Halloween is coming!

Comment "trick-or-treat" to this post and...well, you know the drill. Treats can be anything that strikes my fancy (pics of fave actors or pairings, one sentence fics, graphics, a few words why I'm glad to have you on my flist, etc. etc.). The more "houses" to visit the more fun it'll be, so go ahead, open your journal and help spread the fun!

Will repost a link the day before Halloween (All Hallows' Eve's eve?)

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Crossposted from this post (with comments) on Dreamwidth.

So how do you make friends on Dreamwidth?

I ask because the question occurred to me earlier today as I went on the hunt for some new folks to subscribe to. Dreamwidth has a unique "friending" system, where you can subscribe to a journal without granting access to more personal posts (or whatever you have on filters). The thing about this is, when subscribing to a journal I feel like I have to hit 'grant access' as well because that's the only way they'll know who I am/what kind of posts I write. My public posts aren't really "windows to my soul" or whatever and the stuff I have under the access filter is more of who I am from day to day. As such, I feel that I have to expose myself for a week or two, before deciding to either withdraw the access or allow it to continue.

So how do you do it Circle? Do you subscribe first, then grant access after getting to know a person? Do you subscribe and grant access all at once, and if so what's your thought process?

ETA: Do you always check out/subscribe to the journals that subscribe to you (at least at first)?

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Crossposted from this post (with comments) on Dreamwidth.

One of the worst days of grad school so far.
Naturally, I turn to pictures of Idris Elba for comfort.
#selfcare

A sampling of the pics I posted on multibeautiful (which you should subscribe to!).

  

You can see how this would be a great way to unwind.

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Crossposted from this post (with comments) on Dreamwidth.

You should watch Sleepy Hollow on FOX.

You really should.

Because Nicole Beharie's flawlessness.


xximg source

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Crossposted from this post (with comments) on Dreamwidth.

icon chosen for poor kitty's frustration


this lion is trying HARD and the baby is all 'heroes don't look at explosions... or lions trying to eat them'.

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Crossposted from this post (with comments) on Dreamwidth.

I just discovered that customized comment pages probably don't work on the 'Basic' account level on Livejournal. Oh, how I have missed your particular brand of fuckery, Eljay.

Also, apparently:
from tifa:

Livejournal Scrapbook is going away. Your 10GB of Paid Member space is now 2GB. If you care, there is an explanation in Russian on the Russian news page. There's also a user-submitted translation.

+ You will no longer have access to your Scrapbook once this goes live.
+ Your images will redirect, but the URL will be different.
+ Unable to tell what will happen to any photos you have that put you over the 2GB limit.
+ Back up your Scrapbook just in case.
+ If you want your photos transferred over now instead of waiting, let them know here.

Sigh.

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Crossposted from this post (with comments) on Dreamwidth.

Unsubscribing/de-friending/de-accessing/etc amnesty. Feel free to remove me from your subscriptions/flist at will, as has always been my circle policy. I'll also be doing the same since I might have hit critical mental mass on my own subscriptions and I stress out about not connecting with you as I should have.

This post is also going to mark the start of my crossposting to LJ. While my issues with LJ have been ISSUES, I am missing out on some great people, and I've been a bit of a selfish person not doing them the courtesy of lurking out on LJ as they do my DW. So yeah, I'm on both bases now :)

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Crossposted from this post (with comments) on Dreamwidth.

for my own reference but if you haven't heard... might wanna check it out

>> New Livejournal release is the cause of massive user privacy breech - unfunnybusiness
Are you a still a Livejournal user? Well, son, better hold onto your butt.

>> lj security-related PSA - eruthros 
I know a lot of y'all don't use lj, but in case you do, there seems to be a bug that caused (is causing?) a security/privacy breach: multiple people have reported that when they try to edit their own entries/profile/inbox, they are taken to another random user's edit entries/profile/inbox page, and can see all of that user's flocked and private entries.

>> Reports of Massive LJ Privacy Breach - boundbooks 

LJ released an update yesterday (

http://lj-releases.livejournal.com/70891.html

) which has apparently caused people to report some massive breaches of privacy, including the ability to edit other users' accounts and entries.

>> On LJ Security Fail -

lorax 
And the official has a comment saying this is a continuing problem. And another that says that actual action (as in posting as someone else) was taken while the log-in switch was happening. (The wording seems a little contradictory in comments, but might just be an issue with stating something oddly.)



ETA: crossposting this to LJ for the moment (if it still works) -

 

dw_codesharing for invite codes

 

- AVOS (the new Delicious overlords) went and broke our favorite toy. No tag bundles people. Slashes are resulting in 404s. Fandom exploded in bouts of WTF.

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As for me and my links, we are currently at Diigo for the foreseeable.