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gwydion* "Trump to Let Assad Stay until 2021, as Putin Declares Victory in Syria:" https://www.newyorker.com/sections/news/trump-to-let-assad-stay-until-2021-as-putin-declares-victory-in-syria
* "Rex Tillerson, in Meeting With U.S. Diplomats, Says Russia ‘Interfered’ in Election:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-rex-tillerson-in-meeting-with-us-diplomats-says-russia-interfered-in-election
* TW: Sexual Assault "U.S. House Democratic women seek probe of Trump misconduct accusations:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-women-congress/u-s-house-democratic-women-seek-probe-of-trump-misconduct-accusations-idUSKBN1E606Z
* TW: Sexual Assault "Sixth senator says Trump should resign:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/12/list-senators-who-say-trump-should-resign-291756
* TW: Sexual Assault "Footage shows Trump with some accusers after he claimed he ‘never met’ women:" http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/364506-footage-shows-trump-with-accusers-after-he-claimed-he-never-met-them
* TW: Sexual Assault "Gillibrand blasts Trump for 'sexist smear' after Twitter jab:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-attacks-kirsten-gillibrand-twitter-after-she-calls-him-resign-n828701
* TW: Sexual Harassment "Trump says female senator 'would do anything' for money:" https://apnews.com/e3b50b28fa73426799e6ac63839057fb
* "Trump lawyers want second special counsel appointed now:" https://www.axios.com/trump-lawyers-want-second-special-counsel-appointed-now-2516838220.html
* "Grassley urges Trump to reconsider controversial judicial picks:" https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/12/politics/trump-judicial-picks/index.html
* Doug Jones beat the child molester in Alabama! All Alabamians who turned out to vote today for the principle of arresting and prosecuting right wing terrorists and against bigotry are heroes. It is incredibly hard for people to get off work, etc., and special elections in an off year like this do require extra effort, especially with the amount of voter suppression going on right now. I know it’s extra hard in the face of everything, and I am immensely grateful.
Thank you. Keep voting. Keep resisting. We can survive this if we all stand together.
* "Democrat Jones wins stunning red-state Alabama Senate upset:" https://apnews.com/e2f3c87b2f6b4c05b5e8f8cab38dd48c
* "Alabama Supreme Court stays judge's order to preserve voting records in Senate election:" http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/364430-alabama-supreme-court-stays-order-to-preserve-voting-records-in-senate
* "McConnell: Strange to stay in Senate until end of current session:" http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/364494-mcconnell-strange-to-stay-in-senate-until-end-of-current-session
* Fuckssake! "Kayla Moore: 'One of our attorneys is a Jew':" https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/11/politics/kayla-moore-roy-rally-alabama-senate/index.html
* His character witness told about their trip to an underage brothel. O.o "Bannon, a Brothel, and a “Jew” Lawyer: Roy Moore’s Final Disastrous Rally Reads Like a Bad Joke:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/roy-moore-final-rally-alabama-senate-race
* "Yes, America, Voter ID Is A Poll Tax To Cheat At Elections:" https://crooksandliars.com/2017/11/yes-america-voter-id-poll-tax-cheat
* "Our fight against climate change is failing. One technology can change that.:" https://qz.com/1144298/humanitys-fight-against-climate-change-is-failing-one-technology-can-change-that/
* "Massive Whale Faces Extinction With Just 100 Breeding Females Remaining:" http://www.newsweek.com/massive-whale-faces-extinction-just-100-breeding-females-remaining-744202
* "5,500-Year-Old Wooden Clubs Were Deadly Weapons:" https://www.livescience.com/61140-prehistoric-wooden-club-weapons.html
* "These 12,000-Year-Old Fish Hooks Are the Oldest to Ever Be Discovered in a Grave:" http://mentalfloss.com/article/519438/these-12000-year-old-fish-hooks-are-oldest-ever-be-discovered-grave
* "Feeding the 'builders of Stonehenge':" https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/neolithic-food-miles.htm
* "Unexpected discovery at flood scheme:" http://www.oxfordshireguardian.co.uk/unexpected-discovery-flood-scheme/
* "Excavation sheds light on one of first enslaved Africans in America:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/angela-site-reveals-daily-life-enslaved-african-america-n825701
* "Rehoboth burials reveal stories of Delaware's earliest settler:" http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2017/12/06/rehoboth-burials-reveal-stories-delawares-earliest-settlers/926307001/
* Today was going to be short sleeped. Unfortunately it was also terrible sleep. They were using loud machines in the hall and outside my window. Multiple charity phone calls, each requiring me to wake up enough not only to talk, but to block numbers. I kind of feel that since I've told the one group to take me off their list at least four times a year since my Mother died, reminding them that each time they call it distresses me and they refuse to stop calling, that they are in their own way as bad as the scammers. I am not convinced that the other charities are legitimate and can't be arsed to check. Add to this some asshole let their alarm go off for a couple of hour (It was going on after an earlier sleep interruption but I was able to drift back to sleep despite it), stopping only about 10 mins before my alarm, thus preventing me getting my last hour of sleep after an actual useful phone call from a friend, as an escalating volumed alarm was one thing too many at that point.
