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10/8/23 - 10/17/23
Oct. 17th, 2023 10:16 am* I meant to post this Saturday night, but kept getting distracted by other tasks. I meant to post it Sunday, but I was exhausted and went to bed. sorry. Odds are some things are out of date.
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* "'No place to go': Gazans stuck as fodder for Hamas guerilla tactics:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-no-place-to-go-gazans-stuck-as-fodder-for-hamas-guerilla-tactics-195296325881
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* "Opinion | Why Did Netanyahu Want to Strengthen Hamas?:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-11/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-needed-a-strong-hamas/0000018b-1e9f-d47b-a7fb-bfdfd8f30000
* "Hamas seeks Palestinian prisoners' release, calls non-Israeli captives 'guests':" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/former-hamas-chief-meshaal-says-israeli-captives-include-high-ranking-officers-2023-10-16/
* "Glimmer of hope as Hamas broaches subject of releasing some hostages:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/glimmer-of-hope-as-hamas-broaches-subject-of-releasing-some-hostages-195764805804
* "Israel Latest: Blinken Works on Gaza Aid as Biden Set to Visit:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-16/israel-latest-blinken-set-to-return-as-us-tries-to-contain-war?srnd=premium&sref=MIBMEEoj
* "Biden to Visit Israel Amid Gaza Crisis, as Fears Grow of Wider War:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/16/world/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza
* "Biden hopes to head off any regional expansion of war with trip to Israel: Rep. Himes:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-hopes-to-head-off-any-regional-expansion-of-war-with-trip-to-israel-rep-himes-195766341815
* I saw print coverage of this, and decided not to publicize it for these reasons. "Let's talk about what didn't happen yesterday....:"
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* "Israel, White House condemn Trump for remarks about Hamas attack, 'smart' Hezbollah:" https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-israels-netanyahu-was-not-prepared-hamas-attack-2023-10-12/
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* "There Are No Rules: States and quasi-states are using extreme, uninhibited violence against civilian populations.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israel-war-hamas-terrorism-ukraine-russia/675590/
* "As Turkey intensifies war on Kurdish militants in Iraq, civilians are suffering :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/iraq-turkey-airstrikes
* "Israeli arms quietly helped Azerbaijan retake Nagorno-Karabakh, to the dismay of region’s Armenians:" https://apnews.com/article/armenia-azerbaijan-nagorno-karabakh-weapons-israel-6814437bcd744acc1c4df0409a74406c
* "French presidential candidate fined under hate-crime law after condemning lesbian mums:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/09/france-eric-zemmour-fined-lesbian-mums/
* "Polish opposition looks set to oust ruling nationalists in major political shift:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/polish-opposition-eyes-power-after-ruling-nationalists-appear-have-fallen-short-2023-10-16/
This is a huge relief! I've been watching this one closely, but most of that coverage was out of date as of this writing so i deleted it. It's so important. It'll be an uphill climb for them as it is now still for us, but getting rid of PiS is an essential first step in fixing things. I really do wish the people of Poland luck and a better next year.
* "What happens next in Poland? 5 things you need to know after a landmark election :" https://www.politico.eu/article/5-takeaways-poland-election-donald-tusk-jaroslaw-kaczynski/
* "Poland’s LGBTQ+ community celebrates right-wing election losses: ‘We’ll fight for the future’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/16/poland-lgbtq-election-result-human-rights/
* "A Patois Revival: Jamaica Weighs Language Change as Ties to Britain Fray:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/world/americas/jamaica-official-language-patois.html
* This is how I've been reading that strategy. "Let's talk about 600 days in Ukraine and the kitchen....:"
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* "Volunteer Veterinarians in Ukraine:" https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/10/photos-volunteer-veterinarians-in-ukraine/675539/
* "Biden interviewed as part of the special counsel investigation into handling of classified documents:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-special-counsel-classified-documents-025f25d04a5c0e45d758fbaaa2f231b8
* "Rudy Giuliani sues Joe Biden for calling him a ‘Russian pawn’ :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/04/politics/rudy-giuliani-lawsuit-joe-biden-russian-pawn/index.html
* "Clarence Thomas Wants to Go After Freedom of the Press:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/clarence-thomas-challenge-landmark-defamation-ruling-1234850483/
* "U.S. inflation eased slightly last month as price increases extend slow descent:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/12/us-inflation-september-00121165
* Spoiler: AMPTP are being assholes. "SAG-AFTRA Strike Looks Bleaker Than Ever as Talks Break Down:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/sag-aftra-strike-looks-bleaker-than-ever-as-talks-break-down
* "SAG-AFTRA & Video Game Biz To Resume Contract Talks In Effort To Avoid New Strike:" https://deadline.com/2023/10/sag-aftra-video-game-contract-talks-1235575211/
* "Hollywood writers ratify 2023 tentative agreement with AMPTP:" https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/hollywood-writers-begin-voting-approve-contract-end-dispute/story?id=103654176
* A friend researched the story behind the corporate spin on the Disney waterslide lawsuit. It's pretty fucking horrific what happened to this woman.
