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* "UK gun laws: How strict are they?:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-45249819/uk-gun-laws-how-strict-are-they

* "Venezuela hit by 7.3-magnitude earthquake:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/22/venezuela-earthquake-caracas-hit-caribbean

* "Venezuela 'paralysed' by new currency:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45262525

* "Venezuelans flee to Brazil despite attacks:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-45254368

* "No, Ontario's Minimum Wage Hike Didn't Kill Jobs. Here's The Proof.:" https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/08/13/minimum-wage-hike-ontario-job-growth_a_23501349/

* "Will a second referendum be just another Brexit fantasy?:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/15/second-brexit-referendum-fantasy-peoples-vote

* "Bomb that killed 40 children in Yemen was supplied by the US:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/17/middleeast/us-saudi-yemen-bus-strike-intl/index.html

* "Author of Trump-Russia dossier wins libel case in US court:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/21/author-of-trump-russia-dossier-wins-libel-case-in-us-court-christopher-steele

* "Microsoft shuts down Russian plot to hack U.S. political targets:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/21/russia-cyberattacks-microsoft-fancy-bear-790211

* "Trump threatens to revoke another former CIA official's security clearance over his 'mental condition':" https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-threatens-revoke-another-former-090942154.html

* "Cohen says he paid hush money at candidate Trump’s direction:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/21/michael-cohen-strikes-plea-deal-with-prosecutors-790646

* "Manafort found guilty on eight counts:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/21/paul-manafort-verdict-updates-790591

* "All the crimes Paul Manafort was just convicted of:" https://www.vox.com/2018/8/21/17692626/manafort-guilty-charges-verdict

* "Trump issues rollback of Obama's biggest climate rule:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/21/trump-issues-rollback-of-obamas-biggest-climate-rule-790226

* "Trump’s budget chief is trying to protect his home state from tariffs:" https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article217018380.html

* "Trump's Top Economic Adviser Invited White Nationalist Publisher To BDay Party:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-top-economic-adviser-invited-white-nationalist-publisher-to-bday-party

* "Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife indicted in use of campaign funds for personal expenses:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/21/politics/duncan-hunter-campaign-charges/index.html

* "More Voters Are Being Kicked Off the Rolls, Especially in States with a History of Discrimination:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/more-voters-are-being-kicked-off-the-rolls-especially-in-states-with-a-history-of-discrimination/

* "NY Lawmaker Wants To Make Calling Cops On Innocent Black People A Hate Crime:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/911-discrimination-law-jesse-hamilton-new-york_us_5b796dbfe4b0a5b1febc2632

* Classism and Appalachia: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/177059832140/clatterbane-the-emergency-medical-hologram

* "Viktor Orban moves to ban gender studies courses at university in 'dangerous precedent' for Hungary:" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/13/viktor-orban-moves-ban-gender-studies-courses-university-dangerous/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw

* "Weedkiller found in wide range of breakfast foods aimed at children:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/16/weedkiller-cereal-monsanto-roundup-childrens-food

* "Worse Than Lead?:" https://www.thenation.com/article/worse-than-lead/

* "The Decades-Long Quest to Find and Honor Edmonia Lewis’s Grave:" https://hyperallergic.com/434881/edmonia-lewis-grave/

* "Tragedy in Lady Knight:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/tragedy-in-lady-knight/

* "Killjoys, Season 4, Episode 5: Greening Pains:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2018/08/killjoys-season-4-episode-5-greening.html

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

* "Fires in Greece: how to help:" https://medium.com/@theo.k/fires-in-greece-how-to-help-41ad32fc9232

* Practical ways to protest with scripts. "On the Helsinki summit, election integrity and Mueller:" https://medium.com/@Celeste_pewter/on-the-helsinki-summit-election-integrity-and-mueller-b8ed1acde2c0

* Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is doing a fundraiser for legal defense of refugee children in ICE detention. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/deliver-them-from-the-hands-of-the-wicked/

* Want to contribute directly to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services fund? "Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services:" https://www.raicestexas.org/

* Support Kids at the Border: http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/175022384240/support-the-kids-at-the-border

This has a call script to help you talk your Republican Senator into voting for the Keep Families Together Act: http://rockinhamburger.tumblr.com/post/175022988673/captacorn-marvelsmostwanted-heres-a-call

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

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

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

* This is a cool person and the swimsuits are being made from an ethical source. LGBTQIA+ swimsuits: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NerdyKeppie?ref=l2-shopheader-name§ion_id=24021616

