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Jan. 9th, 2019 02:47 am* I continue to support both harm reduction and kindness. "'Tragic street theatre' in downtown Vancouver:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-46786860/how-vancouver-is-helping-opioid-addicts
* "RCMP set up ‘exclusion zones’ for public and media as raid on B.C. camps start:" https://aptnnews.ca/2019/01/07/rcmp-setting-up-exclusion-zones-for-public-and-media-as-raid-on-b-c-camps-start/
* "Surprise twist puts murder-for-hire case in Mueller orbit:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/surprise-twist-puts-murder-for-hire-case-in-mueller-orbit-1421678147908
* "Paul Manafort shared 2016 polling data with Russian associate, according to court filing:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/paul-manafort-shared-2016-polling-data-with-russian-employee-according-to-court-filing/2019/01/08/3f562ad8-12b0-11e9-803c-4ef28312c8b9_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c694916f5d3b
* "Veselnitskaya, Russian in Trump Tower Meeting, Is Charged in Case That Shows Kremlin Ties:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/nyregion/trump-tower-natalya-veselnitskaya-indictment.html
* "Carbon emissions up as Trump agenda rolls back climate change work:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/08/carbon-emissions-trump-agenda-climate-change
* If Cory Gardner or Susan Collins is your Senator, please thank him for his support for ending the government shut down. These are our best bets so far as I can tell. If you have a Republican senator, especially one up for re-election in 2020, now is a good time to protest.
If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:
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/
* "Van Hollen: No other business until vote to re-open gov't:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/van-hollen-no-other-business-until-vote-to-re-open-gov-t-1421580867572
* "Trump 'emergency' idea would take military money for wall:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-emergency-idea-would-take-military-money-for-wall-1421678147724
* "Wallace: Trump shouldn't lie about where crime comes from:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wallace-trump-shouldn-t-lie-about-where-crime-comes-from-1422364227808
* "Trump struggles with humanitarian crisis of his own making:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-struggles-with-humanitarian-crisis-of-his-own-making-1422404675563
* "Ocasio-Cortez rips Trump for systematic attack on immigrants:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/ocasio-cortez-rips-trump-for-systematic-attack-on-immigrants-1422378051711
* Some of us were asked about what the '80's were like with specific reference to the queer experience in a context I don't want to get into. I think some of the stuff I wrote might be of interest to some of you who are too young to really remember or who weren't alive yet. This shit is pretty dark and there are references to slurs and violent queer bashing, so skate at your own risk. Since this was part of a long conversation with more than one person, in some spots I'm responding to comments from someone who's comments you can't see. I'm often answering questions that are specific, so certain bits are narrower than they might have been if I hadn't been answering a specific redacted question. We are talking about what people specifically in 1989 might have lived through, so there are some references that circle that date, but the commentary goes into the '90's because culture doesn't draw hard lines at decade's end. I am shaving off some of the identifiers and making similar small edits for privacy and clarity. If you quote me, credit me. No other permission required.
I think it's important we talk about this stuff because otherwise the history gets lost.
People literally died to get us here. WE DO NOT WANT TO GO BACK!
( Content Advisory: )
I often say the only thing I want back from the Eisenhower Era is the top tax rate. With the '80's it's just some music and style stuff. I never the fuck want to have to live like that again and that's why I have been pretty much constantly white hot furious since November '16. I do not like not knowing if 45's going to blow us up because nuclear wars are "fun and easy to win." I am a little too young to personally remember back alley abortions, but that's living memory and I don't want to go back there and to the whole people having to talk doctors into medically necessary birth birth control because you can't just get it for sex thing my Mom's generation went through. I do not want to go back to the constant LGBTQIA+ bashing and the police murdering us for fun with no consequences. I do not want to lose what progress we've made on civil rights, accessibility, and the environment.
