Still Gnawing Through the Backlog
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gwydion* "Iran Officials Demolished Home of Rock Climber Who Didn't Cover Hair:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/12/03/iran-officials-demolished-home-rock-climber-who-didnt-cover-hair
* "Conservative Sunni women join in nationwide Iran protests:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/conservative-sunni-women-join-in-nationwide-iran-protests/
* "Iran protesters call for strike, prosecutor says morality police shut down:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-executes-four-individuals-convicted-cooperating-with-israel-fars-2022-12-04/
* "At least 12 killed as gangs battle for control around Haiti's capital:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/haiti-gang-violence-deaths-port-au-prince/
* "Cholera and Crime:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/briefing/haiti-cholera.html
* "Biden Administration Expands Protections for Haitian Migrants:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/us/politics/haitians-tps-biden-migrants.html
* "China’s protests are testing the surveillance state:" https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2022/12/5/23494424/china-covid-protests-testing-surveillance-state
* "Graffiti, flyers, word of mouth: China’s protesters embrace low-tech organizing to escape surveillance:" https://restofworld.org/2022/china-covid-protests-surveillance/
* "US citizen Anne Sacoolas pleads guilty to causing Harry Dunn's death :" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/uk/uk-harry-dunn-anne-sacoolas-intl-gbr/index.html
* "South Africa's Ramaphosa hits back as party backs him over 'Farmgate' scandal:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-ramaphosa-awaits-anc-panel-ruling-farmgate-scandal-2022-12-05/
* "Inside an Armed Bank Raid in Lebanon:"
* "How the Mafia Took Control of Italian Food:"
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* "What to know about the West's new efforts to slash Russia's oil revenue:" https://www.npr.org/2022/12/02/1139477837/russia-oil-revenue-sanctions-price-cap-g7-eu-import-ban
* "Ukrainian forces repel enemy attacks near 17 settlements in Luhansk, Donetsk regions:" https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3627268-ukrainian-forces-repel-enemy-attacks-near-17-settlements-in-luhansk-donetsk-regions.html
* "On east front with Ukrainian troops: Constant shelling, no heat or coffee:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/07/kremmina-luhansk-eastern-front-ukraine/
* "Ukrainians hid orphaned children from Russian deportation:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-health-europe-orphans-f283aa4d22fdab59a43a16ca0be54baf
* "Ukraine’s 15,000-Mile Lifeline:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/magazine/ukraine-trains.html
* "Lesbian couple recalls heart-stopping moment they knew they had to flee Ukraine:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/01/irene-hanna-ukraine-lgbtq-refugees-welcome/
* "As Russia struggles in Ukraine, repression mounts at home:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/01/europe/russia-foreign-agents-repression-intl/index.html
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* "US Secret Service accuses Chinese government-linked hackers of stealing $20 million in Covid relief:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/05/politics/secret-service-china-hackers-covid-fraud/index.html
* "Biden's efforts to protect abortion access hit roadblocks:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-travel-government-and-politics-c503469ac075698dee8fd951b067b967
* "Thank You, Dr. Fauci, for All You’ve Done — So Far!:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/2022/12/05/thank-you-dr-fauci-all-youve-done-so-far
* "Conservative justices show sympathy for case that could undercut LGBTQ rights:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/05/scotus-lgbtq-gay-rights-colorado-first-amendment-00072162
* "Supreme Court Appears to Lean Toward Ruling for Antigay Web Designer:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/12/05/supreme-court-appears-lean-toward-ruling-antigay-colorado-web-designer
* "Santa Claus, the KKK, & More Discussed in SCOTUS LGBTQ+ Rights Case:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/12/06/santa-claus-kkk-more-discussed-scotus-lgbtq-rights-case
* "Hayes: Supreme Court conservative majority is ‘high council of Fox News viewers’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-supreme-court-conservative-majority-is-high-council-of-fox-news-viewers-156314181668
* "LGBTQ+ Supreme Court case could 'inflict damage' on anti-discrimination law:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/03/supreme-court-lgbtq-rights-discrimination-303-creative-lorie-smith/
* "Opinion | Gee, thanks for this tiny step to protect my same-sex marriage:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/29/respect-marriage-act-protections-insufficient/
* I would like to thank everyone who voted for Warnock. "Democratic Sen. Warnock wins Georgia runoff against Walker:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-walker-warnock-runoff-3d4e4d1ab1760792454e1cbd618ce332
* "Georgia Senate runoff smashes early voting records — and attracts new voters:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/georgia-senate-runoff-smashes-early-voting-records-attracts-new-voters-rcna59981
* "Herschel Walker Is Happy to Use Anti-Trans Hate to Get Elected:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/2022/12/03/herschel-walker-happy-use-anti-trans-hate-get-elected
* "Wes Moore - Big Plans for Maryland - Extended Interview:" https://www.cc.com/video/zdjcpd/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-wes-moore-big-plans-for-maryland-extended-interview
* "DeSantis 2024 prospects prompt Fla. lawmakers to review law:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-ron-desantis-legislature-b6e8e4dc730cfd399e0f6f653c86dd84
* Suspending the constitution in favour of one party fascist rule IS the Republican agenda. They aren't even pretending it's anything else anymore. You can tell the rebuke is lip service because they continue to push voter suppression and an end to civil liberties and human rights and don’t out right repudiate Trump or the neo-NAZI third of their base. "Trump Rebuked for Call to Suspend Constitution Over Election:" https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-rebuked-for-call-to-suspend-constitution-over-election/6862404.html
* "Jolly: Trump’s call to shred Constitution is an ‘admission and forecast’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/jolly-trump-s-call-to-shred-constitution-is-an-admission-and-a-forecast-156311621886
* "Giuliani 'weaponized his law license' in 2020 election case - ethics counsel:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/giuliani-faces-dc-ethics-charges-over-2020-election-lawsuit-2022-12-05/
* "Two Trump Organization Companies Found Guilty of Criminal Tax Fraud:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/12/06/two-trump-organization-companies-found-guilty-criminal-tax-fraud
* "Manhattan D.A. Hires Ex-Justice Official to Help Lead Trump Inquiry:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/nyregion/alvin-bragg-trump-investigation.html
* "Former Trump White House counsel and his deputy testify to Jan. 6 criminal grand jury:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/02/politics/pat-cipollone-district-courthouse/index.html
* "Fired Transgender Twitter Employee Speaks Out About Content Moderation:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/12/05/fired-transgender-twitter-employee-speaks-out-about-content-moderation
* "Tressie McMillan Cottom - Twitter and Online Public Spaces:" https://www.cc.com/video/umsex5/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tressie-mcmillan-cottom-twitter-and-online-public-spaces
* "Attacks on US power grid have been subject of extremist chatter for years. DHS bulletin warns of attacks on critical infrastructure amid other targets:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/05/us/us-power-grid-attack-north-carolina-extremist-terrorism/index.html
* "Governor Calls Attack on Power Stations a ‘New Level of Threat’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/us/north-carolina-power-station-attack.html
* "Right-wing, domestic terror eyed in N.C. infrastructure sabotage as facts remain elusive:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/right-wing-domestic-terror-eyed-in-n-c-infrastructure-sabotage-as-facts-remain-elusive-156328005891
* "The haunting, unavoidably human job of covering America's mass shootings:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-04/covering-american-mass-shootings
* "Club Q Suspect Formally Charged in Colorado Mass Shooting:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/12/06/club-q-suspect-anderson-lee-aldrich-formally-charged-colorado-mass-shooting
* "Drag Race queens hiring armed guards after Club Q shooting:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/05/drag-queens-armed-guards/
* "Why Queer Communities Are Welcoming Armed Antifascist Protection:" https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/club-q-lgbtq-armed-self-defense/
* "Tampa police Chief Mary O’Connor resigns amid traffic stop controversy:" https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2022/12/05/tampa-police-chief-mary-oconnor-resigns-amid-traffic-stop-controversy/
* "Former correctional officer sentenced after assisting white supremacist assault on Black detainees: DOJ:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-correctional-officer-sentenced-after-assisting-white-supremacist/story?id=94574614
* A friend of mine said this about the robot police in San Francisco which captures how I feel about it.
