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Twitter is pivoting
Peter Chernin had this to say during his days as President of News Corp, owners of MySpace, in 2006:
If you look at virtually any Web 2.0 application, whether its YouTube, whether it's Flickr, whether it's Photobucket or any of the next-generation Web applications, almost all of them are really driven off the back of MySpace… Given that most of their traffic comes from us, if we build adequate if not superior competitors, I think we ought to be able to match them if not exceed them.
This was the justification and mentality that MySpace employed as they blocked various fast-growing platform partners that they felt impinged in MySpace's core user experience. Any of this sound familiar?
Yesterday, Peter Chernin was named to the Twitter board of directors.
Here was the text of his announcement tweet:
@twitter I've been a long-time user of twitter for news and information. Happy to be joining board of this very exciting company.
Interesting things about Peter Chernin's announcement
It is apparently his first tweet ever(!)
To be fair, the account appears to have been created in 2010. Perhaps he just uses it to read news, or to customize his Flipboard account.
His announcement was formatted as a direct reply to the official Twitter account.
This means the announcement would only be seen by his followers that also follow the official Twitter account. I don't get the feeling he did this on purpose. An experienced Twitter user would know to add a "." at the beginning of his message so that his followers would see it.
He refers to himself as a "long-time user of twitter for news and information"
Think about that for a moment. Not only does he consider himself a "long-time" user, rather than a novice, he is defining exactly what Twitter is to him: a way to consume news and information.
The fork in the road
It's well known that Twitter has a steep learning curve for new users. The steep learning curve was famously spoofed by a parody Jack Nicholson account.
From a product perspective, Twitter needs to either:
Rethink onboarding of new users to do a far better job of educating people about how things like @-replies, RTs, hashtags, etc work.
Admit failure and give up on trying to get normal people to tweet. Pivot the company at this late stage in the game and completely redefine what the core user experience is.
It seems they are opting for the latter option.
What is pre-pivot Twitter?
"…an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters" - Wikipedia
In other words, the core user experience of Twitter is the sending and receiving of messages with other people. It's a communications tool.
What is post-pivot Twitter supposed to look like?
- The best way to consume "news and information".
- Important content is mostly created by media companies, whether they are blogs, television, radio or movies.
- The main reason that "normal users" would write messages is as a backchannel to discuss media events such as the Olympics, Election Coverage, or a new television show. "Normal user" tweets are something akin to Facebook comments.
- Even though this backchannel exists, it's not expected that brands and celebrities are supposed to pay much attention to everything that is said. Chernin himself hasn't replied to the numerous replies he received.
- The Discover tab is the future. Rather than forcing normal users to make sense of a realtime stream, they can see what content is trending.
- Systematic destruction of companies built on the back of MySp…Twitter.
- Re-emergence of a lot of the ideas MySpace had about "the socialization of content".
Predicting the future
In this paradigm, Twitter's business model is to help brands "amplify their reach". A brand participating in Twitter can certainly distribute their content for free and get free organic traffic, but if they want to increase their reach, they need to pay.
It's no accident that this sounds exactly like the emerging Facebook business model. As discussed in that link, algorithmically filtered primary feeds are vastly easier to advertise against vs unfiltered feeds. The issue for Twitter is that Facebook already has a far larger userbase which is already trained to read an algorithmically filtered feed.
How is Twitter going to pull off their mid-flight pivot, which entails largely redefining what Twitter actually is, not to mention how most people are supposed to use it? Your guess is as good as mine.
Nonetheless, Peter Chernin's announcement shows us the future of Twitter: a media company writing software that is optimized for mostly passive users interested in a media and entertainment filter.

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Brief Overview of our Reptilian Overlords
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Sun-Jan 08 2012
I had a dream thursday night that included a Newfoundland in a black leather lobster costume. He was riding in a Cadillac convertible.
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Tue-Jun 21 2011
Rabbinical court denies condemning dog to death, still no word on dog being reincarnated lawyer
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Sun-Jun 19 2011
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Mon-May 30 2011
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This looks like a more crowded version of "Capture the Flag" at church camp. I was the 13yr-old Sun Tzu of "Capture the Flag", inventing the "human wave of rugrats followed by a flying wedge covered in baby oil" tactic.防衛大 棒倒し 激闘!(でも、お尻がぁ出てるぅ、、)
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Fri-May 27 2011
Incredibly awful - Star Wars Dance-Off:
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Fri-May 20 2011
Ozark raccoon hive-mind
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Thu-May 19 2011
Mickey Mouse wicker man
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Sat-May 07 2011
RT @warrenellis: Poisonous Holy Water - #robotweet
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Ahmadinejad accused of consorting with djinns (genies to you and me)
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Rent Liechtenstein, as in the whole country
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Thu-Mar 10 2011
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Sun-Feb 06 2011
"Martini" designed to taste like griiled cheese sandwich #americaisdoomed
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Thu-Dec 30 2010
Spam Poetry: "Why does the bull teapot devastate a reassuring head?"
