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gwydion* "In Graying Japan, Many Are Vulnerable but Few Are Being Tested:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/world/asia/japan-elderly-coronavirus.html
* "Japan Shocks Parents by Moving to Close All Schools Over Coronavirus:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/world/asia/japan-schools-coronavirus.html
* "Preparing for Coronavirus to Strike the U.S.:" https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/preparing-for-coronavirus-to-strike-the-u-s/
* "U.S. intel agencies warned of rising risk of outbreak like coronavirus:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-intel-agencies-warned-rising-risk-outbreak-coronavirus-n1144891
* "Republicans storm out of coronavirus briefing after Democrat rips Trump's response:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/28/house-coronavirus-trump-response-118121
* "Government Eyes War Powers to Speed Medical Manufacturing Ahead of Virus:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/us/politics/trump-coronavirus.html
* "Trump's Response to Coronavirus Recalls Reagan Ignoring AIDS:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/2/29/trumps-response-coronavirus-recalls-reagan-ignoring-aids
* "Inslee declares state of emergency for coronavirus response:" https://www.kuow.org/stories/inslee-declares-state-of-emergency-for-coronavirus-response
* "Trump officials discuss tax cuts, other emergency measures in hopes of tackling coronavirus fallout:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/28/trump-coronavirus-tax-cuts/
* "Window of opportunity for containing coronavirus rapidly closing:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/window-of-opportunity-for-containing-coronavirus-rapidly-closing-79661125924
* "U.S. prep for coronavirus challenged by resource limitations:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-prep-for-coronavirus-challenged-by-resource-limitations-79663173680
* "Chris Hayes on the dangers of an incompetent admin. trying to lead us through a major crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-dangers-of-an-incompetent-admin-trying-to-lead-us-through-a-major-crisis-79657029528
* So to sum up. 45 fired the entire Pandemic response team because they were competent and Republicans hate competent experts and want to destroy anything President Obama did no matter how many people are hurt or killed as a result because they literally don't care about people. Then a major fucking epidemic started and the Republicans decided to over rule the CDC basically because 'I do what I want' is their guiding philosophy and deliberately ordered government employees to go get exposed to the coronavirus without training or protective gear and had them wander around a military base and the neighboring city to expose as many Californians as possible for funsies. They then had exposed and infected people travel on international and domestic flights in hopes of further spreading the virus again over the objections of the CDC and everyone who believes in germ theory, science, fact, objective reality, etc.. Then they decided to muzzle the CDC because they keep embarrassing 45 but trying to save lives by spreading real information that contradicts the Republican lies and propaganda, and put Mike Pence in charge of the response and all communications about the disease because he did such an excellent job helping the spread of HIV when he was governor of Indiana by ignoring health experts and blocking all commonsense measures to slow the disease because he's a Christian and he insists Gd wants the people who get sick to die which makes him perfect for doing the same job on a National scale.
Republicans are now lying that the virus is somehow a democratic hoax designed to harm their election chances and the stock market and not a major public health crisis currently projected to be about on the level with the deadly 1918-1919 Pandemic, and that therefore anyone trying to actually do something to fight the disease is an enemy who should be stopped.
People are dying. The disease is spreading.
Squirrel and I are in the very high risk pool. There is a good chance if we are exposed we'll be severe cases needing hospital care and the odds of death are what you'd expect. The epidemic is confirmed to have reached just south of here and the odds are given the incubation that it already is here, spreading invisibly.
A millennial friend asked how I was handling it. I explained that I spent the first 18 years of my life expecting to die in a nuclear war and that I fucked prolifically throughout the deadliest decade of the AIDS Pandemic. I am used to assessing and living with risk. I'm also a life long plague watcher and I was a 14th century specialist. I've always been the sort to learn whatever facts there are about a threat, take reasonable precautions, and go about living my life.
Given where squirrel works, no amount of self isolation is going to save me if he gets it. I'm a cf carrier patient. I wash my hands a lot. I try not to touch my face unless I have to. I try to shop at off hours to cut down pathogen exposure and where a mask in high density or risk locations like forage and the doctor's office. I still catch stuff all the time because my immune system couldn't fight it's way out of a wet paper bag. So really, i already live the advice they are giving people for prevention. I know it's limits for someone with my complicated health history.
I would have been okay with getting it as part of the Pandemic luck of the dice; I am furious that if I get it it will likely be because 45 and his minions decided science isn't real and ordered people to be infected on purpose for funsies. I am furious that I begged people to please turn out and vote against him in 2016 and people blew off people like me accurately predicting what his presidency would be like and warning of his deadly incompetence and mendacity.
