Nec Hoc Nec Ilud

* The Flooding in Vietnam and Cambodia is devastating want to help? https://linktr.ee/lvndhy

* "Belarus: thousands protest against death of teacher in police custody:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/15/belarus-thousands-protest-against-death-of-teacher-in-police-custody

* "Interim president of Peru steps down after two protesters killed:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/15/interim-president-of-peru-steps-down-after-two-protesters-killed

* "'All of Peru is fired up': protesters fill streets after ousting of president:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/13/peru-protests-impeachment-president-martin-vizcarra

* "Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe dies:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-54874713

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* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 11/13/20 are 10,708,000. The official death toll is 245,000. The real number is likely much higher.

* "'Exhausted': Tsunami of Covid-19 cases pushes health workers to the breaking point:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-exhausted-tsunami-of-covid-19-cases-pushes-health-workers-to-the-breaking-point-95907909539

* "Health care workers are 'tapped out' amid coronavirus fall surge, Wisconsin doctor says:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/13/health/us-coronavirus-friday/index.html

* "New Mexico, Oregon order shutdowns as Covid-19 cases reach 'breaking point':" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-mexico-oregon-order-covid-19-shutdowns-cases-reach-breaking-n1247779

* "More than 130 Secret Service officers are said to be infected with coronavirus or quarantining in wake of Trump’s campaign travel:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-coronavirus-outbreak/2020/11/13/610eebcc-2539-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html

* "'Outrageous': Republicans blasted for alerting only GOP side about COVID cases in Minnesota Senate:" https://www.newsweek.com/outrageous-republicans-blasted-alerting-only-gop-side-about-covid-cases-minnesota-senate-1547505

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* "Trump's TikTok Sell-By Date Extended By 15 Days:" https://www.npr.org/2020/11/13/933916944/trump-ordered-tiktok-to-be-sold-off-but-then-ignored-the-deadline

* "Trump to Rush Drilling Leases in Arctic Before Biden Takes Over:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-13/trump-to-rush-drilling-leases-in-arctic-before-biden-takes-over?srnd=premium&sref=MIBMEEoj

* Probably. "Laurence Tribe explains how Trump probably can’t pardon himself:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/laurence-tribe-explains-how-trump-probably-can-t-pardon-himself-95895109662

* "As Trump stews over election, he mostly ignores the public duties of the presidency:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-ignores-duties/2020/11/12/02bfbc36-2507-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html

* "As Trump wrestles with defeat, pardons loom for allies -- and himself:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/politics/trump-pardons-loom-defeat/index.html

* "Navarro: White House’s operating ‘assumption is a second Trump term’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/13/peter-navarro-trump-second-term-436428

* "Trump administration renews push to confirm Wolf amid concerns over legitimacy and agency purge:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/13/politics/donald-trump-chad-wolf-dhs/index.html

* "After thousands of Trump supporters rally in D.C., violence erupts when night falls:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/11/14/million-maga-march-dc-protests/

* "Another law firm bails out on Trump campaign:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/13/law-firm-drops-trump-campaign-436418

* "Post-election audits find no fraud in Arizona:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/politics/arizona-audits-no-fraud/index.html

* "Michigan judge rejects demand to block certification of Biden win in Detroit:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/13/politics/trump-michigan-election/index.html

* "‘There’s damage to this’: Obama slams GOP for lining up behind Trump’s fraud claims:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/13/obama-slams-gop-trumps-fraud-claims-436419

* "Federal prosecutors assigned to monitor election malfeasance tell Barr they see no evidence of substantial irregularities:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/william-barr-election-memo/2020/11/13/6ed06d20-25e4-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html

* "Trump campaign eliminates "voter fraud" hotline after it's flooded with prank calls:" https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/biden-trump-us-election-news-11-13-20/h_1f2b5d2216654a019216a24c8a8cca10

* "Supreme Court Justice speech or Fox News audition? You be the judge.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/supreme-court-justice-speech-or-fox-news-audition-you-be-the-judge-95900229874

* "Chris Hayes explains how the GOP is already setting ‘booby traps’ for Biden:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-explains-how-the-gop-is-already-setting-booby-traps-for-biden-95900229808

* "Martha McSally concedes Arizona Senate special election to Mark Kelly more than a week after winner declared:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/13/sen-martha-mcsally-concedes-arizona-senate-election-mark-kelly/6195791002/

* "Breonna Taylor protests didn't reach some corners of Congress, new Congresswoman finds:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/breonna-taylor-protests-didn-t-reach-some-corners-of-congress-new-congresswoman-finds-95907909545

* "Jon Ossoff on the stakes of his Senate run: GOP won’t let Biden pass his agenda:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jon-ossoff-on-the-stakes-of-his-senate-run-gop-won-t-let-biden-pass-his-agenda-95897157912

Want to try to beat the odds and flip the Senate?

