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gwydion* "Ebola outbreak spreads to DR Congo city:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44150762
* "North Korea says won't hold talks with 'incompetent' South unless...:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-southkorea/south-korea-to-play-mediator-to-resolve-north-korea-u-s-summit-doubts-official-idUSKCN1II0B7
* "Trump: ‘Animals’ comment referred to MS-13 gang members:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/17/trump-immigrants-animals-595118
* O.o "Bill Gates dishes about Trump meetings in exclusive video:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bill-gates-dishes-about-trump-meetings-in-exclusive-video-1236490819549
* "Team Trump: One year of Mueller is enough:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/team-trump-one-year-of-mueller-is-enough-1236501059881
* "Cambridge Analytica ran voter suppression campaigns, whistleblower claims:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/cambridge-analytica-congress-wylie/index.html
* "Trump lawyer Cohen sought $1 million from Qatar in late 2016:..:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-cohen/trump-lawyer-cohen-sought-1-million-from-qatar-in-late-2016-washington-post-idUSKCN1II061
* This sure looks like using the full power of the U.S. Government as an Extortion racket for private enrichment. How is this not illegal? "Kushner family sees Qatar-tied bailout; US policy warms to Qatar:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kushner-family-sees-qatar-tied-bailout-us-policy-warms-to-qatar-1236553795927?playlist=associated
* "How a Russian oligarch linked to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen turned a California state park into a mini Moscow:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/17/russian-oligarch-viktor-vekselberg-chairs-nonprofit-backed-by-us-firms-politicians.html
* "Manafort's former son-in-law cuts plea deal:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort-exclusive/exclusive-manaforts-former-son-in-law-cuts-plea-deal-to-cooperate-with-government-sources-idUSKCN1II2YM
* "Pruitt apartment search help may have broken ethics rules, experts say:" https://www.local10.com/news/politics/pruitt-apartment-search-help-may-have-broken-ethics-rules-experts-say
* Why she is clearly unfit to serve. TW: Graphic description of torture Gina Haspel approved and oversaw. "U.S. Navy Reserve Doctor on Gina Haspel Torture Victim: “One of the Most Severely Traumatized Individuals I Have Ever Seen”:" https://theintercept.com/2018/05/17/gina-haspel-cia-director-torture/
* "How Haspel beat the resistance:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/17/gina-haspel-cia-confirmed-democrats-596784
* That poor climate scientist trying to politely explain to someone spouting this much nonsense. "Republican lawmaker: Rocks tumbling into ocean causing sea level rise:" https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/republican-lawmaker-rocks-tumbling-ocean-causing-sea-level-rise
* If we don't turn out in force to Vote, WE WILL LOSE! Please, please vote in the Midterms! "The Republican Party's Generational Bet:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/the-gop-is-betting-its-majority-on-older-white-voters/560537
* TW: Pedophilia. "Mich. St. agrees to $500M Nassar settlement:" http://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/23520900/michigan-state-spartans-agree-500-million-larry-nassar-settlement
* TW: Torture "Cameroon police arrest and torture 25 men for being gay:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/05/15/cameroon-police-arrest-and-torture-25-men-for-being-gay/
* "The White House 'Buckles Up' For Mueller Probe:"
* "Kids Pitch A New TV Show: 'Strangest Things: The Golden Mysteries':"
* The last couple of nights it's been cool enough I only ran the living room window fans for a few hours. Tonight, when I came out to start doing things, they were scrunched up together, him craning to peer over the cat grass and her craning around the fan to see over his head so they could watch the gazebo birds. When next they were gone, I took the fans out of the window, and once the excitement of litter change and cleaning was done, Tavy wandered off to my room for a nap on the body pillow, and Livia went to see what the birds were up to. Imagine he delight at finding the fans pile up next to the cat seat and half the window sill free for her to sprawl on while watching such delights as a male robin walking the whole of our side of the gazebo before taking off and the crows doing a last glean of the lawn before sunset. Oh the delight and luxury of having it all to herself!
It took me three tries to make dinner, which wasn't my fault. The first thing was forage and spoiled when I opened it. I'd already done prep, so I cooked a different forage thing using the same prep, but either the directions were slightly wrong or my oven was. I had eaten a couple rosary "muffins," really delicious English muffin shaped dinner rolls, as the substitute dinner was a bit sweeter than the savory dinner I'd intended and I wanted something definitely not sweet in my stomach first to go with my meds. I then did a litter change and cleaning in my office until the food was ready. Apparently, the directions had dinner in just enough too long for it to be almost, but not quite edible. I did lungs and watched Livia watch the birds, by which time i'd talked myself into veggie chik'n burgers. My region is having a severe lettuce shortage which means the rich eat ll the good lettuce and there is only nasty iceberg left for the poor. Luckily, I have three mature heads of good sandwich lettuce in my garden, plus the hearty stuff that grows all year round as long as I let it seed, plus things like arugula and accent greens. I'm not making salad, though i could on the grounds i can't supplement from outside and most of the other lettuce is too young to start culling, but i have plenty for things like sandwiches and burgers. I even had some forage mango salsa to go on the burgers with the tomato and ketchup. Omnomnom. Not bad for a third attempt. I took the book stack back to the time traveling drop, and hit most of today's cleaning goal. (By rights I should have moved furniture for sweeping under, but I could tell that would have been pushing it, and I swept everything I didn't have to move furniture for, plus emptied office trash).
