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gwydion* "Classrooms near empty as school starts in crisis-stricken Venezuela:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-schools/classrooms-near-empty-as-school-starts-in-crisis-stricken-venezuela-idUSKCN1LX2C7
* Yes, I know about 45's penis. I very much wish I didn't because it's burned into my brain. NOTE: I really didn't want to know as much as I do about Bill' Clinton's either. EEW! I don't care which party a politician is from; I do not want to know anything about what's in their trousers. Eeew. Also, Eeeew. And it's everywhere now so I really resent being asked to think about it by the news and late night comedians. Did I mention Eeew? Because the whole topic makes me queasy.
* "Records: Chao government flights cost $94K:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/18/elaine-chao-government-flights-taxpayers-796004
* "FEMA official suspended in connection with IG probe:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/18/fema-official-suspended-probe-827975
* "Kavanaugh accuser's classmates send letter of support to Congress:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/18/politics/kavanaugh-accuser-classmates-letter/index.html
* "Kavanaugh in 2015: 'What happens at Georgetown Prep, stays at Georgetown Prep':" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/18/kavanaugh-what-happens-geogetown-prep-828420
* How to tell Republicans KNOW they are lying when they claim the FBI doesn't perform background tests on Judicial Nominations. "Republicans mislead on FBI role to avoid Kavanaugh investigation:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-mislead-on-fbi-role-to-avoid-kavanaugh-investigation-1324761667724?v=railb&
* "Hirono: Kavanaugh investigation should include witness tampering:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hirono-kavanaugh-investigation-should-include-witness-tampering-1324743235577?v=railb&
* "Questions raised about Brett Kavanaugh's credibility:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/questions-raised-about-brett-kavanaugh-s-credibility-1324672579520?v=railb&
* ""It struck me as true" - Blasey Ford friend:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-it-struck-me-as-true-blasey-ford-friend-1324680259563?v=railb&
* "We’re talking about 35 years ago. I’d hate to ask, have somebody ask me what I did 35 years ago." - Chuck Grassley on Brett Kavanaugh’s attempted rape of Dr. Ford.
This begs the question who is Chuck Grassley implying he tried to rape when he was a 49 year old Senator?
* Please, please, please if you can manage it, contact your Senators to get them to fight the Kavanaugh nomination. This is geometrically more important if you have a centrist Democrat like Joseph Manchin, Joe Donnelly, and Heidi Heitkamp; or Republicans like Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski. (For Scott and Rubio emphasize Kavanaugh's racism and support for racial profiling, for Collins and Murkowski emphasize the right to chose, the nomminee allegedly having attempted to violently rape someone, and the Jane Doe case where he tried to force a raped immigrant teen to carry against her will, With Murowski, you might also mention his opposition to programs benefiting Alaska Natives). Contact Chuck Schumer and ask him to whip the Democrats so as to get them to stand in united opposition. It wouldn't hurt to demand your Republican Senators call for a proper FBI Background investigation. They won't, but pressuring them shows them there might be consequences. Jeff Flake of Arizona may be weakening! Please, if you are from Arizona, call to tell him to vote against Kavanaugh!
Protest in person if you can, but if you can’t, 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/
* "Supreme Court Orders Disclosure For Dark Money, As New Report Unveils Some Donors:" https://www.npr.org/2018/09/18/648722358/supreme-court-orders-disclosure-for-dark-money-as-new-report-unveils-some-donors
* "Teacher Wages Are Lower Than Ever:" https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/09/teacher-wages-hit-record-low/569281/
* "Millennials United: Labor Unions Enjoy a Youthful Surge:" https://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/millennials-united-labor-unions-enjoy-a-youthful-surge/87332
* "Eli Saslow & Derek Black - From Racism to Redemption in "Rising Out of Hatred" - Extended Interview:"
* I know this looks like old news, but this is a different set of refugee children they ALSO lost. "HHS loses track of another 1,500 immigrant children, senators demand accountability:" https://nbc24.com/news/nation-world/hhs-loses-track-of-another-1500-immigrant-children-senators-demand-accountability
* "Why 95.8% of Female Newscasters Have the Same Hair:" https://www.metafilter.com/176536/Shining-gleaming-streaming-flaxen-waxen
* "India's Anti-Gay Law Is History. Next Challenge: Treat LGBTQ Patients With Respect:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/09/17/645279722/indias-anti-gay-law-is-history-next-challenge-treat-lgbtq-patients-with-respect
* Is it weird that the Truvada commercial makes me happy every time it comes on?
