Life and Linketies
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moominmuppetI might get to go to the zoo tomorrow! Since I'll be home instead of working tomorrow afternoon, I might be going to the zoo with NL and his son. Will need a pretty intense power-nap between when I get home in the morning and when we go, and I bet I'll collapse again soon after, but it should be fun. If it works out, it'll be my first chance to meet NL's son, which I'm excited about (I may not want kids of my own, but I do enjoy having them about to teach and read to and explain things to).
Also, I did get my shit together this week and get some financial stuff sorted out that was hanging over my head. That's a big relief, although it does mean things will be tighter for me for a while. Now I just need to further get my shit together and finish my bedroom, which has been at the same point for the past month. Oops.
Oh, and although I accomplished nothing else during my "weekend", I did teach both Wednesday and Thursday night. Nurse Practitioner students, and I generally love working with them. All four students were pretty great, so it was happy and good.
Also, we'll have Amy's pug Bella tomorrow night again, so it works out well that I'll be home anyway.
OK, time for linketies, and Hogfather, and maybe a nice roast beef sandwich (I have a small loaf of fresh-baked french bread from one of the bakers, a little wheel of brie from the cheese vendor, and a rather ridiculous quantity of rare roast beef, because the deli vendor offered me a deal). I already ate my marinated artichoke salad, but still have teriyaki mushrooms and a half-dozen of the world's most awesome lemon bars, too.
Mmmm-tasty. Slices of the goat's milk brie wrapped in rare roast beef just don't need bread in order to be a most excellent sandwich. I do wish I hadn't forgotten to hit the fruit vendors today, though. Need more fruit.
2am: *phew* This is NOT how third shift is supposed to go! Major assignee team goes MIA, massive influx of calls, multiple conversations with my poor sleep-deprived boss about MIA team, etc, etc. I've barely been able to breathe since 11pm. At least it's kept the time passing quickly. Oy. Time to grab a very quick "hope nobody calls" break.
Live Coverage: Occupy Wall Street: Take the Bull by the Horns
Related: We Are the 99 Percent
Related: Wall Street Mocks Protesters By Drinking Champagne
Related: Chris Hedges at Occupy Wall Street
Related: Occupy Cleveland FB page
More: Main Occupy Cleveland site: first meeting is today, Saturday October 1st, 3pm-5:30pm at the Free Stamp
On Wednesday evening I gave a talk at Kenyon College as part of their annual Take Back the Night Week, about how we can use social justice to combat sexual violence. -- Awwww! I love seeing my passions and my alma mater intersect. And my first TBTN was at Kenyon, and was a really important and tranformative moment for me (it was the motivation to talk to my parents, finally, about the molestation from my cousins that happened when I was young).
35 years of Hyde: Why the fight for true abortion access has only just begun
Likewise, you don't have to actually hit each other to use BDSM methods of negotiation and consent-centrism. "What kind of play do you want today?" is an important question to ask of someone who doesn't have any Officially Designated Fetishes, but still has desires and limits--which would be, yeah, everyone.
And you don't have to be non-heterosexual to question what gender means to your relationship. If "which one of y'all does the dishes?" is a stupid question to ask a gay couple, it ought to be an equally stupid assumption to make about a straight one. The fact that assigned gender roles are available for a straight couple doesn't mean they ought to take them on without question.
What kind of relationship you have is your choice, and one choice isn't better than another. What's important is that you make a choice. That even if you're you're monogamous, vanilla, and heterosexual--you're doing it because it's what you want and because you and your partner have agreed to it, not because that's what people do. What's important isn't what path you take, but that you know there are paths. -- Yes, yes, yes, yes, all of this!
Democrats Call for Inquiry of Clarence Thomas
When a high school girl, who goes by her online avatar “Nekochan,” got hold of a list of books banned from her Catholic school, she turned the empty locker next to her into a secret banned books library. -- Rock on, Miss Awesomesauce!
