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* "Residents critical of missile and nuclear development program:" http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?num=14656&cataId=nk01500

* "Regime attempts to raise birthrate ignore new social reality:" http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?num=14655&cataId=nk01500

* "Browder: My lawyer Magnitsky was murdered by Putin:"

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* "North Korea, Venezuela, and Trump’s war of words:"

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* "Trump wants to defund PBS. ‘Sesame Street’ brutally parodied him for decades.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/03/20/trump-wants-to-defund-pbs-sesame-street-brutally-parodied-him-for-decades/?utm_term=.b818e7d8c64f

* "Who is White House aide Sebastian Gorka?:"

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* "DOJ’s response to Charlottesville: Is it enough?:"

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* Just a reminder that Republicans in five states are trying to pass laws to make deadly terrorist acts like the one in Charlottesville Saturday legal.

* "Richard Painter: ‘This is the face of Fascism in the U.S.’:"

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* A list of links to Charlottesville charities if you want to give the NAZIs a financial fuck you: https://twitter.com/SaraJBenincasa/status/896260623905861633

* As a member of one of the other two minorities deemed not human enough to receive guaranteed emergency medical care in this country when we are dying, this is terrifying. "One way to end the opioid epidemic. Let them die:" http://www.newsweek.com/one-way-end-opioid-epidemic-let-them-die-639272

* "Eric Bolling sues reporter Yashar Ali for defamation:"

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* "The Power Of Inclusive Sex Education:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-power-of-inclusive-sex-education_us_59821b59e4b0b35d274c5f64?section=us_queer-voices

* "Origin of human genus may have occurred by chance:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170804100410.htm

* "On the early human's menu: Mammoth and plenty of raw vegetables:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170804082912.htm

* "46 Prehistoric Sites with Paleolakes Discovered in 'Green Arabia':" https://www.livescience.com/59998-46-prehistoric-sites-saudi-arabia.html

* "Fit for a King: Tut's Camping Bed Was an Ancient Marvel:" https://www.livescience.com/59999-king-tut-camping-bed-ancient-marvel.html

* "Contents of 2,500-year-old sarcophagus discovered in Turkey's Balıkesir revealed:" https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/07/31/contents-of-2500-year-old-sarcophagus-discovered-in-turkeys-balikesir-revealed

* "Can we hope to understand how the Greeks saw their world?:" https://aeon.co/essays/can-we-hope-to-understand-how-the-greeks-saw-their-world

* The title is silly, but it's a nice little summary of what we know and don't know about the Colossus of Rhodes. "How The Colossus of Rhodes Inspired ‘Game of Thrones’:" http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-colossus-of-rhodes-inspired-game-of-thrones

* "A Kerfuffle About Diversity in the Roman Empire:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/dna-romans/535701/

* "Alt-right commentator gets 'schooled' by historian over diversity in Roman Britain:" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/27/alt-right-commentator-gets-schooled-historian-diversity-roman/

* "This Ancient Mosaic Depicts a Thrilling Chariot Race:" http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/ancient-mosaic-cyprus-roman-chariot-race-archaeology-spd/

* "Archaeologists unearth 'little Pompeii' in southeast France:" http://www.france24.com/en/20170802-archaeologists-unearth-little-pompeii-southeast-france

* "Traces of ancient earthquake in Assos:" http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/traces-of-ancient-earthquake-in-assos-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=116328&NewsCatID=375

* "Great Ryburgh dig finds 81 'rare' Anglo-Saxon coffins:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-37940012

* "Kenya: Team Excavates Remains of People of Chinese Descent:" http://allafrica.com/stories/201707310840.html

* "Rich SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street:" http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Rich-SF-residents-get-a-shock-Someone-bought-11738236.php

* "You Need to See These Hooded Grebes Perform Their Bonkers Mating Display:" http://www.audubon.org/news/you-need-see-these-hooded-grebes-perform-their-bonkers-mating-display

* Want to help replace dangerously bald front tires and dead wipers? Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* It finally rained last night. Today I woke up to normal skies and a reasonable air temperature.

