Nec Hoc Nec Ilud

* "Man dies after clashes at Lebanon economic protest:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-52454130

* "Thousands displaced by Uganda flooding:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-22469245/thousands-displaced-by-uganda-flooding

* The politics are really different that over here and important. "Going Postal: Poland’s Mail Carriers Decry COVID-19 Election:" https://balkaninsight.com/2020/04/30/going-postal-polands-mail-carriers-decry-covid-19-election/

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* "Tests in recovered patients found false positives, not reinfections, experts say:" http://m.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200429000724

* "This Drug May Cause Birth Defects. Japan’s Pushing It for Coronavirus.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/business/japan-avigan-coronavirus.html

* "Coronavirus stokes Middle East boiling points:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-52493608

* "Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon and Iran Announce Partial Easing of Coronavirus Restrictions:" https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/egypt-tunisia-lebanon-and-iran-announce-partial-easing-coronavirus-restrictions

* "South Africa's painful past HIV failures is helping the country to fight Covid-19:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/africa/south-africa-hiv-coronavirus/index.html

* "Russia now has second-highest rate of Covid-19 spread as other countries ease restrictions:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/02/new-york-nursing-home-reports-98-coronavirus-deaths-in-horrifying-outbreak

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/02/new-york-nursing-home-reports-98-coronavirus-deaths-in-horrifying-outbreak

* "Gay and bisexual men barred from donating blood plasma in UK coronavirus trials:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/03/gay-bisexual-men-barred-donating-blood-plasma-uk-coronavirus-trials-london/

* "Disease meets deforestation at heart of Brazil's Amazon:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52502369

* "Italy starts to emerge from world's longest nationwide Covid-19 lockdown:" https://www.france24.com/en/20200504-italy-starts-to-emerge-from-world-s-longest-nationwide-covid-19-lockdown

* "Anger as Italy slowly emerges from long Covid-19 lockdown:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/03/anger-as-italy-slowly-emerges-from-long-covid-19-lockdown

* "‘We are on the eve of a genocide’: Brazil urged to save Amazon tribes from Covid-19:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/03/eve-of-genocide-brazil-urged-save-amazon-tribes-covid-19-sebastiao-salgado

* "Fears of Covid-19 Outbreak in Nigeria’s Kano State:" https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/04/fears-covid-19-outbreak-nigerias-kano-state#

* "Coronavirus model projects 134,000 deaths in US, nearly double its last estimate:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html

* "Covid death toll model projections increased as states reopen:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/covid-death-toll-model-projections-increased-as-states-reopen-83022917545

* "The US just reported its deadliest day for coronavirus patients as states reopen, according to WHO:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/02/who-us-just-reported-deadliest-day-for-coronavirus.html

* "Larry Kudlow defends claiming U.S. had "contained" the coronavirus in February:" https://www.axios.com/larry-kudlow-coronavirus-contained-129fa6f9-db25-459e-81c7-a8fe6f8f7ece.html

* "Excess U.S. deaths hit estimated 37,100 in pandemic’s early days, far more than previously known:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/05/02/excess-deaths-during-covid-19/?arc404=true

* "Trump 'very confident' of Covid-19 vaccine in 2020 and predicts up to 100,000 US deaths:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/04/trump-very-confident-of-covid-19-vaccine-in-2020-and-predicts-up-to-100000-us-deaths

* "Yes, Jared Kushner, Life Does Feel Like a 'Success' Right Now:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/4/30/yes-jared-kushner-life-does-feel-success-right-now

* "The Coronavirus Is Killing Too Many Nursing Home Residents:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/opinion/coronavirus-nursing-homes.html

* You think? "Some meat plants reopen, but Trump order may not be cure-all:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/union-south-dakota-smithfield-pork-plant-reopen-monday-70457481

* "Meatpacking Plants Are a Front in the Covid-19 Class War:" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/meatpacking-coronavirus-class-war/

* "Coronavirus in Tennessee: State to require widespread COVID-19 testing at all nursing home, long-term care facilities:" https://www.wate.com/news/tennessee/coronavirus-in-tennessee-state-to-require-widespread-covid-19-testing-at-all-nursing-home-long-term-care-facilities/

* "Minnesota nursing home reports 47 deaths from coronavirus:" https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/minnesota/2020/05/01/minnesota-nursing-home-reports-47-deaths-coronavirus/3063515001/

* "Montgomery County’s jail tested every inmate for COVID-19 — and found 30 times more cases than previously known:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/coronavirus-testing-montgomery-county-jail-asymptomatic-philadelphia-prisons-20200428.html

* "What if you pretend COVID-19 doesn’t exist? Look at meatpacking plants for answer.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-if-you-pretend-covid-19-doesn-t-exist-look-at-meatpacking-plants-for-answer-82905669999

* "Porter: Trump 'jumped' to use Defense Protection Act for industry:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-uses-defense-protection-act-to-order-meat-plants-stay-open-82945093510

* "Coronavirus News: Javits Center hospital closing after treating more than 1,000 amid COVID-19 pandemic:" https://abc7ny.com/health/javits-center-hospital-closing;-treated-1000+-amid-pandemic/6142109/

* "Hospital Ship Comfort Ends NYC COVID-19 Mission After Treating 182 Patients:" https://news.usni.org/2020/04/27/hospital-ship-comfort-ends-nyc-covid-19-mission-after-treating-182-patients

* "Oklahoma Meat Processor Reports 116 COVID-19 Cases:" https://www.kosu.org/post/oklahoma-meat-processor-reports-116-covid-19-cases

* "More than 370 workers at a pork plant in Missouri tested positive for coronavirus. All were asymptomatic:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/us/triumph-foods-outbreak-missouri/index.html

* "Failure of Prison COVID-19 Testing Begs Scrutiny:" https://www.sfreporter.com/news/2020/05/03/failure-of-prison-covid-19-testing-begs-scrutiny/

* "Growth in coronavirus cases shifts to outbreaks across U.S.:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/growth-in-coronavirus-cases-shifts-to-outbreaks-across-u-s-83021893834

* "Iraq vet. operating nursing home and staff sleep on-site to prevent coronavirus spread:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/iraq-vet-operating-nursing-home-and-staff-sleep-on-site-to-prevent-coronavirus-spread-83017797730

* "Inslee extends coronavirus stay-home order through May 31, outlines plan to reopen Washington in phases:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/inslee-announces-extended-stay-home-order-outlines-plan-to-reopen-washington-in-phases/

* "DeSantis: Florida hospitals not overwhelmed, ready to resume elective procedures Monday:" https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2020/05/03/desanits-florida-hospitals-not-overwhelmed-ready-to-resume-elective-procedures-starting-monday/

* "`Infecting our dreams': Pandemic sabotages sleep worldwide:" https://apnews.com/b7fb8585527db3a7f06563dce7982eff

Normal People: have nightmares about insects, infection, etc..

Me, a person who has dreamed about Pandemics all my life: An intricate What We Do in the Shadows influenced dream about a trio of immortal mages being petitioned to take on a young apprentice. The trio consisted of the Artist (Leanardo DiVinci, the Nadja of the group), The Diplomat (our Lazlo), and the Assassin (Me, the Nandor). The house was Amazing and Leonardo had this incredibly aviary/green house where the birds flew around loose.