Creating Change registration is now open (Baltimore, MD, Jan 25th-29th, 2012)
Ohio Senate increases requirements for minors seeking an abortion without parental consent
NYPD To Women Of Brooklyn's Park Slope: Don't Wear Shorts Or Dresses
Censoring Joss Whedon's Firefly and the Chancellor Who Cried Wolf
Something Positive comic -- I've been deeply amused by the increasing frequency of sex toy ads on mainstream TV, and the increasing directness of the sales tactics. Back in the day, they'd just advertise finger-sized vibes and talk suggestively about how well they reach "deep muscles" and such. Now there's an entire late-night infomercial program on one of the deep cable channels. It's hysterical! (and honestly, a sign of progress, even if it's a very commercial sort of progress)
A Visit to the Warehouse of Soul-Crushing Sadness
Introduction to Corporate Personhood
Star Trek cat towers
Thoughts on Library Bannings: Let's Talk
Oh I'm Bisexual, Is That Going To Be A Problem? -- Good grief. Can we just take my rant on this piece of shit as read?
DID SOMEBODY SAY MATADOR PIRATE SQUIDBULL BATTLE No? Okay. -- Unicorn chaser.
The Alnwick Poison Gardens in Alnwick, England was established in 2005 by the Duchess of Northumberland. The grounds contain nearly 100 deadly plants that produce poisons or hallucinogens. Some are so dangerous, they are displayed only behind glass. (the rest of the gardens in the link are totally awesome, too!)
Police brutality. Again. Warning, graphic photos.
Scientists discover a 'master key' to unlock new treatments for autoimmune disorders
Preliminary figures on a new Florida law requiring drug tests for welfare applicants show that they are less likely than other people to use drugs, not more. One famous Floridian suggests that it's the people who came up with the law who should be submitting specimens.
Columnist and best-selling author Carl Hiaasen offered to pay for drug testing for all 160 members of the Florida Legislature in what he called "a patriotic whiz-fest."
A single high dose of the hallucinogen psilocybin, the active ingredient in so-called "magic mushrooms," was enough to bring about a measureable personality change lasting at least a year in nearly 60 percent of the 51 participants in a new study, according to the Johns Hopkins researchers who conducted it. Lasting change was found in the part of the personality known as openness, which includes traits related to imagination, aesthetics, feelings, abstract ideas and general broad-mindedness.
Ladies, here’s an important tip to help you determine if your man is serious husband material: If he has large, dangling genitals, then you can tell that those parts have been overused and stretched out, and he’s obviously dirty, diseased and slutty. But if he has tiny, barely visible genitals that don’t hang down too far, that means he is clean, healthy, virginal, and worthy of marriage.
Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? Yet, when I was doing research for this article, I saw the reverse version of this advice being given to men. -- my personal opinion shouldn't matter either, but I actually really love elaborate, floral labia. I have a bit of labia-envy about them, honestly. The big thing that pisses me off about this kind of crap (and many Americans' attitudes toward uncut men, too) is that I hate seeing people taught to feel self-conscious about their own bodies. But on a smaller, more personal level, it's also a big bummer to me to think people are so convinced of their own unattractiveness that they're out getting surgeries to "fix" bits I find beautiful.
Emergence: The scientific concept that explains slime, friction, and Brooklyn neighborhoods -- Emergence is a favorite concept of mine. I particularly enjoyed Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, if you want more than io9's brief overview.
Possible Beauty and the Beast reboot -- on CW? Um, no. Please don't.
George R.R. Martin: I've done a lot of interviews this past year, but this was the only one that touched on the profound (and hitherto unexplored) influence that Wonder Man and the Avengers have had on my work
A Feast of Ice and Fire
Zoya Amirin, the only woman certified as a sex therapist in Indonesia, is launching a weekly podcast, called “In Bed with Zoya,” to debunk common myths about sex and contraception.
GLAAD Report: TV got less LGBT this year
House Republicans Investigate Planned Parenthood
Students’ Knowledge of Civil Rights History Has Deteriorated, Study Finds
Rock Hall of Fame Gives Nod to Lady Rockers -- Joan Jett all the way, baby!
Federal Bureau of Prisons Makes Major Change in Transgender Medical Policy
Employees who worked for an abortion doctor charged with murdering a patient and seven newborns must stand trial with him, even if they are not charged with killing anyone, a Philadelphia judge ruled Friday. -- Works for me. Take 'em all down. Evil motherfuckers.
