Zillow themselves admitted that it did not have the copyrights to those photos, only a license to use the photos on the Zillow website.

Film Crit HULK wrote an excellent column on the show a few years ago. Because the article’s all-caps formatting has a habit of turning people away from reading it, I’ve taken the liberty of converting it to normal-case text (with some Markdown formatting and minor edits for clarity).

Zillow did not own the copyrights to these images; it had a license to use them and nothing more. It had no legal standing whatsoever to bring this action. Only the original copyright owners have the standing to bring a viable legal action, and all the Fair Use arguments that applied to Zillow’s attempt at legal…

I do not see an admission of wrongdoing, a request for forgiveness, and a promise not to do the same bullshit again in the future. If you accept this as an apology, you might want to re-consider what you think a good apology really is.

Fun thing to note: Zillow has not apologized, and likely will never apologize, for sending a baseless legal threat meant to chill a legally protected form of expression.

Anyone who does not like this song has lost their heart.

I hope Nintendo reveals Pauline is gay just to spite you and your hatred for queer people.

“Some mountains are scaled. Others are slain.”

Whenever I follow someone, I turn off RTs by default. Of my follow list (which is several dozen people long), only a handful of accounts have RTs turned on.

Nothing says “I hate women” like criticizing the clothing choices of a fictional female superhero for no reason other than “I hate women”.

The far right won, that is what is going on. They have the only thing they have ever wanted: power. Most state legislatures and all three branches of the federal government now swing to the right. The far right cares not if the people they are supposed to govern end up dying or killing each other. They won; that is…

I wish I could de-star you.

You can put your heart and soul into making a creative work and still have it turn out awful. That is not a weakness; that is life. And I would rather play a shitty game made by people who cared than a great game made by people who did not.

“Mortal Kombat” innovated the style of gameplay that “Injustice” uses. Capcom and Netherrealm take different approaches to their fighting games, after all.

That is more a kick of the balls than a grab, but the effect works just the same.

Starred for Jem. 👍🏻

He should be apologising for making light of the tragedy in the first place, magnitude be damned. You must be either a 4channer or a literal sociopath if you hear about a bombing at a concert and immediately think “this will be a wonderful time for the same Ariana Grande joke I’ve made over and over again for years”.

Criticism of content isn’t a copyrightable offense.

voters in the swing states stayed at home

That is an actual part of the Republican playbook. They obstruct and ruin the processes of government, then point to how those processes no longer work and say “elect us and we can fix all these problems” while conveniently leaving out how they caused the problems in the first place. Of course, what they want is as…