* Me watching Pompeii: That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works. the people who made it are at least as confused and flat out wrong as the ones that made Braveheart. It was too much of a mess historically to ignore the problems and take as cheese.

* I am finding The Great Wall visually gorgeous, but incredibly frustrating as whoever picked the subtitle font decided to make the lettering so tiny that I literally cant read it without pressing my face up against the screen. I can make out the capital letters and the 't's', so can generally guess single words like "wait" or attack", but I have to guess all the sentences from context. Why would they do this? Most people are not going to be watching this on a massive, super expensive wall sized widescreen TV. There was no descriptive video option and no option to go fullscreen so no way to recover the Chinese dialog. (I prefer widescreen as a rule, but I also prefer having visible subtitles). I know they know how to do visible captioning, as the English for hearing impaired is in huge, easily visible letters, mostly printed on the black background under the picture. why couldn't they do that with the translated dialog as well? Accessibility is a thing, people. It's 2017.

* Leto vs. Clowns: https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/164136602812/whats-your-favorite-obscure-greek-myth-fact-i

* "Killjoys, Season 3 Episode 7: The Wolf You Feed:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/08/killjoys-season-3-episode-7-wolf-you.html

* "The Paintings used in ‘Black Sails’ (Part 16):" http://sagestreet.tumblr.com/post/164032511222/the-paintings-used-in-black-sails-part-16

* "Sunday Sweets: Art Deco:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2017/8/13/sunday-sweets-art-deco.html

* TNG Rewatch, Season 6:

- Ship in a Bottle. Moriarty is back and grumpy about them dropping that plot thread for four years. I still have lots of questions about how people can be in multiple locations inside the same holodeck. I do like the using the simulation to steal command codes trick. I've seen it done clumsily in lots of shows since, but it is lovely in it's simplicity here. I do like the ethically quandaries around Moriarity and the Countess' personhood and what to do with them. I also think this is the first time they have had Barkley appear in which it hasn't been about his psychiatric issues. He's just there doing his job, which is kind of nice.

- Aquiel. A Mystery, an unreliable narrator, Klingon social friction, and Geordi's creepy thing where he builds an imaginary relationship with a woman he's never met and acts accordingly, brain sex, and the Star Trek version of The Thing.

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

* This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/

* Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/

* How to help the protesters and ordinary people in Venezuela: https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/163738805241/softestjohn-fiftyeightminutes-softestjohn

* A list of links to Charlottesville charities if you want to give the NAZIs a financial fuck you: https://twitter.com/SaraJBenincasa/status/896260623905861633

* List of places to donate to help trans service members and fight the planned attack on active duty trans soldiers: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/163475550346/moonbian-hey-i-know-reblogging-posts-about-how

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* "Dash Cam Reviews: Police Attempted To Run Over Black Man Before Shooting Him:" https://blackmattersus.com/17174-dash-cam-reviews-police-attempted-to-run-over-black-man-before-shooting-him/

* "Historic Black School Building In Virginia Vandalized With Racist Signs:" https://blackmattersus.com/17166-historic-black-school-building-in-virginia-vandalized-with-racist-signs/

* "Protests Erupt Over Gruesome Murder Of Black Teen By L.A. Police:" https://blackmattersus.com/17161-gruesome-murder-of-black-teen-by-l-a-police/

* "USA - GAYCATION:" https://www.viceland.com/en_us/video/lgbtq-in-the-usa/56eaf85935ece39b7f865ea0

* "Is this the very first readymade?:" http://theartnewspaper.com/news/is-this-the-very-first-readymade/

* "Ice Age Fire Pits in Alaska Reveal Earliest Evidence of Salmon Cooking:" http://westerndigs.org/ice-age-fire-pits-in-alaska-reveal-earliest-evidence-of-salmon-cooking/

* "How oral cultures memorize so much information:" http://phys.org/news/2016-09-oral-cultures-memorise.html

* Antibiotics achieved. I also managed to put away some of the things displaced by storage reorg phase one, but the pain is bad and I am exhausted, so if I am below average tonight I apologize.