Cookies were exchanged successfully. I managed to remember to bring everything I needed for Fix it, except... my house key, which I put down to unplug my working fish light on my black and white goth table cloth and didn't notice as I left with my arms full of back back, forage bags, and the extremely delicate on it's last legs fish light. I should have stuck it in my mouth. I still had my spare car keys, so I put everything away, failed to find the other keys that fell of the fish chain, failed at getting back in to retrieve proper keys, hobbled all the way to where I've had to park since I lost my parking and went to fix it. The alpha engineer had brought me a capacitor and spent a long time putting it in, test it, etc., but in the end it looks like a transformer had died too when it went, so there is no resurrecting it. They cleaned the fans on the dying fish light. It was impossible to get in to fix the fan bearing that is likely the problem and I damaged one of the bulbs with all the back and forth. Given I've been needing to buy a twenty dollar bulb since... June(?) and haven't had money for that, I am not seeing wear I'm getting 140-150 or so for a twenty gallon fixture. The one dying light and a supplemental have been commuting every day to cover two tanks as it is. Sigh. It does sound slightly better without the crud puppies, but I suspect the damaged fan will not last long. I've been doing what I can to rest them to cut down on the electricals overheating.
Luckily, Squirrel was asleep rather than out, so I was able to rouse him to let me and the good light in. I then had to go right back out as I'd forgotten to drop off the last cookies, but at least A was still empty as that is significantly safer than street parking given how much more gimping that involves, plus a small slope and traffic and the chance of getting parked in or hit. My hip feels like I've been stabbed and the headache is a stunner, but I am home.
Squirrel's door was cracked after my dinner. I am not sure if this was deliberate group social time for cats or an accident, but it went fairly peacefully for the first more than an hour. LM leaked out and she and Livia had a good long stare. Eventually they went into LM's room and whatever went on was too soft to hear from my desk, so no growling or scuffling or terror yowls, so i'm counting that a win. Eventually Tavy turned up and kept going in to check and then running out to complain that Livia was in the wrong room. Eventually, Livia came back out for her snack and to do Livia things. An hour+ there was some growling from an adult cat, likely from LM as she was wanting her gooshy food and he was between her and her wet feeding spot, and Livia being innocently hiding in the cat tree. Lm reasonably assumed that if her door was open it was wet food night. Wet food did in fact appear, and I confined Tavy for assholery, as one does. The irony isn't lost on me that she used to be much worse when hector was trying to eat until I trained her out of it. Tavy tends to stalk back and forth instead of outright attacking, but she hates it. I must not have pulled it all the way on to the latch, as he escaped, and the ensuing three way hissing argument as he tried to hassle LM and I tried to catch him freaked Livia out, so she sensibly went to her room where I also confined him. Thus LM was left in possession of both the field and the goosh. As I wrote most of this, LM was patrolling the common areas, tummy full of her goosh share. Alas, the final straw was LM mistaking one of my gargoyles (the back one) for Tavy. She flipped the fuck out so I put her tail end of goosh in her kibble feeding station in Squirrel's room and let the Imperial couple loose. In LM's defense the gargoyles are only slightly larger than she and Tavy are, are posed rather like casts sitting in the upright position popular in Ancient Egyptian statuary, and I frequently take the grey one for Livia when I see it out of the corner of my eye, even though she is significantly smaller.