https://www.tumblr.com/allaboardthecolumboat/730207489393655808/woman-sues-disney-says-typhoon-lagoon-slide
* "SNAP recipients are denied hot food. These Penn grads found a hack with a new kind of corner store.:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/the-community-grocer-cobbs-creek-food-20230925.html
* "The mess in Congress, explained:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-10-14/house-republican-scalise-speaker-jordan-austin-scott-kevin-mccarthy-explained
* "McCarthy loyalists vow to draw out painful speakership battle:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/10/10/congress/mccarthy-speaker-vote-israel-math-00120720
* "Some House Republicans try to change the rules so losers become winners:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/14/jim-jordan-speaker-minority-rule/
* "Let's talk about the new GOP House situation....:"
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* "Hope fades that Congress can link Ukraine and Israel aid:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/11/congress-israel-ukraine-military-aid-00120974
* "Lauren Boebert Under Fire for Horrifying Transphobic Comments About Pentagon Official:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/lauren-boebert-transphobia-pentagon-official
* "Most US voters in favour of introducing more LGBTQ+ protections:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/12/us-voters-in-favour-pro-lgbtq-laws/
* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills
* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them 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.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf
* "Dems file lawsuit challenging just-enacted, Republican-crafted North Carolina voting law :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/10/dems-file-lawsuit-challenging-republican-north-carolina-voting-law-00120773
* "California Sen. Laphonza Butler on Making Black Queer History and What Her Political Future Holds:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/laphonza-butler-makes-lesbian-history
* "Franklin mayoral candidate Hanson is running as the latest outgrowth of the Trump era:" https://tennesseelookout.com/2023/09/30/franklin-mayoral-candidate-hanson-is-running-as-the-latest-outgrowth-of-the-trump-era/
* "Tennessee Neo-Nazis Show Up to Support Far-Right Mayoral Candidate:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/neo-nazis-franklin-gabrielle-hanson
* "Can Dave McCormick Go Home Again?:" https://themessenger.com/politics/can-dave-mccormick-go-home-again
* "Sylvia Swayne Aims to Make History as Alabama’s First Trans State Representative:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/alabama-transgender-candidate-sylvia-swayne
* Please don't be fooled into voting for him. "RFK Jr. says he's running for president as an independent:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/09/1204681962/rfk-jr-independent
* "Trump Shows Love To 'Hannibal Lecter' In Killer Blunder At Iowa Rally:" https://news.yahoo.com/trump-shows-love-hannibal-lecter-042941582.html
* CW: Suicide. Sen. John Fetterman Extended Interview:
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* "George Santos's Ex-Campaign Treasurer Implicates Congressman and Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charge:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/nancy-marks-george-santos-plea
* "Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife struck and killed a pedestrian with her car in 2018, police records show:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/bob-menendezs-wife-killed-pedestrian-car-2018-police-records-show-rcna118876
* "The Shady Nonprofit Trying to Ruin Our Democracy:"
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* "Trump Gets the Corporate Death Penalty (And It's Getting Worse):"
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* "'I will not permit it': Judge throttles Trump's ranting to protect trial integrity:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-i-will-not-permit-it-judge-throttles-trump-s-ranting-to-protect-trial-integrity-195768389566
* "Let's talk about Trump, the docs, and an extra element....:"
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* I am furious. "No Charges Against Georgia Police in Death of Queer Activist Shot 57 Times:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/police-not-charged-activist-death
* "Denver's STAR set to expand amid tension over its future:" https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2023/05/03/denver-star-set-to-expand-amid-tension-over-its-future
* "California Just Became the First State to Declare a Transgender History Month:" https://www.them.us/story/california-transgender-history-month
* "77-year-old man from The Villages arrested after found with $1,800 worth of illegal erectile dysfunction pills:" https://nbc-2.com/news/weird/2023/10/05/77-year-old-man-from-the-villages-arrested-after-found-with-1800-worth-of-illegal-erectile-dysfunction-pills/
* "A Rant About Transphobia:"
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* "What a striking new study of death in America misses:" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23895909/angus-deaton-anne-case-life-expectancy-united-states-college-graduates-inequality-heart-disease
* "An epidemic of chronic illness is killing us too soon:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/american-life-expectancy-dropping/
* "The long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on T cell activation: autoimmune disorders and endothelial cell dysfunction:" https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230801/The-long-term-effects-of-SARS-CoV-2-infection-on-T-cell-activation-autoimmune-disorders-and-endothelial-cell-dysfunction.aspx
* "Severe COVID-19 Can Alter Long-term Immune System Response:" https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2023/08/severe-covid-19-can-alter-long-term-immune-system-response
* "The Standard Advice for Concussions Is Wrong:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/10/concussion-brain-injury-treatment-recovery/675554/
* "Down syndrome families' fight for access to Alzheimer’s trials, treatments:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/down-syndrome-families-fight-access-alzheimers-trials-treatments-2023-10-10/
* "Rural America Is Losing Nursing Homes, and Small Towns Are Reeling:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-11/us-rural-nursing-homes-are-closing-hollowing-out-small-towns?cmpid=BBD101123_CITYLAB&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=231011&utm_campaign=citylabdaily&leadSource=uverify%20wall
* "World "less likely than ever" to meet Paris Agreement goal:" https://www.axios.com/2023/10/11/climate-paris-agreement-dnv
* "It's a global climate solution — if it can get past conspiracy theories and NIMBYs:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/08/1203950823/15-minute-cities-climate-solution
* "A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations:" https://www.wired.com/story/a-revelation-about-trees-is-messing-with-climate-calculations/
* "Millions of children are displaced due to extreme weather events. Climate change will make it worse:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-child-displacement-extreme-weather-87e933b1ee0d81f9345daa801f311ea6
* "‘Without water, there is no life’: Drought in Brazil’s Amazon is sharpening fears for the future:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/water-life-drought-brazils-amazon-sharpening-fears-future-103815545
* "More than 90% of people killed by western Afghanistan quake were women and children, UN says:" https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-earthquake-death-toll-women-children-e9ef4fd77603f2203e3695194fbf7851
* "After Three Big Quakes, Too Scared to Sleep Anywhere but Outside:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/world/asia/afghanistan-earthquake.html
