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A special request

| techiehux

sugardaddyhux:

I’m going to Thailand in a few weeks and I’m very excited! 
BUT I need your help. 

I am severely allergic to peanuts and sesame seeds and I would find it incredibly useful if I had a pre-translated sentence I could show people to help them understand the severity of my allergies and make sure I can stay safe. I don’t want to die on holiday!

IF YOU SPEAK THAI OR KNOW ANYONE WHO SPEAKS THAI, PLEASE SEND ME A MESSAGE 
If you don’t, I’d appreciate a reblog just to spread the word. I don’t really trust Google Translate for such a subtle language, and I really do need this to be perfect. 

THANK YOU ❤

Edit: I am also going to Singapore but I believe one of the main languages spoken there is English? Would anyone suggest a specific language to have ready as well (out of the 4 spoken there) or would English be ok?

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gingerpilothoes:

🍸Burned-Out Businessman Hux & Bartender Poe for @sitharmitage 🍸

“Okay Red, not to sound like that cliche bartender, but what’s eatin’ ya?”

“What makes you think something’s… bothering me?”

“Come on, you’ve been in here three nights this week. Did Burberry discontinue your favorite cologne?”

“Oh, are you adding comedian to your list of job titles now?”

“Just spill, Hux. I swear I can be a good listener.”

“Its not- oh fine. Since I know you won’t shut up about this. I’ve… Have you ever worked your whole bloody life for something and then realized maybe it was someone else’s dream?”

“Well, if you’re ever looking for a new direction we could use some more help around here.”

“Shouldn’t you consult with the owner before handing out unsolicited job offers?”

“Lucky for you Red, you’re talking to the owner.”

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wakandansithwitch:

wakandansithwitch:

wakandansithwitch:

Please Help

After nearly a month in the hospital fighting complications from surgery, my sis and I lost our mother the morning after Easter. If you’d be so kind to help with upcoming expenses to help us with remaining funeral expenses and to help cover costs of keeping her house. it would be appreciated. We cannot locate any means of life insurance or other funds she may have left behind. Thank you.

💕 Youcaring.com/jbcfund

Please boost. I don’t really have a lot of followers.

Friday aftermath before I take a much needed nap and hide from this wretched week boost. Thanks everyone for uplifting this post and to any of you who may have contributed.

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longstoryshortikilledhim:

the-arkadian:

Attention fanfic writers: If you use Google Docs to write/store/back-up your fics, you might want to download anything you don’t already have backed up elsewhere. Google is apparently invading and deleting people’s personal drive content thanks to the FOSTA/SESTA bill that recently passed through Congress. Essentially, it criminalizes ANY platform where sexual content could be placed.

It may also be worth making sure you have offline back-ups of any and all fics you have posted here on Tumblr and on AO3, in case Yahoo get antsy (they’ve been cracking down on the porn bot tumblrs already) and OTW face a legal challenge to take down AO3. I’m hoping that’s not the case – but I was on LiveJournal during Strikethrough in 2007 and I remember the way that whole communities as well as individual LJ accounts were deleted and purged; it was instrumental in the founding of AO3 in the first place. That was a widespread purge of fanfic writers and communities, LGBT+ communities and writers and more, all due to legal threats that SixApart, the company that owned and hosted LiveJournal, received due to allegedly hosting paedophile content. After Strikethrough was over and LJ admitted they’d gone OTT, there were a number of communities and accounts that didn’t get reinstated. I’ve always been quite careful not to have my Tumblr flagged up as NSFW in part because of that. Given the number of Facebook accounts that get temporary or permanent suspensions thanks to malicious false reports, I have very little confidence that Tumblr’s staff won’t make mistakes.

I’m not sure what this means for collaborative fics; but Google Docs probably aren’t a safe platform for that anymore.

While videos and photos are more likely to be under scrutinity, it’s better to be safe than sorry: fic writers might want to use Google Drive’s takout function to mass-save their files (attention: it doesn’t really work for collabs.) Zoho Docs is an excellent alternative for Google Drive: you can synch Google with Zoho and continue to work with Google, using Zoho to manage backup copies, or switch to Zoho altogether. (Since the company is India-based, US legislation doesn’t threaten it.) 

I wouldn’t worry too much about AO3, but be assured that if the worst happens and your work gets deleted for whatever reason, you will recieve a HTML and a PDF copy of your work with the notification email. (Speaking of experience here.) Also, AO3 is very good at communicating with its users, so I’m sure we’ll be getting news about the site’s fate, should they be facing any legal threat.

tl;dr: now is a good time to make backup copies of your fics, either by downloading them or storing them in a non-Google-owned cloud