Addendum: Squirrel and I talked it over and we're going to try limited on purpose supervised girl time in the evenings to see if they can bond without Tavy in the equation.
* I watched the first season of Jessica Jones this weekend. I am firmly team Malcolm, who is my very favorite. I really liked the nurse too. (Was her name Claire). I loved that Jessica and her sister are friends even though it is complicated as it would be more typical to do the Smurfette trope. I loved the way they handled trauma in general with different people experiencing and dealing with it in different ways. I loved the messy Jessica/Luke relationship. I really appreciated the way Killgrave and Simpson were difference forms of dangerous masculinity, and that they didn't redeem Killgrave. It was dark and hard to watch at times, but important. I do wish they'd wrapped Killgrave up a little faster as things dragged a bit towards the end, but this is my only quibble.
* ISU Grand Prix Final:
Men: A lot of the top guys weren't here for one reason or another. Adam Rippon was going in with an injury. He had a hard fall on the first pass. The rest seemed mostly fine, but he was noticeably more awkward than usual, completely understandably either from injury or tension. Sergei Voronov is mostly jumps and not much else. I really wish his spins were better and the choreography and footwork more complex, but boy can he jump and he does have a way about him. Jason Brown skates so well in an old school way, with some of the best footwork in the business. If he were skating in the Eldridge era, he'd have been a contender. Alas, he has no quads, and you really have no chance without them in men's skating at the very highest level. It breaks my heart a little every time. He fell on the second jumping pass, but the rest was lovely. Nathan Chen's jump were really off compared to his usual, his spins are still not quite where I'd like them to be, and I don't think this music is doing him any favours, but I do think he's coming along nicely as far as grace and improved choreography. This performance was very disappointing, but I know he is the best jumper in the world when he's on, so let us hope he does better at nationals and the Olympics. Mikhail Kolyada had a rough skate too with a bunch of bad landings in the first half, and popped a jump in the second half. His spins look very good, but I've just never warmed to him, though he seems popular with the commentators. Shoma Uno's one of my favorites in the current crop of skaters, graceful and expressive, normally with all around excellence on the technicals. He too was uncharacteristically struggling with the jumps, and his final spin really traveled. This season has just been brutal in this way. Uno's free skate was better than Chen's but not enough to make up the gap from the short program.
Women: Evgenia Medvedeva is still out with the foot injury which leaves things pretty open. Karolina Kostner really does skate beautifully and this music and choreography really suit her. She hasn't quite the difficulty one expects these days, though the commentators point out areas that are likely placeholders for things like a triple triple for the Olympics. She had a bit of trouble with some of her second half elements, but I do love to watch her skate. Maria Sotskova's spins aren't particularly impressive and she is not particularly expressive, but her jumps are excellent. Not my taste, but solid. Kaetlyn Osmond skated a solid, quality routine. She doubled a triple and then fell in the second half, which is a shame given how well it was going up to that point. Alina Zagitova is doing something controversial, bold, and incredibly difficult. The fact that she can do this clean and make it entertaining continues to amaze me. There were some small imperfections, but this was seriously excellent. Satoko Miyahara is exactly to my taste, really well rounded with excellent spins, expressive choreography, and complex footwork. Her jumps are wonderful when she's on. Here there was some under rotation early on, alas, but it was really fun to watch.
* I'm not entirely in agreement, but I do think there is a lot to chew on. "Unity, Duality, and Division in Lioness Rampant:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/unity-duality-lioness-rampant/
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/
* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate
* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0
* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey
* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.
* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386
* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries
* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc
* Scripts for resisting the Tax Bill: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/168175070608/the-tax-bill-just-passed-the-senate-heres-what
* Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
* This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
* Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* "Rex Tillerson, in Meeting With U.S. Diplomats, Says Russia ‘Interfered’ in Election:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-rex-tillerson-in-meeting-with-us-diplomats-says-russia-interfered-in-election
* TW: Sexual Assault "U.S. House Democratic women seek probe of Trump misconduct accusations:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-women-congress/u-s-house-democratic-women-seek-probe-of-trump-misconduct-accusations-idUSKBN1E606Z
* TW: Sexual Assault "Sixth senator says Trump should resign:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/12/list-senators-who-say-trump-should-resign-291756
* TW: Sexual Assault "Footage shows Trump with some accusers after he claimed he ‘never met’ women:" http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/364506-footage-shows-trump-with-accusers-after-he-claimed-he-never-met-them
* TW: Sexual Assault "Gillibrand blasts Trump for 'sexist smear' after Twitter jab:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-attacks-kirsten-gillibrand-twitter-after-she-calls-him-resign-n828701
* TW: Sexual Harassment "Trump says female senator 'would do anything' for money:" https://apnews.com/e3b50b28fa73426799e6ac63839057fb
* "Trump lawyers want second special counsel appointed now:" https://www.axios.com/trump-lawyers-want-second-special-counsel-appointed-now-2516838220.html
* "Grassley urges Trump to reconsider controversial judicial picks:" https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/12/politics/trump-judicial-picks/index.html
* Doug Jones beat the child molester in Alabama! All Alabamians who turned out to vote today for the principle of arresting and prosecuting right wing terrorists and against bigotry are heroes. It is incredibly hard for people to get off work, etc., and special elections in an off year like this do require extra effort, especially with the amount of voter suppression going on right now. I know it’s extra hard in the face of everything, and I am immensely grateful.
Thank you. Keep voting. Keep resisting. We can survive this if we all stand together.
* "Democrat Jones wins stunning red-state Alabama Senate upset:" https://apnews.com/e2f3c87b2f6b4c05b5e8f8cab38dd48c
* "Alabama Supreme Court stays judge's order to preserve voting records in Senate election:" http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/364430-alabama-supreme-court-stays-order-to-preserve-voting-records-in-senate
* "McConnell: Strange to stay in Senate until end of current session:" http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/364494-mcconnell-strange-to-stay-in-senate-until-end-of-current-session
* Fuckssake! "Kayla Moore: 'One of our attorneys is a Jew':" https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/11/politics/kayla-moore-roy-rally-alabama-senate/index.html
* His character witness told about their trip to an underage brothel. O.o "Bannon, a Brothel, and a “Jew” Lawyer: Roy Moore’s Final Disastrous Rally Reads Like a Bad Joke:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/roy-moore-final-rally-alabama-senate-race
* "Yes, America, Voter ID Is A Poll Tax To Cheat At Elections:" https://crooksandliars.com/2017/11/yes-america-voter-id-poll-tax-cheat
* "Our fight against climate change is failing. One technology can change that.:" https://qz.com/1144298/humanitys-fight-against-climate-change-is-failing-one-technology-can-change-that/
* "Massive Whale Faces Extinction With Just 100 Breeding Females Remaining:" http://www.newsweek.com/massive-whale-faces-extinction-just-100-breeding-females-remaining-744202
* "5,500-Year-Old Wooden Clubs Were Deadly Weapons:" https://www.livescience.com/61140-prehistoric-wooden-club-weapons.html
* "These 12,000-Year-Old Fish Hooks Are the Oldest to Ever Be Discovered in a Grave:" http://mentalfloss.com/article/519438/these-12000-year-old-fish-hooks-are-oldest-ever-be-discovered-grave
* "Feeding the 'builders of Stonehenge':" https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/neolithic-food-miles.htm
* "Unexpected discovery at flood scheme:" http://www.oxfordshireguardian.co.uk/unexpected-discovery-flood-scheme/
* "Excavation sheds light on one of first enslaved Africans in America:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/angela-site-reveals-daily-life-enslaved-african-america-n825701
* "Rehoboth burials reveal stories of Delaware's earliest settler:" http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2017/12/06/rehoboth-burials-reveal-stories-delawares-earliest-settlers/926307001/
* Today was going to be short sleeped. Unfortunately it was also terrible sleep. They were using loud machines in the hall and outside my window. Multiple charity phone calls, each requiring me to wake up enough not only to talk, but to block numbers. I kind of feel that since I've told the one group to take me off their list at least four times a year since my Mother died, reminding them that each time they call it distresses me and they refuse to stop calling, that they are in their own way as bad as the scammers. I am not convinced that the other charities are legitimate and can't be arsed to check. Add to this some asshole let their alarm go off for a couple of hour (It was going on after an earlier sleep interruption but I was able to drift back to sleep despite it), stopping only about 10 mins before my alarm, thus preventing me getting my last hour of sleep after an actual useful phone call from a friend, as an escalating volumed alarm was one thing too many at that point.
