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[gwydion]

* Pro-Democracy MP's did an umbrella protest in the Hong Kong parliament.

* They think they caught five men who murdered all those unarmed school boys in a school in Peshawar. They had fled across the border to Afghanistan. In related news, the school has reopened this week.

* Remember that teen they were hunting for right after Charlie Hebdo who turned himself in and was wildly vilified on the net? He really was in school that whole day as his classmates claimed with a massive number of people seeing him there and multiple documentations of him having been in school. The teen has been completely vindicated.

Just because someone is accused, doesn't mean they are guilty. Please let's all keep that in mind especially when emotions are running high.

* Today house Republicans voted to summarily deport the Dreamers.

* Republicans have declared that they will not repair the damage the Supreme court did to the VRA to no one's surprise. After all this is the party with strong ideological commitment to denying black people the right to vote.

* "An Icelandic Brewery Is Making A Beer Flavored With Endangered Whale Testicles:" http://uproxx.com/webculture/2015/01/an-icelandic-brewery-is-making-a-beer-flavored-with-endangered-whale-testicles/

* There is marriage equality in Florida.

* Attn: Djinni. "This Wonderful Dog Takes The Bus To A Seattle Dog Park All By Herself:" http://uproxx.com/webculture/2015/01/this-wonderful-dog-sometimes-takes-the-bus-to-a-seattle-dog-park-by-herself/

* "The Condemnologists:"

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* "Florida Haters:"

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* I have hopes of enough money for the second course of antibiotics tomorrow. Yay!

* Whenever I hear a news person use the word "selfie" on the grounds that what is about to follow is likely going to be profoundly ignorant and misogynistic.

* Check out the FAQs. "Ship Your Enemies Glitter:" http://shipyourenemiesglitter.com/

* "Snow Sea Turtle:"

"Snow Sea Turtle" (Watch on YouTube)

* Help my friends adopt two cats: http://djinni.livejournal.com/516743.html

* Our Financial Situation continues Scary: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovwsma

Comments

[fobok.livejournal.com]

I don't get the hate about 'selfies'. Self-portraits have been around for ages. Just because it's suddenly a popular thing to do, people hate it just as suddenly. Sure, most are badly lit, badly composed and badly filtered, but the same can be said about most pictures on Instagram and Facebook in general.

Heck, on one of the online photography groups I'm a part of, one person had her family hating a very beautiful portrait she'd done for a friend, which in turn made her doubt herself and her ability as a photographer, because they said it 'looked like a selfie'.

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

My theory is that it's all about the misogyny. When it was mostly male artists and photographers doing self portraits, it's high art. When teenage girls do it, it's proof of shallowness and vanity and therefore wrong. It's yet another way to shame girls for taking control of the image they present and expressing agency.