Donate to Raphael Warnock: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnockrunoff
Donate to Jon Ossoff: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ossoffrunoff

* "What This Moment Feels Like for the Victims of Trump’s Cruelest Policies:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/donald-trump-cruel-policies-those-impacted-biden-win.html

* "Federal judge rules acting DHS head Chad Wolf unlawfully appointed, invalidates DACA suspension:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-judge-rules-acting-dhs-head-chad-wolf-unlawfully-appointed-n1247848

* Racism and Sexism at the La Times: https://twitter.com/piescarcega/status/1328043858698137601

* "The Fight Over Kenya’s ‘Abortion Bill’ Is Killing Young Women:"

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* "Shot to Prevent H.I.V. Works Better Than Daily Pill in Women:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/health/HIV-shot-prep-women.html

* "OCD Tropes on Screen:"

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* "The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why:" https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/the-earth-is-pulsating-every-26-seconds-and-seismologists-dont-agree-why

* CW: Child Death "Ancient DNA reveals monozygotic newborn twins from the Upper Palaeolithic:" https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01372-8

* "16 Lesbian Power Couples From History Who Got Shit Done, Together:" https://www.autostraddle.com/16-lesbian-power-couples-from-history-who-changed-the-world-together-372223/

* "The Progressive Era: Crash Course US History #27:"

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* "Mumbai’s Iconic Art Deco Buildings Were Made to Conquer Disease:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-30/how-india-s-bombay-deco-buildings-battle-disease

* "Civil Rights and the 1950s: Crash Course US History #39:"

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* "The Evolution Of Queerbaiting: From Queercoding to Queercatching:"

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* "Savannah, GA & Ghost Tours | Deathstination:"

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* "Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So Long, Donald!:"

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* "Stephen Is Ecstatic About The Biden-Harris Win, But Says We Can Not Be Complacent:"

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* "Biden Won The Election! Now The Fight Against Trumpism Begins. Pt. 1:"

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* Friday: It was like today was a conspiracy to steal all the sleep.

Food box delivery has crept from just before bed to just when I reach REM cycle. Which I have to dress and retrieve from the porch and at least half unpack (perishables). I had just managed to drift off when Amazon called telling me I needed to open the door for a delivery. Our building intercom phones my land line, so this was reasonable. We can't buzz people in, so I needed to dress, mask up, go get the package, which I assumed Squirrel ordered. No lady. No package. I open the front door and call out in case they are waiting out of sight somewhere. No lady, no package, no truck. I go back in, and do a call back on a hunch. I get a generic check the amazon website message, not the buzzer. She called from a company phone, not the call box. Was she standing in front of the wrong building? IDK. Then it clicked. That was a Birmingham accent. I bet she was standing in front of my Aunt's door in Alabama waiting for her

So I finally managed to drift off to sleep again, and keep in mind, at best I would have had five hours of sleep today, when the phone rings. It's physio. Me, confused: I thought my appointment check in wasn't until 2:45? Her: Let me explain. It turns out some people cancelled and a bunch of slots were empty and they were hoping I might be willing to move my appointment earlier so the nice physio therapist could go home instead of sitting around with nothing to do for a few hours, only the receptionist was sort of hinting instead of asking right out. Me: a person who used to work for a living and knows the value of an afternoon off: I can't get there immediately, because lunch time traffic might be a little heavy. It'd be 15-30 minutes depending on commute speed. Her, wildly relieved I'd taken the hint and could accommodate: Wonderful

I fed and hung out with the cat's I'm house siting after, so I got that out of the way at least, plus some day gardening I needed to do and the non-perishable unpacking. The teenaged cat had only seen me twice at most before the pandemic, but was right there with Godrick who knows me fairly well, sniffing the fingers and cadging pettins.

I'm basically only up until I'm ready to try sleep again. Expect very little posting tonight.

* Saturday: I was good and did the new extremely painful physio things. I went over for the morning cat feeding and social time a bit later than intended, but still within spec. Yesterday, I forgot to check the mint bed for weeds. (Technically ground cover, but it's super aggressive and out competes things I grow on purpose. Now is a perfect time to hunt it as things are dying back for the winter.) Today, I remembered. I think their may be time for the last batch of tomatoes to ripen, but for most of them it's a race. Most of them are on one of the plants a friend sent from Oregon and they look delicious. At least two are old enough to window ripen if I have to. I have a lot of volunteers that grew too late. I am tempted to try to bring them in and grow them in the window, but it's going to be rough, this being Goth tchotchke season and that being the sitting window for the cats. It's getting chilly at night, so I'll need to decide soon.

I am weepy from the pain, but can't take anything for it as I need to go over for second feeding. Sigh.

