My friend, hestiax, is the single mom of a beautiful 5 year old girl. She told the father about it while she was pregnant; he said he didn't want to have anything to do with a baby, and she said she didn't intend to sue for child support ( Read more... )

Originally posted by deathpixie at Signal Boost: Return of the DDoS
For those wanting to know more about the recent DDoS attacks, yes, it looks like it was the Russian government trying to shut down the dissidents again.

As I said last time, while it's frustrating not to have access, LJ is a lot more than a social network platform. From the article:

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Propagating Info -- Spread it around!

Snagged Verbatim from ron_newman, who posted this in permmembers

Sometime earlier this month, LiveJournal introduced a "Spam Protection" feature which screens comments made to any community or personal journal. LJ turned this on by default for all communities without any notice to community maintainers. LJ belatedly and ( Read more... )

EDIT: Whups, the correct date is December 11, a Saturday. I can't fix the date below as it's in the title of the poll, but plan on next Saturday ( Read more... )

An LJ friend of mine is selling a bunch of really old pulp magazines. I saw pulps as far back as 1906 on her list, and a Cosmopolitan dated 1892.

It's a pretty impressive list, though I am no collector. I believe she'll be putting up comics next, though perhaps not quite as antique.

If you're interested, check out weirdodragoncat. Her pulps listing is at Read more... )

Edit for clarity: As a paid user, I have 10 coupons to give away for anybody with free LJ accounts who want $10 off a year's worth of LJ.

So let me know if you want one. And give me an email unless you know for sure I have it.

Responses screened. Just in case.

NOVEMBER 27 OPEN FULL MOON ( Read more... )

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I just started poly_discuss with weirdodragoncat. The anger and wank has gotten so bad on polyamory and the snark group that I wanted someplace civilized, so I found a partner and started the group. It's an open group, stop by and sit a spell ( Read more... )

In conjunction with a grant received from the Federal Transit Administration, Meeting the Challenge, Inc. is conducting a national survey designed to collect information from people with disabilities regarding their experiences with public transportation. Information gathered will be used to determine what barriers still exist in public ( Read more... )