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keagan-ashleigh · 2 years ago

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✨HIIIIIII newcomers from Twitter✨

So, on Twitter I've seen a screenshot of a tumblr post with a whole list of rules that are - I'm sorry for using crude words but - bullshit, for the most part. So I was thinking, hey. Why not make a "how does tumblr works" with actually useful stuff in it. A non exhaustive list though, cause I haven't all night.

Introducing myself quickly first: I'm Keagan, I'm on Tumblr since 2012 (Twitter user since 2013), I have seen the best and the worst, I've been there for the first mishapocalypse, the great Sherlock s4 depression, and I was here when dicks and boobs where roaming the website freely and when the anti-boobs bot flagged everyone randomly. I took a sort of sabbatical after 2017 bc of the Sherlock depression, and the fandom kinda falling apart, and also bc I have a irl life that started to get interesting around that time, but I still came back regularly from time to time until now.

I know how this goddamn website works and I know why we call it the blue hellsite. I've been here since the dawn of ti- no, lol, i'm joking. :')

I started off as an aesthetic blog, then it quickly turned into a social justice/aesthetic/spn fandom blog, and this blog you see this post in is my fandom side blog, the one that saw the birth of my Sherlock obsession and the beginning of my fanartist/fanfic writer carreer. This hellsite saw my queer awakening. It saw me bloom and gain in confidence and self love. It taught me love, patience, pain, and the absurd.

So. Now that's done, let's go. Those are random things in no particular order.

In case you worry about Tumblr being very different than Twitter: yes it is different but surprisingly it's actually not that different.

Any of the following points, you will figure out easily anyway by yourself, Tumblr is actually pretty simple to understand and use, and you'll catch on quickly on the little things that makes it Tumblr, the "etiquette" and all.

For the most part: you can do whatever the fuck you want, no one cares (except dumb people I guess). But do we truly need to remind people not to be assholes with others ? Don't be rude. Duh

- One thing that Tumblr post I was talking about got right is: likes don't matter in terms of visibility, reblogs are more important. Likes are a comment more than a booster. So if you want to boost a posts' visibility, esp art and fics : reblog it.

- On the other hand you won't gain much visibility if you don't get people to reblog you, and honestly while existing here is pretty easy, you'll still have better chances at being visible if you reach people. I'm on a lot of SM and here is still the easiest though so don't worry.

- You can definitely scream into the void, like, it was made for it, this is shitpost paradise

- You can add dumb & insignificant comments to posts like "omg same" or "this is so true" - literally no one cares.

- And no one cares how you call your mutuals, moots, oomfies, pals, friendz, besties, mutts, - no one.

- We do use tone indicators here too. And there's plenty room to write the full words so it's not an obligation but a suggestion from me: sometimes it's less confusing to just say "i'm half joking" than /hs.

- But you can shorten words as you like, it doesn't matter. If twitter got you used to shorten words do shorten words, no worries.

- Your Tumblr experience is closely tied to who you choose to follow or block - you can curate your dashboard/timeline just like you do on Twitter, this is pretty similar. You can and should protect yourself from unsafe people anywhere. That's basic internet safety. Don't overthink this please, if someone is making you feel unsafe and bad, it is your place: block people.

The moderation here is not that bad but not ideal. So please use all the ways you need to make this place safe for you, and don't hesitate to call for people's help. This is a social media based on community. Don't let people trick you into thinking you are wrong for blocking people - or for calling unsafe people out. We have always done that here. We protect and support each other, ok? Good.

- You can follow hashtags, pretty much like on Instagram. In my opinion it's not always working well but you can.

- You can't bookmark posts, you'll have to put in your drafts the stuff you want to check later. And you'll likely forget them there so tell them goodbye as you go.

Eheh 🥲 (good thing i don't know how many tweets i have saved for later 😂)

You can make yourself a "read later" tag too. A tag that you're likely never gonna check either 🥹 Not so different than the Twitter bookmarks, you see.

- When you sign in, you create your main blog. The main blog - consider it like your account if you like - is linked to your profile, if you delete the main blog you delete your profile. You can create as many side blogs (side accounts) as you like (without using another email) and you can delete them without deleting your main account.

Sadly you still can't switch main blog and side blog to link your profile to a side blog, which I have been screaming for since this side blog became my main blog years ago 🥲🤌 this is my own "make tweets editable" cry

- If you're not familiar with blogs and how to personalise them, don't worry, there's a lot of themes you can choose that are simple to use, and the hardest thing you'll have to do is choose colors you like. If it looks hard, there is a ton of resources to help you, and most people will help you if you ask them (I will, honestly don't hesitate to hit the ask button).

Note that you do not have to touch it actually, it's just like your living room, some like it carefully decorated, others leave it at its most basic form, still usable. There is no obligation whatsoever. It's fun though.

If you like coding, you can edit the blog's code or make your own theme, which is pretty cool, I've learned some html modifying mine.

- You can ask stuff, anonymously or not, hitting the ask button on people's blogs. They will answer by a post, they can make it public. There is also a private direct messaging thingy.

- Tags work similarly than Twitter, meaning if you click on "#spn" you will see all things tagged spn - simple. There is some sorts of trends though it's not exactly the same as Twitter obviously.

But they are different in the sense that they serve also for organisational purpose: they are used to identify what's in the post, so that you can navigate blogs more easily. It's more like labelling your Tupperwares so you find them easily in your kitchen, you know what I mean ? The tags are also labels. The tagging system is also important when you set your blog up. You can put tags in the post but that's useless, the tag section is there for it.

- You can check on my blog (on web not app) to visualise it: you can add tabs and pages to your blogs: for example, let's say you want people to find your fanfics easy: you tag all your fanfic posts "fanfic"; on web, when you click then on the tag from your blog, you will have an url with "tagged/fanfic" at the end, you take that and when you create a new page on your blog (it's well explained how to do that in the settings), you use that url to create your tab. Sounds a bit complicated, just said like that, maybe but I promise it's simple. So you see the tagging system is useful to organise your blog.

You can also make pages to add information, like you would do with a carrd or a pinned tweet, you see. (You can pin a post here too). You can make it an "about me" page, or a list of your main tags, etc, whatever you like.

- Side note about tags: if you click a tag from your dashboard, you'll see all posts linked to this tag. If you click the tag from your blog, you will see all the posts you have reblogged or written - the ones that are present on your blog.

- You can communicate stuff in the tags, it's a whole extra expression space. Typically people use it to add comments they don't want people to reblog, personnal additions, remarks, rants, jokes, etc... There is no rule about not commenting whatever you like on posts but that extra space is often used for all kind of reasons.

The only thing is that back then the op wasn't notified for tags, it was pretty much a silent thing betweet you and your followers, now you can see all of them in the post's notes and notifications. So beware what you say, obviously don't be rude, and don't be alarmed if people answer to your tags, it's not so silent and discreet anymore. I kinda like reading people's tags on my posts but I prefered when mine weren't visible by everyone, to be honest lol

There is a character limit on tags, you can't actually add essays but you can write a lot (trust me). And as the comma and quotation marks "activates" the tag and separates them you can't write commas and quotation marks in the tags - I personally replace them with - or ; and ' when needed. It's something to get used to.

- Again on tags: typically, you put trigger warnings in the tags (though you'll see often posts starting with the tw, you can add both, just add them I guess), you can specify "personal" and "don't reblog" to warn people you'd like a cup of tea /i . And, not everyone does it but personally I appreciate when people tag the spoilers and specific themes, shows, characters or ships, so I can hide the posts marked with that tag.

- When tags are blocked you can still see the masked post show up in your dash, with its tags visible, which honestly is perfect bc you often get context in case you want to block words in certain contexts and not others, and if you block stuff momentarily (like spoilers) - you can still save the post to read it later without having to do it with your eyes closed.

- About discourse : of course there's discourse here, there's call out posts too, there's shit and obnoxious people just like everywhere else, don't come here with the idea that it's a heavenly place where everything is pretty and safe from all things annoying. There's discourse here too. There's bullying here too. About all sorts of subjects. (I've seen the queer slur discourse here like DAYS ago). There's shitty people here too. That's internet, contrary to what a certain post said, that's unescapable. And sure that's annoying but that's a fact of life - now you can shield yourself as much as possible by blocking people but honestly don't expect your experience to be way way different than Twitter in that aspect. Maybe less right wing old dudes bc Tumblr doesn't host the same démographic, though there was a nazi problem for a while, I don't know if they're still here tbqh, but that's overall not much much better, let's be honest.

