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Christina Warren (@film_girl)
Playing around taking photos of Christina Warren (@film_girl) with the fisheye and warming filter.
Tomorrow's International Blood Donor's Day. Today the Flemish Red Cross had organised a Donor's Day. We made a site of our own, where bloggers and twitterati could enlist. First we had lunch (or twunch) and then off to the centre! Unfortunately I wasn't allowed to give blood so I took pictures. All in all a grand day out.
I wasn't allowed to give blood because of low blood pressure (8/5 which seems to be freakishly low). *Sigh* As a consolation I had steak with a mushroom-pepper sauce. It was scrumptious. I felt better already ;)
O yeah, check out the site we made so people would enroll today to give blood: De Bloedgroep
So, then. Here’s my definition of "vehicular cycling in the UK" - put into a wider context. Thanks to the input from the trusty twitterati gang. Highly non-scientific. But then, so many things we do, so many decisions we take - are emotional. It’s split into two camps. Would you have guessed.
Brits? Compromise?
Nope. Never!!
Camp AC - assertive cycling
The ones calling it assertive cycling, fair enough, are the people who get by, manage, see it as a transitional survival technique or necessary coping mechanism but hoping for better times to come, and fairer behaviour from drivers too. Better times, when the whole family will be able to cycle safely, or parents let their eight-year olds cycle by themselves... in fact it means: mass cycling, here we come! And segregation, the s-word, is considered part of the mix by this camp. Here’s a couple of continental design graphs to consider, both based on traffic volume and speed. Denmark. Germany. And, yes, VC is part of a mixed approach.
Camp VC – vehicular cycling
The ones who see it as a means to an end, as the ultimate solution. Nonetheless, no-one has convinced me yet that with that attitude we will get the masses cycling in the UK, so I presume it’s an elitist activity. It seems to be somewhat male-dominated. And it appears this camp has tried for the last 20-30 years to convert people by adult training and promotion – without great success: modal share for cycling has not increased dramatically in the UK, has it? Though there’s some talk of traffic volume and speed reduction amongst the camp VC supporters, its character generally remains of sporty stuff. And: as soon as you mention segregation, this seems to be a swearword and insult to these folks. UK cycle campaigning relies heavily on this camp VC principle, coupled with adult training and promotion. No big shout-out for the big budget item that is infrastructure interventions. We have missed three decades, and should now look abroad to learn from others. I do not understand camp VC’s anxieties other than wanting to maintain an elite minority status.
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Where am I in all this?
In case you should ask, and you may have guessed it already. I firmly sit in camp AC. And here’s the reason. I want mass cycling to happen. I want the cycle conditions attuned so that everyone can cycle. I have spoken to too many non-cycling people. There is a consensus, people don’t cycle because it isn’t safe. Or it doesn’t feel safe. It isn’t convenient or pleasant. Routes are not direct, not intuitive, silly even. When asked what will get them to seriously consider cycling, all effectively shout the same thing: “more cycle lanes”. Of course. The magic words. Open, sesame. It is what you get to hear over and over again. I understand this to mean: good quality cycle facilities are badly needed to remove anxiety barriers and give a real alternative to the masses.
Looking to the continent - Denmark, Netherlands and Germany in particular - this report sums up what’s needed to make mass cycling reality.
So. Really. Why reinvent the wheel?
Oh. And discuss.
@katsdekker
@moodler demonstrates Moodle 2.0's ability to connect with web2.0 apps. Pulls in random pic from Flickr with conference tag. Of course it had to be this less than professional picture of @evilsue, @playnice_nz and me. I couldn't surpress a loud 'oh no...'. Thx @evilsue...
Conservative blogosphere accuses Joseph Cao of treason, being a communist, a cat-eater, and all around party pooper.
Read the whole article at:
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Christina Warren (@film_girl)
Playing around taking photos of Christina Warren (@film_girl) with the fisheye and warming filter.
Christina Warren (@film_girl)
Playing around taking photos of Christina Warren (@film_girl) with the fisheye and warming filter.
Christina Warren (@film_girl)
Playing around taking photos of Christina Warren (@film_girl) with the fisheye and warming filter.
Tired of tweets? Don't care about Oprah, Ashton, Britney, or Perez? Show that you are SO over this future Friendster with this "Twitter Has Jumped the Shark" t-shirt! And yea, this is kind of an advert. http://www.cafepress.com/aarontharvey Tweet about it ALL you want!
From left: Paul Beaulieu, Andrew Jankowich, Andrea Mercado and Michael Goldberg.
