#solidarity with the leaker !

[usergrantaire]

DAISY JONES & THE SIX

[incarnateirony]

maybe people are getting what I meant when I said "I'm out, I don't have to lift a finger anymore" now. it's not that I'm not interested in the show or hell, not even that I'm not in the Nola walls with eyes from airports to US roads. It's that I don't even gotta do shit, and the direction of everything will take care of itself.

And that includes Superwiki, 2p0, and wigglebox's misfit band of quasileakers and that whole mess Jules stirred up the last few days between outting her draft limitations, her connection to this clusterfuck since February, and that absolutely asinine Rougarou argument she fed into the wank of that half the internet told her she was wrong on until she had to clarify it's unofficial.

jesus, nothing like taking out the old fandom trash. i don't know if jules gets it yet. Her draft and my draft are often forms of sourcing leakers, which she failed with flying colors by leaking the akrida. The script call draft was accurate in the ada updates, but removed the pre/afterward so that anyone that did get draft 3 and gve the akrida out were in a limited screened set.

This is like. super duper common. but jules isn't a professional to know this, nor is she approaching this as a career professional would, but rather in the mindset of a promoted fan that still has one foot in hilarious wank, and with little cognition of her own limits. There's easily months of leaks sourced back to Jules now easily from their sloppiness, and that's all just one episode so far. And these same people are so hungry for clout they'll blow jules out of the water too.

The funniest part is she's a badge. a fandom solidarity token. Look, our canon will be fine, we have the wiki. will smith pose. but in hiring her rather than an actual professional that knows what the hell they're doing or looking at in the scale of things, they can get away with even more, while she sits here spinning her treads over not wanting to admit wtf a loup garou is because she clowned herself and everyone around her.

This old fandom has a lot of reality checks coming. I've been saying this, and it's not just wincels. It's learning to make real space for POC, and proper narratives, and listening to actual history without talking over it and demanding it conform to your personal values; of the irrelevance of all their years of paying for cons and wayward cocktails chatter and ladder climbing in the face of millions of new people starting to show up, who don't care about your 15 year old grudges.

Like, thanks for all the old scripts and all but Supernatural ended 2 years ago. It's time to get into the current, and you all admitted you're 8 months and several drafts behind on that, even with your dearest leaker.

I told y'all. This is a different game. No matter which coffee runner you've got in your pocket.

begone, old classist ass fandom Big Name Fans and be silent, jules, and return to being the catalogue your name was signed on as a badge for. lmfao

i'm over here chillin' on my floaty and they just blew their wholeass stunt up

like i said. i'm out. i ain't gotta do shit anymore.

jules has a real chance to start a career from here and has spent the last eight months trying to piss it up a river over petty grudges she's still failing at while on payroll. jesus christ jules reality check here, focus

[fictionkinfessions]

me constantly reminding people to not get too attached to many of the characters leaked the other day because alot of it was concept art and will very likely change vs.

oh fuck Im Dahlia and M Genshin Impact.

At LEAST they're two characters that leakers are farily confident are basically complete design-wise so. I dont have to fear being completely trashed and changed like Im sure some other kin folk are worrying abt rn but.

Man.

I don't have any hunches on M, she just lives rent free in my brain for now, Im sure ill get some when she actually shows up and we learn basically anything abt her.

Dahlia on the other hand.

Rosaria and Barbara I miss u girlies wheres my mlm wlw solidarity. wheres my bubbly+goth solidarity. Gahhh.

~Dahlia 🕯♟

[sheikah]

What I don't get is why take their anger out on a Jonerys shipper, it's not like you wrote the script or have had screeners to the entire season so you can properly explain all the characters motivations. We are all in the dark about the vague summary the leakers supplied.