* "Kid-scaring Namahage among Japanese folk rituals approved for UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list:" https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/29/national/kid-scaring-namahage-among-japanese-folk-rituals-approved-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list/#.XDRvOy17nIX
* "Rashida Tlaib's "Impeach the Motherf**ker" Comment & Great Pacific Garbage Patch Cleanup:"
( Embed: )
* "The Government Shutdown and Trump's Escalating Wall Gambit:"
( Embed: )
* Monday I was short sleeped for errands. The last couple forageswere not particularly good. Today's wasn't really any better. I needed some super specific essentials from a particular grocery near there. My legs were mostly done while I was waiting to check out, and I had to get someone from the store to carry my bag for me and I had a hell of a time getting back in the car, but after a rest, I drove downtown because my bloodwork was due for real, and the Library was soft reopening today so I could collect the holds trapped there since end of December. Most of the system was still down Monday night, but they hope to be full service in a day or two.
I am trying not to freak out about 45's decision not to let us eat in February over his boarder wall shit, because this is the last funded month of Food stamps, unless the tantrum ends.
I am still in the middle of the alarmingly bad AS flare, my eyelid has been twitching since...maybe Thursday? And today, I'm pretty sure my usual five vial draw knocked me into mild shock for a few hours. There will be no proper sleep for several days. I am falling down on the news again, but really between everything, my concentration was just shreds Monday night.
I have a first thing in the Morning Wednesday thing at the Doctor and I'm likely just going to sleep after until I can't anymore. I'm not even going to try to forage. If I don't post, I'm trying to get my body to function at a bearable level.
* O.o "Sunday Sweets Makes Sure You Eat Your Greens:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2019/1/6/sunday-sweets-makes-sure-you-eat-your-greens.html
* "Things I Have Mistaken For A Feeling Over The Years:" http://the-toast.net/2016/04/04/things-i-have-mistaken-for-a-feeling-over-the-years/
I'm pretty sure "A smell I can’t place but reminds me of something" IS a feeling.
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* Trans Helplines: https://www.translifeline.org/
* Want to complaint about Betsy DeVos's plan to coddle college rapists? https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/29/2018-25314/nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-sex-in-education-programs-or-activities-receiving-federal#open-comment
* "Trump’s New Wall to Keep Out the Disabled:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/opinion/trumps-disability-public-charge.html
They are soliciting public comment on these draconian regulations until December 10th here: https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=USCIS-2010-0012-0001
* Donate to HIAS to help refugees: https://act.hias.org/page/6048/donate/1
* 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
* 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? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:
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
* "RCMP set up ‘exclusion zones’ for public and media as raid on B.C. camps start:" https://aptnnews.ca/2019/01/07/rcmp-setting-up-exclusion-zones-for-public-and-media-as-raid-on-b-c-camps-start/
* "Surprise twist puts murder-for-hire case in Mueller orbit:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/surprise-twist-puts-murder-for-hire-case-in-mueller-orbit-1421678147908
* "Paul Manafort shared 2016 polling data with Russian associate, according to court filing:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/paul-manafort-shared-2016-polling-data-with-russian-employee-according-to-court-filing/2019/01/08/3f562ad8-12b0-11e9-803c-4ef28312c8b9_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c694916f5d3b
* "Veselnitskaya, Russian in Trump Tower Meeting, Is Charged in Case That Shows Kremlin Ties:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/nyregion/trump-tower-natalya-veselnitskaya-indictment.html
* "Carbon emissions up as Trump agenda rolls back climate change work:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/08/carbon-emissions-trump-agenda-climate-change
* If Cory Gardner or Susan Collins is your Senator, please thank him for his support for ending the government shut down. These are our best bets so far as I can tell. If you have a Republican senator, especially one up for re-election in 2020, now is a good time to protest.
