Not All of Monday.

[gwydion]

* "UK 'concerned' over fair trial of Ayia Napa Briton:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50952312

* "Afghanistan's Taliban ruling council ready for ceasefire with US:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/30/afghanistans-taliban-ruling-council-ready-for-ceasefire-with-us

* "U.S. promises action on any North Korea missile test: White House:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-usa-idUSKBN1YX0CM

* "Kremlin: Putin calls to thank Trump for help on terrorism:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/29/kremlin-putin-calls-to-thank-trump-for-help-on-terrorism-090430

* "Fed study finds Trump tariffs backfired:" https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-study-finds-trump-tariffs-backfired-2019-12-27

* "Trump in 2011: The president 'plays golf to escape work while America goes down the drain':" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-in-2011-the-president-plays-golf-to-escape-work-while-america-goes-down-the-drain-75879493821

* "GOP Senator James Lankford says he doesn't think Trump is a role model for young people:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-lankford-on-face-the-nation-gop-senator-says-he-doesnt-believe-trump-is-a-role-model-for-young-people/

* "NYT: White House predicted congressional pushback for holding Ukraine aid:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/30/politics/mick-mulvaney-robert-blair-ukraine-aid/

* "Chris Hayes on the threat of anti-Semitism:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-threat-of-anti-semitism-75878981919

* "Trump’s strange habit of retweeting obscure accounts:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-s-strange-habit-of-retweeting-obscure-accounts-75878981996

* "West Virginia correctional cadets who gave Nazi salute in photo will all be fired:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1108656

"The secretary stated that Byrd directed her to caption the picture "Hail Byrd," according to the report, and told the secretary the students say that “because I’m a hard-ass like Hitler.”"

It's quite a read.

* "White Americans' Hold on Wealth Is Old, Deep, and Nearly Unshakeable:" https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/09/racial-wealth-gap-history-slavery-black-white-family-income/597100/

* "The future of sex ed has arrived. Is America ready?:" https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/12/3/20877238/sex-education-california-lgbtq-gender-schools-health

* "This Texas church is leaving the anti-gay United Methodist Church because it’s not anti-gay enough:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/30/united-methodist-church-anti-gay-book-discipline-texas-katy-grace-fellowship/

* "The Emergency Room Hustle:" https://prospect.org/health/the-emergency-room-hustle/

* Today I dragged myself out of bed and gimped down to forage. Luckily the line was quick and mostly involved benches until the actual foraging part. My foot is improved from Friday, but hobbling about still hurts a hell of a lot on top of the bad AS flare which also hurts and makes it hard to do things like walk or bend over. I looped to the library and home with the intention of putting away forage and doing a lung treatment before the dentist.

Hahaha! I came home to so many messes and assorted problems. Squirrel and I changed my sheets before bed so I could have the padded liner back on and because of a minor feline mishap. One of the younger cats had lost it all over the bed. I mean All Over except for the pillows. I had only been gone an hour and a half and as they are all eating the super expensive prescription kibbles right now I have no clear culprit. (LM does not go on my bed. It was too much jumping for her arthritis even before it became Tavy's primary territory.) So I stripped the bed again and put the liner I just cleaned a couple days ago back on and gave Tavy the medicine finger. I still need to sneak up on Livia at a time and location that won't seriously traumatize her. (She is of an extremely nervous temperament and I don't want to scare her out of one of her special safe spots for example or discourage a behavior I am working hard to encourage, like eating her medically necessary daily goosh ration). I did start laundry and put the forage away along with sundry other mess sorting out before it was time to head out again, but no lungs.

I hate that I had to waste the gas on the loop but showing up two hours early for a dental appointment on a day that isn't really cold enough for the welfare of my milk is a bad idea and forage has a supers specific window. it did not help that my gas was already in the red zone when I left, but it really couldn't be helped and I knew I had about $4 on a credit card and a little over $5 in my bank account. So that's going to be a bit of a drama since I can't count on the government putting SSI in before the weekend. Like I'll check anyway, but I'm not sanguine. I know my gas tank consumption rate well enough that I was fairly convinced I had enough to get there and back plus gas when I have money to take to the station. I got back okay, but I don't want to trust it even for a time traveling book drop run on top of the gas run.