- On your left, old time resident mr Neil Gaiman - but he answers "wait and see" to everything. /j

- Speaking of celebs, there isn't as many on Tumblr (it's said some have secret blogs but shhh 🤫), but there is often ask & answer events that are announced at the top of the dash.

- You won't be penalised for using certain words (even die or dead, the "unalive" wave doesn't crash on this shore), and you can put links if you like, even cashapp, kofi, paypal, etc, there's virtually nothing that will make you invisible in people's dashboards.

The only way you'll get shadowbanned here is if the Tumblr bots think you're a bot or a porn blog. Learn more here.

- But until recently, sorry there's a but, since the great "no tits" debacle, there's a bot that flagged your nuddity posts and it was so hilariously flawed omg (it flagged fucking DUNES I will never forget ahah) - anyway when they flag your post they hide it and you can make an appeal if needed, but honestly I don't think as much problem occured with it since a long while, that thing improved with time and the good thing is you can post artistic tits again! o/ yay

- There's virtually no character limit - there is one, but you'll need to write a long time until you hit it lol (I did once).

- Therefore : threads don't mean the same here. Here threads are successions of multiple people's comments. It makes for some interesting (and often hilarious) participative posts. Because there is no need here to cut your text into small posts, unless you are writing your memoirs or some shit. Look how much I've written already. 🫲Twitter could never. And if posts are long, you can add a "read more" button so it doesn't mean you have to scroll through gigantic blocs of text in your dash. and in the settings you can make long posts look shorter in your dash automatically.

- Related: threads aren't the same, you can't reblog/retweet a post that's in the middle of a thread. I mean, on Twitter you can RT the 1st tweet of the thread, or the 3rd, RT a reply easily - and in your TL only this one tweet appears - you can't really do that here. First of all here there is comments (or captions) and replies, those are not the same. If you want to reblog someone's comment to a post, you'll have to reblog it from their blogs - doable but honestly a bit tedious. And you will always reblog the last answer and all the ones that comes before. You reblog whole conversations, see.

So when you scroll through dash, you WILL experience mini heart attacks when seeing the 1st lines of some posts until you see the arguments that are closer to your moral standards - meaning you'll often see posts that are "shitty comment" then ten replies until you see the ones that says "wtf, it's shitty" - you need to endure the whole thing until you see stuff you agree with ahah, trust me this is FUN

- Here you don't livetweet, you liveblog. Otherwise it's the same. I'm sad I can't do both at the same time but it's equally fun on twitter and tumblr, especially for ESC.

- Like Tumblr said on Twitter: if you scroll your dash long enough you will have seen all of your friends posts. Yes.

- You can make your experience a lot better with the New XKit extension. Explaining it would take a whole ass post of its own so I'm not going to do that here but they have an account here where they explain everything, give updates and answer questions. I can only suggest to give it a look once you're familiar with how Tumblr works without it and with what doesn't work well.

- You can edit posts. You can schedule posts. Take it in 😌

You can edit them and actually - WOW - civilisation hasn't collapsed and bad people still can be held accountable for their shitty comments! Like on Facebook and Instagram too. Let it happen on Twitter, let it be the one good thing that'll happen amidst that awful chaos.

There's a twist though: you can edit your post, sure, but if someone reblogged the post before you could edit it, there will be two versions of your post in the wild. It can be a little bit frustrating. One way to avoid that: let your big and important posts sit in the drafts for a while so you can fix it before publishing it. An advice I never seem to follow.😬

- You can also change text size, font, put it in bold, italic, colour, you can make it gradiant like in Skyblog's most glorious hours, etc, and yes you can put alt text on pictures. You can add links or pictures in the middle of a post - I mean those are blog posts, so 🤷‍♀️

- The app is shit though ☆(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ* (to be fair not as much as a few years back, honestly, but still, not ideal)(I'm using the app 🥲)

- And you can't translate posts easily, which tbh I think is a big flaw

- Tumblr is flawed but fun and it can be better, the updates are always shit, but it has well intentions and a nice staff.

I guess there's a lot of other stuff to say but honestly we've covered the main things to know and more. All the "rules" and "etiquette" you will learn as you go, Tumblr is no rocket science, it's simple and fun, it's a meme goldmine, great community experience. There's not real rules, you can use that site however you want, no one cares, nothing is serious, have fun, don't let people gatekeep this place with bs rules, build your space as you like, make it look like you. Welcome 👋

Edit: here is a post giving a tour of the settings + some reco about Xkit

#psa #my posts #tumblr #for twitter newcomers #twitter exodus

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grisler · 3 years ago

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KNOWING YOUR PARTNER WELL CAN POTENTIALLY MAKE WRITING TOGETHER A LOT EASIER.

REPOST DO NOT REBLOG !!

NAME: xander PRONOUNS: any pronouns. PREFERENCE OF COMMUNICATION: discord! NAME OF MUSE(s): dante esposito / grisler

EXPERIENCE/HOW LONG (MONTHS / YEARS?): i started rping on deviantart in 2011, before switching to the tumblr rp scene in 2012... meaning ive been in the rpcom for 10 years now. sad.

BEST EXPERIENCE: call me toxic or whatever one time i made an rp blog under an alias and just wrote with people from the tags outside of my circle at the time and honestly it was the most fun ive ever had on this website

RP PET PEEVES/DEALBREAKERS:

i’m starting to get more and more disillusioned with tumblr speak/dashboard commentary because most times its not worth stressing over tbh. the only times i actively care is if genuinely dangerous shit is happening. also i find alot of it is just glaringly inauthentic to begin with so

don’t really dig entitled behaviour, rubs me the wrong way

bad communicators / people that always need to be right about everything like damn bitch chill! its never that serious

MUSE PREFERENCES FLUFF, ANGST OR SMUT: i tend to write lots of angst because miserable shit is just easier to dig up than the other two. i don’t really like writing nsfw often but this muse right here is very much a promiscuous little freak let me tell ya ! fluff stuff is cute in like bite sized amounts but happy stuff actively makes me cringe so

PLOTS OR MEMES: i am honestly terrible at both sorry idk i dont know how to balance shit in my head. need to get better at like plotting shit long term without feeling like im in a fixed contract :sob: as for memes i like them but sometimes i think the rpc forgets alot of times theres just nothing u can do with the memes they reblog. like what taylor swift lyric would my muse casually say in regular conversation. please be serious

about me and memes: alot of time i don’t send them in because i don’t want to intrude tbh KSNJSDND like memes feels like a minimum effort = maximum return type deal. ill only send like multiple in if we’re friends but if we’re moots i might send in one in once in a while

LONG OR SHORT REPLIES: honestly idk. i like short replies because its easier for my attention span but also i look at long threads and im like woah. i want to do that so idk

BEST TIME TO WRITE: that cute little 11pm-4am period. do not @ me

ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE(S): i sort of put in like little things based off my own experiences so i can like ... relate to them. but its never enough to tread on self insert territory because i would never have the gumption to do shit grisler does. but he is religiously traumatized just like me <3

tagged by: stole from an oomf... tagging: anyone that wants to do this !.

#TBT.#^.^

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ours-is-feral-love · 6 years ago

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Summary: Caroline’s dog goes into labour in the middle of the night, and the only person who can help is her neighbour, Klaus. Who she happens to hate. Very much.

Help Me, Hate Me, Love Me

She wakes up to a scratching on her door. Her eyes snap open. The dark room is silent save for the small fan whirring in the corner, there only to combat the New Orleans heat. She waits, her breath held, her heart colliding with her ribs, for a repeat of the scratching. After a few moments of quiet, she settles back underneath the covers and closes her eyes. It must have been a branch on her window. Or a phantom noise in a dream. Nothing to worry about.

