odd-kahlie: invizible: invizible: Sooooo the US is gonna start collecting all social media info...

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Sooooo the US is gonna start collecting all social media info of immigrants 🙃

Welp it was nice knowing y’all, looks like I’ll be going back to zim

It’s going into effect October 18

Here’s a link to the official federal register documents. Here’s a link to VICE  with more information. 

Also, feel free to leave a comment to about this regulation while it is still open (until October 18, 2017) here.

Some highlights:

This is meant to help the US identify possible terrorist threats.

Tests for this program have thus far shown to be unsuccessful

When reviewing social media content of refugees, who have been flagged  as a risk due to previous screening methods, found no indication of threats on social media.

The compiling of information will be done on immigrants, including Green Card Holders and Naturalized Citizens.

The information is meant to be taken from publicly available from the internet, public records, institutions, interviewees, commercial data providers, etc. 

This could require immigrants to hand over every social media handle and email address they have used in the past five years.

Information may also be obtained on those who communicate with a US immigrant.

If you have time, I would suggest leaving a comment about this regulation. Though it will not stop this change in regulation, it will give strong precedent for changing this in the future. 

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Terry Pratchett started his career as a crypto-monarchist and ended up the most consistently humane writer of his generation.  He never entirely lost his affection for benevolent dictatorship, and made a few classic colonial missteps along the way, but in the end you’d be hard pressed to find a more staunchly feminist, anti-racist, anti-classist, unsentimental and clear-sighted writer of Old White British Fantasy.  

The thing I love about Terry’s writing is that he loved - loved - civil society.  He loved the correct functioning of the social contract.  He loved technology, loved innovation, but also loved nature and the ways of living that work with and through it.   He loved Britain, but hated empire (see “Jingo”) - he was a ruralist who hated provincialism, a capitalist who hated wealth, an urbanist who reveled in stories of pollution, crime and decay.  He was above all a man who loved systems, of nature, of thought, of tradition and of culture.  He believed in the best of humanity and knew that we could be even better if we just thought a little more.

As a writer: how skillful, how prolific, how consistent.  The yearly event of a new Discworld book has been a part of my life for more than two decades, and in that barrage of material there have been so few disappointments, so many surprises… to come out with a book as fresh and inspired as “Monstrous Regiment” as the 31st novel in your big fantasy series?  Ludicrous.  He was just full of treasure.  What a thing to have had, what a thing to have lost.

In the end, he set a higher standard, as a writer and as a person.  He got better as he learned, and he kept learning, and there was no “too late” or “too hard” or “I can’t be bothered to do the research.”  He just did the work.  I think in his memory the best thing we can do is to roll up our sleeves and do the same.

This post seems to be making the rounds again so here it is on the word blog

GNU Terry Pratchett

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Next time antis are being, well, antis, show them this:

For anyone who can’t read it, this is some forum post - not sure of the origin - titled “Re: I hear the tumblr comin’” and it says:

I’m not proud of it, but I recently did put on a fake concerned grown-up voice in response to a teenage anti-shipper who messaged me about one of my “problematic” stories, trying to explain that they liked my writing but wanted me to know how harmful this story was to teens like them and that I needed to stop.

I responded: “Thank you for your message. Because my stories are written for an adult audience only, and tagged to reflect this, I have a policy of not corresponding with children. However, I acknowledge your concerns, and I felt I would be remiss not to tell you to please speak with your parents or guardians. It’s important for them to know that you are having difficulties stopping yourself from accessing adult material that upsets you. They may be able to take steps such as installing parental protections on your browsers, sharing your account passwords to better monitor your online activity, setting up one shared family computer in a public area of the house, or limiting your mobile access to the internet.”

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Pennywise isn’t ready for this generation

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‽ ‽  ‽ Did you know it’s National Punctuation Day ‽ ‽ ‽

Source

You can also just copy and paste it wherever tf you want… ‽‽‽

RIGHT ‽‽‽‽‽

Re-sending 2 prompts in all; here's the first. Please let me know if you receive them! First idea wa

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That’s an interesting idea! Maybe It would try and turn the Losers against the other people of the town (they are, after all, not humans, it should really be no concern of theirs what It eats, Stan needs to drink blood after all, in some literature, werewolves have to eat human flesh…). 

It gets quickly shot down by the Losers, though, because It ate Georgie, who was a inhuman being like them. (Maybe Bill and George were some kind of fae mix?)

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He Looks Like A Conqueror

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Regal, majestic fluff.

@funkzpiel @fantastic-beasts-smut: Graves’ animagus form, y/n?

I've spent some time thinking about your dying fandom thing. And I think it's more about generations

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Hey anon :) I agree with you; I think the beauty of fandoms is that over time, even when there are no new movies/tv shows etc, new creators pop up every day and many of them are terrific. I think however, the main issue some creators are having, is the lack of response they get, especially if they are smaller blogs. So I don’t think the fandom is dying because there aren’t enough creators, I think response to those creators are dying. Does that make sense? :D Thanks for sending this in!

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felitomkinson: my friends r so talented. rb if ur friends are talented

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my friends r so talented. rb if ur friends are talented