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* "Sam and his Gal Attend Horn Faire:" http://www.fandomfollowing.com/horn-faire/

* TNG Rewatch, Season 5:

- Ensign Ro. Enter my beloved Bajorans, and oh, did we love Ensign Ro when this was new. If Starfleet respects the religious beliefs of everyone, why do they require Ensign Ro to take off her earing? It's very much like making a Muslim woman who wears the hijab take it off and is the opposite of religious toleration. The Guinan and Ro scenes are so right. This one goes surprisingly deep on being a survivor of terrible things even if it is only one scene. That's the thing that is impressing me this go round: that they do things like show Picard having PTSD and now touching on Ro's conflicted feelings about being a survivor.

- Disaster. Do they not have ultrasounds in the 23rd century? they are once again torturing childfree Picard with children. Everyone gets divided up into groups. People end up with jobs out of their comfort zones which is an interesting character study. I love Worf the medic. Deanna can feel people alive on planets when they are in orbit. She routinely violates the crew's privacy to tell Picard the mood of the crew. Why can't she feel the crew in this episode even enough to tell if any are alive? Why is the baby born clean?

- The Game. Didn't Riker's last girl friend just die a couple of episodes ago? Rijer says to Jordie, "I just brought this thing back from Riza you have got to try." I know what it's a trap, but it's also clearly a masturbation devise. I am not good with flashy lights and had to close my eyes.

- Unification I&II. Vulcan Alzheimer's breaks my heart. Data staring at Picard when he's trying to sleep. Data is not cut out for infiltration based intelligence work. *wince* Spock not getting to say goodbye in person. I love the little Spock and Data conversation.

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* "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

* "India woman’s arm ‘cut off by employer’ in Saudi Arabia:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34483504

* "The Indian maid who had her arm chopped off in Saudi Arabia:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34804892

* "As rate of women dying in childbirth falls globally, US sees rise:" http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/11/12/global-maternal-mortality-numbers-decline.html?utm_content=bylines&utm_campaign=ajam&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

* My father spent a lot of time in France. He had a lot of friends there. All through my growing up, we'd have random french people visiting. It wasn't just my father's friends, though I have a picture of me a few months old being fed by one of them, but friends of friends and their friends. Someone would come to America on vacation and we'd put them up. (They'd turf my sister and I out of our rooms for the guests). We'd take them around and show them the sights and feed them. Conversation could be a little complicated depending on how fluent various of us were and various of them were. (My Father was completely fluent and idiomatic. My mother spoke enough to hold basic conversations about things like food, scheduling, etc.). My Sister could curse, but not much else. how much French I spoke increased over time and I could converse by High School assuming the vocabulary didn't get too complicated or specialized, though these days I pretty much am down to sweet talking the cats, snippets of 30+ year old slang, and curse words again, since I never use it unless I'm watching a movie and the subtitles are bowdlerized). Despite being turfed out of my room, I loved having them. My father's friends were interesting people and many of them had fascinating lives. It was fun showing them our city. I remember one year a friend we were all particularly fond of came for Christmas with her young son and we showered them with gifts. They'd just escaped from Mexico with little more than the clothes on their backs from the boy's abusive father who had been holding her child and her passport hostage. We wanted her to feel loved and part of the family. I'll never forget her face, her surprise delight that it wasn't a token, that we'd really gone all out so that the two of them would know they were important and that they'd have a good memory to take back home. I remember Jean Pierre, who's English wasn't particular good, but who my Dad and I could talk to and his mischievous sense of humor. I have a picture of him and my father sitting in matching armchairs in our living room looking like brothers, the time he came to live with us for a few months after a bad break up. I remember my Father's friend who was ex-resistance and had been a world traveler, and so m any more. My father's friends were family we only saw once and a while, but they were people we loved. Most of them are dead now, and the few others gradually lost touch.

