See, there's your problem. Well, our problem.

There's a snapshot of what's wrong with western society right there. (Also, somebody should have called the cops)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/katie-vyktoriah/what-happened-when-my-son-wore-a-pink-headband-to-walmart_b_3696113.html

willpower vs cognition

Interesting result from the start- reaching the end of your willpower tether (for example by dealing with assholes) fucks up your cognitive processing. And vice versa...

http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/7/24/your-app-makes-me-fat

Caturday again

On misogynist trolls

Guys, do be sure to read the full article. And tell your friends to stop accepting the status quo, and stop being douchebags.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/01/misogynist-trolls-have-an-agenda-and-its-not-lulz/

On Twitter abuse buttons

So, @sophiaphotos is trans, @wolchyr is a phobe (and religious nutjob from the quoted tweet), but the same will apply to women "poking their head above the parapet" generally, I fear.

https://twitter.com/sophiaphotos/status/363719627890626562/photo/1

And this is why, whether you're pro- or anti- a Twitter abuse button, the issue needs to be carefully thought out, and not a knee-jerk reaction. (Har de fucking har, like that ever flies in the UK. Knee-jerk is the country's middle name - it's really United Knee-jerk Kingdom)

The Magic Sword

Urgh, so much politics I ought to shunt all that stuff to a separate blog.

So, a change of pace- Watching The Magic Sword, crappy movie with Basil Rathbone as the evil wizard, and thinking a) obviously Conrad Veidt from Thief Of Bagdad was unavailable (having been dead for 19 years) and b) shit, if Connie was still around in 1962 this is the sort of shit he might have got stuck in.

Basil deserved better...

Sadly I'm watching on TCM, not this MST3K version.

"MST3k 411 - The Magic Sword" (Watch on YouTube)