Late last week, controversial American "dating coach" / "pickup artist“ Julien Blanc was forced to cut his Australian speaking tour short after the country's government revoked his visa.
While immigration minister Scott Morrison confirmed that Blanc was removed from Australia for "putting forward abuse that was derogatory to women," many are crediting a massive online campaign for alerting the government to Blanc's "pickup methods" in the first place.
Said methods, which Blanc teaches to men who seek advice on attracting women, include choking strangers out of the blue, "emotionally abusing" love interests, and simply forcing a woman's head toward one's crotch.
”[I was] romping through the streets just grabbing girls. Head, on d**k. Head, on d**k,“ he told a room full of men in a video that went viral last week.
"If you're a white male? You can do what you want. Just grab her,” he said during the recorded seminar on how to pick up women in Tokyo. “I pull her in, and she just kind of laughs and giggles. And all you have to say to like, take the pressure off is just yell 'Pikachu' or 'Pokemon' or 'Tamagotchi' or something.”Following the video's spread last week, the hashtag#takedownjulienblanc was used nearly 50,000 times as outraged Twitter users beckoned Australian businesses and government officials to help put and end to Blanc's ongoing Australian tour.
Thousands more signed an online petition addressing Morrison directly, while others protested his seminars by holding demonstrations in Melbourne. Hotels booked by Blanc's company, Real Social Dynamics, began cancelling his events one by one.
While many around the web cried victory when Victoria police confirmed (via Twitter) that Blanc had left Australia, others are nowcalling for an end to pickup artist culture in general and to "rape culture seminars" like his worldwide.
Real Social Dynamics' website currently shows hundreds of upcoming pick-up artist seminars and 'bootcamps' (costing up to $2500 a pop) scheduled around the world -- many of them already sold out.
And much to the chagrin of many Canadians who've been following Blanc's story, a series of free seminars hosted by the companyincludes stops in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary.
While it is not yet known if Blanc will be attending these events, Canadians have already started petitioning Canada's immigration minister Chris Alexander to bar him from entering the country.
Challenge #00675 - A310: Caution Considered
“That’s the secret truth about the kind of people you’re dealing with, Princess. They’ll tell you one thing, and then do the other, simply because they can, and are usually correct in assuming you won’t notice the difference. It’s coded in their DNA. We call them enabled sociopaths. You call them politicians.”
Yakish waited for a response. The young princess Elise looked so tiny as her bodyguard/servants inserted her into her formal regalia. She
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Challenge #00674 - A309: Lines of XP
“I like women who are old enough to have had a little experience, and still young enough to want a little more.”
“Seriously?” said Shayde. “That’s what yer goin’ with today?”
“Oops. I thought you were older. It’s the hair. Not that there’s anything wrong with your hair. Ah crap. If I try to eat my foot, would it get less uncomfortable?”
“Ah, na. Keep diggin&
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Challenge #00673 - A308: A Sight to See
Earth is one of a very few planets with a moon large and close enough to cause full eclipses. This will change as it gradually moves further away, but until then it’d probably be something people travel to see.
The ship full of tourists was directly under the moon shadow, of course. In a few minutes, it would be, once again, able to view the spectacle.
Lots of habitable planets had moons, of course. Some had sister planets to share their
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Challenge #00672 - A307: Instinct
“For some reason, whenever there is any number of humans in an open enough space, with enough raw materials, something will be set on fire. And something will inevitably be produced to cook over said fire, or at least hold over it on a stick and gently smoulder if there’s nothing edible available.”
The human was handy to have around. Deathworlders thought nothing of going into places that -for example- Brookessiin like Riik were loath to tread.
This one
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your url makes this 10x creepier
I’ll be waiting, 2 hours timer is set
look at the notes.Okay, we’ll be waiting.
Fucking shit……
What the actual fuck you guys
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKING FUCK
¿¡¿¡¿¡¿¡¿¿¿!THIS SHIT IS SCARY I DIDNT ACTUALLY THINK IT WOULD HAPPEN.
This photo set actually covers months of dithering. I got the crackle coat on very quickly. I needed two coats of base paint because the...
This photo set actually covers months of dithering.
I got the crackle coat on very quickly. I needed two coats of base paint because the first coat dried too grey for my liking.
Then the mask sat in my craft room for months while I pondered my next step.
It was only after I found a couple more spare masks at the dollar shop that I felt confident enough to actually cut.
You need GOOD scissors if you’re going to
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Flashy things!
This is a nifty little disco lamp [not so little, actually, it’s about the size of a cat] available at the dollar shops for less than $30.
It took me a while to find a screwdriver long enough to take it apart, and then even longer to find the tiny little screws at the handle.
After weeks of procrastination, I was able to get the dimmer switch off. Tweezers got under the switch cover and the pliers got
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Read more »stop whatever you’re doing
just stop
breathe
you’ll be ok
if you see this, somebody cares
times are tough, but somebody cares.
you should NEVER feel like you deserve to die, and you don’t
don’t do it. not tonight, not tomorrow, not ever
don’t do it because somebody cares
don’t do it because there is so much more to you than sadness
Challenge #00671 - A306: To Be a SPOEn
Bear in mind this is a language where the word for “mess about with a small object and see if it does something” also means “play the violin”
“We have three different kinds of ‘moose’ and two are spelled the same,” argued Vic.
“Things went to crap when we switched to the phonetic alphabet. The entire context-necessary spelling convention has lead to unnecessary over-explanation.”
“I don’t like all the pronouns,” grumbled Jake.
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Aw shucks :#)
But you can get (most) of my stuff at Barnes and Noble. They’re one of Smashwords’ many affiliates. You… just… can’t get a hard copy. Yet.
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