Cookies were exchanged successfully. I managed to remember to bring everything I needed for Fix it, except... my house key, which I put down to unplug my working fish light on my black and white goth table cloth and didn't notice as I left with my arms full of back back, forage bags, and the extremely delicate on it's last legs fish light. I should have stuck it in my mouth. I still had my spare car keys, so I put everything away, failed to find the other keys that fell of the fish chain, failed at getting back in to retrieve proper keys, hobbled all the way to where I've had to park since I lost my parking and went to fix it. The alpha engineer had brought me a capacitor and spent a long time putting it in, test it, etc., but in the end it looks like a transformer had died too when it went, so there is no resurrecting it. They cleaned the fans on the dying fish light. It was impossible to get in to fix the fan bearing that is likely the problem and I damaged one of the bulbs with all the back and forth. Given I've been needing to buy a twenty dollar bulb since... June(?) and haven't had money for that, I am not seeing wear I'm getting 140-150 or so for a twenty gallon fixture. The one dying light and a supplemental have been commuting every day to cover two tanks as it is. Sigh. It does sound slightly better without the crud puppies, but I suspect the damaged fan will not last long. I've been doing what I can to rest them to cut down on the electricals overheating.
Luckily, Squirrel was asleep rather than out, so I was able to rouse him to let me and the good light in. I then had to go right back out as I'd forgotten to drop off the last cookies, but at least A was still empty as that is significantly safer than street parking given how much more gimping that involves, plus a small slope and traffic and the chance of getting parked in or hit. My hip feels like I've been stabbed and the headache is a stunner, but I am home.
Squirrel's door was cracked after my dinner. I am not sure if this was deliberate group social time for cats or an accident, but it went fairly peacefully for the first more than an hour. LM leaked out and she and Livia had a good long stare. Eventually they went into LM's room and whatever went on was too soft to hear from my desk, so no growling or scuffling or terror yowls, so i'm counting that a win. Eventually Tavy turned up and kept going in to check and then running out to complain that Livia was in the wrong room. Eventually, Livia came back out for her snack and to do Livia things. An hour+ there was some growling from an adult cat, likely from LM as she was wanting her gooshy food and he was between her and her wet feeding spot, and Livia being innocently hiding in the cat tree. Lm reasonably assumed that if her door was open it was wet food night. Wet food did in fact appear, and I confined Tavy for assholery, as one does. The irony isn't lost on me that she used to be much worse when hector was trying to eat until I trained her out of it. Tavy tends to stalk back and forth instead of outright attacking, but she hates it. I must not have pulled it all the way on to the latch, as he escaped, and the ensuing three way hissing argument as he tried to hassle LM and I tried to catch him freaked Livia out, so she sensibly went to her room where I also confined him. Thus LM was left in possession of both the field and the goosh. As I wrote most of this, LM was patrolling the common areas, tummy full of her goosh share. Alas, the final straw was LM mistaking one of my gargoyles (the back one) for Tavy. She flipped the fuck out so I put her tail end of goosh in her kibble feeding station in Squirrel's room and let the Imperial couple loose. In LM's defense the gargoyles are only slightly larger than she and Tavy are, are posed rather like casts sitting in the upright position popular in Ancient Egyptian statuary, and I frequently take the grey one for Livia when I see it out of the corner of my eye, even though she is significantly smaller.
