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From the The Universal Household Assistant or What Every One Should Know (1884), posted for ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} xhappyx:
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ɹǝddıɥɔ| Sour Tones | |||||||||||||||||
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As insomnia likes to point out, LiveJournal is shrinking. Many blame SixApart and SUP for this decline, and it true that the actions of those corporations have contributed to the slow bleed of users. However, I believe the root cause is much deeper.The tone of the LiveJournal community has changed. It has become more vicious, more snark-centric, more hateful and cliquish. There has always been drama on LiveJournal, but it has not always been like it is now. Often now one misspoken word in a community or the mention of a viewpoint out of the mainstream will be taken out of context and a flood of mean-spirited attacks will flood the comments of a post from users mobbing in from any one of the countless snark communities that have cropped up. I've been on LiveJournal almost 7 years at this point, and this increasing ugliness has me more concerned for LiveJournal than anything SixApart did or SUP is doing. Neither SixApart nor SUP are LiveJournal, LiveJournal is the community that inhabits this virtual place and that community is decaying. I'm sure I'm far from the only long-time user who is disenchanted by the current LiveJournal environment and I don't see what the motivation would be for many new users to become part of it. I have not been involved in any drama around here recently, so this post hasn't been triggered by a specific event. The problem is that LiveJournal doesn't seem like a community anymore, at least not a communities that I want to consider myself part of. I don't intend on leaving completely, but I've been spending a lot less time here. I've got other things to do. | |||||||||||||||||
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rm wrote a post criticizing "unimaginative heteronormative romance novel crap" in Jack/Ianto fanfic in which she said:
I had to go to photoshop. I posted the resulting image as a comment to rm's post, but purpleglitter tells me I should post it here as well. So here it is: | |||||||||||||||||
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mellow| All that March Winds Bring | |||||||||||||||||
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March winds bring April showers April showers bring May flowers Poll #1160899 June Open to: All, results viewable to: All May flowers bring _____
View Answers June bugs June weddings mulberries pilgrims summer when will they every learn? this seasonal rhyme doesn't apply to where I live. | |||||||||||||||||
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weird
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Poll #1156972 Bean Poll Open to: All, results viewable to: All Which of the following are you...
View Answers bad bean baked bean black bean broad bean butter bean chocolate-covered espresso bean cocoa bean coffee bean cool bean garbanzo bean good bean green bean fava bean jelly bean kidney bean navy bean naughty bean old bean pink bean red bean refried bean serious bean sexy bean silly bean surprise bean white bean vanilla bean not a bean | |||||||||||||||||
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hungry| Strike Poll | |||||||||||||||||
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Poll #1156589 Open to: All, results viewable to: All Have you heard about the LiveJournal content strike on March 21st? Will the LiveJournal content strike affect your posting habits?
View Answers Yes, I plan on participating. Yes, I plan on posting more to counteract it. No. I don't know. | |||||||||||||||||
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It looks like SUP changed course on censoring the most popular interests page. They aren't perfect, but they are learning and they are not inflexible. They are willing to change course. They recognizes that without the users, LiveJournal is nothing. Things may work out after all. | |||||||||||||||||
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What the fuck? As part of the current pattern of actions, this is quite alarming — it demonstrates that SUP/LJ now actively and openly disapproves of and targets specific groups. | |||||||||||||||||
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pissed off| Haven't Played This in a While... | |||||||||||||||||
