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Linketies, I wish I could quit you...

Attempts to upload critter pics, stymied.
Attempts to find specific items online, mostly stymied.

Linketies it is.
How many items do I scan for a usual linketies post? Currently have 324 sitting in my "Linketies" folder in email, and another 507 in Google Reader. That's since late Sunday night. Sometimes I wish the world weren't so damned interesting. (Initial scan-through is titles-only, so it's really only like reading 800 or so lines, not 800 or so articles -- the stuff that actually gets posted gets read or skimmed to varying levels depending on why I'm posting it). Biggest problem is not accidentally reposting the same stuff over and over, since I'll often hit the same news item from a few different sources.

Also, have I mentioned how much Grafton rocks? He's been working away on my bedroom project without me, and made massive progress.

Well, fuck. Facebook won't auto-crosspost my LJ posts anymore? That blows. Anyone who's been following me through here, you'll just have to come over to my LJ directly from now on, I guess. -- I haven't gotten this message myself -- does anyone have confirm/deny on this for sure? So far my posts today have been cross-posting as normal.

Fuck. Work-friend with very ill mother just ran out of the office. Good thoughts his way. (he's back now, and things seem ok with him mom for the moment, so that's good)

Also, hate this migraine. Hate hate hate. Getting worse again, and I'm back in sunglasses at my desk, and feeling about as nauseaus as I ever get with migraines (which thankfully isn't near as bad as for some people -- they never actually make me vomit, they just make me feel full-body queasy)

BTW, as folks are looking for holiday gifts, I'd like to recommend Heifer International. I've been doing donations to them as presents to my Dad for several years now, and I really like their model. Although they're technically a religiously-founded organization, as far as I've ever been able to ascertain, they don't prosyletize or evangelize at all as part of the Heifer mission.
Heifer International is a global nonprofit with the goal of ending poverty and hunger in a sustainable fashion. Established in 1944, Heifer International gives out gifts of livestock, seeds and trees and extensive training to those in need.

Another truly awesome organization, in great need of support: Doctors Without Borders

Also, if you donate to United Way through work, and would like to know more about how to use their online system to direct funds to organizations that aren't directly part of United Way, let me know, and I can send you the screenshots I just sent to some friends. It's a little obscure if you don't know to look for the options. (Preterm, our local LGBT Center, and The Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland are all missing from their lists, so I've been motivated to find ways to work around that)

And semi-relatedly: Why You Shouldn't Donate to the Salvation Army Bell Ringers (your annual reminder)

Fox News Host Dismisses Pepper Spray Attack By Cops: ‘It’s A Food Product, Essentially’
About Pepper Spray, The ‘Food Product’ That Can Kill You
Megyn Kelly's claim that pepper spray is "a food product, essentially" has quickly become infamous. Let's take a look at the ways this "food product" fucks people up.
If y'all haven't read them yet, read the reviews on Amazon for pepper spray. (folks have been amusing themselves here since the "It's a food product" thing came out)
More: Pepper Spray and "Pain Compliance" Policing: We've Let Police Taser and Spray Citizens for Years -- This is the part that makes me really angry. We're not using these weapons in cases when an officer would otherwise be using their gun. We're using these tools, by-and-large, when an officer would otherwise have to be using their voice.
Related: Meet the Police's New 'Sound Canons'
Controversial LRAD can cause 'extreme pain,' hearing loss
More: The Tampa police have one of these [tanks]
Related: Pregnant Woman Blasted with Pepper Spray by SPD Says She Miscarried -- hard to say conclusively whether the pepper spray and/or beating contributed to her miscarriage, but it's not a question we should have to be asking about aftermath of peaceful protest.

Muppet Show returns to TV? It's time to play the music…
Jim Henson puppet show in development for new primetime series with NBC after first film for a decade opens in the US -- Oh, yes, PLEASE!

FBI Claims It Does Not Have Any Documents on Occupy Wall Street

R.I.P. Anne McCaffrey, Creator of Pern and The Ship Who Sang -- *sigh* One the major influences of my teens, and some of the earliest adult SF/F I read. (I'm not going to tackle it now, but given that it's talked about in the article, I do feel it necessary to point out that there are very mixed feelings about The Ship Who Sang amongst politically-minded folks with disabilities)
More: Vale Anne McCaffery

Watch this octopus heave itself onto land and walk around -- Here, have a unicorn (or Octopus) chaser.

