The Blood is The Life 16-05-2012

[miss_s_b]

• Google Shuts Down Another Conservative Blog: KSM Trial Edition
  This is one of the reasons I am glad I blog at Dreamwidth. Sure, DW is a small provider, but it has very clear rules and procedures, and very clear methods of dispute resolution.
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• AllSoul's College General Essay Titles
  If you're stuck for something to blog on, try one of these.
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• Visible Labia Line
  WTF???
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• BBC News - ORG: Mobile filters censor innocent content
  Witness my face of not-surprise
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• Are 9 out of 10 people claiming benefits in parts of Scotland? | Full Fact
  Perhaps for a very specific definition of "parts" which goes down to households... Short answer is "no".
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• Mark Steel: Starve the Greeks and they'll feel better
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• Gotcha!
  Cicero on the charging of the Brooks.
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• Design your own Batfamily Converse
  Sadly not (yet) available with TwoFace or Batwoman options. You can get premade TwoFace ones, though. Of course, if you're outside the US you have to pay the same as the shoes cost for shipping, and then import taxes as well #firstworldproblems
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• Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
  Scalzi explains the concept of privilege to people who froth at the very idea that they have it: "Likewise, it’s certainly possible someone playing at a higher difficulty setting is progressing more quickly than you are, because they had more points initially given to them by the computer and/or their highest stats are wealth, intelligence and constitution and/or simply because they play the game better than you do. It doesn’t change the fact you are still playing on the lowest difficulty setting. You can lose playing on the lowest difficulty setting. The lowest difficulty setting is still the easiest setting to win on. The player who plays on the “Gay Minority Female” setting? Hardcore."
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Comments

[blazingskies]

Seriously? Even the merest hint of possessing actual ladybits is a fashion crime now? WTF? I am totally fucking baffled. Even more baffled by the 'should have gone to...' collage, since I can't see anything wrong with the way the ladies in those pictures look.

But then, I hate fashion and all its attendant bullshit.

*grump*

[andrewducker]

I don't think you realise how heinous a crime it is to be in possession of a vagina.

[miss_s_b]

No, you see, the purpose of ladybits is for men to shag. If men aren't shagging them they should be totally hidden so that Other Men don't see them and want to shag them, rather than the man they belong to.

Srsly, though, posts like this make me want to wave hairy armpits in people's faces and things.

B**gger, there

[daweaver]

So G****e comes up with a completely spurious reason for closing a blog that offended against their conservative-corporatist tendencies. It's a good job the comapny's not being evil, and remains committed to the highest standard of free expression, because the internet routes around censorship.

Back in the real world, the blog has been restored, the company has exposed itself as cheap and eror-prone and generally a bit useless, and the worst damage is to G****e's reputation and bottom line. Well done, everyone!