3liza:

ACTA passed one of the several voting gates it needs to get through before becoming law.

It was ratified in Poland last night.  This was the scene at Polish parliament afterwards, as (presumably) a bloc of anti-ACTA politicians expressed their displeasure and, perhaps without knowing it, foretell of the Anonymous repercussions to this bill.

Some things you should know:

• Online petitions are meaningless.  While they are well-intentioned and organized, the signing of a digital petition takes about twenty seconds, and does not require that you leave your beanbag chair in the coal cellar.  Politicians know this, and pay just as much attention to online petitions as is warranted by a “political action” that is literally less strenuous than leaving a YouTube comment.
• Nothing except direct action is going to do a goddamn thing.  This means getting out in the street, it means DDoSing, it means vicious and widespread boycotts, site blackouts, and other strongarm tactics that actually impact the flow of money from corporations to lobbyists to politicians.  How do you, as a tiny flailing consumer, do this?  You can’t, really.  You can join up with groups that are intent on doing actions that actually mean something, adding your voice to a chorus of hundreds or thousands, instead of screaming alone.  You can contact celebrities, the spokespeople of our time, as ask them to leverage their followers on the issue.  You can write to Tumblr and ask for more blackouts.  None of these things will be very effective, so don’t be too disappointed when they don’t work, but they sure as fuck are more effective than online petitions, and the intense response to SOPA by corporations and consumers was responsible for getting it “tabled” (not dead, but dreaming lies).
• ACTA was already signed by Obama in September of 2011.  He had been praising the bill for over a year prior, and signed it without reservation.  Most of us didn’t hear about it, and he likely used the 9/11 coverage to make sure of that.
  
  
• Eventually, one of these bills will pass, and the pro-corporate laws will go into effect.  Expect it.  Be prepared.  Learn to circumvent this garbage and you’ll have a leg up when the feds shut down the internet as we know it.
  
  
• The best thing you can do now is install Tor and learn how to use it.  Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.  In order to circumvent the coming corporate takeover of the web, we’re going to have to go underground, creating a sub-internet of encrypted nodes known as a “darknet”.  It’s probably going to be like the internet was in the beginning, with most people only seeing what AOL wanted them to see, and only a small group of super-nerds existing outside of that bubble in the “real” internet.  It’ll take another twenty years for them to catch up to us again.
  
  
• Welcome to the grim cyberpunk future.

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did-you-kno:

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aquapunk:

feministfitness:

fromflabbytofit:

She may be a grandmother, but don’t call her old.

Ernestine Shepherd, 74, of Baltimore has been crowned by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest competitive female bodybuilder ever.

She told the Washington Post: ‘Age is nothing but a number’.

Ms Shepherd has impeccably toned ‘six-pack’ abs that are the marvel of her Baltimore fitness centre. 

Her husband of 54 years, Collin Shepherd, says he ‘has trouble keeping guys away from her’.

The Shepherds live in Baltimore with their son, 53, and grandson, 14.

Ms Shepherd does some modelling and teaches fitness classes, and told the Washington Post, ‘If you are going to try to motivate people, you have to live that part’.

She also trains rigorously with Yohnnie Shambourger, 57,a former Mr Universe who won the gold medal in bodybuilding at the Pan American Games in 1995.

Mr Shambourger told the Post: ‘The six-pack is her signature. When she walks in a room and you see her six-pack, you say, “Ohh! Okay!”

‘You are a champion’, he told Ms Shepherd during a gruelling session. ‘I will train you like what you are’.

KICK ASS

kippery:

snaggle-teeth:

YO! Sign the Goon Movie petition! Let’s get this thing off the ground. The Goon is an amazing piece of work and would make a grisly awesome and quite different CG movie! Think about it…it could be the first R rated CG movie ever!!!

ooohhhhh myyy

Watch and sign! It’s so greeeeaaaaattt.