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

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

* "Iran-Iraq earthquake death toll climbs to more than 400:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/12/dozens-killed-by-earthquake-in-iraniraq-border-region

* They are basically going to have the KGB do all the security for our Moscow Embassy thanks to a no bid contract. *head desk* "US embassy hires security firm of former Russian spy who worked with Putin:" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/10/us-embassy-hires-security-firm-former-russian-spy-worked-putin/

* "Secret Finding: 60 Russian Payments "To Finance Election Campaign Of 2016”:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/secret-finding-60-russian-payments-to-finance-election?utm_term=.baplkBzjOj#.hq9O6npRZR

* "Sessions tries to distance himself from Trump advisers' Russia talks:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/14/sessions-no-clear-recollection-of-papadopoulos-proposing-trump-putin-meeting-244881

* "The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-secret-correspondence-between-donald-trump-jr-and-wikileaks/545738/

* "Pence denies knowing about Trump Jr. WikiLeaks contacts:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/13/pence-trump-wikileaks-russia-244863

* "Sessions says he knew of ex-Trump aide's Russia ties, despite testimony:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/14/jeff-sessions-special-counsel-hillary-clinton

* "Congress Will Hold a Hearing on a “Heartbeat” Abortion Ban:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/10/26/congress_is_holding_a_hearing_on_a_heartbeat_abortion_ban.html

If you can not protest in person here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/

* "Miscarriages in Flint: ‘I Really Believe It’s the Water’:" https://rewire.news/article/2017/11/03/miscarriages-flint-really-believe-water/

* "The Unsung Role That Ordinary Citizens Played in the Great Crime Decline:" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/upshot/the-unsung-role-that-ordinary-citizens-played-in-the-great-crime-decline.html?_r=0

* "Minnesota Republican State Legislator Unleashes Anti-Trans Tweet:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/11/minnesota-republican-state-legislator.html

* There are still some hurdles, but it's progress! "Australia Votes YES For Marriage Equality:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/11/australia-votes-yes-for-marriage.html

* "2017 Remembering Our Dead:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/11/2017-remembering-our-dead.html

* "Why octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/why-octopuses-are-building-small-cities-off-the-coast-of-australia/

* Look, I get why you'd want to do this for, say people with dementia or certain serious disorders or antibiotics, but I am deeply uncomfortable with it because the potential abuses are pretty fucking obvious and have have substantial privacy concerns. This is incredibly intrusive specially if it becomes mandatory for, say, insurance purposes. I do not want this in my body; I especially do not want anybody coercing me to put it in my body. "FDA approves 'trackable' pill:" http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41980836

* "Thriller - Michael Jackson (1930s Jazz Cover) ft. Wayne Brady:"

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* My lungs started to show signs of worsening over the weekend. Monday was a special kind of terrible as I only got three hours of sleep before the phone woke me and I couldn't fall back asleep, and so I lost the other three hours I might have had and went out to forage exhausted. The winds were high enough that the second I hit the highway from the on ramp i knew freeway travel was a mistake. My crutch wrack went walkabout in October and there is no chance of salvaging similar until spring. I got my lung med which I was nearly out of, the second most important, and v ery much a thing I need to function after last spring's damage. I hit the library, put the monthly pittance down on a certain bill to stay out of collections, and picked up my korn loafs. Things were not good physically, but manageable. We got the forage inside minutes before drizzle turned into pissing down sideways.

