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Friday, January 13, 2017
Friday Links (queens of the underworld edition)
It's Friday! The second Friday in a new year. And it's hard to get excited when so much of the news is so outrageous
We're having a worse than usual flu epidemic in our area. Several people I know either have pneumonia or had it over the holiday. And my husband and I are still trying to shake off the cold/flu or whatever it is we've been fighting for weeks.
Anyway, here are links to stories I found interesting, sorted by category.
Rejected Princesses: The Queens of the Sydney Underworld.
I Want to Take My Womb Out of Retirement and Give Birth to a Black Daughter So That She Can See Hidden Figures.
Florida activists continue to feed homeless, despite arrests by police.
Obama throws Joe Biden the best surprise party ever.
Portland experiences the heaviest snowfall in a decade.
Punitive Practices Do Not Keep Children Safer at School. We Need More Supportive Policies.
4 Ridiculous Questions People Asked Me When My 11-Year-Old Came Out as Gay.
Victims of Fort Lauderdale airport mass shooting that killed five, wounded six had minds on family vacations.
A Nevada woman dies of a superbug resistant to every available antibiotic in the US.
Cynthia Nixon Reminds The World That LGBT Families are Just Families.
9 Books to Better Understand Today's Sexual Landscape.
George Michael Was the Kind of Gay Man We Now Whisper About.
KERRY SORRY FOR PAST STATE DEP'T DISCRIMINATION AGAINST GAYS.
Moonlight Named Best Picture by National Society of Film Critics.
IBM Just Debuted a New Logo and the Reasoning Will Make You Smile.
A Massive Tunnel Tree in California Has Fallen.
Earliest, Brightest Galaxies Shine A Ghostly Green In Surprising New Find.
NASA just explained why Moon dust is 'levitating' above the lunar surface.
The Milky Way's black hole is spewing out planet-size 'spitballs'.
Your appendix might serve an important biological function after all.
Obama is the first US president to author an article in Science magazine.
A star heading this way could knock millions of asteroids towards Earth.
There's A Massive Metal Dragon Hiding Inside Earth's Outer Core.
We always knew our ancestors were microbes. Now we found them.
Flipping A Switch In The Brain Turns Lab Rodents Into Killer Mice.
The CW Renews The Flash, Supernatural, Crazy Ex and 4 Others.
Disturbed by Lovecraft, whose racism and hate weren't merely a product of his times.
Hugo Nominees 2017 Wikia.
Turns Out, 'Young Justice' Had Gay Superheroes All Along. Except this is, once again, a creator claiming it afterward, trying to get credit while being too timid to actually represent...
The Hugo Awards (2016 - 2017).
Tech 100: How Princess Leia Influenced This Woman in STEM.
Chuck Tingle Launches Buttbart, a Lovecraftian, Anus-Rich Parody of Breitbart.
The Future Alternative Past: this dystopian hope. Nisi Shawl, an author I greatly admire, is now doing a regular sf/f column for the Seattle Review of Books. Check out this, her third monthly column!
Did Inadequate Women’s Healthcare Destroy Star Wars’ Old Republic?
The Rise of the Word Police.
Four Literary Questions.
The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”.
Do You Need a New Language Peeve? Sure, it's popular to complain about words ending in '-ize'. But what about words ending in '-ate'?
Transgender vs. Transsexual: What’s the Difference?
Keep the Internet Weird.
Using real names online ‘leads to discrimination and harrassment’.
How not to write about gay guys in 2017.
Behind the Scenes of Queer, Latina Remake of 'One Day at a Time'.
Nearly a quarter of Americans are not religious: Why doesn’t that diversity show up in politics? About 1 in 4 Americans has no religious affiliation — but only 1of 538 members of Congress admits to that
HRC Mourns India Monroe, Misgendered After December Murder.
What's Behind the New Wave of Transgender 'Bathroom Bills'.
Virginia bathroom bill is even worse than North Carolina’s.
NO GOOD, VERY BAD BIGOTS DO EXACTLY WHAT THEY PROMISED THEY WOULD DO, FILE ANTI-TRANS BATHROOM BALLOT INITIATIVE.
Black LGBT Ministers Speak Out About Kim Burrell, Shirley Caesar.
Please Note: The Legislator Behind Virginia’s New Anti-Trans Bill Is Completely Nuts.
Republicans plan to overwhelm you so you don’t know what’s going on. And it’s going to work.