* Doctors without Borders Afghanistan Relief: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/where-we-work/afghanistan
* "New York City Is Not Built for This:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/09/new-york-heavy-rain-flooding-state-of-emergency/675505/
* "Your Sweaters Are Garbage: The quality of knitwear has cratered. Even expensive sweaters have lost their hefty, lush glory.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/10/sweater-clothing-quality-natural-fibers-fast-fashion/675600/
* "Americans know little about how their seafood is sourced. :" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/16/the-crimes-behind-the-seafood-you-eat
* "The AI Art Apocalypse:"
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* "Genetic tester 23andMe’s hacked data on Jewish users offered for sale online:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/06/23andme-hacked-data/
* "How a lonely mountain lion led to the creation of the world’s largest wildlife overpass:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/08/us/iyw-wildlife-overpasses/index.html
* "Man faces federal charges for allegedly killing hawks to protect squirrels on his property:" https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/man-faces-federal-charges-for-allegedly-killing-hawks-to-protect-squirrels-on-his-property-wild-animals-portsmouth-rhode-island-shooting-shot-to-death-pellet-guns-migratory-bird-treaty-act-red-tail-cooper
* "What is ‘kelping’? Why whales are making hats out of seaweed:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/kelping-whale-behavior-seaweed
* "Blacklight Studies Reveal That Most Mammals Secretly Glow:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fluorescent-animals
* "Basil the Opossum Has One Eye, a Big Heart, and a Job to Do:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/09/one-eyed-opossum-national-zoo-backyard-animals/675482/
* "Science paints a new picture of the ancient past, when we mixed and mated with other kinds of humans:" https://phys.org/news/2023-09-science-picture-ancient-kinds-humans.html
* "Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans:" https://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/06/17/interactive_map_loss_of_indian_land.html
* "American Dreams: Two families, one enslaved by the other. In many ways, their journeys since emancipation illustrate a broader truth about U.S. history: the lasting impact of discrimination on economic opportunities afforded Blacks and whites.:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-tennessee/
* "The surprising history of America’s ‘pick-your-own’ farms:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/the-surprising-history-of-americas-pick-your-own-farms
* CW: Suicide. "Somerton Man Charles Webb's true identity revealed in family photographs and divorce papers:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-21/somerton-manfamily-photographs-revealed-/101643524
* "Casting the Women of Valley of the Dolls:"
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* "The Making of Valley of the Dolls:"
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* "Matthew Shepard remembered by friends 25 years after brutal homophobic killing shocked the world:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/12/matthew-shepard-friends-life-and-death-25-years-on
* "Stop Firing Your Friends: Just make more of them.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/stop-breaking-up-with-friends/674540/
* "Hughes Van Ellis, youngest known survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 102:" https://apnews.com/article/obituary-tulsa-massacre-hughes-van-ellis-d63087c5a8fbe097e47d394394a4df3b
* "At Colorado funeral home where 115 decaying bodies found, troubles went unnoticed by regulators:" https://apnews.com/article/colorado-funeral-home-bodies-found-investigation-ee1089fab926042fda05fe5fa79ec7ce
* "Breaking News: The 'Return to Nature Funeral Home' Scandal:"
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* Last Sunday we got the interior ornaments up on the Halloween trees, but not the lights. It was just the newest Millennial and I. It was a really nice visit. At one point Livia came to the front of her room to give Newest Millennial blinky eyes, which is astonishing. She doesn't want to interact, mind, but this is Livia we are talking about and she usually doesn't like people who aren't me and Squirrel and to a much lesser extent Goth Millennial.
https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731111975430569984/gothmas-interior-decorations-about-half-done?source=share
* So remember how Peacehealth drove all the independent offices in four specialties out of business, thus forcing everyone to use their clinic, then closed those clinics to force everyone to go to their central clinic two counties to the south? And remember how both the Doctors who were running that clinic made a deal to operate out of a clinic a regional medical conglomerate was opening near the hospital? so instead of me spending all day on a sixty mile each way trek for my treatment I was using the last three months of skeleton crew treatment at old clinic which ended the last Thursday in September? Remember how they said we could all follow our doctors there?
Yeah, about that.
I've been dutifully calling ever two weeks to see if they were letting people schedule appointments yet. They sent out a letter saying they were open. I stayed up Tuesday to get in sorted. it was a whole drama because the automated maze to get to the scheduler was as much of a hassle as Peacehealth's and prone to dropping calls, forcing one to start from scratch each time. so that was frustrating and tine consuming.
Apparently they have no access to our health records, so it was a start from scratch situation. Me, mentally: Shit! This is going to be HOURS. Only it wasn't for all the wrong reasons. They take Medicare, but not Medicare Advantage. So if I want it covered I have to lose most of my benefits including having Medicaid pay my big Medicare copay. O.o. Or I can pay for expensive treatments myself as uninsured.
I was upset, but I remembered superstar medical social worker lady personally calling around town to talk dentists into taking medicare dental coverage for me thus opening up my small city so that medicare patients can now get root canals and crowns instead of learning to live without chewing.
So I still thought it was salvageable. Problem is she's gone and the woman replacing her is a busy supervisor who likes to call me two hours into my sleep cycle without warning and then gets angry at me for not being charming. Previous lady asked when was best to call and would schedule calls in advance for a time when I was able to be awake and functional. it is a lot easier for me to be charming when I wasn't just ripped out of REM sleep and am now being interrogated about something.
New lady is a supervisor and super busy with supervisor things and is made of no and is snippy. I can not make her understand that not only is a 120 mile round trip over mountain passes dealing with the traffic mess along the highway in the major metropolitan area where I once got caught in a four hour traffic jam and couldn't get off to pee, is an entire exhausting day for me and that plus a treatment would not only mean i could do anything useful that day, but the next day to. She can't grasp how much pain is involved in long car trips or how much treatments take out of me. She keeps hard selling me on this and then calling me resistant and recalcitrant like I'm the one being unreasonable for considering this basically insurmountable at my level of disability.
She did not fight the in town clinic for me. She did not try to argue them around.
Her, repeating a suggestion she has made over and over since the closing announcement: You should just get your GP to do it.
