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Aug. 20th, 2018 04:30 am* "Fraser Anning and Bob Katter's anti-Muslim cry is about comfort, not survival:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/18/fraser-anning-and-bob-katters-anti-muslim-cry-is-about-comfort-not-survival
"It is rare for the Anning type of conservative white Christian man to experience a sense of not belonging. Hence, their entitlement becomes naturalised and taken for granted. Any interruption to this is destabilising and frightening to them. They respond as if something is wrong in the universe and look for grand external narratives that triggered their discomfort. It leads to an outrageous retaliation made up of no facts and plenty of agitation.
They dislike the slightest sense of feeling disorientated. Their insistence on comfort (often at the expense of saving immigrant lives) proves one thing at least. Their concerns trivialise the tale of inhumanity towards people of colour. It falsifies the accuracy about what cultural genocide means. And, it is not like they have to go far to know what it means."
* "Trump cancels military parade, feuds with D.C. mayor over ballooning cost:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/17/trump-cancels-military-parade-fighter-jets-783035
* "Trump backs CEOs, proposes easing corporate reporting rules:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sec-trump/sec-asked-to-study-six-month-filing-system-for-companies-trump-idUSKBN1L217G
* "Judge says Trump campaign screwed up on wording of confidentiality agreements:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-says-trump-campaign-screwed-wording-confidentiality-agreements-025613573.html
"It is notable because Denson is representing herself and still defeated the Trump campaign’s lawyers."
* "The White Nationalists Are Winning:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/the-battle-that-erupted-in-charlottesville-is-far-from-over/567167/
* "Happy Transgender Flag Day 2018!:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/08/happy-transgender-flag-day-2018.html
* "England's Sentimental Theater: Crash Course Theater #26:"
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* "The Sculptor Who Made Masks for Soldiers Disfigured in World War I:" https://hyperallergic.com/314255/the-sculptor-who-made-masks-for-soldiers-disfigured-in-world-war-i/
* "Robert Mueller's Indictment Song:"
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* "Lizzie & The Duke w/ Matt Smith & Terry Crews:"
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* "Trade: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"
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* Sunday was the most unpleasant part of tank breakdown, where in the last to batches of dirt are scraped and in some cases poured out with a sound resembling finger nails on blackboards only grittier. I put the last batch in to sterilize and cleaned and sterilized the tank. My kitchen is full of tank and big bowls of dirt as I write this and the apartment humid and hot from the oven. I have worked out two options for tank storage. The one I'm leaning toward requires me to clear a closet shelf and mess about with the fish things already stored there which I need to do anyway. It has occurred to me I could reactivate the beta array, or at least two tanks of it. I need to buy a better lite bulb for the light hood for the smaller tank anyway as I am experimenting to see if it plus the working supplemental light is enough to keep plants alive in a twenty. If it is, then I won't have to keep switching the one good light back and forth. If I replace the light bulb I scavenged for it from the hood from a beta tank, then I can put the thing back and have two working beta tanks again. Of course, I haven't the money for light bulbs or fish. I still am a hundred short on bills as it is, but it's attainable, unlike trying to buy proper lighting for a twenty.
Anyway, it turned out the small tank lid just fits the door side twenty, though I'll need to be careful with it. Luckily, LM does not like jumping in her old age, and the junior kitties, love fish TV but have zero inclination to get paws wet or jump on top of that particular tank, given it's location. They much prefer to sit on the ledge and bat through the glass. We'll see how the experiment works out.
9:15 Update: All is stowed away and I found a better lighting hood that takes the same bulbs.
* "Killjoys, Season 4, Episode 3: Bro-d Trip:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2018/08/killjoys-season-4-episode-3-bro-d-trip.html
* "Gods in Diana Wynne Jones: Not an exhaustive approach:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1543673.html
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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* "Fires in Greece: how to help:" https://medium.com/@theo.k/fires-in-greece-how-to-help-41ad32fc9232
* Practical ways to protest with scripts. "On the Helsinki summit, election integrity and Mueller:" https://medium.com/@Celeste_pewter/on-the-helsinki-summit-election-integrity-and-mueller-b8ed1acde2c0
* 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/
* Support Kids at the Border: http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/175022384240/support-the-kids-at-the-border
This has a call script to help you talk your Republican Senator into voting for the Keep Families Together Act: http://rockinhamburger.tumblr.com/post/175022988673/captacorn-marvelsmostwanted-heres-a-call
* 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
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"It is rare for the Anning type of conservative white Christian man to experience a sense of not belonging. Hence, their entitlement becomes naturalised and taken for granted. Any interruption to this is destabilising and frightening to them. They respond as if something is wrong in the universe and look for grand external narratives that triggered their discomfort. It leads to an outrageous retaliation made up of no facts and plenty of agitation.
