#i've seen several corporate twitters do this now and it's like

[fratboykate]

I'm totally in support of the writers in theory but I'm trying to understand more of what you're fighting for because I've seen some people on twitter claim writers make more money a week than most of us make in a month so I'm trying to understand what the issue is. Also if that info is accurate. This is a genuine question. Not trying to have a "gotcha moment". I really want to hear from a writer.

people have always had wild misconceptions about how much a writer earns because of their lack of understanding of how the industry actually works. there's so many posts about how "you guys make 5k a week. what more do you want?!" yeah...let's do some math on that.

5k a week for 14 weeks (and that's a long room. a lot of rooms these days are 8-10 weeks. those are the dreaded mini-rooms we're trying to kill) is $70,000. for roughly three months of work. you'd think we're cooking with gas...BUT HOLD UP. that's gross! let's see everything that has to come out of that check:

10% to our agent

10% to our manager

5% to our entertainment attorney

5% to our business manager (not everyone has one but a lot of us do. i do, so that's literally 30% immediately off the top of every check)

most of these breakdowns ive seen downplay taxes severely. someone made one that says writers pay 5% in taxes and i would like to ask them "in what universe?". that doesn't even cover state taxes. the way taxes work in the industry is really complicated, but the short of it is most of us have companies for tax reasons so we aren't taxed like people on w2s/1099. if we did we'd be even more fucked. basically every production hires a writer's company instead of the writer as an individual. so they engage our companies for our services and then at the end of the year we (the company) pay taxes as corporations or llcs (depending on what the writer chose to go with). my company is registered as a "corporation" so let's go with those rates. california's corporate rate is 9% and the federal corporate tax rate is 21%. there's other expenses with running a business like fees and other shit so my business managers/accountants/bookkeepers have recommended i save between 35-40% of everything i make for when tax season comes.

you see where the math is at already??? 25-30% in commissions and then 35-40% in taxes. on the lower end you're at THE VERY LEAST looking at 60% of that check gone. 70% worst case scenario. suddenly those $70,000 people claim we make are actually down to $28,000 as the take home pay. and that's if you're only losing 60%. it goes down to $21,000 if it's 70%.

lets pretend you worked a long 14 week room (that's the longest room ive ever worked btw) and let's also be generous and say you only have 60% in expenses so the take home is $28,000. average rent in los angeles is around $2,800-$3,000. if you're paying $2,800 in rent that means you need AT LEAST $4,000 a month to have a semi decent life since you need to also cover groceries, gas, medical expenses, toiletries, phone, internet, utilities, rental and car insurances, car payments, student loan payments, etc etc etc. and again, this is los angeles. everything is more expensive so you're living BARE BONES on 4k. and these are numbers as a single person. im not even taking having children into account. so those $28,000 you take home might cover your life for 6-7 months. 3 of which you're in the room working. the reality is that once that room ends, you might not work in a room again for 6-9-12 months (i have friends whose last jobs were over 18 months ago) and you now only have about 3 months left of savings to hold you over. we have to make that money stretch while we do all the endless free development we do for studios and until we get our next paying job. so...3 months left of enough money to cover your expenses -> possible 9 months of not having a job. this is how writers end up on food stamps or applying to work at target.

this is why we're fighting for better rates and better residuals. residuals were a thing writers used to rely on to get them through the unemployment periods. residual checks have gone down from 20k to $0.03 cents. im not joking.

they've decimated our regular pay and then destroyed residuals. we have nothing left. so don't believe it when they tell you writers are being greedy. writers are simply fighting to be able to make a middle class living. we're not asking them to become poor for our sake. we're asking for raises that amount to 2% of their profit. TWO PERCENT. this is a fight for writing even being a career in five years instead of something you do on the side while you work retail to pay your bills. if you think shows are bad now imagine when your writer has to do it as a hobby because they need a real job to pay their bills and support a family. (which none of us can currently afford to have btw)

support writers. stop being bootlickers for billion dollar corporations. stop caring about fictional people more than you care about the real people that write them. if we don't win this fight it truly is game over. the industry as you know it is gone.

#wga strike #writer's strike #hollywood #anonymous #answers #myposts

[liminal-zone]

What do you make of the rumours that Charlie is getting replaced?

ANON, I AM SO HAPPY TO BE ASKED THIS. THANK YOU. I HAVE THOUGHTS TO SHARE.

CONTEXT: So on e/on's twitter, someone posted that we will get Annatar in Eregion in The Rings of Power season two and it will not be played by Charlie Vickers. CV will be doing his Sauron thing in Mordor at the time. OR SOMETHING TO THIS EFFECT. cue: rop twt losing their marbles.

IT'S ME. HI. I'M THE FANDOM GRANDMA, IT'S ME. tldr: he's not, calm down.

Item 1. All leaks require several grains of salt. Even if true (and some leaks are 100% accurate (but often provided out of context)), there's a ton of ways this can play out*. Theorize, sure, but don't lose your peace over this. PROTECT YOUR PEACE. Leaks can lie, leaks can be out of context.

Item 2. Charlie Vickers was absolutely not fired (or his role diminished). What we've gleaned from interviews post finale is that he's literally playing Mairon in the first age* and this is a five year gig for him. Yes, we haven't seen his contract documents, but I have no doubt in my mind that we'll see him for the longevity of the show*. Also this is me being an annoying tinhat, but Amazon knew they hit the jackpot with Charlie as Sauron based on how ROP blossomed after the finale, they're not going to fuck with that magic that resulted in cold hard cash.

*Item 3. Okay, so my theory USED to be that we have Charlie as Sauron until the forging of the One Ring but I'm reading up on lore and now I'm sure we lose Charlie (maybe keep him as a CGI mess like Snoke) after the fall of Numenor when he loses his corporeal form in the flood and becomes a spirit of hatred borne on a dark wind who can somehow still carry the One Ring (jrrt says don't worry about it) and that has to be like... end of season 4. YOU KNOW. IDK. I bet then we get snoke-like Sauron for season 5?? I think we have Charlie in some fashion to the end. SO MY THEORY ON ANOTHER ACTOR is because he's a shape shifter, we gotta see another face at some point but I'VE SEEN TELEVISION, they do the thing where you see the other actor and then it's Charlie again playing it. And I wonder if they'll do that with Mairon since, you know, Adar didn't recognize him. Like. Hyped if we get another actor playing Sauron for a bit, but Charlie's the guy.

Item 4. IF THERE IS ANOTHER ACTOR PLAYING SAURON FOR A BIT, BE NICE TO THEM.

Edit. This tweet made me irl lmao

#i had a moment on rop twt this week where i was like #i gotta tap out #calm down it's one tweet #and it could actually be neat!!!!! #idk! #I've watched a lot of television #i'm not worried about this #sauron #charlie vickers #the rings of power #anon #text post #i'm also not worried about adult celebrian in season two #i'll wager money that won't happen at all #i actually suspect we don't get her at all. maybe season five

[dumbestthingiveeverheard]

Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard: 8/3/2023

Fifth place: Twitter user @eyeskewer

This is a little older than the stuff I normally cover on this blog, but I feel like this is worth highlighting as it perfectly shows my issue when many who make conspiratorial claims about transgender medical care:

my "informed consent" was my doctor I had just met handing me papers telling me my voice would drop soon, I could freeze my eggs, I might get acne, and whatever else. I probably didn't even hear everything she said, I just told her I wanted the shot. so I got it. I just turned 18

So you were told you wanted something medical done to you, were told about the risks and consequences, and then got it. I really don't see what the big deal is here.

Fourth Place: Marco Rubio

Elon Musk's time as CEO of Twitter has been far from perfect, but easily the best addition he has made is the community notes feature. For just one example, here is a Tweet from Marco Rubio:

Also, those claims about the 2016 Presidential Election were never proven to be fake--just wanted to add that real quick.

Third Place: Scott Lively

The deranged homophobe who wrote an entire book blaming the Nazis on homosexuality wrote a column a couple of days back with the headline "Leftist lawfare and the abuse of power." A decent chunk of it is spent defending Russian President Vladimir Putin, but here are some highlights:

In all my years of watching corporate U.S. news about Russia and Putin, I have never seen a single counter-argument ever being offered in defense of President Putin (coverage of him is even worse than that of Trump). It's been more than a decade since Obama restarted the Cold War to punish the Russians for banning "gay" propaganda to children, when every story began to paint him as a "brutal monster" – to the point that even many conservatives (who have zero reason to trust that same media on anything) seem to agree.

The hatred of Putin on an international scale has nothing to do with the anti-homosexuality laws he has put in place while President of Russia--although, don't get me wrong, that didn't help matters, but several countries with anti-homosexuality laws are still seen in a positive light by the international community (wrongfully so, in my opinion). It was more his imperial ambitions--starting with his invasion of Georgia in 2008--that caused the international community to move away from him.

Second Place: Abby Johnson

I've mostly been ignoring the story about a handful of far-right Christians refusing to support the fringe Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy because of his Hinduism, however given Abby Johnson was sold to us a few years back as a a reasonable anti-abortion activist--an oxymoron if I've ever heard one. And she has decided to take a stance against a Hindu President, saying:

Do not be a victim of Satan’s confusion right now. This is an important time for us to have clarity of mind as we are going into an election cycle. So please discern. Please use discernment right now because God hates those who are willing to put up idols over him, and he will not be mocked.

