You tell them to buy all this shit that you make and they give you their money so they can have those things. Then they are broke and when they try to get an education to pay for all the shit you made them buy, guess what, they can’t afford it. You make it harder and harder for them to play by your rules. You can’t just keep fucking with people and expect them not to react.

Until yesterday, I thought Americans would never react to this injustice being done. Now, I think it’s inevitable. A whole different kind of horror.

You’ll probably go into denial upon reading this. That’s fine, but please just do remember that I told you so. It’s important to me as I am quite shallow.

ADDED LATER:
See the thing is- what the British rioters have done is they’ve made it conceivable. Americans seeing the British do this means that it’s feasible now- they can picture it happening where as before it was inconceivable… a reaction… a revolution. The world changed yesterday. This is VERY big and the US needs do so something BIG NOW to address the concerns of all the potential rioters here. Warhoop.

Just to let you know- while google finally did reinstate my gmail account late Saturday, they did not fully reinstate my google plus account. They re-enabled my account only to the extent that I can log into it but I cannot post anything at all.

This is of course shitty because it makes my gplus friends able to contact me but I cannot contact them back, giving the impression that I am ignoring them. It would have been better for them to fully disable my gplus account while leaving my other gmail services intact.

This is just more evidence that google doesn’t know what they fuck they are doing. They are behaving negligently, unaware of how their inconsistent manipulation of people’s accounts with no consistency or communication, affects people’s livelihood.

This should be a lesson to everyone that Google is very very dangerous.

You have been warned. Don’t wait until it happens to you.

I’m so glad that I didn’t fully switch over to google voice as I was planning to when I moved next week. Can you imagine? Google doesn’t like what you post on google plus so you can’t use your phone any more… your “unified inbox.”

I see no need to engage google in dialogue about this. They have gone insane.

Google is behaving like the Chinese government.

unpostable last google+ post

This will be my last post on Google+. This morning google cancelled my account for an unspecified TOS violation. This would have been upsetting but not the end of the world. What was the end of the world, however, was that they also disabled my gmail account, and all other gmail services for my bloatedlesbianjew email address. Not only that, but they offered no opportunity for redress other than a silly comment form that nobody reads.

They finally reactivated my gmail after several hours and me complaining to some very vocal tweeters such as Violet Blue and Skud, but the did so with no explanation, apology or anything.

During the time, my email was blocked, gmail didn’t even send a bounce notification to the senders of my email telling them that my account was inactive.

You can read my twitter feeed bloatedlesbian for more details but suffice it so say i no longer trust google with my data.

I am furious with google’s negligence. I will come up with harsher words after I come back from a trip this weekend.

My advice to everyone on google:
1) back up everything
2) have a down time plan if all google services go out
3) think for yourself.

At least I no longer have to figure out how to fit Google+ into my life. It doesn’t.

MORE REASON TO DITCH THE PRIVATE WEB AND GO BACK TO THE PUBLIC WEB!

someone please help. i can still be reached at bloatedlesbian@gmail.com until they block that one.

google can and will shut your gmail down whenever they want without notice. happened to me today

This is freedom.

It’s like there are two parallel universes: The one where there are rich people and investors and the one comprised of millions of middle class and poor people.

The media buys into the notion that only the rich universe matters, and I don’t even think they realize they’re doing it. So many unquestioned assumptions!

You cannot do audio only transitions in FCPX. There is a work around:
via @hdedition on Twitter

hdedition: @bloatedlesbian Use two seperate Audio layers and indiivdually cross fade the end/beginning of each one. Need workarounds at this stage.

For me this is a deal breaker. I use audio only transitions way to often to have to do this work-around. I even had to delete an almost finished edit and start over in FCP7 because it took less time than to do the work around.

In a for-profit healthcare system, such as the one we have now, private insurance companies only insure people with whom they can earn a profit. Therefore, they will not insure high-risk customers.

In such a situation the high-risk patie
nts will be forced into joining the high-risk pool provided by the government.

Since the low risk pool belongs to private industry and the high risk pool belongs to the government, this means the government will go even more broke while private industry gets richer.

Now i know Americans are mostly incapable of critical thought due to a horrible educational system among other reasons. But, isn’t there some way to to get this point across to the masses?

How is it that politicians are able to get away with saying that “Obamacare” is too expensive? Aren’t people making these arguments against them?

Didn’t something like this happen to Elliot Spitzer when he was investigating fraud on Wall Street?

What an insult to the American people. Republicans take over the house because Americans were stupid enough to believe they could find us jobs and instead we get this WORTHLESS PILE OF SHIT. They don’t even try to make sense. It basically says to get more jobs we have to destroy government regulation and the environment with it.

I hate republicans and I hate YOU if you are one. This *IS* personal. You are trying to kill my world and I HATE you.

REPUBLICAN JOBS PLAN

Capitalism is great. I can pay my bills if I make porn. When I try to do something of social value, it’s expected of me to do it for free or barely anything.

People have told me, “Make a DVD. Make tee shirts.” First of all, I tried it. Secondly, It’s insulting. I don’t make shit. We don’t need more shit.

I’m not done podcasting. I miss it. I find the lack of a purposeful artistic outlet somewhat depressing.

I remain committed to ETHS and to Live shows when I can. Those involve commitments to other people which I value.

I keep telling myself once I catch up with this and that, I’ll do a solo show, but I don’t get caught up. Then, once I do, I want to relax and watch Fringe or something.

Podcasting is important to me, but it’s still work. In this economic system which I find myself, my kind of work is not rewarded, and sometimes it’s even punished! The whole system needs to change.

I try to tell people to give a shit about shit and they reply with sociological reasons why people don’t give a shit in America.

Then I see someone post about the reaction to justin bieber’s haircut and I feel like I can’t go on.

Queens get more emotional about defending Lady GaGa then they do about genocide in Lybia.

Americans fight against healthcare, but we have three years shorter life expectancy than Canadians who have socialized medicine.

The solution is so far from this current reality, I can’t picture it, though recent events in the middle east and Wisconsin have given me some hope. Not hope as a brand used to sell more shit to me, but real hope for change I can’t even imagine.

Get fucked.
Twice.

I’m done.

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

But it will not be just about Bush. It will also be about The Supreme Court: The Court in 2000 which stopped the democratic process by ordering Florida to stop counting the ballots; The Court which in 2010 (or was it late ’09?) gave our democracy away to foreign countries and as Obama said in his State of the Union address, even to our enemies,

After the 2000 court decision I remember visualizing the crack in The Liberty Bell which I was taken to see on a field trip as a child. The Liberty Bell’s crack, however, meant the opposite of what had just happened, though. My mother explained to me at the time that the bell cracked because people were so happy to have gained independance that they rang the bell so hard that it cracked. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but that’s what my mother told me and I like the story.

This time the crack is literal.