The year we all went to France, instead of just my father, was a year of bombings. the train we were on got hit in Lyon a few hours after we debarked. A few months after we came home, they bombed a store we had been to. The whole time we were there we could not miss the complicated and often ugly racial tensions, a legacy of the colonial past in north Africa and made worse by subsequent events. It is a hard thing to write about, requiring a delicacy and focus I do not have tonight. As far as I can tell, none of the places hit were where my Father's friends lived. Odds are, if any of his Parisian friends still live they weren't harmed. It doesn't make the events of yesterday any less distressing. Yes, I got sexually harassed at the Jeu d'Pomme and followed that one time in Clermont-Ferrand, but my memories of France are full of kind strangers. I remember the suburban bakery where they treated us like visiting celebrities, delighted to have real Americans in their shop. I remember the people who cut my hair and how kind they were even though they had no English and I had no appropriate vocabulary for the transaction except the word for hair and how much. I remember Domonique making a crepe casserole and taking us around to see things my father had no interest in, her perfect rp pronunciation and incredibly kind eyes. I remember Jean Pierre endlessly going everywhere Interdit as if it were a special invitation just for him, including a crumpling piss ledge in a castle where he could easily be killed, and the two of us climbing that rickety church belltower to my mother's horror, and him making faces to cheer up my little sister who was terribly bored at a formal dinner. I remember the elderly lesbians who cooked us an amazing 13 course dinner because they thought my father charming.

I just... I have no words I can write about this terrible thing that has happened in Paris. It is too real and too personal and too dreadful. So I carry on between bouts of crying, because that's what I do, what my family has always done.

So if you see me not saying much directly about the attacks, this is why.

* "Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?" http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/30/indonesia-fires-disaster-21st-century-world-media?CMP=share_btn_link

* "This Muslim Woman Is Responding to Her Hate Tweets in the Most Ingenious Way Possible:" http://mic.com/articles/128475/this-muslim-woman-is-responding-to-her-hate-tweets-in-the-most-ingenious-way-possible?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social#.0vdbTqS6C

* "Women legislators turn the tables and introduce bills regulating men's reproductive health:" http://m.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/12/1073566/-Women-legislators-turn-the-tables-and-introduce-bills-regulating-men-s-reproductive-health

* "Archaeologists studied the remains of Biskupin-type fortified settlement in Germany :" http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,404343,archaeologists-studied-the-remains-of-biskupin-type-fortified-settlement-in-germany.html

* "Stone-age Italians defleshed their dead:" http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2015/03/stone-age-italians-defleshed-their-dead

* "Together for 2000 years, ‘father and son’ in grave:" http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/together-for-2000-years-father-and-son-in-grave-1-3731848

* "Archaeologists say skeleton of woman is latest known early medieval burial found in Wales :" http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art521863-an-amazing-grave-archaeologists-find-skeleton-of-woman-who-is-latest-known-early-medieval-burial-in-wales

* The good fan died a few nights ago, and now I'm struggling to sleep in the heat. Even if the right kind of fan were on sale right now, which it's not, I couldn't afford to replace it anyway. I don't have money for fish food, for fuck's sake. It also really freaks me out that my air conditioner on full with a box fan as a force multiplier is not strong enough to chill my room to sleep temperature in November. It's not as scary as the satillite photographs of the Northwest Passage we melted, but it's up there on the list of scary climate change things.

