#by appearing on your computer

[automatonknight]

*stumbles out of the video game covered in blood* have you guys heard of sigcorp

#THOSE GAMES ARE FUCKING CRAZY GOOD #i just finished fp and WWWOOOOWWWWW #ok. spoilers below so watch outtt!!!! although all very vague #i feel like i'm going to blow upppppp. what an experience!!! #this was so fucking good. i love you faye let's go girl #ttm was AMAZING TOO. i like them both equally. maybe ttm a teeny tiny bit more but that's just because it's about going!! to space kind of #i'm EXCITED and also SCARED for impostor fac//ory aaahh #those games have EVEYRHTING...they're funny they're sad. they can pull of anything!!! #the tonal changes are like slaps to the face and i mean it in the best way possible! so so fucking good good lird #neillll what are you up to you horrible little man....... #if faye actually appears in the next game i'm going to blow up i'll be so happy #anyways haha how are you guys doingggg. i'm so normal #seriously if you have a way please please please check out those games do it for me. do it for the funny robot knight in your computer ok?

[highendphasrs]

anyways you guys. cool mcr/fob fans interact with this post if you're chill about band members and aren't weird and backhanded abt their physical appearances. i think we should be besties

#peace and love on the planet earth forever and ever and ever #fob #fall out boy #mcr #my chrmical romance #also i think this started because of a bandom poll??? about if bandom members fuck???? which is #im not gonna comment on that but if youre legitimately getting pissed abt it and resorting to making comments abt their physical appearance #maybe step away from the computer and breathe for a minute or two. idk

[soraeia]

Smiles and laughs as though he's been part of the conversation, even though he's just slithered out from the Never Dawn tavern basement. "Yes. Certainly hilarious, isn't it?"

#{ gilded cages } imperial au #{ the gods are watching. } commentary #(( *shakes computer screen* )) (( WHAT IS YOUR NAME!? )) #(( anyway I'm appearing just bc he wanted to join for a second )) #(( *returns to my fortress of cardboard boxes bc I currently have no bed* ))

[delilah705]

#Sfw #My art #Now And Forever #NAF #Millions Knives #Zemirah Indira Millions #When will I make his hair not fluffy? XD Your guess is as good as mine. #I would have added the computer version too but if I'd drawn this before this blog was made I would have made it more insert inclusive #And the colors I used for the computer version are not viewer inclusive as they are specific. #Listen let me know if you want me to make more insert inclusive art in the future because I will try if you want me to. #And I was so worried with my OKAF art that people would take that character as the canon look for OKAF's reader character. It is not. #And if you wanna draw and share your fanart of scenes from my fics with me please do! And insert yourself or your oc if you really wanna! #Because that's how it's meant to be! Whoever I use in these images where the appearance is defined does not have to be canon for you! #Put yourself or your oc in there! I tend to give these inserts the easiest hair I can draw so it's usually really short or long and flowy a #it's kinda awkward showing people in my personal life this kind of art and not having a defined look for the insert character. #I get “is that a guy or a girl?” “why are they bald?” “where's her hair?” questions. XP And I don't wanna have to explain reader-inserts #to them. But I can remedy that by taking a picture of and posting the inclusive version before I slap on some hair and stuff if you all #would prefer.

[llitchilitchi]

Oblivion did such a great job with its UI, the choice of fonts was phenomenal, the constant presence of kingthings petrock as subtitles and as the player's journal evoking medieval books, the quest updates framed with floral ornaments that look right out of manuscripts, the little icons tied to specific quests and questlines and the different crests that appear in your log to signify your rank in different factions

#tes #oblivion #litchi.txt #sorry I got hit in the feels with this stuff #Im a sucker for the borders drawn in medieval manuscripts and I really love the use of those during the quests #plus the little illustrations that we get for Everything #quests factions birth sign EVERYTHING #dont get me started on the illustrations that appear Once when you are choosing your class like they didnt have to design all those #for one throwaway moment in the start #but they included it!! because its such an important moment #Im also just a sucker for anything related to fonts that look like schwabacher #I should just set my computer's default font to kingthings petrock at this point its such a nice font #i hope tes6 takes notes and brings this back I think it would look nice #the whole game has a very medieval story vibe and I know this is such a stupid thing to say #but yeah it just feels like looking thru a manuscript or at gothic church frescos #its like the manuscripts came alive #writing this also made me realise that this is something arena and daggerfall did less successfully because of the hardware limitations #and now Im emotional cause oblivion despite all the flaws and things people keep complaining about is SUCH a love letter to the franchise #I could make a whole post on that too. but oblivion is a love letter to arena and daggerfall change my mind

