So when you see our middle fingers up in all of our pictures, now you know the motivation. It’s all we can do to stop images of a newborn baby from being printed without our consent. Can you imagine a world where they would blur out our middle finger to protect a “consumer” over blurring out an innocent child to protect their integrity and privacy?
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
WTF OTD: stillbirths in USA lead to murder charges against the pregnant women
Lately in (some of) the USA: Stillbirth while a drug addict? Stillbirth following a suicide attempt? Well, you’re a murdering bitch.
Thinking about children
Why is some people choosing not to have children so confronting for other people?
Pottermore!
J K Rowling has announced on YouTube more details about her plans for the Pottermore website – “a unique online reading experience”
Quicklink: partial Australian web censorship starts in July
By “voluntary” they mean that the ISPs are filtering content identified as child abuse material voluntarily, not that they are giving their customers who don’t want to look at child abuse material anyway any choice about being gifted with a false sense of cybersecurity.
Always Awesome: Never can say goodbye
By the divine Gloria Gaynor, of course.
Happy June Solstice!
It must be time for another Stonehenge pic.
When Fandom goes bad.
Fans behaving badly. Game of Thrones fans and the long wait for the next book.
A little dose of Always Awesome: Bohemian Rhapsody
This cover version is by Pink.
Meme of the Week: Fractal Wrongness
The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person’s worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person’s worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.