Bear with me. I was 13 in 1983. There was the horrible wait for them to even find what was causing AIDs that spanned my early adolescence. By the time I was old enough to date, the Plague was in full swing and the deaths came so fast and so often and all they had was AZT. I took my first test at 19 because it was too hard to get tested when I was in High School. I got tested regularly from that point on, always hoping this time wouldn't come up positive. Periodically there'd be coverage of vaccine or drug trials or the quest for the cure, but I made it all the way to Grad School and people just kept dying and dying.
The HIV/AIDS education campaigns back then almost always exclusively targeted affluent cis white men, even though the infection had slowed there and kept going up and up for gay and bisexual people of colour and for trans folk, also particularly trans folk of colour. We were so angry, so many infected and dying needlessly because hardly anyone doing the outreach cared if non white, non-afluent, non-cisfolk died. No matter who complained or how often, it took ages to start the occasional seeing woman or person of colour in the ads, let alone transfolk.
When the new Protease inhibitors turned up in the press, I wanted to hope, but I couldn't trust it at first because there had been so many supposed breakthroughs that didn't pan out. When the combination therapy results started coming in ernest it felt like a miracle. Suddenly, people were living. I'm not sure I can convey what that felt like. not a cure, sure, but something, finally something effective.
Then followed so many years of half assed outreach and the infection rates rising and it felt like people were forgetting everything and nothing was being done towards longer tern solutions even as barebacking trends came and went the long term health and mental health issues with long term survival started to trickle in. Long term survival with a chronic illness controlled by medication is worlds better than dead within a year or two, but it's not good enough. I always wanted a better world for our youth than we had.
Look, PREP isn't a cure either, but damned if cutting infection rates down isn't something important. I would have been on it if it'd been around when I was well enough to date, because even with condoms it's good to be sure. People tend not to be consistent with condom use. We weren't that good at it as a community even when one mistake could literally kill us fairly quickly. It's even harder for people to whom the very worst of the Plague isn't living memory, for whom there's always been a reasonably effective treatment. I am and always have been a fan of harm reduction of all types.
Ever time I see that commercial, I think of all the people who won't get infected, who won't have a higher risk of dementia and depression, who won't mess up once or have a condom break and end up with a chronic illness for life. I think of all the wonderful people who won't die from infections related to this disease.
And it is beautiful to hear the voices of the people in the ad and see that this time, they are for once, trying to reach everybody, that this time someone is talking to the whole community instead of just one segment of it.
It feels like magic, this glimpse of progress when so much else seems to be going backward.
* "'Bert and Ernie were a couple when I was writing them': 'Sesame Street' writer Mark Saltzman reveals:" https://attitude.co.uk/article/bert-and-ernie-were-a-couple-when-i-was-writing-them-sesame-street-writer-mark-saltzman-reveals-1/19113/
* "Florence: North Carolina hog farm lagoons breached after historic flooding:" https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2018/09/18/florence-flooding-nc-hog-farm-lagoons-breached-after-historic-flood/1343885002/
* To be fair,increasing property damage, contamination, and human suffering is practically the Republican Party mission statement. "5 Trump policies that will make future flooding worse:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/19/trump-policies-flooding-worse-796327
* "Trump visits Hurricane Florence-ravaged Carolinas:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/19/politics/donald-trump-north-carolina-visit-florence/index.html
* "Trump's awkward post-hurricane visit to the Carolinas:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-s-awkward-post-hurricane-visit-to-the-carolinas-1324667459590?v=railb&
* "Flooded animal farms add 'toxic soup' to post-Florence concerns:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/flooded-animal-farms-add-toxic-soup-to-post-florence-concerns-1324761155620?v=railb&
* "'One of the boys': Beluga whales adopt lost narwhal in St. Lawrence River:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/belugas-narwhal-stlawrence-1.4820602
* "Seven endangered species that could (almost) fit in a single train carriage:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2018/sep/17/endangered-species-on-a-train
