bwahahahaha. this got mi giggling XD

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Spotted! in Quezon City, Philippines :D

thedailywhat:

On Kony 2012: I honestly wanted to stay as far away as possible from KONY 2012, the latest fauxtivist fad sweeping the web (remember “change your Facebook profile pic to stop child abuse”?), but you clearly won’t stop sending me that damn video until I say something about it, so here goes:

Stop sending me that video.

The organization behind Kony 2012 — Invisible Children Inc. — is an extremely shady nonprofit that has been called ”misleading,” “naive,” and “dangerous” by a Yale political science professor, and has been accused by Foreign Affairs of “manipulat[ing] facts for strategic purposes.” They have also been criticized by the Better Business Bureau for refusing to provide information necessary to determine if IC meets the Bureau’s standards.

Additionally, IC has a low two-star rating in accountability from Charity Navigator because they won’t let their financials be independently audited. That’s not a good thing. In fact, it’s a very bad thing, and should make you immediately pause and reflect on where the money you’re sending them is going.

By IC’s own admission, only 31% of all the funds they receive go toward actually helping anyone [pdf]. The rest go to line the pockets of the three people in charge of the organization, to pay for their travel expenses (over $1 million in the last year alone) and to fund their filmmaking business (also over a million) — which is quite an effective way to make more money, as clearly illustrated by the fact that so many can’t seem to stop forwarding their well-engineered emotional blackmail to everyone they’ve ever known.

And as far as what they do with that money:

The group is in favour of direct military intervention, and their money supports the Ugandan government’s army and various other military forces. Here’s a photo of the founders of Invisible Children posing with weapons and personnel of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army. Both the Ugandan army and Sudan People’s Liberation Army are riddled with accusations of rape and looting, but Invisible Children defends them, arguing that the Ugandan army is “better equipped than that of any of the other affected countries”, although Kony is no longer active in Uganda and hasn’t been since 2006 by their own admission. These books each refer to the rape and sexual assault that are perennial issues with the UPDF, the military group Invisible Children is defending.

Let’s not get our lines crossed: The Lord’s Resistance Army is bad news. And Joseph Kony is a very bad man, and needs to be stopped. But propping up Uganda’s decades-old dictatorship and its military arm, which has been accused by the UN of committing unspeakable atrocities and itself facilitated the recruitment of child soldiers, is not the way to go about it.

The United States is already plenty involved in helping rout Kony and his band of psycho sycophants. Kony is on the run, having been pushed out of Uganda, and it’s likely he will soon be caught, if he isn’t already dead. But killing Kony won’t fix anything, just as killing Osama bin Laden didn’t end terrorism. The LRA might collapse, but, as Foreign Affairs points out, it is “a relatively small player in all of this — as much a symptom as a cause of the endemic violence.”

Myopically placing the blame for all of central Africa’s woes on Kony — even as a starting point — will only imperil many more people than are already in danger.

Sending money to a nonprofit that wants to muck things up by dousing the flames with fuel is not helping. Want to help? Really want to help? Send your money to nonprofits that are putting more than 31% toward rebuilding the region’s medical and educational infrastructure, so that former child soldiers have something worth coming home to.

Here are just a few of those charities. They all have a sparkling four-star rating from Charity Navigator, and, more importantly, no interest in airdropping American troops armed to the teeth into the middle of a multi-nation tribal war to help one madman catch another.

The bottom line is, research your causes thoroughly. Don’t just forward a random video to a stranger because a mass murderer makes a five-year-old “sad.” Learn a little bit about the complexities of the region’s ongoing strife before advocating for direct military intervention.

There is no black and white in the world. And going about solving important problems like there is just serves to make all those equally troubling shades of gray invisible.

[kony2012.]

A Wild Sherlock appears! 

reapersun:

based on pretty much the best thing i’ve ever read on the kink meme ever

it’s embarrassing how much i like making pokemon sprites

comic-who:

Comic Who - Script Contest 2012

Introduction
This contest is designed to engage Comic Who readers and make them part of the creative process behind the realization of the strip. Participants will be asked to write the script of a strip that will be brought to the attention of an international jury. The best one will be turned into a real strip and published on the Comic Who blog page.

The Subject
Each year we will propose a different subject on which the participants must rely to carry out their script. The subject this year is Smithy! Every script must use our Eleventh Doctor as the main character; you can also include Tenny, Eccly and any other Comic Who character you want, but Smithy must be the protagonist. You can create parodies of events which occurred in the TV series Doctor Who, but original stories will be much appreciated.

The Jury
The jury will be composed by the following people:

• Elisa Moriconi (Comic Who Illustrator)
• Chiara Cavalli (The artist who realized the main price)
• Francesco Spreafico (Doctor-Who.it webmaster)
• Lady Soliloque (Writer and Video Editor)
• Luke Williams (The Doctor Who Site webmaster)
• Michael David Key (Artist) 

Contest Rules

• The contest will begin at 0:00 AM (GMT) on March 1, 2012 and will end at 11:59 PM (GMT) on March 31, 2012.
• Scripts must be uploaded through the automatic submit page at this link.
• All scripts sent outside of the validity period of the contest will be ignored.
• All scripts must be written in proper English (no slang will be accepted).
• It will be accepted only one script per person.
• The Comic Who staff will answer with an email by communicating the acceptance of the script or the reasons for which have been refused.
• Winners will be announced on April 8, 2012.
• The jury’s decision is final! 

Script Rules

• No obscenity and/or vulgarity and/or violence will be accepted.
• Every script must be divided into 4 (four) vignettes.
• You have to describe all the backgroungs as you are describing a picture.
• You have to describe exactly the laying and the facial expression of each character in the vignette.
• No more than 4 (four) characters are allowed into a single vignette.
• No more then 3 (three) balloons are allowed into a single vignette.
• No more then 30 (thirty) words are allowed into a single vignette (this includes onomatopoeia). Example: if you have two ballons into a vignette, you can write 15 words in the first one, 14 in the secont and use 1 onomatopoeia. 

Tips & Tricks

• Strips are like puns, should make people laugh by saying a few things, basing mainly on the expressions and comic absurdities.
• Don’t waste time creating complex stories, usually a simple situation is much more fun. Sometimes you do not even need words to make people laugh (think of the Valentine’s Day spcial).
• Too many characters and dialogues are often synonymous with confusion and risk of boring the reader. Try to be as concise as possible.
• Remember that vignettes provide a limited space, so do not overdo the details, otherwise you may not have enough space available for carrying out the scene.
• Read this Facebook Note to understand how to create a script.
• If you have doubts or concerns, please send an email to comicwho@gmail.com. The Comic Who staff will answer soon as possible. 

Contest Winner Award & Prizes
The winning story will be drawn by Elisa Moriconi (the Comic Who Illustrator) and published on our comic blog (with all the credits to the original author).

• The winner will receive a figurine of Smithy made in Polymer Clay (The one you can see on the flyer).
• The second place will win a Commission of a digital color illustration of a single character on white backgroung realized by Elisa Moriconi.
• The third place will win a Commission of a pencil sketch of a single character on simple backgroung realized by Elisa Moriconi. 

The Fan Choice Award
After the contest scripts of stories that are classified by the # 2 to # 10 will also be published as Notes on the Comic Who Facebook Fanpage. The public will choose the best by putting the “like” on the favorite script.

• The vote will take place from April 8, 2012 to April 14, 2012.
• The winning story will be drawn by Elisa Moriconi (the Comic Who Illustrator) and published on our comic blog.
• The author will win a Commission of a digital color illustration of a single character on white backgroung realized by Elisa Moriconi.

Don’t Blink

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