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As much as I don’t care for giving CBR traffic considering their forums are shit now, I can concede that the news section is not the forums, so I’ll go ahead and link to something Cullen Bunn said in a CBR interview.

How much story time passes between Magneto #17-#18. Set the stage for us, where is Magneto when the final incursion
event that dooms the Earth and the Marvel Universe begins?

Some time passes between Issues 17 and 18. In 17, a surprise visitor
arrives in Genosha, and that helps set up some of the story to come.

All right. Maybe it’s not a big surprise. Polaris shows up in Issue #17.

What’s your sense of the relationship between Polaris and Magneto? And will you just be looking at Polaris, or
will some of her X-Factor teammates be part of this story?

One of the things that always struck me was how different his
relationship with Lorna was to his relationship to those two
non-children of his. As the world is ending and Magneto is reflecting on
all the things he’s done wrong, it seemed like now was the perfect time
for a reunion with Polaris.

You won’t be seeing any other members of X-Factor in this arc, though. It’s all about Lorna and Magnus.

I’m looking forward to this, as I hope is obvious from past posts of mine. The Magneto solo has been excellent work on Bunn’s part. I disagree with the non-children part, but I also realize that he pretty much has to talk about it that way given he has no control at all over what happens with Wanda and Pietro.

This definitely answers a question I had for him several months back, which wasn’t chosen for an answer. I noticed that Lorna wasn’t included when Magneto tried to escape his torture by going into his memories, and I saw two possibilities that would explain why he never went to Lorna: either because he cherishes her too much, or he feels like he failed her to a point that thinking about her wouldn’t have helped him at the time. Potentially both.

Lorna’s had a great build-up and respectable treatment so far as concerns her family ties. Austen undid the retcon that kept her from being Magneto’s daughter, Carey showed us Magneto’s eagerness to come to her aid while lost in space, Peter David gave us excellent insight into Lorna’s origin story and gave a hint of Magneto’s desire to protect her via taking her memory from her, and now Bunn’s working on legacy and Lorna’s place in it.

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This is a quick and simple message mainly for a few of the people following me.

Anyone excited about the things Marvel’s been doing with diversity and feminism, be prepared to stand up for it if necessary. I know I’m talking to people that already do that, but I mean be ready for worse than what you’re used to seeing. Be especially ready to help people in the industry that need help.I’m not going to elaborate here on why I’m making the post. Some of my followers know, the ones that don’t, feel free to send me a message and I’ll say a bit more privately.

I don’t have any “inside knowledge” of anything, I just have seen some public activity that I don’t want to give more publicity than it’s already had.

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FAQ about tumblr account terminations for music copyright violations.

Q: What is happening?
A: Tumblr is using an automated process to delete/terminate Tumblr accounts which have uploaded copyrighted songs. Tumblr user nosdrinker (now nosdrinkerisdead) is a recent prominent example.

Q: Why is this happening now, and not a year ago?
A: Many reasons, but the most important: Around February 1, 2015, Yahoo changed Tumblr audio posts to add download functionality (a “get” button), which would turn Tumblr into a pirated-music-hub unless Yahoo gives the music industry free rein to search and destroy — and Yahoo has.

Q: How do the account terminations happen?
A: Music industry (especially the IFPI) search bots analyze Tumblr posts, looking for metadata such as song titles and song lyrics. When they get matches, the music industry bots automatically send a takedown (DMCA) notice to Tumblr. If three takedown notices are sent within an 18 month period, the account is automatically deleted/terminated by Tumblr. No actual human being looks at the Tumblr posts or the Tumblr blog in question.

Q: Are accounts getting deleted in error?
A: Hell yes. See the IFPI and Jeremy Banks tags for the latest sadness. People have had their accounts terminated for using two lines of a song in a mashup, for translating song lyrics, and for posting their original music.

Q: What determines Tumblr’s “three copyright violations in 18 months = account termination” rule?
A: Nothing. Tumblr made it up. Tumblr could choose to delete the posts with alleged copyright violation and do nothing else. Tumblr is not required to delete accounts.

Q: Should I delete my old audio upload posts?
A: Yes, if you do not wish to have your account terminated. nosdrinkerisdead recommends using the website trntbl.me to locate your old audio posts; it will list your original audio posts as well as those you have reblogged. Folks have had takedowns for music posts from two years back.

Q: I deleted the audio posts I created. Should I delete audio posts I have reblogged?
A: Maybe. At this time, only original posts have bot searchable metadata such as tags, so if you reblog something a bot is not going to find it. Also, when an original audio post is deleted due to a takedown, then all reblogs of it should become empty posts, so going after reblogs makes no sense. However, once you have a “copyright violation” strike, there may be poorly paid music industry interns who periodically check your blog manually to look at your music tag or whatever. I expect the IFPI and others maintain databases of “previous violators.” I’ve removed all my reblogged music, since I’m sure I’m on what is known colloquially as a “shitlist.”