They dislike the slightest sense of feeling disorientated. Their insistence on comfort (often at the expense of saving immigrant lives) proves one thing at least. Their concerns trivialise the tale of inhumanity towards people of colour. It falsifies the accuracy about what cultural genocide means. And, it is not like they have to go far to know what it means."
* "Trump cancels military parade, feuds with D.C. mayor over ballooning cost:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/17/trump-cancels-military-parade-fighter-jets-783035
* "Trump backs CEOs, proposes easing corporate reporting rules:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sec-trump/sec-asked-to-study-six-month-filing-system-for-companies-trump-idUSKBN1L217G
* "Judge says Trump campaign screwed up on wording of confidentiality agreements:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-says-trump-campaign-screwed-wording-confidentiality-agreements-025613573.html
"It is notable because Denson is representing herself and still defeated the Trump campaign’s lawyers."
* "The White Nationalists Are Winning:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/the-battle-that-erupted-in-charlottesville-is-far-from-over/567167/
* "Happy Transgender Flag Day 2018!:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/08/happy-transgender-flag-day-2018.html
* "England's Sentimental Theater: Crash Course Theater #26:"
( Embed: )
* "The Sculptor Who Made Masks for Soldiers Disfigured in World War I:" https://hyperallergic.com/314255/the-sculptor-who-made-masks-for-soldiers-disfigured-in-world-war-i/
* "Robert Mueller's Indictment Song:"
( Embed: )
* "Lizzie & The Duke w/ Matt Smith & Terry Crews:"
( Embed: )
* "Trade: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"
( Embed: )
* Sunday was the most unpleasant part of tank breakdown, where in the last to batches of dirt are scraped and in some cases poured out with a sound resembling finger nails on blackboards only grittier. I put the last batch in to sterilize and cleaned and sterilized the tank. My kitchen is full of tank and big bowls of dirt as I write this and the apartment humid and hot from the oven. I have worked out two options for tank storage. The one I'm leaning toward requires me to clear a closet shelf and mess about with the fish things already stored there which I need to do anyway. It has occurred to me I could reactivate the beta array, or at least two tanks of it. I need to buy a better lite bulb for the light hood for the smaller tank anyway as I am experimenting to see if it plus the working supplemental light is enough to keep plants alive in a twenty. If it is, then I won't have to keep switching the one good light back and forth. If I replace the light bulb I scavenged for it from the hood from a beta tank, then I can put the thing back and have two working beta tanks again. Of course, I haven't the money for light bulbs or fish. I still am a hundred short on bills as it is, but it's attainable, unlike trying to buy proper lighting for a twenty.
Anyway, it turned out the small tank lid just fits the door side twenty, though I'll need to be careful with it. Luckily, LM does not like jumping in her old age, and the junior kitties, love fish TV but have zero inclination to get paws wet or jump on top of that particular tank, given it's location. They much prefer to sit on the ledge and bat through the glass. We'll see how the experiment works out.
9:15 Update: All is stowed away and I found a better lighting hood that takes the same bulbs.
* "Killjoys, Season 4, Episode 3: Bro-d Trip:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2018/08/killjoys-season-4-episode-3-bro-d-trip.html
* "Gods in Diana Wynne Jones: Not an exhaustive approach:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1543673.html
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* "Fires in Greece: how to help:" https://medium.com/@theo.k/fires-in-greece-how-to-help-41ad32fc9232
* Practical ways to protest with scripts. "On the Helsinki summit, election integrity and Mueller:" https://medium.com/@Celeste_pewter/on-the-helsinki-summit-election-integrity-and-mueller-b8ed1acde2c0
* 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/
* Support Kids at the Border: http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/175022384240/support-the-kids-at-the-border
This has a call script to help you talk your Republican Senator into voting for the Keep Families Together Act: http://rockinhamburger.tumblr.com/post/175022988673/captacorn-marvelsmostwanted-heres-a-call
* 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.comn