Chris

Please feel free to advise if something should or should not be on this list.

Petitions:

* Petition: Stop the Militarization of Police in America Immediately

* Petition: Require Ferguson and St. Louis County and City police officers to wear body cameras

* We Demand National Change to Protect Citizens and Communities from Police Violence and Misconduct

Donations:

* Ferguson Defense Fund

* Please donate to the legal support fund for those arrested in Ferguson protests standing for Justice for Mike Brown!

* Ferguson Legal Support

* Straubs

* United Way of Greater St. Louis -- Ferguson Fund

* Ferguson Municipal Public Library

* Donors Choose: Help Right Now in Ferguson

For later use, in case someone mistakes him for useful.

* http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.arts.sf.fandom/2007-07/msg00703.html
* http://daveon.dreamwidth.org/490390.html
* http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/1160179.html?thread=17467379
* http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/4986778.html?thread=92727706#t92727706
* https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.arts.sf.written/xcSD4UDGEvw%5B251-275-false%5D

TW: pedophelia, apologism of said:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rec.arts.sf.written/wCRAv5FPXj8/RWCygP_5qf8J

Note: It really only just now sunk in that yes Virginia, there is a difference in Dreamwidth between reading and giving access to.  I'm still stuck in LJ-land, where in order to not read someone but not defriend them, I have to make a filter.

So!  If you got a note that I've stopped reading you, this is entirely because as far as I can tell, all of your posts are cross-posted to LJ, I'm on your flist on LJ, and you provide a link to your DW post.  I primarily read LJ, so I don't want to duplicate my reading efforts.

That was it!

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[edit] Dear Captain Doofus: If these folk xpost all of their posts to LJ, what're the odds that they only read their LJ flist, too, and thus will not see this note?  Adurr?

*crossposts*

Originally posted on Dreamwidth.  Number of comments so far:

LJ-specific o'clock:

Please don't crosspost comments on posts of mine to your Intertwitterfaceblags, pls.

You might see me have a FB thingamadoodle on my profile for a bit, but that's temporary whilst I tweak my Profile Reset GM script.  (I hadn't taken all external-services options into account, apparently.)  I not only have no intention of crossposting a damn thing, I wrote a script to remove even accidental clickage.  So no worries.

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Here's what you can do to hide the options for yourself:

* Go here.  (Journal > Journal Style > Customize > CSS.)

* Add this line: .b-repost-item { display: none; }

* Click Save Changes.

That, at least, will prevent you from accidentally selecting one of the options when you make a comment.  Also, it sets commenting back to "[type] [tab] [enter]" to post the comment, which is pleasant.

Alas, this only works for certain journal styles, and not for format=light so much.  To get it for all styles, including format=light, you'd probably want to put this into Stylish, instead.  Naturally, I'll be doing this in GM, because I also want to remove that whole row, because I don't care about the settings and I like cleanliness in my comment forms.

Of course, I have approx. a million gazillion GM scripts, so this is hardly shocking.

( Stylish code. )

( GM code. )

Originally posted on Dreamwidth.  Number of comments so far:

This kitty needs a home.  Her owner is dying, and the owner's caretaker is both fantastic and hospital-grade allergic to cats.  The kitty, Murph, is 14 years old, and is verra fluffeh.

This is around Baltimore, Maryland, US.

Pass it on.


Pet peeve: seeing this request reposted multiple elsewheres, with no indication as to where the cat currently lives.

Originally posted on Dreamwidth.

I've imported my ladytabitha entries and comments into my Dreamwidth account.  After I do some spot-checking to make sure the data did import and accurately, I'll be deleting that account.

Now, tagging can occur.  Finally.

Originally posted on Dreamwidth.

Via rednikki:

http://rednikki.livejournal.com/1402726.html?format=light

This here is a scam:

Hello,

I'm writing this with tears in my eyes,i came down here to
London,England for a short vacation and i got mugged at gun point last
night at the park of the hotel where i lodged all cash,credit cards
and cell were stolen off me.

I am even owing the hotel here,the hotel manager won't let me leave
until i settle the hotel bills now am freaked out.So i have limited
access to emails for now, please i need you to lend me some money so i
can make arrangements and return back I am full of panic now,the
police only asked me to write a statement about the incident and
directed me to the embassy,i have spoken to the embassy here but they
are not responding to the matter effectively, I will return the money
back to you as soon as i get home, I am so confused right now.i wasn't
injured because I complied immediately.

I will be waiting to hear from you.

Kind Regards

[redacted]

So yeah, ignore that a lot.

[eta] If you know the person whose Gmail account it seems to be, you could forward this link to them.  (If it's not Gmail, I dunno.)

NOTE:

I am auctioning off a scarf, just like the one I just posted about.  Auction is here, and currently stands at $50.  Bidding closes at 23:59 Pacific, this Sunday.

If you want to bid, go now!

Please feel free to copy and publicize this far and wide!

What is this?

care_faith_hope is a fandom auction to benefit faithhopetricks. Bidding is now open; it closes on October 10, 2009, Saturday, 11:59 p.m. Pacific time.

What's the cause?

This auction is to raise money for the medical expenses of faithhopetricks and her husband. They have no health insurance and no savings, and her husband requires immediate heart surgery. Both have other potentially life-threatening conditions which have gone untreated or poorly treated due to their lack of health insurance. More detailed information is in the user info of care_faith_hope.

Some details have been left out for reasons of privacy. Please do not contact faithhopetricks to inform her of government assistance programs she can apply for. We are working on that. However, if you know of job openings for an IT professional in greater Seattle, her husband will be seeking a job as soon as he recovers.

How can I help?

You can bid on fanfic, original fic, vids, cookies, memorabilia, critique/betas, and much more! Or you can offer your skills and services as a writer, vidder, baker, knitter, or whatever else you'd like.

Current offers include homemade baked goods and candy, unique memorabilia from and a guided tour of the Jim Henson Company, books signed by the authors, vids and fanfic, and much more!

How do I bid?

This post has full information on bidding.

How do I offer an item or service?

1. Join the community via the user info page.

2. Make a properly tagged and headlined post. You can find the full list of tags here.

Please check the format of the tags before making up your own. Standardized tags help people find your offer. PLEASE TAG YOUR POSTS.

naamah_darling: Warning: eBay will be using photos without creators' permission.

"Well, starting on August 31st, eBay is going to institute a new policy where photos you upload to any listing are put into a "catalog" of online images that any eBay user can then use for their own listings. The default setting for this is opt-in, which is a problem if you, like me, consider your photographs your property and want to control how they are used and by whom. A copyright notice is posted with a link to your user profile, but no additional information is given, and the link is quite small.

Since the default setting is opt-in, and eBay has not sent messages out about this, a lot of people are going to be caught flat-footed by this new policy."

I can see the use for this policy, but I despise me some default opt-in, so.