"It's not sci-fi laser-rifles, not guns at all (yet...); they're still "piloted" by a human and not (currently) autonomous - but yeah, the Board of Supes in their infinite wisdom voted in favor of allowing the police department's robots to be used to "deploy lethal force"... (and, yes, this is on top of them voting to allow the police to have real-time access to privately owned security/surveillance cameras...)
Any police department with recurring issues of excessive and inappropriate use of force, whose union balks at additional oversight to maybe prevent its members from murdering the public they're supposed to be protecting, really shouldn't be granted additional means of killing people.
*sigh* If the damn things can be used to carry explosives to "disable" a terrorist, how about a teargas grenade?"
* "The Far-Right Attacked Drag Events in 4 States This Weekend:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axmy3/far-right-attacked-drag-events-in-4-states-this-weekend
* "Jewish Texans see surge in antisemitism as a precursor to fascism:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/28/texas-antisemitism-violence-fascism/
* "Proud Boys, white supremacists protest of canceled drag story time event in Ohio among several across country:" https://www.cleveland.com/open/2022/12/proud-boys-white-supremacists-protest-of-canceled-drag-story-time-event-in-ohio-among-several-across-country.html
* "Protesters display Nazi flags outside Lakeland charity event featuring drag shows:" https://news.yahoo.com/protesters-display-nazi-flags-outside-214041690.html
* CW: Rape "Nirbhaya After ten years, lives that Delhi gang rape affected:" https://dailythepatriot.com/nirbhaya-after-ten-years-lives-that-delhi-gang-rape-affected/
* CW: Rape "Harvey Weinstein lets out a belly laugh at LA rape trial as his attorney ridicules victim:" https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article269507112.html
* "Indonesia’s parliament votes to ban sex outside of marriage:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/06/indonesia-sex-before-marriage-ban/
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* "Judge blocks Indiana abortion ban on religious freedom grounds:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-blocks-indiana-abortion-ban-religious-freedom-grounds-2022-12-03/
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* "Vladimir Putin signs 'LGBT propaganda' law into effect:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/05/vladimir-putin-signs-lgbt-propaganda-law/
* "Brothers tortured and kidnapped by police in Russia see bid for freedom rejected:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/25/brothers-tortured-police-chechnya-appeal-denied/
* "Trans woman forced to cut hair and 'remove breast tissue' by Qatari official:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/03/qatar-trans-abuse-conversion-therapy/
* "Israeli Party Leader Vows to Cancel Pride:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/12/02/israeli-party-leader-vows-cancel-pride
* "Switzerland to become 'refuge for gay healers' if conversion therapy isn't banned:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/03/switzerland-conversion-therapy-ban/
* CW: Suicide "My 4 Days in Fake Gay-Conversion Therapy:" https://www.wired.com/story/my-4-days-in-fake-gay-conversion-therapy-nordic-larp/
* "Lawyer calls for 'the heads' of trustees from trans charity in chilling tweet:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/05/sarah-phillimore-mermaids-trans/
* "Police called to protect anti-trans activists from protesters 'waving and smiling':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/03/adult-human-female-film-reality-matters-nottingham-screening/
* CW: Suicide "Family of trans person who died by suicide outside hospital says they were let down by NHS:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/03/brighton-trans-suicide-nhs-mental-health-matty-sheldrick/
* "Fears About Ending DADT Greatly Exaggerated:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/29/fears-about-ending-dadt-greatly-exaggerated-report
* "More Teens Get Breast Implants Than Trans Top Surgery:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/9/28/more-teens-get-breast-implants-trans-top-surgery
* "How to Combat Anti-Trans School Policies:" https://advocatechannel.com/advocates-for-youths-diana-thu-thao-rhodes-on-anti-trans-policies
* "Report details how drag events have been targeted with threats and harassment ⋆ Michigan Advance:" https://michiganadvance.com/2022/12/02/report-details-how-drag-events-have-been-targeted-with-threats-and-harassment/
* This will kill so many people. "Oklahoma Seeks to Criminalize Gender-Affirming Care Up to Age 21:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/12/06/oklahoma-seeks-criminalize-gender-affirming-care-age-21
* "Families of Trans Kids Are Seeking Sanctuary:"
* "Texas Man Arrested for Threatening Doctor Who Provides Trans Care:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/12/03/texas-man-arrested-threatening-boston-doctor-who-provides-trans-health-care
* "Hate preacher thinks anal sex causes gay men's intestines to 'fall out':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/25/texas-hate-preacher-jonathan-shelley-gay-sex-indian-food/
* "Teacher on Leave After Saying Devil's Behind Pride Event:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/29/teacher-leave-after-saying-devils-behind-pride-event
* "Trans Teacher's Discrimination Suit Settled With Maryland School Board:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/27/trans-teachers-discrimination-suit-settled-maryland-school-board
* "Hysterical parents claim young child's LGBTQ-inclusive school mural is 'satanic':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/21/hysterical-parents-claim-lgbtq-mural-satanic-propaganda/
* "Kim Davis, Anti-LGBTQ+ Former Kentucky Clerk, Loses in Court...Again:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/03/kim-davis-anti-lgbtq-former-kentucky-clerk-loses-courtagain
* CW: Suicide "As Youth Come Out Earlier, Support Can Save Lives:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2022/10/10/youth-come-out-earlier-support-can-save-lives
* "New Daily HIV Pill Moves Closer to Approval:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/treatment/2022/9/28/new-daily-hiv-pill-moves-closer-approval
* "U.S. Health and Human Services Opens Up Positions to HIV-Positive Applicants:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2022/12/03/us-health-and-human-services-opens-positions-hiv-positive-applicants
* "Monkeypox Emergency Declaration to End in January, Biden Admin Says:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/12/03/monkeypox-emergency-declaration-end-january-biden-admin-says
* "Thai Buddhist temple left empty after all its monks test positive for meth:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/01/buddhist-monks-drug-tests-thailand-temple/
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* "World 'nowhere near' hitting climate targets, U.N. warns:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/world-emissions-paris-climate-targets-un-report-rcna54044
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* "For many Hawaiians, lava flows are a time to honor, reflect:" https://apnews.com/article/volcanic-eruptions-travel-hawaii-volcanoes-mauna-loa-7ad35f017181d8bcf375a5ccde2f68a3
* "Thousands Flee Volcano Eruption in Indonesia:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/12/05/thousands-flee-volcano-eruption-indonesia
* "There’s Something in the Water in Virginia. Before You Say ‘Yuck,’ Wait.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/climate/treated-sewage-virginia-aquifer.html