* Sunday: Okay, this is a non-viable level of pain. I was going to try to remember to call the physio place Monday anyway. Basically, I use up all the arm specific spoons on the arm doing physio and there's nothing left for things like fixing the sofa covers, basic house hold tasks, dealing with pain, etc.. Oh god, this is nightmarish and I can't take anything until after evening cat sit visit.

* "Sunday Sweets: Light & Airy Wedding Cakes:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2020/11/15/sunday-sweets-light-amp-airy-wedding-cakes

* And now your moment of zen. https://twitter.com/SofieHagen/status/1327652781075869698

* On Queer Erasure: https://twitter.com/Sotherans/status/1327574832008015872

* ToS: Season 2 Rewatch:

- 2.21: Patterns of Force. This is the same basic premise as the annoying gangster one, only, you know, NAZIs. Sigh.


They go looking for a missing historian on a less advanced planet. The planet has much better technology than expected, including nuclear weapons. They have transponders implanted and Kirk and Spock beam down to discover literal NAZis persecuting members of the local other culture. They are dong large scale genocide in the name of the fuhrer, who is the missing historian. Sigh. Kirk and Spock dress up as NAZIs to infiltrate. As Spock predicted Kirk makes a convincing NAZI; Spock is caught right away, exposing them both. Homoerotic whipping follows.

Another prisoner questions their capture as they aren't Zeons. He explains scapegoating to the audience at home. They had come to "civilize" the locals, being from a more civilized peaceful race. The NAZI thing is new, and coincides with the historian arriving here. The Zeon says they will come and conquer the Zeon home world once they finish the genocide here.

Kirk and Spock cut out their transponders and use them to laser open the door of the cell. Kirk screams for help, and Spock neck pinches the NAZI guard. They let the Zeon out and go look for their equipment. Kirk pickpockets a guard for keys. The communicators have been taken apart. They steal the uniform from the guy they pickpocketted and try to leave the city.

The Zeon takes them to his resistance cell, who are sensibly suspicious. The Zeon Prisoner's fiance has been murdered. "If we adopt the ways of the NAZIs, we're as bad as the NAZIs." Spock fixes a communicator. A woman NAZI they saw decorated earlier, catches the cell; they overpower her. It turns out it was a test and the woman is secretly working with the resistance. Kirk explains that he's come for John Gill, who is an alien too. They insist he was supposed to observe, not interfere. She's going to sneak them in.

They pretend to be the media. Something's wrong with the historian, so they summon McCoy. The NAZIs search for the secret transmitter and they pretend McCoy is drunk. The speech is random sentences. They knock out the guards. The historian is drugged; McCoy treats him, but it doesn't really work. They are going to invade the Zeon home world. Spock mind melds with the Fuehrer and they discover the second in command is really in charge and has been for a couple years. Kirk is understandably WTF!?! Why did you do this at all? He says he was trying to help them. I think it's gross that they had Nimoy, a Jewish actor, take the efficiency side of the argument. Eeew.

The Fuehrer keels over, and can't have more meds. They get caught, but pretend they caught Spock, a spy. They take him too their leader. Kirk doses the Fuhrer. The real leader describes Spock in antisemitic ways. The Fuehrer denounces the attack and his puppet master, ordering all the units to return. The Second shoots the Fuhrer; the guards arrest the second. The NAZIs reform. Kirk denounces the "leader principle." Spock and McCoy bicker. It is weirdly jocular and all this is fixed now. I don't think you can undo fascism so cleanly and quickly.

It's more nuanced than the gangster one, but also... very ill advised on a bunch of levels. I wish they never did it, but here we are.

* TNG: Season 7 Rewatch:

- 7.23 Emergence. Picard is helping data with data's acting of the Tempest on the holodeck. I have... historical concerns with Picard's interpretation, but that's beside the point. A train comes and they can't turn it off. It wandered in from Dr. Crusher's program about the Orient Express program. They turned off the holodeck and are looking into the glitch.

The Enterprise goes into warp without a command. The computer has locked them out of the controls. They are gong to shut down the engine, but they cut out on their own. It turns out this saved them from a "data flux distortion" that would have exploded the ship.

They are inexplicably struggling to connect these two events. Data and Geordi find new connections growing like neurons connecting ships systems. The nodes can protect themselves. The more their are the harder to control the ship. The holodeck that malfunctioned is the focal point.

They go into the holodeck, which is running a bunch of programs at the same time. I feel like the crew is slower than zombies playing monopoly as they still haven't worked it out. They go to open the hatch they need to depolarize the nodes and the conductor challenges them to produce tickets. Riker pretends theirs are in their compartment. The Engineer defends them. A gangster shoots the engineer and the ship is back in warp. The controls are burnt out. The safeties are disengaged because of course they are, so they leave.