All I wish to say is that if you really want a President that's a dedicated Christian--can I recommend you a guy named Joe Biden? Oh who am I kidding, if Ramaswamy does get the nomination it's going to be just like when Billy Graham took Mormonism off his list of cults so he and his followers could vote for Mitt Romney in 2012.

Winner: Ben Shapiro

This man, considered by many to be serious political commentator, does not know the difference between eating and drinking:

[Trump] would face a whopping 641 years in prison. Which I assume means he would not survive prison. Although he is 70% preservatives at this point because he eats so much McDonalds and Diet Coke.

He eats Diet Coke? Ben, do you know how Diet Coke works?

Ben Shapiro you've said the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

#eyeskewer #marco rubio #scott lively #abby johnson #ben shapiro

[ajroach42]

What Everyone Seems To Get Wrong About Mastodon

or

What Mastodon't

I'm sure you've seen, in the last day or four, the exodus of users from Twitter. Many of these users find themsleves reaching for the open source, federated "twitter alternative" Mastodon, or one of the several other Activity Pub compatible software packages. For me, and many other longtime denizens of the Fediverse, this has been a kind of mixed blessing. I've seen an influx of new followers, up 1,000 people or so in the last week. That's Significant, I have a wider reach now than I did before. It's also stressful, I have a wider reach now than I did before.

Of course, with this influx of new users comes a redux of the same handwringing that we see every time there are new users, plus a New bit of hand wringing with whispers that sound a lot like "Eternal September" Most of this handwringing is bullshit, or at least misunderstood or misrepresented. The whispers of "Eternal Septemeber" are especially frustrating. I don't want to spill a lot of bits to re-hash the same arguments that have been made over and over again, but I do want to address a couple, and talk about what Mastodon is and isn't.

What the eff is The Fediverse?

So let's start from the top, what the eff is the Fediverse? The Fediverse is a different kind of social network. It started as implementation of the OStatus Protocol used by GNU/Social, and expanded to include ActivityPub when ActivityPub became a thing. OStatus support is mostly legacy or non-existent for most of the fediverse.

Mastodon is the largest, and most widely used software making up the Fediverse, but it's far from the only one. There's pixelfed (like instagram), peertube (like youtube), and a bunch of others. Mastodon is a platform for sharing 500 character messages (or longer, depending on the configuration of your server), these are colloquially known as Toots, in a timeline.

In theory, this is much the same as Twitter, and Mastodon has drawn lots of comparisons to twitter (even from me) but there are some big differences between mastodon and twitter that are worth discussing.

1) Mastodon is federated and decentralized

Okay, so what does that mean? It means that, unlike Facebook or Twitter where there is One place to interact with the service and that place is entirely controlled by a single corporation, with Mastodon there are dozens of different places you can interact with the service (known in this case as instances.)

Anyone can launch their own instance, and any instance can communicate with any other instance.

( Well, mostly. We’ll discuss that more below. )

This is really cool! Because it means that no single company can own or control The Fediverse. No single company can shut us down. There is no Single Point of Failure.

This is also kind of dangerous, because it means that individual instances might not be trustworthy, or they might disapear without warning. Even long standing instances like venerable cybre.space are not immune to this. My own instance (retro.social) has experienced downtime that can be measured in days. I think this is okay, good even, but I might be in a minority there.

There’s a local timeline, showing all public posts on the local instance, and a federated timeline, showing all public posts that have been seen by users on this instance. On a small or medium sized server, the Local timeline is likely to turn in to a kind of town square. A place where people can get to know one another. On medium and large instances, the FTL becomes a firehose, moving so quickly that it is impossible to keep up. It does enable some discoverability and serendipity, which is Welcome because discoverability on The Fediverse is different (and probably more difficult) than on centralized social networks.

2) Mastodon has good, but imperfect privacy controls

Individual users can choose on a per-post basis who to share their toots with.

Individual users can choose on a per-user basis to mute or block specific accounts

Instance administrators can choose on a per instance basis to mute instances (allowing users to interact between the instances, but preventing content from one instance from appearing in the federated timeline of the other instance) or block instances (especially useful when troll instances spring up.)

Some of these features depend on federating servers following the rules. Some federating servers do not follow the rules. There is room for abuse here, and bad actors do attempt to abuse this occasionally. (For the most part, at least so far, this has been inconsequential.)

3) Mastodon does not have global usernames.

Right now, I’m @[email protected]

You could be @[email protected], and confuse lots of people. I wish you wouldn't, but it's possible.

This is a feature, not a bug.

You can have multiple accounts on multiple instances, and you might want to (see point about instances disappearing above)

For example, you may choose to have an account on an instance that only federates with a select few other instances, so that you can talk in relative privacy (or a locked account, with follower only posting) and also have an account on a bigger instance, to keep up with the conversation on the federated timeline

You can export your following and follower lists, and import them to another account with ease, making account migration easy.

So if your instance dies, you can continue following all the people you followed before, as long as you prepair ahead of time

You can Verify your account somewhat simply, using a built in feature (a rel="me" link).

4) Mastodon is open source, under the AGPL

This means you can make your own modifications to Mastodon

This means that your modifications have to be released under the AGPL

This means that anyone can contribute to Mastodon, and help the project grow

So if the service is missing a feature you’d like to see, implement it and make a pull request.

Glitch.soc was an early Mastodon fork with lots of additional features. Recently, Hometown has sprung up, and I'm a big fan of the hometown software.

5) Mastodon works on iOS and Android

There are good clients available for both platforms, and I have enjoyed using it as a mobile application.

The website also works well in mobile browser. Most of the time, that's how I use it.

6) Most Mastodon instances take a hard line on harassment

This is a community project, and few instances currently have round-the-clock support

But the community policies of most instances explicitly forbid harassment, and I’ve seen this taken very seriously.

It’s not perfect, but it is in good faith, and it’s more than twitter ever did

7) Mastodon isn't a Twitter clone

This is way weirder and different than the social networks you’re used to.

It’s more like usenet, or even BBSs than a traditional social network

Adjust your expectations accordingly

8) Mastodon isn't one thing, the fediverse isn't one thing

We're dozens upon dozens, with different goals and desires and definitions of success. Some of us have been here for decades and some of us will still be here decades from now, and we're glad you're joining us for the time that we're together.

Addressing Concerns

I've been a mastodon user for half a decade or more, and it has legitimately had a measurable, massive impact on my life and my wellbeing.

As new users flood in, I see the same complaints, concerns, and fears. I'd like to address some of them:

What do I do if my instance dies?

Import your follows and followers to a new instance. It's easy and the tooling is robust.

Have fun. Back up your list of people you follow occasionally. Don’t worry about the social capital of identity. This is anti-capitalist software.

To be clear, many instances will die over the next few months.

There has been a rush of new instances in the last several days, and a lot of them won’t make it. Support your instance admin finacially if you can. Or host your own (single user) instance, and then you only have to worry about yourself.

How do I prevent people from impersonating me?

Verify your identity against another website using a rel=me link.

Publish your prefered Mastodon handle and instance in multiple places, so that it’s easy to find. You can also use tools like The Mastodon Bridge to verify that you’re interacting with the people you think you are.

I heard that instance admins can read your DMs

Yep, that’s true. It’s also true for Twitter, for Facebook, and for Email (unless you’re using encryption.) Heck, Police don’t even need a warrant to access any electronic communications older than 6 months, thanks to a dumb law from 1986, and social services don’t have to notify you that your data has been accessed.

People are already reading your DMs, and your mastodon admin probably isn't among them.

Don’t use a social network for publishing senstive information.

This is not a Mastodon specific problem. If you have something that needs to be shared actually in private, use strong encryption in the form of PGP, OTR, or a secure messaging app like Signal.

What about bad actors on other instances? Or bad instances?

This is a real problem, sometimes. When it is a problem, talk to your instance Admin about blocking the bad instance. This is not a Mastodon specific problem, but Mastodon has better tools for fighting this problem than other platforms.

But The Fediverse is doomed to die!

Nah, Mastodon started as an extension of the GNUSocial protocol. GNUSocial had been around for 10+ years. Lots of different software exists to support the fediverse, It’s not going anywhere. Use might wax and wane, but because it’s decentralized and federated, it can’t really die.

Heck, if anything, it’ll out live twitter.

But it’s too complicated, it’ll never replace twitter!

Nope, it won’t replace twitter. It will provide an alternative to twitter for those folks that want one. And it’s fun!

Eternal September

If you're not familiar with the phrase, "Eternal September" is a phrase used to reference the death of usenet. The legend goes: Every September, new students getting usenet access for the first time would be noisy and ignore existing norms and expectations. These new students would overwhelm the network, rendering it an unpleasant place to be for several weeks, then they'd figure it out and calm down and things would go back to normal. Lather, Rinse, etc.

Then enter AOL.

AOL gave Usenet access to their users. Usenet was flooded with lots of people who had no interest in the existing culture of usenet. It floundered and sputtered out.

That's how the story is normally told anyway. "Eternal September" has come to mean "New people are here, and I don't like it." I have my doubts that the story was that simple, but I wasn't there. I am here, though, on the fediverse, and I'm sick of hearing people whisper about an eternal september.