* "4500-YO DNA From Rakhigarhi May Rewrite Crucial Theories About Harappans!:" https://www.thebetterindia.com/158200/rakhigarhi-haryana-harappan-civilisation-indo-aryan-theory/
* "Master female artisan broke the male-dominated mold in ancient Greece:" http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/master-female-artisan-broke-male-dominated-mold-ancient-greece
* "DNA of early medieval Alemannic warriors and their entourage decoded:" https://phys.org/news/2018-09-dna-early-medieval-alemannic-warriors.html
* "From tech to fetish, shoes in fairy tales are a mark of status:" https://theconversation.com/from-tech-to-fetish-shoes-in-fairy-tales-are-a-mark-of-status-93948
* "Pistols at dawn: why there's more to duelling than what's seen on our screens:" https://theconversation.com/pistols-at-dawn-why-theres-more-to-duelling-than-whats-seen-on-our-screens-101665
* "Did a Volcano Defeat Napoleon at Waterloo?:" https://www.livescience.com/63494-napoleon-defeat-waterloo-volcano.html
* "Victorians Had Their Own Version of Netflix: 'Magic Lanterns':" https://www.livescience.com/63508-magic-lantern-victorian-netflix.html
* "The hunt for the 'forgotten' WW1 nurses:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-45418762
* "Maori Language, Once Shunned, Is Having a Renaissance in New Zealand:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/world/asia/new-zealand-maori-language.html
* "What The Yom Kippur Fast Means To A Man Who's Known Hunger:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/09/18/644523370/what-the-yom-kippur-fast-means-to-a-man-whos-known-hunger
* "Man Accused Of Rubbing Produce On Buttocks And Returning It To Shelves:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-dwayne-johnson-rubbing-produce_us_5ba122f1e4b013b0977f8f58
* "US town announces Uranus Examiner news:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45519884
* "Brett Kavanaugh: No More Nineties Reboots, Please:"
* "The Case for Universal Health Care:"
* "The Case for Even More Universal Health Care:"
* "Brett Kavanaugh Faces Sexual Assault Allegations:"
* "Orrin Hatch Rushes to Brett Kavanaugh's Defense:"
* "Ode To A Grecian Urn:" https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/ode-to-a-grecian-urn
* "Killjoys Gets Poetic:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/killjoys-gets-poetic/
* "RANKED: 10 Paintings of Judith Beheading Holofernes:" https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/09/ranked-10-paintings-of-judith-beheading-holofernes
* A Lovely Bit of Writing for Talk Like a Pirate Day. "Previous Entry Come in, come in. Tea? Cakes? We have excellent cakes here, now that the mill is running so...:" https://copperbadge.dreamwidth.org/1039780.html
* It's ebay time again. I am now I am about $150.00 behind on bills and can no longer cover insurance auto withdraw near month's end. If you'd like to chip in directly towards helping me pay my bills Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion
The all items for sale link is here: https://www.ebay.com/sch/lethran/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=
BPAL: Andreiphontês 2010 (Lupercalia : Ode to Mars (LE)): Destroyer of Men Tonka, benzoin, black sandalwood, and nutmeg. Full. https://www.ebay.com/itm/302887403636
BPAL: Krampus (2012) (Yule (LE)): Sinister red musk, black leather, dusty rags, and wooden switches. Just Below shoulder. https://www.ebay.com/itm/302887410358
BPAL: Hesiod's Phoenix (2013) (Anniversary : 11th Anniversary (2013) — Visions of the Phoenix Throughout History(LE)): Golden amber, bourbon vanilla, and sweet oudh. Just Below shoulder. Close to 3/4 Full. https://www.ebay.com/itm/302887420112
BPAL: The Twisted Oak Tree (2012)(Halloween : The Haunted House (LE)): Blackened, rotted oak wood blanketed in moss and choked by a cloak of grasping ivy. Above Label. & Boo v3 (Halloween, Prototype, (LE)): 1/2 Full. https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-The-Twisted-Oak-Tree-2012-Boo-v3-Halloween-Prototype-LE/302887437989?hash=item46857f86a5:g:zWkAAOSwTelboFVn
BPAL: Regina Erebi (2011) (Halloween : An Evening in Hades (LE)): The Queen of Hell: pomegranate, spear mint, black mulberry, and myrrh. 1/2 Full & Scorpio (2007) (Celestials (LE)). 1-2 Imps worth. https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-Regina-Erebi-2011-Halloween-An-Evening-in-Hades-Scorpio-2007/302887503915?hash=item468580882b:g:rlMAAOSwb2JboFtP
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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
* 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
* Yes, I know about 45's penis. I very much wish I didn't because it's burned into my brain. NOTE: I really didn't want to know as much as I do about Bill' Clinton's either. EEW! I don't care which party a politician is from; I do not want to know anything about what's in their trousers. Eeew. Also, Eeeew. And it's everywhere now so I really resent being asked to think about it by the news and late night comedians. Did I mention Eeew? Because the whole topic makes me queasy.