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I escaped from the Dungeon of Neitherday!I killed Simonelo the kobold, Aheartofstars the zombie, Mizdarkgirl the leprechaun, Sandstar the fire elemental, Goldrose the kobold, Bbarbie the floating eye, Avphibes the floating eye, Purpleglitter the mind flayer, Neitherday the mind flayer, Seeksadventure the kobold, Creepigurl the leprechaun, Angelwylde the floating eye, Oxygenfreereba the leprechaun, Elabeth the rat, Forioscribe the floating eye, Danizana the goblin, Moominmuppet the leprechaun, Foxbaby the kobold, Crazymaureen the rat, Cptnhowdy2 the dragon, Spaglet the cockatrice, Mazzycat the rat, Cappadoria the floating eye, Definatalie the leprechaun, Clintcatalyst the rat, Foxxygirltamara the arch-demon, Evanescence the minotaur, Redwitchesbrew the owlbear and Doodlescribble the floating eye. I looted the Armour of Cardinals, the Dagger of Yukimi, the Shield of Kali Ma, the Shield of Luna, a Figurine of Serizawa3000, the Amulet of Jehanna, the Armour of Ellynx, the Sword of Wind, the Sword of Laurellily, the Shield of Sunspiral, the Axe of Finding Rowan, the Dagger of Skunks, a Figurine of Tiff Seattle, the Crown of Cobweb, the Sceptre of Raccoons, the Sceptre of Modifier, the Crown of Jescapade, the Wand of Canadian Geese, the Sceptre of Joedecker, the Wand of Box3, the Shield of Andragon, the Sword of Bathofblood, the Dagger of Nightingalelily, the Sceptre of Homelessness, the Armour of Lokiswings, the Crown of Ladyofshalot, the Wand of Arrielgurl, the Axe of Loki, the Armour of Grrlgerm, the Amulet of Polyamory, the Wand of Scrying, the Crown of Terriblelynne, the Shield of Dacookiemonster, the Armour of Mermaidnchains, a Figurine of Ununnilium, a Figurine of Myenergy, the Crown of Cvisors, the Crown of Ceruleanct11 and 524 gold pieces. Score: 1324 Explore the Dungeon of Neitherday and try to beat this score,or enter your username to generate and explore your own dungeon... | |||||||||||||||||
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This has been a wonderful and merry Christmas so far. purpleglitter got me wonderful gifts, including a new birding camera — the same model as the broken one, so that it will work with my telephoto lens.My parents gave me a brass clock once owned by my great-grandfather. It's an old electric clock and wasn't made with the ability to start up on its own. A knob in the back must be spun just right so that it "catches", then the electric power will take over. The neat thing about the clock is that it will run backwards if the knob is spun backwards. I used to always set it running backward when I was a kid, and it is running backwards in my livingroom now. | |||||||||||||||||
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So much for hoping things were going to get better under SUP. They've now started censoring what interests can be searched for. What is more, interests such as "spicy food" are no longer searchable simply because they happen to contain a banned string. Forget trying to find a community discussing the Armenian genocide. What the hell?!?! | |||||||||||||||||
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SUP has purchased LiveJournal from Six Apart. Poll #1099590 SUP Open to: All, results viewable to: All Are you optimistic about the future of LiveJournal under SUP's control?
View Answers Very optimistic Somewhat optimistic Neither optimistic nor pessimistic Somewhat pessimistic Very pessimistic Did the quality of the LiveJournal experience improve or decline under Six Apart's control
View Answers Strongly improved Somewhat improved Neither improved nor declined Somewhat declined Strongly declined I joined LiveJournal after 6 Apart acquired it (Jan 5th, 2005) | |||||||||||||||||
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Mental illness has become so loosely defined that in 2005 the National Comorbidity Survey found that 25% of Americans had a diagnosable mental illness withing a timespan of one year and half of Americans had a diagnosable mental illness at some point in their lives. When we're talking about numbers like on fourth and one half, we're no longer talking about "illness" we're talking about natural variation. A lot of people are being misdiagnosed, when what they really have is BAD. | |||||||||||||||||
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prettyshygrrl came over. We sat and talked for some time. She helped me blow off steam and get my bearings. I hope I did the same for her. She's a wonderful person, I wish the stormy seas could part for her, as well as for so many of my other friends. Far too many of my friends are struggling to weather tempests right now. ----- prettyshygrrl gave me her old computer, a 300Mhz P2, which is 33% faster than my current computer. I'm going to have to do a bit of hard drive swapping before I can use it. With borggrrl sending me a scanner to replace the one that was headbutted, I'll soon be moving ahead computerwise. Many many thanks to prettyshygrrl and borggrrl! | |||||||||||||||||
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