I’m a slut for sitting in comfortable silence while both of us do our own thing and occasionally show each other something dumb on our computers like that’s the good shit my dude.
On this day in music history: November 23, 1889 – The world’s first jukebox is installed at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco, CA located at 303 Sutter Street at Grant Avenue. The device is invented by Louis T. Glass, a former Western Union telegraph operator, who at the time is the general manager of the Pacific Phonograph Co. in San Francisco. Along with partner William S. Arnold, the pair attaches four stethoscope like tubes to a coin operated Edison electric wax cylinder phonograph fitted inside an oak cabinet. The cost to play one song is five cents (approximately $1.08 in today’s currency). The jukebox is an immediate sensation and generates over $1,000 in its first month of operation. By May of 1890, Glass patents his invention, and has fifteen of the machines installed in bars in San Francisco, and on ferries traveling back and from the city to Oakland. Its success spells the end for the venerable player piano, which had been the main way to hear popular songs, other than being played by live musicians. The building that housed the Palais Royale Saloon was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire, and was replaced by the Hammersmith Building, built in 1907, which still resides today on the site where the saloon once stood, and is a designated San Francisco city landmark. Happy 129th Birthday to the jukebox, “the iPod of the 19th century”!!
Chinese fandoms are currently experiencing an actual Purge right now. Every fandom. Accounts are getting banned, all shipping wars has been put on hold. Everyone’s hiding their porn and moving them to ao3.
There’s reward money involved. A recent update to censorship law raised the maximum reward for reporting illicit online materials to 50k yuan (7000 USD), so some people are reporting porn like crazy right now, and apparently, BL fandoms have been especially targeted, where some even more tame things got maliciously misreported.
Anyway, it’s a mess. Content creators are just disappearing off the face of the internet left and right. Expect an influx of Chinese porn fics on AO3.
Well… if there’s one thing out of this mess… nothing bands warring ships/fandoms like censorship…
ATTENTION: if you have weibo/lofter/other CH accounts and you shared any nsfw/gl/bl content from any artist—please take them down NOW given that a BL author just got sentenced to 10 years in prison very recently, this is really alarming
The Last Good Bar 
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