On the new cross-site linkage/privacy clusterfuck: Oh LJ, why so shortbus? (I have composed a song just for this occasion.)

On a lighter note, remember that thing I mentioned the other day? Yeah. Here you go.

there is lightning in this room
the inevitable m_m au

( we are in a state of flux )

Praise little nine-pound baby Jesus! More clarification!

Originally posted by soph at Regarding the recent news on user purging
If you've seen the recent LJ news post, please be aware that it was written from the wrong spec. While I ( ( Read more... )

Ladies, gentlemen, and gender neutral vocative nouns:

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking it's been a long time since LJ's last clusterfuck and that it's safe to go back in the water.

OH YE OF TOO MUCH FAITH.

To quote LJ itself:

Purging inactive accounts will take place...probably in late August. A journal is defined as inactive if it ( Read more... )

Dear LJ ( Read more... )

I was going to pimp music in this post, but I've got so many recent downloads to go through, I'm not sure what's pimpable yet.

Also, for sotto_voice and whoever else might care, I'm working more on the Artemis-Extremis!Tony piece.

Third, I blame the universe for hitting me over the head with ( SPOILER WORD )

Okay. So. My comment notifications are still mostly fucked (THANK YOU, LJ) and I suspect I'll wake up tomorrow morning to an inbox full of notifications that are all out of order and mostly no longer relevant. Joy.

In the spirit of good will, I give you three songs.

Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy Jr. : also entitled 'the song I probably ( Read more... )

Quick question: is anybody else missing lj comment notifications? Because I know there's at least one I didn't get and I'm a little miffed; LJ said they were gonna be down, and then slow--which I can deal with. But notification loss is something that drives me crazy and it's a side-effect of the update that they never mentioned. *checks* It's on ( Read more... )

Ninja post is ninja, because I want to eat some cheesy popcorn, take a shower and a nap--probably not in that order.

But this just brightened my whole goddamn day.

The latest round of LJ policy development.

It's clear. It's concise. And it's positive, in my opinion.

Our Adult Content policy has been changed to emphasize that content which ( Read more... )

So, today was my last day of class in my last winter quarter as an undergraduate. I feel like I should muse on the meaning of that, but I'd rather talk about something shinier and more argumentative.

You know how 6Apart used to make policy changes and stealthily slide them past us and hope we wouldn't notice? Well, it appears that SUP BITCHES? ( Read more... )

Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the pool...

In a fit of inspiration, I hit up the journals of my more fabulous sources during the FanLib, Strikethrough and Boldthrough debacles to see what they'd written about our new Soviet Cylon Overlords.

- stewardess says 'I told you so'; plans for an oracular shrine are under way. (Also contains ( Read more... )