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2013-06-20 01:31:00 (34 comments, 8 reshares, 73 +1s)

2013-06-18 23:27:32 (28 comments, 5 reshares, 96 +1s)

doin it in style

it is tuesday people and of course that means it is +Movie Mashup Tuesday here on G+

i am a day late on this but nonetheless wanted to say happy birthday to +Dede Craig King and give her a little something for her birthday in the way of a mashup...i think this Emma Peel from the Avengers poster does her justice

Dede is a class act who isn't afraid to speak her mind and call people out on here and at the same time she is funny, witty and sweet. her posts range from thought provoking to humorous and all points in between. so if you haven't already circled her, now is the time to do it.

+Movie Mashup Tuesday is brought to you each week by +Isabelle Fortin and myself

...enjoy

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2013-06-18 13:29:24 (23 comments, 3 reshares, 106 +1s)

Older me again...Just wanted to say that G+ no longer allows me to reply on messages tagged 'birthday'. Thank you once again for all the birthday wishes. Much love and fluffiness <3

+Google+ Help  "There was a problem updating your comment. Please try again." Feedback sent :/

2013-06-17 22:13:44 (132 comments, 0 reshares, 156 +1s)

Dear +You (ignore if not applicable)
Wow, I am so honored, humbled and overwhelmed. Thank you so much for the birthday wishes. I'm working my way through all of them, but want to let you know how tearfully grateful I am. No words. No read more. Just thank you <3

2013-06-14 01:32:41 (29 comments, 7 reshares, 47 +1s)

look at the new notification icon the bell replaces the red box and it works amazingly well  I can even enter communities now by clicking on a community post and you can see all the pluses clearly and the back button works wonderfully!  this makes me happy now fix the 500 server errors and its perfect again 

2013-06-13 23:26:08 (29 comments, 8 reshares, 95 +1s)

I can't even right now....

#nsa   #prism   #stopsopa   #idgaf   #goml   #keanu   #pointbreake   #DORNERLIVES  

2013-06-13 16:38:38 (59 comments, 37 reshares, 124 +1s)

So yes.

2013-06-13 16:28:53 (56 comments, 9 reshares, 98 +1s)

So what's new?

And that concludes the tl;dr version. Below is some extra mental fluff as I catch up on old news I've missed.

So. Are people still spouting the old "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" mantra? The whole debacle reminds how annoying I find it if I'm standing in line somewhere and a stranger reads over my shoulder, worse if it's when I'm reading or writing something on my mobile or tablet. There's a whole metaphorical and critical exploration that could be accompanied by that trivial thought, but I'm too mentally fatigued to expound on it. Bottom line kids: Snowden is a fucking legend. Verdict: Hero

Nelson Mandela - So sad. Can they not leave this poor man alone? Let this other brilliant fucking legend be allowed some privacy and dignity. They're imploring us South Africans to let him go--he is one of my personal... more »

2013-06-07 19:13:44 (146 comments, 4 reshares, 82 +1s)

What words/phrases do you say online that you'd never say IRL? Or conversely what words from online have infiltrated your IRL speech?
#Curious  

2013-06-07 18:19:05 (171 comments, 9 reshares, 156 +1s)

2013-06-07 18:18:42 (66 comments, 1 reshares, 26 +1s)

2013-06-07 18:09:17 (50 comments, 6 reshares, 77 +1s)

2013-06-07 16:27:08 (78 comments, 35 reshares, 114 +1s)

2013-06-06 22:40:14 (37 comments, 2 reshares, 53 +1s)

Thank you Baby Cheezus, Google+ can relax now. Stolen shamelessly from +Tessie L'Amour's post.
#WarOnWords

2013-06-06 16:24:52 (37 comments, 13 reshares, 141 +1s)

Oh Google Plus
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark 
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks 
Within his bending sickle's compass come: 
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, 
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
   If this be error and upon me proved,
   I never writ, nor no man ever loved. 
-The Bard

2013-06-06 16:16:21 (37 comments, 3 reshares, 65 +1s)

This is wrong. One walk into your local Walmart and you'll know, this is wrong. Denialists are only marginally worse than conformists.