Watch Cory Booker Reprimand Jeff Sessions for Years of Voting Against Marginalized Americans.
Graphic essay: What the Civil Rights Movement can teach us about surviving Trump.
WHO IS TO RECEIVE GOD’S LOVE? A RESPONSE TO KIM BURRELL’S HOMOPHOBIC SERMON.
BBC's Paul Wood: There Are Four Sources For Claims of Possible Trump-Russia Blackmail.
Trump's Plan To Isolate Himself From Company During Presidency Falls Short Of Blind Trust.
Donald Trump Is Very Upset That The Media And American People Are Mocking Him.
Major Christian group condemns Trump’s cabinet picks, policy agenda. In a statement, the group calls his cabinet picks “morally inconsistent with Christian principles.”
Sanders urges Dems against obstructing Trump. I... have no words.
State Department Apologizes for 1950s Anti-LGBT Witch Hunt.
Chuck Wendig on "Why We Need the Affordable Care Act".
Trump's best option on Obamacare is to get Democrats to walk the plank with him.
Searching for Richard Spencer: What I Found in a Small Montana Town at the Center of a Neo-Nazi Troll Storm. Pulitzer-winning local author Eli Sanders spent Christmas with relatives in Whitefish, which has become embroiled in a dispute with the guy who literally invented the term "alt-right" to rebrand white supremacists.
Jeff Sessions Wanted to ‘Drop the Case’ Against KKK Lynching, Attorney Testified.
Donald Trump and the Tainted Presidency.
D.C. Dress Shops Dispute Trump's Claim That They Are 'Sold-Out' for Inauguration: 'There's Never Been Less Demand'.
Activists catch James O’Keefe’s group bribing people to riot at Trump’s inauguration.
Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him.
Kellyanne Conway dispatched to scare up money after Trump ‘struggled’ to pay for transition team.
Nazi Group Fails To Raise $125 Permit Fee For Planned Rally, Claims Event Will Be Rescheduled.
Dylann Roof Is Sentenced to Death in Charleston Church Massacre.
Clare Hollingworth, Reporter Who Broke News of World War II, Dies at 105.
Utah artist James C. Christensen dies at age 74.
Tony Rosato, cast member on both SNL and SCTV, dead at 62.
Bronski Beat keyboardist Larry Steinbachek dies at 56.
Weekend Update 1/7/2017: Funeral for our favorite general and other stories….
More social media thoughts.
Living in a bubble–more thoughts on social medi.
Bubbles and misinformation (going way beyond confirmation bias).
Writing Concoctions: scenes, chapters, and other artifices.
Oregon Zoo polar bear Nora and other animals in the Portland zoo play in snow 2017:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy ORIGINAL VIDEO:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Michael Is Alive: Official Trailer #2 | Season 5 | PRISON BREAK:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
We're having a worse than usual flu epidemic in our area. Several people I know either have pneumonia or had it over the holiday. And my husband and I are still trying to shake off the cold/flu or whatever it is we've been fighting for weeks.
Anyway, here are links to stories I found interesting, sorted by category.
Links of the Week
Rejected Princesses: The Queens of the Sydney Underworld.
I Want to Take My Womb Out of Retirement and Give Birth to a Black Daughter So That She Can See Hidden Figures.
Florida activists continue to feed homeless, despite arrests by police.
This Week in Friendship
Obama throws Joe Biden the best surprise party ever.
This Week in Weather
Portland experiences the heaviest snowfall in a decade.
This Week in Difficult to Classify
Punitive Practices Do Not Keep Children Safer at School. We Need More Supportive Policies.
4 Ridiculous Questions People Asked Me When My 11-Year-Old Came Out as Gay.
This week in awful news
Victims of Fort Lauderdale airport mass shooting that killed five, wounded six had minds on family vacations.
A Nevada woman dies of a superbug resistant to every available antibiotic in the US.
News for queers and our allies:
Cynthia Nixon Reminds The World That LGBT Families are Just Families.
9 Books to Better Understand Today's Sexual Landscape.
George Michael Was the Kind of Gay Man We Now Whisper About.
KERRY SORRY FOR PAST STATE DEP'T DISCRIMINATION AGAINST GAYS.
Moonlight Named Best Picture by National Society of Film Critics.
IBM Just Debuted a New Logo and the Reasoning Will Make You Smile.
Science!
A Massive Tunnel Tree in California Has Fallen.
Earliest, Brightest Galaxies Shine A Ghostly Green In Surprising New Find.