* "American Horror Story, Season 5 (Hotel), Episode 6: Room 33 :" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/11/american-horror-story-season-5-hotel_13.html

* "I’m reading Emma Thompson’s diaries from the Sense and Sensibility filming for an essay and it’s very satisfying:" http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/133133431685/megcarr13-saintkitten-im-reading-emma

* "Rare footage of chicken budding...:" https://www.facebook.com/ceredwyn.ealanta/videos/954042814661608/?l=7366249147045489971

* RIP. Eagles of Death Metal "Solid Gold:"

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* 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

* "Parents Rage As GOP Rep Rants About Suicide Bombers To Little Kids :" http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/08/31/parents-rage-as-gop-rep-rants-about-suicide-bombers-to-little-kids-video/

* "Federal Judge Hands Down The Wackiest Anti-Birth Control Court Decision To Date:" http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/08/31/3697119/federal-judge-hands-down-the-wackiest-anti-birth-control-court-decision-to-date/

* "The curious grammar of police shootings:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/14/the-curious-grammar-of-police-shootings/

* I am hearing lots of police and people on the right generally insist that the shooting of a single police officer is proof that the Black Lives Matter is illegitimate and a hate group and ought to be dismantled immediately, but I do not seem those same, police, politicians and pundits calling for the police to be dismantled immediately on the grounds that they are illegitimate and a hate group despite them having murdered more than four hundred people so far this year including in many cases where there is ample evidence that people were unarmed and innocent of any crime. you can't have it both ways. If one police shooting is enough to require a large group of people to lose their first amendment rights to protest police murders, regardless of any guilt or condoning of that shooting, shouldn't the murder a single unarmed innocent person by the police demand the exact same action to occur to every police officer, murderer or not? here's a radical idea, instead of a sweeping loss of civil rights for innocent civilians, why not just start arresting ALL the known murders and aggressively prosecuting them instead of the current system of letting the ones in blue get a free pass and stop arbitrarily stealing the basic right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness from millions of people based on racial animus.

* "The Kim Davis Case Is About Disobeying The Rule Of Law, Not About Religious Liberty:" http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/canyonwlkr/the_davis_case_is_about_breaking_the_law_not_about_religious_liberty

* "Prehistoric stone age petroglyphs discovered deep inside the Arctic Circle:" http://www.sott.net/article/300778-Prehistoric-stone-age-petroglyphs-discovered-deep-inside-the-Arctic-Circle

* Response to a Jonquility email, mostly about Black Sails XII-XIII, with some little bits changed for clarity:

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* Black Sails Rewatch XIII:

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* Ebay, One More time:

Lindworm 2012 (LE, DragonCon, Event Exclusive): (Company says: Smoky green leather smeared with crushed grasses and wild herbs). 3/4 Full. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301718133830?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

* A list of LGBTQA Charities to donate money to instead of seeing the racist Stonewall Movie that decided to portray a black trans woman activist as a cis white man. 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

* "How funding changes in NSW locked women out of domestic violence:" http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/09/no-place-to-hide-how-women-are-being-locked-out-of-domestic-violence-refuges?CMP=soc_568

* Two police in Ferguson were shot during the usual police harassment of protesters. I'm sorry it happened, but I suspect it was inevitable.

* "There Will Never Be An OU Chapter Of SAE, Either:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/03/there-will-never-be-ou-chapter-of-sae.html

* "Saks Settles Trans Discrimination Lawsuit With Leyth Jamal:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/03/saks-settles-trans-discrimination.html

* "Thoughts on the Friendzone:" http://wendycorduroy.tumblr.com/post/56412126932/thoughts-on-the-friendzone

* Knowing it was coming doesn't make the loss of Terry Pratchett any less sad. I will miss his voice so much.

* "Trail of Tools Reveals Modern Humans' Path Out of Africa:" http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/150224-africa-stone-tools-modern-humans-arabia-emiran-nubian-origins/

* So it turns out the baby puke yellow is not the real colour, BTW. They are painting it over in a particularly ugly shade of olive green that actually manages to be uglier. It's really bad right now as with building B (First one getting done), the Third floor is all puke, the second is koolaid poop olive, and the bottom is this fake rock stuff that is like the original set I was not much fond of in mostly yellow and orange. My colour blind 8th grade science teacher would have dressed like this building.

* I need tech help. How do I turn on Windows Audio and the Windows Audio End Point Builder services on my pavilion lap top?

