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* "Trump order could give immigration agents a foothold in US schools:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/22/trump-immigration-us-schools-education-undocumented-migrants

* "How to Recognize Russian Propaganda on Social Media:" http://lifehacker.com/how-to-recognize-russian-propaganda-on-social-media-1798503783

* Irma’s down to Cat 1, but the flooding is serious in Florida and there is extreme concern still about flooding/storm surges in South Georgia. The storm is slower, but still dangerous, so please, please, if you get an evacuation order, go.

* It’s looking like Hurricane Jose’s Cat 3 now and has veered to miss most of the islands, which, frankly, can’t take any more. They aren’t sure how Irma will continue to effect weather patterns, so it could circle out to see or it could hit the east Coast as of this writing.

* "Medieval London was the most violent place in England:" https://www.newscientist.com/article/2145415-medieval-london-was-the-most-violent-place-in-england/

* Today I successfully adulted the bureaucracy. I had two packets, one expected to be easy, but requiring me to be up to double checking legalize, hence me getting it the day my Uncle's letter arrived and setting it aside for the series of emergencies until I was more up to that sort of attention. The other I expected to be a week long scavenger hunt under pressure, hence me wanting it started tonight so I could go get paperwork in a gas efficient way from various offices. It turned out not to be necessary, as the second packet was not the week long scavenger hunt, but something way simpler, so both are squared away and out of my hair.

Tomorrow will be rough, as I've crack of dawn Doctor's appointment and a list of things to be handled, including taking Squirrel on an excursion and some phone calls I don't want to make. I am not sure what the spoon count will be, so I've mentally sorted into things I can put off and things I can't. At least the weather is staying September reasonable.

* "YA authors asked to 'straighten' gay characters:" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/14/ya-authors-gay-characters

* "Little Red and Bluebeard in Film:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/little-red-bluebeard-film/

* "Game of Thrones is Still Sexist: don't all gasp at once:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/sexism-and-s7/

* Want to donate to the windshield wiper fund? (32$ Needed). Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

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* 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/

* Authorities in Antigua & Barbuda want people to go through the Red Cross right now, as what is needed is centralized relief through a legitimate charity. https://www.redcross.org/donate/hurricane-irma-donations?scode=RSG00000E017&utm_campaign=irma&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwZr44KqX1gIVCIR-Ch0EXQQ0EAAYASAAEgJnBPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CJqzzvKql9YCFY2Tfgods-gBXQ

* "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

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* "Mexico mourns at least 67 dead after twin punch of magnitude 8.1 quake, Hurricane Katia:" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-mexico-earthquake-hurricane-20170909-story.html

* "Republicans Will Let America Burn While Holding Out for Tax Cuts:" http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/gop-will-let-america-burn-while-holding-out-for-tax-cuts-w500163

* Guardian's live blog of Irma: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/sep/10/hurricane-irma-millions-brace-for-impact-as-superstorm-reaches-florida-live

* "Harvey Is What Climate Change Looks Like:" http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/28/climate-change-hurricane-harvey-215547

* "The Hero's Journey and the Monomyth: Crash Course World Mythology #25:"

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* "Gilgamesh has almost all of the experiences described in Campbell’s monomyth, but does this make him a hero?:"

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* "The “return” of the 2,500-year-old Ballachulish Goddess:" http://www.scotsman.com/news/the-return-of-the-2-500-year-old-ballachulish-goddess-1-4542330

* I have used nearly all the spoons, as in, as I right this, I've been sitting here with the shakes for 15 mins, trying to get it together enough to but food in the preheated oven. I made it on time to my doctor's appointment, it being so early there was no point in going to bed. This was one of those massive ones, were they do all the periodic monitoring except labs, some minor treatment stuff, and... vaccinations. Y'all know how pro-vaccine I am, and vaccines are pretty much keeping me alive at this point. My lungs were judged recovered enough from last week's Smoke Monster for me to get my yearly influenza, which generally makes me mildly ill for a weekish in exchange for me not getting knocked out for a month with influenza plus secondary infections for every random exposure I get, so is hella worth it for me. Given my medical situation I have had all the fragile old people vaccinations they offer whenever they become available, which most of y'all won't be worrying about until you're old enough for AARP membership. Apparently a new pneumococcal is out, and mine, being a decadish old, stopped covering me last Spring, as these things evolve. Keep in mine that before vaccines I was getting it every year, sometimes twice. I repeat, vaccines are our friends. Vaccinate your kids for their safety and those around them! Anyway. This vaccine is comparatively brutal, being a two shot dealio, like the Hep B vaccination. I'll get another when I go for Winter Labs. I am Really Feeling this one though. Still better than the lung infections and lung scaring the infections would cause, but It felt like a wound before I was half way home and I can't sleep on that side. with my pain resistance and background pain level, it takes something serious to be something that my nervous system insists is a serious problem. The flu vaccination site is below average tender for a flu shot. The Pneumonia is warm and tender. It's not a big deal unless it swell to golf ball size or the fever goes to 103, so do not panic. I do have a fever, a bit higher than flu vaccine's tiny elevation, but not even close to worrisome. It's just knocking me over though. I also spent waaaay more money than I could afford on mostly assorted lung meds. I really really need to do ebay this month as I'm expecting to be something like a hundred or more down on bills the way things are going, and with things like dish detergent apt to be running out.

