god, EVERY YEAR one of the local churches puts up a big sign that says “HE IS RISEN”, and EVERY YEAR whenever I see it I just think “OH HE IS, IS HE??? WELL IF HE IS RISEN THEN HE WILL NOT BE ALLOWED AT MY SEDER, LEAVENED MESSIAHS ARE NOT KOSHER FOR PASSOVER!!!”
#World War I #history #our home and cherished land #war cw #amnesia cw #(they really push the memory framing in this article) #death tw #(I know it’s a different format from the other warning tags; it got grandfathered in)
[I feel like mirror universe Julian Bashir is the most wasted opportunity in all of DS9. Because of how Terrans are treated in that timeline, it’s unlikely that Bashir would have been genetically altered. If he was, it was likely under the command of the Alliance. The writers really could have played on the idea of who Jules Bashir would have been or what genetic engineering had become in the mirror universe. Instead, they opted for a dark/bitter Julian. It’s really a shame. ]
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#Star Trek #DS9 #same #”most wasted” is a bit hyperbolic but still #they really could have gone somewhere with the implication that mirror!Bashir is still Jules
Colgate Kids strawberry toothpaste: a reasonably strawberry-ish shade of red, tastes like Vaguely Fruity Artificial Flavouring. (If you’ve ever had Hawaiian Punch, it’s kind of like that.)
Colgate Kids watermelon toothpaste: fucking turquoise, tastes unnervingly like watermelon. (Brain: “This has no juice, but it tastes like watermelon. Does not compute.”)
A bit of a shame they can’t get both things right at once, but hey, both of them areactually tolerable to use, unlike other mainstream toothpastes. A few years ago, somebody finally decided to fill the market niche for “people who can’t stand Painfully Cold Mint or Sickeningly Sweet Bubblegum, but want fluoridated toothpaste”. I had to make do with organic, non-fluoridated toothpaste for my entire childhood, sometimes mail-ordering it or switching between brands because the local grocery and department stores could never decide whether they were going to carry the stuff or not. It’s nice to finally have reliable, fluoridated toothpaste.
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#this post not sponsored or endorsed by Colgate #there is a certain twisted gratification in being considered worth marketing to #plus you get to have toothpaste #(now if only we could get some competition in the light tampon market) #(I have to buy my tampons from a monopoly because Tampax Pearl is the only line that can be arsed to make tampons in the right size) #oh look an original post
Okay! The sun is up, the dolls are dressed, the AG Emergency Sale is ON!
Details: I, the OP, Justice_Turtle aka DetectiveKraken, have been unable to work for a few months due to mental health issues. My newest meds seem to be helping, and I’m applying for jobs, but I’m going to get evicted if I can’t raise ~$800 by April 10, 2017.
Therefore, I’m selling my American Girl dolls and collectibles at deeply discounted prices, for the next few days only. Check my #agemergencysale tag for individual items as I put them up, and contact or paypal me at detectivekraken AT gmail DOT com with questions, offers, and purchases!
Please do feel free to share this post around! :D #agig #altagig #americangirldoll #americangirl #kayaatonmy #felicitymerriman #jessmcconnell
Quick reminder that Lindsey and one of the Jess…es have sold, but the other dolls are all still available! Also I’m gonna start posting outfits pretty soon, having successfully peopled my way through like four different email chains and mailed a doll! :D
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#deleted my original reblog because I crossposted with this update #copying original tags: #signal boost #sales #I’m not into this stuff personally but you might be #and OP is a good friend of mine #(and a new tag:) #American Girl
Found this in the pet food aisle at HEB today. I did not buy it. I texted one of my best friends, who immediately speculated it was only a matter of time until a person decided to eat this.
How long until we see salmon ketchup and turkey mustard on some menu at a nice restaurant here in Austin?
THIS IS GOING TO CAUSE A CONDIMENT ACCIDENT.
Hey @copperbadge I either found you a new mustard or there’s someone in the Foodie!verse having apoplexy.
I can’t comment other than to say that Bucky and I had the same reaction, to wit: “I’d eat Turkey Mustard.”
:D
I mean, not THAT turkey mustard, but a mustard made with turkey stock as part of its blending liquid, sure. In fact I should try that out when I get home, I bet it adds a nice umami kick to the mustard.
I’m not a big fan of fish flavor (I don’t eat cooked fish except for smoked, the cooking intensifies the flavor too much for me) but Steve would be willing to give salmon ketchup a fair shake, and Sam would probably be willing to test it as a tater tot sauce.
