Organon: To all those men who don't think the rape jokes are a problem: -
Note: A quick and simple rule for language and behavior if you want to be a decent person: Ask yourself, who is more likely to be made to feel comfortable around me based on whatever I’m about to say/do? Rape survivors? Or rapists? Who is more likely to be made to feel uncomfortable? If you’re doing something that is more likely to make rapists feel comfortable and/or rape survivors feel uncomfortable, then don’t do it!
“(Interesting factoid: Mashable was hosted on WordPress instead of TypePad because it was too expensive at $10 a month!)” — Gary Sharma’s Internet Week 2012 Highlights (Nerd Proms, Rooftop Parties, Will Arnett DJ’ing, Michael Stipe Sightings ‘n more!) | Betabeat
Final panel at roflcon with Anil Dash, Alexis Ohanian, Tiff Cheng, Derek Slater, and Elizabeth Stark.
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… Michelle was like “I TOLD YOU SO.”
#BL: Comparing Shake Shack and Artichoke Basille's Pizza* -
As I write these words I am calm, enjoying a slice of pizza from Stella’s, a slice joint on West 17th Street and Ninth Avenue. Where a slice costs $2.75. Where a four minute in-the-door-out-the-door turnaround is the norm. Where one can get an absolutely competent New York Slice, with somewhat…
“If that thing was up and running, she pointed out, you could simply say, in your own words, precisely and carefully what you intended to say in the first place, without having to rely on a filter. This is the grand triumph of the internet, after all; there’s no arguing with the democratization inherent. You could, she told me, simply say what you meant and have that on the record. The simplicity of this had considerable appeal.” — David Simon | Introduction
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Whether Beyonce posts to her own Tumblr or not, I get the same feeling from iam.beyonce.com that I got from Justin Hall’s links.net in 1995 and Kanye’s Twitter account in 2010. They’re all attempts to unmediate and they were all really disconcerting to a lot of people when they were introduced.
You know how to tell when something like this is working? You start freaking people the fuck out. This is no small feat for a tumblr full of vacation photos.
” — from Decoding the Beyonce Tumblr(via kenyatta)
