Pervy Deconstructionist Geek

Resurfacing strictly to say:

The sorchar account was hacked and is now suspended due to said hackery. (Fucking assholes.)

Words of warning from this:

1. Do not click tinyurl links in posts where people say they're changing their journals to something else. (Don't believe it, either.)

2. If you have ever had a Hotmail account associated with your LJ, that seems to be the primary risk factor.

3. Don't trust the Cloud. Back yo shit up!

I'm now over at InsaneJournal. My plan is to post there, and only there. No xposting.

I will be maintaining this LJ for the sole purpose of following friends and communities that are remaining on LJ. So you'll see me commenting from time to time, but no posting. If you don't have an IJ, are unable to RSS feed me, or otherwise don't feel that keeping up with me will be easy because of this change, please comment. This plan of mine is a work in progress, and I aspire to be able to keep track of all my pals, make sure all my pals can keep track of me, and get off the godawful LJ drama llama all at once.

If you are moving off of LJ to a place that is not InsaneJournal, please comment. I do not plan on losing track of any of my peeps, and if that means making an RSS feed for your GJ or some other solution, I will do it.

If you have an IJ and I haven't friended you yet, never fear. It'll take me a few days to search y'all out over there.

If you have an IJ but it won't have all your content on it, would you take a moment and comment to let me know the details? My current plan is to friend IJs and defriend the duplicate journals on LJ. If I'll miss something in your case by doing that, let me know so I don't do it!

For the record, I am moving the majority of my social networking off of LJ partly because of the cumulative stupidity of their "secret TOS" rulings, appalling customer service, and apparent lack of a PR person or lawyer on retainer. The tipping point for me was when it was strongly suggested by a member of LJ staff that the two artists who were suspended for drawings had been reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which is where the FBI refers child pornography complaints. Since it was clear, even by LJ staff's own eventual admission, that the drawings in question were not of minors, if LJ did report these artists, they filed a false complaint of the most damaging and life-destroying kind. That is unforgivable, and I am unwilling to stick around on a site that is so cavalier with such behavior.

I will soon join the ranks of those posting to explain where they're going during the LJ exodus and what my plans are to keep from losing track of any of my pals. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, if you're looking to step off the LJ drama llama for a while, do bring your fictional boys, girls, and in betweens to Dr. Alan's virtual psychologist's office (see how to play here).

Not too happy with LJ these days. Update forthcoming on how I will be handling this. I've been exceedingly patient and understanding with them, but they're turning my stomach now.

In other news -- or perhaps it isn't all that "other"; I'm sure the content I'm about to link to violates some unpublished subsection of LJ's alternate but wholly binding secret TOS: The following has blown my mind. It is not for the squeamish or easily offended. Y'all know me. I don't get disturbed easy, and this is a definite disturber.

"For some the earthly orgasm of virtual whores. For others the eternal orgasm of 70 heavenly virgins. What if it all came down to flesh?"

Strikeback Films presents "Flesh," a 10-minute CG film comprised, in large part, of naked women superimposed upon New York buildings, including the World Trade Center towers. 9/11 is re-enacted, and far worse, in an intensely surreal style. It is a visual punch to the gut, and an incredibly brave artistic/political statement in these climes.

Happy belated birthday, telesilla!

roffles! From sorchar. <3333

What's your favorite RSS reader?

Of equal import: can one create an RSS reader of any given blog on any given platform?

Of more nominal value: I've made myself steer clear of LJ for the last couple of days and found my mental health improved drastically. Ironically, while I'm not of a mind to leave LJ because of LJ's problems, I'm curtailing my usage dramatically because the whole furor surrounding LJ's problems is so draining. (There also seems to be a corollary at work -- i.e. the more uproar there is in one corner of LJ, the more uproar there is in seemingly unrelated areas of LJ. Drama llamas breed like bunnies? I don't know.)

My current hope is to use an RSS reader to keep track of my core folks as they splinter off into various subfactions of social networking platforms. Then I'll carry on posting here on LJ, and only on LJ, in order to make it easier for others to read me.

If RSS really is flexible enough to do this, then all of you who are moving can just RSS my blog so you don't have to deal with LJ if you don't want to. And people like me who cannot manage another fragmentation won't have to deal with five logins if we don't want to.

Sound fair?

Great. Now: Is it doable?

This just in: LJ's not the only social network dealing with the sponsor/content issue.

Firms withdraw ads from Facebook because some of their ads show up on the British National Party page.

Note how this example is political, not sexual. These kinds of things are about controversy. Not squelching sexual content.

( Cut for screaming about the so-called Strikethrough 2007Collapse )

Anybody here remember Dr. Alan from the Establishment?

You know, he's still in my head after all this time. So much so that when I went back to look at his JF account, I still remembered his password.

So I decided to resurrect him. And he will now take questions from any fictitious character. Dr. Alan: He's not just for the Establishment anymore!

Have a peek at his re-entry post and the updated userinfo, which has some info on how to play.

As a quick primer for those unfamiliar, Dr. Alan is an OMC mental health therapist I originally created in the Establishment RPG. At first, he was supposed to be a one-off to give my Bale a little help, but he quickly took off with a life of his own, and eventually wound up with his own journal, where he answered letters Dear Abby-style for kinksters and pontificate on mental health matters. This is the journal I've resurrected, with some additional features, and his advice is now available to any fictitious people with something on their minds. Come play!