mitsurugireiji:

Ok so here’s the deal.

Last night our internet was cut off, simply because we can’t afford to keep paying for it, I’m currently writing this from a shitty internet cafe about a mile away from where I live.

The other donation page is still up, but has so little traffic I’m kind of only leaving it up as a reminder by this point.

I have kept back a few points that illustrate daily just how dire the situation my Mother and I are in, simply because it’s personal. but I think I really have to illustrate the point now.

My Mother and I shower once a month. We wash our hair once a fortnight. This is because, thanks to the situation the Government has put us in, we can barely afford water. It has been this way since November last year.

Also since November last year, we have not once used the Heating, regardless of the fact that this meant we had to go through the coldest Winter Britain has had in recorded history with no heating whatsoever.

We’re looking for places to move to, but nowhere in our price bracket will accept people on Benefits, they say this phrase: ‘No DDR’, which means they do not want people on Benefits.

I usually save aside £10 a month for luxuries, just so Mother and I can continue to feel Human rather than depressed grey blobs, we barely even have that anymore.

Work is non-existent for someone with my qualifications, and believe me when I say that, while I do not regret taking six years out of education to help care for my Grandmother, I begin to resent it a little when I’m told I’m under-qualified.

I don’t expect to raise the full amount I;m asking for, simply because it’s a lot. But it’s there to illustrate just how seriously we’re backed into a corner.

Mother is depressed, and her PTSD is acting up in reaction to the constant stress we are under. I, myself, am only kept on the straight and narrow due to the presence of my friends, and now with the internet cut off, I won’t even have that.

It isn’t hard to reblog this, please.

Tweet it, share it on Facebook, Reblog it, I don’t care, please just spread it around.

You’ll also see I have little reward things up, I still stand by the fact that I’m not good enough to charge for my work, but I can give it away. For examples, it’s best to check my SWTOR tag.

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doncoent:

I get that 2001: A Space Odyssey is a film classic, but is there ANYONE who actually enjoys watching the endless stretches of fancy visuals?

I’m not saying that 2001 is a bad film. It’s almost shaming, how bold it is in its ideas and ambitions. It has great visual effects (especially in the…

For me personally I like those slow moving visual effects scenes. It’s something that really bugs me about modern movies is that despite the sheer amount of money that goes into animating incredibly detailed scenes they usually are used solely as an establishing shot or an action set piece that doesn’t really give you time to appreciate the artistry involved. Kubrick was a photographer first and that really shows in a lot of his films where you get the chance to really appreciate each shot and it’s composition and the effects involved, which were revolutionary at the time and still look pretty great considering Kubrick’s eye for cinematography.

So that’s the “reason” I enjoy the long stretches where nothing happens. It’s nice to have the time to look and admire someone’s created world is all. It’s really just a matter of what you’re looking for in a film and as 2001 isn’t really a story driven film I don’t really get frustrated when it slows down like that.

websandwhiskers:

TRIGGER WARNING: This discusses the cover-up of a gang rape in some detail.

catemcbride:

halozeta:

As bad as it can get.

I really have no words.  I guess this shows the good side of the internet that this has come out but really I have no words.

I am choosing to focus on what the hackers did here, rather than the rapists and their accomplices.  These hackers are acting, pretty much, as superheroes - just with digital masks. 

Maybe that’s romanticizing what is basically some very aggressive investigative journalism … but they really ARE an elite few with skills most of us don’t have, using those skills for the sake of justice.  Call it whatever you want, I’ll take it, especially in the face of such atrocity.  I choose not to believe in a world that has a Moriarty or several, but no Sherlock Holmes.  So yay hackers.  Thank you.

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