* "Pence: ‘I should have worn a mask at the Mayo Clinic’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/03/pence-should-have-worn-mask-mayo-clinic-233360

* "Homophobe Franklin Graham told to ‘pack up his tents and leave New York’ after exploiting hospital for cruel anti-LGBT+ agenda:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/04/franklin-graham-new-york-city-coronavirus-tent-hospital-central-park-homophobia-samaritans-purse/

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* "Five Eyes network contradicts theory Covid-19 leaked from lab:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/04/five-eyes-network-contradicts-theory-covid-19-leaked-from-lab

* "Chris Hayes on right-wing’s 'escaped from the lab’ theory of coronavirus origin:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-right-wing-s-escape-from-the-lab-theory-of-coronavirus-origin-83017285850

* And yet 45 somehow seems to be alive. "Trump Says He Is Treated ‘Worse’ Than President Lincoln, Who Was Assassinated:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-says-he-is-treated-worse-than-president-lincoln-who-was-assassinated

* "Trump campaign lashes out over 'Don't defend Trump' memo:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/27/trump-campaign-china-strategy-memo-213958

* "Trump Moves to Replace Watchdog Who Identified Critical Medical Shortages:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/us/politics/trump-health-department-watchdog.html

* "Schumer: Trump admin prolonging nation's agony, avoiding science:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schumer-trump-admin-prolonging-nation-s-agony-avoiding-science-83022917516

* "Harvard expert: Trump should follow his own reopen plan:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/harvard-expert-trump-should-follow-his-own-reopen-plan-83017797688

* This is alarming on a whole lot of levels. "International Service Alerts:" https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international/welcome.htm

* "Rep. Pressley on new proposal to cancel rent during pandemic:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/coronavirus-relief-proposal-includes-cancelling-rent-pressley-says-82944581970

* "The COVID-19 Crisis Reveals an Old Divide Between the Parties:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/what-covid-19-debate-has-common-aca-fight/608797/

* "Lockdown protesters don’t care about lives:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/03/lockdown-protesters-dont-care-about-lives/

* "Scholar cites 'politics of death' behind choice to reopen states:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/coronavirus-outcomes-worse-for-people-of-color-as-states-reopen-82945093590

* "Duckworth: Trump's West Point speech 'the height of narcissism':" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-s-west-point-speech-plans-denounced-by-sen-duckworth-82965573858

* "Rep. Haaland: Trump using immigration to distract from failures:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-hints-at-denying-coronavirus-relief-to-sanctuary-cities-82967621550

* In other coverage it was mentioned that 45 called these literal NAZIs "Very Good People." "Auschwitz memorial condemns presence of Nazi slogan at US anti-lockdown rally:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/02/auschwitz-memorial-condemns-nazi-slogan-illinois-coronavirus-rally

* "‘We don’t know how it will end’: Hunger stalks amid virus:" https://apnews.com/742466992f8998757bb579e49c212223

* "Republican defector who wants to run against Trump says he 'would protect trans Americans' as president. His voting record begs to differ:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/04/justin-amash-republican-defector-presidential-candidate-libertarian-transgender-equality-act/

* "LGBT+ domestic abuse victims are staying with perpetrators in lockdown because no refuge spaces are available:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/03/lgbt-domestic-abuse-victims-stay-with-partners-coronavirus-lockdown-lgbt-foundation/

* "A Cardinal Hired by Pope Francis Comes to Aid of Trans Sex Workers:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2020/5/02/cardinal-hired-pope-francis-comes-aid-trans-sex-workers

* "More than 3,500 couples have celebrated their love in Taiwan since same-sex marriage was legalised just one year ago:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/01/taiwan-same-sex-equal-marriage-legalised-couples-weddings-love-asia/

* "‘Go to Holland’ is the bizarre new homophobic slur in Turkey after Muslim cleric curses LGBT+ people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/02/turkey-homophobic-slur-go-to-holland-yallah-hollandaya-ali-erbas-president-erdogan/

* "Trans man who gave birth Freddy McConnell loses second historic court battle to be named his child’s father:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/29/freddy-mcconnell-trans-man-father-mother-birth-certificate-court-appeal-city-law-firm/

* "Black, gay ex-police officer claims homophobia and racism is a ‘cancer’ in the force. Trust him, he should know:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/04/kevin-maxwell-forced-out-book-police-racism-homophobia-black-gay/

* "Former Pope Benedict XVI links gay weddings to ‘the Antichrist’ in scathing new attack on LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/04/pope-benedict-xvi-same-sex-marriage-antichrist-catholic-church-lgbt-rights-biography/

* "Two Arrested in Killings of Trans Women in Puerto Rico:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/5/01/two-arrested-killings-trans-women-puerto-rico

* "Homophobe uses tragically flawed argument to explain why we shouldn’t celebrate Anderson Cooper becoming a dad:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/02/anderson-cooper-father-son-homophobic-radio-host-michael-brown/

* "‘Homophobic’ police chief steps down after officer claims he was denied a promotion because he wouldn’t have sex with her:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/03/sandra-spagnoli-police-chief-beverly-hills-resigns-homophobia-workplace-discrimination/

* "The sheriff fired her because she’s a lesbian so she ran for his office. She demolished him.:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/04/sheriff-fired-shes-lesbian-ran-office-demolished/#.XqsHNoIytko.twitter**TEE

* "N.J. Councilwoman Calls Trenton's Gay Mayor a 'Pedophile' in Rant:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/5/04/nj-councilwoman-calls-trentons-gay-mayor-pedophile-rant

* "Black Gay Men and the Fear of Queeny Bottoms:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/print-issue/2020/5/01/black-gay-men-and-fear-queeny-bottoms

* "What Parts of "Normal" Are Worth Getting Back To?:" https://www.thesimpledollar.com/financial-wellness/whats-worth-returning-to-normalcy

* "‘Fearless’ Scots lawyer who worked to decriminalise sex between men found dead in his home:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/03/derek-ogg-dies-at-home-lawyer-decriminalise-homosexuality-tributes/

* "Revolutionary scientist who debunked the long-held myth that homosexuality is ‘curable’ dies, aged 79:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/05/dr-richard-friedman-scientist-myth-homosexuality-cure-pathology-death-tribute/

* NWS. "Star Trek legend George Takei is trying to convince right-wing bigots to stay home by claiming coronavirus turns people gay:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/03/george-takei-star-trek-coronavirus-turns-gay-convince-breitbart-stay-home/

* ""Shia LaBeouf" Live - Rob Cantor:"

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* Snerk. 2020 Google Trends: https://xkcd.com/2302/

* The Midnight Society: Neil Gaiman Edition: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1257534183301214208

* Queer men with different body types. NWS: https://twitter.com/genderpunktheo/status/1256611809450172419

* "Sundays Sweets Turns Lemons Into Lemonade:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2020/5/3/sundays-sweets-turns-lemons-into-lemonade

* "Editorial letter for "2020":" https://twitter.com/KoryStamper/status/1256761439659986947

* "Mark Friedman on 'Dispatches From Elsewhere', Philadelphia, and 'The Wizard of Oz' of It All:" http://livinglifefearless.co/2020/features/mark-friedman-on-dispatches-from-elsewhere-philadelphia-and-the-wizard-of-oz-of-it-all/

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

* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "NYSCI has a set of activities and resources up on their website:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2999942.html

* "How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home

* "Free Meals:" https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals

* "Learning Through Play: 101 Ways To Keep Young Minds Occupied At Home:" https://www.marksdailyapple.com/importance-of-play/

* Free lessons: https://www.mybluprint.com/

* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give

* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/

* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/

* "Snopes on COVID-19 Fact-Checking:" https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/

* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

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

* The Indivisble guide exists to help you organize effective resistance: https://indivisible.org/

* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:

Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa

Here’s a list of vulnerable democratic senators that NEED votes to keep their seats:

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/am-website?refcode=website-nav

* Want to get rid of Lindsey Graham? Help Jaime Harrison: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_harrison_fr_q12019_jaime-a?refcode=MS_AD_D-DD_2019.03.08_X_GG_KW__X__eyJjcmVhdGl2ZSI6IkFkZCBEb25hdGlvbiBOb3ciLCJhdWRpZW5jZSI6IkphaW1lSGFycmlzb24ifQ&recurring=TRUE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn4a_583I5gIVC8RkCh0MowFeEAAYASAAEgIXZfD_BwE

* There's a decent chance of flipping this Senate seat blue. Want to help? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-mek-egsearch_dtd?refcode=ads-200108-gs-evergreensearch-dtd-natl-mix-8753679275-87807510469-410037583123-%2Bmark%20%2Bkelly%20%2Bdonate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpKSR192K5wIVAsNkCh0EeAFSEAAYASAAEgLY7fD_BwE

