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gwydion* "Russian propaganda engaged U.S. vets, troops on Twitter and Facebook, study finds:" http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article177744986.html
* "Mattis urges military 'to be ready' with options on North Korea:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/09/jim-mattis-north-korea-military-ready-243596
* "Facebook "embeds," Russia and the Trump campaign's secret weapon:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-embeds-russia-and-the-trump-campaigns-secret-weapon/
* Sigh. "Trump lists immigration demands that could derail 'Dreamers' deal:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/08/trump-immigration-plan-dreamers-243586
* "Environmental groups denounce Trump override of climate plan:" https://apnews.com/94c981eb440f43c3bbbfff84063a9ecc/Trump-administration-to-terminate-Obama's-climate-plan
* "Corker mocks Trump in escalating Twitter feud:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/08/trump-claims-corker-didnt-have-the-guts-to-run-for-reelection-243576
* "The 20-Week Abortion Ban is Designed to Hurt Poor Women:" http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a12560086/cost-of-abortion-ban-20-weeks/
* ""Stealthing" Should Be Classified As Rape And These Lawmakers Want Congress To Talk About It:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasacks/lawmakers-call-for-stralthing-hearing?utm_term=.aaW12MAXE#.atnKavdDQ
* TW: Rape, pedophilia. There are not nearly enough expletives in the world for this. The argument is that giving a man who has kidnapped and serially raped children equal custody of a child resulting from the kidnapping and repeated rape of a twelve year old, letting the rapist have her address, and deliberately victimizing her by restricting her movements and subjecting her to forced contact with her rapist is an important cost saving measure. After all, why wouldn't you let an extremely violent pedophile have unsupervised extended access to an eight year old and the there is no legal or ethical reason preventing government officials from lying to give that rapist that access. It apparently the right thing to do according to the Michigan court system because as a man he deserves that access and who cares about the well being of the rape survivor and her child when a man's rights are involved. "Michigan rapist gets joint custody:" http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/10/06/rape-victim-attacker-joint-child-custody/106374256/
* It is eating populated neighborhoods. "10 killed as major wildfires ignite overnight across northern California:" https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/western-wildfires/one-killed-major-wildfires-ignite-overnight-across-northern-california-n809206
* On Colin Kaepernik: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/166233125571/venom1977-take-a-moment-to-read-this-so-you-can
* "Pregnant Mich. Mom, Walking Around Her Neighborhood to Help Induce Labor, Harassed, Called Racial Slurs :" https://www.theroot.com/pregnant-mich-mom-walking-around-her-neighborhood-to-1819113896
* "How to feed an invading army thousands of miles from home:" http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/956393-how-to-feed-an-invading-army-thousands-of-miles-from-home
* Fear the Walking Dead: I am angry that after keeping Ofelia in the plot box an unconscionably long time, they decided to fridge her. I am also strongly suspecting they are queer baiting us with Troy and nick. I don't like either of them and I have no prurient interest in this ship, but that doesn't make it okay giving the shitty quality of Queer Representation in this franchise (both shows) and the shortage of bisexual male characters in general. Don't toy with me unless you plan to deliver. It's the 21st fucking Century, teasing isn't enough. Do or don't do.
I miss Black Sails so much!
* Amusing version of Alexander the Great vs. Tyre: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166245137702/morepopcornplease-systlin
* The Book of the Unnamed Midwife was brilliant! It was a really compelling story, and it was really good to see a post-apocolyptic setting where all the queer folk didn't mysteriously die so quick they were never mentioned. We get a bisexual protagonist, plenty of queer folk here and there, multiple poly relationships, and a strong feminist structural design. I do need to warn people that there is rape and a little pedophilia off screen, though not described in a prurient way, and it is made very clear that rapists are terrible people and decent people fight them.
* Doctor Who Rewatch (3rd Doctor): The Spearhead from Space episodes speak well of the NHS, I think. They found an unconscious, possibly indigent man in the woods and look at the quality of care they attempt to give him. no way would he be treated as well over here to our National shame. I had... not realize just how much of third Doctor we get to see in his second episode. Was that his body or did they use a body double for the shower scene, I wonder? I kind of love that it takes no modifications at all to make the ordinary process of industrial doll making look appropriately creepy.
* Look, I know nothing about the Inhumans except for the new show. I was DC growing up. I literally didn't know Inhumans was a thing until they started promos. I am not trolling here, and I'd love for someone familiar to the franchise to explain if the fleeing Royals are meant to be the good guys. The show is framing things as if we are meant to the heroes, but they are tyrant who have enslaved a large portion of the population in the mines. Their justification for this horrific (in)human rights abuse is that they have limited resources on the moon and therefore they can't afford not enslaving people, which is clearly a lie, as enslaved people on the moon are still taking up resources like food, water, and oxygen. It's a transparant attempt to justify the unjustifiable. If they were really resource poor and wanting to avoid contact between people with powers and Earth humans without, wouldn't it make sense to set up a colony on earth? I've seen abandoned towns for sale now and then here in the US. Private Islands are still a thing, and there are also options like a flottilla in international waters. The Amazon jungle still exists and they have stealth technology sufficient to make a secret domed settlement. They could use this as a way to culturally acclimate before gradually making themselves known if they want to do that later. So why don't they do that instead of slavery? Slavery is never the fuck okay and this is clearly a choice on the part of the royal family as part of a eugenicist genocide. Fuck that! Seriously.