Addendum: Squirrel and I talked it over and we're going to try limited on purpose supervised girl time in the evenings to see if they can bond without Tavy in the equation.
* I watched the first season of Jessica Jones this weekend. I am firmly team Malcolm, who is my very favorite. I really liked the nurse too. (Was her name Claire). I loved that Jessica and her sister are friends even though it is complicated as it would be more typical to do the Smurfette trope. I loved the way they handled trauma in general with different people experiencing and dealing with it in different ways. I loved the messy Jessica/Luke relationship. I really appreciated the way Killgrave and Simpson were difference forms of dangerous masculinity, and that they didn't redeem Killgrave. It was dark and hard to watch at times, but important. I do wish they'd wrapped Killgrave up a little faster as things dragged a bit towards the end, but this is my only quibble.
* ISU Grand Prix Final:
Men: A lot of the top guys weren't here for one reason or another. Adam Rippon was going in with an injury. He had a hard fall on the first pass. The rest seemed mostly fine, but he was noticeably more awkward than usual, completely understandably either from injury or tension. Sergei Voronov is mostly jumps and not much else. I really wish his spins were better and the choreography and footwork more complex, but boy can he jump and he does have a way about him. Jason Brown skates so well in an old school way, with some of the best footwork in the business. If he were skating in the Eldridge era, he'd have been a contender. Alas, he has no quads, and you really have no chance without them in men's skating at the very highest level. It breaks my heart a little every time. He fell on the second jumping pass, but the rest was lovely. Nathan Chen's jump were really off compared to his usual, his spins are still not quite where I'd like them to be, and I don't think this music is doing him any favours, but I do think he's coming along nicely as far as grace and improved choreography. This performance was very disappointing, but I know he is the best jumper in the world when he's on, so let us hope he does better at nationals and the Olympics. Mikhail Kolyada had a rough skate too with a bunch of bad landings in the first half, and popped a jump in the second half. His spins look very good, but I've just never warmed to him, though he seems popular with the commentators. Shoma Uno's one of my favorites in the current crop of skaters, graceful and expressive, normally with all around excellence on the technicals. He too was uncharacteristically struggling with the jumps, and his final spin really traveled. This season has just been brutal in this way. Uno's free skate was better than Chen's but not enough to make up the gap from the short program.
Women: Evgenia Medvedeva is still out with the foot injury which leaves things pretty open. Karolina Kostner really does skate beautifully and this music and choreography really suit her. She hasn't quite the difficulty one expects these days, though the commentators point out areas that are likely placeholders for things like a triple triple for the Olympics. She had a bit of trouble with some of her second half elements, but I do love to watch her skate. Maria Sotskova's spins aren't particularly impressive and she is not particularly expressive, but her jumps are excellent. Not my taste, but solid. Kaetlyn Osmond skated a solid, quality routine. She doubled a triple and then fell in the second half, which is a shame given how well it was going up to that point. Alina Zagitova is doing something controversial, bold, and incredibly difficult. The fact that she can do this clean and make it entertaining continues to amaze me. There were some small imperfections, but this was seriously excellent. Satoko Miyahara is exactly to my taste, really well rounded with excellent spins, expressive choreography, and complex footwork. Her jumps are wonderful when she's on. Here there was some under rotation early on, alas, but it was really fun to watch.
* I'm not entirely in agreement, but I do think there is a lot to chew on. "Unity, Duality, and Division in Lioness Rampant:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/unity-duality-lioness-rampant/
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/
* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate
* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0
* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey
* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.
* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386
* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries
* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc
* Scripts for resisting the Tax Bill: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/168175070608/the-tax-bill-just-passed-the-senate-heres-what
* Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
* This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
* Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com