Dry the Rain
This page is a weird mix of rantings and ravings, Music, graffiti, punk,Doctor Who, postpunk, comics,art, general silliness and GPOB (gratuitous pictures of Bowie). Sometimes I post about the 2012 US elections, and I stan for Obama.
stats: boston-based radical nerd in my 30s
yes, I am a grown-ass lady believe it or not
happily living in sin with my co-conspirator Mr. X
Why did I follow you??
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Holy shit I'm graduating tomorrow
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CRUEL IRONY IN DAO
Cannot purchase backpack: Inventory full.
I don’t think I have a gif that expresses how...
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Why I hate it when other white people say the phrase: "I'm not racist"
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ACTA has been negotiated and debated largely in secret since 2006; at one point the meeting to discuss the bill was hidden in a Wildlife and Fisheries meeting to avoid scrutiny. During the negotiations journalists, activists and bloggers who made Freedom of Information Act requests for the text of the bill were stonewalled under the auspices of national security. Even though the text of the bill was readily available to countries all over the world, American citizens were shut out of the conversation as long as possible.
- ACTA: The international trade agreement that makes SOPA look like a parking ticket
Because I have news for them. I haven’t gone to the movies in well over a year because the newest movies:
- are terrible
That is the main thing. They’re also too expensive, 3D is stupid, and if I wait a few months I can watch them in my living room.
But, most of all, the movies Hollywood makes today
- are terrible
This is the truth they don’t want to face - of course THEY couldn’t be doing anything wrong, nooooooooo. It must be that we, their customers, are dirty thieves. Instead of rushing straight to the theaters to see Underworld: Awakening, or that Mark Walbergh movie, or New Year’s Eve, we must have downloaded them and watched a shitty cameraphone version instead.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
It couldn’t be that New Year’s Eve, for example, was a terrible movie that nobody wanted to see even though they front-loaded it with as many name actors as they could stuff in there. Nope. We’re sheep - we’ll see anything Hollywood churns out. So if their box office is down for the year, they’re gonna blame it on piracy.
Now I’m no angel - I’ve watched pirated stuff. But it sure as shit isn’t New Year’s Eve. It’s the episodes of Sherlock I grabbed off the internet that haven’t aired in the US yet. Or the indie movie that only played in theaters for 1 week before it disappeared and for some reason it’s not out on DVD yet. Or anime, or the episodes of Community I’ve been binging on lately (and for the record, I now plan to buy every season of that super-awesome show). Whether piracy is right or wrong isn’t what I’m getting at here - it’s whether said piracy actually hurts Hollywood. I don’t think it does. I think Hollywood’s shitty movies are hurting Hollywood.
But since Hollywood is run by ancient white dudes who don’t understand technology and basically despise their own customers, they think going after piracy is the answer.
I don’t know what would convince them otherwise, other than flocking to theaters to see a good movie if they actually bother to make one. That’s a big if, though.
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Ummm…wow!
Things should get interesting now. < grabs popcorn >
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liquornspice:
thedailywhat:
Fun Fact of the Day: And by “fun” I mean STOP SOPA.
[@skulled / pleatedjeans.]
Fuck Conrad Murray. And SOPA.
nice.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly099331JR1qzcv7no1_500.png)
Fun Fact of the Day: And by “fun” I mean STOP SOPA.
[@skulled / pleatedjeans.]
Fuck Conrad Murray. And SOPA.
nice.
SOPA Emergency IP list:
So if these ass-fucks in DC decide to
ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites
in the event of a DNS takedown
tumblr.com 174.121.194.34
wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201
# News
bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131
aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252
# Social media
reddit.com 72.247.244.88
imgur.com 173.231.140.219
google.com 74.125.157.99
youtube.com 74.125.65.91
yahoo.com 98.137.149.56
hotmail.com 65.55.72.135
bing.com 65.55.175.254
digg.com 64.191.203.30
theonion.com 97.107.137.164
hush.com 65.39.178.43
gamespot.com 216.239.113.172
ign.com 69.10.25.46
cracked.com 98.124.248.77
sidereel.com 144.198.29.112
github.com 207.97.227.239
# Torrent sites
thepiratebay.org 194.71.107.15
mininova.com 80.94.76.5
btjunkie.com 93.158.65.211
demonoid.com 62.149.24.66
demonoid.me 62.149.24.67
# Social networking
facebook.com 69.171.224.11
twitter.com 199.59.149.230
tumblr.com 174.121.194.34
livejournal.com 209.200.154.225
dreamwidth.org 69.174.244.50
# Live Streaming Content
stickam.com 67.201.54.151
blogtv.com 84.22.170.149
justin.tv 199.9.249.21
chatroulette.com 184.173.141.231
omegle.com 97.107.132.144
own3d.tv 208.94.146.80
megavideo.com 174.140.154.32
# Television
gorillavid.com 178.17.165.74
videoweed.com 91.220.176.248
novamov.com 91.220.176.248
tvlinks.com 208.223.219.206
1channel.com 208.87.33.151
# Shopping
amazon.com 72.21.211.176
newegg.com 216.52.208.187
frys.com 209.31.22.39
# File Sharing
mediafire.com 205.196.120.13
megaupload.com 174.140.154.20
fileshare.com 208.87.33.151
multiupload.com 95.211.149.7
uploading.com 195.191.207.40
warez-bb.org 31.7.57.13
hotfile.com 199.7.177.218
gamespy.com 69.10.25.46
what.cd 67.21.232.223
warez.ag 178.162.238.136
putlocker.com 89.238.130.247
uploaded.to 95.211.143.200
dropbox.com 199.47.217.179
pastebin.com 69.65.13.216
Here’s a tip for the do-it-yourself crowd:
Go to your computer’s Start menu, and either go to
“run” or just search for “cmd.”
Open it up, and type in “ping [website address],”
Once you have the IP for a website, all you really
need to do is enter it like you would
a normal URL nd hit enter/press go. Typing in
“208.85.240.231”
should bring you to the front page of AO3,
for example, just as typing “174.121.194.34/dashboard”
should bring you straight to your Tumblr dashboard.
Since we’re obviously bracing for the worst case scenario
which would involve you not being
able to access the internet regularly, you should,
save this list.Dear Tumblr-ers, -ites, ettes, and whatever other things you may prefer,
Please reblog the crap out of this. Add to it if you feel there is stuff necessary but missing.
P.S. Thank you to the lovely who wrote this up.
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mashable:
It’s hard to imagine a better SOPA blackout page than the one at The Oatmeal [pictured above].
For full Mashable coverage of SOPA, go here.
Keeping it simple but not stupid.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly00q9Drn11qbkdcro1_250.gif)
It’s hard to imagine a better SOPA blackout page than the one at The Oatmeal [pictured above].
For full Mashable coverage of SOPA, go here.
Keeping it simple but not stupid.
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