But here we are.
* "Trump wins appeal to block McGahn testimony:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/28/trump-wins-appeal-to-block-mcgahn-testimony-118219
* "Nadler seeks interviews with prosecutors who quit Roger Stone case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/28/roger-stone-prosecutors-called-to-testify-118106
* "Trump again nominates Rep. John Ratcliffe to be director of national intelligence:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-again-plans-to-nominate-john-ratcliffe-as-intelligence-director/2020/02/28/163661fe-5a7b-11ea-8753-73d96000faae_story.html
* "What’s on Mike Pence’s schedule as coronavirus point man? A fundraiser in Florida.:" https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2020/02/28/whats-on-mike-pences-schedule-as-coronavirus-point-man-a-fundraiser-in-florida/?clavis&utm_expid=.rZxRlJI0T86fmAabR1Jv8w.1&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwhatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com%2F2020%2F02%2F28%2Fday-1135%2F
* Joe Biden 33 48.4% 255,660
Bernie Sanders 11 19.9% 105,068
Tom Steyer 0 11.3% 59,817
Pete Buttigieg 0 8.2% 43,483
Elizabeth Warren 0 7.1% 37,285
* "Joe Biden Wins South Carolina Presidential Primary:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/2/29/joe-biden-wins-south-carolina-presidential-primary
* "Elizabeth Warren on Mike Pence leading the coronavirus response: ‘I cannot think of a worse person’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/elizabeth-warren-on-mike-pence-leading-the-coronavirus-response-i-cannot-think-of-a-worse-person-79653957908
* "Buttigieg on black voters: I’m determined to keep reaching out:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/pete-buttigieg-on-south-carolina-primary-black-voter-outreach-79706181865
* "Tom Steyer Drops Out of 2020 Presidential Race:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/us/politics/tom-steyer-drops-out.html
* Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and American Samoa all vote on Tuesday March 3. If you live there, don't forget to vote!
* "Transgender voters may be unable to vote in this year’s presidential election:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/28/transgender-voters-united-states-america-presidential-election-donald-trump-democrat/
* "High Court finally decides to hear landmark legal challenge over trans teens’ access to puberty blockers:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/28/high-court-puberty-blockers-landmark-legal-challenge-trans-teenagers/
* "No prosecution for men who allegedly hurled tirade of anti-gay abuse at lesbian couple on Ryanair flight:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/01/ryanair-homophobic-abuse-lesbian-couple-flight-airline-stansted-airport-seville-laura-muldoon/
* "Woman escorted off tram by police after launching into homophobic rant in broad daylight:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/12/tram-melborune-australia-police-escorted-homophobia/
* "William Barr's Justice Dept. Works to Undermine Pro-LGBTQ Ordinance:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/2/28/william-barrs-justice-dept-works-undermine-pro-lgbtq-ordinance
* "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez channels Jesus Christ to make passionate argument about LGBT+ rights that’s impossible to argue with:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-channels-jesus-christ-lgbt-rights-radical-love/
* "Rep AOC's Speech on Personal Faith at Admin's Religious Liberties Assault on LGBTQ Rights:"
* "Kentucky senator refuses to resign over ‘homophobic’ comments about ‘evil’ drag queens:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/29/kentucky-senator-governor-resign-homophobic-evil-drag-queens-andy-beshear-phillip-wheeler/
* "Idaho Wants to Keep Trans Residents From Changing Birth Certificates:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2020/2/28/idaho-wants-keep-trans-residents-changing-birth-certificates
* "Benson Churgai Is Philadelphia Police Academy's First Trans Graduate:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2020/2/28/benson-churgai-philadelphia-police-academys-first-trans-graduate
* "The Invisible Border:" https://www.npr.org/2020/02/26/809768491/the-invisible-border?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20200228
* "Modi: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"
* "A Coronavirus PSA From Vice President Mike Pence:"
* "Wall Street Panics After Trump Unveils Lackluster Coronavirus Response Plan:"
* "Coronavirus Cold Open - SNL:"
* "Airport Sushi - SNL:"
* "The Admiral - SNL:"
* "Sound of Music: Rolf and Liesl - SNL:"
* Thursday Night, Elder Kitty discovered the new washer and dryer. Her eyesight isn't good and I keep the laundry closet closed when I'm not using it. It is entirely plausible that she never wandered in there when a machine was running before, and it was pretty clearly the sound that alerted her that something was up. I wish I had a picture. She stretched forward very slowly. It was like her whole body was asking, "Am I hallucinating?"
