Clea, Kyle, greenhouse
Aug. 31st, 2025 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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( Everything I know about magic comes from reviewing terrible YA novels, or being cursed a few times. )
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Sep. 3rd, 2025 03:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"Next time you only have to leave one message." If you were doing your damn job, I wouldn't have had to leave any. Does the mutant cabal control city council yet? Can you get on that? Some of us were just trying to work on the long weekend.
This city gets worse every fucking year, I swear to god.
Last Week in X-Project!
Sep. 3rd, 2025 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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( Aug 11th - Aug 31st )
FOOD
Sep. 2nd, 2025 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
But ALSO if you were there I probably got at least one photo of you, so let me know if you want it! I have some great shots of people eating. Yes I know no one looks good when they're eating. I'm just that amazing as a photographer.
The Lost Boys | A Chance Meeting
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( Are you a mutie, dorkface. Cause I can’t do mind shit like that. I would know. )
Things only get spookier after dinner.
( You blow things up. I make weird things happen. We've had the same dreams. Something's connecting us. But what and why and how? )
The Lost Boys | Search and Rescue
Sep. 2nd, 2025 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Cyclops and Echo search for and free the inmates.
( The more I see places like this, what they'll do, the more I start to wonder if Magneto wasn't right. )
While Rogue and Dust provide a loud distraction.
( Looking worse than sheep on a shearing day. )
Legion assists Phoenix with medical care for the injured, and the gruesome scenes reawaken something long-hidden in Jean.
( As far as he was concerned, none of the staff deserved a fully intact skeleton. )
Madin and Dazzler download the research data and evidence of the real crimes.
( They were the X-Men. Someone would be screaming. )
Mission accomplished, the X-Men take their new charges to safety, but realize someone is missing.
( Thomas Shepherd? He's a teenager. Sixteen. He wasn't among anyone I treated. Did anyone see him? )
The Lost Boys | Raid prep
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( Punching would be a strong benefit in this situation. Preferably repeatedly. )
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Sep. 1st, 2025 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Anyway IDK who helped organize but is there anywhere I can donate? Seems like a good cause.
I have eaten so many new things
Aug. 31st, 2025 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I have so many menus saved on my phone now though and a map that is 65% filled in?
We conquer the rest of the world tomorrow!
* Unconvinced the deep fried chicken filled sticky rice dumplings were good. There was a texture.
* Very convinced about tofu-chorizo sliders with crispy potato in them. I skipped the cubano because it had ham.
* I made a total mess with the fried herring and rosti. Pickles all down the front of my shirt. It was delicious I love a gherkin but it was a mess.
* I'm going to eat croquettes and arachini forever. Burned my tongue, don't care.
* I don't know what the leaf wrapped spicy kabobs were can someone tell me because they were fire.
Code deploy happening shortly
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Per the dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.
There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.
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Aug. 31st, 2025 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Mississippi site block, plus a small restriction on Tennessee new accounts
Aug. 31st, 2025 12:28 pm![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png)
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A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.
The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.
In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.
The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.
Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.
Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.
*suspicious squint*
Aug. 30th, 2025 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
What've I missed?
Group TXT: Angelo Espinosa & Sooraya Qadir
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Message to Cyclops
Aug. 30th, 2025 01:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Was doing intakes with a few new kids who just came into DX through the Underground today. Two of them mentioned that they'd heard of a place that was experimenting on mutants. Both had never met before and mentioned different locations, but not too far from each other. Put them on the map attached.
Might be a coincidence, but it feels fishy. I'll keep my ears out with the rest of the kids as well and let you.
Dust.
Marius, Rogue, & Gaia | Tu parles français?
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( Gravity no longer is a thing to worry about! The mental space I now have has increased tenfold! )
Some days are just gifts
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Isn’t he magnificent?
Donation booth at the International Food Fair
Aug. 28th, 2025 02:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
What you might not have heard, is that there will be a donation booth there. All proceeds from the boot will go the yearly 'Back to School Backpacks' volunteers are currently packing as well as the other school supplies drives later this year. I hope everyone will stop by!
I have already heard from so many people they are helping by donating or staffing the booth. A big shout out to everyone of you. Thank you so much for putting in your time and effort!