NASA just explained why Moon dust is 'levitating' above the lunar surface.
The Milky Way's black hole is spewing out planet-size 'spitballs'.
Your appendix might serve an important biological function after all.
Obama is the first US president to author an article in Science magazine.
A star heading this way could knock millions of asteroids towards Earth.
There's A Massive Metal Dragon Hiding Inside Earth's Outer Core.
We always knew our ancestors were microbes. Now we found them.
Flipping A Switch In The Brain Turns Lab Rodents Into Killer Mice.
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!
The CW Renews The Flash, Supernatural, Crazy Ex and 4 Others.
Disturbed by Lovecraft, whose racism and hate weren't merely a product of his times.
Hugo Nominees 2017 Wikia.
Turns Out, 'Young Justice' Had Gay Superheroes All Along. Except this is, once again, a creator claiming it afterward, trying to get credit while being too timid to actually represent...
The Hugo Awards (2016 - 2017).
Tech 100: How Princess Leia Influenced This Woman in STEM.
Chuck Tingle Launches Buttbart, a Lovecraftian, Anus-Rich Parody of Breitbart.
The Future Alternative Past: this dystopian hope. Nisi Shawl, an author I greatly admire, is now doing a regular sf/f column for the Seattle Review of Books. Check out this, her third monthly column!
Did Inadequate Women’s Healthcare Destroy Star Wars’ Old Republic?
This week in Writing
The Rise of the Word Police.
Four Literary Questions.
This week in Words
The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”.
Do You Need a New Language Peeve? Sure, it's popular to complain about words ending in '-ize'. But what about words ending in '-ate'?
Transgender vs. Transsexual: What’s the Difference?
This Week in Tech
Keep the Internet Weird.
Using real names online ‘leads to discrimination and harrassment’.
This Week in Inclusion
How not to write about gay guys in 2017.
Behind the Scenes of Queer, Latina Remake of 'One Day at a Time'.
Culture war news:
Nearly a quarter of Americans are not religious: Why doesn’t that diversity show up in politics? About 1 in 4 Americans has no religious affiliation — but only 1of 538 members of Congress admits to that
HRC Mourns India Monroe, Misgendered After December Murder.
What's Behind the New Wave of Transgender 'Bathroom Bills'.
Virginia bathroom bill is even worse than North Carolina’s.
NO GOOD, VERY BAD BIGOTS DO EXACTLY WHAT THEY PROMISED THEY WOULD DO, FILE ANTI-TRANS BATHROOM BALLOT INITIATIVE.
Black LGBT Ministers Speak Out About Kim Burrell, Shirley Caesar.
Please Note: The Legislator Behind Virginia’s New Anti-Trans Bill Is Completely Nuts.
Republicans plan to overwhelm you so you don’t know what’s going on. And it’s going to work.
Watch Cory Booker Reprimand Jeff Sessions for Years of Voting Against Marginalized Americans.
This Week in Fighting Back in the Culture War:
Graphic essay: What the Civil Rights Movement can teach us about surviving Trump.
WHO IS TO RECEIVE GOD’S LOVE? A RESPONSE TO KIM BURRELL’S HOMOPHOBIC SERMON.
News of Orange Julius Ceasar
BBC's Paul Wood: There Are Four Sources For Claims of Possible Trump-Russia Blackmail.
Trump's Plan To Isolate Himself From Company During Presidency Falls Short Of Blind Trust.
Donald Trump Is Very Upset That The Media And American People Are Mocking Him.
This week in Politics:
Major Christian group condemns Trump’s cabinet picks, policy agenda. In a statement, the group calls his cabinet picks “morally inconsistent with Christian principles.”
Sanders urges Dems against obstructing Trump. I... have no words.
State Department Apologizes for 1950s Anti-LGBT Witch Hunt.
Chuck Wendig on "Why We Need the Affordable Care Act".
Trump's best option on Obamacare is to get Democrats to walk the plank with him.
This Week in Racists, White Nationalists, and the deplorables
Searching for Richard Spencer: What I Found in a Small Montana Town at the Center of a Neo-Nazi Troll Storm. Pulitzer-winning local author Eli Sanders spent Christmas with relatives in Whitefish, which has become embroiled in a dispute with the guy who literally invented the term "alt-right" to rebrand white supremacists.
Jeff Sessions Wanted to ‘Drop the Case’ Against KKK Lynching, Attorney Testified.
Donald Trump and the Tainted Presidency.
