Friday links - assortment

Overpopulation is a convenient scapegoat so we can continue to consuem
The issue is not the headcount, but what that headcount consumes: 1 billion westerners consume far more than 1 billion third-worlders.

Unlearning The Myth Of American Innocence
An American unlearns her history.

The White People backlash against Black Lives Matter

An aromantic perspective on love songs

A 'No Brilliant Jerks' policy has never been more necessary
Haven't read this article yet, but: have you ever considered that maybe Rodney McKay, Tony Stark, and Cumberbatch's Sherlock are actually weapons on behalf of toxic jerkoid masculinity?

Jews and abortion

Christianity, and the moral tragedy of vaccines
Wrestling with the realisation that our modern vaccines are made from products originally gained through abortion.

Catholics, abortion, and the vote against Trump
A comedian went on a rant the night of the Republican National Convention, and his wife says her piece about why she's Catholic and not voting for Trump.

Frozen 2 deliberately chose to include Sami consultation
I may have posted this before, but it's not like it isn't worth reading again.

Friday Five

thefridayfive; switched around for the past winter.

1) What did you plant?

Sydney's a 'warm temperate' climate, our winters might drop to 0C, but most things can take it. So I planted a lot of 'winterveg' from an Aussie POV: broccoli, peas, daikon radishes, beetroot, rocket and mustard and lettuces, cabbages, garlic...

It's all doing pretty well, considering that the winter wasn't quite cold enough to give the broccoli or cabbages a head. We got some broccolini and I'll have to work out how to make a nice pickle with the cabbage leaves...

2) What was your favorite summer winter food?

I don't think there's anything that quite beats my mother's stewed pork with yam. We had that for my sisters' birthday a couple of weeks ago, along with other fond favourites...and a beautiful butter cake with buttercream icing to finish off!

3) What song will remind you of this summer winter?

I don't think I have a song for this winter. Maybe anything by the Holderness family who did some amazing filks early on in iso. Haven't seen them in a while, though.

4) What was your favorite body of water to be in?

Since it's winter...the bathtub! Only a couple of times during the winter, though, and mostly when the muscles ached too much from hockey/gardening.

5) What's been your favorite outfit?

I have very much like the tracky-daks and hoodie combo. It worked while unemployed, and then even once employed but working-from-home, it was still good. Except now I don't know that too many of my work clothes fit anymore...

And after all that...

Well, fuck.

(If it's true, which I'm not wholly convinced it is.)