[pricemarshfield]

since i can’t play the epilogue on tav’s original save file i’ve been replaying her and ohhhh my god. look at her

#shes so handsome i want to give her pretty things she’d disdain for their appearance and hoard for their magic ♥️ #oc: tav khoury #also i met raphael again and wouldnt you know it. tav is weird about him this time around. kicking in earlier #anyway. i like her. if they make it so i can play the epilogue on my og save this is gonna be bad end her. uh oh’ #my life rn #also if youre like why is the quality shit its bc i couldnt be assed to take a screenshot so have a photo i took of my computer screen

[morisdann]

Today I finally admit (after 3 weeks of denial) that our professor's assistant is fucking hot. I cannot believe there's a real ass man that isn't somewhere up in the ass of the world and I find attractive. Like what the fuck?? Didn't know they existed.

But don't get me wrong, he's hot not on a scale of "conventionally attractive and hot person", he's hot according to my "that's a little itty bitty nerd person that seems to be queer and they're real fucking smart" scale, so most people may find him... ok, at least. At most they'd side-eye me.

#i'm cringe but i'm free #personal ramblings #also this fuck is super bloody quiet and he manages to appear out of the void at most random fucking moments and scare the shit out us #just imagine #you code in an almost complete silence in a pretty dark room (cuz ✨computer science✨ major) #and then suddenly you hear a soft almost feyrish voice “there's a mistake” behind your back #sir. respectfully. stop it. #if he does this to me I'll either slap him in the face on autopilot and die of embarrassment or die of a heart and panic attack

[casiavium]

the fuck is that red thing in the corner

#I do not care what new gimmick tumblr creates I know not to click on a damn pop up #you think I'm new to this?? #idc if it's 'safe' or advertising or something this is the internet you do not click on the random shiny things that appear on your compute

[gouinisme]

what i'm most curious for now about is what's listening in. is it freddie? is it jonah or jon (or just some of them) still clinging on to their role of watcher? and how the fuck did it listen to them all the way to the pub??? this might already be obvious by people who kept up with the ARG but i'm so excited to know more

#also i'm wondering how long the fears have been in that world #like it seems like j m and j or what's left of them have been in that world for a year cuz the computers have been talking for about that #long #but it seems the fears have been in that world for way longer so i'm assuming there were already malevolent entities in that world before #jjm added their lot #maybe it doesn't even have to be fears #maybe it's a whole new magic system #i'm so hyped #also i guess mag sixtyfive had the “virus” appearing on any screen so i guess it makes sense for the “listener” to hop around #but it seems like whatever's listening hadn't been listening before sam joined so what is wrong with you my boy stop pretending you're norm #fly your freak flag samama what fucked up thing is going on with you #also i guess he remembers whatever magnus program he and alice and gerry were in as kidsbut doesnt remember alice bc transgenderism #but what's going on with alice why doesn't she remember it? does she remember it?? i'm so curious #tmagp spoilers #i guess? #i have not been good with tagging those

[juanabaloo]

Not my photos. All credit to Mike Ownby on Flickr.

#ahem #the way she is sitting? #eliza dushku movies and shows #even though this is an appearance #Eliza Dushku NOT in a dress #from 2010 DWTS when she was cheering on then bf Rick Fox #she's giving cool aunt vibes #Faith AU character inspiration #you know that aunt who has a chill job but you don't really know what she does #probably something with computers or coding and she makes good money at it #and she definitely has a long term roommate at least that's how your mom describes it #but her and said roommate go to a lot of farmer's markets together and WNBA games #and they've been coming together to Thanksgiving for years now

[radioconstructed]

// I'm dying laughing thinking about someone custom making a shirt for their friend that has a picture of Al doing jazz hands and it just says "CABLE MANAGEMENT"

#// she did a few media appearances Back In The Day but she kept getting annoying ass questions like 'whats the hardest part of being a #woman?' so she'd give equally dumb answers like 'cable management' and when asked 'huh?' she'd clarify 'women have computers. next.' #great quotable moment. great reason to get cancelled by some weirdos accusing her of misogyny. great shirt to make for your IT-job-having gf

