From the 1.43.a patch notes for PEAK.

I was drinking my new vimto clear protein and blueberry creatine concoction and found the colour scheme very bi friendly.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/34171041

Hello everyone, trust all is well. My name is CyaraKaira and I’m one of the transgenders living in South Sudan. My journey has been really horrible from Uganda to Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp where my sisters and I faced so much transphobia including stripping us naked, beating, stoning and killing us.

UNHCR Kenya had to place us in a protection area. Honestly, the protection area was even worse unsafe and full of fear so we had to run for our lives again and that’s how we ended up in South Sudan. We stayed in Gorom refugee settlement for some months under UNHCR until the government had to chase us out of the camp because of gender identity. We stayed on the streets of Juba until we got a shelter through all your support

I’m updating because we’re now facing a serious problem. We have not paid rent for two weeks. Yesterday our landlord came to the shelter with his receipt book demanding payment. We didn’t have the money. We only had a little of it and he refused to take it insisting full payment. This made him really angry. He said if we don’t pay immediately he will call the local council to throw us out. He even started asking why we came to South Sudan, which was so painful and frightening because answering that truthfully can put us in danger.

Getting this shelter wasn’t easy. Most landlords here ask for IDs, and we only have UNHCR registration proof. Being an Ugandan refugee is risky because people either think you’re a terrorist or LGBTQ. This landlord didn’t ask too many questions, and that’s how we managed to stay. But now he’s threatening to evict us when he returns. We currently have 267$ out of 950$ we still need 683$ to cover up the rent please.

There is also a video of a South Sudanese national calling upon other Sudanese to attack the rest of the community that hasn’t managed to leave the camp. This also puts us at risk because the video is on social media, also my sister Tasha uploaded it on the fundraiser.

Please, if anyone can help us cover the rent, we would be so grateful. Your support means everything to us right now. The support link is in the bio/ profile

Thank you so much for taking time to read this and for standing with us.

saurus

Hey yall I have recently acquired myself an email with custom domain on tuta. A month has passed and I basically received no email so please send me whatever you want so I can feel justified to keep paying for it lol

Here's the address: nw@northwestw.in

(I hope this doesn't break advertisement rule)

feesh

i guess i cannot cancel

"Right at the peak of our last pandemic, Founders Fund hosted the first Hereticon, a ‘conference for thoughtcrime.’ Our thinking was simple: dissent is worth protecting. Most new ideas are wrong, or useless. Some are even dangerous. But from science and technology to business and faith, progress is a history of persecuted weirdos, so that is where we stand, and that is what we celebrated."

Reading through the article's summaries of some of the talks, I really feel like humanity is beyond fucked up

One of the few good pieces:

For the overwhelmingly Silicon Valley audience reading this, just a thought: maybe you’re not autistic, you’re just an asshole.

Another piece on the event - https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2024/11/13/i-attended-hereticon/

I get why some people would resent academia, since no matter how much you try to avoid it, it has lots of internal politics and is influenced by external politics as well. Even if you had good data and good arguments, "problematic" topics could be vetted instead of attempting to discuss them. On the other hand. doing this kind of event where it just feels like "dissent for the sake of dissent" doesn't really help, imo.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/33944924

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/33944870

Hello everyone, hope all is well. It has been months since I posted. I had lost my account because my phone was stolen. Also a lot has been happening ever since from the government chasing us from the camp because we are transgender to now that the South Sudanese wanting to kill us a video was uploaded on the fundraiser about how a South Sudanese national is trying to tell others to attack the refugees that haven’t managed to leave Gorom refugee settlement. This really a serious situation that needs your support in order to find safety for the rest kindly. Honestly the major reason as to why I’m writing is that we are in an emergency situation. We are going be chased out of the shelter because of failure to pay rent. We are trying to raise 950$ and we only have 78$. I’m really afraid because even here we live by hiding and how about if we are left on streets. We are visible transgenders that we will be at risk of being killed in this war country. Anything can help also boosting the post means a lot.

Please consider supporting us through the support link in the bio/profile. Thank you so much.

This is equipment I have so far to build it. I came here to ask where to archive everything I learned. Everything works on a technical level and I'm waiting to get the motivation to set up the Raman spectrometer