* Want to support Christy Smith in the primary for Katie Hill's seat?: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dw_ca25

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? 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/

* Some RL friends of mine who were barely scraping by just lost one of the part time jobs they collectively hold and it's really fucking things up for them. These are good people, who do so much for others. Want to help? https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-gig-worker-get-through-the-winter/share

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

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
https://www.chewy.com/wellness-core-signature-selects/dp/147047

The dry food I was going to try is this one: https://www.chewy.com/blue-buffalo-wilderness-flatland/dp/176663

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html

* "Ebola outbreak spreads to DR Congo city:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44150762

* "North Korea says won't hold talks with 'incompetent' South unless...:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-southkorea/south-korea-to-play-mediator-to-resolve-north-korea-u-s-summit-doubts-official-idUSKCN1II0B7

* "Trump: ‘Animals’ comment referred to MS-13 gang members:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/17/trump-immigrants-animals-595118

* O.o "Bill Gates dishes about Trump meetings in exclusive video:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bill-gates-dishes-about-trump-meetings-in-exclusive-video-1236490819549

* "Team Trump: One year of Mueller is enough:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/team-trump-one-year-of-mueller-is-enough-1236501059881

* "Cambridge Analytica ran voter suppression campaigns, whistleblower claims:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/cambridge-analytica-congress-wylie/index.html

* "Trump lawyer Cohen sought $1 million from Qatar in late 2016:..:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-cohen/trump-lawyer-cohen-sought-1-million-from-qatar-in-late-2016-washington-post-idUSKCN1II061

* This sure looks like using the full power of the U.S. Government as an Extortion racket for private enrichment. How is this not illegal? "Kushner family sees Qatar-tied bailout; US policy warms to Qatar:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kushner-family-sees-qatar-tied-bailout-us-policy-warms-to-qatar-1236553795927?playlist=associated

* "How a Russian oligarch linked to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen turned a California state park into a mini Moscow:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/17/russian-oligarch-viktor-vekselberg-chairs-nonprofit-backed-by-us-firms-politicians.html

* "Manafort's former son-in-law cuts plea deal:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort-exclusive/exclusive-manaforts-former-son-in-law-cuts-plea-deal-to-cooperate-with-government-sources-idUSKCN1II2YM

* "Pruitt apartment search help may have broken ethics rules, experts say:" https://www.local10.com/news/politics/pruitt-apartment-search-help-may-have-broken-ethics-rules-experts-say

* Why she is clearly unfit to serve. TW: Graphic description of torture Gina Haspel approved and oversaw. "U.S. Navy Reserve Doctor on Gina Haspel Torture Victim: “One of the Most Severely Traumatized Individuals I Have Ever Seen”:" https://theintercept.com/2018/05/17/gina-haspel-cia-director-torture/

* "How Haspel beat the resistance:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/17/gina-haspel-cia-confirmed-democrats-596784

* That poor climate scientist trying to politely explain to someone spouting this much nonsense. "Republican lawmaker: Rocks tumbling into ocean causing sea level rise:" https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/republican-lawmaker-rocks-tumbling-ocean-causing-sea-level-rise

* If we don't turn out in force to Vote, WE WILL LOSE! Please, please vote in the Midterms! "The Republican Party's Generational Bet:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/the-gop-is-betting-its-majority-on-older-white-voters/560537

* TW: Pedophilia. "Mich. St. agrees to $500M Nassar settlement:" http://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/23520900/michigan-state-spartans-agree-500-million-larry-nassar-settlement

* TW: Torture "Cameroon police arrest and torture 25 men for being gay:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/05/15/cameroon-police-arrest-and-torture-25-men-for-being-gay/

* "The White House 'Buckles Up' For Mueller Probe:"

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* "Kids Pitch A New TV Show: 'Strangest Things: The Golden Mysteries':"

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* The last couple of nights it's been cool enough I only ran the living room window fans for a few hours. Tonight, when I came out to start doing things, they were scrunched up together, him craning to peer over the cat grass and her craning around the fan to see over his head so they could watch the gazebo birds. When next they were gone, I took the fans out of the window, and once the excitement of litter change and cleaning was done, Tavy wandered off to my room for a nap on the body pillow, and Livia went to see what the birds were up to. Imagine he delight at finding the fans pile up next to the cat seat and half the window sill free for her to sprawl on while watching such delights as a male robin walking the whole of our side of the gazebo before taking off and the crows doing a last glean of the lawn before sunset. Oh the delight and luxury of having it all to herself!

It took me three tries to make dinner, which wasn't my fault. The first thing was forage and spoiled when I opened it. I'd already done prep, so I cooked a different forage thing using the same prep, but either the directions were slightly wrong or my oven was. I had eaten a couple rosary "muffins," really delicious English muffin shaped dinner rolls, as the substitute dinner was a bit sweeter than the savory dinner I'd intended and I wanted something definitely not sweet in my stomach first to go with my meds. I then did a litter change and cleaning in my office until the food was ready. Apparently, the directions had dinner in just enough too long for it to be almost, but not quite edible. I did lungs and watched Livia watch the birds, by which time i'd talked myself into veggie chik'n burgers. My region is having a severe lettuce shortage which means the rich eat ll the good lettuce and there is only nasty iceberg left for the poor. Luckily, I have three mature heads of good sandwich lettuce in my garden, plus the hearty stuff that grows all year round as long as I let it seed, plus things like arugula and accent greens. I'm not making salad, though i could on the grounds i can't supplement from outside and most of the other lettuce is too young to start culling, but i have plenty for things like sandwiches and burgers. I even had some forage mango salsa to go on the burgers with the tomato and ketchup. Omnomnom. Not bad for a third attempt. I took the book stack back to the time traveling drop, and hit most of today's cleaning goal. (By rights I should have moved furniture for sweeping under, but I could tell that would have been pushing it, and I swept everything I didn't have to move furniture for, plus emptied office trash).

In other news, MI-5 has some amazing guest stars in season 2, which I am watching, Storm before the Storm is going pretty well from the first couple chapters, I have a fresh pitcher of sweet huckleberry tea and another of ultra tart lemonade in my fridge, and Livia could win a prize for her purring. :)

* I dreamed a sort of prequel to the Handmaid's Tale. They'd set up little communities along fairly empty stretches of highway and secondary roads, buying up villages and surrounding farms and ranches, the women already enslaved. They'd set up traps for travelers: gas stations, lodgings, rest stops, grabbing people if they pulled in when no outsiders could see. They'd put out those strips that pop tires on the secondary roads and catch one car at a time, posing as friendly locals putting them up for the night and promising to fix the car in the morning. If the men wouldn't join, they'd kill them. The women they'd imprison. I got trapped with a car full of people on the way to a Con when our car broke down. (It happened RL a few times when I was still well enough for trips like that. The car breaking and stranding us in a small town, 'til morning, not the christian extremist polygamist fertility cult, obviously). We figured out we were trapped. I was trying to help the women in our group hide their birth control pills in the few minutes we had before they came for us all, in case our break out attempt didn't work and most of us were killed.

Nothing like 45's America to make one dream dystopia.

* "Get Involved, Internet: Join the fight to save The Expanse:" https://news.avclub.com/get-involved-internet-join-the-fight-to-save-the-expa-1826053658

* So apparently I went from giving no fucks one way or another about Amos on the Expanse to shipping him with Prax this season.