Today I was scheduled short sleeped again for Fix It at the library. Things are officially not manageable. I do not like to appear in public when it's this bad, plus I'd messed up my meds schedule Sunday and my body is til trying to recover. If I did not go, I'd have to wait for December. I forced myself out, much to Tavy's disapproval, braved twilight rush hour in high winds and... the PNW really needs 40 words for rain. This was the rain that is too steady for a drizzle, but no inconvenience and not apt to do dampen the surface of a cloth coat, but too chilly for a hoadie. People were driving the way they do in a high damp wind with dark closing fast, so always an adventure. I was exactly on time, parked and had actually lifted the cursed TV, when I realized I HAD NOT UNPLUGGED and BROUGHT THE DvD player. I had to wast gas on driving all the way back, now through dark, damp, angry, high wind rush hour, which is an experience i normally go lengths to avoid. The spare is entangled in what looks like permanent possibly carnal embrace with a VCR and the cable box, so I took the bedroom one, which I hate to do as it is fragile and if something unseats I have to completely disassemble and reassemble it, but it had the virtue of already having a DvD in it and it's easy to separate from the TV. I needn't have gone back for it, as the nice man who I wish would let me give him a manicure who designed one of the chips in the TV had bought and experimented with a $1 VCR entirely for my benefit yesterday and was reay with connectors and everything. They'd also saved the remote I'd abandoned last week accidentally. There was a lamp ahead of me and the precocious young electronics enthusiast with his Daddy this time. From what I saw the Dad is as A+ parenting wise as his Mom in a way especially good for a kid that bright and curious. I was resigned to a long wait, but the lamp was done in two pages and we worked on the TV extensively, me holding it up and together for testing. Apparently, the audio was dead now too. Meanwhile my physical condition is visibly deteriorating and I haven't energy to be charming as it's all going in to the effort not to throw up and or, collapse into a weeping ball under the table, as amoung other things it was increasingly clear I should have taken a rantie on top of my main anti-nausea dose which WAS NOT WORKING FAST ENOUGH. I am firmly of the opinion that nausea is worse than pain as horrible as the pain can get sometimes. The TV is toast. I am furious that Visio charge $350.00 for a TV that only lasts 11 months with a one year warranty they refused to honor, prefering to ignore us until the time ran out. I suppose it is second hand dying behemoths from here on out. If I had money for a TV, I'd buy working fish lights with it, as the last twenty light is half dead of a bad fan and is a time share between two tanks as it is. I can't even afford a replacement bulb for the secondary light. I am too tired to dispose of the thing. I am also fairly sure I may be legitimate sick after all as sine I got home my ability to regulate body temperature went highwire, and the symptom list is long and diverse enough to suggest it's not just chronic assholery ganging up on me. It is a very lucky thing I picked up the quick protein Monday, as it is warm, filling, very little standing, and very easy on the stomache.

I am likely going to suck for the next few days and will likely be cranky, for which I apologize. Tomorrow is a scheduled rest day, Thursday I am scheduled for afternoon Game of Bones. If I have dropped the ball on something, remind me Friday. I refuse to promise anything else to anyone besides bare minimum until my body is under better control.

I would like to thank whoever sent me the interesting looking book of essays on early modern Women. It was kind.

* I am going to be FURIOUS is the Exorcist is queer baiting me. One kiss isn't enough anymore. I am no longer willing to accept crumbs.

* "Racism and Some Sexism in Woman Who Rides Like A Man:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/racism-sexism-woman-like-man/

* Sexism and the Justice League. "The Amazons’ New Clothes:" http://www.goldenlasso.net/the-amazons-new-clothes/

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey

* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc

* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries

* Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

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

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

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

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

* "East Bay neighborhood has higher lead exposure rate than Flint, Michigan:" http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2016/12/28/east-bay-lead-exposure-fruitvale-oakland.html

* "Secret Words and Codes - Nazi-Speech and Numeric Combinations:" http://german.about.com/od/culture/fl/Secret-Words-and-Codes.htm

* "Someone twisted a Jewish family's menorah into the shape of a swastika:" https://mic.com/articles/163894/someone-twisted-this-jewish-family-s-menorah-into-the-shape-of-a-swastika?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social#.hGA26ncF8

* "This Lebanese Band Confronts Sexual And Political Oppression Through Their Music:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lebanese-band-mashrou-leila-us-canada-tour_us_562f66ade4b0c66bae595107?

* "Texas Just Topped Itself With Pure Misogynistic, Transphobic Insanity:" http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2016/12/21/texas-just-topped-itself-pure-misogynistic-transphobic-insanity

* For all it's physical difficulties, today was productive. Apparently I'd sensibly stored the death certificate with the essential housing papers. I finished all the paper bureaucracy except for going through a stack where I know three papers I need are and talking Squirrel into printing something out. Next week I'll do the drive around town in person bureaucracy, as all of that's liable to be closed until Tuesday.

There is no money for the traditional New ears Eve pizza anymore than there was for the traditional Christmas Eve Chinese food, but the nausea and lung meds were worth it, as I stop functioning without either.