I don’t get it either anon and it is very tiring. I think they send me these complaints because they assume I ignore all of the problems and questions raised by the leaks just because they include Jonerys. But I can be happy about Jonerys while still being puzzled by some parts of the leaks. I also think that since they include Jon kneeling, people think I want Jon to kneel, or want him to like serve Dany as a subject or something and that’s not true :/ As I have explained about a thousand times haha. Thanks for the solidarity. :)

[clairestroman67]

Accused Football Leaks mastermind tells court: ‘I‘m proud‘

By Catarina Demony and Miguel PereiraLISBON (Reuters) - The Portuguese man behind the Football Leaks website said at the start of his trial on Friday that he was proud to be a whistleblower on European soccer clubs' big-money dealings.Rui Pinto, a 31-year-old former history student and self-taught computer mastermind, faces 90 charges - from unauthorised access to data and violation of correspondence to attempted extortion - in the case at Lisbon's Central Criminal Court."I don't consider myself a hacker. I am a whistleblower," he said, wearing an anti-coronavirus mask, dressed in jeans and sneakers, and looking composed during his opening statement."The revelations are serious and I'm proud, there's no shame. I haven't done anything for money," added Pinto, who acknowledges releasing 70 million documents on football's backroom workings.Pinto has also taken responsibility for disclosing hundreds of thousands of files about alleged financial schemes by former Angolan first daughter Isabel dos Santos, but told the court his leaking endeavours were over."My work as a whistleblower is done," he said.In the dos Santos affair, Angola has begun criminal investigations but she has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.Football Leaks' data seen by Reuters https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/soccer-files as part of the European Investigative Collaborations network showed how some of the richest and most prominent figures avoided tax by channelling earnings offshore, and gave insight into wealthy Gulf individuals and organisations who became influential in soccer.It also examined the huge sums flowing through leading clubs and the uneven way authorities have applied rules.The documents provided some of the evidence that led to a ban - since overturned - on English Premier League club Manchester City from competing in the European Champions League for alleged breaches of Financial Fair Play rules.'JOHN'Pinto's identity was only revealed after his arrest.Before, he referred to himself as "John" when speaking to journalists, stating he wanted focus on the data not the person. He never explained how he obtained information or who helped.Pinto was arrested in January 2019 on the street in Budapest, a city he first got to know as an Erasmus student and where he moved back in 2015 after breaking off a history degree.He was extradited to a Portuguese jail in March, then placed in house arrest and is now in witness protection. He faces a maximum 25 years in jail for the charges against him.Plaintiffs for football club Sporting, the Portuguese Football Federation, investment fund Doyen Sports and law firm PLMJ were present for Monday's trial opening.Doyen lawyer Sofia Branco Ribeiro accused Pinto of illegally accessing their data and attempting to extort 1 million euros ($1.18 million) from the company. "Pinto has used the media to victimise himself, as if he was a hero who can access everything," she said.Pinto's lawyer Francisco Teixeira da Moto called these allegations "lamentable".Police guarded the court from behind barriers, while two supporters held a photo of Pinto in solidarity."He (Pinto) is hopeful, confident, determined," William Bourdon, another lawyer for Pinto who also represented fugitive U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, told reporters.The trial is expected to last until December and include testimony from 45 witnesses, including Snowden.(Reporting by Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira; Writing by Victoria Waldersee,; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)

[paige-s-pages]

Leaking Women: A Genealogy of Gendered and Racialized Flowby Michelle Fine

Abstract

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“Through a feminist and critical race analytic, this paper theorizes the disruptions evoked by leaky women—actually doubly leaky women—those whose nipples, peri-menopausal uterus’ and mouths have “leaked” in ways that rupture/stain/expose the white-patriarchal-capitalist enclosure of work, home and the streets and then dared to leak again by suing for justice in court. In a closing coda, I address the race/class policing dynamics between she who leaks and the “respectable” [usually white] women recruited to plaster up the hole and cauterize the leaker.”

“In this essay I am interested in the ruptures, that is the leaks, that women release, carry, narrate, scream, drip onto the carpet of gendered and raced domination. Speaking both metaphorically and in ways embodied, about women’s breast milk, blood, urine and wild tongues that violate norms, and drawing on an assemblage of archival material, I attempt to decipher how gender intersects with race and class in a watercolour pattern of who is accused of leaking, who is punished for leaking and who tries to discipline the leaky woman.”

