darkness is a harsh term--don't you think?

I like chocolate, feminism, and Nina Dobrev. Not in that order. Well, maybe. OTPS: Damon/Elena, Stefan/Caroline, Damon/Stefan, Blake Shelton/Adam Levine, and a bunch of other stuff. I mainly make fun of republican canidates and bitch on here. Tis fun!

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Obama And ISP’s To Launch Largest Digital Spying Scheme In History (Must Read)

If you download potentially copyrighted software, videos or music, your Internet service provider (ISP) has been watching, and they’re coming for you.

Specifically, they’re coming for you on Thursday, July 1.

That’s the date when the nation’s largest ISPs will all voluntarily implement a new anti-piracy plan that will engage network operators in the largest digital spying scheme in history, and see some users’ bandwidth completely cut off until they sign an agreement saying they will not download copyrighted materials.

Word of the start date has been largely kept secret since ISPs announced their plans last June. The deal was brokered by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and coordinated by the Obama Administration. The same groups have weighed in heavily on controversial Internet policies around the world, with similar facilitation by the Obama’s Administration’s State Department.

The July 1 date was revealed by the RIAA’s CEO and top lobbyist, Cary Sherman, during a publishers’ conference on Wednesday in New York, according to technology publication CNet.

The content industries calls this scheme a “graduated response” plan, which will see

-Time Warner Cable

-Cablevision

-Comcast

-Verizon

-AT&T

and others spying on users’ Internet activities and watching for potential copyright infringement. Users who are “caught” infringing on a creator’s protected work can then be interrupted with a notice that piracy is forbidden by law and carries penalties of up to $150,000 per infringement, requiring the user to click through saying they understand the consequences before bandwidth is restored, and they could still be subject to copyright infringement lawsuits.

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Response: This is much worse than SOPA/PIPA and ACTA. It doesn’t necessarily censor the internet but it spys on everything you do. Your ENTIRE web history will be watched and recorded and might even assist the government. This was coordinated by Obama and his administration with the help of the MPAA and RIAA.

What is so dangerous about this is that this is not a law it is a policy adopted by several companies. That means this will not be debated in Congress and you will agree to be spied on by signing a contract with the company.

Internet censorship is becoming a reality and now the corporate elite will legally be able to spy on you. If we spread this and cause an uproar like what we did with SOPA, maybe they will back down. Either way people NEED to know about this.

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jesus christ

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Not acceptable.

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am i the only one who checks the imdb of a really good movie after i see it?

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watched Friends With Benefits for the first time today

it was actually pretty great

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dan smith: i'm surprised taylor got a tattoo on his butt!! *obviously joking*

paramore fan: OMGGG TAYLOR GOT A TATTOO ON HIS BUTT!!!

paramore fan: i can't wait to see taylor's butt, he got a tattoo on it

paramore fan: WHATT!! OH MY GOD we're gonna see it!!

paramore fan: on his butt? no wayyyyyy!!!

paramore fan: WHAT!! :D yay!!

brazilians: come to brazil

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Drunk Jeff and Britta

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I check my blog after every few posts just to make sure things look aesthetically pleasing and then proceed to freak out if there’s three black and white posts in a row, too much of one fandom, or things just don’t flow.

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honestly sometimes in school people say the most ridiculous shit and I make this face and look somewhere at an imaginary camera like I’m on The Office

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About Cop Watch

So there are groups that do this, they stay in highly policed areas on shifts and bring cameras and such, and record to make sure police brutality doesn’t escalate, and when it happens there’s evidence against it.

But that’s not the only way it can happen.

Every single person is entitled to watch an arrest go down as long as they are not obstructing or interfering. That means, if you see cops bumrush someone, even if that person is waving a gun, you are allowed, even legally permitted and encouraged to watch the events occur.

This is important white folks, because the cops work inyourservice. Oh sure, they’re supposedly in the service of “the common good” but we all know that means protecting white people.

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And now a story, when I was in high school, and my mom was working under a horrific principal, she was late to work one day because there was something going on in our neighborhood. Cops were gathered near our pharmacy and a guy was on the roof (it’s a little over one story, so he wasn’t a jumper or anything) and she stayed as long as she could and watched the scenario go down for a while. Not because she’s trifling. not because she’s nosy. But because she saw a POC and cops gathered and said to herself “I want to make sure this goes by the book.”

And that’s all it takes to be a cop watcher.

