My last entry was entitled "escape". That's fitting. With the new Livejournal Terms of Service, I no longer feel comfortable posting here. I'm Sesquipedality at Dreamwidth. I won't close the account. Perhaps LJ will untaint itself at some point, and this is a permanent account which has existed for over 15 years, so I won't be deleting it. But ( Read more... )

Waitlisted for Shogun. :( Very very :( I have played the last 14 weekend freeforms. Legendary flakiness of roleplayers, do not fail me now. (Due to high demand, places were assigned by lottery this year.)

“We're not going to war with you. We're a travelling circus, not a country. Thing is, if you attack one of us then you attack the Circus. We don't declare war, we just turn up and kill you all. Which we'd rather not do, since we quite like you and enjoy your company ( Read more... )

It makes me miserable. The ratio of pleasant/interesting conversation to awful political bile drags me down with it. I may well quit. Which would leave this as my only active social media account. And mostly shouting into the wind. It is hard to be positive today.

There has been a bit of a rush off of Livejournal of late, with the revelation that the LJ servers have been moved to Russia. The thing that slightly perplexes me about this is why having your data stored in Russia is necessarily worse than having your data stored in America. In both cases, your data is at the mercy of a large foreign power with ( Read more... )

by Sesquipedality (sesquipedality@gmail.com ( Read more... )

The random firing of my neurones during REM sleep, remembered due to an attack of cat ( Read more... )

Another thought on ethical stances and judgment. In order to not be singling out the Jews, let's pick another example. Some evangelical Christians believe that it is wrong to marry someone who is not themselves a Christian. ("Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can ( Read more... )

http://nypost.com/2015/08/01/orthodox-jewish-tenants-sue-building-over-electronic-key-fobs/Read more... )

So, the results of no social media month are in. I missed it very little, and it became very clear what a huge time sink social media has become for me. (Although I was sad to miss out on communication with cool people, I did not feel quite as lonely or isolated as I feared.) As I result I shall be keeping my social media presence minimal. This ( Read more... )