Let me say explicitly: The Eternal September mindset is both harmful and backwards. It's gatekeeping. Banish it from your mind. Embrace the chaos, help people find a place to fit in. Or don't, ignore them. This isn't usenet, this is the fediverse. It doesn't have the same weaknesses usenet did, it isn't an easy vector for Spam, the moderation tools are better, the federation tools are better.

Twitter's meltdown is not AOL.

Activity Pub on Wikipedia

Explaination of Mastodon's identity verification

My Mastodon Instance

No More Eternal Septembers

What Everyone Seems To Get Wrong About Mastodon was published on 2022-11-06 at gem.ajroach42.com/posts/2022-11-06-what-youre-getting-wrong-about-mastodon.gmi

[thevalleyisjolly]

Not to be an angry person of colour on main, but I am over companies tweeting out diversity statements and links to carrds or donation threads that everyone and their mother is already sharing all over the place.  Oh, so you “stand with AAPI communities?”  You believe in #StopAsianHate?  You urge your followers to donate to this list of charities?  Ok great, but what steps are you as a company taking to combat racism?  If you really do not stand for racism in your company or consumer base, what concrete anti-racist measures are you going to commit to long term?

Fashion brands (or really, any brands that make clothing), are you going to stop exploiting underpaid garment workers in Asia?  Are you going to stop promoting colourist beauty standards and companies that hypersexualize Asians and appropriate Asian cultures?  Production and publishing companies, directors and editors and music labels, are you going to be signing and promoting Asian artists and creators?  What kind of Asian actors are you giving opportunities to, and what kind of opportunities?  How are you marketing them, what Orientalist or model minority stereotypes are you not going to use?  Businesses in general, what are you doing to increase hiring and retention of Asian employees?  How are you going to support them and create a safe work environment for them?  Are you going to provide them with the same career opportunities, training, and salaries as your white employees?  Media brands, what are you doing to make your space a safe one for Asian fans?  What kind of opinions and fan voices do you privilege, or implicitly tolerate?  What are you going to do when Asian people bring up concerns about your content, or call out racism in the community?  The list goes on.

Anti-racism does not end with putting out a statement of support and retweeting a few donations.  It does not last as long as the hashtag is trending.  Anti-racism is a long-term commitment to anti-racist work.  Great, you say you stand with Asian communities.  The tiny voice of good faith in my head chooses to believe you actually have good intentions and genuinely want to support Asian people.  Now what are you going to do about it once it’s no longer trending on Twitter?  What is your company or brand going to do one week from now, one month, one year?  How are you going to actually going to stand with and support Asian people?

*Non-Asian people can and should reblog this, but don’t clown around.  Asian people are more than welcome to add on/disagree.  There are so many issues related to anti-Asian racism not touched on here -intersectional identities, the focus on East Asians, industry-specific problems, etc- and those are just as important to keep in mind when committing to anti-racist work*

#anti asian racism #i've seen several corporate twitters do this now and it's like #normally you don't give the time of day to asian people when they call out racism in your brand or your fan base #you don't support ALL asian people; you tokenize asians by promoting one (1) lightskinned asian to some public position #and now you put out a statement of support and tweet a link to a carrd that someone else put together #i feel *so* supported; truly you are *such* an ally to AAPI communities! /s #non asian people can and should reblog this but don't you fucking dare clown around

[itsclydebitches]

Is buying the new Harry Potter game supporting transphobes because I've been seeing a lot of that on twitter? Not playing it. Pirating is fine, but actually paying for it.

Hi, anon!

I’ve seen a lot of the same and had initially thought to post my thoughts on the issue… before I got a very angry ask condemning me for a post where I admitted that I thought the game looked great and was excited to play it. I can no longer link to that post because I deleted it: a late night, impulsive decision made in an effort to try and protect myself from further flaming. Thus, I considered ignoring this ask under the same justification… before realizing that it might not matter in the long run. The Harry Potter: Legacy trailer has been out for just a few days and already I have gotten that furious ask, been told off by a friend for mentioning the trailer, and was questioned (antagonistically) about why I had added a Harry Potter related book to my Goodreads list. They’re small and potentially coincidental anecdotes, but it feels as if any engagement with Harry Potter is slowly coming under scrutiny, not just the (supposed—more on that below) crime of purchasing the new game. Given that I will always engage with Harry Potter related media, if there’s any chance such subtle criticism will continue regardless of whether I make the “right” choice to boycott the game or not, I might as well explain my position. Especially for someone who asked politely! Thanks for that 💜. 

Which leads to the disclaimer: Any anon hate will be unceremoniously deleted. This is a complicated issue and I intend to write about it as such. I ask that any readers go into this post with good faith and a willingness to acknowledge that this situation isn’t as black and white as they may prefer it to be. If that’s not something you can emotionally handle—which is 100% fine. Some subjects we’re simply not inclined to debate—or if you’re just looking to get in a cheap shot, please hit the back button.

Right. Introduction done. Now here’s the tl;dr: saying things like “Buying this game is inherently selfish/transphobic” isn’t the hot take people want it to be. Is boycotting Legacy one (very small—we’ll get to that too) way of showing support for the trans community? Yes. Is buying the game proof that you’re a selfish transphobe?  No. This isn’t a bad SAT question. Legacy boycotters are to trans supporters as Legacy buyers are to  ___? The argument that someone is selfish for buying the game is basically that you are choosing a non-essential video game over the respect and lives of trans individuals, but the logic breaks down when we acknowledge that purchasing a game has no real life impact on a trans individual’s safety, support, etc.   

“But Clyde, you’re giving Rowling money. She is then using that money to support anti-trans organizations. Thus, you have actively put more harm into the world.” Have I? I’m not going to get into whether/how much/what kind of money Rowling is receiving from this project because the fact is we don’t know and we’ll likely never know. Suffice to say, she probably will get some portion of any $60/$70 purchase. The real question is whether those sales have any meaningful impact. Reputable information on Rowling’s net worth is hard to come by, but it seems to be somewhere between 600 million and 1 billion pounds. Or, to put it another way: a fuck ton. And money keeps rolling in from a franchise that is so, so much bigger than a single video game. It literally doesn’t matter how much money you might put in her pocket via Legacy because she’s already so goddamn rich she can do whatever she wants. If Rowling wants to give a million dollars to the heinous “charity” of her choice, she can. She will. You are not directly contributing to this horror because that money may as well already exist. Every person in the world could refuse to buy this game and she’d shrug, going about her disgusting life because it literally does not affect her in any meaningful way. You’re refusing to give the murderer a knife when they’re got direct access to a knife-making factory. Horrible as it is to hear, you can’t stop them from doing something horrific with that tool. 

For me, this is the straw argument of the Harry Potter world. Not straw as in strawman, but literally straws. Remember how everyone was talking about plastic straws, swore off them, and subsequently deemed anyone who still used one to be selfish people who didn’t care about the environment? It didn’t matter if you had a certified “good” reason for using one (disability) or a “selfish” reason (carrying straws everywhere on the off chance you wanted a drink is a pain in the ass)—you’re a horrible person who wants the planet to die. Same deal here. If you can swear off straws, great! Do what tiny bit of good you can. But if you can’t or even don’t want to give them up, the reality is that your “selfishness” doesn’t make a significant difference in the world. The amount of plastic corporations are pouring into the ocean makes your actions inconsequential. It’s not like voting where every small, individual act adds up to a significant total. This is your lack up against others’ staggering abundance. It’s not adding a few drops of water until you have a full bucket, it’s trying to un-flood the boat with a teaspoon while someone else is spraying it with the hose. Have you, on the most technical level, made a difference by moving that teaspoon of water out of the boat? Yes. Is it a difference that holds any meaning in regards to the desired outcome? Not really. Now apply all that to Rowling. She is so phenomenally wealthy—with additional wealth coming in every day—that your purchase of Legacy is a teaspoon of water in her ocean of funds. It’s inconsequential.

“But Clyde, buying this game would support her and supporting her sends the message that what she believes is okay.” Exact same argument as above. JKR’s fame is so astronomical that no video-game boycott could ever make a dent in it. For every 100 people who swear off her work there are another 1,000 who continue to engage with both her writing and the writing related to her world because she is that prominent. Harry Potter is one of the largest franchises of all time, second only to things like Pokémon and Star Wars. This isn’t some indie creator who you can ignore into silence. The reality is that Rowling is here to stay and we have to take far more substantial acts to counteract that influence. 

Even more importantly, buying the game is not evidence that you support her views and the black and white belief that it does is an easy distraction from those harder “How do we improve the lives of trans people?” questions. I started compiling a list of stories with problematic authors only to realize the number of incredibly popular texts with awful histories attached to them unnecessarily increased the length of an already long post. Everything from Game of Thrones to Dr. Seuss—if you love it, chances are one of the authors involved has a history of misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc. Which I don’t say as a way of excusing these authors, nor as a way to silence the justified and necessary call outs on their work. Rather, I bring this up to acknowledge that engaging with these stories cannot be concrete evidence for how you view the minority group in question. The reasons for consuming these stories are incalculable and at the end of the day no one needs a “correct” reason for that consumption (my teacher forced me to read the racist book, I only watched the homophobic TV show so I could call out how horrible it was, etc.) If fiction were an indicator of our real life beliefs we’d all be the most horrifying creatures imaginable. I may be severely uncomfortable with the queer baiting in Supernatural, but if a friend says they bought the DVD collection my response is not, “How dare you support those creators. You’re homophobic.” In the same way, someone purchasing Legacy should not generate the response, “How dare you support her. You’re transphobic.” There’s a miles’ worth of pitfalls in connecting the statements “You purchased a game based on the world created by a transphobic author” and “You yourself are transphobic.” 