I’m guessing the girl cat turned one or both off with her ass, but the troubleshoot function does not tell me how to turn them back on.

* Our Financial Situation continues Scary: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com

* "International Women's Day Includes Trans Women, Too!:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/03/international-womens-day-includes-trans.html

* "Lots of Cases of Synesthesia Are Based on Alphabet Magnets:" http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2015/03/04/synesthesia-based-alphabet-magnets/#.VP1DaOF8vb4

* "Neanderthal people in Upper Nitra hunted horses and rhinos, probably roasting them:" http://spectator.sme.sk/c/20055035/neanderthal-people-in-upper-nitra-hunted-horses-and-rhinos-probably-roasting-them.html

* "Neanderthal groups based part of the their lifestyle on the sexual division of labor:" http://phys.org/news/2015-02-neanderthal-groups-based-lifestyle-sexual.html

* "Barley and wheat residues in Neolithic cemeteries of Central Sudan and Nubia:" http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2015/barley-and-wheat-residues-in-neolithic-cemeteries-of-central-sudan-and-nubia

* "Christopher Ryan: What Did Cavemen Think About Lust?:" http://www.npr.org/2015/02/06/378567856/what-did-cavemen-think-about-lust

* "Bed, Bread and Dead: The Dummies' Guide to Herodotus:" http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2015/02/bed-bread-and-dead-the-dummies-guide-to-herodotus.html

* Hannibal is no go for me. Oh, I love the characters and the aesthetic, but Season two pretty much hits all my triggers. I pushed through to some point in episode 4, but it clearly wasn't going to let up any time soon. The thing with me and triggers is the ones that are left are complicated. I short hand it to gas lighting, which is a prominent part, but there is a whole cluster of connected things. The more of those things present, the harder it is for me to deal. I can guess which things are in the ballpark generally, but some things don't trigger that on paper should and there is always guess work involved. Shudder Island was fine; Changeling was impossible, for example. Season two Hannibal is like a bingo card for my triggers. I know a bunch of you really wanted me to watch it, but I'm done.

* The Walking Dead: I stand by my belief that Carol is the scariest, most dangerous group member. I like them addressing PTSD. This is exactly the right time for it. I am hoping this means they will finally flesh Sasha out. Daryl is the horse. Domesticate him and he dies. I am glad Michonne has the sword in reach and not in the armory. Even excluding the inevitable Walker break through or human attack, they have old people in Alexandria. What if someone has a heart attack and dies in the night, etc.. I've always been of the lock yourself in with a weapon at night school of thought. Disarming means they are fucked if someone has an aneurism or chokes to death eating dinner.

* "Thomas Hamilton changed James Flint's life. Twice.:" http://farashasilver.tumblr.com/post/111874290953/thomas-hamilton-changed-james-flints-life-twice

* Our Financial Situation continues Scary: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com

* There is fighting on the Lebanon/Israeli border after someone fired an anti-tank shell blowing up an Israeli vehicle.

* I am aware of the Jordon/ISIL prisoner exchange negotiation, but I am not up to writing anything subtle and cogent enough about it.

* Fighting in Tripoli has caused the recognized government of Libya to flee Tripoli, with a coalition of militias taking over.

* How bad is John Boehner at his job? John Boehner had enough votes lined up to pass a bill preventing President Obama from negotiating with Iran about stopping their nuclear program in exchange for lifting some of the particularly inhumane sanctions preventing civilians from getting medical treatments and the like. That is, until he invited Benjamin Netanyahu to come to the States to personally lobby congress folk for his bill. Inviting a foreign head of state over here as a lobbyist to undermine US foreign policy rubbed some people the wrong way and he lost key Democratic votes as a result.

