there's toxic ships, but I'd like to coin 'sodium chloride ships', where the individuals involved are both horrible and dangerous people, but somehow being together renders them surprisingly well-adjusted (if a little salty).

The opposite of this is a 'coke and mentos' dynamic, where the two people are generally chill and likeable but being around each other makes them both wild and chaotic.

Here's the breakdown:

So to summarize, these blogs think that there are tens of users on this site who have pretended to be palestinians for years just in the hope that one day they couldve used that to run a belgian scamming ring

Wanna know something kinda funny is that sometimes Palestinians are called "beljiki" or Belgian, for some reason. I doubt that they knew this when making the assertion but funny nonetheless.

Lol

whats worse is they took this joke and swapped out Nazi for Arab...

reading today's news coming from palestine and isreali prisons, and then logging in here to see bitches ganging up to prevent the little help we can do for gazans. and i'm thinking, maybe we're failing to impose shame on some people. zionists and their allies are not fearing for their lives enough to me