Me, explaining for at least the third time because we have this conversation every time we talk: I asked my GP last spring like you asked. They can't do it. It can't be administered by a GP. They'd need to hire a specialist and build new facilities for compounding and for special storage of medication.
Her: Well just ask you GP to give you a different treatment.
Me: There are no other treatments. I have medications to manage symptoms. These treatments are the cure. There is only one cure.
Her: You are being recalcitrant!
Me: There is literally only one cure. No new ones have been invented since last February. The cure is working. I'm getting better. i will get worse again with only symptom management.
But she kept arguing with me because I was being stubborn about facts being facts. My GP can't pull an entire brand new treatment regimen out of her ass. She would not let it go or let me go and I was exhausted because it was hours past when I would normally be asleep at this point and also what was the point of her hard selling me on demanding the imaginary alternative treatment or the 120 mile trip. I ended up giving and and saying something like, "I have to go now," which I know is rude, but we spent this entire conversation with her neither listing not understanding and basically acting like I was the asshole here.
So I'm fucked and I'm frustrated and angry. I was literally at the point where I was going to get better really quickly if I kept doing treatments, but if we stop now I'll be back to square one with it all to do again if another clinic opens.
And it's all like this because Obama and Biden didn't have the balls to stick to their universal free healthy care guns and decided to adopt the capitalist give away Republican health plan in pursuit of bipartisan buy in they did not get, which anyone paying attention told them they could not get, which Mitch McConnell vowed they'd never get as part of the project to make Obama a one term president at all costs. They burned all their political capital on a bullshit give away to insurance companies when they could have taken the same or less of a hit just giving up a developed country level health care system. No fucked up website needed for sign ups. No red tape or copays or catch 22 shit like I'm dealing with now.
* Tuesday, once I was allowed to sleep, people kept waking me up. Bonus, my legs weren't really working, so I just kept falling over. It's like this this time of year with the extreme temperature and barometric pressure changes. At one point during a food making attempt I managed to fuck up a toe on one side and the wrist on the other, Go me. This was an extra bad one though, and I really wasn't much functional just generally and everything was just incredibly hard to accomplish.
We did manage Wednesday errands, including the bit when I needed to get out of the car. Assorted Millennials puttered around with decorations and there was much chatting. Outside is started. The trees are mostly sorted inside, but not the rest.
At one point Goth Millennial was like, "did the barometer just drop?" and I was like, "I don't have a barometer, but according to my sinuses and joints, yes. It's the evening winds out of Alaska right on time. About five minutes ago right?" Them: "Yes. My shoulder just started hurting."
* When we were decorating Sunday, I was trying to explain to newest Millenial why the Weeping Angel tree topper horrifies Goth Millenial. "An image of an angel is an angel," etc., and they seemed really confused so I kept explaining the lore that makes them horrifying. Finally it became clear that they thought this was real angel lore, having no idea about either Doctor Who or Christian Mythology.
I love my friends.
* Saturday I got a few more things done inside (Window display stuff, more lights.) This Sunday I got outside to good enough but more to be done while Newest millennial made special pizza which was fascinating and delicious. Then Goth Millennial, New Millennial and I had floats and talked about history.
* The pictures of the Imperial couple from before that I promised. These are the best livia pics ever taken: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731382118597476353/the-empress-livia-spots-a-moth-the-moth-lands-on?source=share
* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills
* "Homeschooling: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"
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* "Trump Blabbed Nuclear Secrets at Mar-a-Lago | Election Lies Bring Down Mike Lindell:"
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* "War Misinformation Spreads on X | House GOP Therapy Session | RFK Jr.’s Dangerous Candidacy:"
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* "Meanwhile… Boston’s Annoying Accent | Drink Til You Puke at Brunch | Snoop Got Ed Sheeran High:"
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* "Scalise Nabs House Speaker Nom | George Santos Scammed His Own Donors | Bigfoot Found!:"
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* "Stephen Learns the Differences Between Hispanic and Latino:"
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* "McCarthy As Temp Speaker? | George Santos Channels Mr. T | Trump Threatens “Fire Hell” If He Loses:"
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* "Meanwhile… Shower in Your Jeans | Adopt Cheeto the Dog | UK’s Soggy Chestnuts:"
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* NOTE: Several Classic Who companions also quit, which may not be clear from the wording in this. Otherwise, I'm in complete agreement. "Martha Jones Deserved Better (And Other Correct Doctor Who Takes):"
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* "Playing Games with Classified Info:"
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* "Now You Can Bet on the House Speaker Race:"
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* "A Live Look at the Speaker Race:"
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* "I'm Just Pete - SNL:"
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* "Glamgina - SNL:"
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* "Get Out of Trouble the George Santos Way!:"
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* "Sir Gawain And The Green Knight:" https://the-toast.net/2015/06/03/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/
* "I grew up in a haunted house and I didn’t notice:" https://www.tumblr.com/cleolinda/730174032954212352/i-grew-up-in-a-haunted-house-and-didnt-notice
"My sister noticed:" https://www.tumblr.com/cleolinda/730177944968937472/my-sister-noticed
* They updated Stabby the Roomba: https://sepulchritude.tumblr.com/post/153838867333/on-the-topic-of-humans-being-the-intergalactic
* "Midnight Pals: Frankensexy:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/730721721632604160/midnight-pals-frankensexy?source=share
* "Midnight Pals: The Most Divorced Time of year:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/731355328295436288/midnight-pals-the-most-divorced-time-of-year?source=share
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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
The help links are at the bottom under the cut.
* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills
* Apply for Project 2025 so they have to pick through resumes, using their resources: https://apply.project2025.org/ords/r/p25/pub/questionnaire?p4_qid=1
* Want to help Andy Kim beat Bob Menendez? https://www.andykim.com/
* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz
* Want to contribute to Gloria Johnson's senate run in Tennessee? https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/
* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html
* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/
* Want to help the people of Maui?
Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/
Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/
Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui
Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html
* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/
* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt
* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion
* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls
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* "'No place to go': Gazans stuck as fodder for Hamas guerilla tactics:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-no-place-to-go-gazans-stuck-as-fodder-for-hamas-guerilla-tactics-195296325881
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* "Opinion | Why Did Netanyahu Want to Strengthen Hamas?:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-11/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-needed-a-strong-hamas/0000018b-1e9f-d47b-a7fb-bfdfd8f30000
* "Hamas seeks Palestinian prisoners' release, calls non-Israeli captives 'guests':" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/former-hamas-chief-meshaal-says-israeli-captives-include-high-ranking-officers-2023-10-16/
* "Glimmer of hope as Hamas broaches subject of releasing some hostages:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/glimmer-of-hope-as-hamas-broaches-subject-of-releasing-some-hostages-195764805804
* "Israel Latest: Blinken Works on Gaza Aid as Biden Set to Visit:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-16/israel-latest-blinken-set-to-return-as-us-tries-to-contain-war?srnd=premium&sref=MIBMEEoj
* "Biden to Visit Israel Amid Gaza Crisis, as Fears Grow of Wider War:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/16/world/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza
* "Biden hopes to head off any regional expansion of war with trip to Israel: Rep. Himes:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-hopes-to-head-off-any-regional-expansion-of-war-with-trip-to-israel-rep-himes-195766341815
* I saw print coverage of this, and decided not to publicize it for these reasons. "Let's talk about what didn't happen yesterday....:"
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* "Israel, White House condemn Trump for remarks about Hamas attack, 'smart' Hezbollah:" https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-israels-netanyahu-was-not-prepared-hamas-attack-2023-10-12/
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* "There Are No Rules: States and quasi-states are using extreme, uninhibited violence against civilian populations.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israel-war-hamas-terrorism-ukraine-russia/675590/
* "As Turkey intensifies war on Kurdish militants in Iraq, civilians are suffering :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/iraq-turkey-airstrikes
* "Israeli arms quietly helped Azerbaijan retake Nagorno-Karabakh, to the dismay of region’s Armenians:" https://apnews.com/article/armenia-azerbaijan-nagorno-karabakh-weapons-israel-6814437bcd744acc1c4df0409a74406c
* "French presidential candidate fined under hate-crime law after condemning lesbian mums:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/09/france-eric-zemmour-fined-lesbian-mums/
* "Polish opposition looks set to oust ruling nationalists in major political shift:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/polish-opposition-eyes-power-after-ruling-nationalists-appear-have-fallen-short-2023-10-16/
This is a huge relief! I've been watching this one closely, but most of that coverage was out of date as of this writing so i deleted it. It's so important. It'll be an uphill climb for them as it is now still for us, but getting rid of PiS is an essential first step in fixing things. I really do wish the people of Poland luck and a better next year.
* "What happens next in Poland? 5 things you need to know after a landmark election :" https://www.politico.eu/article/5-takeaways-poland-election-donald-tusk-jaroslaw-kaczynski/
* "Poland’s LGBTQ+ community celebrates right-wing election losses: ‘We’ll fight for the future’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/16/poland-lgbtq-election-result-human-rights/
* "A Patois Revival: Jamaica Weighs Language Change as Ties to Britain Fray:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/world/americas/jamaica-official-language-patois.html
* This is how I've been reading that strategy. "Let's talk about 600 days in Ukraine and the kitchen....:"
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* "Volunteer Veterinarians in Ukraine:" https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/10/photos-volunteer-veterinarians-in-ukraine/675539/
* "Biden interviewed as part of the special counsel investigation into handling of classified documents:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-special-counsel-classified-documents-025f25d04a5c0e45d758fbaaa2f231b8
* "Rudy Giuliani sues Joe Biden for calling him a ‘Russian pawn’ :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/04/politics/rudy-giuliani-lawsuit-joe-biden-russian-pawn/index.html
* "Clarence Thomas Wants to Go After Freedom of the Press:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/clarence-thomas-challenge-landmark-defamation-ruling-1234850483/
* "U.S. inflation eased slightly last month as price increases extend slow descent:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/12/us-inflation-september-00121165
* Spoiler: AMPTP are being assholes. "SAG-AFTRA Strike Looks Bleaker Than Ever as Talks Break Down:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/sag-aftra-strike-looks-bleaker-than-ever-as-talks-break-down
* "SAG-AFTRA & Video Game Biz To Resume Contract Talks In Effort To Avoid New Strike:" https://deadline.com/2023/10/sag-aftra-video-game-contract-talks-1235575211/
* "Hollywood writers ratify 2023 tentative agreement with AMPTP:" https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/hollywood-writers-begin-voting-approve-contract-end-dispute/story?id=103654176
* A friend researched the story behind the corporate spin on the Disney waterslide lawsuit. It's pretty fucking horrific what happened to this woman.
