Yesterday's Entry, which I forgot to post

* I am seriously worried they will be slaughtered as the genocide in Myanmar is still ongoing. "UN chief and rights groups raise concerns over Rohingya deal:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/17/un-chief-and-rights-groups-raise-concerns-over-myanmar-rohingya-deal

* Fuckssake. "Here Is A Draft Of Trump’s Nuclear Posture Review. He Wants A Lot More Nukes.:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-nuclear-posture-review-2018_us_5a4d4773e4b06d1621bce4c5

* I honestly don't see how calling a whole continent plus Haiti a "shithouse" instead of a "shithole" based on the predominant colour of the inhabitants skins is less racist or in anyway solves the whole 45 is a lifelong racist problem.

* "Newly Uncovered Russian Payments Are A Focus Of Election Investigation:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/newly-uncovered-russian-payments-are-a-focus-of-election?utm_term=.wx6ZqQgbY#.ueyZxE03j

* "The Latest: WH 'executive privilege' claims rankle some:" https://apnews.com/c103dc352c604ae29b442bbec4cc9106

* "Lawmakers vow to force answers from Bannon in Russia probe after he defies subpoena:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/16/steve-bannon-congress-testimony-subpoena-341492

* "Mueller subpoena blocks Bannon testimony: NBC:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mueller-subpoena-blocks-bannon-congressional-testimony-nbc-news-1139461699820?v=a

* "Zinke Pushes Majority Of National Park Service Advisory Panel To Resign:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/national-park-advisory-board-resign-zinke_us_5a5e91ade4b00a7f171b8a12

* Republicans keep insisting that somehow even though they control all three branches of Government and have a majority in both the Senate and the House their inability to get enough votes to keep the government going another month is somehow the Democrats fault. After all, the Republicans are refusing to compromise amounts themselves let alone negotiate with Democrats, so the party of Personal Responsibility insists that is their laziness and refusal to do the decent thing is clearly Not Their Fault. Of course. Please, don't fall for their spin.

* "Trump takes hard line on immigration, rejects 'horrible' bipartisan plan:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-exclusive/exclusive-trump-takes-hard-line-on-immigration-rejects-horrible-bipartisan-plan-idUSKBN1F62QL

* "Mueller probe would continue during shutdown:" http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/16/politics/justice-department-special-counsel-shutdown/index.html

* "Dems flip Wisconsin state Senate seat:" http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/369275-dems-flip-wisconsin-state-senate-seat

* "U.S. senators rip Trump over his attacks on the media:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-senate-flake/u-s-senators-rip-trump-over-his-attacks-on-the-media-idUSKBN1F62EN

* I'm not holding my breathe, but it looks like a good bill. "In Rebuff to Sessions, Federal Marijuana Justice Act Filed in House:" https://www.alternet.org/drugs/rebuff-sesions-federal-marijuana-justice-act-filed-house

* TW: Rape "YouTuber becomes first in U.K. to win civil damages in revenge porn case:" https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/vbyjxy/youtuber-becomes-first-in-uk-to-win-civil-damages-in-revenge-porn-case

* "Sexual Harassment Law Was Shaped by the Battles of Black Women:" https://www.thenation.com/article/sexual-harassment-law-was-shaped-by-the-battles-of-black-women/

* TW: Pedophilia. U S Gymnastics insists on forcing them to train where they were raped because it is more convenient than not re-traumatizing them every month. "Don't make Simone Biles and other gymnasts return to Karolyi ranch:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2018/01/16/usa-gymnastics-must-leave-karolyi-ranch-now-forcing-gymnasts-return-karolyi-ranch-usa-gymnastics-per/1035996001/

* TW: Pedophilia. I hate that NDAs exist to help the rich cover up incredibly heinous crimes. "USA Gymnastics Won't Seek To Punish McKayla Maroney For Speaking About Nassar Abuse:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/usa-gymnastics-mckayla-maroney-nassar_us_5a5f5377e4b096ecfca93f1d

* "The missing - aftermath of Trump's crackdown:" http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-42667659/the-missing-consequences-of-trump-s-immigration-crackdown

* "Trump Administration Will Appeal DACA Ruling:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trum-daca-appeal_us_5a5e506ce4b0106b7f65c5f7

* It's the desert. This is designed to kill. "US border patrol routinely sabotages water left for migrants, report says:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/17/us-border-patrol-sabotage-aid-migrants-mexico-arizona

* "Police shoot far more people than anyone realized, a VICE News investigation reveals:" https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xwvv3a/shot-by-cops

* "Violence in Blue:" https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/

* "India's gay prince opens palace to the LGBT community:" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/prince-manvendra-singh-gohil-palace-lgbt-people-a8146491.html

* "Israel dig unearths prehistoric 'paradise':" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42598519

* "Re-creating Ötzi's Shoes:" http://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/07/Re-creating-tzis-Shoes/

* "Etruscan settlement found in Sardinia for first time:" http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2018/01/08/etruscan-settlement-found-in-sardinia-for-first-time_288c45c9-9ae3-4b5e-ab8d-cb9bf654b775.html