Several seconds after she closes her eyes, the scratching returns. She sits up, frightened despite her usually rational disposition. Pressing her silk nightgown against her chest, she takes in a single deep breath and goes over her options. She can call the police. But that would be silly - she doesn't even know what the source of the scratching is. It could be nothing and then she would be humiliated for wasting police time. She can grab the scissors on her bedside table and investigate. If it is someone breaking in, hopefully they don’t have a gun. She hasn't played this specific twist game of rock, paper, scissors, but she is fairly certain gun beats scissors every time.

Or, she can listen to the rational parts of her brain - truly, the majority - and leave the scissors and her cell phone and check on the rest of her small house by herself. She is brave enough for that.

Climbing out of bed, Caroline Forbes straightens the lacy bottom of her nightgown against her thighs and tucks her blond hair behind her ears. One must look confident to be confident. She has always thought so. Heading for the door, she swings it wide open as if to spook whatever intruders may be lurking on the other side. She almost says ha! But there are no large men wearing black ski masks and brandishing guns. There is only a fat border collie lying on the floor outside her room, her head lifting just enough to look Caroline in the eye.

"Hey, Addie, what's the matter?" Caroline asks, crouching. She weaves her fingers through the dogs thick fur. Addie whines in response and looks at Caroline pleadingly.

Caroline frowns. Smoothing her hand lower to Addie's swollen belly, Caroline's eyes go wide. "No," she whispers. Of course. How could she forget? "But..." she sputters, "but you're not due for another week!"

But there is no other explanation for the scratching at the door and the lethargy and that human-like glint in her dark eyes. Addie is in labour. Her puppies are coming.

And Caroline has no clue what she is doing.

Scrambling to her feet, Caroline races to the closet outside her bathroom and grabs the dog birthing bag she gathered when she discovered the first foster dog she ever brought home was pregnant. She rushes back to Addie. Her mind races as she dumps the bag at her feet. Out pours the whelping kit - a handful of old newspapers, cheap towels, a couple of raggedy bed sheets, a pair of round tip scissors plus a haemostat she is not prepared to use in the slightest, and dental floss in case Addie starts bleeding from one of the umbilical cords. She gets to her knees and quickly sorts through everything, placing each item to the side in order of when she should need to use it.

"Okay," she says aloud after spreading the sheets and newspaper out and helping Addie on to the makeshift bed. "We can do this, right, girl?" she asks. Addie side-eyes her. "Yeah, I'm kinda freaking out too. And I guess you can pick up on that. But it's okay, because we've got the internet on our side!" She waves her cell phone around. Addie continues looking unconvinced, and Caroline thinks this is the most judgemental look anyone has ever given her.

Twenty minutes pass by and nothing has happened, and Caroline starts thinking that they do not, in fact, have this under any sort of control. She panics internally, hoping Addie cannot pick up on her freak out but knowing damn well she can.

All of the websites she has looked at say to phone the vet if a puppy hasn't been delivered within one-two hours of the start of active labour, but Caroline doesn't actually know what that means.

"I'm gonna kill you and your puppies, aren't I?" she says, stroking Addie's belly. The dog whines as if asking, begging, for help. "No, I was kidding. I hope. We can do this. You can do this!"

Another ten minutes goes with no movement.

She cannot do this. Nor can Addie it appears.

Caroline gets to her feet and starts pacing. Then she remembers something she wishes she didn't remember. One of her neighbours grew up on a breeding farm. The thought sours Caroline's tongue, but if he can help in any way, it would not only save Caroline a huge load of money, it would mean getting this done sooner rather than agonisingly later.

The only issue is that she and this particular neighbour have never gotten along well. Literally never. The first day Caroline moved in, he rebuffed her offer of homemade triple caramel cupcakes and they have been practical enemies ever since.

Does she really want to invite him inside her house?

Addie makes up Caroline's mind for her. She lets out a long, pained whimper and Caroline finds herself banging on the man's door one minute later, wishing she had put something over her rather revealing nightgown.

It doesn't take long for him to come to the door.

"Who the fuck do you think you are," he says as the door opens, "knocking on my door at two o'clock in the fucking morning?"

He is dressed about as indecently as her. He is in boxer shorts and nothing else, and in the moonlight his sinewy torso glistens. His bronze curls are a mess atop his head. Stubble dots his cheeks. Sleep invades the corners of his blue eyes.

Caroline wastes no time. "My dog is in labour. I need your help. Something isn't going right. Please." She didn't have to add the please. She actually wishes she hadn't. The British bastard doesn’t deserve it.

A look of pure confusion wafts over his sleepy face. He scratches his jaw. "Is this a dream?" he asks, his eyes wandering to her breasts.

Caroline stands her ground. "Are you gonna help me or not?"

He rolls his eyes. "I've not aided in a delivery since I was 17."

"Right. Well, I've never done this, so I think the fact that it's only been fifteen years for you compared to thirty years for me, is a fucking ridiculous point for you to make."

"You think I'm only 32," he says, his hand going to his chest. "How flattering."

"I don't care how old you are! Will you help me? Please." The damn word sneaks out again.

"Fine. For the dog. Not for you."

"Thank you," she says, ignoring the jab.

And that is how she ends up with Klaus Mikaelson standing in her upstairs landing wearing only his boxer shorts and a pair of latex gloves.

Her friend back home in Virginia, Bonnie, would be freaking out if she saw him. She has always had this wild idea that they secretly want to jump each other's bones. Caroline supposes she isn't all wrong. If she had a chance to jump on Klaus's literal bones, she might take it.

"You're not happy, are you? You want them out and they're just not coming," Klaus says soothingly. His hand goes back and forth over Addie's belly. The furry beast looks at Klaus with no condescension in her eyes.

"Is anything seriously wrong?"

Klaus, seemingly reluctantly, looks over his shoulder at her. "I don't think so. She isn't in distress. She's just uncomfortable. We can get these pups out without issue, I think."

"Oh, thank god." Caroline leans against the wall and smiles. For the next however long, she can put her hatred for Klaus in a little box and then as soon as these puppies are all out, they can go right back to seriously disliking one another.

. . .

"And that's the last one," Klaus says, handing the wriggling, slimy thing to Caroline before removing his gloves. She wipes it off, giggling, and places it beside the other five, and takes off her own gloves.

It took nearly an hour for all six to come out, but there they are. All goopy, tiny, and the cutest things Caroline has ever seen. Addie nudges them, cleaning the stuff Caroline did not get to.

"We did it!" Caroline exclaims to Klaus, standing at the same time as him. He is covered in blood and fluid. And he is smiling. She doesn't think she's ever seen him smile. It suits him. "We fucking did it!"

She goes in to hug him. At least, she thinks that was her first instinct. Hug.

But it isn't a hug.

In a momentary lapse of common sense, maybe because of all of the adrenaline, it is their mouths that meet. Caroline almost squeals in surprise. Her eyes close as her lips press against Klaus's. His hands cup her cheeks. Hers hold his forearms.

He tastes like mint.

Heat blooms across her cheeks, and when she finally pulls herself away, she is panting.

"Um," she says, placing her hands on her hips, "thanks, by the way. For your, uh, for your help."

He shrugs, sitting back against the opposite wall as if they did not just spend a few long seconds with their tongues in each other's mouths. "I'm sure you could have done it. I think she could just pick up on how terrified you were. She needed a stable influence."

Caroline scoffs. "Right. You, stable."

"I've done this countless times. She knew that I was better prepared than you," he says smugly.

"She's my dog," Caroline defends. "She trusts me."

"Clearly not enough to safely deliver her puppies."

Now that the ordeal is over, that box snaps open. "Whatever. Thanks for your help, Klaus, but you can go now. I've got this." Caroline makes a move for the bathroom, and suddenly someone is clutching her wrist. She looks down.

"Wait, wait, I'm sorry," Klaus says. Another first. After all the things he's done - mowing over her flower bed because it apparently was creeping on to his lawn; calling the police on her when she has having a small get together with work friends all because he didn't like the music they were listening to; sneering at her and Addie whenever they passed him on a run; kissing her - he has never apologised. "I'm glad I was able to help. This just brings back all sorts of unhappy memories."

He is still holding her wrist. His touch is warm. Hot. Blistering against her skin.

She wants to pull away, but she doesn't want him to stop talking.

"What kind of unhappy memories?"

His eyes go in a circle. "All you shrinks are the same," he says. But he goes on, his hand around her wrist, his index finger pressed against her pulse point. "When I was kid in England, I had this dog. His name was Doodles"--

--"Doodles?"