2013-06-06 15:23:16 (40 comments, 4 reshares, 59 +1s)

Is there really such a thing as following your heart as opposed to your mind, to reason? Do we ever really abandon all reason and just go with it? I've went with it before, where I felt as if I was not in control of my mental faculties, but I was, I knew it and my mind knew it, but it was great to blame my heart when it was me and my mind all along. It's all in the brain. 

2013-06-06 14:52:45 (139 comments, 10 reshares, 119 +1s)

1. I can't believe I'm typing this ⓕⓤⓒⓚⓘⓝⓖ juvenile post.
2. How the fuck did I get back to High School? I'm an adult dammit!
3. I'm not ranting, I'm commenting, sardonically, on the pure kak I see floating by.

These childish games fatigue me. Incessant chatter on who has said what, why, when, where, rage quit and what part any one of us might've played in it. I didn't know I had a responsibility to the Internet? My friend's enemy is not my enemy, nor is my friend's friend my friend.  Relationships are built between A and B and should have nothing to do with C. I plagiarise myself when I say:

I fraternize with a lot of people as diverse as the number of insects in existence, several of whom have each other blocked. Conflating fraternisation with cliques is weak sauce. I don't take sides, this isn't high school.Shit happens. As a... more »

2013-06-05 15:40:30 (151 comments, 11 reshares, 71 +1s)

Drop in average interaction with the new Google+ layout

Many people are mentioning in the last days that there is less interaction on their posts with the new layout.
We had the same feeling, but we like also to see some analytics with objective numbers ;)

We have analyzed 9.787 posts from 100 persons for the last 3 months and here is the result.
Since a picture is worth a thousand words check out the image in this post (and engage! ;) )

You can find this chart also on this page where it is more interactive so that you can check the exact numbers for every day:
http://www.circlecount.com/postsanalysis/


ping: +Dede Craig King +Max Huijgen +Lee Smallwood +Michele Messenger +Paul Stickland +Wolf Weber +Yonatan Zunger +Marie Hélène Visconti +Eileen O'Duffy +Erik Andersson +Lise Bjerregaard Nielsen +Eve A +Jaana Nyström +Euro Maestro

2013-06-05 10:33:04 (84 comments, 4 reshares, 56 +1s)

I've recently heard that if you mute someone or their posts, they will show up as blocked in a chat/hangout. Have you experienced this?

Also, TIL I've blocked 56 people in almost 2 years, 99.999% of which are blues faced spider sex monkeys, not too shabby.

Also TIL

"The name Wednesday continues Middle English Wednesdei. Old English still had wōdnesdæg, which would be continued as *Wodnesday (but Old Frisian has an attested wednesdei). By the early 13th century, the i-mutated form was introduced unetymologically. The name is a calque of the Latin dies Mercurii "day of Mercury", reflecting the fact that the Germanic god Woden (Wodanaz or Odin) during the Roman era was interpreted as "Germanic Mercury"".

And today in history:

1968 - Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot by an assassin and died the next day.
1981 -T... more »

2013-06-04 21:35:52 (99 comments, 9 reshares, 73 +1s)

I was quite impressed no one I have circled posted any GOT spoilers, though I spoilt it for myself a few months back by reading ahead and knowing what was going to happen and when. Even though I knew, the Red Wedding episode was still one of those that makes you want to rip your throat out o.O I can't wait for the finale.

Oh you're sick of Red Wedding posts? The cogwheel is your friend.

2013-06-04 14:19:51 (24 comments, 1 reshares, 84 +1s)

Happy birthday +Ben Zaitz May you live wrong and plosper. Keep keeping on and all that genuinely giffy good stuff. Have a good one <3

2013-06-03 21:41:44 (86 comments, 6 reshares, 91 +1s)

Random
This past week has been a bit of an abortion. I lost two very close loved ones. An uncle to a motorbike accident and a friend of our family to a heart attack in his sleep. Both were 47 years old, gone within days of each other. I ask not for pity, I don't need it, this is simply a post posteritas. I'm actually okay, considering. It's a small blessing I'm easily distracted (as evidenced by my few not-sad posts this week) which means my spurts of tearful mourning are fleeting and controlled, rather than a general morbidity that permeates my every waking moment. I'll miss them. Life goes on. That's all I have to say about that.