So if buying Legacy does not add additional harm to the trans community from a financial perspective, and it doesn’t make a dent in Rowling’s platform, and playing a game is not evidence of your feelings towards the group the author hates… what are we left with? “But Clyde, it’s the principal of the thing. I don’t want to support a TERF” and that is an excellent argument. Your morals. Your ethics. What you can stomach having done or not done. But the “your” is incredibly important there. People need to understand that this is their own line in the sand and that if someone else’s line is different, that doesn’t mean they’re automatically a worse person than you. For example, I have made the choice not to eat at Chick-Fil-A. Not because I believe that me not giving them $3.75 for a sandwich will make a difference in their influence on the world, but because it makes a difference to me. It helps me sleep at night. So if not purchasing Legacy helps you sleep at night? That’s a fantastic reason not to buy it. But the flipside is that if someone else does purchase it that is not a reliable reflection of their morals, no more than I think my friends are homophobic for grabbing lunch at Chick-Fil-A now and then. Sometimes you just want a sandwich. 

“But Clyde, why would you want to buy it? Rowling is such a shit-stain I don’t understand how anyone can stomach supporting her—whether that support has an impact or not. Maybe someone eats at Chick-Fil-A because it’s close to them and they’re too busy to go elsewhere, or it’s all they can afford, or they don’t know how homophobic they are. There are lots of reasons to explain something like that. But you’re not ignorant to Rowling’s problem and there’s no scenario where you have to play this game, let alone spend money on it. So why?”

The reality is that I will likely be buying Legacy, second-hand if I can, but new if it comes to that, so I’ll give some of my personal answers here, in descending order of presumed selfishness:

5. Part of my work involves studying video games/Harry Potter and as a researcher of popular culture, my career depends on keeping up with major releases: good and bad. I often engage with stories I wholeheartedly disagree with for academic purposes, like Fifty Shades of Gray.

4. I find the “Just pirate it!” solution to be flawed. I’ve spent the last four months struggling to get my laptop fixed and I currently have no income to buy another if it were to suddenly develop a larger problem. I am not going to risk my $2,000 lifeline on an illegal download, no matter how safe and easy the Internet insists it is. 

3. We’ve been told that Rowling has not been involved in Legacy in any significant manner and I do want to support Portkey. No, not just financially because I know many others have insisted that everyone good has already been paid. Game companies still need to sell games. That’s why they exist. There’s a possibility that a company with just two mobile games under its belt will be in trouble if this completely flops. Is my purchase going to make or break things? No. Same reality as whether it will put new, influential money in Rowling’s pocket to do horrific things with. But I’d like to help a company that looks as if they put a lot of heart and energy into a game only to get hit with some real shit circumstances outside of their control. Even if they’re not impacted financially or career-wise… art is meant to be consumed. I know if I wrote a Harry Potter fic and everyone boycotted it because they want nothing to do with Rowling anymore, I’d be devastated. Sometimes, you can’t separate supporting the good people from supporting the bad. Not in a media landscape where thousands of people are involved in singular projects.

2. I’m invested in reclaiming excellent works created by horrible authors. That’s fandom! We don’t know much about Legacy yet—this is pure, unsubstantiated speculation—but this new story could be a step forward from Rowling’s books, giving us some of the respect for minority groups that she failed at. That’s the sort of work I want to promote because Harry Potter as a concept is great and I think it’s worth transforming it for our own needs and desires. The reality is that as long as Rowling is alive she’ll benefit from licensed material, but if that material can start taking her world in better directions? I want to support that too.

1. I literally just want to play it. That’s it. That’s my big justification. I think it looks phenomenal and I was itching to get my hands on it the second the trailer dropped. And you know what? I’m not in a good place right now to deny myself things I enjoy. I don’t need to tell anyone that 2020 has been an absolute horror show, but for me certain things have made it a horror show with a cherry on top. Not a lot gets me excited right now because we’re living in the worst fucking timeline, so when I find something that makes me feel positive emotions for a hot second I want to hang onto it. I have no desire to set aside that spark of happiness in a traumatic world because people on the Internet think it makes me selfish. Maybe it does, but I’m willing to let myself be a bit selfish right now. 

Which circles back to this issue of equating buying a game with active harm towards the trans community. It honestly worries me because this is a very, very easy way to avoid the harder, messier activism that will actually help the queer community. When someone says things like, “You’re choosing a stupid video game over trans lives” that activism is performative. Not only—as demonstrated above—is purchasing a game not a threat to trans lives or ignoring the game a way of protecting trans lives, it also gives people an incredibly easy out while still seeming ‘woke.’ Not all people. Maybe not even a significant portion of people, but enough people to be worrisome. “I’m not purchasing that game,” some people post and then that’s it. That’s all they do, yet they feel like they’ve done their duty when in fact they’ve made no active difference in the world. Are you donating to trans charities? Are you speaking up for your trans friends when someone accosts them? Are you circulating media by trans authors? Are you educating your family about trans issues? Are you listening to trans individuals and continually trying to educate yourself? These are the things that make a difference, not shaming others for buying a game.

All of this is not meant to be an argument that people shouldn’t be absolutely revolted by Rowling’s beliefs (they should) and that this revulsion can’t take the form of rejecting this game wholeheartedly. This isn’t even meant to be an argument that you shouldn’t encourage others to boycott because though the financial impact may be negligible, the emotional impact for you is very real. I 100% support anyone who wants to chuck this game into the trash and never talk about it again—for any reason. All this is meant to argue is that people shouldn’t judge others based on whether they purchase this game (with a side argument that we can’t limit our activism to that shaming). That’s their decision and this decision, significantly, does not add any real harm to the world. Your fellow Harry Potter fan is not the enemy here. We as a community should not be turning our visceral on one another. Turn it on Rowling. She’s the TERF, not the individual who, for whatever reason, decided they wanted to play the game only tangentially related to her.  

If Twitter and Tumblr are any indication, I can imagine the sort of responses this post may generate: “That’s a whole lot of talk to try and convince us you’re not a transphobe :/ ” For those of you who are determined to simply things to that extent, there’s nothing I can say that will change your mind. Please re-read the disclaimer and consider whether yelling at me over anon will benefit the trans community. For those of you who are still here, I do legitimately want us to think critically about the kinds of activism we’re engaging in, how performative it might be, whether it harms the community in any way, and (most significantly) whether it’s actually moving us towards a safe, respective world for trans people to live in. Personally, I don’t think telling Harry Potter fans that they’re transphobic for buying Legacy will generate any good in this world, for them or for the trans community. 

At the end of the day only you can decide whether you can stomach buying this game or not. Decide that for yourself, but make that decision knowing that there’s no wrong answer here.  

#harry potter #mymetas #Anonymous

[cheryls-blossomed]

How was his rhetoric treacherous? Was it inflammatory? Yes, while he didn't tell them to storm the Capitol he should have known holding a rally in DC after a tense election could result in that. But nothing he actually tweeted incited violence or was treacherous. In the video Twitter took down he told the rioters to stop and go home. I'm not a troll btw, I've sent quite a few WA anons I just feel like this Big Tech censorship is an extremely dangerous precedent. If the president can be (1/2)

censored by a private platform that is extremely frightening regarding the continuation of free speech, which like it or not includes hate speech. Hate speech is deliberately loosely defined, and we are allowing corporations to define it. Esp when people like the Ayatollah of Iran are allowed to keep their accounts where they spread clearly violent rhetoric (calling for genocide of Jews). To reiterate, I'm not a troll, I enjoy your TF discourse but I'm fearful for the future of this country

I never said you were a troll, nor do I think that you are, but I think you’re being very disingenuous right now. First, Tr.ump did tell the terrorists to march on the Capitol, after saying that they have to heckle those who would seek to prevent them from overturning a fair and free election. He said that, and he told them that he’d joint them, and the only reason that he didn’t is because Secret Service disallowed him from joining them. Secondly, Rudy Giuliani, Tr.ump’s personal lawyer, stated that there should be trial by combat, Don Jr. stated that they have to stand up and fight, and crazy, racist “Kracken” attorney L.in Wood made a specific violent threat against Pence. Here’s Alabama US House Rep. and MAGA nutcase Mo Brooks inciting the crowd into violence. Texas Senator Ted Cruz earlier that day also incited the act of terror. These people did all this at the behest of Tr.ump, who repeatedly tweeted “See you on January 6th,” for the past several weeks, before coming up to the podium and directly echoing the sentiments of his son and personal attorney, and inciting violence. 

Twitter gave Tr.ump a warning. The next morning he came back, told his supporters that every single one are patriots, blatantly failed to condemn the act of terror against the Capitol, and stated he would never stop fighting for his supporters. He then tweeted that he would not attend the inauguration, when about five minutes of doing some research would show you that his supporters have already been planning violence in the days leading up to Biden’s inauguration and on the day of the inauguration. There is very good reason for Twitter to worry that Tr.ump’s tweet that he won’t be attending the inauguration is a specific incitement of violence, especially given what he just incited and given what is being planned. 