* "Recycling plastic is practically impossible — and the problem is getting worse:" https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131131088/recycling-plastic-is-practically-impossible-and-the-problem-is-getting-worse
* "How to Protect Yourself From Misleading Greenwashing:" https://advocatechannel.com/how-to-protect-yourself-from-misleading-greenwashing
* Do NOT want!!! "Elon Musk expects Neuralink's brain chip to begin human trials in 6 months:" https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-expects-neuralink-begin-human-trials-six-months-2022-12-01/
* "How to Bring Back Front Yard Businesses:"
* "Solar storm smashes hole in Earth's magnetosphere, triggering extremely rare pink auroras:" https://www.livescience.com/pink-auroras-solar-storm
* "Did Viking I Find Proof of a Megatsunami on Mars?:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/12/03/did-viking-i-find-proof-megatsunami-mars
* "NASA's historic moon mission enters the final leg of its journey :" https://kion546.com/news/2022/12/01/nasas-orion-capsule-heads-home-on-historic-artemis-i-moon-mission/
* "The Spooky Science of How Undead Spores Reanimate:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-spooky-science-of-how-undead-spores-reanimate/
* "Species loss affects basis of life of humans:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201027105409.htm
* "How rare rose collectors save some flowers from extinction:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/06/us/rare-rose-collectors-preservation-scn-cec/index.html
* "Honey Bees Are Only Living Half as Long as They Did in the 1970s:" https://gizmodo.com/honey-bee-lifespan-cut-in-half-since-1970s-1849780024
* "Do bees play? A groundbreaking study says yes.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/bees-can-play-study-shows-bumblebees-insect-intelligence
* "How To Speak Honeybee:" https://www.noemamag.com/how-to-speak-honeybee/
* "Dung beetle mothers protect their offspring from a warming world by digging deeper:" https://theconversation.com/dung-beetle-mothers-protect-their-offspring-from-a-warming-world-by-digging-deeper-191983
* "The hidden world of whale culture:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/the-hidden-world-of-whale-culture-feature
* "15 sea turtles released after rehabbing in the Florida Keys:" https://wsvn.com/news/local/florida/15-sea-turtles-released-after-rehabbing-in-the-florida-keys/
* "Who Knew Reptiles Could Be Such Romantics?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/24/science/lizards-reptiles-social-behavior.html
* "Crows Perform Yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively Human:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crows-perform-yet-another-skill-once-thought-distinctively-human/?ref=upstract.com
* "A small herd of bison and a small Texas city are helping each other survive:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/us/bison-texas-quitaque-ctrp/index.html
* "Heat-resilient Red Sea reefs offer last stand for corals:" https://phys.org/news/2022-10-heat-resilient-red-sea-reefs-corals.html
* "In Ukraine, Bat Rescue Efforts Continue Amid War and Destruction:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bat-rescue-ukraine-war
* "Here’s What To Do If You’re Bit By a Cobra:" https://www.outtraveler.com/destinations/2022/10/29/heres-what-do-if-youre-bit-cobra#media-gallery-media-1
* "Rats bop to the beat :" https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00262.html
* "These highly trained rats have sniffed out 150,000 explosives:" https://expmag.com/2022/09/these-highly-trained-rats-have-sniffed-out-150000-explosives/
* "Bruce Is a Parrot With a Broken Beak. So He Invented a Tool.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/science/kea-beak-tools.html
* "The Vineyard Falcon Does Not Suffer Fools:" https://punchdrink.com/articles/vineyard-falconry-wine/
* "Ancient giant sea turtle with never-before-seen features found in Europe, scientists say:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/world/species-discovery-prehistoric-sea-turtle-scn/index.html
* "Lake Mead Water Woes Expose Epic Volcanic Eruptions:" https://www.outtraveler.com/outdoors/2022/10/12/lake-mead-water-woes-expose-epic-volcanic-eruptions
* "Memories of the End of the Last Ice Age, from Those Who Were There:" https://hakaimagazine.com/news/memories-of-the-end-of-the-last-ice-age-from-those-who-were-there/
* "Initials and squiggles reveal hidden literacy of early modern England:" https://historyfirst.com/initials-and-squiggles-reveal-hidden-literacy-of-early-modern-england
* "12 Queer, Inspiring Protest Posters in Days of Rage from ONE Archives:" https://www.advocate.com/media/2022/10/11/12-queer-inspiring-protest-posters-days-rage-one-archives
* "How the Billboard Hot 100 Lost Interest in the Key Change:" https://tedium.co/2022/11/09/the-death-of-the-key-change/
* "The Fading Art of Preserving the Dead:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/science/embalming-funerals-death.html
* "Polari Prize winner on butch d*kes, facism and squatting:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/11/16/joelle-taylor-polari-prize-far-right/
* "“They can’t kill us all”: These scholars lost their countries and found each other:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/they-cant-kill-us-all-these-scholars-lost-their-countries-and-found-each-other/
* "Claim of new world record for longest beard chain in Wyoming:" https://apnews.com/article/oddities-wyoming-casper-0644b3c5337f0c8646e592d320a6e00e
* "Red, White & Greenland: Stephen Cold-Bear is Lost in Space Force:"
* "Red, White & Greenland: A Tour of Thule Air Base:"
* "The Warnock v. Walker Runoff Ends Here | No Handshakes For “Two-Faced” McConnell & McCarthy:"
* "So Much News, So Little Time - Hakeem Jeffries & Brain Chips :" https://www.cc.com/video/t8jwpg/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-so-much-news-so-little-time-hakeem-jeffries-brain-chips
* "Votedemic 2022 - Our Crumbling Election Infrastructure:" https://www.cc.com/video/0byzzo/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-our-crumbling-election-infrastructure
* "Dul-Sayin' - The History of Drag:" https://www.cc.com/video/ql7a20/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-dul-sayin-the-history-of-drag
* "Tampa Police Scandal, AI Chatbot Goes Viral & More :" https://www.cc.com/video/3rzin0/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tampa-police-scandal-ai-chatbot-goes-viral-more
* "A Compilation Of Herschel Walker Being Honest And Transparent:"
* It has been a complicated several days, made worse by my chronic stuff. I spent a couple of hours on rheumatologist paperwork on Saturday and did not finish. Sunday, all we really managed was food shopping. Monday... Monday was a mess for reasons that were no one's fault, small things making larger and larger disruptions in plans like an avalanche. It was grueling for me, horrifically exhausting and painful, made worse by it being a treatment day. There was no help for it. Things needed to be done so they were done. It involved things like, standing twenty minutes in a pharmacy due to multiple communication errors on a day when even a trip from my bed to the bathroom was a painful and dangerous adventure. Long hobbles through various stores. I trip up and down four flights of particularly dangerous concrete stairs. no close parking anywhere except the place with the stairs, so long dangerous hobbles across parking lots. I burned the whole amount of gas I expected to spend for the week in one night, and these treatments mean double the normal gas consumption for the duration. I am curious to see how I pay for all these medical travel costs.
