stranger: (crouches down to pat my clown) wow what breed are they?
me: 1930s traveling hobo crossed with a 1980s washed up carnie – we think there might be some french mime in there on the hobo side
clown: (honks a B-flat)
Your OTP trapped in a cave during a blizzard. However, after the initial cute/awkward cuddling-to-stay-warm, it becomes Person A desperately holding close a paling and nearly unconscious person B, begging them to stay alive until help arrives.
@fish-d@penhales Human!Alfred as B and Krolock as A? With the added angst that Krolock has no body warmth to share with Alfred?
Hi friends & followers. Apparently there’s a new thing where blogs are sending messages asking to be sent some bitcoin w/ a link to a digital wallet. Some accounts are bots, but some are from active users who may not even realize their blog was compromised.
So, if you see a message like this, send an ask or post/tag them so they know. Dont click on the link. Post something like this to warn your own followers & ask them to tell you if they get a message from your account. Tell me if you get one from mine.
Your OTP trapped in a cave during a blizzard. However, after the initial cute/awkward cuddling-to-stay-warm, it becomes Person A desperately holding close a paling and nearly unconscious person B, begging them to stay alive until help arrives.
@fish-d@penhales Human!Alfred as B and Krolock as A? With the added angst that Krolock has no body warmth to share with Alfred?
Oh man that’s so cruel of you, I absolutely love it. I’m not a big fan of the power imbalance Human!Alfred has with Krolock, but I’m a big sucker for “Clinging To My Boyfriend For Life”
I care about net neutrality a lot, yet I haven’t reblogged any posts about it yet. You may be wondering why and simply put, the misinformation on this site is pissing me off.
Many of you may have seen posts going around with pictures like these:
They’re very scary and compelling. They illustrate a dystopian future where websites are sold like cable packages.
The problem is they have jack shit to do with net neutrality and what the FCC is trying to do, and frankly it makes those of us trying to protect net neutrality look completely ignorant.
So, what’s actually going on? Sorry, but it’s not as interesting as the pictures convey. If you don’t read between the lines it’s going to seem like boring shit. Sorry, guys, but the way that scary as fuck legislation gets passed in this country is by hiding it in a mundane, boring package that no one cares about or pays attention to.
So, what is the net neutrality that’s in jeopardy? Back in 2015, broadband providers became reclassified as common carriers under Title II. The FCC actually pushed for this Title II reclassification at the time so they could come up with stronger Net Neutrality rules. Basically, the FCC has legal authority to keep companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon from interfering with web traffic in any way under Title II.
So what’s happening now? Trump’s FCC chairman and Verizon’s bitch, Ajit Pai, wants to reclassify broadband providers as Title I, and let the internet providers, companies like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon, do whatever they want to control web traffic. This includes slowing down service by means of bandwidth throttling.
What does this mean for the internet and how we use it?
1. Companies will have to pay extra money to the internet providers, so their web traffic isn’t interfered with. This will seriously harm up and coming websites. If Google was invented post net neutrality they never would have been able to flourish in the way they have. They likely never would have gotten off the ground which is why even big companies like Google and Facebook support net neutrality.
2. The internet could turn into an oligopoly with only the big companies like Google able to pay enough to keep web traffic flowing. If broadband providers are able to interfere with web traffic to smaller sites there will be no competition on the internet as a marketplace. Oh, you’d love a version of Amazon that doesn’t treat it’s workers like shit and actually cares about mitigating its environmental impact. Too bad, the website is slow as shit if it even loads at all.
3. Any websites the internet providers disagree with will have their web traffic interfered with. This includes important social justice movements like BLM, LGBTQ pride websites, antifa and so on.
Please stop spreading misinformation about net neutrality. These are the facts. Visit savetheinternet.com for more.
‘By what instinct do you pretend to distinguish between a fallen seraph of the abyss and a messenger from the eternal throne–between a guide and a seducer?’
‘I judged by your countenance, sir: which was troubled: when you said the suggestion had returned upon you. I feel sure it will work you more misery if you listen to it.’
‘Not at all–it bears the most gracious message in the world: for the rest, you are not my conscience-keeper, so don’t make yourself uneasy. Here, come in, bonny wanderer!’
He said this as if he spoke to a vision, viewless to any eye but his own; then, folding his arms, which he had half extended, on his chest, he seemed to enclose in their embrace the invisible being.
‘Now,’ he continued, again addressing me, ‘I have received the pilgrim–a disguised deity, as I verily believe. Already it has done me good: my heart was a sort of charnel: it will now be a shrine.’
Penhales 