* I used all my money on housing and insurance March, and April it all went to housing and car things. I need the car to get around as I am disabled. I need to raise about $150 to finish catching up. If you'd like to chip in: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

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

* Want to help people on the Big Island of Hawaii? https://www.gofundme.com/hawaiinaturaldisastersrelief

* 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

* Help fight for Net Neutrality restoration: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/170010496350/democrats-are-just-one-vote-shy-of-restoring-net

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

* 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

* "Mass Greek protest over Macedonia name:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42937889

* "NHS protest: thousands march to demand more cash for NHS:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/feb/04/nhs-budget-cuts-march-protest-jeremy-hunt-london-funding

* "UK leaders rebuke Trump for health care tweet:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/uk-leaders-rebuke-trump-for-health-care-tweet-1154418243839

* "For answers on Afghanistan, look to Pakistan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-is-the-u-s-still-in-afghanistan-pakistan-1154492483931?playlist=associated

* "Some Eagles players are skipping the White House visit over Trump:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/05/politics/philadelphia-eagles-super-bowl-white-house-visit/index.html

* Dear Leader thinks people should be tried for treason for not applauding him. O.o Someone needs to explain to 45 that things like letting Russian intelligence dictate your foreign policy while president against the interests of the United states is treason, but failing to clap isn't. Maybe someone needs to make a School house Rock style cartoon explaining the first amendment to him. "Trump: Democrats 'Un-American,' 'Treasonous' During State Of The Union:" https://www.npr.org/2018/02/05/583447413/trump-democrats-un-american-treasonous-during-state-of-the-union

* "White House rejects bipartisan immigration plan:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/05/politics/trump-daca-mccain-coons-immigration-plan/index.html

* "Trump's lawyers want him to refuse interview with Mueller:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-s-lawyers-want-him-to-refuse-interview-with-mueller-nyt-1154390083534

* "Rep. Lieu: ‘People would take to streets’ if Rosenstein fired:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/memo-doesn-t-give-trump-cause-to-fire-rosenstein-1153507907576

* "Rep. Schiff responds to Trump attacks over Russia probe:"http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-schiff-responds-to-trump-attacks-over-russia-probe-1154414147546

* "Nunes memo stunt blows up in GOP's face:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nunes-memo-stunt-blows-up-in-gop-s-face-1154475075653?playlist=associated

* "Zinke's agency held up Indians’ casino after MGM lobbying:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/01/zinkes-indian-casino-interior-312671

* "U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-equifax-cfpb/exclusive-u-s-consumer-protection-official-puts-equifax-probe-on-ice-sources-idUSKBN1FP0IZ

* "Super Bowl national security docs left on plane:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/05/us/dhs-super-bowl-national-security-documents-left-on-plane-invs/index.html

* "Massive Pentagon agency lost track of hundreds of millions of dollars:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/05/pentagon-logistics-agency-review-funds-322860

* Let them eat cake. "Paul Ryan Deletes Tweet After He’s Mocked for Celebrating $1.50 Benefit From Tax Cut:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/paul-ryan-deletes-tweet-after-hes-mocked-for-celebrating-usd1-50-benefit-from-tax-cut.html

* "The GOP candidate who would represent a suburban Chicago district is an open Holocaust denier, white supremacist and anti-Semite:" https://boingboing.net/2018/02/05/arthur-jones.html

* "U.S. Supreme Court allows revamp of Pennsylvania electoral map:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-election/u-s-supreme-court-allows-revamp-of-pennsylvania-electoral-map-idUSKBN1FP2E0

* "Dow plunges 1,175 -- worst point decline in history:" http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/05/investing/stock-market-today-dow-jones/index.html

* "Market plunges, government shutdown looms:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/market-plunges-government-shutdown-looms-again-1154483779682?playlist=associated

* TW: Rape. "This Is Why Uma Thurman Is Angry:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/this-is-why-uma-thurman-is-angry.html?emc=edit_ta_20180203&nl=top-stories&nlid=69193558&ref=cta

* "Anguish amid Trump deportation crackdown:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/anguish-amid-trump-deportation-crackdown-1154422339705

* "Ebony Morgan's Killer Found Guilty:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/02/ebony-morgans-killer-found-guilty.html

* "James Baldwin - Pin Drop Speech:"

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* "Remains in Europe: mummified woman in Basel is Boris Johnson’s ancestor:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/25/remains-in-europe-mummified-woman-in-basel-is-boris-johnsons-ancestor

* This pretty much fits with historical/archaeological record, so it's really confirmation, not a surprise. "New genetic map reveals Irish people share far more DNA with the British and Vikings than previously believed:" http://irishpost.co.uk/new-genetic-map-reveals-irish-people-share-far-dna-british-vikings-previously-believed/

* "Ancient Eurasian DNA sequencing is revealing links with modern humans:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180125135609.htm

* "Titian painting given to Charles I's plumber goes up for sale:" https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jan/22/titian-painting-king-charles-i-plumber-sale-auction

* "The Greatest African American and Afro-American Martial Artists in History:" https://outofthiscentury.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/the-greatest-african-american-and-afro-american-martial-artists-in-history/

* "Hunter Knocked Unconscious By Shot Goose Falling Out Of The Sky:" https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/04/583110844/hunter-knocked-unconscious-by-falling-dead-goose-shot-by-his-hunting-party

* The title is terrible, but it's a feminist look at the way fashion and real women's bodies collide. "What is the ‘ideal’ female body shape?:" http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180122-what-is-the-ideal-female-body-shape

* "The evolution of the Australian accent:" https://phys.org/news/2018-01-evolution-australian-accent.html

* "Cut for Time: My Little Stepchildren (Natalie Portman) - SNL:"

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* "Weekend Update on Black History Month - SNL:"

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* "Weekend Update: Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve - SNL:"

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* I really only had 4-5 functional hours Sunday total, and went to bed very early. My sleep is mostly crappy still, but last night I wasn't having to wake up every 10-15 minutes to keep from choking which helps. I'll take fever dreams and frequent waking over tiny uncomfortable doses any day. When I got up, my breathing was a little better, so I decided not to try for emergency anti-biotics, although really I should make a lab result appointment soon. I have been craving comfort foods, like the impossible sandwich and a bunch of things my mom used to make. I've been too ill for experimental baking, but I managed some today. It was an edible failure, and I've ideas for further experiments as it was a near enough miss for me to do things like adjust for my weirdly uneven oven and work on substitutions to make the taste more like without getting me sick from allergens.

Today was a forage day, and I'm still trying to replenish depleted stores of staples. I planned things out to use the least gas, but it was still a grocery store, forage, pharmacy, library, and two other grocery stores on the way home which is a lot, even though they were all relatively quick trips. The second grocery store was extra frustrating. I wanted five specific things. One was there. One was nearly twice as expensive as I usually pay so I skipped it. The other three were out of stock. Sigh. I did find the herbal tea I'd thought had been discontinued a year or more ago as I haven't been able to find it anywhere and was shocked at check out to discover EBT no longer pays for it. Sigh. At the last store I did find the thing that wasn't at the store where it usually is on Saturday nor in the first store today, and was double priced at the second store. I am suspecting there might be a serious agricultural problem to the south of us, maybe related to the fires, mudslides, etc. that has borked the supply chain as that's likely screwed over their growing season, so I'm not blaming the stores for being out. Figuring processing/bottling time, I am thinking the Napa fire was timed just right to screw up supplies now. I did not find two of the three things I came specifically to the third store to get. Facepalm. I also remembered the thing I forgot to buy at the first store today while in the second store looking at their twice as expensive version. Maybe next Monday when I'm in that part of town for forage. The important thing though is that the four things I use all the time that I was out of or nearly out of going into the weekend are safely home in my cupboards. I also scored a basil plant. It's early in the season, so I'll need to bring it in if we have a cold snap, but that's one base covered and the plant is big and healthy looking, unlike the sickly things last season.

My dreaming brain has been spiraling architecture, which I love. I had this early modern fantasy novel type scenario where we were all people with terrible jobs (tavern, piece work, journymen/apprentices in the period were upward mobility bottle necked RL, only this was a low magic setting in a lesser regional market town.) There was this gorgeous cathedral in the center of town right on the market square and something happened that led to the bishop clearing out an attached convent gone wrong and do to some now forgotten convolution, I ended yup with it and decided to move all my misfit friends in and turn it into an Inn, only even as people were recruiting acts and the like for the entertainment of guests, I was exploring the place and my brain spun out more and more fascinating architecture spanning the 12-early 17th century. I love when my brain does that.