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Fri-Dec 17 2010
RT @TaraBusch: Perhaps the most disturbing Santa I've ever seen.
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Check out who North Korea is following:
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Fri-Dec 03 2010
Toy robot frightens Denver police (w/priceless pic) via @GreatDismal
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Wed-Dec 01 2010
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Sat-Sep 11 2010
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Mon-Aug 16 2010
Clown Paintings
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Fri-Jul 16 2010
RT @GreatDismal "Enough fat to fill nine double-decker buses" via BoingBoing (Good Morning!)
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Sat-Jul 10 2010
Terrorist Sorcerers Are Coming To Rape Our Cars, warns Florida senate candidate
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Mon-May 24 2010
Mother-and-child wear inspired by "Alien" chest-burster
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Tweet 14587813174
Sun-May 23 2010
2012 London Olympic Mascots
2 Giant Mutant Kaiju Eyeball/TV Screens
No, really - these are the official mascots
Design FAILThe Trouble with Mascots
Tue-Apr 06 2010
RT @Richard_Kadrey There's a goddam Tiger Woods countdown clock on CNN because discussing a golfer's dick really is that important.
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POPE-BEATIFICATIONS Oct-4-2004 (860 words) With photos. xxxi
Pope beatifies five, including German nun who inspired Gibson film
By John Thavis
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Advancing the sainthood causes of five Europeans, Pope John Paul II beatified the last Hapsburg emperor and the nun whose visions inspired Mel Gibson's film, "The Passion of the Christ."
The pope said Blessed Charles I of Austria, who died in exile in 1922, was "a friend of peace, in whose eyes war was something terrible." The emperor's commitment to Christian values should be a model for European politicians today, he added.
Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, the pope said, showed heroic patience and firm faith in dealing with years of ill health. The pope did not mention the German mystic's controversial book of visions on Christ's final days, for which she is best known.
The pope, seated on an altar platform decorated with flowers, listened as biographies of the newly beatified were read aloud at the start of the Oct. 3 Mass in St. Peter's Square. Some 20,000 people, including several hundred European royalty, applauded when tapestry portraits of the five "blesseds" were unveiled on the face of St. Peter's Basilica.
The pope presided over the Liturgy of the Word, but the eucharistic liturgy was celebrated by Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Congregation for Saints' Causes.
The 84-year-old pontiff sounded short of breath as he read only the introductory lines and the last few sentences of his sermon. Aides read most of the text.
The pope praised Blessed Emmerich's identification with the suffering of Christ, noting that she bore the stigmata, the wounds of the crucifixion. The daughter of a German peasant couple, she worked as a seamstress and servant before entering an Augustinian convent in 1802, where she was bedridden for years. She soon became known for her visions of the supernatural and "conversations" with Jesus.
Gibson said he was inspired to make his movie after reading Sister Emmerich's book of visions, "The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." A few of the details in the book made it into his film -- as when Mary and Mary Magdalene use towels furnished by Pontius Pilate's wife to wipe up the blood of the scourged Christ.
Jewish leaders have said the negative portrayal of Jews in her writings was picked up and popularized by the Gibson film.
Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement Sept. 27 that while Jewish leaders understand that Blessed Emmerich was being recognized by the church for her virtuous life and deep faith "it cannot be contested that in addition to the aid she offered many of her co-religionists, hatred and anti-Semitism were fomented in her name."
The written biography in the beatification Mass booklet said Blessed Emmerich's words have reached innumerable people and represent "an outstanding proclamation of the Gospel." But her mystic writings received only a passing reference during the Mass, and the pope did not mention them at all in his sermon.
Before the liturgy, Vatican experts said the writings had been discarded as evidence during the sainthood review process because it was uncertain whether she actually wrote the book.
"We simply cannot say for certain that she ever wrote this," Jesuit Father Peter Gumpel told
Catholic News Service
Oct. 1. Father Gumpel helped study the issue for the Vatican's sainthood congregation.
Sister Emmerich was practically illiterate, and her visions were transcribed and elaborated by a popular romantic poet, Clemens Brentano, who published them after Sister Emmerich's death at age 49 in 1824.
