Support for Iranian voters
Jun. 19th, 2009 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firefly124I've gone green, but it's not a Slytherin thing. Advertising one's loyalties so blatantly, on three blogging services, no less, isn't particularly Slytherin, after all. Need to fix DW though. I had to use a custom layout, and I've clearly done something wrong that has the tags sidebar bleeding into the content on the reading page.
I also created a Twitter account. Two of them actually. I highly doubt either will ever be used. But I heard that folks who were already on Twitter were changing their location and time zone to Tehran to help create cover for actual Iranians using the service to get vital information out of the country. That being slightly more real support than just painting everything green, I decided to help out. First account got "Firefly Dancing" for a name, same as my fandom Facebook account. Then I did get a tad more Slytherin and created another under my dance name, "Nuur b'Raas." Nobody would probably ever mistake that for a real Arabic name (much less Persian), but it is, I think, an obviously fake one, which has potential distraction value unto itself, or so it seemed at the time.
It's little enough, but if it has the chance to buy a real Iranian person a bit more time to get info out, then it's worth doing, imo.
I also created a Twitter account. Two of them actually. I highly doubt either will ever be used. But I heard that folks who were already on Twitter were changing their location and time zone to Tehran to help create cover for actual Iranians using the service to get vital information out of the country. That being slightly more real support than just painting everything green, I decided to help out. First account got "Firefly Dancing" for a name, same as my fandom Facebook account. Then I did get a tad more Slytherin and created another under my dance name, "Nuur b'Raas." Nobody would probably ever mistake that for a real Arabic name (much less Persian), but it is, I think, an obviously fake one, which has potential distraction value unto itself, or so it seemed at the time.
It's little enough, but if it has the chance to buy a real Iranian person a bit more time to get info out, then it's worth doing, imo.
