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Friday, April 14th, 2017 09:18 pm
Blogspot: Me-Made May - Sign Up
I'm trying to work out what to do for this - or if I do it at all. The challenge is usually to wear one thing you made every day of the month. I reckon it's easier when May is a month that's tending towards summer instead of one where everything is getting cold and rainy.

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Youtube: "Clarke and Dawe: Cyclone Malcolm. This is a Watch and Act Warning."
Unlikely any but Australians will get this. Laugh and cry and weep at the passing of a great comedian.

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The Guardian: The Destruction Of Hillary Clinton: Sexism, Sanders, and the Millenial Feminist Or: How To Burn Your Own Bridges While You're Standing On It Screaming That Someone In Politics Isn't Good Enough For Your Extremely Speshul Vote.

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Dreamwidth: Thoughts on racism, sexism, and fandom: How to Suck Less by [personal profile] beatrice_otter.
Thinky thoughts, or how not to get stuck at an intermediate step of sucking less in fandom.

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fic rec: Political Animal (Zazu/Triton, Human AU, Political AU)
From Yuletide, recced by someone else, it's both hilarious and hot!

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nngroup: Participation Inequality
How the voices we hear are not a majority of anything.

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And finally this Good Friday:

Common Grace: Siding With Jesus: The Real Cost
Following Jesus requires we love people in costly solidarity, and requires us to expose any ideology that pretends inequality is natural or ordained by God.
I have a lot of thoughts on this, not sure if they're coherent yet.
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2017 08:21 am
This seems relevant to all my readers:
The US House is scheduled to vote on Resolution 86 (regarding the protection of online privacy and the sale of data by ISPs without a user's permission) tomorrow, Tuesday March 28. so if you're going to call or fax, there's not a lot of time. It's already passed in the Senate.

Here's a script (from the ACLU except that the House resolution number has been put in directly):

I’m calling to demand Congress protect my online privacy and keep FCC broadband rules intact. Do not pass House Resolution 86. I do not want internet service providers to sell my data without first getting my permission.


The Electronic Frontier Foundation aka EFF has more information on H.J. Res. 86.
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Friday, February 17th, 2017 05:13 pm
"It’s not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it’s about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism."
― Mary Robinette Kowal

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Yonic: resembling of vulva/labia/vagina

Yonic, from from sanskrit word Yoni

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In answer to a guy sarcastically saying 'So I can never talk to a woman again?' when someone reprimands them for sexist thinking: "If you automatically think that you are more qualified to speak about a topic than a woman, then yeah, you should probably keep your trap shut when women start speaking."