Sinn's Sims

INTRODUCING IN SIMMING COLOR ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

Zzz … That’s the sound of @qwertysims, @moonlightbybarryjenkins and @simcor yawning through their dashes, looking at all of these pics of color-free sims. Where are the all black sims with natural hair and dark skin? With tooth gaps and round faces? Fifty shades of white, but nobody seems to know that black people come in different shades, different sizes, different styles and personalities? 

Well, if you don’t know, now you know! Raven, Yah Yah and Em are proud to give you ‘In Simming Color’ a Sims 4 discord server especially for black, maxis-match simmers. Why so specific? Because we said so, damn! We want to create a positive environment where black simmers can connect, showcase their creations, share cc finds and more. Free, of course, from the anti-blackness that runs rampant in online communities. There’s good times up ahead, and you won’t have be simming single much longer! Come kick it with us!

INFO/RULES:

— This is a group made specifically for black creators. We’ve said this multiple times but it bears repeating so people don’t make mistakes. — Before you ask, yes, mixed/light-skinned black people are welcome.  — We are a respectability politics free group (?) and naturally, we won’t tolerate any homophobia, sexism, transphobia, ableism etc. — You don’t have to be 100% exclusively maxis match to join. We aren’t going to kick you out the the club for liking alpha hair. — There is no age limit but there’s an optional 18+ channel. 

!! Hello everyone !! I am Toshi, I play Sims 4 all the time along with games like minecraft and overwatch. I try my hardest to upload on my !! youtube channel !! as well, it’s been my dream forever to do what my favorite youtubers do. You may also know me as loniden or dolliemoon + I changed my user as I didn’t feel comfortable with either anymore +

Please reblog if you are an mm simmer or ever if you use both alpha and mm, I would be content ! I love all styles of simming and I try to stick to my own as best as possible, love you all <3 Most of my followers are dead and my dash tends to be empty so I need more people to follow haha +!

Also go make sure to check out my friends @tiredeffect @plasmapacks @cowplantmuffin @yaaro and @pechefleur, they are all super talented and deserve the best and the appreciation I know you will give them ~

🔥 With your help, we passed Title II net neutrality protections. Now we need to defend it.🔥

On December 14 the FCC will vote on Commissioner Pai’s plan to repeal Title II rules. This week he tried to justify that decision with a “myth busting” explainer where he makes a lot of sweeping claims he doesn’t think you’ll fact check. 

So let’s go through his big points:

❌ Mr. Pai claims ISPs won’t block access or throttle content

These are the real facts. Before Title II, the internet was so “free and open” that… 

Comcast blocked P2P file sharing services (EFF).

AT&T blocked Skype from iPhones (Fortune) and, later, wanted FaceTime users to pay for a more expensive plan (Freepress).

MetroPCS blocked all streaming video except YouTube (Wired).

In today’s media market where the same huge companies make and deliver content, Commissioner Pai wants us to trust that corporations won’t use their dominance to bury competitive content or services. 

❌ Mr. Pai claims Title II keeps ISPs from building new networks

Here’s another claim Commissioner Pai doesn’t want you to fact check, but:

AT&T’s own CEO told investors that the company would deploy more fiber optic networks in 2016 than 2015 when the FCC passed Title II protections (Investor call transcript). 

Charter’s CEO said “Title II, it didn’t really hurt us; it hasn’t hurt us” (Ars Technica).  

And Comcast actually increased investment in their network by 10% in Q1 of this year (Ars). 

❌ Mr. Pai claims repealing Title II won’t hurt competition

As we mentioned above, ISPs tried to interfere with the services their customers could access and courts had to step in to stop them.

The FCC tried to craft net neutrality rules in 2010 called the Open Internet Order but the ISPs sued and won. The courts told the FCC that the only way to guarantee a free and open internet was using their Title II authority. Without those protections, any of these things would be legal:

Your ISP launches a streaming video service and starts throttling other streaming services until they’re unusable.

Your phone company cuts a deal with a popular music streaming service so it doesn’t count towards your data cap but lowers your overall data limit. If a better service comes along (or your favorite artist releases new tracks somewhere else) you can’t use it without incurring huge data fees.

A billionaire buys your ISP and blocks access to news sites that challenge their ideology. 

Repealing Title II would be like letting a car company own the roads and banning a competitor from the highways.

❌ Mr. Pai claims there won’t be fast lanes and slow lanes

Let’s break this down: We won’t have fast lanes and slow lanes, we’ll have “priority access” and…non-priority access? Well gosh.

🚨 Please help us protect Title II one more time! 🚨

This week we co-signed a letter with more than 300 other companies—businesses Mr. Pai gleefully ignores—urging the FCC to retain the Title II internet protections. Now we need you.

Go to 👉 Battle For The Net 👈  to start a call with your representatives in Congress. Tell them to publicly support Title II protections. 

The FCC votes on December 14.

We’re only powerful when we work together.

Oh, also: that post about automatically unfollowing the #net neutrality tag—it’s not true. It’s really not. That’s not who we are. Whatever happened, we haven’t been able to reproduce it. We tried. A lot.

But if it were true—which it’s not, we feel compelled to say again—THAT’S EXACTLY WHY YOU SHOULD CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES and demand a free, open, and neutral internet.