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1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. The Foundation is sitting on $296 million in reserves and a freshly profitable AI revenue stream. This is a confrontation with global implications.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

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Bad Ritual Public Update

New chapter is up !! Being a warlock isn't as safe as you think, and you have to decide whether to face what your patron is with a smile, or try to force them to see what they've become. This is a two way street, after all !!

here's the sexual content guidelines saying nudity is ok

here's the bit from the termination email telling you you can make a new account as long as it doesn't break the same rule

here's the guidelines for what counts as explicit (not mature, aka grounds for content deletion)

here's the section telling us that you will always be able to respond to content getting flagged as explicit (lie)

here's the section where it says you will be notified when your accunt gets terminated, and that the appeals are reviewed by humans (both lies)

and by the way, posting a single thing against ToS isn't supposed to be grounds for deletion,

when she has that first fight in v5 and she doesn't turn on her semblance ONCE. that's when girls became men. holy shit hmmmmmmmmmmm

what was i talking about

yeah . she's so butch to weiss also like that's her bestie #herbestie and how they can rely on each other emotionally??? may i say that's platonic butchfemme. yang would never have been able to accept blake coming back without having those moments with weiss BECAUSE THE THING IS SHE *HAS* TO PROTECT RUBY SO SHE CANT BE VULNERABLE WITH HER. weiss doesnt have that dynamic with her.

AND THEN WHEN. WHEN BLAKE COMES BACK. i think a lot of their early v6 dynamic can be seen better through a disability lens? AND THEN YOU HAVE HER LITERALLYLIYERALLY DRIVING BLAKE TO HER PART OF THE MISSION AND THEN SHE JUST FUCKING KNOWS WHEN ADAM SHOWS UP!!!!

and then the battle of course we all know that battle ok i could close my eyes and do a play by play of it ok . they're kissing Each Other.

BECAUSE V7 AND BEYOND. THAT'S WHEN IT KICKS UP INTO BUMBLEBY BUTCHFEMME HOURS . MY GOD. SHE DOES GOOFY SHIT AND BLAKE ROLLS HER EYES AND LAUGHS AT HER. THEY GO OUT TO THE CLUB. BLAKE STARTS TEASING HER ALL THE TIME.