The nodes keep spreading. Data finally works out that the Enterprise is growing a brain. Consciousness is more than the um of it's parts. Basically an artificial intelligence is emerging. The holodeck functions as imagination. Picard orders them not to harm the nodes. Deanna tries to analyze it. The gangster need the brick to get to "Keystone city." There are lots of little clues involving things being constructed. Data tries to get control back; Deanna follows the Gangster, who is "laying the foundation." The cargo bay is now depressurized. Data gets ready to depolarize the power grid. The ship is building something in the cargo bay. Depolarizing the node nearly destroys the ship, so they stop doing that. slower than zombies playing monopoly.

They compare notes. Deanna works out that the major characters constitute aspects of the personality/ship's systems. Picard: Maybe we should cooperate with it. Me: Ya think? They bring tickets this time. The engine is running out of steam. Worf goes to help in the engine room. Deanna reassures people and asks them about the place they are going. Worf feeds the engine. The ship uses a modified tractor beam to harvest particles it needs from a dwarf star. Picard puts it together. Zombies. Monopoly. The object in the cargo bay is failing because not enough particles. Train derailment; ship wide shutdown. It was trying to make an artificial life form in the cargo bay, but it will die if they don't find more particles.

The crew have less than two hours of oxygen with all power to propulsion. They are trying to divert the ship to a closer source. Deanna and Data try to convince them to let Data help them. It works. The new lifeform leaves; the nodes deactivate. Data invite Picard to the "Brave New World" scene from the Tempest and asks about the gamble of letting the intelligence form. Picard says he trusted the thing because it was made from the crew's experiences.

I liked this a lot better when it was new, I think.

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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.

* The Flooding in Vietnam and Cambodia is devastating. Want to help? https://linktr.ee/lvndhy

* "Protect the Results - Organizing to Protect the Results of the 2020 Election:" https://protecttheresults.com/

* Want to try to beat the odds and flip the Senate?

Donate to Jon Ossoff: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ossoffrunoff
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* "Philippine police kill 32 in bloodiest night of Duterte’s war on drugs:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/16/philippines-police-bloodiest-night-duterte-war-drugs

* Fuck's sake, Republicans! 45's dad was in the KKK, as in arrested while rioting in his hood KKK. 45 himself has a looooong history of racism, including refusing to let Black people living in his buildings. He's said a ton of racist things including in the last year. He sided with violent literal NAZIs and literal KKK members and a terrorist against peaceful anti-racist protesters they attacked. This is who he is. We both know you are lying when you say this isn't the real Trump and he's totally going to change and suddenly stop being a racist. He's made clear who is. He's a 77 year old man who was raised to be racist and in 71 years hasn't made any effort to break with that. If you are allied with him, you are allied with an avowed and adjudicated racist who uses racist rhetoric, pushes racist policies, and who thinks NAZIs are the good guys. If you are standing with him, this is who you are too, and lying that he's going to magically have a change of heart is not going to change which side you are standing on here and how history will judge you.

* Republican Lawmakers are now trying to legalize terrorist attacks such as happened in Charlottesville and Barcelona last week. "These State Lawmakers Indulged the Violent Fantasy of Ramming Protesters With a Car:" http://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/08/14/these-state-lawmakers-tried-to-make-it-legal-to-run-over-protesters-with-a-car/

* "Translating the Boston counter-protest into policy:"

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* "White nationalists: Rebranding under ‘free speech’ flag?:"

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* "Dean Obeidallah suing The Daily Stormer for defamation:"

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* "Bishop Dr. Barber analyzes Confederate monument controversy:"

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

* "Is It Health and Human Services Texas Policy To Harass Trans Texans?:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/08/is-it-health-and-human-services-texas.html

* "Happy Transgender Pride Flag Day!:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/08/happy-transgender-pride-flag-day.html

* "Coyote and Raven, American Tricksters: Crash Course World Mythology #22:"

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* "The Apocalyspe: Crash Course World Mythology #23:"

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* "Don't Give HBO's 'Confederate' the Benefit of the Doubt:" https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/no-confederate/535512/

* "Secrets of ancient Irish funeral practices revealed:" https://phys.org/news/2017-08-secrets-ancient-irish-funeral-revealed.html

* "Earliest Known Winery Found in Armenian Cave:" http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/110111-oldest-wine-press-making-winery-armenia-science-ucla/

* "Donald: The Musical (w/ Tim Minchin, Ben Platt & Abigail Spencer):"

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* "Inappropriate Musicals w/ Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Alan Cumming:"

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* "Inappropriate Musicals w/ Nathan Lane & Rachel Bloom:"

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* "Crosswalk the Musical: The Phantom of the Opera:"

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* "Crosswalk the Musical: Grease:"

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* "Crosswalk the Musical: Mary Poppins:"

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* "Despertares - Isaac Hernández:"

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* "TANGO BETWEEN MEN - WICKED!:"

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* "Homage To The Rabbits – The Gong Show:" Hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbylWYHvgOI

* Want to help replace dangerously bald front tires and dead wipers? We need about $80.00 to be safe in the rain. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* "A Null Plot:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/a-null-plot/

* "Women Do Not Exist To Help Men Grow:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/women-die-men-grow/

* Is it just me, or are some of the gong show acts fetish porn in (thin) disguise. There was that vore scene a few weeks ago and I'm pretty sure that cupcake thing....