If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:
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/
* "Van Hollen: No other business until vote to re-open gov't:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/van-hollen-no-other-business-until-vote-to-re-open-gov-t-1421580867572
* "Trump 'emergency' idea would take military money for wall:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-emergency-idea-would-take-military-money-for-wall-1421678147724
* "Wallace: Trump shouldn't lie about where crime comes from:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wallace-trump-shouldn-t-lie-about-where-crime-comes-from-1422364227808
* "Trump struggles with humanitarian crisis of his own making:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-struggles-with-humanitarian-crisis-of-his-own-making-1422404675563
* "Ocasio-Cortez rips Trump for systematic attack on immigrants:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/ocasio-cortez-rips-trump-for-systematic-attack-on-immigrants-1422378051711
* Some of us were asked about what the '80's were like with specific reference to the queer experience in a context I don't want to get into. I think some of the stuff I wrote might be of interest to some of you who are too young to really remember or who weren't alive yet. This shit is pretty dark and there are references to slurs and violent queer bashing, so skate at your own risk. Since this was part of a long conversation with more than one person, in some spots I'm responding to comments from someone who's comments you can't see. I'm often answering questions that are specific, so certain bits are narrower than they might have been if I hadn't been answering a specific redacted question. We are talking about what people specifically in 1989 might have lived through, so there are some references that circle that date, but the commentary goes into the '90's because culture doesn't draw hard lines at decade's end. I am shaving off some of the identifiers and making similar small edits for privacy and clarity. If you quote me, credit me. No other permission required.
I think it's important we talk about this stuff because otherwise the history gets lost.
People literally died to get us here. WE DO NOT WANT TO GO BACK!
( Content Advisory: )
I often say the only thing I want back from the Eisenhower Era is the top tax rate. With the '80's it's just some music and style stuff. I never the fuck want to have to live like that again and that's why I have been pretty much constantly white hot furious since November '16. I do not like not knowing if 45's going to blow us up because nuclear wars are "fun and easy to win." I am a little too young to personally remember back alley abortions, but that's living memory and I don't want to go back there and to the whole people having to talk doctors into medically necessary birth birth control because you can't just get it for sex thing my Mom's generation went through. I do not want to go back to the constant LGBTQIA+ bashing and the police murdering us for fun with no consequences. I do not want to lose what progress we've made on civil rights, accessibility, and the environment.
* "Kid-scaring Namahage among Japanese folk rituals approved for UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list:" https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/29/national/kid-scaring-namahage-among-japanese-folk-rituals-approved-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list/#.XDRvOy17nIX
* "Rashida Tlaib's "Impeach the Motherf**ker" Comment & Great Pacific Garbage Patch Cleanup:"
( Embed: )
* "The Government Shutdown and Trump's Escalating Wall Gambit:"
( Embed: )
* Monday I was short sleeped for errands. The last couple forageswere not particularly good. Today's wasn't really any better. I needed some super specific essentials from a particular grocery near there. My legs were mostly done while I was waiting to check out, and I had to get someone from the store to carry my bag for me and I had a hell of a time getting back in the car, but after a rest, I drove downtown because my bloodwork was due for real, and the Library was soft reopening today so I could collect the holds trapped there since end of December. Most of the system was still down Monday night, but they hope to be full service in a day or two.
I am trying not to freak out about 45's decision not to let us eat in February over his boarder wall shit, because this is the last funded month of Food stamps, unless the tantrum ends.
I am still in the middle of the alarmingly bad AS flare, my eyelid has been twitching since...maybe Thursday? And today, I'm pretty sure my usual five vial draw knocked me into mild shock for a few hours. There will be no proper sleep for several days. I am falling down on the news again, but really between everything, my concentration was just shreds Monday night.
I have a first thing in the Morning Wednesday thing at the Doctor and I'm likely just going to sleep after until I can't anymore. I'm not even going to try to forage. If I don't post, I'm trying to get my body to function at a bearable level.
* O.o "Sunday Sweets Makes Sure You Eat Your Greens:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2019/1/6/sunday-sweets-makes-sure-you-eat-your-greens.html
* "Things I Have Mistaken For A Feeling Over The Years:" http://the-toast.net/2016/04/04/things-i-have-mistaken-for-a-feeling-over-the-years/
I'm pretty sure "A smell I can’t place but reminds me of something" IS a feeling.
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* Trans Helplines: https://www.translifeline.org/
* Want to complaint about Betsy DeVos's plan to coddle college rapists? https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/29/2018-25314/nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-sex-in-education-programs-or-activities-receiving-federal#open-comment
* "Trump’s New Wall to Keep Out the Disabled:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/opinion/trumps-disability-public-charge.html
They are soliciting public comment on these draconian regulations until December 10th here: https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=USCIS-2010-0012-0001
* Donate to HIAS to help refugees: https://act.hias.org/page/6048/donate/1
* 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
* 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? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:
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