Speech which is hate speech and speech which incites violence is not free speech. This kind of speech is speech which is explicitly not protected by the First Amendment. Add to that, the First Amendment does not even apply to Twitter or Jack Dorsey. It only applies where the government and governing bodies infringe upon people’s free speech.  

And you’re mischaracterizing that video completely. In the video twitter took down, Tr.ump told them to go home, but also said that he loves them and that they are very special. He told domestic terrorists that he loves them and that they are very special. Tr.ump is a very specific threat to the US, and therefore Twitter decided to ban him after countless warnings. Politicians enjoy immense privilege on these sites, regardless. To claim that the President of the United States being banned from Twitter is in some way censorship, when it is the government who engages in censorship, is oxymoronic. 

Do I think sites like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and the like need to be held accountable for how they regulate speech on their platforms? Absolutely. We know Twitter is far quicker to ban people for calling out racists than they are actual racists; we’ve seen this plenty of times. And I think Twitter should ban the Ayatollah and other leaders who are active threats to their citizens. Twitter is very American-centric and clearly cares far more about threats of violence to the American people than it does to people of other countries. That is absolutely and utterly wrong. 

But Twitter finally did the right thing re Tr.ump, and so I think it’s frankly disingenuous to now want to bring up censorship, when there have been real instances of censorship on Twitter plenty times. But banning Tr.ump, even if he’s not saying, “Go kill people again,” when the implication of his tweets and the knowledge that more violence is being planned is very apparent, is not censorship. Like I said, Twitter has plenty of issues when it comes to the massive discrepancies in censoring people, but this is not one of them. 

#anonymous #replies

[hannaaahty]

Sobrang mainstream kung magpopost ako ng ganto on the night of the 31st, so ngayon ko na gagawin. Besides, ayokong ipublicize lahat ng struggles ko sa FB, Twitter and IG...dahil ayokong magmukhang fragelita. char.ahaha. Himala na lang kung matunton to ng pamilya ko, close friends, or other people close to me. Hahaha.

Trigger warning.

This time last year, I was so close to ending my life because of too many things. Pero sa lahat ng yon, ang pakikipag tunggalian sa sarili kong thoughts ang battle na pinaka nahirapan akong harapin. Para sa akin, making decisions should not be a conscious effort, dahil natotorture ko ang sarili ko tuwing naiisip kong kelangan ko mag decide. I am very indecisive and impulsive. I rely on random energy spikes everyday. Pero hindi ko alam na ang ugali kong ganun ang magdadala sa akin sa despair.

Alam kong maling binabalikan ang nakaraan dahil masakit lang.. Pero I always try to look back kasi those struggles made me who I am now. My birthday last year was a horrible day. Halos wala akong kinausap, maski boyfriend ko nun. I was forced by my family to get out of the room..but I just can’t. I felt like a total piece of shit. Hahahaha. A few weeks after, I was molested and raped. Alam ko na sa sarili kong depressed ako at may anxiety, pero that night was the first night that I felt my whole being giving up. I deactivated my FB, said goodbye to my closest friends and told my boyfriend that “I’m just gonna go to sleep.” I was ready. Honestly ready... until after a few minutes, I saw a beam of light out of nowhere. Hindi ko alam kung totoo ang miracles o kung totoo ang Diyos dahil para sa akin, everything is just a social construct. Pero after seeing that light, bumalik ang diwa ko,  I cried so much and put my airplane mode off out of nowhere. At ang unang nag appear sa notifs ko was Niko (a close friend). He simply told me, “Bumalik ka ng elbi. Magusap tayo.” And  that was it. I apologized to myself and I kept crying and crying lang. When my heart was finally ready to go back to elbi, Niko was just there. And I cried to him. Inipon ko lahat ng guts para makwento sa kanya lahat ng nangyari. After talking to him, hinatid niya ako sa dorm ko at pagkauwi ko, nagset siya ng rules kung paano ako makakarecover. #1 was, wag ako mag airplane mode. Hahahahaha. Tangina nun. Then, we promised to let go of our toxic attitudes at magbabago kami sa 2018. Niko was there until kinaya ko nang makarecover mag isa. He’s the friend everyone wishes for. He’s an angel.

And then 2018 came. I met Kassi. Seatmates kami sa  SFI 100 at groupmates sa lab. We instantly got close when one day, I told her I can’t go to our fieldwork because inaatake ako ng anxiety. Out of nowhere, she appeared in my dorm and talked to me about it. We talked and talked until hindi na namin napapansing umiiyak kami. Hahahaha. After that, we cooked food and slept and talked again until matapos yung araw. That was the start of our friendship. Just like Niko, Kassi was just there. She held me until I was ready to get back up again.

On the early months of 2018, nagkaproblema kami ng boyfriend ko. On-off kami. One day, okay. The next day, parang hindi kami magjowa. That went on and on until one day, nagising na lang ako sa katotohanang tama na. Di na dapat pinipilit ang wala na kahit last year pa dapat kami naghiwalay. Wala nang may  willing mag effort sa amin. Wala na ring willing mangausap. We weren’t strong enough...the both of us. Although I tried working it out, pero one day, he cheated on me. He slept with a person who likes him, while flirting with another girl. Pinilit kong intindihin pero wala na talaga eh. Haha. We ended in good terms because hindi ko idedeny na isa siya sa mga dahilan kung bakit andito pa rin ako today. He has such a good heart and I hope one day, he finally finds the answers he’s been looking for since he lost his parents.

Kasabay ng breakup namin ni Lawrence, nanalo ako sa student council...again. Masaya, syempre. Because bagong mukha ang mga nakikita ko. At hindi ko inaasahang magiging ganun ang takbo ng eleksyon. From #1 last year, I became #3. Pero it was fine. Natuto akong tumayo sa sarili kong mga paa habang nagtuturo sa iba. For the first time, I felt the burden sa  eleksyon. Hahaha. I had to train my slatemates while training myself at the same time. Isama mo pa yung acads, yung problema sa jowa, yung anxiety at yung lagi akong nagkakasakit physically. I was almost diagnosed with pneumonia that semester. I met people who broke my heart. I met people who healed it. The early part of 2018 was such a roller coaster ride. Pero I knew and I was certain that this year.... I am going to change. And I was right.

August. I resigned in my position sa student council. Napakabigat na desisyon, pero I had to do it for the greater good. I realized na maybe this sem should be a sem full of pahinga. Full of recovery. Dahil alam ko sa sarili kong kapag tinuloy tuloy ko pa, baka mawala na naman ako sa sarili ko. Baka maulit yung nakaraang taon. Dito ko naramdamang I should be mature enough to recognize my mistakes and be able to get back up without Kassi, Lawrence, or Niko.I went back to zero. Literally zero. I was lost, but this time, I knew where to start. I started with the question “What would Hannah do?” and bam. The only answer that I got was “She listens to her heart.” and there. I looked back to the things that I loved doing...na ang tagal ko nang hindi ginagawa dahil sa depression ko. I was ready to embrace them again. Siguro kaya malungkot ang mundo dahil tinatalikuran natin ang mga bagay na mahal natin para sa conformity. And that moment, I bent that rule. Because I wanted my heart to be completely happy. I got rid of my daily college routine. I went back to digital design, drawing, typography, photography and performing arts. I shared my passion to the world. I taught kids how to do public speaking, I created my portfolio, and I became open to freelance work.

On the same month, I met Spiro. No words. Just pure love. Our relationship for three months gave me strength and courage to be mature not only for the both of us, but for my life as a whole. He’s the best work of art I have ever seen and I don’t think anyone can ever measure the love and happiness I felt the moment I first knew that someone like him exists. Love. Just love. Always.

My birthday was simple lang this year. Tahimik. Pero masaya. I was with Spiro in the morning, I ate my favorite Spaghetti with Papa and Ate in the afternoon, and did some paperworks lang in the night. It was simple, but it was very meaningful.

After a few weeks, I decided to stop my freelance work and settle for a corporate job. I applied in several famous brands as Graphic Designer, and I was called for several interviews, but did not pursue them because 1) lagi kaming late nagigising ni Spiro (hahaha) and 2) one of my mantras is: if the universe gave you a sign, that’s it. Pursue it. And after how many days of indecisiveness, an online bag brand contacted me for an interview in BGC. I remember I was too lazy to go, since wala kaming tulog ni Spiro (haha) pero naging sign siguro yung pinipilit ako ng Papa ko sumama sa kanya sa Makati, so I decided to give it a try. And a few days after, I was called for a final interview. I still remember the feeling. Yung ang saya saya na bigla akong nagka breakdown sa CR. Nakakahiya. Hahahahahaha. Kasi alam mo yon. I was so close to death last year, at kung ginawa ko yon, hindi ko mamimeet si Spiro. Hindi ko makukuha ang trabahong to. Hindi ako matututong magpatawad, magsurrender at mag let go. Hindi ko marerealize na ang sarap pala mabuhay kahit systemic ang probolema ng mundo (charararat). At higit sa lahat, hindi ko matututunang sumubok ulit. Grabe ka, Hannah Ty. Dami mong pinagdaanan. Charz.

