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DO NOT TAKE PART IN THE SONIC EMERALD HUNT ARG! Sega are using it for AI model training and are selling your data to shady AI companies if you agree to take part.

This is disgusting on Segas part and need's to be called out before it creeps into the games! The last thing we want is to see this stuff end up in the sonic games and if we don't make a stink about it then sega will do it!

This is the kind of stuff Sonic would be against, sega!

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In Greek, the word μάγκας (pronounced MAGA + s) in a positive context is someone who’s tough, smart, cunning. A ψευτόμαγκας (pseftómagas, magas plus the word psefto meaning false) is someone who pretends to be these things, but isn’t really.

Disclaimer: I made an ask with this same comic and posted that on @creatingblackcharacters. I’m tagging them for reach (I’ll admit that), and because I’ve added text narration to this comic that wasn’t on the post there.

And for those looking for the symbolism behind choices that I haven’t gone into depth on here, check out the ask I sent to CBC.

The fish you see here are Greek fish, represented by the white dot in their tails, all swimming in water the same hue as the Greek flag. The lightest toned fish is swimming towards the Middle East, and the darkest toned fish towards Africa.

They blend with Greece. They give to us, we give to them. They’re neighbours.

The middle fish is swimming towards… a place of navy. A place of navy much further away than the other two places.

The navy also blends with Greece. But the navy doesn’t want anyone else doing that…

The navy has taken over the fish! The fish of the edges have lost their heads to it, and the middle one its tail.

It made a smart move. Those who look toward the navy die last.

But it doesn’t have its dot anymore. It lost it to the navy.

Its friends are gone. Those who look towards the navy die last.

The navy has controlled Greek culture for 200 years.

The navy has controlled Greek culture for 300 years.

The navy has controlled Greek culture for over 300 years… until some friends swim in. Friends from the west, with their water stolen. Friends from the south, more familiar to Greece than the top-hatted navy fish.

And the next door neighbour that looks like a Greek, the friend from where the Greeks used to swim to before the further away navy took over, and the fried with Greek heritage all get called out of place, woke and irrelevant.

They get called such by the navy and the Greeks, those that care more about the navy than they do anywhere else.

They get called outsiders. Before the navy fish do.

Even though the navy fish group and the non navy fish group both have only one fish with Greek heritage each (the pink and lime green dotted fish).

They get called irrelevant, even though they’re the neighbours. They’re the neighbours that the Greeks swam to, talked to, traded with, lived with.

Some of the neighbours got their cultures balled up and thrown into the trash. Their cultures were thrown away and dismissed by the same navy.

Better to have ours merely painted over, permanently stained. At least it still exists, can still be recovered.

We can let the neighbours come over, just like we came over to them. Until they rebuild, and we can go swimming over once more.

But at the end of the day, there aren’t any white dotted fish anymore. The white dotted fish aren’t in white dotted fish land. Instead, there’s the neighbours… and the navy.

The very same navy that stained our sea in the first place. The navy that hasn’t, doesn’t, won’t, let us speak.

All I’m saying is maybe we should get rid of the navy to get back in the story. We don’t need to get rid of the neighbours. There’s more than enough space for us if that damn navy goes.

This has been my thoughts on Greek representation and the Greek erasure and anti Blackness in the Greek cultural sphere explained through a fish comic. Thank you for making it this far.

Also if you have stuck around, please reblog this. I think this is an important statement, so I’d like it to go as far as I can get it.

Full comic for your pleasure:

A flag for intersex people with ambiguous genitalia

Yes, it would be cultural appropriation. You don't have to do braids and twists meant for afro textured hair in order to keep yourself cool. It'll actually mess up your hair if you do (too tight. Might end up pulling your hair out. And at that point, why not try bald lmao.)

Very much did in the sense that I literally do not know where my job is at the moment. But, for the time being I haven't been let go because nobody else including the store owner knows where it is either.

So, I don't wanna risk doxxing myself by posting pictures but goddamn am I tempted because this is not a believable event. This is a cartoon problem. For looneytoons.