I'm not saying what's his face the usurper is the good guy either what with the murder, attempted murder, etc.. It's just that so far, the only decent people we've seen are the people of Hawaii (which I do approve of).
Is everyone except Native Hawaiians evil in the comics, or did the show runners do that without noticing that they are glorifying slavery?
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
* Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/
* "Congress Wants to Change the Americans with Disabilities Act and Undermine the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165470116342/congress-wants-to-change-the-americans-with
* How to help Flood victims in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165235609582/woke-up-on-derse-f-f-f-fight
"How to Help Puerto Rico from the outside:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165733774359/how-to-help-puerto-rico-from-the-outside
* How to help Caribbean victims of Irma: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165240981876/hedaclara-hedaclara-hedaclara-guys-the
* "How to Help Hurricane Harvey Victims:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/27/how_to_help_hurricane_harvey_victims.html
* "Disaster Relief and Support for Libraries:" http://www.txla.org/news/2017/08/disaster-relief-and-support-for-libraries
* How to help the protesters and ordinary people in Venezuela: https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/163738805241/softestjohn-fiftyeightminutes-softestjohn
* "Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide:" https://www.splcenter.org/20170814/ten-ways-fight-hate-community-response-guide
* A list of links to Charlottesville charities if you want to give the NAZIs a financial fuck you: https://twitter.com/SaraJBenincasa/status/896260623905861633
* How white Protesters can weaponize their whiteness: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/164390645622/alvaroarbeloa-vaspider-okay-friends-lets
* List of places to donate to help trans service members and fight the planned attack on active duty trans soldiers: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/163475550346/moonbian-hey-i-know-reblogging-posts-about-how
* Red Cross is taking donations for Western Wildfire Relief: http://www.redcross.org/local/oregon/ways-to-donate/wildfires
* (This is here as a reminder to me for later). "Can you recommend me some good books, essays, etc. about witches, witchcraft, witch trials in England?:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/164664427028/dear-pauline-can-you-recommend-me-some-good
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* "Mattis urges military 'to be ready' with options on North Korea:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/09/jim-mattis-north-korea-military-ready-243596
* "Facebook "embeds," Russia and the Trump campaign's secret weapon:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-embeds-russia-and-the-trump-campaigns-secret-weapon/
* Sigh. "Trump lists immigration demands that could derail 'Dreamers' deal:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/08/trump-immigration-plan-dreamers-243586
* "Environmental groups denounce Trump override of climate plan:" https://apnews.com/94c981eb440f43c3bbbfff84063a9ecc/Trump-administration-to-terminate-Obama's-climate-plan
* "Corker mocks Trump in escalating Twitter feud:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/08/trump-claims-corker-didnt-have-the-guts-to-run-for-reelection-243576
* "The 20-Week Abortion Ban is Designed to Hurt Poor Women:" http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a12560086/cost-of-abortion-ban-20-weeks/
* ""Stealthing" Should Be Classified As Rape And These Lawmakers Want Congress To Talk About It:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasacks/lawmakers-call-for-stralthing-hearing?utm_term=.aaW12MAXE#.atnKavdDQ
* TW: Rape, pedophilia. There are not nearly enough expletives in the world for this. The argument is that giving a man who has kidnapped and serially raped children equal custody of a child resulting from the kidnapping and repeated rape of a twelve year old, letting the rapist have her address, and deliberately victimizing her by restricting her movements and subjecting her to forced contact with her rapist is an important cost saving measure. After all, why wouldn't you let an extremely violent pedophile have unsupervised extended access to an eight year old and the there is no legal or ethical reason preventing government officials from lying to give that rapist that access. It apparently the right thing to do according to the Michigan court system because as a man he deserves that access and who cares about the well being of the rape survivor and her child when a man's rights are involved. "Michigan rapist gets joint custody:" http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/10/06/rape-victim-attacker-joint-child-custody/106374256/
* It is eating populated neighborhoods. "10 killed as major wildfires ignite overnight across northern California:" https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/western-wildfires/one-killed-major-wildfires-ignite-overnight-across-northern-california-n809206
* On Colin Kaepernik: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/166233125571/venom1977-take-a-moment-to-read-this-so-you-can
* "Pregnant Mich. Mom, Walking Around Her Neighborhood to Help Induce Labor, Harassed, Called Racial Slurs :" https://www.theroot.com/pregnant-mich-mom-walking-around-her-neighborhood-to-1819113896
* "How to feed an invading army thousands of miles from home:" http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/956393-how-to-feed-an-invading-army-thousands-of-miles-from-home
* Fear the Walking Dead: I am angry that after keeping Ofelia in the plot box an unconscionably long time, they decided to fridge her. I am also strongly suspecting they are queer baiting us with Troy and nick. I don't like either of them and I have no prurient interest in this ship, but that doesn't make it okay giving the shitty quality of Queer Representation in this franchise (both shows) and the shortage of bisexual male characters in general. Don't toy with me unless you plan to deliver. It's the 21st fucking Century, teasing isn't enough. Do or don't do.