* "Names and naming:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/164394238412/names-and-naming

* "The Strain, Season 3, Episode 5: Belly of the Beast:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/08/the-strain-season-3-episode-5-belly-of.html

* "Character Returns, Catty Women, and Dragon Petting Round Out This Week's Thrones:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/character-returns-catty-women-dragon-petting-round-weeks-thrones/

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

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

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

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

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

* 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

* 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

* "FBI had Trump-Russia report in summer 2016, Senate to investigate:"

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* "Congressman Lewis: I don't see Trump as a 'legitimate president':"

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* "Trump’s emoluments issue looms:"

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* "Trump tries to stick SC taxpayers with bill for Trump Jr's mess:"

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* My response is basically a string of expletives, so I'll let these commentators speak for me. "Trump rips 'all talk,' 'no action' civil rights icon Lewis:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/155878670337/trump-rips-all-talk-no-action-civil-rights

Bonus Points: It's MLK Day weekend.

* "Sen. Tammy Duckworth Slams Jeff Sessions’ Disability Rights Record:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tammy-duckworth-jeff-sessions_us_58740178e4b099cdb0fefcac

* "Ryan’s ACA replacement promises:"

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* "The arc of history is long, but how do we bend it?:" https://boingboing.net/2017/01/05/the-arc-of-history-is-long-bu.html

* "Meltdown of the Phantom Snowflakes:" http://thebaffler.com/blog/meltdown-phantom-snowflakes-penny

* "Mississippi town repeals anti-discrimination resolution in secret:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/mississippi-town-repeals-anti-discrimination-resolution-secret

* Straight washing and Academia: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/155884326487/breakfastautocrat-teddybearparker

* "Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine: Queens of the Sydney Underworld (1881-1964 and 1900-1970):" http://rejectedprincesses.tumblr.com/post/155776891753/kate-leigh-and-tilly-devine-queens-of-the-sydney

* "This 90-Year-Old Lady Seduced and Killed Nazis as a Teenager:" https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/teenager-nazi-armed-resistance-netherlands-876?utm_content=inf_4_3687_2&utm_source=wildhair&utm_campaign=fijifrost&tse_id=INF_bd63bce0c6fb11e686924f044efee13a

* "Navajo Nation Library Wants to Digitally Preserve Thousands of Hours of Oral Histories:" http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/navajo-nation-library-wants-digitally-preserve-thousands-hours-oral-histories-180961576/

* My credit card payment went through and so I headed out, coupon in hand to do some adulting. I save up hardware store run things until I have at the same time 1. A coupon. 2. 20-25 dollars worth of things needed for home and garden. I needed sluggo, fly strips, and good glue, and the coupon ends tomorrow, so out I went. I had to buy a small thing at check out extra to hit the minimum, so I tossed in a candy on top. As he was bagging them up I realized I had just "bought poison and candy!" The man said, "You are far from the first." so I am set with the basics for when the weather warms, which in my region is likely soonish. The bulbs are already quite leafy. I do need to do some cleaning and prep out there, but not today. Today I messed about with fish filters and changed out the fly strips. I need to do gluing, but also not today.

* I was describing Swan Lake to someone the other day. In the plot summary, I said something like, "And being a lunkhead, he doesn't notice the black swan is not his girlfriend, whom he supposedly loves." Today I was watching some Coppelia, and thinking, "Being a lunkhead, he decides to cheat on his lively and intelligent girlfriend with a manikin he saw in a window.... Are all ballet boyfriends idiots?”

* I finally got to see season three of Penny Dreadful. I have all sorts of problems with the North American section of the plot, none of which were the fault of the excellent actors, and I really didn't like much of anything about how the Vanessa plot ended, except for Dr. Seward and the glorious Cat. On paper one might think Vanessa's stuff would be triggering, but none of it was. I really enjoyed her acting and that of Mr. Claire and that episode with mostly just the two of them was well done, but I hated the end of the big arc plot so much it is hard to get past that.

