On Painting Everyone with the Same Furry Brush

When I first clambered onto the internet, I used the name “Phovos the Raptor” as my online persona. The name, to me at least, sounded unique and cool and slightly badass, and was fitting for a 16 year old girl pretending to be a 16 year old boy who spent most of her time writing bad Bionicle fan fiction and being overly apologetic towards Bohrok and Rahkshi. In hindsight, it’s not a great name at all, but I still occasionally use the name Phovos if my preferred usernames Medic and Retvik aren’t available. These days though, I tend to leave… [Continue Reading]

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Bleugh. European Parliament backs copyright changes. Because they are dicks.

First off, a link. To the BBC. Because they understand that stuff better than I do and they’re pretty unbiased. But also because I can’t find any real talk about this on the major news websites I normally visit. Which is suspicious as fuck. Like, seriously. Secondly, another link. To a website that I guess wants to do something about it. And with which I can put a ton of blame on France because they voted like 90% for all this stuff. Like seriously. Portugal, Bulgaria, Romania and Estonia all get a lot of blame as well. As do the… [Continue Reading]

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