D.C. Dress Shops Dispute Trump's Claim That They Are 'Sold-Out' for Inauguration: 'There's Never Been Less Demand'.
Activists catch James O’Keefe’s group bribing people to riot at Trump’s inauguration.
Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him.
Kellyanne Conway dispatched to scare up money after Trump ‘struggled’ to pay for transition team.
Nazi Group Fails To Raise $125 Permit Fee For Planned Rally, Claims Event Will Be Rescheduled.
This Week in Hate Crimes
Dylann Roof Is Sentenced to Death in Charleston Church Massacre.
Farewells:
Clare Hollingworth, Reporter Who Broke News of World War II, Dies at 105.
Utah artist James C. Christensen dies at age 74.
Tony Rosato, cast member on both SNL and SCTV, dead at 62.
Bronski Beat keyboardist Larry Steinbachek dies at 56.
Things I wrote:
Weekend Update 1/7/2017: Funeral for our favorite general and other stories….
More social media thoughts.
Living in a bubble–more thoughts on social medi.
Bubbles and misinformation (going way beyond confirmation bias).
Writing Concoctions: scenes, chapters, and other artifices.
Videos!
Oregon Zoo polar bear Nora and other animals in the Portland zoo play in snow 2017:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy ORIGINAL VIDEO:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Michael Is Alive: Official Trailer #2 | Season 5 | PRISON BREAK:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Friday, March 11, 2016
Friday Links (repurposed fence edition)
Thank goodness it's Friday. Both my husband and I are still on antibiotics. I'm starting to feel less miserable. I'm really hoping we both feel actually well, soon.
Anyway, here are links to some of the interesting things I read on the web this week, sorted into various topic areas.
You may remember a link from a couple of weeks ago where a writer lamented that a publication's call for submissions didn't want any stories from a native american or indigenous point of view. The editor responded, but not by being defensive:
Just Wait Until Twitter Comes For You: Addressing and Fixing Unintended Privilege and Bigotry.
“TL;DR: When a social justice criticism was brought to us, we acknowledged the mistake, engaged with those criticizing, and fixed the problem instead of doubling down or protesting that wasn't what we meant. It worked to resolve the problem and helped us clarify the message we meant to send.”
More about the legendary Dove's type: How The World’s Most Beautiful Typeface Was Nearly Lost Forever.
We need more queer characters outside of LGBTI-specific stories.
Why The 100's showrunner just lost 15k followers, and why it matters.
No, Vanity Fair’s photo of Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler is not the mainstream’s attempt to effeminize black men.
Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do with terrorism.
Last Men Standing - They had the remarkable luck to survive AIDS, and the brutal misfortune to live on.. "In the darkest years of the epidemic in the 1980s and ’90s, AIDS was almost always fatal; the prognosis was a few years, maybe a few months. These men, then in their 20s and 30s, weren’t supposed to make it to 40. Now some are 60 years old, even 70, still alive but wounded physically, psychologically and economically."
What the EEOC's lawsuit against Scott Medical Center could mean for Pa. state law.
Lambda Legal Wins Lawsuit Against Feds For Social Security Benefits For Lesbian Widow.
200 years of LGBT rights in 1 map.
Lack of a singular vision for LGBT rights isn’t a cause for despair, especially when competing visions drive innovation.
Bisexuals, Passing, and Straight Privilege: A Deeper Look.
NYC Guarantees the Right to Enter a Bathroom Matching One’s Gender Identity.
Kenmore Jr High improves bathroom access for transgender students.
Irish TV show to feature first-ever same-sex marriage.
Federal Court Says That Title VII Does Not Prohibit Anti Gay Bias — Yet.
EXTRAORDINARY PHOTOS OF A GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUB IN THE 1960S.
President Jimmy Carter announces end of cancer treatments.
Huge Population of Rare Whales Found off Madagascar. Video of the rarely seen Omura's whales (sort of a dwarf fin whale)
With Seattle Aquarium’s help, stranded sea turtle makes dramatic comeback.
Factoring of numbers achieved through scalable quantum computer.
This Scientist Crunched The Numbers And Discovered The Monetary Cost Of Not Being A Straight Man.
Scientists Say Some Birds Are Just as Smart as Apes.
Chew On This: Slicing Meat Helped Shape Modern Humans.
99 million year old fossil found in amber in South East Asia.
New micro-CT scanner allows inside view of even the tiniest fossils.
Men of Their Times.