It was absolutely no one's fault. It was borderline comical as Thompsons go, like some sort of comedy routine. Sometimes the only way out is through. This was one of those times.
I burned most of this week's spoons I suspect. This is a no-functional level of pain. I've treatment and errands again tomorrow. I am afraid to bump up pain relief any higher lest unpleasant hallucinations follow.
So this is why I didn't post the pre-election aggregate Tuesday morning. I came close, but I needed to lie down.
Fuck if I know what posting will look like this week, given the givens.
On the upside, I won more hours for Head Millennial, to our mutual benefit. I definitely need them.
* My family traditionally calls that thing where miscommunication leads to long complicated, exhausting and time consuming unasked for adventures a “Thompson.” EX: "Meet me at 8 at the KFC.” There are two KFCs on opposite side of town. Both people travel back and forth frantically searching for the other for hours never finding the other or only doing so after hours and hours are wasted. Or perhaps one person likes AM and one person thinks PM. AM person eventually gives up . PM person waits for hours. You get the idea. It also apples to things like drove for hours to get somewhere and have to turn back and do it all again because you forgot something essential. We had examples of both types Monday. Seriously, nobody’s fault. Sometimes you just have to throw up you hands and laugh.
* In my experience aging is the process of compressing large complex and ad venturous life into smaller and smaller spaces.
* "Eccentric art flourishes along outskirts of Buenos Aires:" https://apnews.com/article/travel-caribbean-immigration-buenos-aires-9d3ad33c50e9ec48841e092429d749a4
* "See Some of the Year's Best Nature Photos:" https://gizmodo.com/nature-conservancy-photo-contest-2022-1849774085
* "The Bear in Her Cave:" https://www.patreon.com/posts/bear-in-her-cave-56822508
* "Midnight Pals: Big Unnaturals:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/702468195756441600/midnight-pals-big-unnaturals
* John Gaius and Ethics in the Locked Tomb: https://yuck-pfaugh.tumblr.com/post/698103291132903424
* Badly Written sex Scenes (NWS): https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/702896605700980736
* Tiny hand knit stocking earrings made by a good friend: https://forestgirlclothing.com/collections/autumn-winter-collection/products/fairy-stocking-earrings?fbclid=IwAR0EjmUHcdv_cQOwQt4tRAouQRVtZfhSMdQDtoazj5mIKgK6cOiVCvUFU2A
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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
The help links are at the bottom under the cut.
* "How to Help Those Affected by the Club Q Tragedy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/22/how-help-those-affected-club-q-tragedy
* "Club Q victims face 'astronomical' hospital bills. Here's how you can help:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/23/colorado-springs-shooting-lgbtq-club-q-how-to-help-fundraiser/
* List of educational, diverse, and/or long term playable toys for things like Toys for Tots. High value toys for 20 dollars or less.: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/44WV8EVUP1Y
* On SCOTUS possibly repealing the act that prevents white people from stealing native babies, robbing them of their culture. contains how to help links at bottom: https://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/701035342837547008
* Tiny hand knit stocking earrings made by a good friend: https://forestgirlclothing.com/collections/autumn-winter-collection/products/fairy-stocking-earrings?fbclid=IwAR0EjmUHcdv_cQOwQt4tRAouQRVtZfhSMdQDtoazj5mIKgK6cOiVCvUFU2A
* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion
* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE
* "The Rainbow Railroad:" https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/take-action
* "These Organizations Accept Donations To Help People in Ukraine:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/01/where-to-donate-help-ukraine/
* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/
* "This is where you can donate to support LGBT+ Ukrainians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/donate-support-lgbt-ukraine/
* "Support OVD-Info:" https://beste-glatisant.tumblr.com/post/677388506851606528/hi-ive-donated-to-the-ukranian-refugees-and-now
* "War in Ukraine! Support LGBTQ people.:" https://secure.wayforpay.com/payment/s047412e502b6
* What to help fight for queer people in Africa? Try the Initiative Sankofa D’Afrique de l’Ouest www.ISDAO.org
* Want to support abortion in Poland?: https://tuulikki.tumblr.com/post/688438251039621120
* How to Support the Women's Reproduction Protection Act: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/684465183144476672/womens-health-protection-act
* Donate to Abortion funds: https://tuulikki.tumblr.com/post/685542978922692608/seacollectsrivers-theegoldfinch-theegoldfinch
* "Supporting Abortion Funds in the South:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/682207036936732672/supporting-abortion-funds-in-the-south
* Ways to help Trans Youth resisting Transphobic laws in Texas: https://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/677204004210688000
* "A List of UK Trans Charities:" https://katymontgomerie.medium.com/a-list-of-uk-trans-charities-2e26fb4032fd
* Organizations to help trans folk: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620857152453640195/about-us
* "How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely
* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620861026680881152/oberynmartell-list-of-black-lives-matter-and
* "The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund!:" https://secure.actblue.com/donate/midwestibf
* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely 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.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
* "DONATE TO EMILY'S LIST:" https://win.emilyslist.org/a/donate-to-emily
* Chicksaw bead artist and cool person has Kiamichi Beading suitable for non-native sale: https://www.instagram.com/kiamichi_beading/
* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story
SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee
* "Conservative Sunni women join in nationwide Iran protests:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/conservative-sunni-women-join-in-nationwide-iran-protests/
* "Iran protesters call for strike, prosecutor says morality police shut down:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-executes-four-individuals-convicted-cooperating-with-israel-fars-2022-12-04/
* "At least 12 killed as gangs battle for control around Haiti's capital:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/haiti-gang-violence-deaths-port-au-prince/
* "Cholera and Crime:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/briefing/haiti-cholera.html
* "Biden Administration Expands Protections for Haitian Migrants:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/us/politics/haitians-tps-biden-migrants.html
* "China’s protests are testing the surveillance state:" https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2022/12/5/23494424/china-covid-protests-testing-surveillance-state
* "Graffiti, flyers, word of mouth: China’s protesters embrace low-tech organizing to escape surveillance:" https://restofworld.org/2022/china-covid-protests-surveillance/
* "US citizen Anne Sacoolas pleads guilty to causing Harry Dunn's death :" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/uk/uk-harry-dunn-anne-sacoolas-intl-gbr/index.html
* "South Africa's Ramaphosa hits back as party backs him over 'Farmgate' scandal:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-ramaphosa-awaits-anc-panel-ruling-farmgate-scandal-2022-12-05/
* "Inside an Armed Bank Raid in Lebanon:"
* "How the Mafia Took Control of Italian Food:"