More ominous in the literal sense I dreamed a version of my high School graduation that was sort of smashed together with this May day fair my school used to do , but stopped about halfway through my Middle School with no explanation. RL, my parents had to force me to go, because the last thing I wanted to do was spend one more minute in that place with those people I wasn't strictly required to. The dress code for graduates was so much better than what they really forced us to wear, though still extremely gendered. This version of me transitioned androgyne Senior year and for some reason, no one commented on it, which is not what would have happened in that place and time. There was also a mix of people from the next two grades up who I was friends or sort of friends with who were obviously not there RL.

The real difference though was the aweful and beautiful blood red sky. I'm not talking sunset, red near the hiorizen. I'm talking uniform arterial red like a wound. Awesome in the original sense of the word, if that makes sense. This fairly light hearted celebration sor of thing was under a sky who's terrible beauty felt like the end of the world, and they were playing this game on the lawn, with rules you had to work out yourself while playing and if you lost, you got sucked through a door and were never seen again. In retrospect, this was merely a mpre overt version of what happened to the people the school broke real life, but I was too busy extricating myself from the playing field to ponder that at the time. It was all like that in the dream, really, lots of cryptic instructions and unwritten rules. More obvious and symbolic that RL, but recognizable. at the end, one by one I said good bye to folks from other years, from cross country/track, from the gang that hung out in the Alcove after school. Last of all a certain boy. I nearly said, "I've had a crush on you since I was 5," but instead I just silently waved goodbye as he he turned the corner out of my life forever.

When I got to my car, parked in my Dad's old spot from when I was in Lower and Middle School, which over looked the lawn where people were still playing the deadly game, the sky now bleeding for real onto the Chapel on the hill on the other side I had two final thoughts before waking: 1. The world is beautiful in it's dying. 2. This sky is something we will tell our grandchildren about, if enough of us survive long enough to have grandchildren. *shudder*

* Not yet seven months old, largest Cat in the house. She is creeping up on Tavy weight wise. http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/170561555502/not-yet-seven-months-old-largest-cat-in-the

* The Power of Love in Tolkien: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/170547215037/kitteninteacup-obtrta-prismaticprince

* "Ghosts, Gaslighting, and Haunted Heroines: The Horror of “You’re Imagining Things”:" https://filmschoolrejects.com/ghosts-gaslighting-haunted-heroines-horror-youre-imagining-things/

* TNG: Season 6 Rewatch:

- 6.16-6.17 Birthright: They go to my beloved DS-9 to assist with water management technical stuff. There are two plots that reflect on each other, both to do with titular birthrights. One plot is Julian and Data collaborate to investigate an alien devise using the Enterprise's Equipment. Julian says inadvertently racist things to Data while gushing about how cool Data is. "I didn't think you'd be so personable" sounds a lot like "I didn't think you'd be so articulate." I do have to give them credit for not dropping the thread of people Othering Data, even though it makes me wince. he asks a lot of questions about how Data functions that conveniently provide in universe answers for why data breathes and has a pulse. An accident knocks him offline and he has a vision.

The other plot is Worf getting word his Father might be alive and captured by the Romulans from an alien on the station and having to come to terms with the dishonor. Worf's advise to data about his vision helps him decide to go look for his own Father. I always like the little Worf/Data scenes because of the way they are both partial outsiders in human culture and the ways they sometimes help each other navigate situations in which they are both unsure about something. Worf finds the shady guy and makes him take him to the prison camp instead of paying up front for dodging coordinates, which was the original offer.

Data goes to captain Picard, baffled by the large array of meanings for the same symbol across cultures. Picard calls him a "culture of one," which seems apt, and sends him off to thik about what the vision symbols mean to Data specifically. Data paints a large number of paintings based on the vision, starting with things he saw, but then he started painting things he imagined after. He wants to recreate the accident, risking his neural net in hopes of seeing more. This time it's different, and his Father tell him it's always different, and that he's started a "wonderful journey" and he's more than a collection of processes. Data can now dream and be creative. "Data, you are the bird." Data lets Julian write a paper on the incident.

Meanwhile the dodgy guy drops Worf off near the camp and says he'll be back in fifty hours. He finds a Klingon woman who insists she is "home." He follows the woman and a Romulan back to the village, where there is a Klingon ceremony going on, and grabs an elderly man who says Worf's father died at the massacre. Worf wants to rescue them; the old man goes to the elders. A man who remembers his father tells something he remembers of small Worf. They turn him over to the Romulans because "He would bring others."

The second episode starts with the Klingons explaining they'd been knocked unconscious. The Romulans wanted to trade them, but they were dishonored, so begged to stay and are now raising the next generation there, under Romulan rule, hiding from Klingon. The dishonor lasts three generations. Worf reveals his soft federation underbelly which grosses out the Elder Klingon. The children are raised so pacifist they are using weapons to till. ("And into plowshares turn their swords, Nations shall learn war no more.") The young ones all think there is still a war on; the Elders worry Worf will infect them with discontent. It turns out the Romulan gave up his carreer to guard the klingons which is the only way he could keep them alive. He married one of the Klingon women. I mulled this. Is is consensual if he is both guard and prisoner or is it still creepy? Worf makes an explosion so as to escape, but is caught. They put a tracking chip in Worf. Worf openly practices his forms, attracting youngsters who want to learn. The young woman sneaks him into her home to show him the old armour and a rusting weapons. He explains them to her. They get caught just as he's explaining a decoration that is given to a daughter who is of age, "old enough to mate." The Mother kicks him out. Soon he is telling youngsters tales of Kaliss. The boy who hates all of it still keeps turning up for things even though he complains. The young woman flirts with Worf and sort of makes a mood. Worf flips out on discovering her Romulan ears. He spouts racist stuff about her father the camp commander. He does turn up to apologize, but does it in a shitty way, which she calls him on it. He keeps arguing with the nay sayer youth, and pricks his pride to get him to try. Worf asks to the Romulan to let Worf and naysayer go on a hunt. Worf gives his word not to escape; the elder Klingon stands surety and tells the naysayer to kill Worf if he breaks his word. Worf is much better with Klingon youths here than he is with his own son, I notice. Hunting seems to awaken the kid's instincts. They return with dead things. The Romulan freaks out. The boy gets people singing the old hunting victory song.

The Romulan and Worf debate privately. The Romulan points out this is the only time and place in all of history where Klingons and Romulans live in peace. Worf's argument is basically that he had to take the klingon out of Klingons to due it and now that they are waking up again and have scented wild prey, they can't go back to being what the Romulan made them. The Romulan threatens to put Worf to death if he doesn't conform. Worf chooses death over the lifestyle of the prison camp. "The young people will see what it is to die a Klingon." The young woman tries to remove the tracking devise. Worf refuses to run to show them what i is to be Klingon. She plays the "You care for me card." Worf admits he loves her, but won't live this way. She points out that the prejudice against he means she can't come with him. He points out that he isn't accepted for himself there. They kiss and she storms out. The Romulan insists it is necessary to put Worf to death because he will destroy everything. Worf says he's really being executed for bringing knowledge. The Klingon lad comes out in full armour saying that if they are killing Worf they must kill him too, that many of them want to leave and the Romulans will have to kill them to keep them. The Romulan is going to execute them. A bunch of the others make a body shield. The young woman joins them. Her mother tells her husband, "This is our prion; it should not be theirs." Worf makes those leaving "honor" their parents by keeping their secret.

Meanwhile, Worf's friends have been looking for him. They get a message to come pick up the dissident Klingons. Worf lies they are survivors of a crash, that "no one survived Kitamer." Picard says, "I understand" in a way that suggests he understands perfectly well, and is going along with it.