https://www.tumblr.com/allaboardthecolumboat/730207489393655808/woman-sues-disney-says-typhoon-lagoon-slide
* "SNAP recipients are denied hot food. These Penn grads found a hack with a new kind of corner store.:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/the-community-grocer-cobbs-creek-food-20230925.html
* "The mess in Congress, explained:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-10-14/house-republican-scalise-speaker-jordan-austin-scott-kevin-mccarthy-explained
* "McCarthy loyalists vow to draw out painful speakership battle:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/10/10/congress/mccarthy-speaker-vote-israel-math-00120720
* "Some House Republicans try to change the rules so losers become winners:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/14/jim-jordan-speaker-minority-rule/
* "Let's talk about the new GOP House situation....:"
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* "Hope fades that Congress can link Ukraine and Israel aid:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/11/congress-israel-ukraine-military-aid-00120974
* "Lauren Boebert Under Fire for Horrifying Transphobic Comments About Pentagon Official:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/lauren-boebert-transphobia-pentagon-official
* "Most US voters in favour of introducing more LGBTQ+ protections:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/12/us-voters-in-favour-pro-lgbtq-laws/
* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills
* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them 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.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf
* "Dems file lawsuit challenging just-enacted, Republican-crafted North Carolina voting law :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/10/dems-file-lawsuit-challenging-republican-north-carolina-voting-law-00120773
* "California Sen. Laphonza Butler on Making Black Queer History and What Her Political Future Holds:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/laphonza-butler-makes-lesbian-history
* "Franklin mayoral candidate Hanson is running as the latest outgrowth of the Trump era:" https://tennesseelookout.com/2023/09/30/franklin-mayoral-candidate-hanson-is-running-as-the-latest-outgrowth-of-the-trump-era/
* "Tennessee Neo-Nazis Show Up to Support Far-Right Mayoral Candidate:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/neo-nazis-franklin-gabrielle-hanson
* "Can Dave McCormick Go Home Again?:" https://themessenger.com/politics/can-dave-mccormick-go-home-again
* "Sylvia Swayne Aims to Make History as Alabama’s First Trans State Representative:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/alabama-transgender-candidate-sylvia-swayne
* Please don't be fooled into voting for him. "RFK Jr. says he's running for president as an independent:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/09/1204681962/rfk-jr-independent
* "Trump Shows Love To 'Hannibal Lecter' In Killer Blunder At Iowa Rally:" https://news.yahoo.com/trump-shows-love-hannibal-lecter-042941582.html
* CW: Suicide. Sen. John Fetterman Extended Interview:
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* "George Santos's Ex-Campaign Treasurer Implicates Congressman and Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charge:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/nancy-marks-george-santos-plea
* "Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife struck and killed a pedestrian with her car in 2018, police records show:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/bob-menendezs-wife-killed-pedestrian-car-2018-police-records-show-rcna118876
* "The Shady Nonprofit Trying to Ruin Our Democracy:"
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* "Trump Gets the Corporate Death Penalty (And It's Getting Worse):"
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* "'I will not permit it': Judge throttles Trump's ranting to protect trial integrity:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-i-will-not-permit-it-judge-throttles-trump-s-ranting-to-protect-trial-integrity-195768389566
* "Let's talk about Trump, the docs, and an extra element....:"
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* I am furious. "No Charges Against Georgia Police in Death of Queer Activist Shot 57 Times:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/police-not-charged-activist-death
* "Denver's STAR set to expand amid tension over its future:" https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2023/05/03/denver-star-set-to-expand-amid-tension-over-its-future
* "California Just Became the First State to Declare a Transgender History Month:" https://www.them.us/story/california-transgender-history-month
* "77-year-old man from The Villages arrested after found with $1,800 worth of illegal erectile dysfunction pills:" https://nbc-2.com/news/weird/2023/10/05/77-year-old-man-from-the-villages-arrested-after-found-with-1800-worth-of-illegal-erectile-dysfunction-pills/
* "A Rant About Transphobia:"
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* "What a striking new study of death in America misses:" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23895909/angus-deaton-anne-case-life-expectancy-united-states-college-graduates-inequality-heart-disease
* "An epidemic of chronic illness is killing us too soon:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/american-life-expectancy-dropping/
* "The long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on T cell activation: autoimmune disorders and endothelial cell dysfunction:" https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230801/The-long-term-effects-of-SARS-CoV-2-infection-on-T-cell-activation-autoimmune-disorders-and-endothelial-cell-dysfunction.aspx
* "Severe COVID-19 Can Alter Long-term Immune System Response:" https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2023/08/severe-covid-19-can-alter-long-term-immune-system-response
* "The Standard Advice for Concussions Is Wrong:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/10/concussion-brain-injury-treatment-recovery/675554/
* "Down syndrome families' fight for access to Alzheimer’s trials, treatments:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/down-syndrome-families-fight-access-alzheimers-trials-treatments-2023-10-10/
* "Rural America Is Losing Nursing Homes, and Small Towns Are Reeling:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-11/us-rural-nursing-homes-are-closing-hollowing-out-small-towns?cmpid=BBD101123_CITYLAB&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=231011&utm_campaign=citylabdaily&leadSource=uverify%20wall
* "World "less likely than ever" to meet Paris Agreement goal:" https://www.axios.com/2023/10/11/climate-paris-agreement-dnv
* "It's a global climate solution — if it can get past conspiracy theories and NIMBYs:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/08/1203950823/15-minute-cities-climate-solution
* "A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations:" https://www.wired.com/story/a-revelation-about-trees-is-messing-with-climate-calculations/
* "Millions of children are displaced due to extreme weather events. Climate change will make it worse:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-child-displacement-extreme-weather-87e933b1ee0d81f9345daa801f311ea6
* "‘Without water, there is no life’: Drought in Brazil’s Amazon is sharpening fears for the future:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/water-life-drought-brazils-amazon-sharpening-fears-future-103815545
* "More than 90% of people killed by western Afghanistan quake were women and children, UN says:" https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-earthquake-death-toll-women-children-e9ef4fd77603f2203e3695194fbf7851
* "After Three Big Quakes, Too Scared to Sleep Anywhere but Outside:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/world/asia/afghanistan-earthquake.html
* Doctors without Borders Afghanistan Relief: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/where-we-work/afghanistan
