January 2012
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negacrow replied to your link: No. Really?
There’s a number of men in the entertainment industry that really don’t deserve all the adoration they get. Michael Fassbender, for instance, is a royal douche who broke his ex’s nose, yet the fangirls swooning over him tend to forget that part.
Johnny Depp is the other one who comes to mind (for his support of Roman Polanski).
Being pretty causes a lot...
The 90 Minute Hate.
The MPAA studios hate us. They hate us with region locks and unskippable screens and encryption and criminalization of fair use. They see us as stupid eyeballs with wallets, and they are entitled to a constant stream of our money. They despise us, and they certainly don’t respect us. Yet when we watch their movies, we support them. The next SOPA – Marco.org. (via)
The universal you.
The patriarchal mind at work – “you” are always male, and women are always “yours” as opposed to being you. Men are always the agents and women are always the faceless voiceless objects. Who gave these kuffar the right to speak? | Butterflies and Wheels. (via)
Wineries, cheese tastings, hatted lunch and a limo. What a lovely Sunday.
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Is Sherlock sexist? Steven Moffat’s wanton women | Jane Clare Jones | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. Steven Moffat still ridiculous chauvinist. Film at 11. Seriously, though. I don’t know how or why fandom — which really, really should know better — kisses the ground the guy walks on. He’s like the Frank Miller of British TV, except apparently a lot better at hiding himself, as it were.
Most disappointing revelation of the election.
Let us not forget that this great nation [the USA] was founded by a bunch of men wearing wigs. RuPaul Is ‘Campaigning’ In New Hampshire To Spread Awareness That He Is Not Ron Paul | Mediaite. (via)
Honestly, am I the only one suspicious of male... →
In Jerusalem, women are voiceless at a decidedly womanly event – The Globe and Mail. Let’s face it: The explicit exclusion of women from women’s health is probably the Patriarchy at its purest. (Also: “Intimacy during rocket attacks”. I shouldn’t lol. I did anyway.)
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Man ifttt is dangerous. →
My blog now happily imports replies I make to comments at Tumblr. … There’s no way this could go wrong. None.
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nounbeast replied to your post: nounbeast replied to your link: Nearly 4pm, still…
“Pajamas”. Blegh.
You could always start a One Woman Revolution to bring back the old spelling!
(Also: Testing crossposting of Tumblr replies. Hopefully this should go back to alis.me and then subsequently not back here again… But we’ll see how good I am at setting up ifttt rules.)
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nounbeast replied to your link: Nearly 4pm, still in pyjamas.
I wish we american’ts spelled it “pyjamas”. The letter “y” always makes it so much more interesting and less “laying in bed like a lazy fuck”. I should talk though, I lay in bed ‘till noon on weekends.
… wait. How do you spell “pyjamas” if not with a “y”?
Pajamas? Pijamas? Pejamas? I’m confused.
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They search, you click. →
Is Too Much Plus a Minus for Google? « StevenLevy.com. I think it may have gotten eaten in the Great VPS Death of 2012, but this reminds me of the post I had queued up somewhere of a guy comparing two sets of Google search results on the same keyword (“egypt”) at the same time, but on different machines. They looked nothing alike. If you don’t think that’s a problem, you haven’t been paying...
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New domain address … The snake oil that is domain registries’ big fat new revenue stream | Crikey. Is anyone else internet-old enough to remember when AOL “keywords” (or whatever they were called) used to appear alongside traditional URLs in marketing promos? Did anyone else notice Google seem to’ve managed to create an organic version of this with its search engine and browser integration...
Nearly 4pm, still in pyjamas. →
We’re supposed to be going away on holidays tomorrow. There are like a million things I need to clean up and do before we go but goddamn I feel like trash. Being sick sucks.
More rounds of the ‘nymwars. →
Research – DISQUS. Disqus does an infographic on pseudonymous comments. I’ve seen this get attacked a fair bit around the tracks. The petty digs aside (it’s a huge JPG! /faints), it’s pretty telling that all the narky comments seem to come from people who: use their Really Real Names Online
work in tech or related fields where having a Hip Internet Persona is a Career Plus
are dudebro cis white...
What do you mean these damages claims are...
In the entire discussion [around SOPA], I’ve seen no discussion of credible evidence of this economic harm. There’s no question in my mind that piracy exists, that people around the world are enjoying creative content without paying for it, and even that some criminals are profiting by redistributing it. But is there actual economic harm? Tim O’Reilly – Google+ – Before Solving a Problem, Make...
Urgh. Sick on a public holiday. That’s un-Australian.
Yeah, but whose expense?
Many questions and jokes about My Space.simple answer – we screwed up in every way possible, learned lots of valuable expensive lessons. Twitter / @rupertmurdoch: Many questions and jokes a …. All sic. (via)
My S3 bill is 1c this month? →
Because apparently Reduced Redundancy Storage costs more at low-capacities than “normal” storage. Go figure. Y U SO EXPENSIVE, AWS?