Two weeks ago, the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) announced a huge victory for transgender rights: the Social Security Administration (SSA) would no longer verify gender with work records provided by employers. (on trans rights, immigrant rights, and intersectionality)
Just in case you thought Americans had cornered the North American market on crazy intolerance, check out this ad that's running in Canadian newspapers this week.
Doctor Who exclusive: Matt Smith is children’s favourite Time Lord
Cheers and Jeers: Saudi Lashing Dropped; Global Gag's Impacts Shown
Irritation with sped-up and trimmed Doctor Who eps on BBCA
Doctor Who Magazine Tenth Anniversary Issue - Photos
Doctor Who: Finale to honour the Brig -- minor spoilers at the link.
The BBC has announced that this weekend’s episode of Doctor Who Confidential will be the last one ever. -- I'm not personally deeply distressed by this. I like any little extra bit of who-related material I can get, but the Confidentials weren't all that amazingly illuminating or anything.
Spoilers!: Piecing Together the Life of River Song.
Someone asked me for a Doctor Who version of A, You're Adorable, so, well, here's my first ever attempt at a Who fanvid.
The Top 10 Things Trans People Should Know About the New Standards of Care
Love and Time And Ferretts -- This definitely resonates for me; it's very much how I generally am.
Cleveland Public Theatre: Monster Play
Lock your doors, bar the windows and build up the fire as CPT and Theater Ninjas unleash an evening of hideous, inhuman monsters for your enjoyment. This original and unnatural co-production celebrates the nightmare creatures that haunt our dreams and stare out from our mirrors. -- Sounds like fun!
Cleveland: Attention All Rail Riders - Viaduct Work Means Bus Bridge, Other Adjustments
Labor Movement Rolls Into Wall Street Occupation
Religious-Right Homophobes Whine That They're Being Oppressed
Glenn Greenwald on Killing of al-Awlaki: "The Due-Process-Free Assassination of U.S. Citizens Is Now Reality"
How to Get Laid Without Being a Jerk
You should never feel like you’ve been convinced to have sex, and you should never feel like you’re doing the convincing.
Cloudy Night of the Northern Lights
Browncoats Mixtape
The X-Men Guide to Puberty
Also, I did get my shit together this week and get some financial stuff sorted out that was hanging over my head. That's a big relief, although it does mean things will be tighter for me for a while. Now I just need to further get my shit together and finish my bedroom, which has been at the same point for the past month. Oops.
Oh, and although I accomplished nothing else during my "weekend", I did teach both Wednesday and Thursday night. Nurse Practitioner students, and I generally love working with them. All four students were pretty great, so it was happy and good.
Also, we'll have Amy's pug Bella tomorrow night again, so it works out well that I'll be home anyway.
OK, time for linketies, and Hogfather, and maybe a nice roast beef sandwich (I have a small loaf of fresh-baked french bread from one of the bakers, a little wheel of brie from the cheese vendor, and a rather ridiculous quantity of rare roast beef, because the deli vendor offered me a deal). I already ate my marinated artichoke salad, but still have teriyaki mushrooms and a half-dozen of the world's most awesome lemon bars, too.
Mmmm-tasty. Slices of the goat's milk brie wrapped in rare roast beef just don't need bread in order to be a most excellent sandwich. I do wish I hadn't forgotten to hit the fruit vendors today, though. Need more fruit.
2am: *phew* This is NOT how third shift is supposed to go! Major assignee team goes MIA, massive influx of calls, multiple conversations with my poor sleep-deprived boss about MIA team, etc, etc. I've barely been able to breathe since 11pm. At least it's kept the time passing quickly. Oy. Time to grab a very quick "hope nobody calls" break.