Sa totoo lang, hindi ko pa rin alam ginagawa ko. Hahahaha. Ngayong December, fucked up person pa rin ako at hindi ko itatanggi yan. Hahahahaha. May masakit pa rin somewhere deep inside me. Andyan pa rin ang fears ko. Nandyan pa rin yung confusion minsan. Andyan pa rin yung uncertainty sa future ko. Marami pang kailangang harapin, pero ang layo na ng narating natin, self. The simple fact na you were able to get out of your room on the day na you were supposed to kill yourself, that’s a big step for you na. Look where it brought you. To recovery. To Spiro’s arms. To Fetch Bella.

If there’s one thing that I could tell everybody, that is sometimes, we have to listen to what our heart speaks when all else fails to do so. Maski sa simpleng desisyon na “I don’t feel like doing it pa.” Then don’t. Do not torture yourself too much. If your heart wants to rest, rest. Pero don’t let it stay that way. Get up when you’re ready. Decide when you’re all good. Reach out when you’re finally ready to speak. Sometimes, we don’t have to decide impulsively. Sometimes, it’s okay to not know yourself yet. You will be fine. You will be okay. That’s for sure.

Now these are the memories I had for this year. Believe me, I tried my best to save the pictures and not cry. Hahahahahaha. At so far, wala pa namang luhang tumutulo. Lol.

To everyone na nasa photos, mahal ko kayo. Sobra. You have my admiration, always.Thanks for letting me be part of your 2018, and please remember that you made my year so memorable. I am always grateful for all of you.

Self, this is it. You’re getting older na... and getting more emotional. Hahahahaha. Buhay single ka na naman puta ka. Char. Hahahaha. I love you! Always and always and always and forever! You are so loved! Here’s to more kakulitan with you!

#personal

[saraseo]

[jonsking-blog]

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Now he's targeting his first million.And so far this year, a whopping 97% of my trades have been winners.I want to repeat that...This year, 97% of my recommendations have been winners.But that's all in the past.The opportunity I'm talking about today has the potential to mint millionaires virtually overnight.I'll tell you more about that in a few minutes.Right now, I'd like to give you a quick rundown of my three rules for buying cryptocurrencies .If I want to keep my 97% win rate, every cryptocurrency I touch must adhere to every single one of these rules.Rule #1: The Asset Must Have Intrinsic ValueWhen Bitcoin first launched - the concept was simple: An electronic payment system based on mathematical proof.The idea was to produce a currency independent of any central authority, transferable electronically, more or less instantly, with very low transaction fees.Ethereum took the concepts that drive Bitcoin's growth several steps further...The Ethereum blockchain not only provides greater security, anonymity, and functionality; it also gives the Ether tokens intrinsic value.The value of Ether tokens is based upon the demand to build on the Ethereum blockchain.Because of Ethereum's superior security, and functionality, Significantly more fortune 500 companies are building platforms on the Ethereum blockchain than any other.Just look at some of the players...From banking giants like...J.P MorganCredit SuisseUBSINGNational Bank of CanadaAnd more...To other multinational corporations like...BPIntelMastercardSamsungToyotaMicrosoftAnd more...In all, there are over 100 companies, including the ones above, who are members of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA).The EEA connects Fortune 500 enterprises, startups, academics, and technology vendors with Ethereum.That means they're betting big on Ethereum.And with every application they build on the Ethereum blockchain will come a Fortune 500 bump in demand for Ether.Ether is designed to be safer than the U.S. Dollar, or physical gold...And, Ether's intrinsic value is the crux of its design.Rule #2: The Asset Must Be New... But Not Too NewYou may have see this chart before...You're looking at the 5 Customer Segments of Technology Adoption.And I'm going to show you exactly where you want to buy a cryptocurrency.Segment #1: InnovatorsInnovators get in on the groundfloor of some very interesting startups.But without awareness from the general public, they have no way of telling whether a technology will thrive.I do not recommend you buy a cryptocurrency at this stage.It's too risky for me...Remember, I have a 97% win rate to uphold.Segment #2: Early AdoptersConsider the early adopters, "testers."Early adopters basically decide whEther a technology is useful or not.They tell us whEther our cryptocurrency is worth what its creators have touted.They're still in a risky spot - just not nearly as risky as the innovators.Segment #3: Early MajorityIf you invest here...Cross your fingers and hope your investment is a sure thing...Because you'll be lucky to even see gains of 20% in a year.I believe this is where we are with Bitcoin — and that well may have already dried up.Segment #4: Late MajorityThe late majority are typically skeptical about innovation...Many of my readers fall into this category.I get it... And it's ok.They're the readers of mine who are genuinely overwhelmed with the fast pace of the technology world, but they understand how important technology is to the current (and future) U.S. Economy.They read my work so they can comfortably invest in technology without having to worry about what the newest iPhone will mean for Apple shares; or what the Presidents Tweets mean for Twitter stock.The majority are some of my biggest supporters, and I've helped a lot of them become very wealthy over the years.Segment #5: LaggardsNo matter how technologically illiterate you are, you do not fall into this group.After all, you're reading this letter on a device that's connected to the internet.Laggards may not even be using digital computers yet.These are the folks who invest by burying gold in their back yards, because they don't even trust banks.I get it... I'm ok with them, too.I just wish I could teach them about cryptocurrencies .Because cryptocurrencies were built out of distrust for banks.And they have several advantages over banks...Cryptocurrencies Are 100% AnonymousI don't mean "anonymous" like, no one will be able to track how much money you have invested in cryptocurrencies , or whether you made a transaction or not.That part is airtight. Better than any bank today.I mean, no one has to know your personal details.Think about it like this - your bank might use your social security number to connect your assets and make assumptions about how you should invest.cryptocurrencies and blockchains instead use a unique ID.Meaning, your personal information, like Social Security Number, is at a significantly lower risk of ever being stolen.Yes, that's right...The use of cryptocurrency, and blockchain could have prevented last month's data breach that threatens the safety of all of our personal information.Cryptocurrencies Are 100% Legal Tax HavensSo, not only are some blockchains safer places for your money than banks...They're also legal tax havens.You see, any money you keep in Ethereum is non-taxable.It's like keeping your money in a Cayman Island bank account...If the Cayman Island bank offered a potential for an exceptional 319,000% gain.So, when should I buy?In my years as a stockbroker...The world of cryptocurrencies is different.It's volatile, and unpredictable.The downside for innovators is HUGE...And the upside for the early majority is still larger than even the riskiest conventional investments.That's why I recommend buying when the early adopters stage is exactly 75% complete.Investing at this stage can help avoid a vast majority of risk, and puts us in position for the fastest and easiest gains.I could go on and on about the benefits of ERC-20 Tokens...But, I'll spare you the technical jargon.In short, ERC-20 tokens are cryptocurrencies that are built on the Ethereum blockchain, and must comply to a specific set of standards.As previously mentioned, Ethereum is the most powerful blockchain in existance.ERC-20 tokens are able to harness the security and power of the Ethereum blockchain, and also nourish growth through projects independent of Ethereum as a whole.So you can buy an ERC-20 cryptocurrency, gain thousands of percentages regardless of what Ether is doing.And, at the same time, investors who buy a completely separate ERC-20 cryptocurrency should increase the price of Ether, and therefore your cryptocurrency.ERC-20 tokens present the definition of "having your cake and eating it too."I want to tell you a story...I love America... and I love the freedom and opportunity it creates for us.This is a story about opportunity in America...And I think it illustrates the opportunity that's taking place for every day Americans right now.The opportunity to create wealth for your family for centuries to come...The year is 1849.America was in expansion, and California was growing.The Spanish (Innovators) who made it out there first, had no idea what mix of opportunity and disaster the new land would bring.They were looking for gold, but never found it.Social strife and economics, and the knowledge that California was not out of reach drove more Americans (Early Adoptors) westward.And, one day - in what we refer to as "the bay area" of California - gold was found.Not just a little bit of gold...Enough gold to make the early adapters some of the wealthiest Americans at the time.Back east, word of the gold strike spread like wild fire.Now, tens of thousands of Americans (Early Majority) en route to California had one thing on their minds: GoldSwarms of Americans risked life and limb to make the journey...And by the time they arrived...It was too late.Gold was few and far between.The early adapters had already claimed almost all of the gold.The rest of the new Californian settlers had to mine tirelessly for little more than dust.The story of the California gold rush is almost exactly the same as what's happening now - and what's about to happen this year - except for three facts:There is significantly more wealth to be made today, with cryptocurrencies.Building a fortune in cryptocurrencies requires almost no work. (You can trade on your smart phone).You don't have to risk more than $100 to potentially make millions.I can't stress this enough...The digital currency boom that's happening right now is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.You may never have a chance to make this kind of money, this easily, ever again in your life...Making Millions In cryptocurrencies Is As Easy as Investing GetsOrdinary Americans have been able to build massive fortunes...Buying up small amounts of cryptocurrencies with their spare change here and there...They're watching as their pocket change turns into a six-figure payday.And I'm Going to Make It Even Easier For YouNow, if you've listened to anything I've had to say today, you're asking yourself three questions:1. What is the next cryptocurrency to take off?2. What is this event Jon King mentioned earlier?3. How do I get in?That's where I come in...www.lionsharecapitalgroup.comThe time I've spent working with high-tech start-ups has given me access to information less than 1% of crypto investors have access to...And I have the smartest and most-dedicated research team in the industry.With them at my disposal, we can evaluate all of the potential initial coin offering (ICO) opportunities...And find the ones that could mint you a millionaire in a matter of months... weeks... or even days.Prospective investors would be wise to note that.The Money Is Pouring In...Billionaire investor Michael Novogratz estimated that the crypto currency market could reach 5 trillion as early as 2022.And what's more... ICO funding hit a record $800 million in Q2 2017.The cryptocurrency industry is ripe... Right where we want it.So all you have to do is:Follow my lead...Now...What's important to focus on right now for new investors is a single, binary event that is set to send the entire crypto-space into a parabolic rise.And it's coming sooner than you think.Things Are Moving Quickly...Russia, a country that had outlawed cryptocurrency in 2016, is now moving towards full legalization.In fact, Vladimir Putin recently sat down with one of the founders of this cryptocurrency to discuss using it as a tool to diversify the Russian economy.The Emirate of Dubai has also expressed serious interest. Crown Prince Sheikh Maktoum says he wants Dubai to "execute ALL transactions" with a program that includes this universal currency "by 2020."Even the White House is signaling that it is preparing for a future with blockchain technology at the forefront. Chris Liddell, assistant to the president and director of strategic initiatives at the White House said that "Perhaps most important ... is implementing foundational data standards now, so that the U.S. can be in position to harness the potential of blockchain and other technologies moving ahead."As we look to the future, we want to ensure that today's reforms do not hinder tomorrow's adoption of emerging technologies," he said...It doesn't take a genius to see that cryptocurrencies could be the future of money.And my research indicates that Ethereum could give investors an even bigger return than Bitcoin.The reason is simple.A Single Massive Development Could Make This Blockchain Reach Billions of People.Where once you had a few cryptocurrencies on the fringe...Now you have a cryptocurrency eco-system - with millions of investors raking in cash from this emerging technology.And while Bitcoin has been around since 2010 and most of the huge gains have already been made...Ethereum is still only 2 years old, which is why investors are feverishly bullish on this promising new technology.Like I mentioned before, there is a major catalyst that will signaling exactly when and what to buy.The last time this event occurred... the price of Ethereum jumped over 100%.Since then, ERC-20 tokens have grown 20X that.And the next phase is rumored to be only weeks away.My "formula" indicates that this event is going to be the defining moment for Ethereum, and ERC-20 Tokens.LionShare Capital Group.comIncluding what to do before, during, and after the upcoming catalyst that could deliver 319,000% returns virtually overnight.In plain English, I've laid out which ERC-20 tokens, powered by Ethereum, could dominate the blockchain and its technology.Just like Bitcoin, for instance. It was the hottest investment story back in 2013 and 2014.In June of 2013, I alerted Wallstreet that the time to get into this digital currency had arrived.That's because just weeks before, I had met with several CEOs, founders, and venture capitalists in California. They were at the forefront, developing the currency exchanges and investment funds that would push Bitcoin into the headlines.At that time, Bitcoin was trading for $90.Bitcoin skyrocketed 1,192% over the five months that followed.It peaked at $1,163People from across the country were making hundreds of thousands of dollars.Some were even banking millions.I look at investing in Ethereum and ICOs today just like I did Bitcoin back then.I believe it gives you the chance to become a millionaire.That's why I'm in this business - I want every one of my readers to have a shot at making a fortune for themselves.I was one of the first to recognize the potential for huge profits from rare earth metals because I personally knew the advisors and board members of many rare earth mining companies.But I want to do this for a very specific reason.I predicted the run would be historic...And that's exactly what happened.And for the folks who've already joined LionShare Capital Group, received my initial recommendation on cryptocurrency- and made investments in Ethereum-well the payoff was enormous.Like I mentioned, recently Ethereum began absolutely exploding.Folks had the opportunity to make thousands upon thousands of extra dollars.And a small stake in this red hot market could have made them instant millionaires.So I congratulate those people for going with their gut - being bold - and making the move to invest in our fund.As I said before - I am looking at Ethereum purely as a market analyst. When it comes to cryptocurrencies , all I care about is can investors make money in this market.And the answer is heck YES - and tons of it.A lot of folks stood on the sidelines the first go round.But I sincerely don't want them to miss this next big opportunity.A small stake in the cryptocurrency I'm recommending could make you more money than the stock market ever made period.Remember, big catalysts are coming.So, I also don't want you to miss out as this cryptocurrency flies even higher than before.That's why I'm letting everyone get my cryptocurrency fund management fee free first year! lionsharecapitalgroup.com