* "Will Life Get Better for the Poor? :"

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* "No snow days for low-wage workers:" http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/1/26/no-snow-days-for-low-wage-workers.html

* Denver Police Murder an Unarmed Girl and handcuff her corpse rather than provide Medical Aid: http://big-wired.tumblr.com/post/109335056298/socialjusticekoolaid-1-27-15-the-police-have

* "Alexander: I went to prison for firing a warning shot:" http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/01/28/ac-cooper-dnt-marissa-alexander-stand-your-ground.cnn

* "Alexander: I believed in my innocence:" http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/01/29/ac-cooper-intv-marissa-alexander-stand-your-ground.cnn

* "New evidence of ancient rock art across Southeast Asia:" http://phys.org/news/2014-11-evidence-ancient-art-southeast-asia.html

* "Limestone 'Venus' 23,000 years old dug up in France:" http://phys.org/news/2014-11-limestone-venus-years-dug-france.html

* "Stone Age Axe Found Deliberately Stuck Into Earth:" http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/stone-age-axe-found-deliberately-stuck-into-earth-141125.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

* "Ancient avian bones found in China may be oldest example of chicken domestication:" http://phys.org/news/2014-11-ancient-avian-bones-china-oldest.html

* "New discovery at ancient Chinese kiln ruins site:" http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-11/27/c_133818029.htm

I read that headline as if the discovery was ruining the site.

* "The call of the Sun:" http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/travel/the-sculpted-magnificence-of-the-sun-temple-of-modhera/article6643420.ece

* "Post-medieval Polish buried as potential 'vampires' were likely local:" http://phys.org/news/2014-11-post-medieval-potential-vampires-local.html

* "Six unexpected WW1 battlegrounds:" http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30098000

* "Unchecked Anti-Trans Hate Speech Kills:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/01/unchecked-anti-trans-hate-speech-kills.html

* "Another African-American Trans Woman Killed In Kentucky:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/01/another-african-american-trans-woman.html

* "Monica Jones' Walking While Black Trans Conviction In AZ Overturned!:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/01/monica-jones-walking-while-black-trans.html

* Help my friends adopt two cats: http://djinni.livejournal.com/516743.html

* Our Financial Situation continues Scary: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com

* MrBumblepants found. This is better in every possible way. "Listen: The Ebola song that isn’t ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’:" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/11/17/listen-the-ebola-song-that-isnt-do-they-know-its-christmas/

* MrBumblepants found. "Abortion protester harassed worker:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-30116191

* "Melon melange sorted out:" http://phys.org/news/2014-11-melon-melange.html

* "Archaeological site from Peking Man era unearthed in NE China:" http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-11/15/c_133792119.htm

* "Ancient DNA shows earliest European genomes weathered the ice age, and shines new light on Neanderthal interbreeding and a mystery human lineage:" http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ancient-dna-shows-earliest-european-genomes-weathered-the-ice-age-and-shines-new-light-on

* "22 Shocking Statistics That Change How You See the World:" http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1170_22-shocking-statistics-that-change-how-you-see-world/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fanpage&utm_campaign=new+article&wa_ibsrc=fanpage

* "Our culture dehumanises women by reducing them all to breeders and non-breeders:" http://www.newstatesman.com/glosswitch/2014/09/our-culture-dehumanises-women-reducing-them-all-breeders-and-non-breeders

* Standing up to misogyny. "Adrienne Truscott: the day I lost my job for Linda McCartney:" http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/nov/19/adrienne-truscott-the-day-i-lost-my-job-for-linda-mccartney

* "Transgender Pioneer Leslie Feinberg of Stone Butch Blues Has Died:" http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/books/2014/11/17/transgender-pioneer-leslie-feinberg-stone-butch-blues-has-died

* "Anti-Gay Pastor: Sodomite Semen Seasons Starbucks Selections:" http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/anti-gay-pastor-sodomite-semen-seasons

* "New York's Largest Jail To Open Housing Unit For Transgender Women:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/18/rikers-transgender-women_n_6181552.html

* Ebay: BPAL: FOOTWORN STEPS LEADING INTO A DANK, SUFFOCATING CRYPT 2013 ATMOSPHERESPRAY: http://www.ebay.ph/itm/301397632159?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

* The Financial Situation continues Scary: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws

* It's looking like on the mayor of Iguala's orders, the police loaded them on a bus and handed them over to the cartel member killers as was suspected, though not proved yet obviously.