[spiribia]

final fantasy xiv nuzlocke challenge where you roll a completely randomized warrior of light in character creation and you have to name them and progress msq with them and if they die you have to delete them and start over with a new rerolled wol and maybe a lore justification for how this replacement occurred at that point of the story if you want to treat it as one continuous story. i originally proposed this as a joke because it sounded horrible but i genuinely think it sounds really awesome and fun if it wouldnt be horrible. does that make sense. maybe i just like warrior of lights and this would be my nefarious ploy to get people to produce more

#talks #like ffxiv as a game is not structured in a way where restarting from scratch every time you die wouldnt make you want to smash your #computer with an axe repeatedly. just the sense i am getting. unless you had like a bajillion fantasias i just #dont think theres a viable way to replicate the seamless transition of nuzlockes. this COULD #actually work with gw2 because of how thats structured where you can actually skip around to different story chapters #but that game doesnt have 'click this to randomize your characters appearance' button.

[imissjensi]

keefe would have loved club penguin

#i want to paint a picture in your guys minds #it's the last few pages of the final book #everything is resolved #and sophie goes to the forbidden cities without fear of exile #because she can do that now #she takes keefe with her to show him more things like keebler elves #he sees a computer and mocks its blocky appearance and sophie is like wait theres something you'll love give me a second #and she types club penguin into the searchbar #only for the top results to be club penguin is dead and articles about it's demise #and sophie cries #and the series ends #kotlc #kotlc fandom #keeper of the lost cities

[rainbowcarousels]

Vaughn: That's him. How do you wanna play this?

Sydney: You want to be rough, or do you want me to be rough?

Vaughn: You’re always rough.

Sydney: No, I’m not.

Vaughn: Yes, you are.

Sydney: That’s not true.

Vaughn: Yes, it is.

Sydney: Are you talking about at home or on ops?

Vaughn: Both. Hey, I’m not complaining.

Sydney: If I’m rough it’s because you like it when I- Are we on comms?

Jack: Yes, you're both on comms, right now.

#the fact this does not appear to be anywhere is a travesty #it's pure genseph vibes #jack is angeal #alias #when you do a shitty phone edit because your computer is having a fit

[absentlyabbie]

seriously, though. i work in higher education, and part of my job is students sending me transcripts. you'd think the ones who have the least idea how to actually do that would be the older ones, and while sure, they definitely struggle with it, i see it most with the younger students. the teens to early 20s crowd.

very, astonishingly often, they don't know how to work with .pdf documents. i get garbage phone screenshots, sometimes inserted into an excel or word file for who knows what reason, but most often it's just a raw .jpg or other image file.

they definitely either don't know how to use a scanner, don't have access to one, or don't even know where they might go for that (staples and other office supply stores sometimes still have these services, but public libraries always have your back, kids.) so when they have a paper transcript and need to send me a copy electronically, it's just terrible photos at bad angles full of thumbs and text-obscuring shadows.

mind bogglingly frequently, i get cell phone photos of computer screens. they don't know how to take a screenshot on a computer. they don't know the function of the Print Screen button on the keyboard. they don't know how to right click a web page, hit "print", and choose "save as PDF" to produce a full and unbroken capture of the entirety of a webpage.

sometimes they'll just copy the text of a transcript and paste it right into the message of an email. that's if they figure out the difference between the body text portion of the email and the subject line, because quite frankly they often don't.

these are people who in most cases have done at least some college work already, but they have absolutely no clue how to utilize the attachment function in an email, and for some reason they don't consider they could google very quickly for instructions or even videos.

i am not taking a shit on gen z/gen alpha here, i'm really not.

what i am is aghast that they've been so massively failed on so many levels. the education system assumed they were "native" to technology and needed to be taught nothing. their parents assumed the same, or assumed the schools would teach them, or don't know how themselves and are too intimidated to figure it out and teach their kids these skills at home.

they spend hours a day on instagram and tiktok and youtube and etc, so they surely know (this is ridiculous to assume!!!) how to draft a formal email and format the text and what part goes where and what all those damn little symbols means, right? SURELY they're already familiar with every file type under the sun and know how to make use of whatever's salient in a pinch, right???