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* "What to know about the West's new efforts to slash Russia's oil revenue:" https://www.npr.org/2022/12/02/1139477837/russia-oil-revenue-sanctions-price-cap-g7-eu-import-ban
* "Ukrainian forces repel enemy attacks near 17 settlements in Luhansk, Donetsk regions:" https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3627268-ukrainian-forces-repel-enemy-attacks-near-17-settlements-in-luhansk-donetsk-regions.html
* "On east front with Ukrainian troops: Constant shelling, no heat or coffee:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/07/kremmina-luhansk-eastern-front-ukraine/
* "Ukrainians hid orphaned children from Russian deportation:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-health-europe-orphans-f283aa4d22fdab59a43a16ca0be54baf
* "Ukraine’s 15,000-Mile Lifeline:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/magazine/ukraine-trains.html
* "Lesbian couple recalls heart-stopping moment they knew they had to flee Ukraine:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/01/irene-hanna-ukraine-lgbtq-refugees-welcome/
* "As Russia struggles in Ukraine, repression mounts at home:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/01/europe/russia-foreign-agents-repression-intl/index.html
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* "US Secret Service accuses Chinese government-linked hackers of stealing $20 million in Covid relief:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/05/politics/secret-service-china-hackers-covid-fraud/index.html
* "Biden's efforts to protect abortion access hit roadblocks:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-travel-government-and-politics-c503469ac075698dee8fd951b067b967
* "Thank You, Dr. Fauci, for All You’ve Done — So Far!:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/2022/12/05/thank-you-dr-fauci-all-youve-done-so-far
* "Conservative justices show sympathy for case that could undercut LGBTQ rights:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/05/scotus-lgbtq-gay-rights-colorado-first-amendment-00072162
* "Supreme Court Appears to Lean Toward Ruling for Antigay Web Designer:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/12/05/supreme-court-appears-lean-toward-ruling-antigay-colorado-web-designer
* "Santa Claus, the KKK, & More Discussed in SCOTUS LGBTQ+ Rights Case:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/12/06/santa-claus-kkk-more-discussed-scotus-lgbtq-rights-case
* "Hayes: Supreme Court conservative majority is ‘high council of Fox News viewers’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-supreme-court-conservative-majority-is-high-council-of-fox-news-viewers-156314181668
* "LGBTQ+ Supreme Court case could 'inflict damage' on anti-discrimination law:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/03/supreme-court-lgbtq-rights-discrimination-303-creative-lorie-smith/
* "Opinion | Gee, thanks for this tiny step to protect my same-sex marriage:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/29/respect-marriage-act-protections-insufficient/
* I would like to thank everyone who voted for Warnock. "Democratic Sen. Warnock wins Georgia runoff against Walker:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-walker-warnock-runoff-3d4e4d1ab1760792454e1cbd618ce332
* "Georgia Senate runoff smashes early voting records — and attracts new voters:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/georgia-senate-runoff-smashes-early-voting-records-attracts-new-voters-rcna59981
* "Herschel Walker Is Happy to Use Anti-Trans Hate to Get Elected:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/2022/12/03/herschel-walker-happy-use-anti-trans-hate-get-elected
* "Wes Moore - Big Plans for Maryland - Extended Interview:" https://www.cc.com/video/zdjcpd/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-wes-moore-big-plans-for-maryland-extended-interview
* "DeSantis 2024 prospects prompt Fla. lawmakers to review law:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-ron-desantis-legislature-b6e8e4dc730cfd399e0f6f653c86dd84
* Suspending the constitution in favour of one party fascist rule IS the Republican agenda. They aren't even pretending it's anything else anymore. You can tell the rebuke is lip service because they continue to push voter suppression and an end to civil liberties and human rights and don’t out right repudiate Trump or the neo-NAZI third of their base. "Trump Rebuked for Call to Suspend Constitution Over Election:" https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-rebuked-for-call-to-suspend-constitution-over-election/6862404.html
* "Jolly: Trump’s call to shred Constitution is an ‘admission and forecast’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/jolly-trump-s-call-to-shred-constitution-is-an-admission-and-a-forecast-156311621886
* "Giuliani 'weaponized his law license' in 2020 election case - ethics counsel:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/giuliani-faces-dc-ethics-charges-over-2020-election-lawsuit-2022-12-05/
* "Two Trump Organization Companies Found Guilty of Criminal Tax Fraud:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/12/06/two-trump-organization-companies-found-guilty-criminal-tax-fraud
* "Manhattan D.A. Hires Ex-Justice Official to Help Lead Trump Inquiry:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/nyregion/alvin-bragg-trump-investigation.html
* "Former Trump White House counsel and his deputy testify to Jan. 6 criminal grand jury:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/02/politics/pat-cipollone-district-courthouse/index.html
* "Fired Transgender Twitter Employee Speaks Out About Content Moderation:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/12/05/fired-transgender-twitter-employee-speaks-out-about-content-moderation
* "Tressie McMillan Cottom - Twitter and Online Public Spaces:" https://www.cc.com/video/umsex5/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tressie-mcmillan-cottom-twitter-and-online-public-spaces
* "Attacks on US power grid have been subject of extremist chatter for years. DHS bulletin warns of attacks on critical infrastructure amid other targets:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/05/us/us-power-grid-attack-north-carolina-extremist-terrorism/index.html
* "Governor Calls Attack on Power Stations a ‘New Level of Threat’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/us/north-carolina-power-station-attack.html
* "Right-wing, domestic terror eyed in N.C. infrastructure sabotage as facts remain elusive:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/right-wing-domestic-terror-eyed-in-n-c-infrastructure-sabotage-as-facts-remain-elusive-156328005891
* "The haunting, unavoidably human job of covering America's mass shootings:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-04/covering-american-mass-shootings
* "Club Q Suspect Formally Charged in Colorado Mass Shooting:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/12/06/club-q-suspect-anderson-lee-aldrich-formally-charged-colorado-mass-shooting
* "Drag Race queens hiring armed guards after Club Q shooting:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/05/drag-queens-armed-guards/
* "Why Queer Communities Are Welcoming Armed Antifascist Protection:" https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/club-q-lgbtq-armed-self-defense/
* "Tampa police Chief Mary O’Connor resigns amid traffic stop controversy:" https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2022/12/05/tampa-police-chief-mary-oconnor-resigns-amid-traffic-stop-controversy/
* "Former correctional officer sentenced after assisting white supremacist assault on Black detainees: DOJ:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-correctional-officer-sentenced-after-assisting-white-supremacist/story?id=94574614
* A friend of mine said this about the robot police in San Francisco which captures how I feel about it.