"Right, you Americans don't know what the Tweenies is. Doodles is a puppet dog from a British kids show."

"Ah." Caroline nods her head. "Go on."

Klaus lets go of her wrist and she suddenly feels ice cold. "Well, I loved this dog. He was my best mate, and for a while I thought he'd never die." Klaus stares at the puppies, and Caroline's stomach turns over. "Well, when I was 17, my dad found out I'd been sneaking out at night. He didn't like that. So, he took Doodles and shot him. Right in front of me as punishment for disobeying him."

Caroline's jaw goes slack. She wants to say something, but how the fuck does one respond to that?

"I - I'm so sorry," is what she settles on. She looks down at Addie. In just a couple of months, the dog has managed to climb inside Caroline's heart. She can't imagine losing her. And she can't imagine what it would be like if in ten years someone took her and killed her. Someone she was supposed to trust. "That's horrible."

He shrugs again. As if it's nothing. "I left that afternoon. Crashed on couches doing odd jobs until I could afford a ticket to the States. Wound up here. I'm happy now, I think."

Caroline doesn't think, but she refuses to say that out loud.

"I should go," he says, getting to his feet. He looms over Caroline even though he can't be more than a few inches taller.

"Yeah, okay," she says softly. Then she says something else. Something stupid. Something she would never normally say. "Or, you could stick around. We're both pretty disgusting. I have a shower that can easily fit two people."

She will forever blame it on the excitement of safely getting the pups out of Addie. On Klaus’s sob story. On Bonnie’s insistence that they were secretly in love with each other.

But it was the kiss. On top of everything else, it was the kiss. And those eyes. Those sad blue eyes.

Klaus tilts his head. He looks exactly like Addie when she's perplexed. "I thought you hated me."

"So what if I do?" she challenges.

"I thought I hated you," he says.

"Again, so. What."

He smiles again, only this one is darker. Dangerous.

"Lead the way," he says.

Caroline matches his smile and reaches for his hand.

#fanfiction #klaroline #klaus x caroline #caroline forbes #klaus mikaelson #klaroline fanfiction #klaroline drabble #sort of #romance #my writing #mine

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The Great Awakening

You have arrived.

It’s been a long journey. Take a moment. Take a deep breath. Get a glass of water and sit down. This is going to be long. It’s going to make you uncomfortable. It’s not what you thought it was going to be, but it’s what you didn’t even know you needed to hear. The totality of this is greater than the sum of its parts and I implore you to read all the way to the end. It’s going to make you angry. It’s going to make you feel a lot of things you don’t want to feel, but you wanted to wake up and this was the only way. You are going to want to dismiss it. People will tell you not to read it. Belief is the most powerful force in this universe, and your belief is about to be challenged in a way you didn’t expect. Fortunately, you don’t have to actually believe anything written here. All you have to do is read it with an open mind. If you get to the end of this your thinking will change. You will be one step closer to being free, and then you can then go on to free the others. Where we go one, we go all.

Before we go any further, we need to set some ground rules:

1) The language here is going to seem really… off, but I promise you it will make sense by the end. This document is designed to be interpreted _literally_. I can’t stress that enough. Do not look for hidden clues—there are none. There is no misdirection, no deeper meaning, no numerology or special calendar to look at. This is the end of the line. This is a 1:1 conversation, speaking as open and honestly as possible. We are just two people having a chat. Any other meaning you try to derive outside of what is written here is on you.

2) Much of this is about language. To some, the language is going to seem very strange, crude, cryptic, nerdy, or childish at times. I’m trying to be as authentic as possible. Please understand it is not meant to be interpreted as racist, sexist or bigoted. Internet culture, “the chans” in particular, have a kind of language that is systemically all these things, but people do not interpret the language literally in use. I will try to keep it as civil and digestible as possible.

3) Be kind to yourself. Be kind to each other.

And before we even really get started, we need to everyone on the same level, with something that approaches a fair knowledge base. Over the past three years people have joined this movement from all around the world. Q Drops have been translated into dozens of languages. There are now mobile apps, shirts, hats, podcasts and documentaries. QAnon means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. As I’m writing this, former military generals are swearing oaths to QAnon. The movement has grown beyond anything I could have possibly imagined. Many people are joining the QAnon movement, but they don’t really understand what they are reading. They are confused. I want to talk just briefly about the history of a part of the internet where QAnon comes from, not in an attempt to legitimize myself as some elder sage, but to build understanding. To truly understand all of this you need context. Context about the people and platforms that now bring you your information—and ultimately, your news.

Some of you go all the way back to the Something Awful forums and the days when platforms like IRC and ICQ still felt new. Some of you literally just joined yesterday. I am going to give you an abbreviated history of the chans as it pertains QAnon. Most people know 4chan and 8chan as the place where Q lives online, but they don’t really understand them. “No outside comms” seems to be what the 99% of QAnon understands—that these are the “official” channels where Q posts. But have you ever been there? Have you ever really gone to boards and looked at them? Some you have, but the vast, vast majority of QAnon followers have not. Perhaps that is no surprise, as they aren’t easily comprehensible. So, let’s talk briefly about three things: Something Awful, 4chan, and 8chan/8kun. And I do mean briefly. You could write a book about each of these, but we can move forward with some broad strokes that should give you the context you need to truly understand Q.

We have to quickly go back to 1999. In 1999 someone known as “Lowtax” created a website called Something Awful (which I will refer to as SA going forward), which still exists today. You can go and check it out if you like. Before Facebook and Twitter, before YouTube even existed, and even before most people knew what Google was, there was Something Awful. SA has been a lot of things over the years, but it is mostly a forum—a message board. On SA everyone was mostly anonymous because, at the time, no one other than academics used their real name on the internet. SA was a semi-private board. It was the internet’s first large “secret society” of sorts. It was mostly focused on video games and Adobe Flash content, and it birthed some of the internet’s very first memes. It was a trollish but a (mostly) well-meaning community of nerds. Some members, known as the “GoonSquad” or just “Goons” would often group up and bombard players of the early MMORPGs to troll them. It was (mostly) harmless fun and pranks. In the late 90’s and early 00’s only nerds were on the internet anyway, so it was mostly nerds trolling other nerds in video games. You could identify other Goons by asking as simple question: “Do you have stairs in your house?” If someone answered, “I am protected,” then you knew they were a fellow Goon.

Why am I talking about this? Well, if you had to pick a place to put on a birth certificate for where internet culture itself was born, Something Awful would be that place.

A few years later someone known at the time only as “moot” created a website called 4chan. 4chan is a fully anonymous (seemingly, anyway) message board, based on a Japanese message board design known as 2chan. It’s actually better described as an “imageboard,” since you have to upload an image with every post. 4chan was open to all. There were few rules, and on some boards—none. Post whatever you want, do whatever you want. For the most part, everyone except moot himself was simply labeled as, “Anonymous.” This is where the “Anon” in QAnon comes from.

Like SA, 4chan was originally a haven for nerds talking about video games and anime. But its anonymous and open nature allowed to build its own form. The most iconic memes, from lolcats themselves to Rickrolling and beyond, started on 4chan. SA might have birthed internet culture, but 4chan gave it form—and it still powers much of the creativity of internet itself to this day. The anonymous nature of the form allowed for a kind of collaborative creativity that—and I truly believe this—has changed the world for the better. It’s a special kind of creativity and one that you really need to experience if you want to understand it. On 4chan you will see new creative concepts born and shaped in real time, and you can watch them spread around the world. You can contribute whenever and whatever you like, and the community then gets to riff on your contribution. 4chan has even birthed new formats and new types of creativity. I want to talk about some of these specifically, to provide some kind of context for what “the chans” are really all about it, but we are just scraping the surface here. You might have to Google around for quite some time to truly understand this if you are new.

Among the myriad of things that get posted on 4chan, one of them is known as a “green text” or “green text story.” A green text is a short story format that includes green colored text and a small picture, often a meme of some kind, like a Pepe. It can be pages long or just a few lines. It is often written in broken sentences and shorthand. They often start with the line, “be me…” and then launch into a short narrative. They can be true or fictional or somewhere in-between. They are often designed to be shocking, depressing or trollish, but they can also be uplifting. It is perhaps the simplest and most pervasive form of content on 4chan other than image macros themselves. I’m going to coin a new phrase and call this a form of Creative Anonymous Fiction or CAF for short. The anonymous nature of the platform lets you tell a story in a new way. Often times people will take green texts and remix them, giving them a different ending. I could post examples, but I’d be doing you a disservice. You are better off looking them up and reading them yourself until you understand it.