THEY MUST CERTAINLY know, innately, as one knows how to inhale, how to type in business formatting and formal communication style, how to present themselves in a way that gets them taken seriously by formal institutions, how to appear and be competent in basic/standard digital skills. SURELY. Of course. RIGHT!!!!

it's MADDENING, it's insane, and it's frustrating from the receiving end, but even more frustrating knowing they're stumbling blind out there in the digital spaces of grown-up matters, being dismissed, being considered less intelligent, being talked down to, because every adult and system responsible for them just

ASSUMED they should "just know" or "just figure out" these important things no one ever bothered to teach them, or half the time even introduce the concepts of before asking them to do it, on the spot, with high educational or professional stakes.

kids shouldn't have to supplement their own education like this and get sneered and scoffed at if they don't.

[gothhabiba]

🍉🇵🇸 eSims for Gaza masterpost 🇵🇸🍉

Which eSims are currently being called for?

Gaza Online is calling for:

Holafly (“Israel” and “Egypt” plans): code HOLACNG

Nomad (“regional Middle East” plan): code NOMADCNG (can now be used multiple times from the same email)

Airalo (“Middle East and North Africa” plan)

Sparks (“Israel” plan)

Numero (“Egypt” plan)

Connecting Humanity is calling for:

Nomad (“regional Middle East” plan): code NOMADCNG (can now be used multiple times from the same email)

Holafly (“Israel” and “Egypt” plans): code HOLACNG—be sure to include which plan it is in the subject line

Simly (“Palestine” and “Middle East” plans)

Airalo (“Discover” plans)

For Connecting Humanity: if you sent an eSim more than two weeks ago and it is still valid and not yet activated, reply to the email in which you originally sent the eSim. To determine whether the eSim is still valid, scan the QR code with a smartphone; tap the yellow button that reads “Cellular plan”; when a screen comes up reading “Activate eSIM,” click the button that says “Continue.” If a message comes up reading “eSIM Cannot Be Added: This code is no longer valid. Contact your carrier for more information,” the eSim is activated, expired, or had an error in installation, and should not be sent. It is very important not to re-send invalid eSims, since people may walk several kilometers to access wifi to connect their eSims only to find out that they cannot be activated.

If a screen appears reading “Activate eSIM: An eSIM is ready to be activated” with a button asking you to “Continue,” do not click “Continue” to activate the eSim on your phone; exit out of the screen and reply to the email containing that QR code.

Be sure you're looking at the original post, as this will be continually updated. Any new instructions about replying to emails for specific types of unactivated plans will also appear here.

Check the notes of blackpearlblasts's eSim post, as well as fairuzfan's 'esim' tag, for referral and discount codes.

How do I purchase an eSim?

If you cannot download an app or manage an eSim yourself, send funds to Crips for eSims for Gaza (Visa; Mastercard; Paypal; AmEx; Canadian e-transfer), or to me (venmo @gothhabiba; paypal.me/Najia; cash app $NajiaK, with note “esims” or similar; check the notes of this post for updates on what I've purchased.)

You can purchase an eSim yourself using a mobile phone app, or on a desktop computer (with the exception of Simly, which does not have a desktop site). See this screenreader-accessible guide to purchasing an eSim through each of the five services that the Connecting Humanity team is calling for (Simly, Nomad, Mogo, Holafly, and Airalo).

Send a screenshot of the plan's QR code to [email protected]. Be sure to include the app used, the word "esim," the type of plan (when an app has more than one, aka "regional Middle East" versus "Palestine"), and the amount of data or time on the plan, in the subject line or body of your email.

Message me if you have any questions or if you need help purchasing an eSim through one of these apps.

If you’re going to be purchasing many eSims at once, see Jane Shi’s list of tips.

Which app should I use?

Try to buy an eSim from one of the apps that the team is currently calling for (see above).

If the team is calling for multiple apps:

Nomad is best in terms of data price, app navigability, and ability to top up when they are near expiry; but eSims must be stayed on top of, as you cannot top them up once the data has completely run out. Go into the app settings and make sure your "data usage" notifcations are turned on.

Simly Middle East plans cannot be topped up; Simly Palestine ones can. Unlike with Nomad, data can be topped up once it has completely run out.

Holafly has the most expensive data, and top-ups don't seem to work.

Mogo has the worst user interface in my opinion. It is difficult or impossible to see plan activation and usage.

