I’m trying not to reblog posts on this blog but I feel that this is important to post here.
on a related note:
original image: Venn diagram of circles overlapping. One circle is labelled “Things I like in works of fiction” the other is labelled “Things I would never approve of in real life”
on a related note: image of another Venn diagram. One circle is labelled “things I like in fanfiction” and the other is labelled “things I actually want to see happen in canon”
homophobes are not allowed to use computers because the inventor of the computer was gay
People think this is just a joke but Alan Turing was the inventor of the computer and his sexuality was illegal in his time (which was not even 100 years ago) and he was arrested. They put him on drugs that destroyed his genius brain and committed suicide a year after being covicted. He was gay and a war hero as well. He helped to break enigma which was a German code that they put all their messages through. He shorted WWII by two years and saved so many lives in the process.
Friendly reminder that if not for Alan Turing you wouldn’t be reading this post and we might be ruled by the nazis
Especially since Peter Benchley, the man who authored the novel Jaws, was actually horrified at the negative impact that his novel had on sharks and their reputation. He was a huge supporter of marine conservation.
So yes, this is a highly appropriate design for the message in more ways than one.
If it feels like you’re fighting battles on every side, you’re not alone. The struggle is terrifyingly real. But we can still make this year the best possible version of 2018 it can be. There’s a new opportunity in to restore strong net neutrality protections: The Congressional Review Act.
What is the Congressional Review Act?
The CRA lets the House and Senate repeal administrative laws—rules and regulations set by governmental agencies—with a simple majority in both houses. The resolutions can’t be blocked by leadership, amended, or filibustered.
This congress has used the CRA more than any other to overturn regulations that protect vulnerable people and the environment, but this time we can use it for a good purpose—to reverse the FCC’s decision and restore net neutrality.
We just need #OneMoreVote
Battle For The Net has secured commitments from 50 senators. One more and we can take this fight to the House. These are the targets:
Figment, the recently closed writing website, has just launched (after a long delay) their long-awaited successor to figment known as Underlined, where users can post their work and receive feedback, supposedly.
DO NOT USE UNDERLINED. DO NOT POST YOUR WORK ON UNDERLINED.
Underlined’s terms and conditions contains a clause stating that the rights to all your work that you post on their website belongs to them!!!!
Underlined belongs to Penguin Random House. This is an extremely dirty trick for them to play on writers, especially young writers and children, who come to the internet to get feedback and will lose the rights to their work. Please boost!!!
For my writing friends looking for an online writing community, DO NOT USE Underlined.
I went to confirm @greater-than-the-sword‘s post, because seriously publishers are still pulling this garbage? And yes, they are. If you want to check out the full terms and conditions, have at it. They are full of writers’ nightmares, a few of which I’ll highlight under the cut.
Figment, the recently closed writing website, has just launched (after a long delay) their long-awaited successor to figment known as Underlined, where users can post their work and receive feedback, supposedly.
DO NOT USE UNDERLINED. DO NOT POST YOUR WORK ON UNDERLINED.
Underlined’s terms and conditions contains a clause stating that the rights to all your work that you post on their website belongs to them!!!!
Underlined belongs to Penguin Random House. This is an extremely dirty trick for them to play on writers, especially young writers and children, who come to the internet to get feedback and will lose the rights to their work. Please boost!!!
For my writing friends looking for an online writing community, DO NOT USE Underlined.
I went to confirm @greater-than-the-sword‘s post, because seriously publishers are still pulling this garbage? And yes, they are. If you want to check out the full terms and conditions, have at it. They are full of writers’ nightmares, a few of which I’ll highlight under the cut.
The tumblr /tagged/ function returns all the posts in a tag in reverse-chronological order. Popular tags on tumblr may have years worth of posts in them.
So start with the important tags for tracked tags / search, then add tags like “my edits” or “mine” for your own blog organization, and then add FEELINGS and TAG COMMENTARY at the end.
Only new posts will show up in public tracked tags or search. Reblogs will not show up in tracked tags or search.
Avoid unnecessary punctuation. Apostrophes ’ are ok to use, but tags with a slash / or a hyphen – or a plus sign + or an equal sign = will NOT show up in tracked tags.
If you use anti tags like #ANTI SHIPNAME, everyone who is searching for SHIPNAMEwill see your anti post. Don’t use SHIPNAME when creating your anti tag if you don’t want people to get upset about it.
Don’t put something that isn’t an edit in an edit tag. People are going into the edit tag to look for edits and if your post isn’t an edit, it defeats the purpose of the edit tag.
The OP (original poster) will often read your tags when you reblog a post, so if you say something nasty in the tags, the OP will (probably) see it. Say something nice instead!
You should share this for people in DC and close to you!!
Black Community we have to be careful. Protect our Girls! Spread this!
IMPORTANT!!!!
Signal Boost!
Reblog to save life
Anything that can reduce these numbers…
I see these up here in Chicago
BOOST!!
There was one of these in front of the recreation centre next to my high school. I alerted the school staff and the constable took it down and altered high authorities. I only knew what the sign was because of posts like these.
It took me less than a minute to sign it and you can choose to remain anonymous. If you want to add a comment but can’t think of anything, here’s something to get you going (but I highly recommend you write your own lest we have another situation where signatures are viewed as fake for copy and pasted content):
“Star Trek has forever served as a beacon of hope for equality, justice, and good to prevail in a world that so often disappoints and fails us. For Quentin Tarantino to have an role in continuing the franchise is a blatant slap to the face for all Star Trek fans of all generations. A child rape apologist has no place in this franchise. An alleged abusive director has no place in this franchise. A man who knew first hand what Harvey Weinstein was doing to women and told him to “make it right” if he wanted a place on his films has no place in this franchise. Quentin Tarantino has no place in this franchise.”
I don’t care how desperate any of us are for another movie. It would be meaningless and a slap in the face to anyone who has ever suffered abuse like this if this monster works on it. Sign the petition and make some damn fan films if you need to, but keep this man far away from Star Trek.
Sign, sign, sign! It’s not useless! Change.org’s petitions are gaining more and more weight in final decision. We can show that we, the fandom, will not endorse this heresy. What Tarantino represents isn’t what Star Trek represents. Things are going much too far. Let it be known how many of us will not pay to watch such a movie in any form or shape.
Exactly.
Whether or not the petition itself is effective, if it gets enough attention it will be a clear message to the Star Trek team that the fans want no part of this decision and that they should look elsewhere. Give the franchise to someone good who loves it and will care for it– and it’s actors– as we have.
SquireofGotham 