"It's not sci-fi laser-rifles, not guns at all (yet...); they're still "piloted" by a human and not (currently) autonomous - but yeah, the Board of Supes in their infinite wisdom voted in favor of allowing the police department's robots to be used to "deploy lethal force"... (and, yes, this is on top of them voting to allow the police to have real-time access to privately owned security/surveillance cameras...)
Any police department with recurring issues of excessive and inappropriate use of force, whose union balks at additional oversight to maybe prevent its members from murdering the public they're supposed to be protecting, really shouldn't be granted additional means of killing people.
*sigh* If the damn things can be used to carry explosives to "disable" a terrorist, how about a teargas grenade?"
* "The Far-Right Attacked Drag Events in 4 States This Weekend:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axmy3/far-right-attacked-drag-events-in-4-states-this-weekend
* "Jewish Texans see surge in antisemitism as a precursor to fascism:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/28/texas-antisemitism-violence-fascism/
* "Proud Boys, white supremacists protest of canceled drag story time event in Ohio among several across country:" https://www.cleveland.com/open/2022/12/proud-boys-white-supremacists-protest-of-canceled-drag-story-time-event-in-ohio-among-several-across-country.html
* "Protesters display Nazi flags outside Lakeland charity event featuring drag shows:" https://news.yahoo.com/protesters-display-nazi-flags-outside-214041690.html
* CW: Rape "Nirbhaya After ten years, lives that Delhi gang rape affected:" https://dailythepatriot.com/nirbhaya-after-ten-years-lives-that-delhi-gang-rape-affected/
* CW: Rape "Harvey Weinstein lets out a belly laugh at LA rape trial as his attorney ridicules victim:" https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article269507112.html
* "Indonesia’s parliament votes to ban sex outside of marriage:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/06/indonesia-sex-before-marriage-ban/
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* "Judge blocks Indiana abortion ban on religious freedom grounds:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-blocks-indiana-abortion-ban-religious-freedom-grounds-2022-12-03/
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* "Vladimir Putin signs 'LGBT propaganda' law into effect:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/05/vladimir-putin-signs-lgbt-propaganda-law/
* "Brothers tortured and kidnapped by police in Russia see bid for freedom rejected:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/25/brothers-tortured-police-chechnya-appeal-denied/
* "Trans woman forced to cut hair and 'remove breast tissue' by Qatari official:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/03/qatar-trans-abuse-conversion-therapy/
* "Israeli Party Leader Vows to Cancel Pride:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/12/02/israeli-party-leader-vows-cancel-pride
* "Switzerland to become 'refuge for gay healers' if conversion therapy isn't banned:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/03/switzerland-conversion-therapy-ban/
* CW: Suicide "My 4 Days in Fake Gay-Conversion Therapy:" https://www.wired.com/story/my-4-days-in-fake-gay-conversion-therapy-nordic-larp/
* "Lawyer calls for 'the heads' of trustees from trans charity in chilling tweet:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/05/sarah-phillimore-mermaids-trans/
* "Police called to protect anti-trans activists from protesters 'waving and smiling':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/03/adult-human-female-film-reality-matters-nottingham-screening/
* CW: Suicide "Family of trans person who died by suicide outside hospital says they were let down by NHS:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/03/brighton-trans-suicide-nhs-mental-health-matty-sheldrick/
* "Fears About Ending DADT Greatly Exaggerated:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/29/fears-about-ending-dadt-greatly-exaggerated-report
* "More Teens Get Breast Implants Than Trans Top Surgery:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/9/28/more-teens-get-breast-implants-trans-top-surgery
* "How to Combat Anti-Trans School Policies:" https://advocatechannel.com/advocates-for-youths-diana-thu-thao-rhodes-on-anti-trans-policies
* "Report details how drag events have been targeted with threats and harassment ⋆ Michigan Advance:" https://michiganadvance.com/2022/12/02/report-details-how-drag-events-have-been-targeted-with-threats-and-harassment/
* This will kill so many people. "Oklahoma Seeks to Criminalize Gender-Affirming Care Up to Age 21:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/12/06/oklahoma-seeks-criminalize-gender-affirming-care-age-21
* "Families of Trans Kids Are Seeking Sanctuary:"
* "Texas Man Arrested for Threatening Doctor Who Provides Trans Care:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/12/03/texas-man-arrested-threatening-boston-doctor-who-provides-trans-health-care
* "Hate preacher thinks anal sex causes gay men's intestines to 'fall out':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/25/texas-hate-preacher-jonathan-shelley-gay-sex-indian-food/
* "Teacher on Leave After Saying Devil's Behind Pride Event:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/29/teacher-leave-after-saying-devils-behind-pride-event
* "Trans Teacher's Discrimination Suit Settled With Maryland School Board:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/27/trans-teachers-discrimination-suit-settled-maryland-school-board
* "Hysterical parents claim young child's LGBTQ-inclusive school mural is 'satanic':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/21/hysterical-parents-claim-lgbtq-mural-satanic-propaganda/
* "Kim Davis, Anti-LGBTQ+ Former Kentucky Clerk, Loses in Court...Again:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/03/kim-davis-anti-lgbtq-former-kentucky-clerk-loses-courtagain
* CW: Suicide "As Youth Come Out Earlier, Support Can Save Lives:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2022/10/10/youth-come-out-earlier-support-can-save-lives
* "New Daily HIV Pill Moves Closer to Approval:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/treatment/2022/9/28/new-daily-hiv-pill-moves-closer-approval
* "U.S. Health and Human Services Opens Up Positions to HIV-Positive Applicants:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2022/12/03/us-health-and-human-services-opens-positions-hiv-positive-applicants
* "Monkeypox Emergency Declaration to End in January, Biden Admin Says:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/12/03/monkeypox-emergency-declaration-end-january-biden-admin-says
* "Thai Buddhist temple left empty after all its monks test positive for meth:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/01/buddhist-monks-drug-tests-thailand-temple/
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* "World 'nowhere near' hitting climate targets, U.N. warns:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/world-emissions-paris-climate-targets-un-report-rcna54044
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* "For many Hawaiians, lava flows are a time to honor, reflect:" https://apnews.com/article/volcanic-eruptions-travel-hawaii-volcanoes-mauna-loa-7ad35f017181d8bcf375a5ccde2f68a3
* "Thousands Flee Volcano Eruption in Indonesia:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/12/05/thousands-flee-volcano-eruption-indonesia
* "There’s Something in the Water in Virginia. Before You Say ‘Yuck,’ Wait.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/climate/treated-sewage-virginia-aquifer.html