How much data should I purchase?

Mirna el-Helbawi has been told that large families may all rely on the same plan for data (by setting up a hotspot). Some recipients of eSim plans may also be using them to upload video.

For those reasons I would recommend getting the largest plan you can afford for plans which cannot be topped up: namely, Simly "Middle East" plans, and Holafly plans (they say you can top them up, but I haven't heard of anyone who has gotten it to work yet).

For all other plans, get a relatively small amount of data (1-3 GB, a 3-day plan, etc.), and top up the plan with more data once it is activated. Go into the app’s settings and make sure low-data notifications are on, because a 1-GB eSIM can expire very quickly.

Is there anything else I need to do?

Check back regularly to see if the plan has been activated. Once it's been activated, check once a day to see if data is still being used, and how close the eSim is to running out of data or to expiring; make sure your notifications are on.

If the eSim hasn't been activated after three weeks or so, reply to the original email that you sent to Gaza eSims containing the QR code for that plan.

If you purchased the eSim through an app which has a policy of starting the countdown to auto-expiry a certain amount of time after the purchase of the eSim, rather than only upon activation (Nomad does this), then also reply to your original e-mail once you're within a few days of this date. If you're within 12 hours of that date, contact customer service and ask for a credit (not a refund) and use it to purchase and send another eSim.

How can I tell if my plan has been activated? How do I top up a plan?

The Connecting Humanity team recommends keeping your eSims topped up once they have been activated.

See this guide on how to tell if your plan has been activated, how to top up plans, and (for Nomad) how to tell when the auto-expiry will start. Keep topping up the eSim for as long as the data usage keeps ticking up. This keeps a person or family connected for longer, without the Connecting Humanity team having to go through another process of installing a new eSim.

If the data usage hasn't changed in a week or so, allow the plan to expire and purchase another one.

What if I can't afford a larger plan, or don't have time or money to keep topping up an eSim?

I have set up a pool of funds out of which to buy and top up eSims, which you can contribute to by sending funds to my venmo (@gothhabiba), PayPal (paypal.me/Najia), or cash app ($NajiaK) (with note “esims” or similar). Check the notes of this post for updates on what I've purchased, which plans are active, and how much data they've used.

Crips for eSims for Gaza also has a donation pool to purchase eSims and top them up.

Gaza Online (run by alumni of Gaza Sky Geeks) accepts monetary donations to purchase eSims as needed.

What if my eSim has not been activated, even after I replied to my email?

Make sure that the QR code you sent was a clear screenshot, and not a photo of a screen; and that you didn’t install the eSim on your own phone by scanning the QR code or clicking “install automatically."

Possible reasons for an eSim not having been activated include: it was given to a journalist as a back-up in case the plan they had activated expired or ran out of data; there was an error during installation or activation and the eSim could no longer be used; the eSim was installed, but not activated, and then Israeli bombings destroyed the phone, or forced someone to leave it behind.

An eSim that was sent but couldn’t be used is still part of an important effort and learning curve. Errors in installation, for example, are happening less often than they were in the beginning of the project.

Why should I purchase an eSim? Is there any proof that they work?

Israel is imposing near-constant communications blackouts on Gaza. The majority of the news that you are seeing come from Gaza is coming from people who are connected via eSim.

eSims also connect people to news. People are able to videochat with their family for the first time in months, to learn that their family members are still alive, to see their newborn children for the first time, and more, thanks to eSims.

Some of this sharing of news saves lives, as people have been able to flee or avoid areas under bombardment, or learn that they are on evacuation lists.

Why are different plans called for at different times?

Different eSims work in different areas of the Gaza Strip (and Egypt, where many refugees currently are). The team tries to keep a stockpile of each type of sim on hand.

Is there anything else I can do to help?

There is an urgent need for more eSims. Print out these posters and place them on bulletin boards, in local businesses, on telephone poles, or wherever people are likely to see them. Print out these foldable brochures to inform people about the initiative and distribute them at protests, cafes and restaurants, &c. Also feel free to make your own brochures using the wording from this post.

The Connecting Humanity team is very busy connecting people to eSims and don't often have time to answer questions. Check a few of Mirna El Helbawi's most recent tweets and see if anyone has commented with any questions that you can answer with the information in this post.

#esims #esims for gaza #palestine #gaza #action