ONE Cryptocurrency Soaring. If you don’t invest in cryptocurrency right now, you could regret it for the rest of your life…If you have ever thought about cryptocurrencies as an investment, I urge you to listen to what I have to say.  Because if you make the right decision, you could find yourself jumping for joy on top of an enormous pile of cash. Ready or not, a growing number of economies, banks, and billionaires are backing these new forms of tender. And once you understand how easy it is to profit from cryptocurrencies , it’s easy to see why…The cryptocurrency market is preparing to take off. Anything you’ve seen up to this point is going to be shadowed by the amount of money that’s about to come pouring in. And for investors who get in before November 10th, digital currencies are going to be a once-in-a lifetime opportunity…And just one investment – even one under $10,000 – could put you one step closer to being wealthier than you’ve ever dreamt of…And here’s the best part…You don’t have to know a single thing about cryptocurrencies to build your fortune. Just give me 5 minutes and I’ll show you how…The only caveat is that you must act quickly…Because on November 10th, one event could send a tiny cryptocurrency soaring upwards of 319,000% And all you have to do is wait for my word, and you stand to make millions in easy money. Investors who wait idly on the sidelines until the media tells them ‘buy now’ are going to lose out on millions and potentially billions of dollars. And if you wait for the media to tell you when cryptocurrencies are safe, you’ll be doing just that…I’m not here to double or triple my money, when I can potentially create 10X, 100X or ever 1,000X my money.  And any of my clients can tell you…When I share an opportunity like this…A lot of people can become incredibly wealthy. If prospects and hhad listened to me, they could have turned $1,000 into $253,000.00And if those prospects had held for 6 more weeks, they could have seen gains of 1,663%.Take Joshua Herring…He started making money immediately…Nos, you’re probably getting tired of hearing about smart homes, smart cars, smart phones, smart frying pans – every smart gadget.Well I was “in” early on that massive trend as well.And when North America started having a conversation about the legalization of Marijuana, my clients had a chance to turn even bigger gains! Barry Ponce.He says he made over $39,000 in a month and a half.And Jeff Wentz says he made nearly $45,000 – in under a month. Now he’s targeting his first million.And so far this year, a whopping 97% of my trades have been winners.I want to repeat that…This year, 97% of my recommendations have been winners.But that’s all in the past.The opportunity I’m talking about today has the potential to mint millionaires virtually overnight.I’ll tell you more about that in a few minutes.Right now, I’d like to give you a quick rundown of my three rules for buying cryptocurrencies .If I want to keep my 97% win rate, every cryptocurrency I touch must adhere to every single one of these rules.Rule #1: The Asset Must Have Intrinsic ValueWhen Bitcoin first launched – the concept was simple: An electronic payment system based on mathematical proof.The idea was to produce a currency independent of any central authority, transferable electronically, more or less instantly, with very low transaction fees.Ethereum took the concepts that drive Bitcoin’s growth several steps further…The Ethereum blockchain not only provides greater security, anonymity, and functionality; it also gives the Ether tokens intrinsic value.The value of Ether tokens is based upon the demand to build on the Ethereum blockchain.Because of Ethereum’s superior security, and functionality, Significantly more fortune 500 companies are building platforms on the Ethereum blockchain than any other.Just look at some of the players…From banking giants like…J.P MorganCredit SuisseUBSINGNational Bank of CanadaAnd more…To other multinational corporations like…BPIntelMastercardSamsungToyotaMicrosoftAnd more…In all, there are over 100 companies, including the ones above, who are members of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA).The EEA connects Fortune 500 enterprises, startups, academics, and technology vendors with Ethereum.That means they’re betting big on Ethereum.And with every application they build on the Ethereum blockchain will come a Fortune 500 bump in demand for Ether.Ether is designed to be safer than the U.S. Dollar, or physical gold…And, Ether’s intrinsic value is the crux of its design.Rule #2: The Asset Must Be New… But Not Too NewYou may have see this chart before…You’re looking at the 5 Customer Segments of Technology Adoption.And I’m going to show you exactly where you want to buy a cryptocurrency.Segment #1: InnovatorsInnovators get in on the groundfloor of some very interesting startups.But without awareness from the general public, they have no way of telling whether a technology will thrive.I do not recommend you buy a cryptocurrency at this stage.It’s too risky for me…Remember, I have a 97% win rate to uphold.Segment #2: Early AdoptersConsider the early adopters, “testers.”Early adopters basically decide whEther a technology is useful or not.They tell us whEther our cryptocurrency is worth what its creators have touted.They’re still in a risky spot – just not nearly as risky as the innovators.Segment #3: Early MajorityIf you invest here…Cross your fingers and hope your investment is a sure thing…Because you’ll be lucky to even see gains of 20% in a year.I believe this is where we are with Bitcoin — and that well may have already dried up.Segment #4: Late MajorityThe late majority are typically skeptical about innovation…Many of my readers fall into this category.I get it… And it’s ok.They’re the readers of mine who are genuinely overwhelmed with the fast pace of the technology world, but they understand how important technology is to the current (and future) U.S. Economy.They read my work so they can comfortably invest in technology without having to worry about what the newest iPhone will mean for Apple shares; or what the Presidents Tweets mean for Twitter stock.The majority are some of my biggest supporters, and I’ve helped a lot of them become very wealthy over the years.Segment #5: LaggardsNo matter how technologically illiterate you are, you do not fall into this group.After all, you’re reading this letter on a device that’s connected to the internet.Laggards may not even be using digital computers yet.These are the folks who invest by burying gold in their back yards, because they don’t even trust banks.I get it… I’m ok with them, too.I just wish I could teach them about cryptocurrencies .Because cryptocurrencies were built out of distrust for banks.And they have several advantages over banks…Cryptocurrencies Are 100% AnonymousI don’t mean “anonymous” like, no one will be able to track how much money you have invested in cryptocurrencies , or whether you made a transaction or not.That part is airtight. Better than any bank today.I mean, no one has to know your personal details.Think about it like this – your bank might use your social security number to connect your assets and make assumptions about how you should invest.cryptocurrencies and blockchains instead use a unique ID.Meaning, your personal information, like Social Security Number, is at a significantly lower risk of ever being stolen.Yes, that’s right…The use of cryptocurrency, and blockchain could have prevented last month’s data breach that threatens the safety of all of our personal information.Cryptocurrencies Are 100% Legal Tax HavensSo, not only are some blockchains safer places for your money than banks…They’re also legal tax havens.You see, any money you keep in Ethereum is non-taxable.It’s like keeping your money in a Cayman Island bank account…If the Cayman Island bank offered a potential for an exceptional 319,000% gain.So, when should I buy?In my years as a stockbroker…The world of cryptocurrencies is different.It’s volatile, and unpredictable.The downside for innovators is HUGE…And the upside for the early majority is still larger than even the riskiest conventional investments.That’s why I recommend buying when the early adopters stage is exactly 75% complete.Investing at this stage can help avoid a vast majority of risk, and puts us in position for the fastest and easiest gains.I could go on and on about the benefits of ERC-20 Tokens…But, I’ll spare you the technical jargon.In short, ERC-20 tokens are cryptocurrencies that are built on the Ethereum blockchain, and must comply to a specific set of standards.As previously mentioned, Ethereum is the most powerful blockchain in existance.ERC-20 tokens are able to harness the