It would have been easy for students at UC Davis to riot after watching their classmates being assaulted with pepper spray. Instead, they remained nonviolent. That simple act gave them the moral high ground. And that's how social change movements grow.

Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will produce Swordfighting, a sitcom about two friendly married couples whose bond is tested when the two wives fall in love with each other, reports Deadline.

Note Of Note of the Day (passing notes to the President)

George Orwell, Police Brutality, and OWS

When bullies use food to terrorize kids with allergies -- Lovely. New forms of bullying. Just what we need.

From black to Pink: Bisexual book interview with YA author Lili Wilkinson

Analyzing the top 100 films of 2009, USC's Annenberg School found that only 32.8 percent of speaking characters were female and a small minority of the films had female directors, even though women bought a majority of movie tickets that year.

Bullies Forced an Alleged Sandusky Victim to Leave His High School

Early video of Obama surfaces from Harvard Law School era (the tags on this post amuse me)

As Egyptian protesters continue battles with police and troops in Cairo, the casualty figures are rising steadily. Many of the wounded are being treated in makeshift clinics on Tahrir Square. Protestors say they will not stop until they've driven the ruling military council from power as they did Hosni Mubarak in February.

Everything You Want to Know About What OWS Is Up To Now (And Why It Just Had Its Biggest Media Week Ever)

Obama to GOP Obstructionists: "My Message to Them is Simple: No."

Obama signs bipartisan bill to help jobless vets -- Oh, rock on!

From Egypt to Occupy, and back again

Thousands turn out for Wisconsin recall rally. Also, Arizona?

The Kaiser Family Foundation has updated its fact sheet on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine coverage and financing and includes the new recommendation from the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) that boys and young men be vaccinated against the virus.

Occupy Wall Street and the Importance of Creative Protest

Occupy Cleveland: Daily Digest – Tuesday, Nov. 22 – Future Generations

‘No Light, No Light’: White Supremacy all dressed up in a pop video is still White Supremacy

Matt Smith on the Doctor Who movie

Egypt activists call for 'million-man' rally

Psychological intervention reduces disability and depression in adolescents with fibromyalgia

My Life as a White Supremacist
An FBI mole speaks for the first time about life in the seedy world of right-wing terror.

After three days of increasingly violent demonstrations, Egypt's interim civilian government submitted its resignation to the country's ruling military council.

Horrible Law Firm That Mocked Foreclosure Victims Now Out of Business

OWS Round-Up: Latinas (And Other Mujeres), Civil Rights Elders, and Ani DiFranco

Voices of the Occupations: 5 New Media Sources Fighting Against Censorship and For OWS

OWS Education Activists Launch Student Debt Refusal Pledge

NYPD Snoop Declares Zuccotti Park A “Soft Target” for Terrorists: Really?

Volunteer clinics tend to Egyptian protesters

W. Kamau Bell: "Stop Talking Shit About the Occupy Movement"

Ten Muppets You Probably Don't Know (But Should!)

Exclusive: OWS—Where Does Feminism Fit?

Talking Turkey: 8 Easy Steps for Discussing Reproductive Health and Justice at the Holiday Table

An apology to Skepticon from Gelato Mio -- Serious and sincere. Give the guy a break.

For the next week WhoNews are donating all profits from their iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch application to charity.

Mid Ohio Atheists had a contract with Lind Media Company for two billboards (of the atheist variety, of course). At the last minute Lind Media Company dropped Mid Ohio Atheists a line to say “Oops we changed our minds sorry thx bye.”

Mary's Monday Metazoan: Since we had our first major snowfall this weekend…

Sure, lots of people probably mock Twilight because it’s for girls. But most of the commentary I’ve read about Twilight has been by women, pointing out as gently as possible that it’s not exactly a female-positive storyline to fall in love with someone WHO BREAKS INTO YOUR HOUSE TO STARE AT YOU WHILE YOU’RE SLEEPING (countering an argument that twilight-bashing is misogynistic)

Now that the mad poetry of Arnold's Total Recall DVD commentary has captured the hearts of an entire planet, let's take a look back at his thrilling repartees with Conan The Barbarian director John Milius. Will these old DVD commentaries redeem him in the public eye for that whole love child imbroglio?

So anyway here’s the Dominionist wisdom about what to do if you’re an abused woman, also why you are an abused woman in the first place. I bet you can guess – it’s because of feminism.