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Public service announcement, in response to somebody on Twitter:

Please don't call canonical same-sex couples girlxgirl or boyxboy. It makes you sound really fucking ignorant or that you think same-sex relationships are all about the physical all the time. It's not some exhibitionist act or porn scene (not that there's anything wrong with that, mind). It's about hearts, minds, and bodies, like any hetero relationship.

I would also argue that you shouldn't call it slash either, but definitions may have drifted since I became a bitter old fandom hag so I'm willing to let it slide. Call it gay, lesbian, queer, or about fucking time, but please not those ridiculous terms above. Thank you.

Dear ebook publishers of North America,

I just want an electronic copy of a Montaigne biography. Is that too much to ask? I have an American credit card. I have an American billing address. I have access to American proxies. For all intents and purposes, I am in the United States. I'm trying to give you money here and you won't let me!

I hate you all and this is why people pirate.

No love,
Me

PS. Google, what is this shit about The Prince not being available due to copyright restrictions in Canada? Fuck off and die.

Oh Amanda Fucking Palmer. When I heard you and Neil were dating, I figured people would bitch and moan because Neil is everybody's (kind of like Misha Collins) and because you were all punk and Brechtian and cabaret. Astronaut's an awesome song and you get props for sampling Strindberg and Helium in Strength Through Music, but I wish you'd gotten the memo that when people have concerns about your work and you blow it off, it doesn't make you edgy. It means you're a douche. Between this and the Katy Perry thing (because pretend rape is AWESOME and HILARIOUS), we're done.

And the thing that annoys me most? Your classless behavior makes me lose respect for somebody I admire a lot. I thought you were better than that, and I thought Neil was too. Thanks for helping set me straight.

What this guy said, 100%. (triggery)

For those of you keeping track of this sort of thing, the number of celebrities/people you may have heard of speaking out against Polanski publicly remains pitifully small. Now I don't wanna be a snob or anything, but surely somebody who's made a movie/music that doesn't suck would like to speak up? (And no I haven't forgiven Kevin Smith for Jersey Girl, in case you're wondering.)

And for those of us who were curious whether or not Polanski ever showed remorse about what he did:( Cut for possibly triggery definitely angry-making quote )All together now: Ewwwwwwww.

Dear way too much of Hollywood,

DIAF. Seriously. DIAF.

The fact that the judge was a fame whore and was removed through motions filed by both the prosecution and the defense does not make it OK that he fled the country to avoid the consequences of DRUGGING AND RAPING A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL. Or is it that there's only one Roman Polanski, but plenty of thirteen year old girls? I'm not trying to be rude, I just want to figure out which box(es) on my "excuses rape apologists use" list to fill in.

I respected too many of you once.

No love,
Me

Oh hey, would you look at that. Turns out that Ogi Ogas, the guy who is the co-"researcher" on the Survey of Fail (and whose most significant professional accomplishment to date has been using cog-sci techniques on a game show, which apparently leads people to believe you can do NEUROSCIENCE THROUGH THE INTARWEBS) got smacked down for misrepresenting his association with Boston University and their sanction of the project. And unsurprisingly, the survey was not IRB approved. (You mean IRBs don't jump on projects that lead to books called Rule 34: What Netporn Teaches Us About The Brain?)

(Also? Pissing off fangirls leads to satirical slash ficlets being written about you and your research partner, thus proving Rule 34 in a pointed and amusingly awkward manner.)

Gladney did not address Saturday's crowd of about 200 people. His attorney, David Brown, however, read a prepared statement Gladney wrote. "A few nights ago there was an assault on my liberty, and on yours, too." Brown read. "This should never happen in this country."

Supporters cheered. Brown finished by telling the crowd that Gladney is accepting donations toward his medical expenses. Gladney told reporters he was recently laid off and has no health insurance.

Mr. Gladney is one of the people you may have heard about who have been disrupting town hall meetings with heckling and in some cases violence. He was supposedly roughed up by a bunch of SEIU members at one of these meetings (which is apparently dubious to people who have viewed video footage and this is the SEIU we're talking about here, not Teamsters :P).

So yes. He is indeed protesting against policy reform that would help him.

Every time I think I've finally seen the depths of the stupidity of the American public and the fear of change it has, somebody has to dig just a little deeper. Of course, the whole process is fucked anyways, so I'ma grab the cat and the mixer, head north, and claim refugee status because if I live here any longer my head will explode.

Context: I have been coding open-ended responses for a Big-Ass Library Survey. It has been interesting seeing what people have to say, and I have been touched by many people's testimonials about how important libraries and specifically library-provided Internet and computing have been for them. I have also been absolutely appalled at some of the less... enlightened responses I have read, of which the one below is an example:

pearwaldorf: Wat too many people playing games and looking up porn, if filters are not turned on. Library computers are great for e-mail and job search, but I feel My space and Face Book are a waste of time. I've used both at a public library and now I feel like if that's all your going to the library for, you should have your own home computer. There's a real problem in most library form people only coming in to play games and use My space.

pearwaldorf: Check your privilege or I punch you in the dick, asshole.

cow: have you ever been to boston's main library?

pearwaldorf: No

cow: the whole outside is done in roman stylings

cow: similar to those found on basilicas and monuments in ancient Rome, in the entablature on each of the main building's three façades. On the south is inscribed: "MDCCCLII • FOUNDED THROUGH THE MUNIFICENCE AND PUBLIC SPIRIT OF CITIZENS"; on the east: "THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF THE CITY OF BOSTON • BUILT BY THE PEOPLE AND DEDICATED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING • A.D. MDCCCLXXXVIII"; and on the north: "THE COMMONWEALTH REQUIRES THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE AS THE SAFEGUARD OF ORDER AND LIBERTY".
The last quotation has been attributed to the library's Board of Trustees. Another inscription, above the keystone of the central entrance, proclaims: "FREE TO ALL".

cow: the last of them is the one i saw first (going in through the central entrance)

cow: just this giant roman entranceway with "FREE TO ALL" above it

cow: i was like <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

cow: and the rest of them are so awesome too

cow: "THE COMMONWEALTH REQUIRES THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE AS THE SAFEGUARD OF ORDER AND LIBERTY".

cow: we can put that above the door and then, below it

cow: CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE OR I PUNCH YOU IN THE DICK, ASSHOLE

cow: it'll be great.

pearwaldorf: I endorse this

See also: kyriarchy; it's not necessarily a gendered term but I find dickpunching more amusing than I should

Yeah. It's been that kind of week.

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