* "'Distinguished' Greco-Roman tombstone unearthed at Alexandria cemetery:" http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/287818/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Distinguished-GrecoRoman-tombstone-unearthed-at-Al.aspx

* "How Ancient Roman Ruins Ended Up 2,000 Miles Away in a British Garden:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/roman-ruins-windsor-castle/550199/

* "Wayward wallaby stops the traffic on Sydney Harbour Bridge:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/16/wayward-wallaby-stops-traffic-sydney-harbour-bridge

* "The Rise and Fall of Chris Christie:"

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* "Kaplin Interview Prep: Russia Investigation Edition:"

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* "The 'Sh*thole Countries' Have One Thing Going For Them:"

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* "Someone Forgot To Explain Trump's Position On FISA To Trump:"

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* "What Exactly Is Trump Doing During 'Executive Time?':"

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* "Did Trump Say Sh*thole Or Sh*thouse?:"

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* Wednesday was forage, what with Monday being MLK Day. The forage hours are different Wednesdays, which is lucky as I'm still not particularly functional and the extra time Helped. Still, it was November type weather with high Arctic wind off the Bay driving the torrential rain nearly sideways. The line was long and there was no parking even though I went late enough to hit the usual lull and miss after work rush, so rather than stand out in torrential sideways rain and high wind, I did my library loop first in hopes the extra ten or so minute would improve matters.

The trip was longer than expected as there was a Thing with my reserves and the ILL Archon flagged me down on the way out as she had a book just in for me and wanted to talk about some stuff. It seems this incredibly skilled and hard working Super star of finding obscure texts and DvDs was retiring after more than twenty years running the ILL department. As a result they were changing some policies for ILLs :( because they expect to be swamped with her apprentices trying to keep up with the work of a woman with decades of extra knowledge and contacts. She's going to be irreplaceable and it's clear the library knows it. You don't automatically know things like where the only copy of Saint Lucifer one can ILL borrow in the continental United states is; that sort of thing takes years to pick up.

We were not friends. I know her face from the break room when I worked there and the occasional ILL related conversation sine. I have spoken to her fairly often on the phone. She goes above and beyond and I am always careful to say nice things because I know I often make bizarre and difficult requests and I order a ridiculous number of things from her. People who do this sort of work well and without complaint are a kind of hero of civilization in my opinion, labouring in obscurity and seldom thanked, so I ALWAYS thank her. I did so one last time.

She asked me a question I have suspected she had wanted to ask for most of a decade: Are you doing some sort of big research project? This is in a sense true, though no book will ever come of it, so I owned it, though I explained I also had strange and varied taste in entertainment. I was thinking of that year I approximately doubled the size of our Queer Cinema selection as they bought nearly all of the one I ordered, my prediction for often mostly forgotten reconstructed silent films, the recent super specific ballet performance requests that swelled our collection, the peculiar less mainstream horror films, that time I ordered 4 or so White Trash Zombie books in a row, my tendency to ask them to pre-order all the Seanan McGuire/Mira grants, etc., etc.. (Every ILL one sends in gets evaluated to see I they want it in the collection and if they buy it, they send it to you first. I actually have a pretty good purchase rate on my non-academic orders. I am proud of this. I love when I rest something and a line appears behind me while it's on order, sowing I've tapped into a pent up demand for something the library might not have realized it needed until I ordered it).

We were not friends, but I will miss her terribly, and I will have to be circumspect in my ordering of peculiarities.

The rain paused while I was inside, and I got parking at forage a reasonable gimping distance away, though not in front. The line was still out past the rain awning and snails's paced, so it was way more standing than was good for me, but the when the rain started again it was gentler and the wind not so high. The new computer system was up and running and the hold up had to do with data entering people who hadn't come the last two weeks, so after check in,things were quick and smooth, it was the line to get in that completely thrashed me. The winds were up again by the time I got home, so unloading was an asshole and it was rather a struggle to gimp from far parking. The winds were howling so loud earlier it was like sirens in the hall when I went for mail, but it is calmer now.

* I have this thing where when I come home, I always go and greet the cat. Cats generally like this. It is reassuring, it reinforces group membership, the Hu-Mon often ios covered in interesting smells as well as the familiar reassuring ones. Cats like a little pettin and crooning when Big Friend returns. If one of the cats is not there, as a sort of joke I generally ask the cat that is things like, "Where is your learned colleague," "Where is your colleague from the other side of the aisle" etc.. Today, I asked Tavy where his "Unindicted Co-conspirator " was. Look, I take my smiles here I can find them.

* "How to upset Gene Roddenberry:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/169806441562/spockslash-how-to-upset-gene-roddenberry-look

* "Stranger Things, Season 1, Chapter 4: The Body:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/09/stranger-things-season-1-chapter-4-body.html

* This show is not playing around. I love it! "Black Lightning Strikes Gold In Its Series Premiere:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/black-lightning-strikes-gold/

* On Benjen Stark. http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/169364940992/couple-of-questions-about-benjen-stark-and-the#notes

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* 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

* 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