It’s HERE! Get over a million words of fiction from this year’s Campbell-eligible authors!
THE WRITER WHO MADE ME LOVE COMICS TAUGHT ME TO HATE THEM.
'The Expanse:' Best Science-Fiction Show In A Decade.
“You can teach craft but you can’t teach talent.” The most useless creative writing cliché?
Idra Novey Recommends....
Fargo turns 20 today. Its fans are still arguing about this scene.
Christian Activist Theodore Shoebat Supports Violent Vigilante Attacks Against Gay Rights Activists.
US Supreme Court overturns Alabama court ruling against same-sex adoption.
When Falling In Love Can Put Your Life In Danger.
Supreme Court to Shitty Hate States: Get Over It Already.
The War On Cars: Pedestrian Deaths Skyrocketing.
NFL still in closet about anti-gay culture.
Federal Judge Rules Marriage Ban Still Good Law In Puerto Rico, Governor Disagrees.
Missouri Religious Protection Bill Passes After 37 Hour Filibuster.
Rafael Cruz: ‘Gay marriage shall destroy society’.
Bisexual Man Convicted Of Hate Crime In Killing Of Gay Man. People don't understand hate crime laws. His sole defense was that since he's bisexual, it couldn't be hate...
Debate Recap: Cruz, Trump and Kasich Double Down on Anti-LGBT Rhetoric.
Money Pours In as Move to Stop Donald Trump Expands.
Ted Cruz’s Michigan Campaign Co-Chair Wants to Criminalize Homosexuality.
A Final Attempt to Understand Ben Carson's Deeply Weird Presidential Campaign.
Donald Trump says everybody loves him. This chart proves him very wrong.
Defending Islam Isn't Political Correctness, Marco Rubio Tells Donald Trump.
Cruz balks at campaign-loan disclosure.
John Kasich’s (not so) secret extremism: How the “moderate” alternative to Trump led a Planned Parenthood witchhunt in Ohio.
In Response to Question about Republican Claims that Obama is to Blame for Trump and Extremeist, President says GOP leaders to blame for party 'crackup'. In other news, water is wet...
Inside the first-ever summit calling for an end to the “suicidal death pact between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia”.
The Obama Doctrine - The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world..
Gary Hutzel, Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica VFX artist, dies at 60.
Ray Tomlinson, email inventor who picked the @ sign for addresses, dies.
Rev. Robert Palladino, Scribe Who Shaped Apple’s Fonts, Dies at 83.
Nancy Reagan dies aged 94, LGBT community remembers her shitty history on AIDS crisis.
Nancy Reagan Turned Down Rock Hudson’s Plea For Help Nine Weeks Before He Died.
Cat’s Story: Straight, Inc. and Why I Despise Nancy Reagan.
Weekend Update 3/4/2016 – When a dog whistle becomes a bullhorn.
Trigger Warning: misogyny, racism, Frank Miller (but I repeat myself).
Is it worth the outrage? – part three.
Confessions of a cluttering packrat.
Uniques and Reborns, Computers and Telepaths – more of why I love sf/f.
Years & Years - Desire ft. Tove Lo:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Menow - Baby You're Like A Drug:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Ben Carson: GOP DROPOUT - Song Parody by Randy Rainbow:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
BAND-MAID / Don’t let me down:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Orkestra Obselete Blue Monday 1933:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Gives Us The Bi Anthem We’ve Been Waiting For:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
R.I.P. GOP (Part 1) | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
R.I.P. GOP (Part 2) | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
[Eng Sub] McCafé's Gay Ads in Taiwan:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Marvel's Captain America: Civil War - Trailer 2:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Anyway, here are links to some of the interesting things I read on the web this week, sorted into various topic areas.
Links of the Week
You may remember a link from a couple of weeks ago where a writer lamented that a publication's call for submissions didn't want any stories from a native american or indigenous point of view. The editor responded, but not by being defensive:
Just Wait Until Twitter Comes For You: Addressing and Fixing Unintended Privilege and Bigotry.
“TL;DR: When a social justice criticism was brought to us, we acknowledged the mistake, engaged with those criticizing, and fixed the problem instead of doubling down or protesting that wasn't what we meant. It worked to resolve the problem and helped us clarify the message we meant to send.”
This week in Typography
More about the legendary Dove's type: How The World’s Most Beautiful Typeface Was Nearly Lost Forever.
This Week in Diversity
We need more queer characters outside of LGBTI-specific stories.