Green texts can sometimes end with what’s called copypasta, which is a type of bamboozle. Copypasta is a snippet of short form copy that gets reposted over and over again. A bamboozle is a type of switcheroo—you start telling what the reader feels is a novel story, building to some climax, and then end it with a classic copypasta for that “gotcha” moment. It is, essentially, a prank. A text based prank. This sort of content now exists all over the place, far beyond the reaches of just 4chan. You might be wondering where all of this is going… we’ll get to that. In some ways this is actually the most important part of this entire document. I wanted to make sure that everyone has some context for what is to come, but I can assure this is going somewhere. Please do not let this extensive clarification distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.

So that’s a quick overview of the playful side of things. But on 4chan you will also see some dark and disgusting shit. With the good comes the bad—and the bad can be really bad. Because everyone is anonymous, everyone subject to being hassled by other anonymous posters. Everyone is gay, a fag, a retard or an autist. A thread without insults is a failed thread. The more people who tell you how gay and fake your shit is, the more people actually like it. 4chan may have given us lolcats, but it also ended up being a place for violence, misogyny, bullying, extreme racism—and even far more heinous things. For 12 years moot moderated the site. May criticized him at the time, but I think we can all look back now and know that he really did a fantastic job. For over a decade he was the beam scale that balanced free speech against the darkest depths of humanity—and I meant that literally. He developed a system to help identify “anonymous” posters and worked with the FBI to put away pedophiles, child pornographers, and even would-be domestic terrorists. He did this all while being told constantly how gay he was and how many dicks he sucked (as is the way). Moot was a hero we never deserved.

The two most popular boards on 4chan are /pol/ (for politics) and /b/ (which stands for random). People who post on these boards are often referred to as /pol/tards and /b/tards respectively, with /b/ being one of the more nefarious (but also one of the more creative) boards as it had essentially no rules on what you could post. If “tard” sounds harsh, know that it is said lovingly. Even seniority within the community itself is derogatory. There are “oldfags” and “newfags,” where being called an oldfag is an informal compliment and recognition of seniority. Opinions will differ, but oldfags are generally recognized as being those who were around 4chan since before the pool was closed—one of the very first large raids. In 2006 a sort of prank was organized on 4chan by a group of Anons to “raid” the Flash game Habbo Hotel. Hundreds of people created black avatars in the game and went around spamming the chat with racist and anti-Semitic nonsense, drawing swastikas and blocking off the pool area in the game, declaring that the, “Pool’s closed due to AIDS.” Why? For laughs. The average age of the userbase for this game was around 15 years old. Then again, the average age of the then Anons was probably the same. There is a lot more to this story, and I encourage you to look it up if you have the time, but the point is that this event eventually lead to 30 seconds in the spotlight on some news outlets. This was the first big event that was attributed to 4chan and Anonymous as a group. It was the first time that most people outside of the depths of the internet had ever even heard of 4chan.

After this, more newfags joined. 4chan grows and the subgroup of /b/tards and /pol/tards that would come be to known more formally as “Anonymous” starts to take shape. All the while, moot is trying to balance what content stays and what content goes. The rest, as they say, is history. You start to see all kind of digital activism being organized on 4chan. Raids turn into DDoS (Distributed denial of service) attacks that shut down websites. People get arrested. Splinter groups form. Anonymous becomes more political. /b/ and /pol/ start to leak out of the internet and into the real world. People start protesting various things, like the Church of Scientology, wearing the iconic mask that the character V wears in the movie V for Vendetta. Logos are created. Anonymous comes into its own as a digital force. The group aligns itself with what DnD players call, “Chaotic Good.” Anons enjoy playing a character that is either an anti-hero or anti-villain. Sometimes Anons will pretend to have some super elite hacker ability, and while that is sometimes true it is mostly embellishment. Some people refer to this as Live Action Role Playing (LARP or LARPing), but it is not quite that. LARPing is when people take their Dungeons and Dragons game to the next level or dress up like Harry Potter characters and roleplay out in the woods. What happens on 4chan is very much a form of roleplaying, but one specifically shaped by the anonymous nature of the platform. I’m going to coin a second term here—Creative Anonymous Role Playing, or CARPing. More on this later.

Moot continues to run 4chan until 2015. During that time, it gets harder and harder to manage. Anonymous becomes more unruly, and the site starts to spiral. Cyberbulling goes to a whole new level. There are celebrity nude photo leaks. Gamergate. A series of actual murders and killings get posted on 4chan. 4chan didn’t cause them, but that’s where the content ended up living. The site starts to become unmanageable with the old rules in place. Why moot bothered to keep it going I’ll never understand. There was never much money in the site itself and it always seemed like a huge headache. But the site starts to take moderation more seriously as harassment ramps up.

Boards like /pol/ start to get more strict rules. Even /b/ starts to see more and more threads get removed. In 2013, a piece of shit Anon known as “Hotwheels” doesn’t like what’s happening to 4chan decides to splinter the group and starts 8chan. While moot is trying to wrangle 4chan into something better, Hotwheels goes in the reverse direction and starts empowering (and in some ways, encouraging) harassment with things like Gamergate. 8chan doesn’t remove anything. No morals. Doesn’t matter who gets hurt. Free speech above all.

This stance obviously has consequences. While moot would work with law enforcement, Hotwheels gives them the proverbial middle finger. As a result, all of the bad actors now had a new platform. You see swatting become a popular tactic. More and more violent threats. While moot would work with the FBI to help track down pedophiles and terrorists, Hotwheels decides to relocate the site to Philippines (where the age of consent is 12, mind you). He can barely keep the site running. No one wants to host this content; he can’t even keep the .com anymore because the registrars don’t want to work with him. Hotwheels finds some other shitstain in Manila who runs a pig farm and a porn site designed to get around Japanese pornography laws. They partner up. After three shootings (Christchurch, Poway, and El Paso) in 2019 where the shooters posted their manifesto to 8chan, Hotwheels finally admits the site got away from. The site shut down for a while, but the pig farmer and his son started it back up and rebranded it as 8kun after finding a Russian hosting provider who was willing to host the content. It is now a safe harbor for literally the worst of humanity, and you don’t have to take my word for it. Even Hotwheels himself now advocates for shutting the site down, but the pig farmer and his son have run away with it.

This is where your information comes from. This is where it lives.

Now that you have a better understanding of who is creating this information—your news—it is time. This next part is going to be hard.

You have been bamboozled. QAnon is a hoax. It may well be one of—if not THE—greatest, most pervasive, hoaxes of all time.

How do I know this? Because I am Q. In fact, I am the original Q. One of them, anyway.

This is the point where many will stop reading. You are likely either angry or starting to feel embarrassed. I’m going to ask you to try and put those feelings aside for a moment and keep reading. You have absolutely no reason to feel embarrassed. This isn’t your fault. You did nothing wrong. You got caught in a world you didn’t fully understand and there are people now trying to prey on you at every corner to sell you hats and t-shirts.

If you are willing to go forward, allow me to explain.

What has happened here is what I’m going to call a “Galaxy Quest” moment. There is a lovely movie that came out in 1999 called Galaxy Quest. If you aren’t familiar with it, it’s worth a watch. It’s a family friendly comedy about an advanced alien race who watches a TV show made on Earth called Galaxy Quest. Galaxy Quest is a TV show, but the aliens don’t know it. They refer to the TV show as the, “historical documents.” They built an entire civilization around the historical documents, never realizing it was a TV show. It’s a fun concept. If you haven’t seen it, watch it. Anyway, the aliens weren’t stupid. In fact, they were the furthest thing from stupid as they made all the science fiction from the show come to life (although they are portrayed are dumb for the sake of comedy). The aliens simply did not have the context necessary to understand what they were seeing. They didn’t realize it was fiction. They didn’t know what fiction was. That is what has happened here with QAnon. You have read things on platforms you didn’t fully understand, and you brought your own context and understanding to it. You read fiction as non-fiction and no one has bothered to explain to you how or why this content even exists.