Another picture I wish I had was the evening after the tub went in last Friday. The Imperial couple followed me in there, discovered the new tub and investigated it slowly together.
Alas, my only means of picture taking is the lap top and me going to get it and the time required to set up and unhook... I usually just enjoy them in the moment.
In renovation news, the rest of the tub parts are in, but we still need electrical inspection, so odds are that's all that's happening next week.
* Friday, the computer crashed right before post time and I really needed to lung and sleep so I gave up and did that, hence the aggregation not posting. Saturday, I basically wore myself out. A friend was over to help with the kitchen/bathroom renovation dust situation.
This is a friend Tavy lets pet him, so he was very relaxed about the visit. Livia tried out this new thing she started doing recently, where she hangs out on the bed if Tavy isn't scared of the visitor. This is huge for her, as big in it's way as her defending her safety perch from the emperor when she wants to be left alone, which she's done three times now that I've seen. Tavy spent the last couple hours of the visit wandering around doing normal cat things in the apartment. The only bad moment fr him was he ran into the visitor when he was leaving my bathroom and the friend was entering, resulting in him getting accidentally cornered, but it was fine nd he had a snack after and did not seem afrad of the guest.
Livia saw him getting snacks, waited until the visitor was in the bathroom with tavy and came and had a snack herself, knowing full well the visitor was still here. She ran back to her room when they came out, but made no effort to hide, having retreated to the bed. Livia had let the guest see her before, this being the most common visitor here, but up til now only glimpses from a distance. This time she was in full view. This is huge step forward for her socially, so that's too big things in one week.
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/
* 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/
* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:
Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa
Here’s a list of vulnerable democratic senators that NEED votes to keep their seats:
Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan
* 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
* There's a decent chance of flipping this Senate seat blue. Want to help? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-mek-egsearch_dtd?refcode=ads-200108-gs-evergreensearch-dtd-natl-mix-8753679275-87807510469-410037583123-%2Bmark%20%2Bkelly%20%2Bdonate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpKSR192K5wIVAsNkCh0EeAFSEAAYASAAEgLY7fD_BwE
* Want to support Christy Smith in the primary for Katie Hill's seat?: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dw_ca25
* 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
* 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 is this one: https://www.chewy.com/blue-buffalo-wilderness-flatland/dp/176663
* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
* "Japan Shocks Parents by Moving to Close All Schools Over Coronavirus:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/world/asia/japan-schools-coronavirus.html
* "Preparing for Coronavirus to Strike the U.S.:" https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/preparing-for-coronavirus-to-strike-the-u-s/
* "U.S. intel agencies warned of rising risk of outbreak like coronavirus:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-intel-agencies-warned-rising-risk-outbreak-coronavirus-n1144891
* "Republicans storm out of coronavirus briefing after Democrat rips Trump's response:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/28/house-coronavirus-trump-response-118121
* "Government Eyes War Powers to Speed Medical Manufacturing Ahead of Virus:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/us/politics/trump-coronavirus.html
* "Trump's Response to Coronavirus Recalls Reagan Ignoring AIDS:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/2/29/trumps-response-coronavirus-recalls-reagan-ignoring-aids
* "Inslee declares state of emergency for coronavirus response:" https://www.kuow.org/stories/inslee-declares-state-of-emergency-for-coronavirus-response
* "Trump officials discuss tax cuts, other emergency measures in hopes of tackling coronavirus fallout:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/28/trump-coronavirus-tax-cuts/
* "Window of opportunity for containing coronavirus rapidly closing:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/window-of-opportunity-for-containing-coronavirus-rapidly-closing-79661125924
* "U.S. prep for coronavirus challenged by resource limitations:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-prep-for-coronavirus-challenged-by-resource-limitations-79663173680
* "Chris Hayes on the dangers of an incompetent admin. trying to lead us through a major crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-dangers-of-an-incompetent-admin-trying-to-lead-us-through-a-major-crisis-79657029528
* So to sum up. 45 fired the entire Pandemic response team because they were competent and Republicans hate competent experts and want to destroy anything President Obama did no matter how many people are hurt or killed as a result because they literally don't care about people. Then a major fucking epidemic started and the Republicans decided to over rule the CDC basically because 'I do what I want' is their guiding philosophy and deliberately ordered government employees to go get exposed to the coronavirus without training or protective gear and had them wander around a military base and the neighboring city to expose as many Californians as possible for funsies. They then had exposed and infected people travel on international and domestic flights in hopes of further spreading the virus again over the objections of the CDC and everyone who believes in germ theory, science, fact, objective reality, etc.. Then they decided to muzzle the CDC because they keep embarrassing 45 but trying to save lives by spreading real information that contradicts the Republican lies and propaganda, and put Mike Pence in charge of the response and all communications about the disease because he did such an excellent job helping the spread of HIV when he was governor of Indiana by ignoring health experts and blocking all commonsense measures to slow the disease because he's a Christian and he insists Gd wants the people who get sick to die which makes him perfect for doing the same job on a National scale.