Have a wonderful evening x.

2013-06-01 10:18:52 (306 comments, 1 reshares, 217 +1s)

My FridayFace
So how you doing?
*Corruptio optimi pessima...

When cyber harassment, aka trolling the fuck out of someone until they turn blue, bleeds into meatspace, then it's no longer cyber harassment, it's simply harassment. An offence punishable (in some states) by a cease and desist or other form of protective order followed quickly by other punitive measures if the culprit refuses to obey. Harassment on the Internet is however a grey area, at least to me.

If someone repeatedly barges into your open doored house hurling abuse at you, you are not going to call the landlord to deal with your personal issue––he gave you a set of keys, he'd ask you to use them––you would call the police. When does a reasonable person decide that reporting gross harassment to the authorities is no longer enough and begin to demand that the Internet policeitself?... more »

2013-05-29 13:59:10 (35 comments, 21 reshares, 96 +1s)

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the violent birth of the most controversial, influential and important piece of classical music written in the 20th Century, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. 

When this piece was premiered, at an illustrious Paris concert hall attended by the elegant, sophisticated glitterati of the age (including Jean Cocteau and Claude Debussy), it caused a riot. A ballet. There was stunned laughter, shouts and cat-calls, people throwing things at the stage and fist fights breaking out. A police presence had to attend the second half to subdue the audience. No one had seen or heard anything like this new art and it was the scandal of the age and is still being written and talked about today. 

The ballet tells the story of a pre-history pagan Russia, where an ancient rite is performed to usher in the Spring, where a young girl is chosen and ultimatelyda... more »

2013-05-24 16:49:23 (36 comments, 5 reshares, 81 +1s)

+Jesus H Christ people will argue about just about anything. I think it's wine and reading a book o' clock.

2013-05-24 16:47:11 (63 comments, 121 reshares, 377 +1s)

2013-05-24 16:19:03 (72 comments, 22 reshares, 100 +1s)

"How is it that we live in a society in which one of the most compelling interests is gun ownership? Where is the science lobby? The safe food lobby? Where is the get-the-Chinese-lead-paint-out-of-our-kids’-toys lobby? When viewed from any other civilized society on earth, the primacy of guns in American life seems to be a symptom of collective psychosis."  
Sam Harris

2013-05-24 21:05:30 (153 comments, 8 reshares, 75 +1s)

It's a given that there exists certain people (1% of the population) who simply lack the capacity to care for their fellow man, to the extent they will inflict horrific torture and kill for their sadistic pleasure. They are of course psychopaths who make up 20% of prison inmates, are responsible for 50% of all violent crimes, with a 3-5 times higher recidivism rate than normal offenders.

This is not your average sociopath with a taste for blood. It's the person who will rape a 17 year old South African girl, slit her stomach open, pull her intestines out and replace it with broken shards of glass before breaking her fingers, legs then slitting her throat.

It's quite obvious that someone who would do this is a risk and should be segregated from society. If tasked with deciding the fate of the 17 year old's attacker, some would push for life imprisonment with... more »

2013-05-23 23:16:55 (17 comments, 4 reshares, 81 +1s)

I'm all Googled out. Good night.

2013-05-23 22:23:00 (88 comments, 1 reshares, 22 +1s)

+Jessica Jay asks...
What's the best comedy movie ever?

2013-05-24 23:50:40 (156 comments, 5 reshares, 113 +1s)

Am I the only one that thought Iron Man 3 was a disaster?
The only redeeming factor was RDJ. I tried to suspend disbelief, really I did, even when Pepper regenerated with exactly the same terrible hairstyle, but it just didn't work.

2013-05-23 22:32:34 (89 comments, 102 reshares, 329 +1s)

A blessing and a curse. 

2013-05-23 13:32:42 (168 comments, 9 reshares, 81 +1s)

Heartbroken? Have a lobotomy.
"If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well." 