For me, the best thing in the season was Lily's plot. for all the ways this show has been problematic, particularly around race and LGBT things, they did get this particular passage about rape culture and patriarchy pretty much right. How often have I had men try to tame me or edit out or cut out bits of me they didn't like or found inexplicable? So many men do that: try to turn the person they think they want into some version of them that has nothing to do with who they actually are? Victor Frankenstein's sense of entitlement to Lily, is belief that he owns her and his declaring her having agency, past, and desires that have nothing to do with him is so very male and very relevant and part of a long ugly history of straight white men medicalizing protest. It was a beautiful example of depiction without endorsement. Lily's resistance, her insistence that her scars are part of who she is... How often have I said and written that I wouldn't go back in time and change anything about my childhood, as horrible as it was, because I like myself and to do that would be suicide, since I literally have no clue who I'd me now, but for sure that person would be nothing like this one. Vanessa's resistance in the Banning clinic (the strongest part of her season three arc), and Lily's resistance in Bedlam, these moved me and are things so familiar I have no words for it really. So for all my anger at season two, and my disgust at how the season three A plot turned out, I loved season three because pieces of it were true and powerful and all to real.

* I was watching a Bolshoi Corsair with Masha Alexandrova and Nikolai Tsiskaridze. She is exquisite, but he was a disappointment. I kept trying to put my finger on what was wrong. He is sloppy and a tad selfish. I can spot mistakes, I can see him waiting his turn when he should be supporting her. It's not that he's awful, but he's just not in her league at all. Finally, I put my finger on it: She dances like she loves dancing; he dances like he loves people watching him dance.

* "Trash:" http://xkcd-rss.livejournal.com/454216.html

* "Sunday Sweets: WINTER HAS COME:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2017/1/15/sunday-sweets-winter-has-come.html

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* Suicide Crisis numbers: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/153016816845/non-us-crisis-line-list

* Victim of a Hate Crime? Report to the police first, but also report here to help the SPLC track incidents: https://www.splcenter.org/reporthate

* Trans Relief Project: http://transrelief.com/

* "Donate to the SPLC:" https://donate.splcenter.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=463

* "A List of Pro-Women, Pro-Immigrant, Pro-Earth, Anti-Bigotry Organizations That Need Your Support:" http://jezebel.com/a-list-of-pro-women-pro-immigrant-pro-earth-anti-big-1788752078?rev=1478710019591&utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

* General Charities list to help groups being targeted in Trump's America: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/153111297079/charities-that-may-need-some-love-in-the-upcoming

* Where to donate to help Immigrants: http://colinfirth.tumblr.com/post/152963467726/carecen-la-center-for-community-change

* Ways to protest: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/174f0WBSVNSdcQ5_S6rWPGB3pNCsruyyM_ZRQ6QUhGmo/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true#

* More ways to protest "So here’s the deal:" http://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/153516131819/so-heres-the-deal

* "10 ways we can help Standing Rock Indian Reservation.:" http://browngurlwfro.tumblr.com/post/153755459138/dooder-tooder-this-is-a-photo-my-friend-posted

* "List of Standing Rock Resources:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/152671392633/list-of-standing-rock-resources

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

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

* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help

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

* So here is the thing. A Republican President will be disastrous. Look at their policies, which are actually worse than those of the last three Republican presidents, who together managed to destroy our economy, were disastrous foreign policy wise, and have nearly destroyed the middle class, the social safety net, the environment, etc.. Look at the damage these policies have done in the states: the roll back of voting rights and human rights. All the people who will die because of their fight against health care and their pro-cancer agenda.

As a result, as disgusted as I am with the weak spines and center right policies of most Democratic politicians, in the end, I will vote for whoever they put up, just as I did for gore when Nader's policies better represented me. I will do it even though I have a long running fury at the Clintons (for policy reasons to long to list here), though to be fair, she was always further left than him and at the time I would have much rather she were president than her husband. I will vote for that asshole O'Malley if the unlikely happens (please don't let the unlikely happen). I think Biden would not be a good president, but nowhere near as bad as anyone the Republicans are running. (Again, this is mostly long and complicated political memory stuff and not worth the time unless he's in and actually looks to be winning). Though I was against him being Vice President, he turned out to be shockingly good at it. Way beyond best guess at it. If he were elected, I'd love to be surprised the same way, but I don't think I will be, so lets home it doesn't come to that. Frankly, of this batch, Hilary Clinton is my best bet, and I am a lot happier being asked to vote for her than the others. She was solidly pro-civil rights once she moved out of her parent's house, and a strong feminist. (We all make compromises to keep the peace with our parents in high school. I myself was required to join the young Republicans against my will as my father ran the club at my school. I was also forced to do election cold calls, as my Father was starting his political career at that point, though he had not yet run for office. For the record, he was a local level anti-corruption reformer, not a creepy modern day big government Republican. At the time of his death, he was horrified at what his party had become, and would be spinning in his urn to see what they are up to these days as far as dismantling Civil and Women's Rights. We had screaming fights at the dinner table over AIDS policy, but I really am proud of what he achieved before the cancer took him. It was all important quality of life stuff, nailing corrupt officials, enforcing zoning laws for the safety of those living and working in the buildings sort of thing. I picked my battles and AIDS/gay rights I was willing to overturn family peace for, but I wasn't willing to fight him on party affiliation and only switched to independent when I was out of the house for my Mother's sake, because she had to live with the mess my battles with my father over politics and my sexual agency tended to stir up. I want to be clear, my father was not a monster and was polite to the boys I brought home in high school. He just was a man of his time and place. He knew intellectually that his prejudices were irrational and he voted and stood for equality under the law. he struggled to undo his early programming his whole life because he knew it was wrong. He just really had a hard time with his eldest having a sex life at all, let alone one that pushed so many of his monkey brain working class greaser 1950's Jersey Boy buttons). Anyway, I picked that most personal of battles and didn't fight him on things like economic policy, and I am not cool with people attacking others for things they did politically in High School that did not do harm. Attacks on Ms. Clinton based on shit she did when she was 17, like the super nasty sexist attacks she endured in the '90's, make me more sympathetic, not less.