Republicans are now lying that the virus is somehow a democratic hoax designed to harm their election chances and the stock market and not a major public health crisis currently projected to be about on the level with the deadly 1918-1919 Pandemic, and that therefore anyone trying to actually do something to fight the disease is an enemy who should be stopped.
People are dying. The disease is spreading.
Squirrel and I are in the very high risk pool. There is a good chance if we are exposed we'll be severe cases needing hospital care and the odds of death are what you'd expect. The epidemic is confirmed to have reached just south of here and the odds are given the incubation that it already is here, spreading invisibly.
A millennial friend asked how I was handling it. I explained that I spent the first 18 years of my life expecting to die in a nuclear war and that I fucked prolifically throughout the deadliest decade of the AIDS Pandemic. I am used to assessing and living with risk. I'm also a life long plague watcher and I was a 14th century specialist. I've always been the sort to learn whatever facts there are about a threat, take reasonable precautions, and go about living my life.
Given where squirrel works, no amount of self isolation is going to save me if he gets it. I'm a cf carrier patient. I wash my hands a lot. I try not to touch my face unless I have to. I try to shop at off hours to cut down pathogen exposure and where a mask in high density or risk locations like forage and the doctor's office. I still catch stuff all the time because my immune system couldn't fight it's way out of a wet paper bag. So really, i already live the advice they are giving people for prevention. I know it's limits for someone with my complicated health history.
I would have been okay with getting it as part of the Pandemic luck of the dice; I am furious that if I get it it will likely be because 45 and his minions decided science isn't real and ordered people to be infected on purpose for funsies. I am furious that I begged people to please turn out and vote against him in 2016 and people blew off people like me accurately predicting what his presidency would be like and warning of his deadly incompetence and mendacity.
But here we are.
* "Trump wins appeal to block McGahn testimony:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/28/trump-wins-appeal-to-block-mcgahn-testimony-118219
* "Nadler seeks interviews with prosecutors who quit Roger Stone case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/28/roger-stone-prosecutors-called-to-testify-118106
* "Trump again nominates Rep. John Ratcliffe to be director of national intelligence:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-again-plans-to-nominate-john-ratcliffe-as-intelligence-director/2020/02/28/163661fe-5a7b-11ea-8753-73d96000faae_story.html
* "What’s on Mike Pence’s schedule as coronavirus point man? A fundraiser in Florida.:" https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2020/02/28/whats-on-mike-pences-schedule-as-coronavirus-point-man-a-fundraiser-in-florida/?clavis&utm_expid=.rZxRlJI0T86fmAabR1Jv8w.1&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwhatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com%2F2020%2F02%2F28%2Fday-1135%2F
* Joe Biden 33 48.4% 255,660
Bernie Sanders 11 19.9% 105,068
Tom Steyer 0 11.3% 59,817
Pete Buttigieg 0 8.2% 43,483
Elizabeth Warren 0 7.1% 37,285
* "Joe Biden Wins South Carolina Presidential Primary:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/2/29/joe-biden-wins-south-carolina-presidential-primary
* "Elizabeth Warren on Mike Pence leading the coronavirus response: ‘I cannot think of a worse person’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/elizabeth-warren-on-mike-pence-leading-the-coronavirus-response-i-cannot-think-of-a-worse-person-79653957908
* "Buttigieg on black voters: I’m determined to keep reaching out:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/pete-buttigieg-on-south-carolina-primary-black-voter-outreach-79706181865
* "Tom Steyer Drops Out of 2020 Presidential Race:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/us/politics/tom-steyer-drops-out.html
* Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and American Samoa all vote on Tuesday March 3. If you live there, don't forget to vote!