security and power of the Ethereum blockchain, and also nourish growth through projects independent of Ethereum as a whole.So you can buy an ERC-20 cryptocurrency, gain thousands of percentages regardless of what Ether is doing.And, at the same time, investors who buy a completely separate ERC-20 cryptocurrency should increase the price of Ether, and therefore your cryptocurrency.ERC-20 tokens present the definition of “having your cake and eating it too.”I want to tell you a story…I love America… and I love the freedom and opportunity it creates for us.This is a story about opportunity in America…And I think it illustrates the opportunity that’s taking place for every day Americans right now.The opportunity to create wealth for your family for centuries to come…The year is 1849.America was in expansion, and California was growing.The Spanish (Innovators) who made it out there first, had no idea what mix of opportunity and disaster the new land would bring.They were looking for gold, but never found it.Social strife and economics, and the knowledge that California was not out of reach drove more Americans (Early Adoptors) westward.And, one day – in what we refer to as “the bay area” of California – gold was found.Not just a little bit of gold…Enough gold to make the early adapters some of the wealthiest Americans at the time.Back east, word of the gold strike spread like wild fire.Now, tens of thousands of Americans (Early Majority) en route to California had one thing on their minds: GoldSwarms of Americans risked life and limb to make the journey…And by the time they arrived…It was too late.Gold was few and far between.The early adapters had already claimed almost all of the gold.The rest of the new Californian settlers had to mine tirelessly for little more than dust.The story of the California gold rush is almost exactly the same as what’s happening now – and what’s about to happen this year – except for three facts:There is significantly more wealth to be made today, with cryptocurrencies.Building a fortune in cryptocurrencies requires almost no work. (You can trade on your smart phone).You don’t have to risk more than $100 to potentially make millions.I can’t stress this enough…The digital currency boom that’s happening right now is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.You may never have a chance to make this kind of money, this easily, ever again in your life…Making Millions In cryptocurrencies Is As Easy as Investing GetsOrdinary Americans have been able to build massive fortunes…Buying up small amounts of cryptocurrencies with their spare change here and there…They’re watching as their pocket change turns into a six-figure payday.And I’m Going to Make It Even Easier For YouNow, if you’ve listened to anything I’ve had to say today, you’re asking yourself three questions:1. What is the next cryptocurrency to take off?2. What is this event Jon King mentioned earlier?3. How do I get in?That’s where I come in…www.lionsharecapitalgroup.comThe time I’ve spent working with high-tech start-ups has given me access to information less than 1% of crypto investors have access to…And I have the smartest and most-dedicated research team in the industry.With them at my disposal, we can evaluate all of the potential initial coin offering (ICO) opportunities…And find the ones that could mint you a millionaire in a matter of months… weeks… or even days.Prospective investors would be wise to note that.The Money Is Pouring In…Billionaire investor Michael Novogratz estimated that the crypto currency market could reach 5 trillion as early as 2022.And what’s more… ICO funding hit a record $800 million in Q2 2017.The cryptocurrency industry is ripe… Right where we want it.So all you have to do is:Follow my lead…Now…What’s important to focus on right now for new investors is a single, binary event that is set to send the entire crypto-space into a parabolic rise.And it’s coming sooner than you think.Things Are Moving Quickly…Russia, a country that had outlawed cryptocurrency in 2016, is now moving towards full legalization.In fact, Vladimir Putin recently sat down with one of the founders of this cryptocurrency to discuss using it as a tool to diversify the Russian economy.The Emirate of Dubai has also expressed serious interest. Crown Prince Sheikh Maktoum says he wants Dubai to “execute ALL transactions” with a program that includes this universal currency “by 2020.”Even the White House is signaling that it is preparing for a future with blockchain technology at the forefront. Chris Liddell, assistant to the president and director of strategic initiatives at the White House said that “Perhaps most important … is implementing foundational data standards now, so that the U.S. can be in position to harness the potential of blockchain and other technologies moving ahead.”As we look to the future, we want to ensure that today’s reforms do not hinder tomorrow’s adoption of emerging technologies,” he said…It doesn’t take a genius to see that cryptocurrencies could be the future of money.And my research indicates that Ethereum could give investors an even bigger return than Bitcoin.The reason is simple.A Single Massive Development Could Make This Blockchain Reach Billions of People.Where once you had a few cryptocurrencies on the fringe…Now you have a cryptocurrency eco-system – with millions of investors raking in cash from this emerging technology.And while Bitcoin has been around since 2010 and most of the huge gains have already been made…Ethereum is still only 2 years old, which is why investors are feverishly bullish on this promising new technology.Like I mentioned before, there is a major catalyst that will signaling exactly when and what to buy.The last time this event occurred… the price of Ethereum jumped over 100%.Since then, ERC-20 tokens have grown 20X that.And the next phase is rumored to be only weeks away.My “formula” indicates that this event is going to be the defining moment for Ethereum, and ERC-20 Tokens.LionShare Capital Group.comIncluding what to do before, during, and after the upcoming catalyst that could deliver 319,000% returns virtually overnight.In plain English, I’ve laid out which ERC-20 tokens, powered by Ethereum, could dominate the blockchain and its technology.Just like Bitcoin, for instance. It was the hottest investment story back in 2013 and 2014.In June of 2013, I alerted Wallstreet that the time to get into this digital currency had arrived.That’s because just weeks before, I had met with several CEOs, founders, and venture capitalists in California. They were at the forefront, developing the currency exchanges and investment funds that would push Bitcoin into the headlines.At that time, Bitcoin was trading for $90.Bitcoin skyrocketed 1,192% over the five months that followed.It peaked at $1,163People from across the country were making hundreds of thousands of dollars.Some were even banking millions.I look at investing in Ethereum and ICOs today just like I did Bitcoin back then.I believe it gives you the chance to become a millionaire.That’s why I’m in this business – I want every one of my readers to have a shot at making a fortune for themselves.I was one of the first to recognize the potential for huge profits from rare earth metals because I personally knew the advisors and board members of many rare earth mining companies.But I want to do this for a very specific reason.I predicted the run would be historic…And that’s exactly what happened.And for the folks who’ve already joined LionShare Capital Group, received my initial recommendation on cryptocurrency- and made investments in Ethereum-well the payoff was enormous.Like I mentioned, recently Ethereum began absolutely exploding.Folks had the opportunity to make thousands upon thousands of extra dollars.And a small stake in this red hot market could have made them instant millionaires.So I congratulate those people for going with their gut – being bold – and making the move to invest in our fund.As I said before – I am looking at Ethereum purely as a market analyst. When it comes to cryptocurrencies , all I care about is can investors make money in this market.And the answer is heck YES – and tons of it.A lot of folks stood on the sidelines the first go round.But I sincerely don’t want them to miss this next big opportunity.A small stake in the cryptocurrency I’m recommending could make you more money than the stock market ever made period.Remember, big catalysts are coming.So, I also don’t want you to miss out as this cryptocurrency flies even higher than before.That’s why I’m letting everyone get my cryptocurrency fund management fee free first year! lionsharecapitalgroup.com

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