The prosecutors didn’t understand the internet. They didn’t want to. They resented those who did. They resented their arrogance, their irreverence, their ease with the machinery that runs the world. Hackers were the new witches. Power needed them and hated them at once. So they’d make an example of the ones who embarrassed them.
-Molly Crabapple for VICE “Lulz and Leg Irons: In the Courtroom with Weev”
(cause my god, Weev’s conviction, then sentencing, was fucked up and bullshit)
Hangman and lil’ horn on Flickr.
Kiss it, it’s Irish.
Fox News Guest receives racist rape and death threats after arguing guns aren’t the solution to rape.
Geez! you can’t have a conversation anymore! Not that Twitter is a good place for anything in depth.
The NYPD will arrest you for carrying condoms, but that depends entirely on who you are. If you’re a middle-class white girl like me, you’re probably safe. But say you’re a sex worker or a queer kid kicked out of your home. Say you’re a trans woman out for dinner with your boyfriend. Maybe you’ve been arrested as a sex worker before. Maybe some quota-filling cop thinks you look like a whore.
Then you’re not safe at all.
-My latest piece for VICE
New York Cops Will Arrest You for Carrying Condoms | VICE United States)
You can’t make this up.




