Responding to the #Dreamwidth bat signal - hi!
Here's the most recent statement I can find from Denise on the matter:
"If you are not using a VPN and you regularly get the captcha from our hosting provider (the graphical one instead of the DW-native text one), please email support@dreamwidth.org with your IP address… we are very well aware of the security and privacy reasons to use a VPN service for internet browsing, and we really wish we didn't have to put those barriers in the way of some of the VPN services people use to access the site, but the overwhelming majority of our abusive traffic comes from free VPN services. It's been getting sharply worse lately, and we've needed to take some radical steps to curtail it. I apologize profusely to those of you who are using those services legitimately for the inconvenience you've been experiencing."
Full text here: https://dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/90925.html
@awoo @socketwench - I'm particularly fond of those whose gender is "Kent."
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You know all the random unforced tech layoffs are just labor disorganizing, right?
That's it. That's all they are. They're making us play musical chairs with our jobs to keep us from ever building enough trust to organize. Their ideal outcome is a labor pool that's too traumatized and reactive to act collectively.
Just pushing everyone into a scarcity mindset on purpose. It's the whole US economy writ small.
If you liked that toot then you'll love this book
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PSA:
“if it was important, you would have remembered it.” And “if you cared, you would have remembered.“
Neither of these claims have any basis in reality. Importance, and caring have no correlation to whether a memory is formed.
These sentences only serve to gaslight people about a chemical, process that they cannot control.
Please spread this knowledge.
Please stop gaslighting people with memory issues.
@piersb - There were so many changes between the pilot movie and the series, that The Gathering isn't completely necessary. But if you do watch it, there are actually a few neat clues to the overall arc hidden here and there.
Watching a YouTube channel reacting and analyzing every Star Trek episode with a twist - they've NEVER seen Star Trek before. Ever. Any iteration.
Something I found funny was their reaction to Season 1 of TNG. Season 1 is pretty bad compared to the later seasons...but they've never SEEN the later seasons. And they LOVE it.
It's funny, but I remember watching those episodes and loving them as well. And really shows that while we can say things about Season 1 of Trek, or Season 1 of Babylon 5 being pretty bad, there was STILL something there to keep it going past Season 1, and these folks are rekindling a love for those "bad" episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5Pso33oqJDgYQsR1sBWRu_Ng0-nhgUYB
@cubeyterra - We just hit 0C. Expecting to get down to -10C before this is all over.
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