I miss Black Sails so much!
* Amusing version of Alexander the Great vs. Tyre: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166245137702/morepopcornplease-systlin
* The Book of the Unnamed Midwife was brilliant! It was a really compelling story, and it was really good to see a post-apocolyptic setting where all the queer folk didn't mysteriously die so quick they were never mentioned. We get a bisexual protagonist, plenty of queer folk here and there, multiple poly relationships, and a strong feminist structural design. I do need to warn people that there is rape and a little pedophilia off screen, though not described in a prurient way, and it is made very clear that rapists are terrible people and decent people fight them.
* Doctor Who Rewatch (3rd Doctor): The Spearhead from Space episodes speak well of the NHS, I think. They found an unconscious, possibly indigent man in the woods and look at the quality of care they attempt to give him. no way would he be treated as well over here to our National shame. I had... not realize just how much of third Doctor we get to see in his second episode. Was that his body or did they use a body double for the shower scene, I wonder? I kind of love that it takes no modifications at all to make the ordinary process of industrial doll making look appropriately creepy.
* Look, I know nothing about the Inhumans except for the new show. I was DC growing up. I literally didn't know Inhumans was a thing until they started promos. I am not trolling here, and I'd love for someone familiar to the franchise to explain if the fleeing Royals are meant to be the good guys. The show is framing things as if we are meant to the heroes, but they are tyrant who have enslaved a large portion of the population in the mines. Their justification for this horrific (in)human rights abuse is that they have limited resources on the moon and therefore they can't afford not enslaving people, which is clearly a lie, as enslaved people on the moon are still taking up resources like food, water, and oxygen. It's a transparant attempt to justify the unjustifiable. If they were really resource poor and wanting to avoid contact between people with powers and Earth humans without, wouldn't it make sense to set up a colony on earth? I've seen abandoned towns for sale now and then here in the US. Private Islands are still a thing, and there are also options like a flottilla in international waters. The Amazon jungle still exists and they have stealth technology sufficient to make a secret domed settlement. They could use this as a way to culturally acclimate before gradually making themselves known if they want to do that later. So why don't they do that instead of slavery? Slavery is never the fuck okay and this is clearly a choice on the part of the royal family as part of a eugenicist genocide. Fuck that! Seriously.
I'm not saying what's his face the usurper is the good guy either what with the murder, attempted murder, etc.. It's just that so far, the only decent people we've seen are the people of Hawaii (which I do approve of).
Is everyone except Native Hawaiians evil in the comics, or did the show runners do that without noticing that they are glorifying slavery?
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
* Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/
* "Congress Wants to Change the Americans with Disabilities Act and Undermine the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165470116342/congress-wants-to-change-the-americans-with
* How to help Flood victims in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165235609582/woke-up-on-derse-f-f-f-fight
"How to Help Puerto Rico from the outside:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165733774359/how-to-help-puerto-rico-from-the-outside
* How to help Caribbean victims of Irma: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165240981876/hedaclara-hedaclara-hedaclara-guys-the
* "How to Help Hurricane Harvey Victims:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/27/how_to_help_hurricane_harvey_victims.html
* "Disaster Relief and Support for Libraries:" http://www.txla.org/news/2017/08/disaster-relief-and-support-for-libraries
* How to help the protesters and ordinary people in Venezuela: https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/163738805241/softestjohn-fiftyeightminutes-softestjohn
* "Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide:" https://www.splcenter.org/20170814/ten-ways-fight-hate-community-response-guide
* A list of links to Charlottesville charities if you want to give the NAZIs a financial fuck you: https://twitter.com/SaraJBenincasa/status/896260623905861633
* How white Protesters can weaponize their whiteness: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/164390645622/alvaroarbeloa-vaspider-okay-friends-lets
* List of places to donate to help trans service members and fight the planned attack on active duty trans soldiers: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/163475550346/moonbian-hey-i-know-reblogging-posts-about-how
* Red Cross is taking donations for Western Wildfire Relief: http://www.redcross.org/local/oregon/ways-to-donate/wildfires
* (This is here as a reminder to me for later). "Can you recommend me some good books, essays, etc. about witches, witchcraft, witch trials in England?:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/164664427028/dear-pauline-can-you-recommend-me-some-good
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com