* "New York City Is Not Built for This:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/09/new-york-heavy-rain-flooding-state-of-emergency/675505/
* "Your Sweaters Are Garbage: The quality of knitwear has cratered. Even expensive sweaters have lost their hefty, lush glory.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/10/sweater-clothing-quality-natural-fibers-fast-fashion/675600/
* "Americans know little about how their seafood is sourced. :" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/16/the-crimes-behind-the-seafood-you-eat
* "The AI Art Apocalypse:"
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* "Genetic tester 23andMe’s hacked data on Jewish users offered for sale online:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/06/23andme-hacked-data/
* "How a lonely mountain lion led to the creation of the world’s largest wildlife overpass:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/08/us/iyw-wildlife-overpasses/index.html
* "Man faces federal charges for allegedly killing hawks to protect squirrels on his property:" https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/man-faces-federal-charges-for-allegedly-killing-hawks-to-protect-squirrels-on-his-property-wild-animals-portsmouth-rhode-island-shooting-shot-to-death-pellet-guns-migratory-bird-treaty-act-red-tail-cooper
* "What is ‘kelping’? Why whales are making hats out of seaweed:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/kelping-whale-behavior-seaweed
* "Blacklight Studies Reveal That Most Mammals Secretly Glow:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fluorescent-animals
* "Basil the Opossum Has One Eye, a Big Heart, and a Job to Do:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/09/one-eyed-opossum-national-zoo-backyard-animals/675482/
* "Science paints a new picture of the ancient past, when we mixed and mated with other kinds of humans:" https://phys.org/news/2023-09-science-picture-ancient-kinds-humans.html
* "Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans:" https://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/06/17/interactive_map_loss_of_indian_land.html
* "American Dreams: Two families, one enslaved by the other. In many ways, their journeys since emancipation illustrate a broader truth about U.S. history: the lasting impact of discrimination on economic opportunities afforded Blacks and whites.:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-tennessee/
* "The surprising history of America’s ‘pick-your-own’ farms:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/the-surprising-history-of-americas-pick-your-own-farms
* CW: Suicide. "Somerton Man Charles Webb's true identity revealed in family photographs and divorce papers:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-21/somerton-manfamily-photographs-revealed-/101643524
* "Casting the Women of Valley of the Dolls:"
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* "The Making of Valley of the Dolls:"
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* "Matthew Shepard remembered by friends 25 years after brutal homophobic killing shocked the world:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/12/matthew-shepard-friends-life-and-death-25-years-on
* "Stop Firing Your Friends: Just make more of them.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/stop-breaking-up-with-friends/674540/
* "Hughes Van Ellis, youngest known survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 102:" https://apnews.com/article/obituary-tulsa-massacre-hughes-van-ellis-d63087c5a8fbe097e47d394394a4df3b
* "At Colorado funeral home where 115 decaying bodies found, troubles went unnoticed by regulators:" https://apnews.com/article/colorado-funeral-home-bodies-found-investigation-ee1089fab926042fda05fe5fa79ec7ce
* "Breaking News: The 'Return to Nature Funeral Home' Scandal:"
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* Last Sunday we got the interior ornaments up on the Halloween trees, but not the lights. It was just the newest Millennial and I. It was a really nice visit. At one point Livia came to the front of her room to give Newest Millennial blinky eyes, which is astonishing. She doesn't want to interact, mind, but this is Livia we are talking about and she usually doesn't like people who aren't me and Squirrel and to a much lesser extent Goth Millennial.
https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731111975430569984/gothmas-interior-decorations-about-half-done?source=share
* So remember how Peacehealth drove all the independent offices in four specialties out of business, thus forcing everyone to use their clinic, then closed those clinics to force everyone to go to their central clinic two counties to the south? And remember how both the Doctors who were running that clinic made a deal to operate out of a clinic a regional medical conglomerate was opening near the hospital? so instead of me spending all day on a sixty mile each way trek for my treatment I was using the last three months of skeleton crew treatment at old clinic which ended the last Thursday in September? Remember how they said we could all follow our doctors there?
Yeah, about that.
I've been dutifully calling ever two weeks to see if they were letting people schedule appointments yet. They sent out a letter saying they were open. I stayed up Tuesday to get in sorted. it was a whole drama because the automated maze to get to the scheduler was as much of a hassle as Peacehealth's and prone to dropping calls, forcing one to start from scratch each time. so that was frustrating and tine consuming.
Apparently they have no access to our health records, so it was a start from scratch situation. Me, mentally: Shit! This is going to be HOURS. Only it wasn't for all the wrong reasons. They take Medicare, but not Medicare Advantage. So if I want it covered I have to lose most of my benefits including having Medicaid pay my big Medicare copay. O.o. Or I can pay for expensive treatments myself as uninsured.
I was upset, but I remembered superstar medical social worker lady personally calling around town to talk dentists into taking medicare dental coverage for me thus opening up my small city so that medicare patients can now get root canals and crowns instead of learning to live without chewing.
So I still thought it was salvageable. Problem is she's gone and the woman replacing her is a busy supervisor who likes to call me two hours into my sleep cycle without warning and then gets angry at me for not being charming. Previous lady asked when was best to call and would schedule calls in advance for a time when I was able to be awake and functional. it is a lot easier for me to be charming when I wasn't just ripped out of REM sleep and am now being interrogated about something.
New lady is a supervisor and super busy with supervisor things and is made of no and is snippy. I can not make her understand that not only is a 120 mile round trip over mountain passes dealing with the traffic mess along the highway in the major metropolitan area where I once got caught in a four hour traffic jam and couldn't get off to pee, is an entire exhausting day for me and that plus a treatment would not only mean i could do anything useful that day, but the next day to. She can't grasp how much pain is involved in long car trips or how much treatments take out of me. She keeps hard selling me on this and then calling me resistant and recalcitrant like I'm the one being unreasonable for considering this basically insurmountable at my level of disability.
She did not fight the in town clinic for me. She did not try to argue them around.
Her, repeating a suggestion she has made over and over since the closing announcement: You should just get your GP to do it.
Me, explaining for at least the third time because we have this conversation every time we talk: I asked my GP last spring like you asked. They can't do it. It can't be administered by a GP. They'd need to hire a specialist and build new facilities for compounding and for special storage of medication.