“This argument is not crafted to argue that women leak more than men (although they probably do); that the gender binary is “real” (it is definitively not); that woman is a coherent category or that leaky women are punished more (although there is evidence that they are, see Miceli et al. 2008).”

 “In this article I seek to animate a dormant pattern, provoking what Maxine Greene (1977) would call a wide-awakeness to how women—mostly of colour—are charged with being out of order, mothering in ways inappropriate, labouring in ways undisciplined, speaking too bluntly, particularly when they pull back the curtains on the dirty understory of gendered, raced and classed “norms.””

(NOTE FROM ME: while this essay deals heavily with racism and the imbalance and injustice between people of colour and people who are white, I still find the essay quite relevant to my practice and I am proud of the author for bringing such awareness to both the leaking body and the censorship associated with it, and also for making us acutely aware of the injustice suffered by women of colour.)

“I want to trouble the outrage evoked by women’s leakage, instigating new ways of seeing the present, carving a critical space to think again about why/how/under what conditions women’s leaks dis-ease.”

“Within spaces public, domestic and labour, women are typically expected to be containers for the run off of affect, pain, dependencies, male fluids, family and institutional excess. We are supposed to absorb secrets but not secrete.”

“I write in the midst of #MeToo when men, wealthy and powerful, are finally facing the consequences of careers fortified by sexual violence, power grabs, assault, even as the president and his men continue to deny, grab and violate in public.”

“By 1879, a crude tampon like insertion device was developed, as was the Hoosier sanitary belt. By the late 1880s, pads began to appear. The first official tampon was developed in 1929. Women were asked to place money into a box instead of handing money to a salesperson. As women’s “natural” flows moved into the public sphere, stigma and shame amplified.”

““wild tongues can’t be tamed, they can only be cut out””

“Today we/they leak and rise in staccato rhythms, in puddles across the globe—in workers’ rights movements, domestic violence struggles, reproductive justice mobilizations, in the Fight for 15, for socialism, for literacy, for queer, immigrant, Black Lives Matter, environmental and indigenous justice. No longer (only) swallowing or whispering their concerns; no longer simply and slowly going mad; no longer only running into the arms of another exploitative man. Leaking women are disrupting the category woman, insisting on economic, gender, racial, immigrant, environmental and reproductive justice; seeking not assimilation but radical transformation. Young deliciously leaky and unapologetic activists commit to wild solidarities, linking across struggles for queer, Muslim, undocumented, Black Lives Matter, indigenous, labour, environmental and economic justice and prison abolition over time, space and social media. The leaks become floods. Even as public urinals are “erected” in Paris, the halls of the U.S. Congress fill with trans women, veterans, women in hijab, breast feeding, women of all colours, lesbian and bisexual, 90 year olds and 29-year olds.”

These are just excerpts from the original essay.

[thedetroitcast]

The Detroit Cast discusses:  Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones kneeling with his team just before the playing of the National Anthem on "Monday Night Football"; Alejandro Villanueva claiming that he didn't mean to set himself apart from the rest of the Pittsburgh Steelers during their pregame anthem boycott; Colin Kaepernick again failing to comment on the NFL anthem flap that he started; Dana Greene, Jr., a U-M grad student, kneeling in the diag for an entire day apparently in solidarity with NFL players; the FBI naming Detroit the most violent city in America and Detroit Police Chief James Craig disputing the data that led to that ranking; Otto Warmbier's parents speaking about his condition upon his return to the U.S. after being tortured in North Korea; Megyn Kelly's NBC show being panned by critics as she tries to paint herself as a warm and fluffy mid-morning host; convicted felon Brad (Chelsea) Manning being denied entry to Canada given his criminal record; former NSA contractor and leaker Reality Winner seeking release from jail after the Kosher vegan allegedly suffered health problems from eating prison food; "Sweet Pie's Would You Rather" -- homework versus housework edition; the reading of post; and, email.