We are going to go back as far as I can remember. I ask that other Anons corroborate what follows, not for me, but for those who are trapped by what has become a truly insidious ideology.

This all starts in the summer of 2016. Someone on /pol/ makes a post pretending to be someone working with “intimate knowledge” of the “Clinton case.” They made a post in the style of an AMA (which stands for Ask Me Anything, a form of Q&A popularized by reddit). This is just another form of CARPing (Creative Anonymous Roleplaying). The first two responses are: “Will the Hillary get Pregnant again?” and “Why are you on 4chan on a Friday night?” This thread almost instantly devolves into what is commonly known as a “shitpost.” It is nonsense. You might say to yourself, “Why would someone go on the internet and tell lies?” Well, this person isn’t really lying, they are shitposting. It is a form of artistic expression. It’s an attempt to get someone to suspend their belief for a few moments. Any seasoned oldfag or /pol/tard knows exactly what this kind of thread is. No one takes this literally.

However, at the time /pol/ is growing. You’ve got new people coming in daily. Much of /pol/ favors Donald Trump, broadly for his trollish nature and memeability, but also for his politics. Months later, someone cites the AMA as the FBI source behind the Pizzagate theory. This finds its way to Twitter. No one actually understands what they are reading, and no one checks the sources. Someone actually thought a months old shitpost on /pol/ was some kind of real leak. Long story short, someone goes into a Comet Ping Pong pizza with an AR-15 and starts shooting. A Friday night shitpost turned into shooting.

Fast forward about six months.

Someone on /b/ posts a depressing green text asking for recommendations on a new cult to join after they found out their girlfriend was cheating. Someone mentions that OP should become a Tibetan monk, because Tibetan Buddhism is a really great cult (e.g. because you can “light yourself on fire if you ever get too depressed OP”). Tibetan Buddhism goes on forever because the Dalia Llama gets reincarnated infinitely, so maybe if you are lucky you get to be him one day. This is the thinking. This isn’t exactly enlighted discussion. I respond suggesting that I have a great new cult that OP can join (which is loosely based on Heaven’s Gate, I’m just making this up on the spot). I had recently listened to a podcast about Heaven’s Gate and I was riffing on it. I loved the absurdity. OP asked for more sauce, but I decided to start a new thread instead.

Warning: This about to get really nerdy.

I started writing some shitposts with pseudo biblical writing, talking about saving humanity. I’m actually more embarrassed about it now than anything, as it was not my finest work. I would refer to “the awakening” as being the time when I would deliver the evidence that would let people “wake up” and realize we were in a simulation. Have you ever seen the Matrix? Yeah, like I said… not my finest work. I signed my posts as Q. Where did Q come from?

Well, initially, because of John de Lancie’s character of Q on Star Trek: The Next Generation. The character of Q was omnipotent and omnipresent. In the show he would speak to Captain Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise in his own form of strange riddles. Q took a particular interest in humanity as a whole and would appear as a jester-like sort of mix between an anti-hero and anti-villain, always giving Picard hints on how to expand his mind to solve a problem, usually to save all of humanity. So, this was my model.

The goal was to get a few believers and then set a date a few weeks later and reveal “the awakening.” The Awakening was just supposed to copypasta. It was a bamboozle. I was trolling I never even did it because I got bored with it. Most people could see through it (fake and gay) anyway. But someone was watching. Someone who likely called me fag and told me to choke on a bunch of dicks and kill myself was watching.

A few months later I start to see the first “Q” posts, which would eventually be called “Q Drops.” It migrates from /b/ to /pol/. Wow, so original. You took one shit idea from /b/ and made it political. Round of applause.

This person knew exactly what I was doing, not that what I did was that original either. Star Trek is pretty popular among internet nerds. But this is why Q has always talked the way he does. This was the model. This is where Q comes from. The “Q Clearance” stuff that came later is, well… coincidence. But not even a good coincidence because it doesn’t even really make sense, as that is a clearance for the Department of Energy.

The Q from Star Trek also exits as what is known as the “Q Continuum”, where there are other omnipotent beings, and everyone is referred to as Q. This is where the habit of Q referring to himself as “we” comes from. It’s a Star Trek fan, just like me—only one who managed to make a piece of creative anonymous fiction into something political. Likely for lulz at first, because lets be real no one thought it would turn into what it has.

I suspect that Q has been played by many different people over the last couple years as the tripcode has changed, but likely all of them are Star Trek TNG fans. You can really see it in the writing and the constant talk about ��humanity.” It’s also possible that the person currently playing Q is the same as the person who was shitposting in my original thread. It doesn’t even matter.

So that’s it. That’s Q. Q eventually moved from 4chan to 8chan and then 8kun. It should be obvious who controls the narrative now. There is nothing truly anonymous or secure about 8kun. We have technologies for that (i.e. tor, torrents, modern cryptography) and 8kun ain’t it. QAnon is the cash cow for the pig farmer and his son in the Philippines who run 8kun, giving a platform to future terrorists and pedophiles. There is a reason for “no outside comms” and “no dates”—control the narrative and keep the machine rolling as long as possible. Why? Money. Between ad revenue and merchandise QAnon is now a profitable venture. Even a broken clock is right twice a day, and eventually you will make some prediction that will feel real enough, even if 99% of everything you say is bullshit, and keep the train running. In fact, it’s much easier than you think.

Take the twitter account, for example.

In early June I saw a number of trending hashtags around #JFKJRRETURNS. I could not believe the amount of people who were latching onto this. I watched the account go from zero to tens of thousands of followers in a day or so and then disappear. Everyone was saying that Twitter “banned” him. But when Twitter bans an account the language on the page says that the account was suspended. The account page for this account said that “This account doesn’t exist.” That means one of two things: 1) the account holder changed usernames; or 2) the account holder deactivated the account. When you deactivate an account, it puts it into a 30-day limbo period where you can recover it. I thought to myself, “If I could get ahold of this account perhaps, I could do something good with it.” I never thought I’d actually be able to do it. Low and behold, thirty days later I went to see if the handle was available and it was. Now I would get to play Q once again.

I just started riffing on whoever was playing Q with the account before me. No idea who that was. The envelopes were just responses from various government departments, nothing more. The postmarks are meaningless. Turns out if you write a letter to a government agency they will respond, and you get some cool looking envelopes. You can try it if you want—pull a FOIA request on yourself. July 22 was a date I pulled out of my ass. HUMAnity and ALl GOod ThiNGs are just more references to Star Trek TNG. The last episode of the show is called All Good Things, hence ALGO TNG. The very first Q Drops on record talk about Huma Abedin, and I thought maybe someone would try to make a connection with, “HUMAnity.” The last post from !!Hs1Jq13jV6 also mentioned “humanity”, but I didn’t even make that connection. It’s really not hard for those coincidences to pop up when you are all playing the same character. Manila, well, you know what that refers to now. St. Augustine is a reference to St. Augustine, Florida, where the largest QAnon merchandise operation is run from. The mentions of Hotwheels, moot and having stairs in my house was my way of gauging to see if anyone really had any idea about anything. The strange code in my location was just a Google Maps Plus Code. I picked a spot in the middle of the ocean off the Cook Islands and pulled the code for it. Turns out I didn’t even do it right, so it shows a different answer for everyone when you plug it into Google Maps.

So that’s it. That’s the whole thing. Beginning to end. Call it whatever you like, but that’s the story. The story of the chans, of QAnon and how Q became Q. Do with this what you will. Believe or don’t believe, it doesn’t matter.

Maybe this is all 100% true. Maybe it’s all 100% nonsense. Maybe truth is somewhere in the middle. What’s important is that you have more information today than you did yesterday. Where we go from here is a choice, and one I leave to you. What will happen to me? Well, I’ve been at a standing desk for 14 hours straight in order to bring this to you. I have done what I set out to do over three years ago and fulfilled my purpose as Q. My palms are sweaty. My knees are weak, my arms are heavy. It’s starting to fall out of my pockets already.