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aquapunk:

huzzahactuallygoodporn:

geekyvamp:

soulflower70:

yarr-metis:

“Our house was small, and when you grow up with domestic violence in a confined space you learn to gauge, very precisely, the temperature of situations. I knew exactly when the shouting was done and a hand was about to be raised – I also knew exactly when to insert a small body between the fist and her face, a skill no child should ever have to learn. Curiously, I never felt fear for myself and he never struck me, an odd moral imposition that would not allow him to strike a child. The situation was barely tolerable: I witnessed terrible things, which I knew were wrong, but there was nowhere to go for help. Worse, there were those who condoned the abuse. I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, “She must have provoked him,” or, “Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.” They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.”

Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence

 i didnt know about patrick stewart

confirms my adoration for this brilliant actor and hilarious man.

I’ll add in the note that women can be domestically abusive too. But this is wonderful, as is Patrick Stewart

That guy.

Just…. that guy. fff

I can only hope to be half as awesome and sharply dressed as he is someday. ;_;

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warmlittlediamondisafeminist:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

raiseyourwandwithpride:

super-eklectic1:

danceswithfaeriesunderthemoon:

feministdisney:

“It’s sad that Disney has the opportunity to educate so many people and yet many of their movies, unintentionally perhaps, serve as a platform to reinforce negative stereotypes about differnet cultural groups,” Jafar lamented, while inwardly wondering whether, perhaps, a certain gold lamp he had heard about could help him solve this problem…

[for more on this, read the feminist review of Aladdin the movie here]

THIS.

ALL. OF. THIS.

THANK YOU for making this post.

you know what i never noticed that!!! oh snap!!

did any arabs do the voices because i know that aladdin was voiced by a white dude

Y’know, I really don’t see reasoning behind pointing stuff like this out. Why can’t people just sit back and enjoy Disney rather than accuse them of doing shit like this?

yeah i mean why bother to accuse racists of racism

that’s almost like accusing sexists of sexism

or criminals of crimes

i mean why would we DO that when we can just ENJOY the erasure and hurt

also the sky is green and water is yellow and clouds are made of cotton candy

Fuckin’ A+ commentary ^

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fempop:

thehats:

myasphyxiatedmind:

hallucion:

You might be a feminist if you hate yourself while guzzling
delicious Dr. Pepper 10.

After that commercial, I wouldn’t even think of touching this shit

^ This. Nothing to hate myself over, I don’t care how good it tastes I’m not giving my money to a sexist company. I’ve stopped drinking regular Dr. Pepper which I enjoyed before this BS.

Remember that a boycott of Dr. Pepper means nothing if you are instead spending your money on any of these products:

• 7 Up (United States, rights held by PepsiCo or its licensees in all other markets)
• A&W Root Beer
• Beefamato
• Cactus Cooler
• Canada Dry (North America)
• Clamato
• Country Time (Under license from Kraft Foods)
• Crush
• Deja Blue Water
• Diet Rite
• Dr Pepper (North America)
• Gini
• Hawaiian Punch
• Hires
• IBC Root Beer
• Margaritaville
• Mistic
• Mott’s
• Mr and Mrs T
• Nantucket Nectars
• Nehi
• Orangina (North America; brand owned by Suntory in the rest of the world)
• Peñafiel
• RC Cola (North America)
• ReaLemon
• Rose’s lime juice
• Schweppes
• Snapple
• Squirt
• Stewart’s Fountain Classics
• Sun Drop
• Sunkist (Manufactured under license)
• Tahitian Treat
• Venom Energy Drink
• Vernors
• Welch’s (Under license from Welch’s)
• Yoo-hoo

Well….fuck.

…the hell is Beefamato? :x

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sheerrri:

One day the Taliban will probably succeed in killing me. I am resigned to this fate. But for as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out an abyss of corruption and poverty. For this reason, I am running for the Afghan presidency in 2014. I was born a girl who should have died. But if God wills it, I may die having become the first female president of a country I love and a country that will finally see all of its children—both boys and girls—born into peace and security, not violence and war.

Fawzia Koofi, Afghanistan’s first female parliamentarian. 

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