Goddamnit, LJ.
1) According to Y!News, that bastion of hard-hitting stories, eight hundred chihuahuas and eighty parrots were seized from a MOBILE HOME in Arizona. I don't know if any of you have ever been in a mobile home, but, uh, you can't fit all that in there. I keep imagining a sea of dogs underneath a sea of flying parrots, who occasionally swoop down and catch the dogs like raptors catch rabbits.
My other favorite part is that the police seized 100 dogs one day and 700 two days later. Seems kinda... uneven. And hilarious, since I feel like they took all the dogs they could fit in their car the first day. Which results in me picturing a sea of chihuahuas underneath a sea of parrots inside a police car.
2 (the important one)) ljnews, recently partially redeemed bastion of I-Wish-It-Weren't-Wank, decided not to tell us that there will be no more ad-free accounts on LJ unless you give them money. I have a long, angry opinion about this, but the gist of it is as follows: A) SUP should try cutting some of the super indulgent crap SixApart loved so much before they say OHNOES WE HAVE NO MONEY. B) Fandomers (and others) who don't have enough money to buy LJ accounts will now have no choice but to worry about the legal risks of having their content associated with a corporate sponsor. C) Hiding things is never okay. Brad doesn't approve, and the LJ advisory board was not consulted, which means that SUP not only hid this from the users, but from LJ as well.
My other favorite part is that the police seized 100 dogs one day and 700 two days later. Seems kinda... uneven. And hilarious, since I feel like they took all the dogs they could fit in their car the first day. Which results in me picturing a sea of chihuahuas underneath a sea of parrots inside a police car.
2 (the important one)) ljnews, recently partially redeemed bastion of I-Wish-It-Weren't-Wank, decided not to tell us that there will be no more ad-free accounts on LJ unless you give them money. I have a long, angry opinion about this, but the gist of it is as follows: A) SUP should try cutting some of the super indulgent crap SixApart loved so much before they say OHNOES WE HAVE NO MONEY. B) Fandomers (and others) who don't have enough money to buy LJ accounts will now have no choice but to worry about the legal risks of having their content associated with a corporate sponsor. C) Hiding things is never okay. Brad doesn't approve, and the LJ advisory board was not consulted, which means that SUP not only hid this from the users, but from LJ as well.