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(text courtesy of synecdochic)

* Gender will be a mandatory field at account creation, and it will be able to appear public on one's profile. (I can't tell if people with existing gender specification will be defaulted to "nobody can see it" or "everybody can see it".) (Subsequent changelog reading indicates that the public specificity has since been removed. It is unknown whether this is to require public specificity in the future or if it will remain private.)

* LiveJournal is removing the Unspecified option for the gender field. That's right: you get to be male or female. Period. That's it. (Source.)

If this pisses you off as much as it pisses me off, go to Edit Profile and select Unspecified for your gender option. Then, go to http://www.livejournal.com/contact/?dept=feedback and politely register your displeasure. (The people who read and process Feedback are not the people who make the decisions. They are often the people who are yelling internally about the decisions.)

(This will likely take place at the next code push, which given LJ's history will be either this Thursday or next, so spread the word fast, especially to the genderqueer community. After that point, you will no longer be able to pick "Unspecified" as your gender.)

Here is what I wrote; copy and paste as much as you'd like:

( Feedback letter )

To also reach someone who's higher up the food chain than the poor staff members who have to read and reply to Feedback, also email anjelika@livejournalinc.com who is Anjelika, GM of US operations.

Anybody wants a Dreamwidth invite, poke me, I've got like a dozen.

ETA: they are backpedaling liek whoa.

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D.C. Council approves same-sex marriage 11-2

*cheers*

An Author's Twelve Days of Christmas.

*has fits of laughter*

Senate health bill unlikely to include Medicare buy-in: insufficient support for public-option alternative

NO SHIT. Lowering the Medicare age doesn't do jack shit for anybody younger than the newly lowered age. Now if you want to lower the Medicare age to zero, preferably with the understanding that health care for fetuses falls under the category of health care for pregnant women and that abortions also fall under the category of health care for pregnant women, then we'd be getting somewhere.

On a related note: has anybody actually filibustered anything yet? Because seems to me there's a few people accomplishing a lot of blockading by threatening to filibuster, because everybody always backs down from that threat. Seems to me it's about time to call the bluff.

SPN: Ever Considered Piracy

caramelsilver is still hosting the Three-Sentence Ficathon. So I am still ficcing.

Title: Ever Considered Piracy
Rating: PG
Summary: It's two weeks into Sam's recuperation, six into Dean's year, and they both need a distraction.
Word Count: 200

( my father was slaughtered by a six-fingered man...wait... )