ufficiosulretro:

Reaper76Week || Day 1: “War Buddies”
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@ufficiosulretro: The opening scene of a 10 pages long comic that @lilized​ and I have been working on just for the occasion. Each episode will come out daily along the week, and every update is going to be reflective of the theme of the day (well, we tried! Ahah!)

@lilized: Set in the early days of the Omnic Crisis, long before it was known that way, meet Sergeant Gabriel Reyes of the U.S Army and his team.

(Really, the whole comic is just an excuse to draw Jack and Gabe in their Commando Skins.)

ufficiosulretro:

Reaper76Week 2018 || Day 2: “They loved each other” (affection)
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@lilized: Spoiler alert: Jack is totally Gabe’s favorite.

@ufficiosulretro: Here comes the part in which we find out that Sergeant Reyes has a strategic plan for everything in his life.

While we working on this part we discovered that sticking to the theme of the day wasn’t as easy as we expected.

We ended up deciding that the theme “affection” could be fulfilled by bringing the focus on Gabriel’s feelings for Jack. In short, the giant soft spot he has for the guy. Gabe sees the potential, in Jack and in them.

Tomorrow’s update and theme are closely connected to today’s because we get to see Jack’s side of the story.

But hey! Crazy omnics are approaching because this comic has some action too, so brace yourselves. U_U

@lilized: P.S. Your reactions to John and Pre-S.E.P Jack have been precious.

My husband, who’s the guy we based John on, is delighted by all your sweet comments. People who don’t know him tend to find him very frightening ‘cause he’s a big man, but, since he’s actually the sweetest person to walk this planet – not that I’m biased or anything – he’s always pretty bummed out by strangers’ wrong impression of him. He was shocked, in a good way, that “his” character was so well received.

Democrats are just one vote shy of restoring net neutrality

thoughtremixer:

I haven’t done an update on Net Neutrality in a while as I was trying to find a reasonable “next step”, especially since it’s been out of the “news cycle” for a bit. Well, I have some good news. 

According to the senator (minority leader Chuck Schumer) from New York, they now have a total of 50 votes for a Senate resolution of disapproval that would restore the Open Internet Order of 2015 and deliver a stiff rebuke to Ajit Pai and other Republican members of the FCC. It would also prevent the agency from passing a similar measure in the future, all but guaranteeing Net Neutrality is permanently preserved

What’s stopping them now? They need just ONE more Republican and they have less than 30 days to do it.

So goes the next actionable step. You have to contact your senators and get them to suppose the Congressional Review of “the Open Internet Order of 2015″. 

There are two ways to go about it. 

1) Via 5calls.org using this script – https://5calls.org/issue/fcc-net-neutrality-cra

2) Via https://resist.bot/ – you can write to Congress using this site or  Text RESIST to Resistbot on Telegram, Messenger, or to 50409 on SMS. By providing basic information, you can write your Senator to move forward.

Now, if you got a Democratic Senator, push them on to find that one Republican Senator. If you got a Republican Senator, encourage them to reconsider their stance on Net Neutrality. 

We just need ONE Republican Senator and we have less than 30 days to do so. 

Democrats are just one vote shy of restoring net neutrality