* "Recycling plastic is practically impossible — and the problem is getting worse:" https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1131131088/recycling-plastic-is-practically-impossible-and-the-problem-is-getting-worse
* "How to Protect Yourself From Misleading Greenwashing:" https://advocatechannel.com/how-to-protect-yourself-from-misleading-greenwashing
* Do NOT want!!! "Elon Musk expects Neuralink's brain chip to begin human trials in 6 months:" https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-expects-neuralink-begin-human-trials-six-months-2022-12-01/
* "How to Bring Back Front Yard Businesses:"
* "Solar storm smashes hole in Earth's magnetosphere, triggering extremely rare pink auroras:" https://www.livescience.com/pink-auroras-solar-storm
* "Did Viking I Find Proof of a Megatsunami on Mars?:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/12/03/did-viking-i-find-proof-megatsunami-mars
* "NASA's historic moon mission enters the final leg of its journey :" https://kion546.com/news/2022/12/01/nasas-orion-capsule-heads-home-on-historic-artemis-i-moon-mission/
* "The Spooky Science of How Undead Spores Reanimate:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-spooky-science-of-how-undead-spores-reanimate/
* "Species loss affects basis of life of humans:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201027105409.htm
* "How rare rose collectors save some flowers from extinction:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/06/us/rare-rose-collectors-preservation-scn-cec/index.html
* "Honey Bees Are Only Living Half as Long as They Did in the 1970s:" https://gizmodo.com/honey-bee-lifespan-cut-in-half-since-1970s-1849780024
* "Do bees play? A groundbreaking study says yes.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/bees-can-play-study-shows-bumblebees-insect-intelligence
* "How To Speak Honeybee:" https://www.noemamag.com/how-to-speak-honeybee/
* "Dung beetle mothers protect their offspring from a warming world by digging deeper:" https://theconversation.com/dung-beetle-mothers-protect-their-offspring-from-a-warming-world-by-digging-deeper-191983
* "The hidden world of whale culture:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/the-hidden-world-of-whale-culture-feature
* "15 sea turtles released after rehabbing in the Florida Keys:" https://wsvn.com/news/local/florida/15-sea-turtles-released-after-rehabbing-in-the-florida-keys/
* "Who Knew Reptiles Could Be Such Romantics?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/24/science/lizards-reptiles-social-behavior.html
* "Crows Perform Yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively Human:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crows-perform-yet-another-skill-once-thought-distinctively-human/?ref=upstract.com
* "A small herd of bison and a small Texas city are helping each other survive:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/us/bison-texas-quitaque-ctrp/index.html
* "Heat-resilient Red Sea reefs offer last stand for corals:" https://phys.org/news/2022-10-heat-resilient-red-sea-reefs-corals.html
* "In Ukraine, Bat Rescue Efforts Continue Amid War and Destruction:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bat-rescue-ukraine-war
* "Here’s What To Do If You’re Bit By a Cobra:" https://www.outtraveler.com/destinations/2022/10/29/heres-what-do-if-youre-bit-cobra#media-gallery-media-1
* "Rats bop to the beat :" https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00262.html
* "These highly trained rats have sniffed out 150,000 explosives:" https://expmag.com/2022/09/these-highly-trained-rats-have-sniffed-out-150000-explosives/
* "Bruce Is a Parrot With a Broken Beak. So He Invented a Tool.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/science/kea-beak-tools.html
* "The Vineyard Falcon Does Not Suffer Fools:" https://punchdrink.com/articles/vineyard-falconry-wine/
* "Ancient giant sea turtle with never-before-seen features found in Europe, scientists say:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/world/species-discovery-prehistoric-sea-turtle-scn/index.html
* "Lake Mead Water Woes Expose Epic Volcanic Eruptions:" https://www.outtraveler.com/outdoors/2022/10/12/lake-mead-water-woes-expose-epic-volcanic-eruptions
* "Memories of the End of the Last Ice Age, from Those Who Were There:" https://hakaimagazine.com/news/memories-of-the-end-of-the-last-ice-age-from-those-who-were-there/
* "Initials and squiggles reveal hidden literacy of early modern England:" https://historyfirst.com/initials-and-squiggles-reveal-hidden-literacy-of-early-modern-england
* "12 Queer, Inspiring Protest Posters in Days of Rage from ONE Archives:" https://www.advocate.com/media/2022/10/11/12-queer-inspiring-protest-posters-days-rage-one-archives
* "How the Billboard Hot 100 Lost Interest in the Key Change:" https://tedium.co/2022/11/09/the-death-of-the-key-change/
* "The Fading Art of Preserving the Dead:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/science/embalming-funerals-death.html
* "Polari Prize winner on butch d*kes, facism and squatting:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/11/16/joelle-taylor-polari-prize-far-right/
* "“They can’t kill us all”: These scholars lost their countries and found each other:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/they-cant-kill-us-all-these-scholars-lost-their-countries-and-found-each-other/
* "Claim of new world record for longest beard chain in Wyoming:" https://apnews.com/article/oddities-wyoming-casper-0644b3c5337f0c8646e592d320a6e00e
* "Red, White & Greenland: Stephen Cold-Bear is Lost in Space Force:"
* "Red, White & Greenland: A Tour of Thule Air Base:"
* "The Warnock v. Walker Runoff Ends Here | No Handshakes For “Two-Faced” McConnell & McCarthy:"
* "So Much News, So Little Time - Hakeem Jeffries & Brain Chips :" https://www.cc.com/video/t8jwpg/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-so-much-news-so-little-time-hakeem-jeffries-brain-chips
* "Votedemic 2022 - Our Crumbling Election Infrastructure:" https://www.cc.com/video/0byzzo/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-our-crumbling-election-infrastructure
* "Dul-Sayin' - The History of Drag:" https://www.cc.com/video/ql7a20/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-dul-sayin-the-history-of-drag
* "Tampa Police Scandal, AI Chatbot Goes Viral & More :" https://www.cc.com/video/3rzin0/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tampa-police-scandal-ai-chatbot-goes-viral-more
* "A Compilation Of Herschel Walker Being Honest And Transparent:"
* It has been a complicated several days, made worse by my chronic stuff. I spent a couple of hours on rheumatologist paperwork on Saturday and did not finish. Sunday, all we really managed was food shopping. Monday... Monday was a mess for reasons that were no one's fault, small things making larger and larger disruptions in plans like an avalanche. It was grueling for me, horrifically exhausting and painful, made worse by it being a treatment day. There was no help for it. Things needed to be done so they were done. It involved things like, standing twenty minutes in a pharmacy due to multiple communication errors on a day when even a trip from my bed to the bathroom was a painful and dangerous adventure. Long hobbles through various stores. I trip up and down four flights of particularly dangerous concrete stairs. no close parking anywhere except the place with the stairs, so long dangerous hobbles across parking lots. I burned the whole amount of gas I expected to spend for the week in one night, and these treatments mean double the normal gas consumption for the duration. I am curious to see how I pay for all these medical travel costs.