Happy Invasion Day, Australia. →
RAP NEWS 11: Australia Day (feat. Ken Oathcarn) – YouTube. Aah, 26 January. The day white bogans all over Australia get smashed on jingoism, Indigenous Australians remind people they’re still pissed off, and left-wing Australians of all ethnicities get conflicted between the two (and have to un-friend a lot of people on Facebook). I have to admit I did lol at the full “Australia Day – yeah c**t!!”...
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Does alcohol burn off in cooking?. Short answer: No. Slightly-longer-answer: Eventually mostly yes, but probably still not as much as you were expecting.
That metallic tang… →
Focus on the User. Engineers from Twitter, Facebook and MySpace (who?) team up to… get catty with Google on the Interblargs. Hah!
The Cupcake Man at work has struck again. →
No cupcakes this time, but I ate like a three-inch stick of fudge and… urgh. Should not have done that. (So delicious, though.)
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mpQA0.jpg (659×29999). Ridic’ large image needs full-view, though you can probably get the idea pretty quickly. The last image is just icing, really. ∞ permalink » comment? » 23 words posted in: Meanwhile, on the Internet…, religion
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P.S. Sorry if I spam anyone in the next few days.... →
I’ve been trying to reconstruct some of my missing November-January data by hand; I can get most of the posts from my Dreamwidth crossposts (whew), but I’m not sure I can/want to reconstruct comments. Either way, I’ve turned off most crossposters (I think?), but if lots of random old stuff pops up in feeds/Tumblr/DW… oops. Sorry ’bout that. ∞ permalink » comment? » 58 words posted in:...
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Supporters of SOPA and PIPA have claimed those bills target only “foreign rogue sites.” That is largely untrue, since neither bill limits the new private remedies to foreign sites. But to the extent it is true that the effect of these bills would be felt primarily by foreign sites, it is only because the government is already seizing domestic domain names (and, in the government’s view, a...
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No excuse for this: A new bill that is much worse than SOPA/PIPA..
Um.
Look, seriously though. This is how the internet works. Of course your ISP knows everywhere you go and everything you do on the internet; they pretty much can’t not know that, unless you’re doing some hardcore encrypted proxying (and, even then, they can probably strip and inspect most of that anyway, should they want to).
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Fraser Speirs – Blog – Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking.
Or, Why everything you know about iOS multitasking is wrong.
∞ permalink » comment? » 18 words posted in: Meanwhile, on the Internet…, apple:ios
→ So who's good at Dreamwidth...
… and can tell me how to turn those gross comment count graphics off in the journal feed?
I’m using the feed for ifttt piping to Tumblr at the moment (since it doesn’t seem to want to play nice with my WordPress install directly) and those little graphics are… ugly. DNW.
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Witness the Sound of One Braincell Retching.
You know, I had an idea not entirely dissimilar to this the other day. What with all this IP rubbish going on it sort of occurred to me to wonder exactly how hard it would be to completely drop out of “old media”. So no watching, reading, listening or playing to anything that was distributed by or licensed with a pre-internet-style business model.
The...
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ifttt.
Don’t mind me: Just a test of If This Then That crossposting.
This thing is going to be dangerous, I think…
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Prompt, y u suddenly disconnecting me on screen lock? That makes things kinda tough, you know…
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Dear theonlytyro, →
theonlytyro:
I’m undertaking a research project for school, so I’d love it if you could help out by taking this survey. Follow the link below vvv
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MJZG9ZB
Please reblog! I need all the answers I can get.
Your communication requests a free feminist review of your (check all that apply):
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personal or commercial project. Your request for a review is...
I always feel really accomplished after yoga. Like, “Screw you, week! Nothing else you can throw at me will be as hard as goddamn yoga!”
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Okay, stupid question but...
smitey:
deefic:
Why does everyone assume the Fog Warriors are Qunari/Kossith? The Qunari are like the invading army the Warriors are trying to get rid of…
I think its because that seems like the only place Fenris stayed long enough to learn a culture. He knows the Qun from somewhere and I doubt Danarius told him about the Qunari.
Fenris learnt about the Qun from the Fog Warriors, but the...
The 3 Reasons All Young Adults Are Liberal →
wilwheaton:
It is absolutely worth your time to read this entire post. It give me some hope for the future.
As millennials mature, we’re learning that education and jobs and capitalism and presidents and life are presented to us much differently than they are in reality.
That’s a general evolution in the early twenties, granted, but, again, I just don’t see the Republicans appealing to my...
Man. These SOPA protests… I reckon work productivity just SKYROCKETED in, like, 99% of all jobs.
Spent all day getting server back online, reboot, freeze again. FML.
Only white people can afford to think race doesn’t matter. Only cis men can afford to think gender doesn’t matter. Only straight people can afford to think sexuality doesn’t matter. Only the able-bodied, only the neurotypical, only the educated, the comfortably-middle-class-and-above… I could go on. And still: Only the represented can afford to think representation...
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whatevertron:
mspandrew:
Not officially reblogging this response because I don’t want to spark a hate war swirling around one particular tumblr user. I probably wouldn’t even bother responding but I kind of get the sense there’s a faction out there that feels this way.
— oh come on…
Was thinking EXACTLY this when I first read this this morning. “White” is a specific...