It fascinates me that given current neuro-scientific knowledge, that the above quote was written in 1886 by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam in Tomorrow's Eve.  More so given findings that damage to the brain's ventromedial prefrontal cortex not only affects emotions, but can eliminate some of them completely. 

If a tiny brain incision could eliminate emotional pain, the question is, would you want to?

2013-05-23 12:46:12 (53 comments, 27 reshares, 105 +1s)

Every day. Every night. Right now.

2013-05-23 12:45:18 (42 comments, 16 reshares, 64 +1s)

Small things mesmerize small minds?

2013-05-23 12:41:17 (29 comments, 8 reshares, 48 +1s)

"It is cliché, not plagiarism, that is the problem with our stilted, room-temperature political discourse. It used to be that thinking people would say, with at least a shred of pride, that their own convictions would not shrink to fit on a label or on a bumper sticker. But now it seems that the more vapid and vacuous the logo, the more charm it exerts. Take "Yes We Can," for example. It's the sort of thing parents might chant encouragingly to a child slow on the potty-training uptake."  
Christopher Hitchens.

2013-05-23 11:36:49 (27 comments, 6 reshares, 75 +1s)

Wouldn't it be nice if you could project your e-book collection and a customized virtual bookcase onto a blank wall? Or if e-book sellers sent you the spine of the books you bought to create a faux book collection? I still prefer real books, but it would be nice.

2013-05-23 22:25:20 (25 comments, 7 reshares, 140 +1s)

Last smoke then I'm out. Goodnight Giffers with a mother fucking G

x

2013-05-22 19:56:34 (32 comments, 3 reshares, 71 +1s)

It's supposedly #WordlessWednesday  - whoever thought of it must be new around here...

2013-05-22 15:42:05 (62 comments, 19 reshares, 121 +1s)

2013-05-22 11:27:20 (119 comments, 36 reshares, 120 +1s)

PSA
I'm No Longer Female aka How To Make What's Hot More Interesting Sans Banal Platitudes

A few weeks ago, two posters highlighted a very bizarre finding on Google Plus. That your profile's gender specification (Male, Female, Other) influenced the content you saw in the former Explore and What's Hot tabs respectively.

Google's Chief Architect offered feedback that the Explore tab was using an older, more gender sensitive algorithm, however the What's Hot tab had been modernised, with gender as a factor, but not a big one. If anyone wants to know, what you see in What's Hot is supposed to take into account "properties inherent to the post and the viewer, which includes profile information," he said. A subsequent update mentioned that the algorithm had since been updated and all should be well in Feministaland. I decided to test... more »

2013-05-21 15:27:06 (119 comments, 27 reshares, 169 +1s)

Meet the Creative Director of Puritanical Fashion LLC and the objective moral authority for all things cheap and whorish . His appointment will see to it that all fashion aligns to his vision. He says:

"...If you dress like a cheap whore, don't be surprised when you get little respect. When your body parts are on display, don't complain that they are all that others notice about you. Don't blame men for staring at the display of flesh you choose as your persona; look in a mirror!"

I know there are some of you that agree with this man, please try and keep it to yourself. If you can't, then just know I'm ignoring your ignorance, because I can't even.

2013-05-20 22:55:22 (34 comments, 15 reshares, 113 +1s)

I disagree, somewhat, vehemently, maybe, I dunno.

2013-05-20 01:22:38 (44 comments, 4 reshares, 81 +1s)

Just for the record +Google+ Helper, I hate that I have to double triple scroll in the notifications window... 

2013-05-20 01:37:30 (30 comments, 7 reshares, 62 +1s)

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2013-05-20 00:51:23 (35 comments, 6 reshares, 73 +1s)

Add to cart.

2013-05-18 21:38:19 (49 comments, 13 reshares, 128 +1s)

Look ma no hands.

2013-05-18 21:17:24 (59 comments, 0 reshares, 30 +1s)

I think I'm more of a George and Ringo kind of girl. Why's it so dead around here, my stream is slowww, family time?

2013-05-18 02:13:16 (42 comments, 1 reshares, 55 +1s)