Wait, people not involved in fandom are referred to as "mundanes"? I had never heard this before. I don't know whether to be insulted and laugh out loud. I exist at the outskirts of fandom -- what does that make me? When I didn't quite fit into the nerdy crowd at my high school, my friends referred to me as a "pseudonerd". I guess now I'm

Interesting side note to the whole Strikethrough debacle -- Brad Fitzpatrick no longer works for LJ. Probably a smart move to disable comments on that post. There would no doubt be thousands of Brad-ciples committing virtual hara-kiri upon finding this out. Six Apart wins, open source nerds lose. The end.

Someone asks what I think are the most important questions in all of this, which are ( Read more... )

The group that threatened Six Apart's advertisers is apparently linked to a webring of crazy pentacostalist neo-secessionist whatever-the-crap...I don't really know what half of this means, but I think they're pretty much just crazy racists ( Read more... )

First, a comment that compares Six Apart to Nazis. Then, in the very next post, someone compares LJ to Stalinist Russia AND misspells adequate. THE NEWS THREAD IS POSITIVELY DRIPPING WITH ADEQUATULENCE!

Here is a GIANT list of the LJs that have been suspended so far. I have to say, I'm really going to miss reading daddy4litlgirls's thoughts about current affairs. He was always very insightful. ieatcum4mydaddy and ifuckmydaughter were both very knowledgeable about French haute cuisine. And lemonade-facial made the cutest cat macros ( Read more... )

When the Abuse team came for the breastfeeders,
I remained silent;
I was not a breastfeeder.

When they bahleeted the anonymemes,
I remained silent;
I was not an anonymeme.

When they came for the incesters,
I did not speak out;
I was not an incester.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out
and I had LJ all to myself.

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LJ's new voice post transcription? Is at about the same technological level as Jimbo's Newton. Color me unimpressed.

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