This appointment was not as terrible as the late November drilling, but they gave me the same dentist from that one, and the drilling really hurt. I haven't warned him about my novacaine resistance on the ground that with an appointment that late in the day I really need to be able to eat to take my meds about an hour or so after, and when they put enough in to properly numb me it lasts longer than that. A regular dose will take the edge off, but I really feel the drilling. I don't think they noticed, as I have an excellent pokerface and I keep my body entirely relaxed expert for my focus hand, much as i did for the really bad gum line one that still hurts. (They put some floride on it after they finished the big cavity). Once the drilling was over, I dosed off until it was over. They remembered me because this time they did no freak out. <.< >.> In my defense, I was really tired and I frequently meditate or dose during dentistry, because when it's not painful it's often rather boring, being an enforced period of silence and stillness during which one can't read. It is only logical to turn my brain off for the duration one way or another, but I get the impression most people don't do that, because I occasionally startle a dentist or hygienist this way.I generally try to meditate during drilling too, even with insufficient numb. It helps. Trust me.

Luckily I'm still working my way through Friday's forage bounty and had good soft food to hand.

* More RWA: https://twitter.com/MaryL_MarissaC/status/1211341144245833728

* "BBC’s new Dracula is ‘bi-homicidal’ not bisexual. Yes, really:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/28/bbcs-new-dracula-is-bi-homicidal-not-bisexual-yes-really/

* "Oscar Isaac says ‘Disney overlords’ vetoed gay Star Wars romance:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/30/oscar-isaac-disney-overlords-vetoed-gay-star-wars-romance/

* Humans and Aliens: It was the Right Thing to do: https://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/189908090635/humans-are-unstoppableuntil-they-arent#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.

* A small, cheap thing to help climate change if you have little money to spare: https://onetreeplanted.org/products/amazon-rainforest-peru

* How to donate to Rainbow Road: https://www.rainbowrailroad.com/donate

* Here are a bunch of state level links to help people in immigrant detention: https://taibhsearachd.tumblr.com/post/186058182962/woundability-this-4th-of-july-celebrate-the

* Angry about the concentration camps on our Southern Border? Here is a list of useful things you can do: https://medium.com/@togetherandfree/feel-helpless-amidst-the-horrific-immigration-news-youre-not-how-you-can-make-difference-today-108dc42de88e

* "More Organizations to Support Helping Kids in Concentration Camps:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/201920.html

* Here is a massive list of things you can do to help refugees inside and outside of the Camps: https://s-leary.tumblr.com/post/185783586806/so-youve-probably-seen-the-post-going-around

* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey

* The Indivisble guide exists to help you organize effective resistance: https://indivisible.org/

* Want to support Christy Smith in the primary for Katie Hill's seat?: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dw_ca25

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/am-website?refcode=website-nav

* Want to get rid of Lindsey Graham? Help Jaime Harrison: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_harrison_fr_q12019_jaime-a?refcode=MS_AD_D-DD_2019.03.08_X_GG_KW__X__eyJjcmVhdGl2ZSI6IkFkZCBEb25hdGlvbiBOb3ciLCJhdWRpZW5jZSI6IkphaW1lSGFycmlzb24ifQ&recurring=TRUE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn4a_583I5gIVC8RkCh0MowFeEAAYASAAEgIXZfD_BwE

* 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/

* Some RL friends of mine who were barely scraping by just lost one of the part time jobs they collectively hold and it's really fucking things up for them. These are good people, who do so much for others. Want to help? https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-gig-worker-get-through-the-winter/share

* HorrorMux is currently running a Max Mad type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
https://www.chewy.com/wellness-core-signature-selects/dp/147047

The dry food I was going to try (less urgent) is this one: https://www.chewy.com/blue-buffalo-wilderness-flatland/dp/176663

Or possibly this: https://www.chewy.com/instinct-by-natures-variety-limited/dp/44654

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html