![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
- archaeology,
- death threats,
- disease,
- election,
- food,
- genetics,
- media,
- movies,
- tv,
- voting
(no subject)
* "Pence makes ill-considered Reagan reference:"
* This has a good list of why Trump is monstrous: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/151925092412/x-cetra-thewitchway
* "I don’t JUST want Donald Trump to lose.:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/151919510762/i-dont-just-want-donald-trump-to-lose
* "Newspaper speaks out on threats after Clinton endorsement:"
* Adult Trump supporters in Arizona are so cowardly that they are spitting on and making death threats against children because that's how much they hate free speech. They are also phoning up women to threaten to kill them, but anonymously, because being Trump supporters they aren't brave enough to follow their leader in doing despicable things to women in person. I bet their mammas are proud of them. Really, this is a perfect symbol of what Donald Trump stands for, big talk, contempt to free speech, extreme cowardliness, and bullying. I'm surprised they didn't find a way to make it racist too. I suppose they were too lazy to dust off their hoods.
* "Reconstructing the sixth century plague from a victim:" http://phys.org/news/2016-08-reconstructing-sixth-century-plague-victim.html
* "Trauma As A Cheap Plot Device And Why It Sucks:" http://www.fandomfollowing.com/trauma-cheap-plot-device-sucks/
* "Sunday Sweets Would Like A Word:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2016/10/16/sunday-sweets-would-like-a-word.html
* ToS Rewatch:
- The Galileo Seven. The are risking the lives of people dying of a plague to investigate a quasar. If people are dying right now, isn't even a small delay someone's life? They keep treating the High Commissioner who's worried about the plague as if he is the asshole here, but he's not wrong. How come Mr. Spock, the head SCIENCE Officer on a SPACE SHIP not know likely effects of a Quasar on a star ship's shuttle craft? Wouldn't the second shuttle craft have the same danger as the first one? What happened to the prime directive? We are sixteen episodes in and I have lost count of the number of hysterical male crewmen in high stress situation. What is going on at Starfleet Academy that the moment crew are in a stressful situation they go hysterical and borderline mutinous. It seems an endemic problem as it happened in TNG as well that time Data had command during the Romulan border incident in the Klingon Civil war. They also seem to be fine with bullying, as seen in the previous episode. "Seal the windows!" Are they saying the shuttle craft has windows you can open? Is that safe?
- The Squire of Gothos. I think I absorbed Spock's response to ill informed insults as a child and it has served me well. While I love the aesthetics of this one, y'all know how I feel about Godlike aliens, even if this one is faking rather. As a child I thought the Squire was Liberace.
*****
* Hurricane Matthew has been catastrophic for the people of Haiti. 800 or more are dead and 60,000 or more displaced. Want to help?
Haitian local charities: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154561836757433&set=a.84340697432.97916.713622432&type=3&theater
Doctors Without Borders: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/country-region/haiti
Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/donate/disaster-relief?donationProdId=prod12750029&scode=RSG00000E017&gclid=COnZ5tmJys8CFRBEfgodzWoPXQ
* "How to help Flint, Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-help-flint-michigan
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* Donate to help refugees "UN Refugee Agency:" http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general
* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help
* A list of LGBTQA Charities: http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* This has a good list of why Trump is monstrous: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/151925092412/x-cetra-thewitchway
* "I don’t JUST want Donald Trump to lose.:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/151919510762/i-dont-just-want-donald-trump-to-lose
* "Newspaper speaks out on threats after Clinton endorsement:"
* Adult Trump supporters in Arizona are so cowardly that they are spitting on and making death threats against children because that's how much they hate free speech. They are also phoning up women to threaten to kill them, but anonymously, because being Trump supporters they aren't brave enough to follow their leader in doing despicable things to women in person. I bet their mammas are proud of them. Really, this is a perfect symbol of what Donald Trump stands for, big talk, contempt to free speech, extreme cowardliness, and bullying. I'm surprised they didn't find a way to make it racist too. I suppose they were too lazy to dust off their hoods.
* "Reconstructing the sixth century plague from a victim:" http://phys.org/news/2016-08-reconstructing-sixth-century-plague-victim.html
* "Trauma As A Cheap Plot Device And Why It Sucks:" http://www.fandomfollowing.com/trauma-cheap-plot-device-sucks/
* "Sunday Sweets Would Like A Word:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2016/10/16/sunday-sweets-would-like-a-word.html
* ToS Rewatch:
- The Galileo Seven. The are risking the lives of people dying of a plague to investigate a quasar. If people are dying right now, isn't even a small delay someone's life? They keep treating the High Commissioner who's worried about the plague as if he is the asshole here, but he's not wrong. How come Mr. Spock, the head SCIENCE Officer on a SPACE SHIP not know likely effects of a Quasar on a star ship's shuttle craft? Wouldn't the second shuttle craft have the same danger as the first one? What happened to the prime directive? We are sixteen episodes in and I have lost count of the number of hysterical male crewmen in high stress situation. What is going on at Starfleet Academy that the moment crew are in a stressful situation they go hysterical and borderline mutinous. It seems an endemic problem as it happened in TNG as well that time Data had command during the Romulan border incident in the Klingon Civil war. They also seem to be fine with bullying, as seen in the previous episode. "Seal the windows!" Are they saying the shuttle craft has windows you can open? Is that safe?
- The Squire of Gothos. I think I absorbed Spock's response to ill informed insults as a child and it has served me well. While I love the aesthetics of this one, y'all know how I feel about Godlike aliens, even if this one is faking rather. As a child I thought the Squire was Liberace.
*****
* Hurricane Matthew has been catastrophic for the people of Haiti. 800 or more are dead and 60,000 or more displaced. Want to help?
Haitian local charities: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154561836757433&set=a.84340697432.97916.713622432&type=3&theater
Doctors Without Borders: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/country-region/haiti
Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/donate/disaster-relief?donationProdId=prod12750029&scode=RSG00000E017&gclid=COnZ5tmJys8CFRBEfgodzWoPXQ
* "How to help Flint, Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-help-flint-michigan
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* Donate to help refugees "UN Refugee Agency:" http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general
* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help
* A list of LGBTQA Charities: http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com