Whose head is that? 90.9.'s final Tweet-Up of 2008.
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While the makers of URI: The Surgical Strike launched the trailer on Wednesday morning, it spread like wildfire online. It has not only caused a storm in Pakistan but also risen much curiousity amongst Indians. The reaction of the trailer left jaws dropped especially the social media caught fire and initiated a debate amongst Twitterati and youtubers across borders considering the trailer is trending in Pakistan as well.
A little known fact: In the complete works of Shakespeare, his characters refer to love 2,259 times but to hate just 183 times.
Urban Combing considers that maybe the Twitterati could be like Shakespearean characters of the modern age, broadcasting their own soliloquy's of love and hate through Tweets and touch-screens, instead of on stage in a dark theatre or with trusty quill and ink. Urban Combing dreams for that one minute in time the Twitterati are only sending messages of love, and takes another sip of the cocktail, firmly pressing send.
Twitterati-Love T-shirts are designed by Urban Combing and screen printed by hand on carbon-neutral, ethically manufactured cotton. Available. For more information please visit my profile.
Most of the biggest names in social media and the accounting profession joined us as we hosted our first tweetup on February 26th, 2009. Pictured are Chris Jenkins (OSCPA), Tom Hood (MACPA), Bill Sheridan (MACPA), Jeff De Cagna (Principled Innovation) Francine McKenna (re:The Auditors), Edith Orenstein (FEI & AccountingWeb), and Rick Telberg (CPA Trendlines)
Twitterati support to Kangana Ranaut dwindles after initial lead over Meryl Streep, Gal Gadot #GalGadot #KanganaRanaut #KanganaRanautawards #KanganaranautTwitter #MerylStreep #MerylStreepOscars #Zeepoll
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By Roger Stone
How Twitter Transformed Itself from a Frivolous Online Message Board into the Leading Digital Innovator of 21st Century Techno-Fascism, Turbocharging Censorship from the Mere Deletion of Words Into Erasing Human Beings Entirely
“The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.” Samuel Adams, October 14, 1771
I always liked Twitter. It was lively, snarky and always challenging to get your bon mot into 140 characters. My feed was not for the faint-hearted. It was pungent, pugnacious and sometimes risqué. Not as over the top of the hordes on twitter who have threatened to kill me, my wife, my kids and my dogs but then Twitter doesn’t seem to care about banning them. The imbecile Keith Olbermann drops the F-bomb on President Trump daily but Twitter looks the other way. Twitter, it seems, holds me to a different standard.
Only by the grace of the Lord God Almighty that Twitter’s murky star chamber of sneaky, faceless censors, and the craven, disingenuous corporate autocrats behind it, were not around when the likes of Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams and many more brave rebels chose to publicly revolt against constant royal subjugation.
Given how boldly those men defied convention and correctness, rejecting sanitized platitudes in favor of incendiary, seditious, do-or-die rhetoric, it is a safe bet they would have been quickly and summarily silenced, suspended in secret by Twitter’s selective political minders and disappeared without a trace, had they found themselves at the mercy of the Twitter content police.
Harsh, insulting, profane, indelicate, over-the-top and even outright nasty public rhetoric in the heat of partisan combat is an inherent and arguably-healthy feature of a centuries-old American political tradition.
In other words, Americans engage with our political opponents, no matter how ugly it might get. We have traditionally eschewed any resort to disingenuous offence-taking or phoney outrage or any other species of whining victimhood as a proxy for cheap point-scoring or advantage-taking over opponents.
What Americans do not do is try to censor or silence our opponents, or our opponents merely for not agreeing with our own ideology or for not conforming with some arbitrary restriction someone might try to put on our rhetoric to pre-empt full-throated engagement of any opponent.
No segment of the American political spectrum has been better acquainted with, and more prolific in, the use of mockery, profanity, contempt and, yes, hatred as means to go after opponents than the American political left.
One need not look past the instant stream of non-stop hatred, abuse and defamation that has been spewed about me, and to me, in the reply comments of nearly every Tweet I ever posted in the last two years, to see how true this is.
It is also true, and certainly curious, that none of this endless torrent of hatred and invective towards me has ever resulted in any action by Twitter against of the cyber-lynch mobsters that viciously assault me on a daily basis. It would seem that if one is a good little leftist and attacks the right people (or wrong people, as the case may) then no assault is too nasty to overlook.
Totalitarian Corporate Thought Police
It is perplexing, to say the least, how it is that Twitter treats certain public figures on their platform as though they are delicate snowflakes in need of Twitter’s special vigilante protection from big bad meanies like me.