Still, I'm going to drag my carcass out to caucus for Bernie Sanders when the time comes. I do not expect him to win, though I'd love to be surprised. After all, I have voted for Kucinich in Primaries and Bradley and Tsongas. I've always voted strategically. I never expect to have a President who actually represents me (though President Obama has come much closer than I ever expected when I caucused for him). I vote for the best of the available options in the hopes that it will drag the agenda and eventually policy the way it needs to go. I do think Mr. Sanders is the best available option just now. He's got a strong civil rights record, economic policies that are for everyone's good and not the 1%, and he fights hard, so hard for what's right. Is he perfect? No. Will he win? Absent a miracle, no. But I'm okay with that. I will turn up in the general election and dance with the one what brung me, but for now, it's Bernie all the way, because I wish we could have the future he wants for us instead of the one we will likely get.

* Bernie Sanders policy hub, in case you are curious: http://feelthebern.org/

* "Gov. Scott Walker signs a bill to give millions of dollars to billionaires:"

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* "Armed 'Patriot' Group Roams Ferguson With Assault Rifles:" http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/oath-keepers-turn-michael-brown-protests-ferguson-missouri-n407696

* TW: Rape. "Cops Took an Arrest Selfie With a White Guy. Here's What They Did to a Black Woman Instead:" http://mic.com/articles/123699/charnesia-corley-pulled-over-and-vaginally-searched-by-police?utm_source=policymicTWTR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social

* "Rep. Steve King thinks people will now marry lawnmowers since same-sex marriage is legal:" http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/rep-steve-king-thinks-people-will-now-marry-lawnmowers-since-same-sex-marriage-is-legal/

* "RIP Amber Monroe:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/08/rip-amber-monroe.html

* "Christie Vetoes Trans Birth Certificate Bill For Second Time:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/08/christie-vetoes-trans-birth-certificate.html

* Poem by a 14th Century Jewish trans Woman. I have chills. http://www.on1foot.org/text/even-bochan-kalonymus-ben-kalonymus

* "TransGriot: Straight Outta Stonewall:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/08/straight-outta-stonewall.html

* "The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here:" http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-point-of-no-return-climate-change-nightmares-are-already-here-20150805?page=4

* This is way worse than California, but getting no coverage. "Debt, drought leave Puerto Ricans high and dry:" https://www.rt.com/usa/312210-puerto-rico-drought-debt/

* "Texas judge gives man a choice: get married or go to jail:" http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/07/us-usa-texas-wedding-idINKCN0QC25O20150807

* "A Children's Illustrator Is Getting Hate For Her Anti-Racist Art:" http://www.buzzfeed.com/ariannarebolini/illustrator-is-getting-hate-for-her-anti-racist-art?utm_term=.xww1NanRG#.kgmJXXV3E

* "Blacklash 2016: The Unblackening - Jeb!:"

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* "Blacklash 2016: The Unblackening - Voting Rights Act Rollback:"

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* "The Shocking Truth About Planned Parenthood:" http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/71d71cec67/the-harsh-truth-about-planned-parenthood?_cc=__d___&_ccid=6ibne4.nt2e3t

* We need a plumber. We can't afford a plumber. *facepalm*

* "Tragic Love Interests: Tortured Pasts and Abusive True Loves:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/08/tragic-love-interests-tortured-pasts.html

* "Killjoys, Season 1, Episode 8: Come with the Rain:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/08/killjoys-season-1-episode-8-come-with.html

* Kant! http://existentialcomics.com/comic/92

* Ebays, 5 auctions, 2 No Bid:

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* A list of LGBTQA Charities to donate money to instead of seeing the racist Stonewall Movie that decided to portray a black trans woman activist as a cis white man. http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673

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

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

* "Yes, Black America Fears The Police. Here's Why.:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/05/black-america-police_n_6808506.html

* A call for lynching the Congressional Black Caucus. Remind me what century it is again? "WND Writer: Members Of Congressional Black Caucus Should Hang From A Noose For Boycotting Netanyahu:" http://crooksandliars.com/2015/03/world-net-daily-writer-members