I think this has been the most satisfying TNG arc I've seen so far. I works really well for both Data and Worf, and the Worf story line has a whole lot of depth and relevance. It helps him work through a lot of his baggage and define who he is a person much better than heretofore. It also reminds me of that time I sort of started a small scale resistance when I was fifteen, but that is another, private story. I wonder if Worf's parenting improves as a result of his experience. He certainly seems more calm and centered and he was really good with the young people.

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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

* Help fight for Net Neutrality restoration: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/170010496350/democrats-are-just-one-vote-shy-of-restoring-net

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

* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.

* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386

* 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

* Every time they claim they are ‘illegal aliens” remember that the Rohingya have been there since the 12th century. "Rohingya children among 19 dead, more than 50 missing after boat capsizes near Bangladesh:" http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-29/rohingya-children-among-15-dead-after-boat-capsizes-bangladesh/8999552

* "Exclusive: Russians Impersonated Real American Muslims to Stir Chaos on Facebook and Instagram:" http://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-russians-impersonated-real-american-muslims-to-stir-chaos-on-facebook-and-instagram

* "Extra Trump inauguration money shrouded in mystery:"

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* "Trump pitches tax cuts for rich as Puerto Rico languishes:"

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* Remember 45 bragging about how much money he saved by not properly staffing FEMA and how much better off we are as a result and how he congratulated himself about the great job he is doing for Puerto Rica in this crisis? Is anyone surprised that he is making W. and "Heckofajob Brownie" look competent by comparison? "Puerto Rico Mayors Cry for Help: ‘They Should Know Better!’:" http://www.thedailybeast.com/puerto-ricos-mayors-forced-to-drive-hours-to-san-juan-and-beg-for-help

* "U.S. Army Takes Over Massive Mission to Save Puerto Rico:" http://www.thedailybeast.com/us-army-takes-over-massive-mission-to-save-puerto-rico

* "Trump’s Belated Jones Act Waiver for PR Is A Sham, Here’s Why :" https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/09/28/trumps-belated-jones-act-waiver-for-pr-is-a-sham-heres-why/

* "State not requiring Puerto Rico evacuees to pay transportation costs:" http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/352824-trump-administration-forcing-puerto-rico-evacuees-to-pay-for

* "Kushner didn't tell senators about email account:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/politics/jared-kushner-personal-email-account-senate-intelligence/

* Price is only paying a tiny fraction of the taxpayer money he wasted because of his laziness and sense of entitlement. He needs to pay back every penny. "Price says he’ll repay taxpayers for his private jet travel:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/28/tom-price-private-charter-flights-reimburse-243267

* How strongly are Republicans in favor of Russian intelligence picking our elected officials instead of letting voters do it? Glad you asked. "Republicans to put Russian bank lawyer in coveted DoJ position:"

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This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/

* "CT Sen. Murphy reacts to Roy Moore's Newtown comments:"

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* The Republican Tax plan raises taxes on the working poor so they can lower taxes for the 1%. It is expected to cut 45's taxes personally by at least 10s of millions of dollars every year and likely 1.1 billion dollars over all. Republicans insist that it is unfair that minimum wage workers who need multiple jobs for subsistence only pay a quarter of their pay checks in taxes, whereas the very rich are paying a much as 10 or 12% in taxes after deductions, which is completely unfair since the rich shouldn't have to pay at all and minimum wage workers don't deserve the pittance they are inexplicably allowed to keep and therefore the damage to the economy this tax bill will do is worth it to give the rich much needed relief and to justly punish the poor for choosing not to be born with trust funds.

This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/

* "Honduran Trans Woman Running For Seat In Honduran Congress:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/09/honduran-trans-woman-running-for-seat.html

* How Australia teaches young Children consent: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/165762463060/turtle-pride-ofthemoonandsea-i-want-to-get#notes

* In honor of the Gothmas season. "The Real Dracula: Vlad the Impaler:" https://www.livescience.com/40843-real-dracula-vlad-the-impaler.html

* "Corporate Consolidation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Great Job, C U Next Tuesday!:"

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* "Samantha Bee's Sport Roundup:"

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* "The Federalist Society: Trump’s Shit Judge Pipeline:"

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* "Wake Up to Gabe Fleisher:"

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* "Alabama Votes for Trumpism Without Trump:"

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* "Ugandan Parliament Turns Into Fight Club:"

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* "It's Time to Pay Back Puerto Rico:"

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* "Trump Performs a Tax Miracle (Allegedly):"

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* "DeRay Mckesson - Talking About Justice Wherever We Can:"

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* "'Lock Her Up' Now Applies To Some Trump Officials:"

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* "Graham-Cassidy: The Latest TrumpCare Fail:"

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* "Trump Calls For An NFL Boycott, Watches The NFL:"

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* "Trump Would Help Puerto Rico If It Weren't For That 'Big Ocean':"

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* "He Pulled Out A Gun And Won Alabama's GOP Primary:"

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* "The Emperor's New Wall: A Bedtime Story:"

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* "Alabama's Roy Moore: Explained:"

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* Last night I had a dream that ended with Student/Teacher mutual cannibalism. (That bite to the kidney really hurt). The narrator ended with, "Not long after, the anti-depressant was recalled do to several unfortunate "Incidents" involving patients in a fugue state. God my brain is a weird place.

* Cersei Lannister's Finances: http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/165851537767/do-you-think-that-littlefingers-financial-house

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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/

* "Congress Wants to Change the Americans with Disabilities Act and Undermine the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165470116342/congress-wants-to-change-the-americans-with

* How to help Flood victims in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165235609582/woke-up-on-derse-f-f-f-fight

"How to Help Puerto Rico from the outside:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165733774359/how-to-help-puerto-rico-from-the-outside

* How to help Caribbean victims of Irma: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165240981876/hedaclara-hedaclara-hedaclara-guys-the

* "How to Help Hurricane Harvey Victims:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/27/how_to_help_hurricane_harvey_victims.html

* "Disaster Relief and Support for Libraries:" http://www.txla.org/news/2017/08/disaster-relief-and-support-for-libraries

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

* "Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide:" https://www.splcenter.org/20170814/ten-ways-fight-hate-community-response-guide

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

* How white Protesters can weaponize their whiteness: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/164390645622/alvaroarbeloa-vaspider-okay-friends-lets

* 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

* Red Cross is taking donations for Western Wildfire Relief: http://www.redcross.org/local/oregon/ways-to-donate/wildfires

* (This is here as a reminder to me for later). "Can you recommend me some good books, essays, etc. about witches, witchcraft, witch trials in England?:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/164664427028/dear-pauline-can-you-recommend-me-some-good

* 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

* "Inside the front lines of South Sudan's unwinnable war:" https://news.vice.com/story/inside-the-front-lines-of-south-sudans-unwinnable-war

* "Trump slams China via Twitter: 'They do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk':" http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-slams-china-via-twitter-they-do-nothing-for-us-with-north-korea-just-talk-2017-7

* "Why do we need more women in peacekeeping operations? :" http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/163580616546/why-do-we-need-more-women-in-peacekeeping

* ""Everyone thinks he was whacked":" https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/putins-media-czar-was-murdered-just-before-meeting-feds?utm_term=.byE5v9ka5#.uljaYdQ3a

* "What McCain did was hard. What Murkowski and Collins did was much harder.:" https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/28/16055132/murkowski-collins-mccain

* "New Zealand apologizes to men convicted under old anti-gay laws:" https://mic.com/articles/181580/new-zealand-apologizes-to-men-convicted-under-old-anti-gay-laws?utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=main&utm_source=policymicTBLR#.bzrxGg0R8

* "Can you imagine the changes to the workforce and how we treated workers if no one HAD to work to survive?:" http://satyrday.tumblr.com/post/163051742791/engineer-pearl0-timemachineyeah-can-you

* TW: Pedophilia. "Fmr. USA Gymnastics doctor accused of sex abuse to plead guilty on child porn charges:" https://mic.com/articles/181821/former-usa-gymnastics-doctor-accused-of-sex-abuse-to-plead-guilty-on-child-porn-charges?utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=main&utm_source=policymicTBLR#.oQ1iRrI20