I did get some sleep lying on my other side, but I woke enough before the alarm to prep for Squirrel's thing, that when I realized there would be no more sleep, I pushed myself into clothes and out of the house for forage, which was not particularly successful, alas, all bread and vegetables and nothing much else. We brought the forage in and I took Squirrel on an all over town scavenger hunt, which actually was successful. We didn't get exactly what he wanted, but we got close enough. It was good I went, as I know way better how to find cheap and second hand stuff. I even had coupons. We need to glue some stuff together, but I own gorilla glue, so it should be fine.

I am having trouble with the basics. I did get the forage away and the plants watered, just barely before the shakes got too bad. I washed the patio curtain last night, though, and that is a pain to put back together and remount and requires a ladder, which is terrible idea even if I weren't in tears at the ridiculously easy task of walking to the oven and back.

I do not know how much posting I will manage tonight, for which I am sorry.

* "Sunday Sweets For International Chocolate Day:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2017/9/10/sunday-sweets-for-international-chocolate-day.html

* Want to donate to the windshield wiper fund? (32$ Needed). Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

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* 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/

* Authorities in Antigua & Barbuda want people to go through the Red Cross right now, as what is needed is centralized relief through a legitimate charity. https://www.redcross.org/donate/hurricane-irma-donations?scode=RSG00000E017&utm_campaign=irma&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwZr44KqX1gIVCIR-Ch0EXQQ0EAAYASAAEgJnBPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CJqzzvKql9YCFY2Tfgods-gBXQ

* "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

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* 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 Caribbean victims of Irma: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165240981876/hedaclara-hedaclara-hedaclara-guys-the

* "Sputnik, the Russian news agency, is under investigation by the FBI:" https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/sputnik-russian-news-agency-investigation-fbi-090024231.html

* "Pope: Rescinding DACA is not 'pro-life':" http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/11/politics/pope-daca-trump/index.html

* "Senate report slams Trump foreign policy as 'apparent doctrine of retreat':" http://thehill.com/policy/defense/350055-senate-report-slams-trump-foreign-policy-as-apparent-doctrine-of-retreat

* "Trump administration appeals to Supreme Court on refugee ban:" http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-administration-appeals-supreme-court-refugee-ban-49768994

* "Scoop: Jeff Sessions' lie detector idea:" https://www.axios.com/scoop-jeff-sessions-lie-detector-idea-2483756611.html

* TW: Lynching. This article contains pictures of injuries to an 8 year old who survived an attempted lynching in New England. ":" http://www.theroot.com/new-hampshire-police-refuse-to-release-information-on-c-1803054596?utm_source=theroot_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

* Guardian's live blog of Irma: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/sep/10/hurricane-irma-millions-brace-for-impact-as-superstorm-reaches-florida-live
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* "Climate Change Is a Crisis We Can Only Solve Together:" https://www.thenation.com/article/we-can-only-do-this-together/

* During my appointment, I complimented my Doctor on the PreP adverts, being a huge fan of harm reduction in all it's forms. The poking and prodding part of the appointment allowed for conversation, so we got into the medical ethics of things like Prep and needle exchange. My Doctor is about a decade younger than me, and the clinic does a lot in the way of HIV+ and addiction services. She is a fierce advocate for harm reduction. (Seriously, I adore my Doctor. She's enthusiastic about trans community health outreach, and she's really on top on my ridiculously complicated medical history. As someone who spent a huge chunk of my adult life fighting Doctors to convince them to actually, you know, provide medical care instead of ignoring shit, a Doctor who is cheerful and willing to help and non-discriminatory is a huge fucking deal.) Anyway, the Plague came up, by logical extension, and the lives saved by the aggressive needle exchange program in Seattle that has slowed HIV and Hep c transmission amoung users to next to nothing. For me, the AIDs epidemic was a horrifying disaster unfolding in real time coinciding roughly with my adolescence. When we were talking about Seattle during the worst of the pre-protase inhibitor days before needle exchange took hold,she said in this soft, sad tone, "So many bodies."

Yes. So many bodies. Anything that stops that, I'm all for. I never want to see that happening again, to any community. Even with modern drugs, long term survivors remain at risk of early death, depression, and dementia. It is so much better than when the young were falling like leaves in Autumn, but please, please, take care of yourselves out there. I would much rather live in a world where no one gets HIV any more and those who have it are well cared for.

* As I wrote this, I was watching Lily Tomlin gently, charmingly, but firmly calling Dick Cavett out for his sexism over and over in the course of an interview, keeping her tone light, but absolutely refusing to give way in a mid-’80′s interview.

* Want to donate to the windshield wiper fund? (32$ Needed). Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

*****
* 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/

* 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 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