In other news, MI-5 has some amazing guest stars in season 2, which I am watching, Storm before the Storm is going pretty well from the first couple chapters, I have a fresh pitcher of sweet huckleberry tea and another of ultra tart lemonade in my fridge, and Livia could win a prize for her purring. :)
* I dreamed a sort of prequel to the Handmaid's Tale. They'd set up little communities along fairly empty stretches of highway and secondary roads, buying up villages and surrounding farms and ranches, the women already enslaved. They'd set up traps for travelers: gas stations, lodgings, rest stops, grabbing people if they pulled in when no outsiders could see. They'd put out those strips that pop tires on the secondary roads and catch one car at a time, posing as friendly locals putting them up for the night and promising to fix the car in the morning. If the men wouldn't join, they'd kill them. The women they'd imprison. I got trapped with a car full of people on the way to a Con when our car broke down. (It happened RL a few times when I was still well enough for trips like that. The car breaking and stranding us in a small town, 'til morning, not the christian extremist polygamist fertility cult, obviously). We figured out we were trapped. I was trying to help the women in our group hide their birth control pills in the few minutes we had before they came for us all, in case our break out attempt didn't work and most of us were killed.
Nothing like 45's America to make one dream dystopia.
* "Get Involved, Internet: Join the fight to save The Expanse:" https://news.avclub.com/get-involved-internet-join-the-fight-to-save-the-expa-1826053658
* So apparently I went from giving no fucks one way or another about Amos on the Expanse to shipping him with Prax this season.
* I used all my money on housing and insurance March, and April it all went to housing and car things. I need the car to get around as I am disabled. I need to raise about $150 to finish catching up. If you'd like to chip in: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* Want to help people on the Big Island of Hawaii? https://www.gofundme.com/hawaiinaturaldisastersrelief
* 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
* Help fight for Net Neutrality restoration: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/170010496350/democrats-are-just-one-vote-shy-of-restoring-net
* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey
* 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
* "North Korea says won't hold talks with 'incompetent' South unless...:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-southkorea/south-korea-to-play-mediator-to-resolve-north-korea-u-s-summit-doubts-official-idUSKCN1II0B7
* "Trump: ‘Animals’ comment referred to MS-13 gang members:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/17/trump-immigrants-animals-595118
* O.o "Bill Gates dishes about Trump meetings in exclusive video:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bill-gates-dishes-about-trump-meetings-in-exclusive-video-1236490819549
* "Team Trump: One year of Mueller is enough:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/team-trump-one-year-of-mueller-is-enough-1236501059881
* "Cambridge Analytica ran voter suppression campaigns, whistleblower claims:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/cambridge-analytica-congress-wylie/index.html
* "Trump lawyer Cohen sought $1 million from Qatar in late 2016:..:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-cohen/trump-lawyer-cohen-sought-1-million-from-qatar-in-late-2016-washington-post-idUSKCN1II061
* This sure looks like using the full power of the U.S. Government as an Extortion racket for private enrichment. How is this not illegal? "Kushner family sees Qatar-tied bailout; US policy warms to Qatar:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kushner-family-sees-qatar-tied-bailout-us-policy-warms-to-qatar-1236553795927?playlist=associated
* "How a Russian oligarch linked to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen turned a California state park into a mini Moscow:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/17/russian-oligarch-viktor-vekselberg-chairs-nonprofit-backed-by-us-firms-politicians.html
* "Manafort's former son-in-law cuts plea deal:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort-exclusive/exclusive-manaforts-former-son-in-law-cuts-plea-deal-to-cooperate-with-government-sources-idUSKCN1II2YM
* "Pruitt apartment search help may have broken ethics rules, experts say:" https://www.local10.com/news/politics/pruitt-apartment-search-help-may-have-broken-ethics-rules-experts-say
* Why she is clearly unfit to serve. TW: Graphic description of torture Gina Haspel approved and oversaw. "U.S. Navy Reserve Doctor on Gina Haspel Torture Victim: “One of the Most Severely Traumatized Individuals I Have Ever Seen”:" https://theintercept.com/2018/05/17/gina-haspel-cia-director-torture/
* "How Haspel beat the resistance:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/17/gina-haspel-cia-confirmed-democrats-596784
* That poor climate scientist trying to politely explain to someone spouting this much nonsense. "Republican lawmaker: Rocks tumbling into ocean causing sea level rise:" https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/republican-lawmaker-rocks-tumbling-ocean-causing-sea-level-rise
* If we don't turn out in force to Vote, WE WILL LOSE! Please, please vote in the Midterms! "The Republican Party's Generational Bet:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/the-gop-is-betting-its-majority-on-older-white-voters/560537