Father Gumpel said it is today impossible to distinguish what came from Blessed Emmerich and what was added by the poet Brentano. Therefore, the writings were disregarded by the Vatican, he said.
The beatification of Blessed Charles I, who also ruled Hungary as King Charles IV, stirred controversy among Austrians who consider him an ambivalent historical figure.
The Vatican liturgy highlighted his support of Pope Benedict XV's peace efforts during World War I -- a point recognized by many historians. But others have said he ordered the use of poison gas during the war, lied about seeking a secret peace deal with France and made strategic mistakes that led to the capture of hundreds of thousands of Austrian troops.
The three others beatified were:
-- French Father Joseph-Marie Cassant, a Cistercian monk who was best known for his prayer life and his devotion to the Eucharist. He died of tuberculosis in 1903 at the age of 25.
-- Italian Sister Ludovica de Angelis, a member of the Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy, who gained fame for her work at a church-run children's hospital in Buenos Aires. She died in 1962.
-- French Father Pierre Vigne, an "itinerant missionary" of the 17th and 18th centuries, who would sometimes carry his confessional on his back as he walked through rural France. His devotion to the Eucharist led him to found the Congregation of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. He died at the age of 70 in 1740.
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ALL SIGNS MOON ALERT: After 5 a.m. today, we have the all clear to shop (whether you spend $10 or $10 million) and make important decisions. The Moon is in Scorpio.
◆ARIES (March 21-April 19): You begin this week on a serious note with concerns about shared property, inheritances, taxes and debt. There are loose details you want to sort out, resolve, define and turf. Naturally, you'll be thinking about this stuff for the next few weeks.
◆TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Serious discussions with partners and close friends are inevitable today because the Sun, the Moon, Mercury and Saturn are all directly opposite your sign. (Whoa Nelly!) Initially, you might feel discouraged because of what someone else has to say.
◆GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You are in work mode for the next few weeks and today, you're serious. You want to get the job done and you're willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish this. Fortunately, you'll find it easy to wrap up and finish what is already on your plate.
◆CANCER (June 21-July 22): Children might seem to be an increased burden or responsibility today. In fact, the arts, sports and areas that are usually fun seem full of serious concerns. Fortunately, you feel healthy, invigorated and ready to work hard.
◆LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your focus on home, family and your domestic world continues. Discussions with a parent might be significant. Don't be discouraged if someone is critical or demands more care and attention.
◆VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today you're busy with short trips, errands, reading, writing and dealing with siblings and relatives. Something could make you feel depressed or discouraged but fear not, it's very brief. It might be someone pontificating with authority who loves to hear the sound of their voice.
◆LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You're focused on cash flow and money today. Actually, this will be a strong focus for several weeks. A reminder: Those of you who are looking for work should try where you applied before or even worked before. In other words, "go backwards."
◆SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Today the Sun and the Moon are in your sign (along with Saturn and retrograde Mercury) so it's all about you, isn't it? This is why you feel so passionately intense about everything. And this is also why everything is coming your way.
◆SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Although you're dealing with retrograde Mercury causing delays, shortages, mixed-up communications and goofy insanity, fortunately, fiery Mars is in your sign giving you tons of energy! You need this energy right now to cope with your life!
◆CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In a meeting today (large or small) someone, especially a female, might try to put you down or criticize you. Don't be discouraged. Sometimes people try to cut the heads off others so that they can appear taller. The truth is, your public image is very positive.
◆AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Dealings with bosses, parents, teachers, the police and authority figures in your life will be serious today. Someone might haul you up on the carpet. Just be aware that because aspects of your private life are public, it's best to be careful and discreet. Ya think?
◆PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): This is a good day to rethink plans related publishing, higher education, medicine, the law or travel. You know that you want to expand your world in some way. (You're itching to do this.) The question is how, in terms of practical and financial limitations?
IF NOVEMBER 12 IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: Musician Neil Young (1945) shares your birthday today. You are seductive and attractive because you have a sensual energy that few can resist. (Because of this many of you have secret love relationships.) You enjoy beauty and love to be in attractive surroundings. When you want something, you get it; in fact, your ability to make things happen is almost magical! In the year ahead, your primary focus will be on partnerships and close friendships.


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What you're looking at is a still with a hot tank, a cold tank and an integral heating/cooling refrigerant system. The hot side has a heating coil built in that could be used as a wort chiller. The two tanks are connected with a refrigerated cooling coil. Each tank is stainless steel and holds roughly 110 gallons.