* "Records: Chao government flights cost $94K:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/18/elaine-chao-government-flights-taxpayers-796004
* "FEMA official suspended in connection with IG probe:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/18/fema-official-suspended-probe-827975
* "Kavanaugh accuser's classmates send letter of support to Congress:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/18/politics/kavanaugh-accuser-classmates-letter/index.html
* "Kavanaugh in 2015: 'What happens at Georgetown Prep, stays at Georgetown Prep':" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/18/kavanaugh-what-happens-geogetown-prep-828420
* How to tell Republicans KNOW they are lying when they claim the FBI doesn't perform background tests on Judicial Nominations. "Republicans mislead on FBI role to avoid Kavanaugh investigation:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-mislead-on-fbi-role-to-avoid-kavanaugh-investigation-1324761667724?v=railb&
* "Hirono: Kavanaugh investigation should include witness tampering:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hirono-kavanaugh-investigation-should-include-witness-tampering-1324743235577?v=railb&
* "Questions raised about Brett Kavanaugh's credibility:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/questions-raised-about-brett-kavanaugh-s-credibility-1324672579520?v=railb&
* ""It struck me as true" - Blasey Ford friend:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-it-struck-me-as-true-blasey-ford-friend-1324680259563?v=railb&
* "We’re talking about 35 years ago. I’d hate to ask, have somebody ask me what I did 35 years ago." - Chuck Grassley on Brett Kavanaugh’s attempted rape of Dr. Ford.
This begs the question who is Chuck Grassley implying he tried to rape when he was a 49 year old Senator?
* Please, please, please if you can manage it, contact your Senators to get them to fight the Kavanaugh nomination. This is geometrically more important if you have a centrist Democrat like Joseph Manchin, Joe Donnelly, and Heidi Heitkamp; or Republicans like Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski. (For Scott and Rubio emphasize Kavanaugh's racism and support for racial profiling, for Collins and Murkowski emphasize the right to chose, the nomminee allegedly having attempted to violently rape someone, and the Jane Doe case where he tried to force a raped immigrant teen to carry against her will, With Murowski, you might also mention his opposition to programs benefiting Alaska Natives). Contact Chuck Schumer and ask him to whip the Democrats so as to get them to stand in united opposition. It wouldn't hurt to demand your Republican Senators call for a proper FBI Background investigation. They won't, but pressuring them shows them there might be consequences. Jeff Flake of Arizona may be weakening! Please, if you are from Arizona, call to tell him to vote against Kavanaugh!
Protest in person if you can, but if you can’t, 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/
* "Supreme Court Orders Disclosure For Dark Money, As New Report Unveils Some Donors:" https://www.npr.org/2018/09/18/648722358/supreme-court-orders-disclosure-for-dark-money-as-new-report-unveils-some-donors
* "Teacher Wages Are Lower Than Ever:" https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/09/teacher-wages-hit-record-low/569281/
* "Millennials United: Labor Unions Enjoy a Youthful Surge:" https://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/millennials-united-labor-unions-enjoy-a-youthful-surge/87332
* "Eli Saslow & Derek Black - From Racism to Redemption in "Rising Out of Hatred" - Extended Interview:"
* I know this looks like old news, but this is a different set of refugee children they ALSO lost. "HHS loses track of another 1,500 immigrant children, senators demand accountability:" https://nbc24.com/news/nation-world/hhs-loses-track-of-another-1500-immigrant-children-senators-demand-accountability
* "Why 95.8% of Female Newscasters Have the Same Hair:" https://www.metafilter.com/176536/Shining-gleaming-streaming-flaxen-waxen
* "India's Anti-Gay Law Is History. Next Challenge: Treat LGBTQ Patients With Respect:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/09/17/645279722/indias-anti-gay-law-is-history-next-challenge-treat-lgbtq-patients-with-respect
* Is it weird that the Truvada commercial makes me happy every time it comes on?
