I'm sure my circle of friends knows this, but I'd appreciate a signal boost in the US ( Read more... )

So, my mom just got this phone call (didn't fall for it), and one poor woman here in town got taken for a couple of thousand dollars:

Madison woman loses $2,750 in scamThey're targeting the elderly - though I'm curious as to exactly how they're doing that - and the scam seems to have common elements of a claim that the target has won 3.5 million ( Read more... )

We've just re-set our answering machine to pick up after 2 rings because the robo-callers are out in full force. It's going to be this way until Tuesday night once the polls for the Recall Election close ( Read more... )

I've been friended by two three different Russian accounts, neither of whom I've ever heard of and both of whom type solely in Cyrillic.

If anyone else is having this issue - although you can't stop an account from friending you, you can report a suspected bot using this form ( Read more... )

Russia is having their presidential elections this weekend. Be prepared for LJ to be attacked.

████ is it. We're all █████ to ██████ █████████.

I hope everyone's backed up all their online material by now...

I'm censoring my LJ, in protest of a bill that gives any corporation and the US government the power to censor the internet--a bill that could pass THIS WEEK. To see the uncensored text, and to stop internet censorship, visit: http:// ( Read more... )

A brief preface - he's apparently doing better. That does not mitigate what happened, or that his former owners deserve pretty much any shit thing that gets wished upon them.

Originally posted by kylecassidy at post
Via Citykitties (emphasis added):

A good samaritan found this cat today in a gutter by Clark Park, half dead. He is now at the Cat Doctor with ( Read more... )

Originally posted by dynamicsymmetry at Congress wants to take away your internet.
Folks, I know you're tired of me yelling at you, but you should be aware that there's a hearing this morning being held by the US House Judiciary Committee on a "copyright" bill that will essentially break the entire internet.You like the internet, right? I mean, you're here ( Read more... )

Originally posted by darkspirited1 at SIGNAL BOOST: SAY YES TO GAY YA
This comes from an article by rachelmanija entitled, Say Yes to Gay YA.
(click the link for the full article)

Our novel Stranger has five viewpoint characters; one, Yuki Nakamura, is ( Read more... )

Y'know, I've joked before (and not-joked) about history being no more reliable than the latest Wikipedia edit.

And then things like this go on:

State investigating vote irregularities in Waukesha County going back 5 years

Politifact Wisconsin's take on Kathy Nicklaus' "explanation"On April 5th there was an election to determine (among several ( Read more... )