By David Futrelle
It’s a rarity in this year of terrible, but tonight has been a night of actual good news! Dems are winning elections, and Reddit has banned the toxic cesspool known as the Incels subreddit! Celebrate while you can in this open thread!
No trolls. Fuck trolls.
This is the first time a wall of news notifications hasn't been a nightmare in god knows how long pic.twitter.com/NpTaW5QK6e
— Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) November 8, 2017
Dems have won all three of the marquee off-year races — NJGov, VAGov, NYC Mayor — for the first time since 1989.
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) November 8, 2017
Democrats decimated Republicans across the country tonight, at every level and in every branch of state government.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) November 8, 2017
Thanks, Trump!
And this is the icing on the cake:
Trans woman Danica Roem (D) just defeated anti-LGBTQ candidate Bob Marshall (R) in Virginia, becoming the first trans state legislator in America.
— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) November 8, 2017
The man who wrote the anti-trans bathroom bill just lost the election to a trans woman. Let that sink in. https://t.co/KFEZXSYvMy
— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) November 8, 2017
Oh, and there’s this:
Jeff Sessions' DOJ Drops Prosecution Of Woman Who Laughed At Jeff Sessions https://t.co/slOPOhmLYN pic.twitter.com/ekRsU1RJAq
— Curt and Frank 🏳️🌈 (@curtandfrank) November 7, 2017
Let’s all celebrate by laughing at Jeff Sessions!
Meanwhile, on Reddit:
Reddit has banned the Incels subreddit. About fucking time; it was a cesspool of misogyny and violent hate. pic.twitter.com/8RieXtxZLN
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) November 8, 2017
HEALTH NOTE: Though cheered by tonight’s news, I’m still dealing with a shitstorm of health issues. I will return to regular posting as soon as I can, but I’m not sure when that will be. Thanks again for your patience and your support!
ETA:
If you were referring to the “austerity” politics on the EU level (which is where I duck my head in shame at what “my” government does…), that’s pretty much the same. That is, right now, I don’t see who could come to power who wouldn’t do as bad or even worse… 🙁
Some OT good news:
I don’t have breast cancer.
Congrats VP!
@ vicky p
Oh that is great to hear; you must be so relieved!
@Victorious Parasol
That’s good news. BTW, what’s your avatar from? It looks vaguely familiar to me but I can’t place it and reverse image search drew a blank.
@everyone:
I could really use an answer on my (OT, I know) query re: forcing NoScript and Firefox to get along again. The second promised date for NoScript 10 has come and gone without any NoScript 10 update becoming downloadable. The website now promises it in “days, not weeks”, but I’d be a fool to take that with any grain of salt smaller than VY Canis Majoris after the two previous promised dates came and went with no NoScript update.
At this point I think I have to write off NoScript 10 as vaporware and its author as having flaked on us. Which means I’m stuck with NoScript 5.x for the foreseeable future and therefore must find a way to make it work with current and future versions Firefox.
@VP
That is very good news!
Thank you – yes, I am quite relieved. I burst into tears on Mr. Parasol’s chest when we got the good news, ‘cos I’m a goop.
@Surplus: It’s not from any media; it’s an original creation/collaboration by me and my BFF.
VP that’s wonderful news. Congratulations!!!! And I should think just about anyone would burst into tears, in fact I can’t imagine you wouldn’t.
Congrats, VP!
@Surplus : my current solution is NoScript Lite, but it’s not as modular, which annoy me.
I’ve never heard of it. How is it “not as modular”?
The most critical things I need are
a) blocking or “click to play” of most resources that can hack you (fonts, WebGL, Flash, Java, etc. — seemingly every month the Patch Tuesday updates for Windoze include a “graphics component” patch, and those usually mean they found yet another buffer overrun whereby a web font could take over your machine)
b) control over scripts, especially third-party ones, running. The two major reasons being to block malicious scripts (as in that will try to infect you) and to block malicious scripts (as in that will try to spam you, force you to sign up for something to get annoying crap off from in front of the thing you’re trying to read, force you to turn off your adblocker, interfere with right-click-save-as, interfere with select-copy-paste, and so forth).
And no, turning off my ad blocker is not an option, since ad networks have repeatedly been used as vectors for spreading malware…
NoScript’s anti-clickjacking and anti-XSS features would be nice to have as well.
Does NoScript Lite miss any of this stuff? Which?
@Surplus : you allow all JS on the page, instead of allowing the JS coming from a specific server. It make it a lot less manipulation to make work a page that require JS, but for example you can’t allow Cracked to use JS to load pictures, without also allowing the various facebook scripts.
*admitelly* I never had hacking problems, the first reason being Linux (there is very few malicious script geared toward linux users), and the second one being that I allow JS at all on very few site anyhow.
@Victorious Parasol
Many congratulations. 🙂
@Catalpa
Good ideas, thank you. I’m looking to see what’s available around here – regular schedule stuff is a bit of a problem with her work, but we can make it happen if she wants it to.
@Vicky, that’s so great! <3
Victorious Parasol, once again you are victorious. Excellent news! You’ve been through enough.
As an aside, your avatar always reminded me of Victoria Principal.
Just saw this a few pages back and thought to reply, @mrex,
No problems my duck! I don’t disagree with your positions in all but the wonkiest of ways, so I think we’re in agreement where it counts.
from Slate, protestors refuse to allow the city to tow RVs being used as housing by homeless
half the 4500-students are homeless… HALF OF THE 4500 STUDENTS ARE HOMELESS!!
in a place with more wealth per square foot than anyplace outside of heaven… half the 4500 students are homeless.
Damn, the dumpster-fire-in-chief is making America great again, ain’t he??
Congrats, VP!
@VP.
Congratulations VP!
@Weird Eddie:
Well over a decade ago people were talking about how nobody could afford to live in ‘Silicon Valley’ on, say, a firefighter’s salary, and what this meant for all the infrastructure services that still need to be staffed but which tend to pay crap.
Which is another way of saying, ‘I wish I could say I was surprised’.
(Toronto has similar problems thanks to its own skyrocketing housing market, though not quite to that extent. There’s a reason why they’ve been passing bylaws lately to ban things such as people buying up condominium units purely to use as AirBnB spots rather than allowing for local long-term rentals. The city would choke even worse than it is now if everybody needed a car to get around, so they really want to encourage the people living here full-time to be in reach of transit. At least, in theory; when it comes to actually putting money down, of course…)
@Victorious Parasol,
Thank goodness! I’m so glad – like PeeVee said, you’ve had more than your fair share of health woes. What a relief it must have been <3
Also, more generally, I am loving how we're keeping this thread alive. It's been two weeks – it's like we're pushing on until David F. gets better!
It’s worse than that. It’s now almost impossible for anyone making minimum wage or on a fixed income to afford housing (rental or mortgage payments) in any city in North America. This can’t keep going like this. It’s unsustainable. If something peaceful doesn’t fix the housing market soon, then there will inevitably be violence, especially with a cold La Nina winter looming for the northern tier of states and for Canada.
@Victorious Parasol
What a relief that must be. Congratulations on the good news!
@Mish: He needs to see a doctor. Migraines last hours, not months. Whatever’s wrong is something else, and unfortunately likely something more serious (all I can think of are “aneurysm” and “tumor”, but then, I’m not an MD, so there might be other less well-known possibilities, but I doubt anything causing a headache that lasts months isn’t serious).