#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(JT trying to convince Kevin and Ursula to eat it) #(oh god it has been way too long since I listened to #Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap #I have been so busy) #also #in which Brin has a food poisoning phobia #because that *is* disturbingly likely to cause a condiment accident and I may have shuddered a little #but still funny #just in a slightly horrifying way
I hate the internet. I hate how this poem doesn’t need to be finished but it has 13.9k retweets and 21.1k likes. Everyone knows how this poem ends and I hate it
Violets are Blue
Michael Jackson sang Thriller
😂😂😂😂😂😂
…can someone please explain these to me?
the punchlines are “george bush did 9/11” and “ted cruz is the zodiac killer”
…wait, I thought the first one was something along the lines of “take your dick out for 9/11“. Why mention Harambe otherwise?
(Michael Jackson is probably irrelevant, just an excuse to put “thriller” in, but so many entities could be described as “in heaven” that I figured there must be some reason to choose Harambe specifically.)
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I actually had to infer that the second picture was of Ted Cruz:
“What rhymes with ‘thriller’? Killer–ah, this is a Zodiac Killer joke, which means that must be Ted Cruz.”
The political news I get is so overwhelmingly text-based that even if I weren’t faceblind, I probably still wouldn’t know Ted Cruz on sight.
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#reply via reblog #nsfw text? #poetry #me circa early autumn 2016: ”oh so that’s what Donald Trump’s voice sounds like.” #I did recognise Bush though! #politics mention
Hey there other LJ users… what’s the go with the new user agreement? I had noticed that lj is no longer https last week… man. time to actually move over to dreamwidth maybe :-/
I just saw that today. I’ve already set up at Dreamwidth but I’ve been resisting the final move because 80% of my people are still at LJ.
I haven’t read the full agreement yet, but we can’t read or post until we do agree, so I should mosey on over and see what BS they’ve got in their ToS….
I believe I have found the giant “fuck you” clause:
Section 7.4 of the new ToS: “Article 10.2 of the Federal Act of the Russian Federation No. 149 “ references this un-lovely tidbit of Russian legal malarkey:
Article 10.2. The Details of Dissemination of Generally Accessible Information by a Blogger
1. The owner of a website and/or a website page on the Internet on which generally accessible information is placed and to which access exceeds 3,000 users of the Internet per day (hereinafter referred to as “blogger”) when said information is placed and used, for instance when said information is placed on the given website or website page by other users of the Internet shall ensure the observance of the legislation of the Russian Federation, for instance:
4. An abuse of the right of disseminating generally accessible information that has manifested itself as breach of the provisions of Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the present article shall entail criminal, administrative or another liability in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
5. On his website or website page on the Internet the blogger shall place his name and initials and an e-mail address for sending legal-significance messages to him.
6. On his website or website page on the Internet the blogger shall place immediately after receiving a court’s decision that has become final and contains demand for its being published on the website or website page.
7. The owners of websites on the Internet who have registered as network editions in accordance with Law of the Russian Federation No. 2124-I of December 27, 1991 on Mass Media are not bloggers.
8. The federal executive governmental body carrying out the functions of control and supervision in the field of mass media, mass communications, information technologies and telecom shall keep a register of the websites and/or website pages on the Internet on which generally accessible information is placed and to which access exceeds 3,000 users of the Internet per day. For the purpose of ensuring the formation of the register of websites and/or website pages on the Internet the federal executive governmental body carrying out the functions of control and supervision in the field of mass media, mass communications, information technologies and telecom:
9. In the event of detection in information-telecommunication networks, for instance on the Internet, of a website or website page which contain generally accessible information and to which access exceeds 3,000 users of the Internet per day, including the consideration of relevant applications of citizens or organisations, the federal executive governmental body carrying out the functions of control and supervision in the field of mass media, mass communications, information technologies and telecom:
10. Within three working days after receiving the notice mentioned in Item 3 of Part 9 of the present article the hosting provider or the person mentioned in Item 2 of Part 9 of the present article shall provide the information allowing to identify the blogger.
11. Having received the information specified in Item 3 of Part 9 of the present article, the federal executive governmental body carrying out the functions of control and supervision in the field of mass media, mass communications, information technologies and telecom shall send a notice to the blogger informing that his website or website page has been included in the register of the websites and/or website pages on the Internet on which generally accessible information is placed and to which access exceeds 3,000 users of the Internet per day, with reference to the provisions of the legislation of the Russian Federation applicable to said website or website page on the Internet.
12. If during three months access to the website or website page on the Internet is below 3,000 users of the Internet per day that website or that website page on the Internet shall be removed on the blogger’s application from the register of the websites and/or website pages on the Internet on which generally accessible information is placed and to which access exceeds 3,000 users of the Internet per day, with a notice to this effect being sent to the blogger. The given website or website page on the Internet may be removed from that register when no application is filed by the blogger if access to the given website or website page on the Internet during six months is below 3,000 users of the Internet per day.
Sweet baby spaghetti monster. Even allowing for shitty translations, I’ve spent the past few decades reading 20-page publishing contracts, and dealt with a handful of real estate contracts, and I’ve never seen such a dense block of legal excrement. Well-played, Russian lawyers, and by well-played I mean Crowley would be impressed.
Short version, as I see it: nothing obscene by Russian legal standards (in Putin’s Russia, LGBTA discussions could fall within that, much less actual smut), and even if you’re squeaky clean and hetero-vanilla, any and everything you say is subject to their (legal) judgement. So yeah, for’ex, prohibiting “the dissemination of information for the purpose of discrediting a citizen or some categories of citizens on the basis of sex, age, race or ethnicity, language, religion, trade, place of residence and work and also in connection with their political convictions.” could be seen as protecting someone from abuse or libel, and that’s great – but it also means that if the Russian government decides they don’t like your political activism, they have the right to use that post as “abuse” that “shall entail criminal, administrative or another liability in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.” And then “the hosting provider or the person mentioned in Item 2 of Part 9 of the present article shall provide the information allowing to identify the blogger.”
Shorter version as I understand it: Livejournal no longer pretends to adhere to the concept of Freedom of Speech and/or privacy as (still) practiced in the USA. If any practicing (or perfect) legal beagles want to elaborate on how I’m right/where I’m wrong, I welcome the instruction.
I’m not surprised by any of this, I’m just sad that I’m not surprised.
follow-up: even if I were willing to sign, holy shit this is a red flag, pun intentional:
ATTENTION: this translation of the User Agreement is not a legally binding document. The original User Agreement, which is valid, is located at the following address: http://www.livejournal.com/legal/tos-ru.bml.
so, what you’re agreeing to isn’t the translation given, but the original user document. Which is in Russian. And might be exactly the same context as the translation… and might not.
Um. Children, this is the point at which I say “get in the damn car and drive in the direction of Away Very Fast.”
I haven’t had a ton of time to research any of this, because holy shit wank ALWAYS HAPPENS ON LJ WHEN I’M ON VACATION. WHAT THE FUCK LIVEJOURNAL.
But I do think it would be incredibly wise of people to make the migration to the Dreamwidth platform, which in function and structure is nearly identical but which in terms of ideology and philosophy is run by fans and fairly liberal. At the very least, I would back your LJ up on Dreamwidth (and throw them some dollars if you can, they work hard).
Dreamwidth can import not just your entire journal but also the privacy locks on posts (I checked this morning), icons, comments, and communities and their comments as well.
If you don’t have a Dreamwidth, once you make one you can literally pick up your entire LiveJournal content and plop it down in a Dreamwidth username of your choice. The only thing you’re likely to lose is your layout, and you may have to re-find some friends.
You can backup multiple journals to a single DW journal, but for communities you will need to build a DW community and back your community stuff up to it (you also need to own, not just moderate, the community on LJ). I don’t know if you can put multiple communities into one DW community account.
I’ve had a DW for ages, and I had all the plans IN PLACE to do the backup but was waiting until after vacation. So what I’ve done today is taken an account labeled cblj-backup, and backed my two significant LJs up there (Copperbadge and Sam_Storyteller) and my fiction community at originalsam-backup. More to come about this once the process is complete, which it isn’t yet.
FWIW, Tumblr is now my main platform, but I do post to copperbadge on Dreamwidth, and all my fanfic is posted to and will remain at AO3 under the username Copperbadge there.
@cakehorse, tagging you because you’re the only LJ I read who hasn’t moved to Dreamwidth, so I figured you should see this.
(I was going to say “you and my dad are the only LJs”, but my dad just posted saying he’s moving to Dreamwidth. I’m glad I don’t have to decide whether I ought to bring this up with him, because I’m not sure how I would go about that conversation.)
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#The Great Livejournal Apocalypse #PSA #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #Dreamwidth
Brinens and Things 