Live Coverage: Occupy Wall Street: Take the Bull by the Horns
Related: We Are the 99 Percent
Related: Wall Street Mocks Protesters By Drinking Champagne
Related: Chris Hedges at Occupy Wall Street
Related: Occupy Cleveland FB page
More: Main Occupy Cleveland site: first meeting is today, Saturday October 1st, 3pm-5:30pm at the Free Stamp
On Wednesday evening I gave a talk at Kenyon College as part of their annual Take Back the Night Week, about how we can use social justice to combat sexual violence. -- Awwww! I love seeing my passions and my alma mater intersect. And my first TBTN was at Kenyon, and was a really important and tranformative moment for me (it was the motivation to talk to my parents, finally, about the molestation from my cousins that happened when I was young).
35 years of Hyde: Why the fight for true abortion access has only just begun
Likewise, you don't have to actually hit each other to use BDSM methods of negotiation and consent-centrism. "What kind of play do you want today?" is an important question to ask of someone who doesn't have any Officially Designated Fetishes, but still has desires and limits--which would be, yeah, everyone.
And you don't have to be non-heterosexual to question what gender means to your relationship. If "which one of y'all does the dishes?" is a stupid question to ask a gay couple, it ought to be an equally stupid assumption to make about a straight one. The fact that assigned gender roles are available for a straight couple doesn't mean they ought to take them on without question.
What kind of relationship you have is your choice, and one choice isn't better than another. What's important is that you make a choice. That even if you're you're monogamous, vanilla, and heterosexual--you're doing it because it's what you want and because you and your partner have agreed to it, not because that's what people do. What's important isn't what path you take, but that you know there are paths. -- Yes, yes, yes, yes, all of this!
Democrats Call for Inquiry of Clarence Thomas
When a high school girl, who goes by her online avatar “Nekochan,” got hold of a list of books banned from her Catholic school, she turned the empty locker next to her into a secret banned books library. -- Rock on, Miss Awesomesauce!
Creating Change registration is now open (Baltimore, MD, Jan 25th-29th, 2012)
Ohio Senate increases requirements for minors seeking an abortion without parental consent
NYPD To Women Of Brooklyn's Park Slope: Don't Wear Shorts Or Dresses
Censoring Joss Whedon's Firefly and the Chancellor Who Cried Wolf
Something Positive comic -- I've been deeply amused by the increasing frequency of sex toy ads on mainstream TV, and the increasing directness of the sales tactics. Back in the day, they'd just advertise finger-sized vibes and talk suggestively about how well they reach "deep muscles" and such. Now there's an entire late-night infomercial program on one of the deep cable channels. It's hysterical! (and honestly, a sign of progress, even if it's a very commercial sort of progress)
A Visit to the Warehouse of Soul-Crushing Sadness
Introduction to Corporate Personhood
Star Trek cat towers
Thoughts on Library Bannings: Let's Talk
Oh I'm Bisexual, Is That Going To Be A Problem? -- Good grief. Can we just take my rant on this piece of shit as read?
DID SOMEBODY SAY MATADOR PIRATE SQUIDBULL BATTLE No? Okay. -- Unicorn chaser.
The Alnwick Poison Gardens in Alnwick, England was established in 2005 by the Duchess of Northumberland. The grounds contain nearly 100 deadly plants that produce poisons or hallucinogens. Some are so dangerous, they are displayed only behind glass. (the rest of the gardens in the link are totally awesome, too!)
Police brutality. Again. Warning, graphic photos.
Scientists discover a 'master key' to unlock new treatments for autoimmune disorders
Preliminary figures on a new Florida law requiring drug tests for welfare applicants show that they are less likely than other people to use drugs, not more. One famous Floridian suggests that it's the people who came up with the law who should be submitting specimens.
Columnist and best-selling author Carl Hiaasen offered to pay for drug testing for all 160 members of the Florida Legislature in what he called "a patriotic whiz-fest."
A single high dose of the hallucinogen psilocybin, the active ingredient in so-called "magic mushrooms," was enough to bring about a measureable personality change lasting at least a year in nearly 60 percent of the 51 participants in a new study, according to the Johns Hopkins researchers who conducted it. Lasting change was found in the part of the personality known as openness, which includes traits related to imagination, aesthetics, feelings, abstract ideas and general broad-mindedness.