Bear with me. I was 13 in 1983. There was the horrible wait for them to even find what was causing AIDs that spanned my early adolescence. By the time I was old enough to date, the Plague was in full swing and the deaths came so fast and so often and all they had was AZT. I took my first test at 19 because it was too hard to get tested when I was in High School. I got tested regularly from that point on, always hoping this time wouldn't come up positive. Periodically there'd be coverage of vaccine or drug trials or the quest for the cure, but I made it all the way to Grad School and people just kept dying and dying.
The HIV/AIDS education campaigns back then almost always exclusively targeted affluent cis white men, even though the infection had slowed there and kept going up and up for gay and bisexual people of colour and for trans folk, also particularly trans folk of colour. We were so angry, so many infected and dying needlessly because hardly anyone doing the outreach cared if non white, non-afluent, non-cisfolk died. No matter who complained or how often, it took ages to start the occasional seeing woman or person of colour in the ads, let alone transfolk.
When the new Protease inhibitors turned up in the press, I wanted to hope, but I couldn't trust it at first because there had been so many supposed breakthroughs that didn't pan out. When the combination therapy results started coming in ernest it felt like a miracle. Suddenly, people were living. I'm not sure I can convey what that felt like. not a cure, sure, but something, finally something effective.
Then followed so many years of half assed outreach and the infection rates rising and it felt like people were forgetting everything and nothing was being done towards longer tern solutions even as barebacking trends came and went the long term health and mental health issues with long term survival started to trickle in. Long term survival with a chronic illness controlled by medication is worlds better than dead within a year or two, but it's not good enough. I always wanted a better world for our youth than we had.
Look, PREP isn't a cure either, but damned if cutting infection rates down isn't something important. I would have been on it if it'd been around when I was well enough to date, because even with condoms it's good to be sure. People tend not to be consistent with condom use. We weren't that good at it as a community even when one mistake could literally kill us fairly quickly. It's even harder for people to whom the very worst of the Plague isn't living memory, for whom there's always been a reasonably effective treatment. I am and always have been a fan of harm reduction of all types.
Ever time I see that commercial, I think of all the people who won't get infected, who won't have a higher risk of dementia and depression, who won't mess up once or have a condom break and end up with a chronic illness for life. I think of all the wonderful people who won't die from infections related to this disease.
And it is beautiful to hear the voices of the people in the ad and see that this time, they are for once, trying to reach everybody, that this time someone is talking to the whole community instead of just one segment of it.
It feels like magic, this glimpse of progress when so much else seems to be going backward.