* "Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism:" http://www.politicalresearch.org/2017/06/29/skin-in-the-game-how-antisemitism-animates-white-nationalism/#sthash.kXxeLwCR.LDD6Grfg.dpbs

* "This isn't a question of how evil the military is lol the fact that trans people are banned from enlisting isnt making people upset because they wanted to enlist and now they cant its a problem because the ability to enlist is (unfortunately) a facet of citizenship that trans people had taken away from them and this is most likely the first step in this administrations movement to strip lgbt people of their citizenship:" http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/163543880870/morethanonepage-mascgf-mascgf-this-isnt-a

* " Majority of Americans support transgender military service:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-military-transgender-poll-idUSKBN1AD2BL

* "The Justice Department Just Argued Against Gay Rights In A Major Federal Case:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/the-justice-department-just-argued-against-gay-rights-in-a?utm_term=.in8Z9WkLZ#.iwGmLKGVm

* "How About Using Pics Of Real Trans Service Members To Support Trans Troops?:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/07/how-about-using-pics-of-real-trans.html

* The "Silent Protest Parade" of 1917: https://black-to-the-bones.tumblr.com/post/163543987060/hustleinatrap-for-those-who-have-no-idea-what

* "Water Man – The Gong Show:"

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* "The Opera Whistler – The Gong Show:"

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* I had impressively terrible sleep Saturday, made worse by a wrong number and a resurangce of the all over allergy rash I've been fighting all week and thought I'd beaten. On return from the bathroom after the wrong number, I discovered a pill in my bed. This is never a good thing. I recognized it as prescription grade anti-histamine, which explained everything.

Anyway one that was sorted, I dreamed that Malcolm Reynolds (my role in the dream) and Viv from American version of Shameless were co-leaders of an American Torchwood branch. This episode involved hunting three entirely different mostly invisible deadly things in one day. It also happened to be Viv's wedding day to Svetlana, as Viv was, I guess doing this behind everyone else's back from shameless as really, would you tell them? So Viv left after the first two and the team was hunting a what turned out to Predator without her, only we ended up accidentally crashing the Reception party at the bar as we caught the Predator in the bathroom of the Alibi, which was a good thing, as it turned out not to be the real Viv, but a shapeshifter from earlier in the day....

Possibly geekiest crossover dream ever.

* Latest lilies. http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/163622545292/latest-lilies

* No, news casters, sucking your own cock is not impossible. There is plenty of video evidence, including in the opening montage of the movie "Short Bus," which I recommend for other reasons, including trans people playing trans people, non-binary inclusion, positive depiction of poly, and a really good plot. Also, I knew a guy who could do it, and those of you who are intimately knowledgeable about my sexual history are all likely picturing the same guy and you are wrong. No, not him either. It was a group sex thing.

* O.o "Public School Is A Goddamn Disater, Part 2: The Lovecraftian Madness of Machismo:" http://gallusrostromegalus.tumblr.com/post/163583855433/public-school-is-a-goddamn-disater-part-2-the

* ASoIaf Baratheon Succession: http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/163290024922/who-do-you-think-is-going-to-sit-on-the-iron

* "Killjoys, Season 3, Episode 4: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/07/killjoys-season-3-episode-4-lion-witch.html

* "Why out of all the Great Houses do only the Starks and Tyrells seem to work as a cohesive family unit?:" http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/163327048742/why-out-of-all-the-great-houses-do-only-the-starks

* "The Black Person’s Guide to Game of Thrones:" http://www.theroot.com/the-black-persons-guide-to-game-of-thrones-1796847562

* Book vs. Show Jon Snow: http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/163448825702/i-was-trying-to-explain-to-a-friend-why-i-like-jon

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

* "What can I do to help Syria?:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/161385222607/what-can-i-do-to-help-syria

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

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

* 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

* Want to fight Climate Change? "Ready to Mobilize? Start Here!:" http://www.theclimatemobilization.org/start_here

* Distressed by the anti-gay genocide in Chechnya and the anti-gay laws in Russia? Donate here:
https://lgbtnet.org/en
https://help.lgbtnet.org/en
https://help.lgbtnet.org/chechnya-en

* The Rainbow Road and other ways to help Gay Refugees: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/160470723507/the-rainbow-railroad-is-helping-gay-men-escape

* This is a Real Life friend of mine. They do very much need the money and a number of people and beasts depend on him and his husband. They have been incredibly helpful and supportive of me. If you can kick in, it is a kindness.: https://www.youcaring.com/tod-788345

* This is my oldest continuous Real Life friend. She is disabled and really needs the money for herself and beasts. To buy jewelry from her: https://www.etsy.com/shop/karjack

* 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

* 265 people are dead in Turkey in the wake of the failed military coup. 2,839 military members have been arrested.

* "Mike Pence Once Called a Key Donald Trump Proposal "Offensive and Unconstitutional":" https://mic.com/articles/148943/mike-pence-once-called-key-donald-trump-proposal-offensive-and-unconstitutional?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social#.JnojBB8F6

* My Washington State primary ballot came yesterday, so if you live here, keep an eye on your mailbox if yours hasn't turned up yet.

It's a huge field this year, even larger than there normally is in a Presidential election year, but please, please take the time to vote.

It truly does matter who represents us in the Senate and the House. It very much matters who the Governor and Lieutenant Governor are. (Seriously skim through the candidates' positions. Some of these folks are SCARY). State senators have a huge effect on Public school funding and policy, the state economy, and basic civil rights. I know a lot of the offices on the back side of the ballot are not sexy enough to get TV coverage of any kind, let alone ads, but trust me, it does matter who is Superintendent of Schools (one of these is using code words for dismantling the public system in favor of a crappy new scheme. There are four or five decent candidates in the field depending on your priorities. I know it's a lot of reading, but it really will matter for the kids trying to learn in this state) or on State Supreme Court. There should be a handy voter's guide in your mail also, so you can skim to eliminate people you definitely don't want, and the internet exists if you have a personal run off so you can research in depth.

The primary is important, as it determines which two candidates get on the November ballot. We've had a race where that ended up being two Republicans recently. We've had a race I can remember that was Democrat vs. Green. The more of us vote now, the more likely we can make state races win/win instead of lose lose.

Elections matter. Please VOTE!

* "Is Philando Castile the Ultimate Casualty of Driving While Black?:" http://www.vice.com/read/philando-castile-the-ultimate-casualty-of-driving-while-black

* Includes “Supper time.". "Diana Ross & Ethel Waters:"

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* "Here's Why Women Need More Sleep Than Men, According to Science:" https://mic.com/articles/138184/women-need-more-sleep-than-men-because-they-use-more-of-their-brain-according-to-science?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=future&utm_campaign=social#.56RAnMDcK

* "Simone Biles (USA) - Floor - 2016 Pacific Rim Championships Team/AA Final:"

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* The Little Man in the Boat used to be a boy back in the ‘20′s. NWS, obviously. "George Hannah - The Boy In The Boat :"

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* The Antibiotic sickness kicked in in earnest today, and I can't even be sure the antibiotic is winning the battle in my lungs. Ugh.

* The top blooms finally opened on two of the last three of thebig whites, so I brought them in. I’m starting to see pink in the next batch of buds. I’m tossing in a bonus shelfie of the view from the foot of my bed. It makes me happy just sitting in there looking at my room even still. For all the trouble this place is and continues to be, I love my room so much.: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/147570235517/the-top-blooms-finally-opened-on-two-of-the-last

* "The Fallacy of GoT’s ‘Women on Top’ Part 1: Setting:" http://www.fandomfollowing.com/sexism-and-s6-part-1/

* I honestly don’t know how I feel about this, given the complexity involved and my not having seen the movie, but it’s something to think about. "Beyond Inclusion: Pegg vs Takei:" http://www.fandomfollowing.com/beyond-inclusion-pegg-vs-takei/

* Re: Rowling's Ilvermorny. It's incredibly racist and appropriative and I've no interest in reading or watching anything to do with it.

