They'll threaten to call the FBI on a trans woman for saying she hopes the CEO of this site dies in a looney tunes car hammer explosion but they won't even terminate the blog of the person who was proven to be a pro-contact pedophile running a forum website for other pro-contact pedophiles to congregate with children who self identified as "adult attracted minors." Which they were advertising on this website. Okay.

enamored lately with an asmr channel i stumbled upon on youtube that’s literally just a sweet korean lady pretending to give her enormous ragdoll cat (who she pretends is a famous and wealthy cat actress) extravagant spa treatments that are wildly, wildly overpriced (because the cat is rich)

Why is the Sims community boycotting Curseforge?

I've seen a lot of posts going around calling on Simmers to stop using Curseforge, a modding platform that enables creators to monetize their downloads, with plenty of outrage directed toward modders and CC-makers who are still on the platform. But I've also seen a lot of people who are confused about why there are calls for a boycott.

Curseforge is owned by Overwolf, a company that is donating money to the IDF in support of its ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.

In late October/early November, Overwolf posted a graphic on their social media asking followers to "defend our defenders" by contributing financially to a fundraising drive for the IDF. They were met with backlash and quickly took the graphic down, replacing it with one that used language about raising money for "those effected by the violence in Gaza" (my phrasing may be inexact) but the money is still going to the IDF and not to any agency actually supporting civilians or doing humanitarian work.

You can see the original graphic on this change.org petition, which provides some additional context.

If you are using Curseforge in any way -- by hosting your content there or downloading from it -- you are giving money to a company that is raising funds for an ongoing military campaign against a civilian population.

This is why people are calling for a boycott. If you are a modder or CC maker for the Sims, you should remove all of your content from the website and redirect people to other DL sources. If you are a consumer of mods and CC, you should stop clicking curseforge links and send (polite!) messages to modders and CC makers to urge them to pull their content from the site.

the death toll in gaza has surpassed 28,000. thats more than the population of the town i grew up in.

and its going to be much more given that the iof is invading rafah. the place over a million palestinians were displaced to. yknow, the designated safe zone.

dont stop talking, educating, protesting, donating, etc.. i understand being tired, i am too, but we cant afford to be burnt out. theres no conceivable reason for anyone to think any of this is ok to do to other humans. theyre not just numbers. these are peoples friends, siblings, parents, kids, lovers, spouses. it doesnt matter how far away they are. many of them were lovely human beings, and even those that werent didnt deserve this. they dont deserve this. i hope you already understand that.

what on earth is it that possesses thin people to go onto any post where a fat person is being vulnerable/discussing insecurities and feelings of undesirability/having a VERY serious discussion about eating disorders/etc. etc. and open up the replies to go "wow this is so real and beautiful. can relate on the opposite end because i've always been skinny. always been really skinny and small and thin so i relate except the opposite, on account of because i'm small (unlike you) so it's the same thing i think. i tried soooo hard to gain weight but the pounds just don't wanna stick! lol. people tell me 'eat a burger!' which hurts, because i like being small and skinny and petite and little and i think it's so beautiful that i'm thin. just thought a different perspective might be helpful live laugh love xo"

You guys better never shut up about Palestine. Even when they are liberated, your mouth better not close. Thousands upon thousands have died, and your words will never equal their lives, even if you spoke of them for thousands of years. You owe it to their memory, and to the people who live on, to never shut up.

People in Gaza have been saying this would happen since the very start, as soon as the occupation started corralling everyone into the southern part of the strip they said this would happen. We watched it happen as the “safe” zones grew smaller and smaller and every time Rafah was targeted by air strikes even before this. And no one who could actually stop this lifted a finger. It’s been 129 days.

yeah go ahead turn off the news and watch the super bowl while rafah gets non-stop bombed by israel. rafah which houses over a MILLION displaced people. people displaced BY THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION. they made palestinians leave everything and come to rafah (a tiny village) for safety just to bomb them all. but. watch the super bowl. everything is calculated.

palestinians were massacred and bombed to drive them out of the north of gaza, and they were told that the south was safe. then israel wiped out the south of gaza and promised safe evacuation if palestinians fled to rafah which is now being violently bombed as well. if israel's goals aren't clear here, i don't know what else could prove it

I hope you all understand when you hear, 'over 1 million Palestinians in Rafah have nowhere to go,' it's because the Israeli occupation forces are killing anyone who tried to escape to the North.

The Rafah border is closed but the US and Israel are pressuring President Sisi to allow them to displace the Palestinians into the Sinai Desert. So far, Sisi has only deployed soldiers to the border. He is being offered a lot of money too (the numbers range from $20-150 billion) but understands that this would anger Egyptians, who know that this would be ethnic cleansing, and therefore destabilise the country.

In the meanwhile we're looking at massacres so horrific and apocalyptic, that even Germany is having misgivings

Israel is disgusting.

Did you see the video that shows where the ambulance that went to rescue 6 year old Hind was from the car she was trapped in?

Mere meters! Meters! The paramedics would have been able to see the car from where the ambulance was before it was struck by Israel.

The paramedics were there. Hind was moments away from being rescued. Israel is fucking monstrous. They lured paramedics in so they can kill them before killing the child.

The are no words to describe how inhumane Israel is. Fuck Israel.

Having a traumatic childhood means you cannot talk even objectively about your basic foundational experiences without it being "venting", even if you're not actually venting. You just straight up have a huge chunk of your life you can't talk about, full stop, without it being trauma dumping.

And it not being socially acceptable to talk about your own childhood is super alienating. Sometimes people want to know why, and any answer you can give them is going to be off putting.

It's to the point I get irritated when something I said is framed as venting when I'm literally just talking about my life experiences, doing my best to keep emotion out of it.

- 'to boycott us because of the war. He added, “we have lost at least tens of millions of shekels".'

Seeing this news also circulating around from Palestinians in West Bank and Jerusalem.

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