Her: Well just ask you GP to give you a different treatment.
Me: There are no other treatments. I have medications to manage symptoms. These treatments are the cure. There is only one cure.
Her: You are being recalcitrant!
Me: There is literally only one cure. No new ones have been invented since last February. The cure is working. I'm getting better. i will get worse again with only symptom management.
But she kept arguing with me because I was being stubborn about facts being facts. My GP can't pull an entire brand new treatment regimen out of her ass. She would not let it go or let me go and I was exhausted because it was hours past when I would normally be asleep at this point and also what was the point of her hard selling me on demanding the imaginary alternative treatment or the 120 mile trip. I ended up giving and and saying something like, "I have to go now," which I know is rude, but we spent this entire conversation with her neither listing not understanding and basically acting like I was the asshole here.
So I'm fucked and I'm frustrated and angry. I was literally at the point where I was going to get better really quickly if I kept doing treatments, but if we stop now I'll be back to square one with it all to do again if another clinic opens.
And it's all like this because Obama and Biden didn't have the balls to stick to their universal free healthy care guns and decided to adopt the capitalist give away Republican health plan in pursuit of bipartisan buy in they did not get, which anyone paying attention told them they could not get, which Mitch McConnell vowed they'd never get as part of the project to make Obama a one term president at all costs. They burned all their political capital on a bullshit give away to insurance companies when they could have taken the same or less of a hit just giving up a developed country level health care system. No fucked up website needed for sign ups. No red tape or copays or catch 22 shit like I'm dealing with now.
* Tuesday, once I was allowed to sleep, people kept waking me up. Bonus, my legs weren't really working, so I just kept falling over. It's like this this time of year with the extreme temperature and barometric pressure changes. At one point during a food making attempt I managed to fuck up a toe on one side and the wrist on the other, Go me. This was an extra bad one though, and I really wasn't much functional just generally and everything was just incredibly hard to accomplish.
We did manage Wednesday errands, including the bit when I needed to get out of the car. Assorted Millennials puttered around with decorations and there was much chatting. Outside is started. The trees are mostly sorted inside, but not the rest.
At one point Goth Millennial was like, "did the barometer just drop?" and I was like, "I don't have a barometer, but according to my sinuses and joints, yes. It's the evening winds out of Alaska right on time. About five minutes ago right?" Them: "Yes. My shoulder just started hurting."
* When we were decorating Sunday, I was trying to explain to newest Millenial why the Weeping Angel tree topper horrifies Goth Millenial. "An image of an angel is an angel," etc., and they seemed really confused so I kept explaining the lore that makes them horrifying. Finally it became clear that they thought this was real angel lore, having no idea about either Doctor Who or Christian Mythology.
I love my friends.
* Saturday I got a few more things done inside (Window display stuff, more lights.) This Sunday I got outside to good enough but more to be done while Newest millennial made special pizza which was fascinating and delicious. Then Goth Millennial, New Millennial and I had floats and talked about history.
* The pictures of the Imperial couple from before that I promised. These are the best livia pics ever taken: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731382118597476353/the-empress-livia-spots-a-moth-the-moth-lands-on?source=share
* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills
* "Homeschooling: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"
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* "Trump Blabbed Nuclear Secrets at Mar-a-Lago | Election Lies Bring Down Mike Lindell:"
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* "War Misinformation Spreads on X | House GOP Therapy Session | RFK Jr.’s Dangerous Candidacy:"
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* "Meanwhile… Boston’s Annoying Accent | Drink Til You Puke at Brunch | Snoop Got Ed Sheeran High:"
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* "Scalise Nabs House Speaker Nom | George Santos Scammed His Own Donors | Bigfoot Found!:"
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* "Stephen Learns the Differences Between Hispanic and Latino:"
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* "McCarthy As Temp Speaker? | George Santos Channels Mr. T | Trump Threatens “Fire Hell” If He Loses:"
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* "Meanwhile… Shower in Your Jeans | Adopt Cheeto the Dog | UK’s Soggy Chestnuts:"
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* NOTE: Several Classic Who companions also quit, which may not be clear from the wording in this. Otherwise, I'm in complete agreement. "Martha Jones Deserved Better (And Other Correct Doctor Who Takes):"
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* "Playing Games with Classified Info:"
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* "Now You Can Bet on the House Speaker Race:"
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* "A Live Look at the Speaker Race:"
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* "I'm Just Pete - SNL:"
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* "Glamgina - SNL:"
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* "Get Out of Trouble the George Santos Way!:"
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* "Sir Gawain And The Green Knight:" https://the-toast.net/2015/06/03/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/
* "I grew up in a haunted house and I didn’t notice:" https://www.tumblr.com/cleolinda/730174032954212352/i-grew-up-in-a-haunted-house-and-didnt-notice
"My sister noticed:" https://www.tumblr.com/cleolinda/730177944968937472/my-sister-noticed
* They updated Stabby the Roomba: https://sepulchritude.tumblr.com/post/153838867333/on-the-topic-of-humans-being-the-intergalactic
* "Midnight Pals: Frankensexy:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/730721721632604160/midnight-pals-frankensexy?source=share
* "Midnight Pals: The Most Divorced Time of year:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/731355328295436288/midnight-pals-the-most-divorced-time-of-year?source=share
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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
The help links are at the bottom under the cut.
* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills
* Apply for Project 2025 so they have to pick through resumes, using their resources: https://apply.project2025.org/ords/r/p25/pub/questionnaire?p4_qid=1
* Want to help Andy Kim beat Bob Menendez? https://www.andykim.com/
* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz
* Want to contribute to Gloria Johnson's senate run in Tennessee? https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/
* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html
* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/
* Want to help the people of Maui?
Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/
Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/
Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui
Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html
* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/
* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt
* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion
* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls
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