* TNG, season 1, rewatch: I reached the episode with the drugs are bad m'kay public service message. What is interesting is the debate between Picard and Crusher about ethics and the prime directive. It really differentiates Picard from James "Prime Directive? What Prime Directive?" Kirk. Picard makes a really ugly decision because he believes in the Prime Directive Kirk ran rough shod over. Crusher argues for compassion; Picard is pretty clearly thinking about what happened to the Native Americans when white people showed up. The writing in the episode is still first season clumsy, but you can see the bones of where the show will go at it's best. Ethical debate and ideas are part of what made Star Trek, Star Trek, something J. J. Abrams likes pissing on in interviews and the first two reboot movies, and why I consider those unwatchable. This is also the episode Beverly Crusher's personality starts to fill out into the Crusher I remember. Progress. I am definitely seeing improvement in the back half of season 1, though I know perfectly well TNG will never really take me where I want to go.

* "Sunday Sweets For Disneyland's Birthday:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2016/7/17/sunday-sweets-for-disneylands-birthday.html

* Mira Grant's Rise has so thoroughly colonized my brain I dreamed I was part of an After the End Times blogging team sent to embed with Field Biologists in post Rising Australia doing a wildlife studies beyond the rabbit Proof Fence. O.o We hadn't crossed when I woke so i can't tell you if any of us survived.

* "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: http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general

* 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

* "Russia vetoes UN genocide resolution on Srebrenica:" http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/07/russia-vetoes-genocide-resolution-srebrenica-150708150057291.html

* I understand people being alarmed by the NYSE outage, but honestly, China suspending 70% of trading during a massive sell off is just way bigger news. It's a global economy.

* Modern Greek History and the Economic crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/123160091932/you-want-to-know-why-greece-is-currently-balancing

* They voted to take the damned flag down in South Carolina. In truth, some of the speeches had me in tears.

* "STRENGTH IN NUMBERS: Why we Must Support our Trans Brothers & Sisters:" http://ashtonpwoods.strengthinnumbershouston.com/2015/06/why-we-must-support-our-trans-brothers.html

* "US Navy And Marines Adopt Trans Policy Changes:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/07/us-navy-and-marines-adopt-trans-policy.html

* "Artemisia Gentileschi:" http://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/artemisia-gentileschi/

* I did get some proper sleep last night between birmin attacks. I kept dreaming of lost things: friends I will never see again, a Convention, a PH.d program, My Dead soldier and I sitting with a strat game board stretched between us, his long hair loose. My Loki beat his Raven....

In the night another white lily bloomed.

* Poldark: the folks making this really understand the importance of shirtless Aidan Turner to their viewer base. Yum. I'm still not entirely sold on this Demelza, though there was more development in episode four and I do like the way the writing gave her clear agency in the relationship in away the original'70's version didn't. I like how the women in general are generally written as full people, instead of often being objects the way the original.

* Ebay Time:
AUTUMN FANCIES 2013 (LE, Halloweenies): (Company says: Dry grasses bathed in amber light, muted by gentle shadows.) Top of label.:http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301667294922?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

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

* My RL oldest continuous friend is doing a fundraiser: http://www.gofundme.com/x9g7q2k

* Trying to stay afloat until August: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com

* "Why Joan Rivers FLOTUS Comment Was Racistly Insulting:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/07/why-joan-rivers-flotus-comment-was.html

* Greenwick found. "Reeling from killings, trans community calls for understanding:" http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2014/7/3/trans-color-deathslgbt.html

* Greenwick found. "Transgender woman files human rights complaints over arrest at Pearson:" http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/07/03/transgender_woman_files_human_rights_complaints_over_arrest_at_pearson.html

* This looks analogous to the hostility to YA for girls. "The future looks rosy:" http://bringbackbunty.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/the-future-looks-rosy/

* "And then Seanan talked about fanfic some more.:" http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/578680.html

* I had a dream about Matt Boehmer. It was not a sex dream. I swear we were baking. Clothed. We were making a variety of unusual cookies and cakes with flower flavourings. My favorite was Magnolia/Pistachio/Cardamon with white chocolate chips.

* Grim Reaper Drone: https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/10431472_767769299928443_1184676014687980946_n.png

* Several hundred Russian Separatists are rioting in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, and a neighboring city. You can likely fill in the speculation for yourself. In Luhansk, Russian separatists are holding 60 hostages. In the Ukrainian parliament, fist fights between communists and Nationalists broke out yesterday.

* I know I've been not talking much about Syria with everything else going on, but Syrian Kurds have declared independence and are trying to keep both sides of the Civil War out.

* Today there was little sleep. Hector was doing his howling for part of it, and I had to take in a time sensitive lung sample for culturing. After, I closed out the off-site storage, replaced a remote at Comcast, collected more bureaucracy, and checked for another square storage ottoman. Why do I want another storage ottoman? LM is getting older and finds a standing jump into my bed a bit much, poor thing. The problem is, I was using the purple one I got for Mache as a really comfortable leg prop at the alpha desk. They had no square ones with structure and storage, but they had a rectangular one in the wrong colour, but cat friendly fabric. I ended up getting it, as I could store my fabric in it and put it at the alpha desk, move the pouf as a leg prop to beta desk, and put the purple ottoman back in my room for cat convenience. I needed to sort the fabric anyway, as I wanted to store the emergency tanks under Gamma desk where they were. After I pulled out the smaller scraps and some things I had in there for patterns that can go to Goodwill, the paper patterns and larger swathes fit perfectly in red ottoman. I've got options for purple ottoman as storage space which I am weighing. I also ended up clamping the back door curtain as the cats keep pulling it all the way open. I'm calling it progress. Of course, I was supposed to sort bedroom boxes, but Hector threw up when I was out, so I did laundry instead.

* I dreamed TSA was insisting people bring full length photos of themselves "to compare with the body scanner images." This amused me as it is approximately the same amount of nonsensical as current RL TSA regulations....

* This makes my heart ache it's so beautiful:

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* I've got circular swaps with openings.
Hot drinks: http://www.bpal.org/topic/83154-spring-drink-swap-open/
Scented Products: http://www.bpal.org/topic/83239-spring-scented-products-kitchen-sink-circular-swap/

* The Clutch:

* So here is why the Alfred Wright murder looks suspicious:
( Cut posted to spare a friend not up for this stuff: ) Yeah, Right. *side eye* It makes about as much sense as the completely illogical cover up in the Kendrick Johnson case.

* "How the NSA Threatens National Security:" http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-the-nsa-threatens-national-security/282822/

* TW: End of Life Issues. "Talking back to the Kellers:" http://jlake-feed.dreamwidth.org/371558.html

* A Court has declared the Oklahoma Marriage ban unconstitutional, but there is a stay pending appeal, so no marriages yet.

* "Actually, "meeting a nice girl" wouldn't solve my problems, but thanks coworker!:" http://amorphousamphibian.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/actually-meeting-a-nice-girl-wouldnt-solve-my-problems-but-thanks-coworker/

* I wrote a longer version of this on Tumblr, but the short form is: If you need Trigger Warnings and/or cut posts on things I am not properly marking, PM me and I'll try to remember and fix it. I am not perfect, especially when I am as tired and ill as I currently am. I would much rather someone toss me a reminder than for me to be triggering people. I do forget things; I do slip up. I will not take offense and likely, if it is upsetting you it will upset someone else and your PM is helping that other person tor persons.

* ...And I woke up this morning to discover the land lines were dead. I very long customer service call to Comcast turned up the fact that they failed to "complete" the transfer last night which means nothing we did "is sticking." If I disappear from online, this is why. The lady is still trying to sort it out.

* I just dreamed that it was the future and Kerry Washington was the first African American Woman president.

* "Theft:" http://xkcd-rss.livejournal.com/332840.html