It was absolutely no one's fault. It was borderline comical as Thompsons go, like some sort of comedy routine. Sometimes the only way out is through. This was one of those times.
I burned most of this week's spoons I suspect. This is a no-functional level of pain. I've treatment and errands again tomorrow. I am afraid to bump up pain relief any higher lest unpleasant hallucinations follow.
So this is why I didn't post the pre-election aggregate Tuesday morning. I came close, but I needed to lie down.
Fuck if I know what posting will look like this week, given the givens.
On the upside, I won more hours for Head Millennial, to our mutual benefit. I definitely need them.
* My family traditionally calls that thing where miscommunication leads to long complicated, exhausting and time consuming unasked for adventures a “Thompson.” EX: "Meet me at 8 at the KFC.” There are two KFCs on opposite side of town. Both people travel back and forth frantically searching for the other for hours never finding the other or only doing so after hours and hours are wasted. Or perhaps one person likes AM and one person thinks PM. AM person eventually gives up . PM person waits for hours. You get the idea. It also apples to things like drove for hours to get somewhere and have to turn back and do it all again because you forgot something essential. We had examples of both types Monday. Seriously, nobody’s fault. Sometimes you just have to throw up you hands and laugh.
* In my experience aging is the process of compressing large complex and ad venturous life into smaller and smaller spaces.
* "Eccentric art flourishes along outskirts of Buenos Aires:" https://apnews.com/article/travel-caribbean-immigration-buenos-aires-9d3ad33c50e9ec48841e092429d749a4
* "See Some of the Year's Best Nature Photos:" https://gizmodo.com/nature-conservancy-photo-contest-2022-1849774085
* "The Bear in Her Cave:" https://www.patreon.com/posts/bear-in-her-cave-56822508
* "Midnight Pals: Big Unnaturals:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/702468195756441600/midnight-pals-big-unnaturals
* John Gaius and Ethics in the Locked Tomb: https://yuck-pfaugh.tumblr.com/post/698103291132903424
* Badly Written sex Scenes (NWS): https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/702896605700980736
* Tiny hand knit stocking earrings made by a good friend: https://forestgirlclothing.com/collections/autumn-winter-collection/products/fairy-stocking-earrings?fbclid=IwAR0EjmUHcdv_cQOwQt4tRAouQRVtZfhSMdQDtoazj5mIKgK6cOiVCvUFU2A
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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
The help links are at the bottom under the cut.
* "How to Help Those Affected by the Club Q Tragedy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/22/how-help-those-affected-club-q-tragedy
* "Club Q victims face 'astronomical' hospital bills. Here's how you can help:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/23/colorado-springs-shooting-lgbtq-club-q-how-to-help-fundraiser/
* List of educational, diverse, and/or long term playable toys for things like Toys for Tots. High value toys for 20 dollars or less.: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/44WV8EVUP1Y
* On SCOTUS possibly repealing the act that prevents white people from stealing native babies, robbing them of their culture. contains how to help links at bottom: https://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/701035342837547008
* Tiny hand knit stocking earrings made by a good friend: https://forestgirlclothing.com/collections/autumn-winter-collection/products/fairy-stocking-earrings?fbclid=IwAR0EjmUHcdv_cQOwQt4tRAouQRVtZfhSMdQDtoazj5mIKgK6cOiVCvUFU2A
* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion
* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE
* "The Rainbow Railroad:" https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/take-action
* "These Organizations Accept Donations To Help People in Ukraine:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/01/where-to-donate-help-ukraine/
* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/
* "This is where you can donate to support LGBT+ Ukrainians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/donate-support-lgbt-ukraine/
* "Support OVD-Info:" https://beste-glatisant.tumblr.com/post/677388506851606528/hi-ive-donated-to-the-ukranian-refugees-and-now
* "War in Ukraine! Support LGBTQ people.:" https://secure.wayforpay.com/payment/s047412e502b6
* What to help fight for queer people in Africa? Try the Initiative Sankofa D’Afrique de l’Ouest www.ISDAO.org
* Want to support abortion in Poland?: https://tuulikki.tumblr.com/post/688438251039621120
* How to Support the Women's Reproduction Protection Act: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/684465183144476672/womens-health-protection-act
* Donate to Abortion funds: https://tuulikki.tumblr.com/post/685542978922692608/seacollectsrivers-theegoldfinch-theegoldfinch
* "Supporting Abortion Funds in the South:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/682207036936732672/supporting-abortion-funds-in-the-south
* Ways to help Trans Youth resisting Transphobic laws in Texas: https://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/677204004210688000
* "A List of UK Trans Charities:" https://katymontgomerie.medium.com/a-list-of-uk-trans-charities-2e26fb4032fd
* Organizations to help trans folk: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620857152453640195/about-us
* "How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely
* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620861026680881152/oberynmartell-list-of-black-lives-matter-and
* "The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund!:" https://secure.actblue.com/donate/midwestibf
* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely 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.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
* "DONATE TO EMILY'S LIST:" https://win.emilyslist.org/a/donate-to-emily
* Chicksaw bead artist and cool person has Kiamichi Beading suitable for non-native sale: https://www.instagram.com/kiamichi_beading/
* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story
SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee