The OTW Board elections are, as you know by now, an issue that is important to me. If you read or upload fanwork on AO3 they should be important to you, too ( Read more... )

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I helped crowd source this short vid and the news came through too late to add to my previous post. Again - pass it on and take and share!! I'm proud to have my name in the credits even though I didn't actually contribute very much.https://www.laquadrature.net/en/

This is a post about a political issue so read on at your own risk.

On both sides of the Atlantic, and in a few places elsewhere in the world, people and organisations are angry about mass surveillance.

Today has been declared THE DAY WE FIGHT BACK and various organisations are asking us to spread these banners via our blogs, websites, etc. I'm ( Read more... )

I have posted at length about this on my Wordpress blog and thought people on LJ and Dreamwidth might be interested. If you are, here's the link: http://jaymountney.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/falling-in-love-with-windows-8/

Forget about the debate about the aesthetics or general functionality of the new profile page. Or the new update page. Or the friends pages. This is a bigger/stranger worry.

I needed to check something in a comm that was only formed during 2012 (ruby_story_swap) and went, as usual, to my profile to click on them. I had the new profile page open and the comm was ( Read more... )

Today was the day my Pros Big Bang story went live, along with some lovely art by Lorraine. It's an AU set in the early twelfth century so if you have no idea about 'the lads' or no particular interest in Brit security service shows, you might still enjoy it as a quasi-original m/m fic with a background of castles and crusades. Obviously, anyone ( Read more... )

My own petition didn't make any waves - but I hope that was because I and others begged Avaaz to make more fuss - and they did, so other petitions slid into a kind of limbo in their shadow. Now there's a chance to stop this hideous treaty ( Read more... )

I have started a petition on Change.org ( Read more... )

I regard this message from Avaaz as important for all of us. Please read it carefully and consider signing. Even if you aren't concerned about the political ramifications, think about your own freedom to read what you want ( Read more... )