I bought it with the intention of turning it into a home brew station. The size of the tanks and configuration makes it perfect for large batches of beer, wine or cider. Unfortunately I'm relocating out of state and won't be taking it with me.
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MAKE YOUR MARK, a Short Film Competition Presented by the Producers Guild of America and Cadillac, is characterized by a specific assignment, requiring films to include certain story and thematic elements. The degree to which each film organically incorporates the elements of the assignment will dictate judges' evaluation of the films' EXECUTION OF ASSIGNMENT.
The PGA and Cadillac are pleased to honor producer Saul Zaentz in this competition.
"Passion is [the] immeasurable, indescribable factor that separates movie from movie. Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language and flourishes in every culture. The movement of passion is the most gratifying satisfaction in any moviemaker's life. This happens when you see and hear people all over the world share their laughter, their crying and their sudden gasps at identical screen moments."
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1) Passion as Conviction: In Zaentz's films, a character's passion often places them at odds with authority, be it political (The Unbearable Lightness of Being), cultural (Amadeus) or institutional (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). Typically, this action alters and enriches the world of the characters, though often at great personal cost.
2) Passion as Genius/Obsession: Characters in Zaentz's films are often possessed of extraordinary skills or charisma, which they employ in the driven pursuit of a larger or exalted goal. Consider the missionaries of At Play in the Fields of the Lord, the lovers of The English Patient, Allie Fox in The Mosquito Coast and the central pairing of Amadeus. (Salieri may not have a genius for music, but he surely has one for vengeance!) Often, Zaentz's stories turn on the fine line between passion and obsession.
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I saw this posted elsewhere, apparently from the USC website. Sounds pretty encouraging:
Everest spent 2000-05 as the special teams coordinator of the New Orleans Saints.
In 2004, 5 of his players won NFC Special Teams Player of the Week awards, punter Mitch Berger was in the Pro Bowl, John Carney tied the team single game field goal record, Michael Lewis set the team career mark for punt returns and the Saints returned 2 kickoffs for touchdowns.
In 2003, Carney set the team record for consecutive field goals, Berger led the league in net punting and the Saints blocked a field goal in 3 consecutive games.
He was named NFL Special Teams Coach of the Year in 2002 as his unit had 3 TD returns, 5 blocked kicks and an interception. That year, Carney set a club season scoring record, Lewis established an NFL season standard for kickoff/punt return yards and the Saints set the team season punt return coverage record.
Prior to that, he was with the Cards. He has 28 years of football coaching experience.
Coach Singletary is confusing me. Why would Al have to take care of something if Coach Singletary had "some things I had to deal with personally". And then he had to let Al go?Originally Posted by costanza2k1
Only thing I can think of is that Singletary was sleeping with Al's wife, and Al found out. So he had to let Al go.
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I made this. I hope it helps with when to talk about it, and when to shut up. (Text below the fold)
I made this. I hope it helps with when to talk about it, and when to shut up. (Text below the fold)
Today's a big news cycle in movement skepticism and movement atheism. My old timeline is woefully incomplete and drastically altered by new revelations, now, thanks to Mark Oppenheimer's article on the state of misogyny in the atheist and skeptic movements over on Buzzfeed.
So, I'm pulling out the relevant links and pullquotes and revamping this timeline. It's going to be largely intact from the old one, only maybe expanded to provide more context to each individual point. As with previous timelines this will be a living document — it's as likely new links will be added or intermixed as I have time, but you're more than welcome to contribute links in the comments.
Scicurious (alias: Bethany Brookshire, alias: Squirrel Terrorist) reenacts a scientific paper's methodology about squirrels' ability to detect predators, as her Act of Whimsy (read: forfeit) for Geek Girl Con fundraising.
Remember, if we get to $5000, I'll be playing Battletoads, beginning to end, with infinite lives, on twitch.tv. Surely you'll want to see me get progressively more and more frustrated as I replay sections of the game over, and over, and over again. Donate now to punish me!
(We totally did not coordinate the silent movie thing in advance, I swear.)
Brian Dunning issued a statement about his criminal acts and how everyone's getting things wrong about him. However, people might find it difficult to copy and paste in order to rebut, or even to disseminate, because he included a little snippet of javascript that automatically kills your ability to select, copy or paste.
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Today, Brian Dunning of the Skeptoid podcast and brand, blogger at SkepticBlog, was sentenced to 15 months prison and three years supervised release.
Barely anyone's talking about it, though (except, obviously, us Social Justice Bullies who will inevitably be accused of crowing about this news).