* "Whoever you are young lady, thank you.:" https://twitter.com/Kahduna/status/530044383094403073/photo/1

* "Humans Would Beat Neanderthals in Marathon:" http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/neanderthals-and-humans-represent-strength-vs-speed.htm

* "Oldest DNA ever found sheds light on humans' global trek:" http://phys.org/news/2014-10-oldest-dna-humans-global-trek.html

* "Ancient Europeans intolerant to lactose for 5,000 years after they adopted agriculture:" http://phys.org/news/2014-10-ancient-europeans-intolerant-lactose-years.html

* "Hekate: A Goddess for Halloween:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laurie-lovekraft/hekate-a-goddess-for-hall_b_6072780.html

* "Astronomical Find: Ancient Greek Wine Cup May Show Constellations:" http://www.livescience.com/48464-ancient-greek-wine-cup-reveals-constellations.html

* "Roman fertility god unearthed in dig:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-29818395

* "Genomic data support early contact between Easter Island and Americas:" http://phys.org/news/2014-10-genomic-early-contact-easter-island.html

* "Medieval chess pieces found in dig:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-29833867

* Tenrecs are cool: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Tenrecidae

* "Federal Appeals Court Upholds Michigan Same-Sex Marriage Ban:" http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/federal-appeals-court-upholds-michigan-same-sex-marriage-ban

* "American Horror Story: Freak Show -- Halloween, Camp, and Queerness:" http://glbtromance.blogspot.com/2014/10/american-horror-story-freak-show.html

* Ebay Time!:

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* The Financial Situation continues Scary, and now the Car is Dying and needs to Go to the Mechanic: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws

* This does a good job of tying together bits and pieces I've been seeing about Abe, Japanese Nationalism, and Fukishima. "What Exactly is going on in Tokyo Right Now?" http://jotaros-hat.tumblr.com/post/98610897598/what-exactly-is-going-on-in-tokyo-right-now

* "What's happening in Hong Kong? :" http://faysbook.tumblr.com/post/98725252865/whats-happening-in-hong-kong

* "Hong Kong's 'off-grid' protesters:" http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-29411159

* "MHP: Videos only a tool on solving race and policing issue:"

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* "Colorado students protest proposed curriculum changes:"

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* A cop in Ferguson got shot by two men, but authorities there are saying it's likely nothing to do with the protests against police murdering an unarmed teen.

* "Evolution: Why don’t we have hairier faces?:" http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140926-are-hairy-faces-less-evolved

* "History quiz - Queens of England:" http://www.historyextra.com/node/49553/take

* "Dowager Duchess of Devonshire :" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11118801/Dowager-Duchess-of-Devonshire-obituary.html

* "A devil of a cure:" http://thequackdoctor.com/index.php/a-devil-of-a-cure/

* "White tears and aggressive Indians: Native activists on the Daily Show:" http://nativeappropriations.com/2014/09/white-tears-and-aggressive-indians-native-activists-on-the-daily-show.html

* "Debunking The Top 5 Myths About TBLG Rights Laws:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/09/debunking-top-5-myths-about-tblg-rights.html

* "Atherton HS Gender Identity Inclusive Nondiscrimination Policy Still Stands:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/09/atherton-hs-gender-identity-inclusive.html

* Attn: Greenwick. This looks like your sort of project: http://snakewife.tumblr.com/post/98661733652/diy-spell-and-potion-books

* "Sunday Sweets: It's Fall, Y'all!:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2014/9/28/sunday-sweets-its-fall-yall.html

* It is ebay time again: ( Cut for your pleasure: )

* Fundraiser to Help Us Pay Back Rent and Insurance: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws