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gwydion* "9 of Mike Pence’s most controversial stances regarding gay rights, abortion and smoking:" https://mic.com/articles/159373/8-of-mike-pence-s-most-controversial-stances-regarding-gay-rights-abortion-and-smoking#.EdvcNuN2O
* "Now Is the Time to Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About:" http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/now-is-the-time-to-talk-about-what-we-are-actually-talking-about
* "How long before the white working class realizes Trump was just scamming them?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/11/23/how-long-before-the-white-working-class-realizes-trump-was-just-scamming-them/?utm_term=.b2b17623600c
* "History classes are our best hope for teaching Americans to question fake news and Donald Trump:" http://qz.com/849945/history-classes-are-our-best-hope-for-teaching-americans-to-question-fake-news-and-donald-trump/
* "Toni Morrison: Fear Of Losing White Privilege Led To Trump's Election:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/toni-morrison-fear-of-losing-white-privilege-led-to-trumps-election_us_58330ee2e4b058ce7aac0964
* "Geography of Poverty:" http://www.msnbc.com/interactives/geography-of-poverty/index.html
* "Ohio's 'heartbeat' abortion bill awaits Gov. Kasich's signature:" http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/07/politics/ohio-abortion-bill/
* "A State-by-State List of the Lies Abortion Doctors Are Forced to Tell Women:" https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/a-state-by-state-list-of-the-lies-abortion-doctors-are-forced-to-tell-women?utm_source=broadlytwitterus
* Squirrel broke the second of the chairs he borrowed from me as a temporary fix to the his computer chair broke problem, so I drove him to Value Village to find a cheap replacement for seven bucks instead of him continuing to destroy my guest chairs. Still no baby slings, but I found an arm sling for two dollars. It is less secure, but an improvement. Tavy's a cat sized cat and too heavy to hold against my chest for an hour long cat nap. He is right now in it as I type. The arm sling has the advantage of a big tail hole, but I think I'll keep looking, as I'd like the security of a baby sling for when he wants naps. He sat in it for about fifteen minutes while I scritched him earlier. I think he'd prefer my arm to the sling, but it does mean I can scritch him with what had been the support arm and I'm not quickly exhausted and in pain, and I can mouse when he's in full lounge mode, even though typing only works when he's in alert shoulder mode. My theory is his balance disorder makes it hard for him to feel secure and being held like that grounds him the way leaning against a wall or a friend does for a very drunk person, and he gets pettins and cuddles and a nice view from high up, which he likes. So the sling looks to be worth the two dollars, and is a good stop gap for training him to get used to being held in a sling.
* "Our House is on Fire:" http://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/153609030170/nickjbarlow-ithotyouknew2-hapaxlegomina
* So there's this whole set of films where there's an angry ghost murdering little kids in a rural town. (Ex: Lady in Black, Darkness falls). I get why the Lady in black folks don't leave: it's economic. Except for the Nobleman, who's a skeptic, they can't afford to leave their homes and businesses. No one is going to buy a pub or a haulage business in a literally dying village. Starting over from the bottom with no job or assets is hard. How much harder for middle aged and older folk? And the curse is fairly recent, so they are still trying to find precautions against it. It's a whole other thing with like, a hundred year old haunting/curse that is verifiable and deadly. Once it's clear that children are going to keep dying in numbers, any one who can afford to leave would. Those who couldn't would do the best they could to protect their children, but logically, when the surviving young people grew up they'd MOVE THE FUCK AWAY. That's what young people tend to do any way from small towns with limited prospects, and having grown up with so many dead class mates, they would be even more motivated to get the hell away the moment they were old enough to get a job, any job somewhere else if they couldn't afford college. You wouldn't want to start a family in a town where, say, one on four kids is murdered by a ghost in early puberty. Adults with families often have jobs, houses, businesses they can't afford to leave. Eighteen year olds though? So the generation after the curse starts will mostly go. Odds are there will stragglers who can't afford a bus ticket out, or who have sick parents or younger siblings they can't leave, or are ill in a way that makes leaving hard, but the odds are the numbers of people between eighteen and the increasingly higher age where people were too settled to go will stretch. The second post curse generation will likely be tiny, late in life babies for the aging population, and a handful of stragglers. The school district shrinks to the point they need to bus the handful left to the next town over. The dying off continues amoung that group, because children are not good at being careful and obedient one hundred percent of the time because, you know, kids. By the time the hand full of survivors are grown, it's a town of old people, being maintained by the remaining adult survivors of the first cursed generation. It's not sustainable. What are the odds of the handful of gen 2 kids staying to make a gen three? A hundred years later you have a creepy ass ghost town, not a thriving one that has adapted to the super high death rate of children. To be clear, first generation stories like Lady in black do make sense. So do ones where it's like 5 deaths every twenty years or more. That's enough time for skepticism and a belief that if it happens it'll be someone else again, and the numbers are large enough to be tragic, but not enough to ravage the town demographically. You look at something like Darkness Falls or Lesbian Vampire Killers though, and I just don't see how the town is still there. Darkness falls is clearly the above ghost town scenario in three generations. Lesbian Vampire Killers should be even faster as all of the women are cursed, so to reproduce you'd have to out breed every time, and who the fuck marries into a town where all the girl children turn? No way is a town cursed centuries ago like that still there. I had large, prosperous that weathered the Great Pestilence of 1348-50 just fine, that were completely gone, or in one case down to four inhabitants by the Victoria survey and that is without Vampires, ghosts, or curses slaughtering their children.
I think it's down to my corollary to Asimov's theory that you can only get away with one or two big suspensions of disbelief per story (It is the far future and space colonies are a thing. Vampires, zombies, etc. exist). My corollary is that it's easier to swallow one big thing that shifts the whole world than something small but part of your everyday experience of how people or biology or everyday life works. (Ex: Fear the walking dead: Big thing: The dead rise and attack and eat the living. Small things: 1. A serious narcotic addict who's been mainlining hospital grade morphine experiences no withdraw. 2. A big fucking boat like that doesn't ever need to refuel.) The big thing in movies like that is the ghost/curse/monster/whatever. The small thing is that people would still be living there a century or more later, because in real life they wouldn't.
* Me watching the Librarians when the chateau appears out of the Blizzard: There's a Light... Burning at the Frankenstein place. There's a Liiiiight....
Me when they are asking to use the phone: We'll just say where we are and get back to the car.
Me at the "Festivities:" Hey, does anybody know how to Madison?
* Being There stopped being funny the day George W. Bush was sworn in. It gets less funny by the second with Trump on the march to the White House.
*****
* Suicide Crisis numbers: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/153016816845/non-us-crisis-line-list
* Victim of a Hate Crime? Report to the police first, but also report here to help the SPLC track incidents: https://www.splcenter.org/reporthate
* Trans Relief Project: http://transrelief.com/
* "Donate to the SPLC:" https://donate.splcenter.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=463
* "A List of Pro-Women, Pro-Immigrant, Pro-Earth, Anti-Bigotry Organizations That Need Your Support:" http://jezebel.com/a-list-of-pro-women-pro-immigrant-pro-earth-anti-big-1788752078?rev=1478710019591&utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
* General Charities list to help groups being targeted in Trump's America: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/153111297079/charities-that-may-need-some-love-in-the-upcoming
* Where to donate to help Immigrants: http://colinfirth.tumblr.com/post/152963467726/carecen-la-center-for-community-change
* Ways to protest: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/174f0WBSVNSdcQ5_S6rWPGB3pNCsruyyM_ZRQ6QUhGmo/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true#
* More ways to protest "So here’s the deal:" http://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/153516131819/so-heres-the-deal
* "10 ways we can help Standing Rock Indian Reservation.:" http://browngurlwfro.tumblr.com/post/153755459138/dooder-tooder-this-is-a-photo-my-friend-posted
* "List of Standing Rock Resources:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/152671392633/list-of-standing-rock-resources
* "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
* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* "Now Is the Time to Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About:" http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/now-is-the-time-to-talk-about-what-we-are-actually-talking-about
* "How long before the white working class realizes Trump was just scamming them?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/11/23/how-long-before-the-white-working-class-realizes-trump-was-just-scamming-them/?utm_term=.b2b17623600c
* "History classes are our best hope for teaching Americans to question fake news and Donald Trump:" http://qz.com/849945/history-classes-are-our-best-hope-for-teaching-americans-to-question-fake-news-and-donald-trump/
* "Toni Morrison: Fear Of Losing White Privilege Led To Trump's Election:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/toni-morrison-fear-of-losing-white-privilege-led-to-trumps-election_us_58330ee2e4b058ce7aac0964
* "Geography of Poverty:" http://www.msnbc.com/interactives/geography-of-poverty/index.html
* "Ohio's 'heartbeat' abortion bill awaits Gov. Kasich's signature:" http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/07/politics/ohio-abortion-bill/
* "A State-by-State List of the Lies Abortion Doctors Are Forced to Tell Women:" https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/a-state-by-state-list-of-the-lies-abortion-doctors-are-forced-to-tell-women?utm_source=broadlytwitterus
* Squirrel broke the second of the chairs he borrowed from me as a temporary fix to the his computer chair broke problem, so I drove him to Value Village to find a cheap replacement for seven bucks instead of him continuing to destroy my guest chairs. Still no baby slings, but I found an arm sling for two dollars. It is less secure, but an improvement. Tavy's a cat sized cat and too heavy to hold against my chest for an hour long cat nap. He is right now in it as I type. The arm sling has the advantage of a big tail hole, but I think I'll keep looking, as I'd like the security of a baby sling for when he wants naps. He sat in it for about fifteen minutes while I scritched him earlier. I think he'd prefer my arm to the sling, but it does mean I can scritch him with what had been the support arm and I'm not quickly exhausted and in pain, and I can mouse when he's in full lounge mode, even though typing only works when he's in alert shoulder mode. My theory is his balance disorder makes it hard for him to feel secure and being held like that grounds him the way leaning against a wall or a friend does for a very drunk person, and he gets pettins and cuddles and a nice view from high up, which he likes. So the sling looks to be worth the two dollars, and is a good stop gap for training him to get used to being held in a sling.
* "Our House is on Fire:" http://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/153609030170/nickjbarlow-ithotyouknew2-hapaxlegomina
* So there's this whole set of films where there's an angry ghost murdering little kids in a rural town. (Ex: Lady in Black, Darkness falls). I get why the Lady in black folks don't leave: it's economic. Except for the Nobleman, who's a skeptic, they can't afford to leave their homes and businesses. No one is going to buy a pub or a haulage business in a literally dying village. Starting over from the bottom with no job or assets is hard. How much harder for middle aged and older folk? And the curse is fairly recent, so they are still trying to find precautions against it. It's a whole other thing with like, a hundred year old haunting/curse that is verifiable and deadly. Once it's clear that children are going to keep dying in numbers, any one who can afford to leave would. Those who couldn't would do the best they could to protect their children, but logically, when the surviving young people grew up they'd MOVE THE FUCK AWAY. That's what young people tend to do any way from small towns with limited prospects, and having grown up with so many dead class mates, they would be even more motivated to get the hell away the moment they were old enough to get a job, any job somewhere else if they couldn't afford college. You wouldn't want to start a family in a town where, say, one on four kids is murdered by a ghost in early puberty. Adults with families often have jobs, houses, businesses they can't afford to leave. Eighteen year olds though? So the generation after the curse starts will mostly go. Odds are there will stragglers who can't afford a bus ticket out, or who have sick parents or younger siblings they can't leave, or are ill in a way that makes leaving hard, but the odds are the numbers of people between eighteen and the increasingly higher age where people were too settled to go will stretch. The second post curse generation will likely be tiny, late in life babies for the aging population, and a handful of stragglers. The school district shrinks to the point they need to bus the handful left to the next town over. The dying off continues amoung that group, because children are not good at being careful and obedient one hundred percent of the time because, you know, kids. By the time the hand full of survivors are grown, it's a town of old people, being maintained by the remaining adult survivors of the first cursed generation. It's not sustainable. What are the odds of the handful of gen 2 kids staying to make a gen three? A hundred years later you have a creepy ass ghost town, not a thriving one that has adapted to the super high death rate of children. To be clear, first generation stories like Lady in black do make sense. So do ones where it's like 5 deaths every twenty years or more. That's enough time for skepticism and a belief that if it happens it'll be someone else again, and the numbers are large enough to be tragic, but not enough to ravage the town demographically. You look at something like Darkness Falls or Lesbian Vampire Killers though, and I just don't see how the town is still there. Darkness falls is clearly the above ghost town scenario in three generations. Lesbian Vampire Killers should be even faster as all of the women are cursed, so to reproduce you'd have to out breed every time, and who the fuck marries into a town where all the girl children turn? No way is a town cursed centuries ago like that still there. I had large, prosperous that weathered the Great Pestilence of 1348-50 just fine, that were completely gone, or in one case down to four inhabitants by the Victoria survey and that is without Vampires, ghosts, or curses slaughtering their children.
I think it's down to my corollary to Asimov's theory that you can only get away with one or two big suspensions of disbelief per story (It is the far future and space colonies are a thing. Vampires, zombies, etc. exist). My corollary is that it's easier to swallow one big thing that shifts the whole world than something small but part of your everyday experience of how people or biology or everyday life works. (Ex: Fear the walking dead: Big thing: The dead rise and attack and eat the living. Small things: 1. A serious narcotic addict who's been mainlining hospital grade morphine experiences no withdraw. 2. A big fucking boat like that doesn't ever need to refuel.) The big thing in movies like that is the ghost/curse/monster/whatever. The small thing is that people would still be living there a century or more later, because in real life they wouldn't.
* Me watching the Librarians when the chateau appears out of the Blizzard: There's a Light... Burning at the Frankenstein place. There's a Liiiiight....
Me when they are asking to use the phone: We'll just say where we are and get back to the car.
Me at the "Festivities:" Hey, does anybody know how to Madison?
* Being There stopped being funny the day George W. Bush was sworn in. It gets less funny by the second with Trump on the march to the White House.
*****
* Suicide Crisis numbers: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/153016816845/non-us-crisis-line-list
* Victim of a Hate Crime? Report to the police first, but also report here to help the SPLC track incidents: https://www.splcenter.org/reporthate
* Trans Relief Project: http://transrelief.com/
* "Donate to the SPLC:" https://donate.splcenter.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=463
* "A List of Pro-Women, Pro-Immigrant, Pro-Earth, Anti-Bigotry Organizations That Need Your Support:" http://jezebel.com/a-list-of-pro-women-pro-immigrant-pro-earth-anti-big-1788752078?rev=1478710019591&utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
* General Charities list to help groups being targeted in Trump's America: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/153111297079/charities-that-may-need-some-love-in-the-upcoming
* Where to donate to help Immigrants: http://colinfirth.tumblr.com/post/152963467726/carecen-la-center-for-community-change
* Ways to protest: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/174f0WBSVNSdcQ5_S6rWPGB3pNCsruyyM_ZRQ6QUhGmo/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true#
* More ways to protest "So here’s the deal:" http://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/153516131819/so-heres-the-deal
* "10 ways we can help Standing Rock Indian Reservation.:" http://browngurlwfro.tumblr.com/post/153755459138/dooder-tooder-this-is-a-photo-my-friend-posted
* "List of Standing Rock Resources:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/152671392633/list-of-standing-rock-resources
* "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
* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com