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manjolras:

f-rea-k:

manjolras:

“i was in the sherlock fandom once” is the new embarrassing twilight phase

DON’T YOU DARE COMPARE SHERLOCK TO TWILIGHT

apologies to all twilight fans

Having recently read the post highlighted in yellow on this page*, this actually sounds about right. They’re both situations where the canon is pretty mediocre, but its existence is still worthwhile because it’s inspired other people to write stuff that’s actually good. (And also Fifty Shades, but that’s not my point here.)

Mind you, it sounds less right when you consider the OP said specifically being in the Sherlock fandom. The fandom’s pretty good, in my experience (though I do seem to have a knack for avoiding the bad parts of fandoms). It’s just the canon that’s bad.

*Sorry, person who linked to this on their Tumblr a few days ago. I’d link you if I could remember who you were.

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#Sherlock #Twilight #fandom #’Invisible Bonds’ and ‘Not Yet Dead’ got me through the Stomach Bug from Hell #I pretty much only ever see the crappy parts of fandoms second-hand through the complaining of people in the good parts #and I wonder how come they know when shit is going down and I don’t #but I suppose I’m probably better off

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{{not completely certain that the first and second posters are actually different people}}

hoodsos-aus:

 

magconbabe-matt:

This shit better work

 

sansaspark:

HAH I REBLOGGED THIS LAST NIGHT AND LOOK WHAT I GOT FROM MY DAD TODAY OUT OF THE BLUE

 

hellabitcoins:

what if we all got paper lol

 

tokitoide:

TOO DAMN SUPERSTITIOUS WHEEEEEEE

 

plantmandotexeretired:

Wow…wtf, I hadn’t noticed this month had 5 weekends O3O

 

verilidaine:

(All this requires to happen is a month with 31 days to start on a Friday.  This will happen May 2015, January 2016… and on and on.)

 

justice-turtle:

*backreads post notes* Ooh, thanks for the math, verilidaine. I figured there had to be some kind of “it won’t happen again in August till blah de blah” thing going on, but couldn’t quite figure out the specifics.

I also figured it was specifically August, but even that has a next-occurrence date of merely 2025. (Source: my computer’s calendar function. It has a “move forward one year” button, which I clicked repeatedly until I found an August ending on Sunday. Feel free to find a calendar program with the same button if you want to double-check.)

(I feel a little bad about reblogging this, because I recently saw someone make a blog comment along the lines of “look, this total-bullshit Tumblr post has 20,000 notes, lol stupid teenagers” and reblogging this is providing more fodder for that sort of thing (it wasn’t the first time I’ve seen that type of post, and I doubt it will be the last). I’m trying to tell myself it’s their own fault for basing their ageist insults on a critical misunderstanding of how the note system works. Not sure how much it’s helping.)

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#reply via reblog #Orientalism #ageism #lying bastards

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realbookofmorgan:

i can and will judge anyone who pays to see 50 shades of grey and is excited about it 

Why? People got excited over Sharknado too. Bad movies can be fun.

As for people who are excited in a non-trainwreck-y way, I get the impression that most of them are people who never learned to access some of the more X-rated wonders of the Internet, either because they didn’t have a chance to get their how-do-computer phase over with while they were still in diapers, or because they lived and continue to live in subcultures where porn was prohibitively socially unacceptable, or both. (And really, if getting caught with porn (even by my friends) would make me a pariah, I probably wouldn’t take the risk either. Especially if I believed them when they said it was immoral, and I would have little reason not to.) They have consequently been porn-starved their entire lives, and are clinging in desperation to anything they can get. Such people may deserve our pity, and our aid if we can find ways of giving it to them, but not our mockery.

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#Fifty Shades of Grey #pervocracy makes some good points about this

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prostheticknowledge:

GLASSHOLE.SH

Code script put together by Julian Oliver which detects Google Glass devices on a WiFi network and blocks them:

This script is a response to a comment by Omer Shapira that the presence of Google Glass worn by audience at an ITP graduate exhibition left him feeling understandably uneasy; it was not possible to know whether they were recording, or even streaming what they were recording to a remote service over WiFi.

The … script will find and detect Google Glass on the local network and kick them off.

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Still bitter about how the obsession with privacy concerns of Google Glass has completely ruined the device’s potential.

There is always the possibility that someone is secretly recording you. That MP3 player I appear to be absent-mindedly holding in my lap? Totally has an audio-recording function, and you have no way of knowing whether I’m using it. Just because people tend to forget the recording possibilities of smartphones unless they come in Glass form, doesn’t mean those possibilities aren’t there. They’re always there.

Using a facial recognition app that scans the faces of everyone you pass by and compares them to a database (a mixture of owner-taken photos and photos copied from Facebook) of people you know to check for matches is perfectly legal and polite and all those other ways of saying “permitted”, but only if you’re running it on a carbon-based computer. People whose carbon-based computers can’t run the app (or can technically run it, but can’t do anything with it due to problems with their on-board cameras) can go fuck themselves.

(It does kind of fascinate me how thoroughly the ban on facial recognition has been spun as “yay privacy” rather than “Google spitting in the faces (so to speak) of disabled people”.)

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#Google Glass #prosopagnosia #my usual tag for high-tech stuff is #proud citizen of The Future #but in this case it’s more like #disappointed permanent resident of The Future #currently in the stage of citizenship application where #they bog you down in red tape forever

Someone meme this, this shit is fucking priceless

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lennat:

IF WE’RE NOT ASHAMED OF OUR NEUROLOGICAL DIFFERENCES THEN WE DON’T’ REALLY HAVE THEM, GASP!

WE DON’T HAVE A RIGHT TO REACH OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE WITH THE SAME DISABILITIES THAT JUST MEANS WE WANT ATTENTION, OH NO!

WE’RE FAKE IF WE TALK ABOUT IT SO WE CAN’T MENTION IT EVER!

WE SHOULD ALL JUST HIDE AWAY AND WALLOW IN SHAME BECAUSE THAT’S THE ONLY WAY WE’RE ACTUALLY REAL

IF YOU DON’T THEN WE WILL GET TALKED DOWN TO YOU USING DEMEANING AND SEXIST LANGUAGE LIKE ‘DARLING’

I shudder to think what would happen if I dared express an opinion on the explicit denial of technologically-assisted facial recognition to the general public (read: us) due to privacy concerns.

(It was bad enough when I thought they were just dancing around the edge, but no, now they’re dancing away from the edge. And where Google goes, the world follows.)

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#prosopagnosia #tales from the prosopagnosia tag #(I’d make an analogy here about hearing aids and eavesdropping) #(but I can never tell which analogies about this sort of thing you’re allowed to make and which will get you yelled at) #(and anyway turns out the people who make those hearing aid commercials that *advertise* the potential for eavesdropping) #(are commonly considered terrible people) #(so that’d probably backfire) #proud citizen of The Future #but only by birth #not by residency #next year in Waterloo