Yet, I am treated by Twitter like a human punching bag with a target painted on it, with open season for any sort of attack to be launched against me, no matter how repugnant or hate-filled it is on the face of it, without need to stretch one’s imagination to suss a “micro-aggression.”
If Twitter’s passive inaction towards hatred spewed my way by its fellow traveler members on the screeching nasty left is any indication of its “standards” for policing offensive words toward public figures like myself, then it is absolutely within the realm of acceptability to take salty pot shots at nationally-known network “news” personalities who not only choose to be public figures but are also handsomely paid for it.
If one adds to this the overarching fact that these personalities deceitfully masquerade as reporters or journalists, of some sort, while effectively acting every bit the partisan propagandists one would expect to find as low-level hired campaign hacks, then the notion that I must be turned into a non-person in order to protect them from my salty expressions of contempt is beyond laughable, totally bizarre, and extreme to the point that there is simply no other valid explanation for it than the partisan animus of the creeps behind the Twitter star chamber.
Aside from the inherently extreme and patently discriminatory nature of my being instantly turned into a non-person by Twitter over mere insults that contained no threats or really anything of any consequence at all, except perhaps to the delicate feelings of the partisan media hitmen it was directed towards, the attempt to justify this cyber beheading by resort to “Twitter’s Rules” is too cynical and disingenuous to stomach.
Only the sneakiest and most craven of corporate fascist bullies would actually hide behind a bunch of vague, if not totally-undefined, “rules” that they alone can summarily change in any way at any time…that they alone impose whenever they want for whatever reasons they want, selectively, yet arbitrarily, without warning, hearing, or even explanation.
The plain truth is that anyone who doesn’t immediately recognize that totalitarian leftist orthodoxy is what is really at play here, maniacally intent on suppressing undesirables and their “hate” speech, is paying absolutely ZERO attention.
Regardless of who or what is involved, on any level, Twitter’s thought police are never going to qualify as some sort of high, holy tribune of rule enforcement and the maintenance of supposed “standards”.
They are clearly discriminatory, dishonest partisans who saw their chance to drive a truck through an insulting, but effectively harmless, few Tweets to run it right over me in a calculated partisan takedown.
The Twitterati, however, will soon find the runaway truckload of bullshit they ran me over with headed straight for them…..with the pedal to the metal.
fromhttps://stonecoldtruth.com/censored-beyond-words/ rogerstone1.blogspot.com/2017/10/censored-beyond-words.html
As part of Capture Reading (11.21 on the Third Thursday of August), some of Reading's twitterati called for a street photography flashmob, low turnout because of the rain, but the shop in the background really is appropriate. There were other photographs that I could've submitted to Capture Reading, but this one really caught the particular moment, which in short was a monsoon.
This is the Photograph for Week Thirty-Three of my Project 52. I rarely do Street, so this presented itself as a great opportunity. The flash reflecting off the heavy raindrops really add to the photo I think.
Some examples of win include:
Twestival in 184 cities
The new macbook pro
FFFFound invites
Leah Culver’s Awesome blog
You could buy it here.
Gnomad visits the Miami Children's Museum.
Miami Children's Museum
980 Macarthur Causeway
Miami, FL 33132
A little known fact: In the complete works of Shakespeare, his characters refer to love 2,259 times but to hate just 183 times.
Urban Combing considers that maybe the Twitterati could be like Shakespearean characters of the modern age, broadcasting their own soliloquy's of love and hate through Tweets and touch-screens, instead of on stage in a dark theatre or with trusty quill and ink. Urban Combing dreams for that one minute in time the Twitterati are only sending messages of love, and takes another sip of the cocktail, firmly pressing send.
Twitterati-Love T-shirts are designed by Urban Combing and screen printed by hand on carbon-neutral, ethically manufactured cotton. Available. For more information please visit my profile.
On the last morning in NYC a small band of renegade Twits headed out in a quest for bacon.
Bacon was found.
The question was asked, "do you do video?". Here are the answers... ;?)
Well, as all good members of the Twitterati know, it's International Cat Day! Who declared this? I don't know.
To honour the occasion, here's Lucy doing what Lucy does best...pretty much nothing. :)
Brightwest - Brighton Twestival at the HiFi Lounge, Providence Rd Brighton 25th March 2010. A fundraising gathering of twitterati.
Christina Warren (@film_girl)
Playing around taking photos of Christina Warren (@film_girl) with the fisheye and warming filter.
@lancearmstrong, @Levi_Leipheimer, and Yaroslav Popovych of Team Astana on the Amalfi Coast during Stage 19.