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A few nights ago, a post hit my moderation queue on movement cohesion, wherein I speculate that there is no single unified movement, and that as long as the introduction of other values into particular communities continues, "rifts" will only solidify where people have fewer common traits. In my post I further fretted regarding the requests frequently made of feminists, anti-racist activists, gays and trans folk, to swallow their other causes; to put their causes outside of atheism aside in order to cohabitate in a "big tent" with anti-feminists and anti-social-justice folks — who are themselves never asked to stop with their targeted harassment, their bullying, their hate speech.
Richard Dawkins and Ophelia Benson just released a joint statement that amounts to a request of our communities: stop doing all of that. Included in that request is a statement by Dawkins that he does not, even tacitly, support the people engaging in such tactics.
I'm certain that James In The West, who left this lengthy screed on my earlier post, has since seen Dawkins' statement and wishes he could recant on his strange fan-fiction.
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Movement atheism is not a cohesive entity. Heads of orgs like American Atheists, in full-throated promotion of people like Jaclyn Glenn — especially those videos that attack movement feminists for being too firebrandey and poisoning movement atheism with all their "social justice warrior" stuff — they've evidently chosen sides. Let's not mistake that there are, in fact, sides to choose in what amounts to a fundamental division between feminists and antifeminists within atheism. AA has chosen, expressly, the side of the antifeminists, and they've framed the issue such that the antifeminists are the ones demanding we stop talking about feminist ideas and the toxic anti-woman environment that these antifeminists inculcate in our movement.
Feminists are told to stop fighting. Antifeminists are asked absolutely nothing — they're the "reasonable" ones for demanding that the status quo be maintained.
Fuck that.
The surest way to earn my enmity, my directed criticism, is to ask us to stop other fights so we can pretend we're all one big happy big-tent family. It's what bugged the hell out of me about courting secular pro-lifers at CPAC, it's what bugged the hell out of me about the ongoing, constant, concerted attacks of big atheist vloggers like Thunderf00t and The Amazing Atheist against feminists despite the absolute hash they make of logic and reason and empathy in doing so. It's what continues to bug me about basically every organization demanding that we go big-tent and allow every atheist in so we can all talk about how much God don't real, but don't you dare talk about the social impact of how we treat half the human fucking race. Not to mention every other issue that gets derided under the umbrella of "Social Justice Warrior", like trans rights, gay rights, race issues, and every other aspect of humanism that involves having a shred of empathy for your fellow human being.
The necessity of feminism is evidenced by the comments everyplace it's mentioned in anything but a negative, straw-feminist casting (take Laci Green's recent video's comments, for example). Especially so any time it's mentioned in atheist settings, because there are precious few that aren't expressly antifeminist and expressly anti-any-social-justice-but-secularism in bent, thanks to the vociferous libertarian quadrant of our "community" demographics.
There is no one single community. This inter-atheist fighting is necessary because we have coalesced communities around shared ideals, and there's a shit-ton of you atheists out there who share almost no ideals in common with me outside of "god don't real".
I will not throw my other principles under the bus to be part of your hideous granfaloon.
What a nice guy it is. If only those bitches would give it a chance. Forever friendzoned!
With apologies to the clipart I stole to build this monster.
Ania Bula and Alexander Gonzalez of Scribbles and Rants are doing a fundraiser to get to Women In Secularism 3. Well, they WERE, until some kind soul paid for their and Miranda's tickets. Now Ania's asking for help funding the fundraiser so she can table as well.
Thanks to a generous donation, Alex, Miranda, and my tickets have been taken care of. As such, I am going to up the ante a little bit. If I make my goal, I will use the money that would have gone towards buying a ticket to purchase a table at the con and sell my artwork and a variety of other products of mine. In return, I will donate a percentage of my profits (from the con table) to either the con itself, or to help out the fundraisers of great people to be able to move to safer places.
Considering she's doing some quite wall-worthy art, it might be worth your time and effort to help her succeed in this endeavour.
I've noticed a trend in amongst the so-called "skeptics" who have, from the get-go, denied every single claim of harassment in the community. That trend is denialism masquerading as skepticism, and a willingness to lie about who said what, when. That's why I've been fighting that trend by building timelines. Someone needs to document what was actually said, and what can be reasonably inferred from these events. It also helps to document the attacks launched by certain people against certain other people, because it helps define the tribal lines against which these denialists are aligning.
[pullquote align="right" textalign="right" width="30%"]"I didn't write it, I never agreed to it, I never signed it, and I'm not the liar here."
