I always thought I'd be a grown up when I grew up

Thanks to the ever-informative snapesbabe, paid members might be interested in clicking here, if you haven't already heard about it.

In other news, Auntie Gok made me cry. The bitch.

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Cocking will occur (with added shoptails) on 30 June and 21 July. We can sort out when & where to meet nearer the time :)

nannyo, this means I can visit / meet you in Leeds on 9 June or 14 July. Entirely up to you (and Our Glorious Leader can do either, too).

Hurrah! Add in the Dublin trip on 6-7 July, and I'll actually be building a social life again!

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Obligatory LJ Scandal post: People screw up. It happens. They've apologised & are trying to fix it. Yes, it could have been handled *way* better. Yes, the original "Oh no, what a ridiculous idea!" response now pisses me off. Yes, I *am* pleased that they've overreacted rather than the opposite.

More than anything, I love my new fandoms :) The most intelligent, not-kneejerk discussions are happening on anime/manga fans' journals, with most people waiting to see what *really* happened rather than spreading the escalating rumours and outrage without checking to the source. The part of me that still thinks like an auditor has been cringing at all the unsubstantiated hearsay and accusations.

Have removed people from f-list. It's nothing personal beyond that you have the CJTC on your f-list, and I'm minimising the amount she impinges on my life.

From snapesbabe, purveyor of outrage to the online classes:

Y'all heard of a community called iconscraper?

It's a community that is using LJ's recent pictures feed to grab icons, pics and small graphics posted anywhere on LJ at any given time and post them as icon posts for people to snag. AND it's hotlinking every single picture it's posting. 200+ pictures per post all hotlinked from various places on LJ. There are thousands of icons and even what looks to be personal pictures being hotlinked from LJ posts and posted in the iconscraper community.

Of course there is no credit given or even acknowledgment or explanation. It's been reported to LJ by some people already, but they appear to be claiming there is nothing they can do.

This is what you need to do to stop your stuff being hotlinked, if you would like to do so:

"If you wish for images you post to not be included in the Latest Images
feed, you may go to http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console/ and type:

set latest_optout yes

This will prevent your images from being included in this feed. The
feed also does not contain images posted with the Friends-Only or Private
security at time of posting."

Hopefully if all the people who make fab icons add that bit of code in, they will only get crappy ones in their little feed and we can all laugh at them.


In other words, if you've posted a public post (even if you've subsequently locked it), the LJ picture feed and hence this community can look at it & link to the pictures. Nice of them, isn't it?

ETA: They claim to be picking up only pictures that fit the LJ icon criteria - 100x100 pixels and <40k in size. And, of course, this is filtered through my "I have no clue about computers" brian, so I could have missed the point completely (though I doubt SB would have done) :)