* "At Newly Discovered Water Temple, Maya Offered Sacrifices to End Drought:" http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150127-maya-water-temple-drought-archaeology-science/

* "Long dry spell doomed Mexican city 1,000 years ago:" http://phys.org/news/2015-01-doomed-mexican-city-years.html

* "'Female Husbands' In The 19th Century:" http://www.npr.org/blogs/npr-history-dept/2015/01/29/382230187/-female-husbands-in-the-19th-century

* Interesting. "Was Abolitionism a Failure?:" http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/was-abolitionism-a-failure/?_r=0

* "Obsidian artefacts help researchers understand historic land use on Easter Island:" http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/01/2015/obsidian-artefacts-help-researchers-understand-historic-land-use-on-easter-island

* I am not Jewish, but I have a soft spot for Purim. It always reminds me of good times with friends and lovers long ago.

* "Community Post: The Entire Story Of Purim, As Told By Cat GIFs:" http://www.buzzfeed.com/mordechail/the-entire-story-of-purim-told-with-cat-gifs-bpjm?utm_term=.tcP4p9Y3q#.cgyRNw63d

* "Manpain!:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/03/manpain.html

* "The Walking Dead, Season 5, Episode 12: Remember:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/03/the-walking-dead-season-5-episode-12.html

* I hate that commercial where parents hate having to listen to their teenage daughter so much that they silence her with food.

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

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* I decided this time I'm not writing about the current round of violence in Israel. I simply don't have the spoons and emotional reserves. My apologies.

* As it turns out, Uber is essentially a criminal enterprise. *shudder*

* I know I'm on about this a lot, but it's important. People are literally being murdered by police and police are literally getting away with it. It sure looks like lynching to me and is just as clearly state sponsored terrorism against American Citizens. MrBumblepants found. "Five ugly and uncanny parallels between lynchings and police killings in America:" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/13/1344670/-5-ugly-and-uncanny-parallels-between-lynchings-and-police-killings-in-America#
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* I feel the need to reiterate, Re: Bill Cosby. I believe the women.

* "The story of ... the bra:" http://theconversation.com/the-story-of-the-bra-32169

* MrBumblepants found. "People of Color & Mental Illness Photo Project:" http://diorvargas.com/poc-mental-illness

* An Answer to the demand women smile that is likely illegal but also brilliant: http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp11142014.shtml

* "5 Old-Timey Prejudices That Still Show Up in Every Movie:" http://www.cracked.com/article_19549_5-old-timey-prejudices-that-still-show-up-in-every-movie.html?wa_user1=1&wa_user2=Movies+%26+TV&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=companion

* "7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail (Quickly):" http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly.html?wa_user1=4&wa_user2=Science&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=recommended

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

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

* Things people are saying about the election that aren't true:

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* If you haven't been following the Burma/Myanmar story, this is a good summing up, though it leaves out the Rohinga:

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* Twinkies, Pizza, and Obamacare:

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* Rich People want us all to work until we drop, while paying dramatically less of their income into Social Security than the rest of us. Lifting the pay roll cap would render Social Security solvent for the next 75% by itself. Still the people with the crappiest jobs are told they aren't sacrificing enough. Riiiiight.

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* Another young man has come forward to accuse Elmo's voice actor and he has resigned from Sesame Street. May I add Eeeeeeeew! I was expecting this after the first accusation was withdrawn, but really, really hoping I was wrong. To be clear, I believe the accuser. It just is horrifying and sad whenever a case like this comes to light.

* More on the wretched character of Mitt Romney: http://jaylake.livejournal.com/3006983.html

* I've been working on the latest batch of bureaucracy the last few days. Today's bit involved paying bills and a field trip. Assuming I can drag myself out of bed in time, tomorrow's will also involve some field trips. Then there is filling in more forms. It all needs to get done ASAP, as they are talking about closure on probate and it's best for me if I don't have those figures before this mails.

* I am giving MUSHing another try as it sounds like once a week which is more doable and it's small invite only. I was rather surprised as to how quickly my character took over once I started doing chargen. Julian: "Spiders! Add a bit about the spiders!" Me: *adds related stuff to the character sheet and background* I miss rp and I have no one to play with here.

* I continue to have connectivity issues (along with phone and TV ones). It is extra annoying that there is no way to call to complain when they go out. Resetting the box only makes things worse at least half the time. Sigh. If I disappear on folks that's what is up.

* I was reading mediocre Urban fantasy. (Somewhat interesting plot, sub par characterization). The main character asks, "How did I get into this situation?" Me: Spunky Agency! *facepalm* I blame Sparkindarkness.

* For the record? This is a pretty good way to handle someone coming out to you as trans: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2324

* Key and Peele correctly identify "Baby it's Cold Outside as being rapey:

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