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* "Rula Jebreal: World is divided into humanists vs. white supremacist nationalists:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/merkel-under-fire-over-immigration-as-nationalism-grows-in-europe-u-s-1257830467854
* "Sinn Féin votes to liberalise abortion law in Northern Ireland:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/16/sinn-fein-votes-to-liberalise-abortion-law-in-northern-ireland
* "Winner of Virginia Republican Senate Primary Immediately Suggests His Opponent Should Be Put in Jail:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/virginias-corey-stewart-put-tim-kaine-in-jail.html
* "London Breed as mayor has the tech industry excited. Will it last?:" https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/London-Breed-as-mayor-has-the-tech-industry-12995753.php
* "San Francisco Mayor-elect London Breed one-on-one with Joy Reid:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/london-breed-victorious-in-san-francisco-mayor-s-race-1257843267976
* "Dale Ho: There’s a long, ugly history of voter restriction:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/supreme-court-upholds-ohio-voter-purge-law-1257836099734
* We need to start calling it terrorism. "David Hogg’s family was swatted. That’s extremely dangerous.:" https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/5/17429258/david-hogg-swatting-parkland-shooting
* "Hundreds March To Texas Tent City Holding Detained Immigrant Kids:" https://www.npr.org/2018/06/17/620813068/hundreds-march-to-texas-tent-city-holding-detained-immigrant-kids
* "Mariana Atencio: Families separated at borders are already traumatized:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/nearly-2-000-children-separated-from-parents-at-border-1257822275666
* "Where Did Theater Go? Crash Course Theater #18:"
* "Sisters act: Meet the nuns helping to save one of the world's rarest amphibians:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2018/jun/07/sisters-act-mexican-nuns-on-mission-to-save-salamanders-video
* "A Bar on the Piccola Marina:"
* The Carnations are coming along nicely this year!: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/174997732762/the-carnations-are-coming-along-nicely-this-year
* What did I do today? Made huge progress on the two cats hanging out on top of me project. Tavy still doesn't like sharing me when I'm lying down, but is getting more tolerant of her climbing on for loves and a nap. She is still skittish and apt to abandon her spot if anything changes even a little or isn't exactly right, but the last few days she's gotten bolder and more willing to circle back for cuddling.
I also read a third author writing in the" Victorian Gentlemen who prefer other gentleman, plus one extremely competent woman in a man's world best friend supernatural romance mystery novel" genre. I love that this super specific thing is apparently an actual sub genre in which multiple authors write. This one is New England instead of London and Lovecraftian. How could I not love a comparative philologist as the protagonist? It was a bit frustrating as many of the relationship problems could be easily solved if the boys learned to communicate, but luckily the action hero archeologist best friend kept metaphorically thunking their heads together until they started being sensible. It was Jordan L. Hawk's Widdershins, if anyone is curious. It has rather a lot of porn towards the end, but the story was solid and I did particularly like the extremely competent archaeologist action hero best friend.
The cats and I also watched a bunch of Westworld, but only about half of the new episode, so don't tell me anything about it.
Monday is going to be a short sleep day and involves me driving Squirrel to... I think it was the dentist, plus forage and the rest of the usual Monday.
I have live in this Town longer than I have live anywhere else now, but somehow, I can never really wrap my head around sunset starting after 9PM as it did today and it still being reasonably light at 9:40PM.
* I brewed what is pretty clearly the second to last picture of huckleberry sweet tea. I say second to lass in the absolute sense. I bought a pound of it the year my inheritance came through, in a transaction in parking lot alarmingly like a drug deal. I loved this brand of tea, you see. It was local, and they sold little bags of it in the farmer's market. The nice little old lady who made it was a one woman company and that was to be her last selling season before retiring. This was the perfect sweet tea, richly flavored, no odd aftertaste, absolutely perfect drunk cool cup after cup. No more exists, and when it has all been drunk, likely sometime in late July, early August, it will become one more Impossible Food to be remembered and longed for. It is like me really: to savor a thing while it lasts, but to barrel toward inevitable ending rather than let it sit in a cupboard untasted until all the savour is lost; to love always in my way, but to not hang on to the physical past the point of sensible endings. I see no point of never sitting in "the good chair," never wearing "the Good outfit," or drinking from "the good China." Something not experienced and savoured is wasted, and so I will drink these last two pitchers this Summer and love every taste to remember in the time when it is no more.