* "'Bert and Ernie were a couple when I was writing them': 'Sesame Street' writer Mark Saltzman reveals:" https://attitude.co.uk/article/bert-and-ernie-were-a-couple-when-i-was-writing-them-sesame-street-writer-mark-saltzman-reveals-1/19113/
* "Florence: North Carolina hog farm lagoons breached after historic flooding:" https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2018/09/18/florence-flooding-nc-hog-farm-lagoons-breached-after-historic-flood/1343885002/
* To be fair,increasing property damage, contamination, and human suffering is practically the Republican Party mission statement. "5 Trump policies that will make future flooding worse:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/19/trump-policies-flooding-worse-796327
* "Trump visits Hurricane Florence-ravaged Carolinas:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/19/politics/donald-trump-north-carolina-visit-florence/index.html
* "Trump's awkward post-hurricane visit to the Carolinas:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-s-awkward-post-hurricane-visit-to-the-carolinas-1324667459590?v=railb&
* "Flooded animal farms add 'toxic soup' to post-Florence concerns:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/flooded-animal-farms-add-toxic-soup-to-post-florence-concerns-1324761155620?v=railb&
* "'One of the boys': Beluga whales adopt lost narwhal in St. Lawrence River:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/belugas-narwhal-stlawrence-1.4820602
* "Seven endangered species that could (almost) fit in a single train carriage:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2018/sep/17/endangered-species-on-a-train
* "4500-YO DNA From Rakhigarhi May Rewrite Crucial Theories About Harappans!:" https://www.thebetterindia.com/158200/rakhigarhi-haryana-harappan-civilisation-indo-aryan-theory/
* "Master female artisan broke the male-dominated mold in ancient Greece:" http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/master-female-artisan-broke-male-dominated-mold-ancient-greece
* "DNA of early medieval Alemannic warriors and their entourage decoded:" https://phys.org/news/2018-09-dna-early-medieval-alemannic-warriors.html
* "From tech to fetish, shoes in fairy tales are a mark of status:" https://theconversation.com/from-tech-to-fetish-shoes-in-fairy-tales-are-a-mark-of-status-93948
* "Pistols at dawn: why there's more to duelling than what's seen on our screens:" https://theconversation.com/pistols-at-dawn-why-theres-more-to-duelling-than-whats-seen-on-our-screens-101665
* "Did a Volcano Defeat Napoleon at Waterloo?:" https://www.livescience.com/63494-napoleon-defeat-waterloo-volcano.html
* "Victorians Had Their Own Version of Netflix: 'Magic Lanterns':" https://www.livescience.com/63508-magic-lantern-victorian-netflix.html
* "The hunt for the 'forgotten' WW1 nurses:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-45418762
* "Maori Language, Once Shunned, Is Having a Renaissance in New Zealand:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/world/asia/new-zealand-maori-language.html
* "What The Yom Kippur Fast Means To A Man Who's Known Hunger:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/09/18/644523370/what-the-yom-kippur-fast-means-to-a-man-whos-known-hunger
* "Man Accused Of Rubbing Produce On Buttocks And Returning It To Shelves:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-dwayne-johnson-rubbing-produce_us_5ba122f1e4b013b0977f8f58
* "US town announces Uranus Examiner news:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45519884
* "Brett Kavanaugh: No More Nineties Reboots, Please:"
* "The Case for Universal Health Care:"
* "The Case for Even More Universal Health Care:"
* "Brett Kavanaugh Faces Sexual Assault Allegations:"
* "Orrin Hatch Rushes to Brett Kavanaugh's Defense:"
* "Ode To A Grecian Urn:" https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/ode-to-a-grecian-urn
* "Killjoys Gets Poetic:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/killjoys-gets-poetic/
* "RANKED: 10 Paintings of Judith Beheading Holofernes:" https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/09/ranked-10-paintings-of-judith-beheading-holofernes
* A Lovely Bit of Writing for Talk Like a Pirate Day. "Previous Entry Come in, come in. Tea? Cakes? We have excellent cakes here, now that the mill is running so...:" https://copperbadge.dreamwidth.org/1039780.html
* It's ebay time again. I am now I am about $150.00 behind on bills and can no longer cover insurance auto withdraw near month's end. If you'd like to chip in directly towards helping me pay my bills Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion
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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
* 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
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Date: 2018-09-20 08:27 pm (UTC)Anyway, the guy whose lab I was working in developed one of the important AIDS tests and has been working on gene therapy treatments. Science... it's important, but it can take forever. And sometimes, what you learn is all the things that /don't/ work.
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Date: 2018-09-21 06:15 am (UTC)Thank you for your service in really important medical research. Scientists are so often unsung heroes.
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Date: 2018-09-21 08:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-09-21 10:00 am (UTC)It is amazing that you got to be involved in all that.
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Date: 2018-09-21 12:51 am (UTC)I'm glad PrEP came about, too, but as someone who is, occasionally, on the gay dating apps and has hookups from time to time, I've also seen the ugly consequences of it. Like the syphilis rate in the gay men's community is now the highest it's been in like 30 years. Same thing, I've been told, for herpes and other stuff, too because everybody's refusing to use condoms now, especially if they're on PrEP.
But in theory I do agree with you, that it is a great innovation.
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Date: 2018-09-21 06:18 am (UTC)