Enya the Silken and Luthien the Schipperke have been missing since December. Yesterday, someone posted a photo of a dog that looks a LOT like Enya in a lost dog group. This dog was spotted in Newark OH, about an hour and a half from where she originally went missing, and she was also wearing a collar and tags, which Enya was not wearing when she went missing. It is possible that this dog is not Enya OR that it is Enya and she has been kept by someone other than her original owners since she went missing but now has escaped again. A loose Silken is guaranteed to be lost rather than abandoned under any circumstances.
Please keep your eyes peeled if you live in this area and signal boost as much as you can! This is the best lead we’ve had in months and whatever the case, this dog’s should be returned to their rightful owner. Remember that sighthounds will always choose flight over fight so don’t try to chase them to catch them.
If you have any additional information please let me or @silkenagentsofcsbeck (Enya’s breeder) know!
OBIE’S SISTER MIGHT HAVE BEEN SIGHTED!!
PLEASE BOOST!
If you see her, please snap a photo and do not chase her.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-3 today that discriminating against an employee for their sexual orientation violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Lambda Legal took the case on behalf of Kimberly Hively, a community college instructor who was fired for being a lesbian.
Some history on Hively’s case:
In August of 2014, Kimberly Hively sued Ivy Tech Community College, arguing that the school violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it denied her full-time employment and promotions after she had been seen kissing her then-girlfriend in the parking lot of the school. The trial court dismissed Hively’s lawsuit and held that Title VII — which prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, and religion — does not protect employees from antigay discrimination.
In April 2015, Lambda Legal appealed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, seeking reversal and reinstatement of Hively’s complaint. A three-judge panel ruled against Hively in July 2016, but Lambda Legal requested a rehearing of the case by the full panel of the Seventh Circuit – all eleven judges. On October 11, 2016 that request was granted, and in November, Greg Nevins, Employment Fairness Program Director for Lambda Legal, appeared once again, to ask that the court overturn its prior decisions limiting the reach of Title VII.
The Seventh Circuit is now the highest court to rule in Hively’s favor. In other words: this is a big deal.
hey if anyone was wondering what scandal trump was trying to distract from with his twitter tantrump earlier today, well, now we know – and it’s a big one!
the washington post published an article a few hours ago claiming that the founder of blackwater (eric price) held a secret meeting on january 11th (the day after buzzfeed dropped the steel dossier) at seychelles to establish a back channel between trump and putin
and hey, guess who eric prince’s sister is?
betsy fucking devos
so if you needed anymore proof that she didn’t exactly get the job as education secretary based on her “qualifications”, here you go.
well, the russian bank (alfa bank) only accounted for 80% of the lookups. the remaining 20% belonged to a company called spectrum health, a medical facility chain
and who’s the leader of spectrum health?
none other than dick devos, the husband of betsy devos
I pretend to be complex and clever but in reality, nothing has ever made me laugh harder than those bad Chinese subtitles from the bootleg Lord of the Rings DVDs. Tears streaming down my face, core aching, slowly suffocating because I’m laughing too hard.
also (because one can never have too many of these)
and my personal favorite:
I somehow forgot to add my own favorite, which is this one:
I also appreciate the ones that really change the tone and suggest that the characters openly loathe each other…
Hey there other LJ users… what’s the go with the new user agreement? I had noticed that lj is no longer https last week… man. time to actually move over to dreamwidth maybe
I just saw that today. I’ve already set up at Dreamwidth but I’ve been resisting the final move because 80% of my people are still at LJ.
I haven’t read the full agreement yet, but we can’t read or post until we do agree, so I should mosey on over and see what BS they’ve got in their ToS….
I believe I have found the giant “fuck you” clause:
Section 7.4 of the new ToS: “Article 10.2 of the Federal Act of the Russian Federation No. 149
“ references this un-lovely tidbit of Russian legal malarkey:
Article 10.2.