You acknowledge that you, as a white person, are in a relative position of safety and you watch. You bear witness, because your voice, unfortunately, carries more weight than ours in the criminal justice system.

Justice is not blind, nor should you be.

If there are cops, and they outnumber an individual, shit, even if it’s 1:1, it is your responsibility to keep an eye on the scenario and take down whatever information you can. And if it looks like something shady is going on, you areobligatedto call in to your local precinct and say “Listen, I saw X happen on Y, and it looked questionable.” And if you get a negative response, well, y’know what? You find out if there’s a civilian oversight committee. In NYC we have one, but they’re underfunded and continually being legislated against (currently there’s a statute of 18 months from the time of the event within which you have to file charges).

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If the prospect of keeping vigilant about cops scares you, imagine being a POC, and knowing that no matter what you do, you could be railroaded by a system that wants to not only disenfranchise you, but has no intentions of treating you as a human being.

Take your fears and shove ‘em down, because they’ll never be anything when compared to what we face on a daily basis.

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Are you fucking serious? Hi. White girl who has been forced off the road for no reason, detained and humiliated on the side of the road in the Texas sun for 5 hours while my car was trashed and my personal items were literally ripped part while the cops were looking for the “drugs” I was obviously carrying and they would stop at nothing to “find”. Hi. White girl here who has been picked off the street for walking home late at night and accused to being a prostitute, and thrown into the back of a cop car. TWICE. Hi. White girl here. I’ve watched the cops come to out old hookah lounge accusing people of selling drugs almost weekly while they raided the place and said disgusting, horrible things to the people around me to provoke them into starting a fight or getting angry so they could “fight back” and drag them away. Hi, white girl here, who’s seen a boy get set up by the cops because he rubbed one of them the wrong way and happened to be gay. The penalty? Accused of salutatory rape and forced to live out his days on the sex offender list (once he got out of jail, you know). Hi, white girl here. Listened with love as my boyfriend describes the abuses he experienced at the hands of cops upon his arrest. Between sexual humiliation, physical intimidation, and you know, all of that good stuff, cops scare the fuck out of him now. 

All victims, including myself in these instances, were white.

The cops work in our service? They protect white people? Fuck you. Your point would stand better if you don’t make it out cops are a white person’s best friend, because they are not. 

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America Soldier murdered for his atheism.

full story [x]

According to the criminal complaint, authorities arrested Green’s mother, Terri Green; his sister, Brittany Jan Green; and his sister’s friend, Stephanie Heaston-Corral. All three are charged with tampering with evidence. Their attorneys did not return phone messages Tuesday afternoon.

Brittany Green allegedly told authorities that her brother said he had shot Ramirez twice because he “did not believe in God,” and alleged that Ramirez “reached for a gun,” the complaint said. Terri Green helped her son move Ramirez’s body from the home’s garage to the shallow grave, the complaint said.

Heaston-Corral later used Ramirez’s credit card to buy a pizza, signing the receipt as “Stephanie Ramirez,” the complaint alleges.

Lemons described the killing as a secret that had been kept by a small circle of people for years.

“One individual could not keep this secret any longer,” he said.

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Every time I read an article about conservatives being “pro- life” I am reminded of my brother who died of ALS at the age of 47. He spent the last 6 years of his life in nursing homes where the care, supervision and meals were abysmal. One of his former roommates was smoking a cigarette, fell asleep and burned to death because his diaper caught fire. Another roommate went home for the weekend to visit his mother and committed suicide in the garage of her home so that he wouldn’t have to return to the nursing home. I have to say that in all the years my brother was there I never once saw a group of conservatives out in front of the building shouting slogans about the sanctity of life and how all lives - no matter what age - are meaningful. I never once saw a group of evangelicals visiting with patients, pushing wheelchairs, or feeding the elderly residents. There were no Rick Santorums advocating on behalf of my brother who several years before had been a pro golfer and was still the father of two adorable young boys. When conservatives and evangelicals understand that ALL life really is sacred, including that of the elderly, the permanently disabled, the terminally ill, and the women and children who accidentally get bombed in the course of a war, then maybe I’ll listen to their opinions on contraceptives and/or abortion. For now, however, this is really just a politically heated argument about women’s reproductive rights and who gets to control those rights.

The ‘Safe, Legal, Rare’ Illusion - NYTimes.com

YES. 

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Might be a rerun on my blog, and if it is, it’s worth repeating.

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wow tumblr thanks for cutting off 50% of my tags