* TW: Pedophilia. "Mich. St. agrees to $500M Nassar settlement:" http://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/23520900/michigan-state-spartans-agree-500-million-larry-nassar-settlement
* TW: Torture "Cameroon police arrest and torture 25 men for being gay:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/05/15/cameroon-police-arrest-and-torture-25-men-for-being-gay/
* "The White House 'Buckles Up' For Mueller Probe:"
* "Kids Pitch A New TV Show: 'Strangest Things: The Golden Mysteries':"
* The last couple of nights it's been cool enough I only ran the living room window fans for a few hours. Tonight, when I came out to start doing things, they were scrunched up together, him craning to peer over the cat grass and her craning around the fan to see over his head so they could watch the gazebo birds. When next they were gone, I took the fans out of the window, and once the excitement of litter change and cleaning was done, Tavy wandered off to my room for a nap on the body pillow, and Livia went to see what the birds were up to. Imagine he delight at finding the fans pile up next to the cat seat and half the window sill free for her to sprawl on while watching such delights as a male robin walking the whole of our side of the gazebo before taking off and the crows doing a last glean of the lawn before sunset. Oh the delight and luxury of having it all to herself!
It took me three tries to make dinner, which wasn't my fault. The first thing was forage and spoiled when I opened it. I'd already done prep, so I cooked a different forage thing using the same prep, but either the directions were slightly wrong or my oven was. I had eaten a couple rosary "muffins," really delicious English muffin shaped dinner rolls, as the substitute dinner was a bit sweeter than the savory dinner I'd intended and I wanted something definitely not sweet in my stomach first to go with my meds. I then did a litter change and cleaning in my office until the food was ready. Apparently, the directions had dinner in just enough too long for it to be almost, but not quite edible. I did lungs and watched Livia watch the birds, by which time i'd talked myself into veggie chik'n burgers. My region is having a severe lettuce shortage which means the rich eat ll the good lettuce and there is only nasty iceberg left for the poor. Luckily, I have three mature heads of good sandwich lettuce in my garden, plus the hearty stuff that grows all year round as long as I let it seed, plus things like arugula and accent greens. I'm not making salad, though i could on the grounds i can't supplement from outside and most of the other lettuce is too young to start culling, but i have plenty for things like sandwiches and burgers. I even had some forage mango salsa to go on the burgers with the tomato and ketchup. Omnomnom. Not bad for a third attempt. I took the book stack back to the time traveling drop, and hit most of today's cleaning goal. (By rights I should have moved furniture for sweeping under, but I could tell that would have been pushing it, and I swept everything I didn't have to move furniture for, plus emptied office trash).
In other news, MI-5 has some amazing guest stars in season 2, which I am watching, Storm before the Storm is going pretty well from the first couple chapters, I have a fresh pitcher of sweet huckleberry tea and another of ultra tart lemonade in my fridge, and Livia could win a prize for her purring. :)
* I dreamed a sort of prequel to the Handmaid's Tale. They'd set up little communities along fairly empty stretches of highway and secondary roads, buying up villages and surrounding farms and ranches, the women already enslaved. They'd set up traps for travelers: gas stations, lodgings, rest stops, grabbing people if they pulled in when no outsiders could see. They'd put out those strips that pop tires on the secondary roads and catch one car at a time, posing as friendly locals putting them up for the night and promising to fix the car in the morning. If the men wouldn't join, they'd kill them. The women they'd imprison. I got trapped with a car full of people on the way to a Con when our car broke down. (It happened RL a few times when I was still well enough for trips like that. The car breaking and stranding us in a small town, 'til morning, not the christian extremist polygamist fertility cult, obviously). We figured out we were trapped. I was trying to help the women in our group hide their birth control pills in the few minutes we had before they came for us all, in case our break out attempt didn't work and most of us were killed.
Nothing like 45's America to make one dream dystopia.
* "Get Involved, Internet: Join the fight to save The Expanse:" https://news.avclub.com/get-involved-internet-join-the-fight-to-save-the-expa-1826053658
* So apparently I went from giving no fucks one way or another about Amos on the Expanse to shipping him with Prax this season.
* I used all my money on housing and insurance March, and April it all went to housing and car things. I need the car to get around as I am disabled. I need to raise about $150 to finish catching up. If you'd like to chip in: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* Want to help people on the Big Island of Hawaii? https://www.gofundme.com/hawaiinaturaldisastersrelief
* 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
* Help fight for Net Neutrality restoration: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/170010496350/democrats-are-just-one-vote-shy-of-restoring-net
* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey
* 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