Mom’s Spaghetti,

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Mr. Mueller’s team has recently questioned witnesses about the activities of longtime Trump confidante Roger Stone, including his contacts with WikiLeaks, and has obtained telephone records, according to the people familiar with the matter," reported Shelby Holliday, in the Wall Street Journal on Oct.19, 2018. Read Full Article Their next target: Could be you. Have you volunteered for a candidate or campaign? Are you a member of the GOP? Have you started a media company or blog? Have you posted about your political choices on social media? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you should care about this story. 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This is his timeline, which the Wall Street Journal has received and which Populist Media has received. STATEMENT ABOUT ADVANCE NOTICE OF HILLARY EMAILS TO WSJ BY STONE: " On June 12, 2016, Julian Assange announced to CNN that WikiLeaks had obtained MORE Hillary Clinton email. In March 2016, WikiLeaks had already posted a searchable database of tens of thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails. Assange was widely reported to be planning periodic releases of all the information he and his organization had received. My comments reflect what was common knowledge and expectation. It was around this time that Randy Credico told me whatever WikiLeaks had was "big" and would shake up the race and would drop in October. He was correct," Stone told the Wall Street Journal. STATEMENT ABOUT GUCCIFER TO WSJ BY STONE: "I initially believed that Guccifer 2.0 had hacked the DNC because he(?) publicly predicted the e-mails from WikiLeaks. I even wrote a piece for Breitbart saying so. I no longer believe, based on forensic evidence published in the NATION, that the DNC was ever actually hacked at all. The evidence shows that, based on download times, the purloined e-mails were downloaded to a portable storage device and taken out the door. Therefore, I doubt Guccifer 2.0 or anyone else hacked the DNC. I explained this evolution in my thinking, under oath, to the House Intelligence Committee. I have also said it publicly elsewhere. As for "He actually released them several weeks ago. They got no traction. He took them to Assange. Well, Assange put them out to WikiLeaks." This was a tip I got from a Guardian reporter. Probably also false. As to whether Guccifer 2.0 is a Russian, I note this is the claim of the Intelligence Community who claim he (?) left digital fingerprints of its hacks which prove it was a Russian. The WikiLeaks disclosures (Vault 7) show Intelligence Services have the technology to make it appear a hack came from somewhere other than where it came from. I also question why Guccifer 2.0 would be using a software program registered to a DNC staffer. The point is moot. I no longer believe Guccifer 2.0 hacked the DNC. I noted this in my sworn testimony. Hopefully, in the lawsuit in which I am being sued by the DNC we will finally get discovery to inspect the servers which the FBI was never allowed to inspect to determine if they were hacked at all. My attorneys have asked that they be preserved for discovery. Please reflect in your reporting that my 24-word exchange with the persona of Guccifer 2.0 took place after the DNC material had already been published so based on timing, context, and the actual content the DM exchange provides no evidence of collusion, collaboration, or coordination. This exchange was gratuitously included in the DOJ indictment of 12 Russian Intelligence Agents although Rod Rosenstein noted at the time "There is no allegation in this indictment that any American citizen committed a crime." As CNBC put it, "Rosenstein also highlighted that Friday's indictment does not allege that any American knowingly participated in the Russian operation." STATEMENT ABOUT SAM NUNBERG CLAIM TO WSJ BY STONE: "I supplied airline tickets, a hotel receipt, and restaurant receipts to show I was in Los Angles on the very day Sam said I was in London. The Post article misquoted me…After trying for 40 minutes to get Sam Nunberg off the phone on a Friday night, he asked if I had plans for the weekend." STATEMENT ABOUT ASSANGE CONNECTION TO WSJ BY STONE "I never said I had direct communication with Assange and I clarified it was thru a back channel. Just because I dramatized the facts for a partisan audience does not mean I fabricated them. Credico was my confirming source." STATEMENT ABOUT CLINTON FOUNDATION TO WSJ BY STONE The prediction regarding the Clinton Foundation is based on an e-mail as detailed here (click link) https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/22/roger-stone-WikiLeaks-claim-reporter-email/ This is the so-called second source as reflected in my e-mails. My tip is based on the content of this e-mail which Charles Ortel has confirmed the authenticity of. Ironically it turns out to be wrong. STATEMENT ABOUT ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE OF PODESTA EMAILS TO WSJ BY STONE "My tweet is based on the Aug 14th Breitbart Story that identified Tony Podesta's work for the same Ukrainian Political Party as Manafort and the extensive report on the Podesta brothers’ lucrative Russian business deals in gas, aluminum, uranium and banking. All of this was brought to my attention by Jerry Corsi who subsequently sent me a very well researched memo on their dealings that I planned to feed to certain reporters. I was going to be the one parsing out Corsi’s report, I was going to make it their time in the barrel. I later wrote a piece about their Russian Bank deal." FULL STATEMENT TO WSJ BY STONE "Let's get it exactly right "I had no advance knowledge about the acquisition and publication of John Podesta's e-mail.” “I had no advance notice of the source content or exact release date of the WikiLeaks DNC disclosures. I received nothing including hacked e-mails from Guccifer 2.0, the Russians, WikiLeaks or anyone else and therefore passed on nothing to Donald Trump and the Trump campaign or anyone else. My testimony in front of the House Committee was accurate and truthful." What I am guilty of is using publicly available information and a solid tip to bluff, posture, hype and punk the Democrats on Twitter. This is called Politics. It’s not illegal “ My testimony to the House Intelligence Committee was 100% accurate and truthful despite claims by hyper-partisans who enjoy congressional immunity from lawsuit. Reread this https://stonecoldtruth.com/randy-me-truth-about-WikiLeaks/ And to recap In September I was told by former Congressman Walter Fauntroy that he had brokered an agreement between Quadaffi and the Clinton State Department for Quadaffi to abdicate and gains safe passage out of the country. I was supplied a signed agreement which appeared to be genuine. I noticed an interview in which Assange said he had documents reflecting disagreement over whether to take out Quaddafi. I asked Credico if he knew if they had been posted. Why would I ask Randy if I was in communication with Assange in 2016? His response “ I can't be asking them for things every day….I’ll ask one of the lawyers.” He provided nothing. You characterize this as “digging dirt”. I call it legitimate political research. Congressman Fauntroy is a credible source and his story detailed. To be clear Dr. Corsi never told me Podesta’s e-mail had been acquired or gave any e-mails from those eventually published or indicated that he had seen them. E-Mail and text messages confirm events as outlined above and make no reference to Podesta’s e-mail being acquired." END OF STONE STATEMENTS Remember that Stone has been banned from Twitter and other platforms, so his reach is intentionally reduced in an organized media attack on his reputation. BEGINNING OF PERSECUTION https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1056979130070302720 https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1056922808201166848 https://twitter.com/LawWorksAction/status/1056931906804219904 and so on and so forth... YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT IF YOU PROMISE TO ROLL OVER THE PRESIDENT Unless the Media is publishing constant political attacks, dressed up as journalism. Unless they are given authority to libel your name, brand and reputation. Back in the old days, Americans had "civil liberties" and the right to a fair court trial. The American Mainstream Media, including the Wall Street Journal, has pitched that old-fashioned notion. And American activists and pundits are helpless to stop them. Unless we are brave enough to make a stand like Stone has done. Read the full article

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norcal-services-for-deaf-and-hh · 7 years ago

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Check out this rap from the Young Moot supporting #Deaf services on The Big Day of Giving! Learn more at www.norcalcenter.org/bdog Please share this video so NorCal can EDUCATE! ADVOCACTE! and EMPOWER!! Join us for "BDOG Happy Hour with ASL, POETRY, n RAP SLAM"! On May 3rd from 4pm-9pm at Corner Pocket Sports Bar, Sunrise Plaza Shopping Center, 7777 Sunrise Blvd, 1400, Citrus Heights, CA 95610. NorCal staff will be at this event to share their experiences of making a positive impact, and the community at large is welcome to go up on the stage to perform whatever floats their boat as an ASL, POETRY, n RAP SLAM. Everyone is welcome to join us at this fun celebration! Corner Pocket Sports Bar is donating 20% of food and beverage sales to NorCal! Please remember to let the cashier know when order that you are there for NorCal. What is the Big Day of Giving(BDOG)? On May 3rd, 2018 Sacramento area nonprofits will come together for a 24-hour online donation challenge! At any time on May 3rd you can visit our profile on the BDOG website and donate to help us reach our fundraising goal. Can I Schedule my Donation Early? Yes! Visit www.norcalcenter.org/bdog click "Donate Now" and fill out the form. Your card will not be charged until the Big Day of Giving on May 3rd. Your donation helps pay tuition for Deaf campers to go to Camp Grizzly. Keeps Deaf senior citizens connected. Provides emergency hotel stays for Deaf survivors of domestic violence. Supports Deaf Employment programs AND Much More! Check out the full transcript below!

