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Facebook privacy.

Does anyone know how to mass edit the privacy settings on all your Facebook posts? I know you can edit all your past posts to only be visible to friends, be is there a way to restrict certain people who you’re friends with from seeing them? I also know you can edit individual posts but it would take FOREVER to do my whole timeline ever.

Someone I know in a volunteering capacity has friended me and I just don’t want her seeing everything on my timeline.

Can any clever computer people help?

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I’m feeling good, been eating really healthily, staying away from chocolate and bad sugar and doing my 30 day challenges! 

Haven’t been swimming again this week cause my arms are really sore from the 30 day push up challenge but I’m not too concerned. Will go back to it again when my body has recovered.

I am also in need of buying expensive shoes: I think I’ll need to get running shoes fitted if I’m going to be able to go running again without my knees hurting and I think my cheap ass riding boots are making my toes a little numb/fucking up my leg position.

As usual I have no money for these things…

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This Is Not Fucking Harmless

caseymalone:

I love Kickstarter. I think that’s clear to people who know me by now? I love it. There’s a dude named Brad Muir and he works at Double Fine and I love the games they make, so much. But before Kickstarter, every time a Double Fine game came out I was a little worried it would be their last, and I’d have to worry that if people didn’t buy it, who knows what would happen to that studio. Then they found KIckstarter and now they make games and people like me can front load the development cost for them and it is the absolute best arrangement for creative people who want a tool in the exhausting struggle of art + commerce.  A friend of mine is taking a month off her job to write a children’s book because of this platform. It’s GREAT. I love it. 

The outcome of this is that I spend a lot of time just browsing Kickstarter looking for something cool to either back or crow about online. I don’t really back much - I don’t have a ton of capitol to toss around, and I’m sure the fact that I have a lot of ideas and no money factors into my love of a platform that gives money to people with ideas - but I like to check it out. So tonight, I found THIS fucking thing. 

This is a nightmare. 

Watching the video, reading the description, it sounds fairly innocent but a little eye-roll inducing. It’s another book where some nerd, desperate to be liked by women (this is not an insult, we are ALL desperate to be liked by someone we want to have sex with) thinks he’s figured out some cheat code or check-list like routine they can run in a bar to make women sleep with them, as if women aren’t people but a series of subroutines or an obstacle course that they can optimize to get their dick wet as fast as possible. And he’s written that advice down! And he’s selling it! To you! You could learn his cheat codes. This is nothing new for the internet. In fact, a large swath of this book was published already on Reddit. What’s new is that he’s crowdfunding it. 

And sure, you might think this is sad or dumb or that this guy is just another lonely dude talking to other lonely dudes who’ll head out into the night with their fedoras to failure, right? Not a big deal? Oops, turns out we’re wrong, because here are some excerpts from what he’s already put on Reddit - 

”5) Get CLOSE to her, damn it!

To quote Rob Judge, “Personal space is for pussies.” I already told you that the most successful seducers are those who can’t keep their hands off of women. Well you’re not gonna be able to do that if you aren’t in close! ”

“All the greatest seducers in history could not keep their hands off of women. They aggressively escalated physically with every woman they were flirting with. They began touching them immediately, kept great body language and eye contact, and were shameless in their physicality. Even when a girl rejects your advances, she KNOWS that you desire her. That’s hot. It arouses her physically and psychologically.”

 

“Decide that you’re going to sit in a position where you can rub her leg and back. Physically pick her up and sit her on your lap. Don’t ask for permission. Be dominant. Force her to rebuff your advances.”

“Sex

Pull out your cock and put her hand on it. Remember, she is letting you do this because you have established yourself as a LEADER. Don’t ask for permission, GRAB HER HAND, and put it right on your dick.”

 - Source

SO. Now I am no longer rolling my eyes.

This guy is no longer just being weird and creepy on the internet. Now he’s writing a book about how to sexually assault women, and he is using something I believe in (Kickstarter) to ask YOU for money to do it. I am offended as someone who believes in the platform, and more importantly I am offended as someone who believes women shouldn’t be treated this way, and that people who say otherwise CERTAINLY should not profit off saying they should. 

This isn’t harmless. People come to these boards because they are scared of being humiliated, and they are saying to the world, “Tell me what to do, because I don’t know what to do.” And this guy has chosen to tell them, “You should be a rapist.” 

There’s largely nothing we can do about people saying this shit on a place like Reddit - Reddit’s a mess for another time - but let’s get it off of Kickstarter. The project is funded in 10 hours - and unfortunately a lot of those are sleeping hours - but PLEASE report it to Kickstarter, please tweet @Kickstarter asking them to take it down, and PLEASE do not let something cool be used for the UGLIEST thing imaginable.

The Kickstarter - Report Button is on the bottom of the page

Please Tweet at @Kickstarter 

Casey

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glitterlion:

This idea that you “have” to forgive people in order to move on or whatever is complete and utter bullshit. You don’t “have” to forgive anyone in order to live a life that’s fulfilling to you.

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I was walking into the station today and a really attractive guy practically dove out my way to let me past and I think I may have fallen in love with a stranger.

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I was pretty tired after horse riding tonight but I did day two of the 30 day Plank, Squat, Crunch and Push Up challenges. 

I can’t believe that by day 30 of the plank challenge I’m going to be able to do a plank for 5 minutes!

Crazy.

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I wonder how many people identify as genderqueer in Somalia

fuckyeahchoice:

savetheskunkapes:

Oh, wait. I forgot. Those people have actual problems.

I’m from a “third world country” and to add to that I’m from a very conservative predominantly Muslim country. I’m about to drop a BOMB SHELL on you, bro. 

There are gay people. There are genderqueer people. There are trans* people. But they can’t be open about it for the most part because they may even be shunned by their own family. We are all products of our society and there is ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with exploring yourself and your feelings and your identity. 

If it’s safe and you can share it why the fuck not? Because if someone has the audacity to put a name to their identity then we can’t deal with poverty or racism? 

No shut up. 

Also here are some more fun facts:

• We have internet!
• We have sex!
• I had a pet cat!
• I was a specialized education teacher! (And I’m a woman! WHAT!)
• We had feminism!
• We had hardcore and punk and rap shows/Music scene!
• Cable TV!
• Parks and playgrounds!
• Medical care!
• Cell phones! 
• ALL THIS AND MUCH MUCH MORE. 

All this and I’m still worried about silly things like racism, sexism and cissexism! And I still think you’re ridiculous and have made absolutely zero points! 

I’m sorry you think we’re too primitive to know about gender identity. 

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This is the End and the endless jokes about rape

diaphenia:

Let’s talk about This is the End. 

It’s celebrity rpf (Apocalypse AU) and whatever, the beginning of the movie is sort of fun, with a lot of cameos and celebrities running around partying. 

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