But yeah, so, I work(ed?) at a kiosk selling boba tea, right? Freestanding kiosk in the mall with full water and electrical hookups and multiple fridges and sinks and a mini kitchen and the works. Fully functional tea shop. Very important to note that it was there last night, The work chat was discussing another issue last night at closing time. I'll get back to this.

It's been showing signs of being on the way out with how business is being handled lately and I've been considering other options, which is probably why I'm not as torn up about this as I should be, but maybe it just hasn't set in yet, but that's not the point. The point is there's been a lot of shit breaking and not being replaced and nobody mentioning anything about it until I walk into work in the morning and have to figure out why shit like the fucking cash register isn't there today. So I'm kinda used to having to ask questions about big things that nobody bothered to update me on. I was out for two weeks recovering from a surgery, so I came to work this morning assuming there'd be some kind of bullshit, yeah?

So, the question I had to ask the chat this morning was:

Not a text I ever thought I'd have to send in sincerity, but there it is. Because what I found instead was a fenced off patch of discolored tiles and a few holes in the floor where my entire place of employment used to be.

And the answer? Nobody knows! It was there last night when the mall closed, and every single trace of the structure and all its contents including drink making supplies and our safe and cashbox was gone when it opened again. And when I say nobody knows, I mean everyone from last night's closers to the actual (former?) owner of the store jad no fucking clue about this until getting that text from me this morning. For once I am actually the first to know. 🎉.

So. I guess I didn't so much lose my job as had it stolen. Not by AI, but good old fashioned hands-on human beings picking it up and carrying it away somehow. All mall security would tell me was that they were instructed not to tell me anything and have us contact our management. Who also don't know anything. And later on I came across some construction workers around the gravesite of the kiosk discussing filling in the holes, asked them about it, and was told that they "weren't at liberty to say".

So, not only is my job gone in the most literal physical sense of the word, but it was taken in some kind of super secret kiosk extraction in the dead of night without any warning or witnesses and nobody is allowed to speak of it. The store owner said she was gonna figure it out 10 hours ago and still no word back.

My mother in law thinks the FBI took it.

Not any of the other stores around the state. Just the one little kiosk.

Why? Because she loves a conspiracy and is just a little bit extra.

Also because she was around for the massive crackdown on Yakuza-owned businesses in Waikiki (in her homestate) that did actually involve the FBI seizing stores (no confirmation of making kiosks cleanly disappear in the middle of the night though).

Still no word from my job on what's actually going on, but the most likely theory so far is that maybe the kiosk was on lease and got repossessed? The mystery continues

According to the owner, based on what she's been able to find out, the kiosk was not removed legally and they're starting a potentially long process of legal action. I hope she gets to sue the shit out of whoever did it but for now at least I know for sure I'm unemployed.

Really hoping for more details in terms of who/why/how, so I'll keep updating if I learn anything.

For now the summary is: An unnamed entity that is most likely mall management (on account of mall security cooperating with them) stole an entire kiosk and all the contents including money and machinery with barely a trace in the middle of the night grinch-style, with zero warning or explanation, and ensured the silence of both security and the construction crew, in an action that was definitely preplanned and illegal, and as far as I know nobody knows its whereabouts.

Enjoy the unintentionally funniest text I've ever sent in my life

Aaand a close-up:

HEY HI HELLO THIS ONE'S MY FAVORITE

everyone knows about this meme, right?

but does anyone else know the woman who made the food? no? time to educate!

This is “Mother Mary”, the owner of Blackberry’s mother.

She made all the cakes for the restaurant while it was open. Chef Gordon Ramsay tried her red velvet cake, and spoke this meme-able line:

He then called Mary over, complimented her food, and gave her a peck on the cheek.

Look how happy she was to hear that!!!

The standoff with agents happened on Jan. 8, one day after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis. Wooten’s refusal to comply with ICE was captured on video and posted to Facebook. 

The agents tried everything to intimidate the guard.

 “You can’t come back here, bro,” Wooten can be heard in the video saying to an agent wearing a mask and sunglasses. “I’m talking to your manager,” the agent said. Wooten responded: “No, you’re talking to security, I’m in charge.”

ICE left empty-handed. Wooten said he just stood his ground, “10 toes down.”