–Karen Stollznow, Twitter, March 25th, 2014[/pullquote]
One of these big accusations of harassment has resurfaced in the past few weeks, with new movements occurring for the first time in months. As a refresher, here's all the points from my sexual harassment accusations timeline.
I don't claim to know for certain that these allegations are true, but I can certainly develop a narrative that, I think, accounts for all the actual points we apparently do know, as well as what we could reasonably extrapolate.
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Two people were stabbed in an apartment on the Northwest Side Monday morning, Chicago police said.
About 6 a.m., a 17-year-old girl and a 20-year-old man were stabbed in the 3700 block of North Cicero Avenue, part of the Portage Park neighborhood, police said.
The girl suffered cuts to her face and other areas of her head, while the man was cut on his hands and neck. Both were taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in serious condition, authorities said.
After the two were stabbed, they were able to call police from a McDonald's restaurant at the intersection of West Addison Street and North Cicero Avenue, police said.
Two people were taken into custody, though no charges were filed as of Monday afternoon, police said.
One of the people arrested also suffered injuries and was taken to Presence Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center, but details on the person's condition was not known, authorities said.
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Nigeria: A Nation full of Bribery and Corruption!
by Alam-hajim Ezeugoh
Go to NNPC, the language there is bribery, and the bribe runs into millions of dollars, Go to the Bank and see how the Banks abate money laundering. Go to customs where a controller planted bottle; Nigeria 2nd most corrupt organ. Go to the police where police officers have remained in Lagos for 5 years crying and complaining for the
quota system in the police department. This an oversight have contributed in reducing police intelligence to a joke!
Go to the Universities and see bribery and prostitution as a language that have lured many into cults and they turned themselves into admission Mafias.
Go to Media houses with praise singers formerly known as brown envelopes.
Go to INEC and see people who read engineering, Lawyer appointed as INEC commissioners.
Go to hospitals, extortion is the language before emergency case shall be given attention.
Go to Immigration, the language is bribery and Corruption.
Go to all the Ministries for a contract, ten percent upfront to be paid before a contract may be given.
Go to the Airport where you are hassled to pay some money before one thing or the other.
Go to any public office, you must do what is being called P.R hahahaha!
Does this make us great? Every year Nigeria records about 5000 graduates with different disciplines. A round peg in a square hole does not work.
There is no employment strategy instead people who served for 35 years would like to alter their CV to reduce their service year so as to remain in the job.
Even when and before he or she goes for retirement, their children are there as replacement.
What is the staff strength of the police, the Immigration, the Custom, The maritime, the Navy, The Army etc. When did you we hear that Custom department is to recruit etc.
Nigeria must take census of all the federal government offices and balance the equation. It is impossible to take census of Criminals in Nigeria, but with the situation of things, one must say the number is above 45 million criminals on the streets. Which means to have adequate policing system Nigeria needs about more police to checkmate criminals.
Inject unemployed youths to other ministries, then reduce working age, pay them their gratuities and thir pension accordingly – those whose their adage is always that they are retired but not tired.
Even if government lifts embargo on employment to these ministries tomorrow, the language of bribe shall determine who is to be given employment- True.
Chinese taking over importation
A consumer friendly nation is thousand miles away to employment of her citizens hence crime rate is always an incurable headache to the government and unto which there is no calm and peaceful night for the law enforcement agents.
Chinese in Nigeria today are the sole importers of their own goods in Nigeria. Nigerian importers of this and that have taught the Chinese, that there is a lot of profit to made in importation, as far as Nigeria is consumer friendly Nation.
I am of the opinion that, in as much as we have many of the raw materials to produce, many of these Chinese finished products here does not help our economy.
Why don't we go for technology transfer with the Chinese government?
This is the work of Minister for Trade Commerce and Industry.
Even some of our successful importers are not thinking towards this direction with the much needed financial assistance from industrial Banks.
This Stealing Is Too Much!
N2.8 trillion stolen – Ribadu Report
N2.6 trillion stolen – Fuel Subsidy Report
N1.2 trillion stolen annually or the equivalent to the 250,000 barrels of oil stolen daily
N256 billion stolen in the first quarter via separate theft of 24 million barrels of oil as alleged by Dr. Aganga, minister of trade
N100 billion stolen from pension funds
N10 billion estimated loss to Nigeria via the NCC frequency scam
$35.8 million and sundry dubious annual payments to Tompolo and co
And many, many, many more…
Can This House Survive?
I doubt it!!!
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