The Details of Dissemination of Generally Accessible Information by a Blogger
1. The owner of a website and/or a website page on the
Internet on which generally accessible information is placed and to which
access exceeds 3,000 users of the Internet per day (hereinafter referred to as
“blogger”) when said information is placed and used, for instance
when said information is placed on the given website or website page by other
users of the Internet shall ensure the observance of the legislation of the
Russian Federation, for instance:
4. An abuse of the right of disseminating
generally accessible information that has manifested itself as breach of the
provisions of Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the
present article shall entail criminal, administrative or another liability in
accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
5. On his website or website page on the
Internet the blogger shall place his name and initials and an e-mail address
for sending legal-significance messages to him.
6. On his website or website page on the
Internet the blogger shall place immediately after receiving a court’s decision
that has become final and contains demand for its being published on the
website or website page.
7. The owners of websites on the Internet
who have registered as network editions in accordance with Law of the
Russian Federation No. 2124-I of December 27, 1991 on Mass Media are not
bloggers.
8. The federal executive governmental
body carrying out the functions of control and supervision in the field of mass
media, mass communications, information technologies and telecom shall keep a
register of the websites and/or website pages on the Internet on which
generally accessible information is placed and to which access exceeds 3,000
users of the Internet per day. For the purpose of ensuring the formation of the
register of websites and/or website pages on the Internet the federal executive
governmental body carrying out the functions of control and supervision in the
field of mass media, mass communications, information technologies and telecom:
9. In the event of detection in
information-telecommunication networks, for instance on the Internet, of a
website or website page which contain generally accessible information and to
which access exceeds 3,000 users of the Internet per day, including the
consideration of relevant applications of citizens or organisations, the
federal executive governmental body carrying out the functions of control and
supervision in the field of mass media, mass communications, information
technologies and telecom:
10. Within three working days after
receiving the notice mentioned in Item 3 of Part 9 of the present
article the hosting provider or the person mentioned in Item 2 of Part 9
of the present article shall provide the information allowing to identify the
blogger.
11. Having received the information
specified in Item 3 of Part 9 of the present article, the federal
executive governmental body carrying out the functions of control and
supervision in the field of mass media, mass communications, information
technologies and telecom shall send a notice to the blogger informing that his
website or website page has been included in the register of the websites
and/or website pages on the Internet on which generally accessible information
is placed and to which access exceeds 3,000 users of the Internet per day, with
reference to the provisions of the legislation of the Russian Federation
applicable to said website or website page on the Internet.
12. If during three months access to the
website or website page on the Internet is below 3,000 users of the Internet
per day that website or that website page on the Internet shall be removed on
the blogger’s application from the register of the websites and/or website
pages on the Internet on which generally accessible information is placed and
to which access exceeds 3,000 users of the Internet per day, with a notice to
this effect being sent to the blogger. The given website or website page on the
Internet may be removed from that register when no application is filed by the
blogger if access to the given website or website page on the Internet during
six months is below 3,000 users of the Internet per day.
Sweet baby spaghetti monster. Even allowing for shitty translations, I’ve spent the past few decades reading 20-page publishing contracts, and dealt with a handful of real estate contracts, and I’ve never seen such a dense block of legal excrement. Well-played, Russian lawyers, and by well-played I mean Crowley would be impressed.
Short version, as I see it: nothing obscene by Russian legal standards (in Putin’s Russia, LGBTA discussions could fall within that, much less actual smut), and even if you’re squeaky clean and hetero-vanilla, any and everything you say is subject to their (legal) judgement. So yeah, for’ex, prohibiting “the dissemination of information for the purpose of discrediting a citizen or some categories of citizens on the basis of sex, age, race or ethnicity, language, religion, trade, place of residence and work and also in connection with their political convictions.” could be seen as protecting someone from abuse or libel, and that’s great – but it also means that if the Russian government decides they don’t like your political activism, they have the right to use that post as “abuse” that “shall entail criminal, administrative or another liability in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.” And then “the hosting provider or the person mentioned in Item 2 of Part 9 of the present article shall provide the information allowing to identify the blogger.”
Shorter version as I understand it: Livejournal no longer pretends to adhere to the concept of Freedom of Speech and/or privacy as (still) practiced in the USA. If any practicing (or perfect) legal beagles want to elaborate on how I’m right/where I’m wrong, I welcome the instruction.
I’m not surprised by any of this, I’m just sad that I’m not surprised.
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