More from the time of no time (April-May 02020)

Before we begin, have you checked your password lately? If you haven't changed it since the days of Livejournal, or if, like some of us did in our earlier years, you used the same password for both services, that password should be dead to you, as there appears to be a list of Livejournal names and passwords out in the wild, and nefarious actors have been using them to see if other accounts, like Dreamwidth, can also be compromised. Which is no fun at all to have happen. So, change that password on any account it might have been used with, and move forward yet more into the realm of generating and storing strong passwords that do not crack under pressure easily.

Hello! Let's begin with You Must Not Go Outside, a satirical set of instructions for people in the United Kingdom to do while they are on quarantine. (There are other satirizations on the same concept, because humor is often shared.)

Staying in the realm of satire, an illustration of the collegiate campus as it exists in the mind of the United States conservative, which blends many of the things that conservatives take issue with when it comes to college faculty and organizations they believe are engaging in liberal indoctrination and attempting to silence any dissenting voices.

If you intend to engage in humor, though, it's almost always worth making sure all the people that will be involved are okay with it. Zoom-bombing your partner by wearing costumes is funny, but it's a lot less so if it's unwanted.

Not funny at all, however, is the last laugh from the Roe of Roe v. Wade saying her choice to be a shill for the anti-choice movement had nothing to do with becoming a true believer and all to do with getting enough money from the anti-choice movement to keep on living, with the implications that the anti-choicers knew what they were getting into when they agreed to it. Which says quite a bit about what that movement is willing to do to make it seem like their view is somehow the better one. It was supposedly worth almost one half-million dollars over the remainder of the person's life, which is a pretty good amount, but some part of me wishes she'd soaked them for more.

( And, as always, there's more inside )

Last for this entry, some interesting facts about the Ewoks, back from when Star Wars getting re-released was an important and momentous occasion. (And also a source of much derision, once people found out what had happened in the special edition re-releases.)

The coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial helped hasted the cancellation of Gargoyles, the cartoon. Because trial coverage was pre-empting their timeslots. (And Disney wasn't trying to get them to keep going, I guess?)

And the various men of the Lord of the Rings and why they're all terrible boyfriends.