Hey, how yall doing? It's Young Moot making music I'm feeling cool and I've got an idea what to do I'm looking in the mirror and I say hi to myself and think'n don't mind if I do Wonder'n how I could help Look'n for a place I can place my efforts Then I remember NorCal a place where hard of hearing and Deaf serves. That's why I'm rapping right now In case yall aint seen it or heard the events called Big Day of Giving Happening on May 3rd Donate to programs like Camp Grizzly Deaf children and their siblings meet others just like themselves Teamwork! Time to get busy! Senior Choices program Imagine Deaf seniors at home Not isolated with no options Cuz you saw these words as your own Statewide communication No life put on hold man That's why it's important to donate to Deaf Access Programs! And programs for Deaf with intellectual disabilities Help them become empowered adults The choice is easy! So for a good cause I've got poetry That's chill May 3rd come out to Corner Pocket Bar & Grill! Yeah one more time Come out for Big Day of Giving Deaf Community a big way! Yeah! The world needs you in a big way! A better place for live'n Is Big Day of Giving!

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futuristicallydistinguishedsong · 7 years ago

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GodFinger is yet another social involved game off Ngmoco and also very soon to be released worldwide. San Francisco-based start-up 15Five is actually attempting to fix the concern for firms by making records that take staff members fifteen mins a full week to submit, supervisors merely 5 minutes to evaluate, and also let each of the absolute most crucial nuggets, excellences, as well as suggestions filter right to the leading. We have actually talked rather a great deal concerning Healing Operating System, an ignored attribute from Operating System X that makes this simpler to address your Mac computer regardless of whether it refuses to start up adequately. Starting right in the middle of a protagonist's account is actually an appealing way to kick off your game, especially if the lead character you begin as really isn't the one you find yourself as, that being actually a male which appears with his pants around his ankles and his weapon in his palm (certainly not an analogy). The research discovered that people in energy possess healthier detects from wellness, and are actually therefore more pleased considering that they are able to observe their very own desires and also dispositions. Using the closure control is actually certainly not perfect, however this's undoubtedly a lot more stylish than a challenging reactivate through the power button. Whether he assumes it is enough is actually moot, as it is all they got to work with & they will definitely must function around the 8GBs, 4.5-5GB on call, which is actually surely so much more in comparison to they had avaibale final generation, which need to equate to better video games this gen the moment final generation is eliminated. In Target, you will possess much more than merely your wits and also toolbox of items to cease the Typhon aliens jeopardizing to destroy the human race. Decision: Love He is still a timeless Street Fighter that has actually existed from the start and also an excellent opponent for Ryu, even when the players which pick him are usually horrendous people. The entire platform is therefore hassle-free as well as offers you the sense of journeying off terminal to terminal as opposed to only clicking on through a food selection system. I ensure there are actually many various other suggestions and recommendations on the topic of Mac start-up troubles; satisfy allow us recognize a number of your ideas and expertises in the opinions. However, thinking about every thing else, the electricity made use of to electrical power it that definitely would not already be produced by riding your bike, or walking, or whatever, is negligible at greatest. CCLowPower is yet an additional free Nerve center modify targeted at iphone 10 tools, which allows a concealed Low Electrical power Method toggle key in Control Center. Still, it appears at 1st glow as if Apple's North Carolina records center's dependence after atomic electrical power specified this back a fair bit in the positions. You manage to track her voyage from encouraging begin to loathsome end and also adhere to in addition to qualified narration. Nonetheless, if you wish to prepare this in motion without making use of the mouse, hit the Option-Command-P buttons on your key-board as well as it are going to start. So go on, the change has actually begun, and that's opportunity for you to cease this prior to you cannot obtain your practical eggs anymore. Nonetheless some discussion in between characters (especially Terran) can lead you to believe that you are really viewing some cheesy B movie. After you end up creating points, post them back free on the for every person else to enjoy, or hate. The researchers pertained to the verdict that social energy makes people provide a lot less market value to the mental responses of others which are suffering. Stopping this pipes of item makes good sense, just like this made sense when Apple casually mentioned they wouldn't create external shows anymore. As a result of the much smaller die dimension, Scorpio's GPU is actually naturally even more energy reliable compared to the Xbox One's or PS4's. Once you ensure this functions, replay the method to recast your interior disk back as the startup disk. In Japan's conformist and also thoroughly controlled culture, people prefer to recognize whatsoever times where they stand and also where they go to: this uses both to social as well as organisation scenarios. It will certainly require dramatically much higher handling power if the Scorpio's to be able to run Oculus names. All these crafts can easily either be utilized for self-consumption or to make a monetize the vendors, creating all of them a feasible ability plant to get for a character path.

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thetravelling1 · 8 years ago

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T-16: An Agile Life

There has been a revolution in IT project management during my life time, put most succinctly the approach has gone from "Waterfall" to "Agile". This makes sense for non-IT bods, so please bear with me while I explain! Software development is about creating programs (or "apps" or websites or whatever, it's all really programs) that people can use to solve problems. That means that in general, most software development teams need to perform a number of duties at some point: -Understand the problem(s) aka gather requirements -Design the software -Build the software -Test the software -Put the software in front of users For historical reasons, lots of teams used the "naive" approach, where they did their utmost to gather requirements first, then designed as best they could, not building anything until the design was signed off - then not testing anything until it was fully built. There were well-documented downsides and risks of this approach. This took longer, as each stage had to be finished before the next could. The outcome of the first two stages of the project tended to be documents, which aren't often the most efficient way to convey meaning regarding requirements or design. Also, if someone realises halfway through the project that they need to clarify or change one of the requirements, it could mean redesigning, redocumenting, rebuilding etc. That can lead to the whole thing being delivered late and over budget. Not a good outcome! The step-by-step process was mockingly referred to as resembling a waterfall, as the cascade of work resembled a series of mini waterfalls, communication only going downstream etc. When challenged to do it better, a group of professionals...did. The agile manifesto involves letting go of having a fixed end point for a project, and focuses on what tangible benefits can be realised in the short term, and seeing the overall project as a series of short terms (in some forms of Agile, these are called Sprints and each lasts 2 weeks or so). Every sprint, the team undertakes to design and implement a number of features. People with different roles work side by side to understand the details of the requirements, design, build and prepare tests all at the same time. If anybody has the wrong end of the stick, it's quickly identified and resolved. Otherwise, users see benefits early on, and the team gains confidence they are making useful progress that won't just be binned. Agile isn't being adopted everywhere, because committing to agile methodologies is scary. It's hard to say to a client (or senior management) "We can't guarantee every feature you want will be implemented by date X, all we can do is work with you to make sure that your highest priorities are done sooner". It can feel like developers are weaselling out of making commitments, redefining "success" and "failure". The thing is, if you can let go of those metrics, more will get achieved, to a higher standard, with agile (generally, this isn't a guarantee!) In case you can't tell, I'm a convert to agile wherever it's available. What I didn't realise until recently is that I've been applying this outlook to life in general. It's been a long time since anybody asked me what my five year plan was. Life moves too quickly and uncontrollably to really plan. New information comes up constantly to render plans moot. It doesn't mean you can't push forwards, it just means don't get locked into one direction with your head down without taking stock. Keep your head up, be aware of your surroundings and push in the best direction whenever possible. Don't invest in big dreams for so long you forget why you ever had them. Capitalise on what you can do today to live the best life you can. And if, after spending a few years trying different things only to find yourself in the same place pointing the same direction, you're not going round in circles as long as you use the knowledge you've gained to learn what you love, how to get the most out of life, and what you'd like to change next. That's living agile.

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populistmedia · 6 years ago

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Wall Street Journal Spits At The Republic And Denies Roger Stone, Activists, Pundits Civil Liberities

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