* Vikings this week left me with many questions, but chief of them are the snakes.
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* Is it just me or is the plot for nearly every episode of the Last Kingdom until Iseult shows up: Someone gives Uhtred good and sensible political/diplomatic advice. Uhtred pig headedly not merely ignores the advice, but does the opposite as obnoxiously as he can possibly manage and then is sullen and rebellious because he is predictably punished for doing whatever stupid thing he did to spite the people trying to help him?

* A way better plot for the Passangers than the one on the screen: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/155122795405/meredithmcclaren-someone-else-on-tumblr-pointed

* Guillermo Del Toro is seconded. "The Fellowship of the Ring Fifteen Years Later:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/fellowship-ring-movie-fifteen-years/

* TNG Rewatch, Season 5:

- The Perfect Mate. Ferengi being horrible and sexist. Creepy humans. A woman treated as an object who only exist to pleasure men. Eeeeew. Who's personality shifts dramatically depending on the men around her. Eeeeeeeeeew! Serious questions about consent going in multiple directions. Props to Beverly Crusher on her feminist saltiness. Seriously this episode is fucking creepy both from the Watsonian and Doylist perspective. Judging from what I've seen of the Ambassador, I think they should have sent a male meta-morph, which would also be creepy, mind. I'm just saying they should have queried about sexual preferences before sending someone. Why weren't the Ferengi arrested after the first breaking and entering and attempted kidnap? They wouldn't be assaulting diplomats if they'd been locked up for attempted kidnap.

- Imaginary Friend. Mostly a plot retread only with girls, and borderline triggery for me.

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* 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

* "Ted Cruz 'Enthusiastically' Backs Radical Anti-Abortion, Anti-Contraception Personhood Proposal:" http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-cruz-enthusiastically-backs-radical-anti-abortion-anti-contraception-personhood-proposal

* "Dallas Cop Stops Walmart Robbery:" http://cw33.com/2016/02/12/dallas-cop-stops-walmart-robbery/

* "Inaction on Flint sparks call for 'disruptive civil disobedience':"

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* "Flint mayor ready to replace pipes as state, governor delay:"

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* "Inmates Jailed in Flint Forced to Drink, Shower in Toxic Water:" http://mic.com/articles/134549/inmates-jailed-in-flint-forced-to-drink-shower-in-toxic-water?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social#.wk9bUEN5g

* So to recap, Rick Snyder overthrew the elected government of Flint so that they could poison the city including 9000 children and is now doing everything in his power to stop the elected officials from stopping the poisoning as he says there is no urgency to stop the ongoing brain damage and organ damage and it's much better to delay fixing it so they might do it at greater expense so as to help his political cronies. He is also insisting there is no ethical or legal reason not to charge people for the privilege of having toxic waste pumped into their homes instead of water, nor is there an ethical or legal reason to stop poisoning people in general. We are talking Batman villian evil here folks, and not even Penguin done for financial gain Batman evil as the cost of the damage is many times greater than the money they claim this saved. So clearly saving money is a flat out lie. No, this the the Joker just want to watch the world burn evil, done knowingly to a heavily black city just because they could and they wanted to. They did it for funsies. They gave thousands of children permanant brain damage just because they wanted to.

* "Plumbers From Across the United States Traveled to Flint to Fight the Water Crisis:" http://mic.com/articles/134044/plumbers-from-across-the-united-states-traveled-to-flint-to-fight-the-water-crisis?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social#.eyGREznAq

* "The story of how two young Irish men pulled off an audacious £7m art heist:" http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/we-didnt-really-think-wed-get-away-with-it-the-astonishing-story-of-how-two-young-irish-men-10270354.html

* It is very quiet here without him and it is so strange sleeping alone.

* Is Anyone traveling from Eugene, OR to Seattle or Bellingham, WA and willing to transport a rescue cat to a forever home? If this sounds like you or someone you know, contact me, please.

* Today I got a reasonable amount of sleep. I also cleaned my freezer, which needed doing. I failed to find the hoped for emergency fruit, but I did discover perogies.

* Black Sails XXII discussion in commentary: http://jonquility.tumblr.com/post/139531287768/black-sails-xxii

* Zimbabwe has joined Ethiopia in disaster level drought People and animals are dying. Want to help? https://www.wfp.org/help

* Help the poisoned children of Flint Michigan. "Water Crisis:" https://www.cfgf.org/cfgf/GoodWork/FlintArea/WaterCrisis/tabid/855/Default.aspx

* "How to help Flint, Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-help-flint-michigan

* Want to help finance my meds/medical co pays? 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

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