Posting photos on DW

Regarding the photo uploading question?

Here's DW's response:

Unfortunately, this is behavior that Facebook and Instagram do; it is not something fixable on Dreamwidth's end.

When you link to an image that was uploaded on a site like Facebook using Copy Image Location, what you're doing is hotlinking that image -- whenever someone views that image on your Dreamwidth, Facebook's server is what receives the image request and sends the image data over the internet. What this means to sites like Facebook is that someone is using their resources (bandwidth, request handling capabilities) but is not actually bringing any traffic to that site (so no ad revenue). It's a sort of freeloading for images, and many sites do not like this behavior and so will do things to discourage it. In Facebook's case, they frequently change the URLs of images so URLs that used to work will break after some period of time. (This also has safety/privacy benefits.) Other sites make it very difficult to right-click/access URLs.

Some options:

Imgur: This website allows very quick, easy upload of images and allows you to copy the image URL. It's one of the few sites that allows hotlinking for free. I highly recommend this option as it's very beginner-friendly and, unless you expressly post your images to the general public, people will not come across your images unless you give them a link.

Dreamwidth: I too struggle with the Dreamwidth interface for images, but you're not stuck with images that are too big or too small. There are two ways to adjust the size of images:
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I may try Imgur.

Day #17 of the 30 Day Music Meme

1. ) Before, I get into the music meme. On Day #16, some of the responders/players chose interpret favorite classic song as a linchpin song by a linchpin artist because most everybody has one. And stated "most people" have one. Which...I wondered about. Because I do not. I can't think of a song or an artist that I'd state introduced me to a broader world of music or a specific artist.

Can you? I'd hate to think I'm alone in this.

So, curious, I asked the music experts in my family - my brother and his wife. His wife is close friends with various music producers, such as Dr. Luke.
( turns out that they don't interpret the question as meaning an artist...necessarily, so much as basically anyone, which kind of freed it up a bit for me. Also it could be more than one. )

Day #17 of the 30 Day Music Meme - A Song You'd Sing a Duet with Someone on Karaoke.

I don't know about this one. I am not a singer. Karaoke duet? Not happening.

Hmmm. What is a song that you can sing badly and no one will care?

This Land is Your Land (because Woody is a great song-writer but not a great singer).

And...

Watch on YouTube

Because let's face it, Sonny can't sing to save his life. I could do Sonny's part. We kind of sound similar.

I sang Karaoke in Law School - but I can't remember what I sang. It was over twenty years ago, all I remember is doing it, badly.

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Oooh..too good not to share.. Democrates as the Avengers taking on the Evil Sociopath as Thanos

Gotta love Stephen Colbert.