Listening to the Voices in My Head

I finally finished downloading all my images I had posted in the LJ galleries/scrapbook. I think it was fear of losing some of those images that kept me from switching to other blog to be the Main one, and the others just mirrors.

Still not too thrilled how Dreamwidth archives images, but I have alternate method, using FLICKR.

So now, of the PTB in Russia decide I am too political, or too critical of Putin, or too supportive of LGBT rights, and censor me, it will have negligible impact if any.

Now that the Livejournal servers are in Russia, there is a slue of new rules and regs.

If you have more than 3000 visitors a day to your post, you're "Media"

You can't have politicized posts (how the hell they're going to manage that one, I have NO idea).

You can't speak err type out against their fearless leader.

You can't post anything LGBT unless it's ANTI LGBT of course.

There are other Russian State rules, of which I have zero chance of following, as I am not a Russian citizen.

The good news is I do have my LJ identically 'mirrored' to two other permanent blog accounts. My only issue is images. I have been trying to figure out how to make an archive/back up of the images I have here. The "Photostream/Scrapbook" has ever tool available EXCEPT downloading them all at once. And just the though of having to spend days going from image to image, right click, save as is making me cringe.

flickr = censorship
A very talented photographer found out her work had been taken, without her consent, and resold for thousands and thousands of dollars by Only Dreemin . The artist blogged about it on Flickr, and got many comments filled with advice on how to proceed to get the royalties she so rightly deserved. What did Flickr do? They blocked the picture, deleted the blog entry, and for all intents and purposes protected the thieves. This is censorship. Flickrs behavior made me angry. To the point I sent them an email ( explaining the errors of their ways. )