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The Hague, Netherlands: Spanish street musician Borja Catanesi and the 68 year old dancer from The Hague mr Roland Parijs

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Concept: reverse crowns. Any time the head of state speaks in an official capacity or appears at an official function, they’re required to wear a large, ridiculous-looking hat in order to remind them of their place. If people ever start to treat the hat as an object of dignity because of its association with the head of state, it’s immediately retired and replaced with an even more undignified one.

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Honestly, “is X a furry” discourse is a perfect example of why decomposing media into simple checklists of tropes isn’t a useful critical lens. Furry fandom is a subculture, and they don’t use set-in-stone rules to decide which pieces of media are of interest; no matter what sort of checklist you come up with, you’re going to find examples of media that tick most or all of your boxes and have little or no cultural intersection with furry fandom – and conversely, media that has considerable cultural intersection with furry fandom in spite of ticking practically none of those boxes.

Basically, you can’t trope-checklist your way to a definitive answer to “is X a furry” because it’s not a question for a taxonomist, it’s a question for an anthropologist.

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“Isn’t this all a little hard to believe?”

“I can think of a lot of things that are hard to believe. What part do you mean?”

“That the fate of the world depends on twelve people in a rented office suite whose coffee machine doesn’t even work.“

“What would you find more believable?”

“I don’t know, something… grander?

“You know, the first incarnation of this group had an actual palace? Extra-dimensional strongholds and snazzy colour-coded jumpsuits and badges that hurt your eyes if you looked at them for too long.“

“What happened to them?”

“They turned out to be cultists of the Bleak Powers. Every last one of them. The only reason they didn’t destroy the universe themselves is because each cell thought they were the only ones, and they wasted all their resources hiding from each other. Cleanup was an incredible pain in the ass.”

“Okay, but surely there’s a middle ground between that and… well, this.”

“It’s been tried – many times. The iteration before us was a government agency. Do you want to know how long they lasted?”

“I have a feeling you’re about to tell me.”

“Their director sold out to the Bleak Powers in just a little under thirty-eight minutes. I’m given to understand it was a new record.”

“So what’s special about you lot? Why don’t you go the same way?”

“This is a profession that self-selects for lack of ambition. Each person in this office wants nothing more than to be left alone, and that’s the one thing the Bleak Powers will never permit. We’re prepared to move Heaven and Earth – and beyond, if necessary – for a little peace and quiet, and we think you are, too.“

“What makes you so sure?”

“You once switched grocery stores because the checkout clerks at the old one started to recognise you.”

“I– well, I mean, that could just be social anxiety.”

“We have a sense for this sort of thing.”

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Introduction #9 https://www.instagram.com/p/BxumWl_HCMI/?igshid=1449x13cueqg3

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ED-Ucation goes live at 2! Please join our friends at DVG and show some love!

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Happy Monday~! Splendid news, our friends at DVG have their first (proper) Twitch show "Ed-ucation" with Ed Jones goes live Tuesday at 2pm! This week they're going to talk about how drama in the gaming industry is nothing new... by going back for storytime to the Indie Gaming scene of the 1980's!

“I have seen such sights as you would not believe. Bright dice glittering on game tables, game books on fire off the shores of Anteries.” -Ed Jones

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“ Here’s How I Imagine Animals Behave When You Aren’t Looking (10+ Pics)

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Women Self Defense in 1947

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a bold but necessary take

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A dating service where matching is based on people’s search history exists. You’re a serial killer. You go on a date with a writer.

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BREAK THE INTERNET: Net neutrality defenders plan mass online protest 48 hours before FCC vote

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 9, 2017 Contact: Evan Greer, press@fightforthefuture.org, 978-852-6457

Twitter users will “Break the Internet” by auto-tweeting every 10 minutes starting Tuesday. Sites like Reddit, GitHub, Pintrest, Etsy, Imgur, Pornhub, BitTorrent, and Patreon are already helping drive calls to Congress

The unprecedented public backlash to the FCC’s plan to slash Title II net neutrality protections continues to grow. After thousands of people took to the streets to protest last week, Internet users, websites, apps, and online forums are preparing to participate in “Break the Internet,” a mass online protest that will start on December 12, two days before the FCC vote scheduled for December 14. The protest is demanding that Congress take action to stop the FCC vote.

See the announcement for the protest here: https://www.breaktheinternetprotest.org

The protest will take many forms on social media, apps, and websites across the Internet. Thousands of Twitter users have already signed up to #BreakTheInternet by using a tool built by Fight for the Future that allows users to automatically tweet about net neutrality every 10 minutes starting 48 hours before the FCC vote, blanketing the platform with calls to contact congress. Facebook and LinkedIn users will “break” their profiles by changing their relationship status to “Married” (to net neutrality) or adding a new “job” of “Defending Net Neutrality.” Websites and apps will participate by doing something to “break” their platform and encourage their users to contact Congress.

Websites, startups, apps and businesses large and small are already helping drive phone calls to Congress using creative widgets, modals, and banners that show what the Internet might look like if ISPs can control what users do with throttling, censorship, and new fees.

Sites helping sound the alarm include Imgur, Mozilla, Pinterest, Reddit, GitHub, Etsy, BitTorrent, Pornhub, Patreon, Funny Or Die, Speedtest, Fiverr, Cloudlfare, Opera, Trello, the Happy Wheels game, DeviantArt, AnimeNewsNetwork, and BoingBoing. See some screenshots of actions sites are already taking  in the lead-up to the vote here.

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Hey, are you guys following our Patreon? If not, you’re missing out, because the first chapter of Anarchikos just went up.