* "Transgender voters may be unable to vote in this year’s presidential election:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/28/transgender-voters-united-states-america-presidential-election-donald-trump-democrat/
* "High Court finally decides to hear landmark legal challenge over trans teens’ access to puberty blockers:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/28/high-court-puberty-blockers-landmark-legal-challenge-trans-teenagers/
* "No prosecution for men who allegedly hurled tirade of anti-gay abuse at lesbian couple on Ryanair flight:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/01/ryanair-homophobic-abuse-lesbian-couple-flight-airline-stansted-airport-seville-laura-muldoon/
* "Woman escorted off tram by police after launching into homophobic rant in broad daylight:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/12/tram-melborune-australia-police-escorted-homophobia/
* "William Barr's Justice Dept. Works to Undermine Pro-LGBTQ Ordinance:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/2/28/william-barrs-justice-dept-works-undermine-pro-lgbtq-ordinance
* "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez channels Jesus Christ to make passionate argument about LGBT+ rights that’s impossible to argue with:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-channels-jesus-christ-lgbt-rights-radical-love/
* "Rep AOC's Speech on Personal Faith at Admin's Religious Liberties Assault on LGBTQ Rights:"
* "Kentucky senator refuses to resign over ‘homophobic’ comments about ‘evil’ drag queens:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/29/kentucky-senator-governor-resign-homophobic-evil-drag-queens-andy-beshear-phillip-wheeler/
* "Idaho Wants to Keep Trans Residents From Changing Birth Certificates:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2020/2/28/idaho-wants-keep-trans-residents-changing-birth-certificates
* "Benson Churgai Is Philadelphia Police Academy's First Trans Graduate:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2020/2/28/benson-churgai-philadelphia-police-academys-first-trans-graduate
* "The Invisible Border:" https://www.npr.org/2020/02/26/809768491/the-invisible-border?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20200228
* "Modi: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"
* "A Coronavirus PSA From Vice President Mike Pence:"
* "Wall Street Panics After Trump Unveils Lackluster Coronavirus Response Plan:"
* "Coronavirus Cold Open - SNL:"
* "Airport Sushi - SNL:"
* "The Admiral - SNL:"
* "Sound of Music: Rolf and Liesl - SNL:"
* Thursday Night, Elder Kitty discovered the new washer and dryer. Her eyesight isn't good and I keep the laundry closet closed when I'm not using it. It is entirely plausible that she never wandered in there when a machine was running before, and it was pretty clearly the sound that alerted her that something was up. I wish I had a picture. She stretched forward very slowly. It was like her whole body was asking, "Am I hallucinating?"
Another picture I wish I had was the evening after the tub went in last Friday. The Imperial couple followed me in there, discovered the new tub and investigated it slowly together.
Alas, my only means of picture taking is the lap top and me going to get it and the time required to set up and unhook... I usually just enjoy them in the moment.
In renovation news, the rest of the tub parts are in, but we still need electrical inspection, so odds are that's all that's happening next week.
* Friday, the computer crashed right before post time and I really needed to lung and sleep so I gave up and did that, hence the aggregation not posting. Saturday, I basically wore myself out. A friend was over to help with the kitchen/bathroom renovation dust situation.
This is a friend Tavy lets pet him, so he was very relaxed about the visit. Livia tried out this new thing she started doing recently, where she hangs out on the bed if Tavy isn't scared of the visitor. This is huge for her, as big in it's way as her defending her safety perch from the emperor when she wants to be left alone, which she's done three times now that I've seen. Tavy spent the last couple hours of the visit wandering around doing normal cat things in the apartment. The only bad moment fr him was he ran into the visitor when he was leaving my bathroom and the friend was entering, resulting in him getting accidentally cornered, but it was fine nd he had a snack after and did not seem afrad of the guest.
Livia saw him getting snacks, waited until the visitor was in the bathroom with tavy and came and had a snack herself, knowing full well the visitor was still here. She ran back to her room when they came out, but made no effort to hide, having retreated to the bed. Livia had let the guest see her before, this being the most common visitor here, but up til now only glimpses from a distance. This time she was in full view. This is huge step forward for her socially, so that's too big things in one week.
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/
* 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/
* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:
Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa
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Date: 2020-03-01 08:07 pm (UTC)https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/4/29/15479888/harper-war-science-resistance-march-climate
Seeing as Harper is now president of the International Democrat Union, a club of political parties including the UK and Canadian Conservative Parties, the US Republicans, the Australian Liberals and others from across the planet...you can bet that the Trumpists are copying Harper's playbook, but with more grandiosity and enthusiasm.
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Date: 2020-03-02 09:36 am (UTC)