The State of California is considering legislation that would fine
businesses $6,000 per employee who has to turn to Medical, the state’s
version of Medicaid. The bill is especially targeted at WalMart, which
notoriously counsels its employees to use food stamps and other social
programs to make up for the shortfall between the wage it pays and the
minimum cost of staying alive:
- They use terms like lemons, smut, or UST to talk about the genre of their fic.
- They have squicks.
- They want you to have squicks. Which isn’t to say that they want to squick you, just that it’s a useful term.
- *glomps*
- They leave long comments on everything the read. Possibly not in the tags. They might do something super bizarre like send a message or put their thoughts on the end of your post.
- They write disclaimers on everything. Or on literally anything, since nobody does that anymore.
- They write about orbs, and those orbs are cerulean.
- Or literally anything else is cerulean. Cerulean is an outdated term. I’m calling it.
- The tongues of their characters are still battling for dominance, even though it’s 2017, and really a winner should have been declared by now.
- They have a fear of Mary Sue.
- Characters in their modern AU are chatting on AIM instant messenger, and calling each other on landlines. There are references to Ceiling Cat, because the characters are hip to meme culture. This AU is ~modern~ after all.
- Their fic is interlaced with slightly relevant song lyrics (disclaimer, they didn’t write the song.)
- They don’t do any of above, because they are New Fandom Savy, but they write or reblog nostalgic posts about these things.
- They had a livejournal.
- They still have a livejournal.
- They ended up on tumblr only after getting into a new fandom, searching livejournal for content and fellow fans, and suddenly coming to the startling realization that livejournal has become a barren wasteland of tumbleweeds and chirping crickets.
- They miss their geocities site.
- They wrote fic for the X-Files while the original nine seasons were still airing.
- Bonus, they wrote fic for the original Star Trek and published it in a zine, before the Internet was a thing. That’s like super mega fandom old.
- They might be less inclined to call themselves “trash”, but they are totally out there, reading all the things.
girl in language class: so why are you taking Italian? :)
me thinking about my plan to go back in time and raw Leonardo Da Vinci so hard he can’t walk for three days: I love the food
to clear things up because some of you clearly cannot fucking read: i am a homosexual man who is willing to go back in time and put my entire penis inside of historical figure Leonardo Da Vinci’s rectum in an act of anal sex and then go on to live a lavish and intellectually stimulating lifestyle as his beloved top. i don’t know what a video game is and i don’t care.
As of July 4th 2018, the Internet as we know it might be dead for good.
The European Parliament is passing a new Copyright Directive. Article 13 #CensorshipMachine will impose widespread censorship of all the content we share online. Art, fanfiction, parodies, remixes, mashups, memes, etc.. Anything that you do not hold the rights over will be taken down.
Article 13 would force all online platforms to police and prevent the uploading of copyrighted content, or make people seek the correct licenses to post that content. Internet platforms hosting large amounts of user-uploaded content must monitor user behaviour and filter their contributions to identify and prevent copyright infringement.
Such filters will be mandatory for platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit and Instagram, but also much smaller websites.
Last Tuesday (19th June 2018) a group of more than 70 people who have played important roles in building the internet and developing it (Tim Berners-Lee, Vincent Cerf,
Jimmy Wales, Mitchell Baker…) into what it is today addressed an open letter to the members of the European Parliament:
“As creators ourselves, we share the concern that there should be a fair distribution of revenues from the online use of copyright works, that benefits creators, publishers, and platforms alike.
But Article 13 is not the right way to achieve this. By requiring Internet platforms to perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users. […] The damage that this may do to the free and open Internet as we know it is hard to predict, but in our opinions could be substantial.”
