In an instant that seemed even shorter than the time it takes MFD to write a comment on a Shlaowai post, the Chinese government gave us a small glimmer of hope for the day on Wednesday - Hootsuite - and then promptly took it away. For those more inclined to actually get work done during the day, Hootsuite claims to be the professional Twitter client that will organize our many social media accounts (since clearly no one’s heard of Tabs). Ever since AK47, in a glorious display of investigative journalism, informed us that porn sites in China had been granted passage through the Great Firewall, it seems a slew of other previously blocked sites were soon to follow. While the Big 3 (大三), Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter, are still chilling in digital Mongolia, video sharing site Vimeo and Hootsuite became available to procrastinators far and wide in China this morning.
Why the government (intentionally? unintentionally?) unblocked a site that was essentially Twitter is beyond my capacity or attention span to comprehend, but it was, for a fleeting moment as I was soon to find out, awesome. Oh! Asset management consulting firms wants me to read an article on how women look better on Monday mornings? Click and Retweet. There’s a comment war over at Shlaowai.com on purple mangosteens? What are those?? Click and Retweet. Not having access to a VPN at work, a day of unfettered access to Hootsuite was a day in the life of an American for me. No wonder they know so much useless shit!
Alas, as luck and the legacy of Mao would have it, around 4pm that shiteth was taketh away and I gave a sigh for the power of inevitability.
Now, on the porn front I will have to turn things over to our international porn correspondent, AK47. AK?
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Thanks Ween. As of June 3rd, 1:40pm, all sites are accessible! Get it while it’s good people, who knows when this lapse in closure will end!
when you say “lapse in closure”, are you talking about the porn or the fact its accessible? ziiiiiiiiiiing…
you’ll all be towed away in shackles and fiercely punished for your terrible work on the fruit post. you should have known it was a sensitive subject. you should have known.
but i’m glad to see we’re back to posting our normative amount of ballast…
See you at the MOTW finish line, fuckers!!
Three weeks ago the manager of a new bar called Phebe next to Hengshan road offered me a job “translating web content for them”. When I went in to talk, it turned out he actually just wanted me download 2 gigs of porn for him every week and kuaidi it to him burned onto a CD. I would have done it happily but I got the impression that it should be gay porn, and my limit for gay porn per week is like, 1 gig, so I had to turn him down…
I hope nobody lost their job because of this deluge of porn (bukkake style).
And… everything was still good as of dinner time today.
you have a Gay porn limit the size of 1 gig? so then what is your regular porn limit?
I guess I’ve pretty well dicked up my one-in-13亿 chance of ever getting with ween…
mentioning that many gay penix was probably not the smoothest move.
Sorry I can’t answer your question B-real – I have to ummm go do something