Q: Should I delete an audio post in which I uploaded like fifteen seconds of a copyrighted song?
A: I would. In case I haven’t made it clear, the account terminations have nothing to do with common sense or fair use. The music industry bots do not give a shit about your blog getting destroyed in error, and neither does Tumblr. Every DMCA, no matter how bizarre, is counted as a valid strike unless you file a DMCA Counter-Notification. If you aren’t interested in doing that, and do not want your account deleted, then when in doubt I would delete.

Q: What about a vid of me singing one minute of a song, or a photo on which I pasted text of song lyrics?
A: Did you put the song lyrics or the song title in your tags? If so, the bots might flag it as a copyright violation. Bots are stupid.

Q: Are there songs I should be particularly worried about?
A: Yes, anything managed by the IFPI. IFPI bots are producing the most takedowns.

Q: What about spotify and soundcloud audio posts?
A: Should be fine, because you didn’t upload the music, you just linked to it at spotify and soundcloud. The issue at this time is only with audio posts in which you uploaded music from your computer.

Q: What should I do if my account was terminated for music copyright violations?
A: Start a new Tumblr blog if you want to continue using Tumblr. You will need a new username and a new email account.

Q: But the music was music I wrote! It’s mine!
A: Use Tumblr’s DMCA Counter-Notification process to fight the content deletion/takedown.

Q: But I bought the music through Amazon or iTunes or on a CD, and thought it was okay to share through streaming audio on Tumblr.
A: So did we all. For years, Tumblr allowed us to upload music (up to five audio posts a day) because it substantially increased Tumblr’s user base and user “activity,” therefore increasing Tumblr’s value to its eventual buyer, Yahoo, and to the advertisers Yahoo is so eager to court. Now Yahoo/Tumblr is letting us take the DMCA fall for it.

Q: How do you know this?
A: Because my account was terminated in December, 2014. See my dmca tag for the tale. I have also worked in the Intarweb business since the 1990s, and have written/supported the kind of account termination automated foolishness going on at Tumblr.

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aber-flyingtiger:

rupeerose:

teafortrouble:

megg33k:

I need feminism because most men’s restrooms still aren’t equipped with baby changing stations. As someone who was married to a man who had sole custody of his young son, I’m hyperaware that feminism means EQUALITY, not female superiority. Feminism should and does support a man’s right to be as much of a parent to his child(ren) as any mother is allowed/expected to be.

This is a constant problem for Mr. Tea and myself. We’ve got twins, so even though I can change one kid on the change table in the ladies’ room, he’s left standing sort of awkwardly in the lobby with a messy child while I change one, come back, and get the other.

Nobody’s suggesting that men aren’t parents, so the lack of change tables goes well beyond ‘gender role reinforcing’ and straight into ‘ridiculous’.

My dad actually almost got kicked out of a mall once for changing my brother in the womens room of a mall. The only reason they didn’t call the cops on him was because the ladies in the room supported him.

I’d never even considered this but I support it

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lordtimeblogposts:

Polaris art by Jericomarte

I’ve said it many times, but I love Lorna using her powers to create and manipulate her own metallic costume. If Marvel cared about Lorna enough to put her real potential to use, I imagine Lorna using her powers to create her costume would be as memorable as Iron Man suiting up, or Hulk hulking out.

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thinksquad:

LAFAYETTE, Colo. – An elementary school principal says she was fired for protecting children from humiliation.

Noelle Roni says she fought against a policy requiring kids to get their hands stamped if they don’t have enough money in their lunch account. She was fired from Peak to Peak Charter School in Lafayette in the fall.

“The kids are humiliated. They’re branded. It’s disrespectful. Where’s the human compassion? And these are little children,” she said.

Roni was principal for nine years before being fired. She calls it a wrongful termination, and wants her job back.

Why in the living fuck is this not signal boosted the shit out of?

Are there online protests to sign to help this woman out. She’s amazing.

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Mysterious object found in a Stone Age settlement in Norway

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Was this a tool? Was it used for decoration? The experts do not understand the purpose of the 6,000 year old object from the Neolithic period.

A mysterious object was found in a 6,000-year-old Stone Age settlement at Sømmevågen, near Stavanger Airport in Norway.

“The most magnificent artefact was found in an oval bed of rocks covered over with flat stones. By the flat stones we found a wooden tool about 20 cm long which had been painstakingly constructed,” says project leader Trond Meling.

Meling is an archaeologist at the University of Stavanger’s Museum of Archaeology. Read more.

They’re going to be really embarrassed if it turns out to be a dildo.