Ladies, here’s an important tip to help you determine if your man is serious husband material: If he has large, dangling genitals, then you can tell that those parts have been overused and stretched out, and he’s obviously dirty, diseased and slutty. But if he has tiny, barely visible genitals that don’t hang down too far, that means he is clean, healthy, virginal, and worthy of marriage.
Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? Yet, when I was doing research for this article, I saw the reverse version of this advice being given to men. -- my personal opinion shouldn't matter either, but I actually really love elaborate, floral labia. I have a bit of labia-envy about them, honestly. The big thing that pisses me off about this kind of crap (and many Americans' attitudes toward uncut men, too) is that I hate seeing people taught to feel self-conscious about their own bodies. But on a smaller, more personal level, it's also a big bummer to me to think people are so convinced of their own unattractiveness that they're out getting surgeries to "fix" bits I find beautiful.
Emergence: The scientific concept that explains slime, friction, and Brooklyn neighborhoods -- Emergence is a favorite concept of mine. I particularly enjoyed Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, if you want more than io9's brief overview.
Possible Beauty and the Beast reboot -- on CW? Um, no. Please don't.
George R.R. Martin: I've done a lot of interviews this past year, but this was the only one that touched on the profound (and hitherto unexplored) influence that Wonder Man and the Avengers have had on my work
A Feast of Ice and Fire
Zoya Amirin, the only woman certified as a sex therapist in Indonesia, is launching a weekly podcast, called “In Bed with Zoya,” to debunk common myths about sex and contraception.
GLAAD Report: TV got less LGBT this year
House Republicans Investigate Planned Parenthood
Students’ Knowledge of Civil Rights History Has Deteriorated, Study Finds
Rock Hall of Fame Gives Nod to Lady Rockers -- Joan Jett all the way, baby!
Federal Bureau of Prisons Makes Major Change in Transgender Medical Policy
Employees who worked for an abortion doctor charged with murdering a patient and seven newborns must stand trial with him, even if they are not charged with killing anyone, a Philadelphia judge ruled Friday. -- Works for me. Take 'em all down. Evil motherfuckers.
Two weeks ago, the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) announced a huge victory for transgender rights: the Social Security Administration (SSA) would no longer verify gender with work records provided by employers. (on trans rights, immigrant rights, and intersectionality)
Just in case you thought Americans had cornered the North American market on crazy intolerance, check out this ad that's running in Canadian newspapers this week.
Doctor Who exclusive: Matt Smith is children’s favourite Time Lord
Cheers and Jeers: Saudi Lashing Dropped; Global Gag's Impacts Shown
Irritation with sped-up and trimmed Doctor Who eps on BBCA
Doctor Who Magazine Tenth Anniversary Issue - Photos
Doctor Who: Finale to honour the Brig -- minor spoilers at the link.
The BBC has announced that this weekend’s episode of Doctor Who Confidential will be the last one ever. -- I'm not personally deeply distressed by this. I like any little extra bit of who-related material I can get, but the Confidentials weren't all that amazingly illuminating or anything.
Spoilers!: Piecing Together the Life of River Song.
Someone asked me for a Doctor Who version of A, You're Adorable, so, well, here's my first ever attempt at a Who fanvid.
The Top 10 Things Trans People Should Know About the New Standards of Care
Love and Time And Ferretts -- This definitely resonates for me; it's very much how I generally am.
Cleveland Public Theatre: Monster Play
Lock your doors, bar the windows and build up the fire as CPT and Theater Ninjas unleash an evening of hideous, inhuman monsters for your enjoyment. This original and unnatural co-production celebrates the nightmare creatures that haunt our dreams and stare out from our mirrors. -- Sounds like fun!
Cleveland: Attention All Rail Riders - Viaduct Work Means Bus Bridge, Other Adjustments
Labor Movement Rolls Into Wall Street Occupation
Religious-Right Homophobes Whine That They're Being Oppressed
Glenn Greenwald on Killing of al-Awlaki: "The Due-Process-Free Assassination of U.S. Citizens Is Now Reality"
How to Get Laid Without Being a Jerk
You should never feel like you’ve been convinced to have sex, and you should never feel like you’re doing the convincing.
Cloudy Night of the Northern Lights
Browncoats Mixtape
The X-Men Guide to Puberty