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is doing a fundraiser for legal defense of refugee children in ICE detention. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/deliver-them-from-the-hands-of-the-wicked/
* Want to contribute directly to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services fund? "Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services:" https://www.raicestexas.org/
* 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
* Have something you want to tell your congress Critters? 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/
* This is a cool person and the swimsuits are being made from an ethical source. LGBTQIA+ swimsuits: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NerdyKeppie?ref=l2-shopheader-name§ion_id=24021616
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion
* 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
* "Sinn Féin votes to liberalise abortion law in Northern Ireland:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/16/sinn-fein-votes-to-liberalise-abortion-law-in-northern-ireland
* "Winner of Virginia Republican Senate Primary Immediately Suggests His Opponent Should Be Put in Jail:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/virginias-corey-stewart-put-tim-kaine-in-jail.html
* "London Breed as mayor has the tech industry excited. Will it last?:" https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/London-Breed-as-mayor-has-the-tech-industry-12995753.php
* "San Francisco Mayor-elect London Breed one-on-one with Joy Reid:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/london-breed-victorious-in-san-francisco-mayor-s-race-1257843267976
* "Dale Ho: There’s a long, ugly history of voter restriction:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/supreme-court-upholds-ohio-voter-purge-law-1257836099734
* We need to start calling it terrorism. "David Hogg’s family was swatted. That’s extremely dangerous.:" https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/5/17429258/david-hogg-swatting-parkland-shooting
* "Hundreds March To Texas Tent City Holding Detained Immigrant Kids:" https://www.npr.org/2018/06/17/620813068/hundreds-march-to-texas-tent-city-holding-detained-immigrant-kids
* "Mariana Atencio: Families separated at borders are already traumatized:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/nearly-2-000-children-separated-from-parents-at-border-1257822275666
* "Where Did Theater Go? Crash Course Theater #18:"
* "Sisters act: Meet the nuns helping to save one of the world's rarest amphibians:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2018/jun/07/sisters-act-mexican-nuns-on-mission-to-save-salamanders-video
* "A Bar on the Piccola Marina:"
* The Carnations are coming along nicely this year!: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/174997732762/the-carnations-are-coming-along-nicely-this-year
* What did I do today? Made huge progress on the two cats hanging out on top of me project. Tavy still doesn't like sharing me when I'm lying down, but is getting more tolerant of her climbing on for loves and a nap. She is still skittish and apt to abandon her spot if anything changes even a little or isn't exactly right, but the last few days she's gotten bolder and more willing to circle back for cuddling.
I also read a third author writing in the" Victorian Gentlemen who prefer other gentleman, plus one extremely competent woman in a man's world best friend supernatural romance mystery novel" genre. I love that this super specific thing is apparently an actual sub genre in which multiple authors write. This one is New England instead of London and Lovecraftian. How could I not love a comparative philologist as the protagonist? It was a bit frustrating as many of the relationship problems could be easily solved if the boys learned to communicate, but luckily the action hero archeologist best friend kept metaphorically thunking their heads together until they started being sensible. It was Jordan L. Hawk's Widdershins, if anyone is curious. It has rather a lot of porn towards the end, but the story was solid and I did particularly like the extremely competent archaeologist action hero best friend.
The cats and I also watched a bunch of Westworld, but only about half of the new episode, so don't tell me anything about it.
Monday is going to be a short sleep day and involves me driving Squirrel to... I think it was the dentist, plus forage and the rest of the usual Monday.
I have live in this Town longer than I have live anywhere else now, but somehow, I can never really wrap my head around sunset starting after 9PM as it did today and it still being reasonably light at 9:40PM.
* I brewed what is pretty clearly the second to last picture of huckleberry sweet tea. I say second to lass in the absolute sense. I bought a pound of it the year my inheritance came through, in a transaction in parking lot alarmingly like a drug deal. I loved this brand of tea, you see. It was local, and they sold little bags of it in the farmer's market. The nice little old lady who made it was a one woman company and that was to be her last selling season before retiring. This was the perfect sweet tea, richly flavored, no odd aftertaste, absolutely perfect drunk cool cup after cup. No more exists, and when it has all been drunk, likely sometime in late July, early August, it will become one more Impossible Food to be remembered and longed for. It is like me really: to savor a thing while it lasts, but to barrel toward inevitable ending rather than let it sit in a cupboard untasted until all the savour is lost; to love always in my way, but to not hang on to the physical past the point of sensible endings. I see no point of never sitting in "the good chair," never wearing "the Good outfit," or drinking from "the good China." Something not experienced and savoured is wasted, and so I will drink these last two pitchers this Summer and love every taste to remember in the time when it is no more.
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is doing a fundraiser for legal defense of refugee children in ICE detention. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/deliver-them-from-the-hands-of-the-wicked/
* Want to contribute directly to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services fund? "Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services:" https://www.raicestexas.org/
* 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
* Have something you want to tell your congress Critters? 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/
* This is a cool person and the swimsuits are being made from an ethical source. LGBTQIA+ swimsuits: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NerdyKeppie?ref=l2-shopheader-name§ion_id=24021616
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion
* 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