Why The 100's showrunner just lost 15k followers, and why it matters.
No, Vanity Fair’s photo of Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler is not the mainstream’s attempt to effeminize black men.
This week in Government Overreach
Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do with terrorism.
News for queers and our allies:
Last Men Standing - They had the remarkable luck to survive AIDS, and the brutal misfortune to live on.. "In the darkest years of the epidemic in the 1980s and ’90s, AIDS was almost always fatal; the prognosis was a few years, maybe a few months. These men, then in their 20s and 30s, weren’t supposed to make it to 40. Now some are 60 years old, even 70, still alive but wounded physically, psychologically and economically."
What the EEOC's lawsuit against Scott Medical Center could mean for Pa. state law.
Lambda Legal Wins Lawsuit Against Feds For Social Security Benefits For Lesbian Widow.
200 years of LGBT rights in 1 map.
Lack of a singular vision for LGBT rights isn’t a cause for despair, especially when competing visions drive innovation.
Bisexuals, Passing, and Straight Privilege: A Deeper Look.
NYC Guarantees the Right to Enter a Bathroom Matching One’s Gender Identity.
Kenmore Jr High improves bathroom access for transgender students.
Irish TV show to feature first-ever same-sex marriage.
Federal Court Says That Title VII Does Not Prohibit Anti Gay Bias — Yet.
EXTRAORDINARY PHOTOS OF A GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUB IN THE 1960S.
Happy News!
President Jimmy Carter announces end of cancer treatments.
Science!
Huge Population of Rare Whales Found off Madagascar. Video of the rarely seen Omura's whales (sort of a dwarf fin whale)
With Seattle Aquarium’s help, stranded sea turtle makes dramatic comeback.
Factoring of numbers achieved through scalable quantum computer.
This Scientist Crunched The Numbers And Discovered The Monetary Cost Of Not Being A Straight Man.
Scientists Say Some Birds Are Just as Smart as Apes.
Chew On This: Slicing Meat Helped Shape Modern Humans.
99 million year old fossil found in amber in South East Asia.
New micro-CT scanner allows inside view of even the tiniest fossils.
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!
Men of Their Times.
It’s HERE! Get over a million words of fiction from this year’s Campbell-eligible authors!
THE WRITER WHO MADE ME LOVE COMICS TAUGHT ME TO HATE THEM.
'The Expanse:' Best Science-Fiction Show In A Decade.
This week in Writing
“You can teach craft but you can’t teach talent.” The most useless creative writing cliché?
Idra Novey Recommends....
Fargo turns 20 today. Its fans are still arguing about this scene.
Culture war news:
Christian Activist Theodore Shoebat Supports Violent Vigilante Attacks Against Gay Rights Activists.
US Supreme Court overturns Alabama court ruling against same-sex adoption.
When Falling In Love Can Put Your Life In Danger.
Supreme Court to Shitty Hate States: Get Over It Already.
The War On Cars: Pedestrian Deaths Skyrocketing.
NFL still in closet about anti-gay culture.
Federal Judge Rules Marriage Ban Still Good Law In Puerto Rico, Governor Disagrees.
Missouri Religious Protection Bill Passes After 37 Hour Filibuster.
Rafael Cruz: ‘Gay marriage shall destroy society’.
Bisexual Man Convicted Of Hate Crime In Killing Of Gay Man. People don't understand hate crime laws. His sole defense was that since he's bisexual, it couldn't be hate...
This Week in the Clown Car
Debate Recap: Cruz, Trump and Kasich Double Down on Anti-LGBT Rhetoric.
Money Pours In as Move to Stop Donald Trump Expands.
Ted Cruz’s Michigan Campaign Co-Chair Wants to Criminalize Homosexuality.
A Final Attempt to Understand Ben Carson's Deeply Weird Presidential Campaign.
Donald Trump says everybody loves him. This chart proves him very wrong.
Defending Islam Isn't Political Correctness, Marco Rubio Tells Donald Trump.
Cruz balks at campaign-loan disclosure.
John Kasich’s (not so) secret extremism: How the “moderate” alternative to Trump led a Planned Parenthood witchhunt in Ohio.
This week in Other Politics:
In Response to Question about Republican Claims that Obama is to Blame for Trump and Extremeist, President says GOP leaders to blame for party 'crackup'. In other news, water is wet...
Inside the first-ever summit calling for an end to the “suicidal death pact between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia”.
The Obama Doctrine - The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world..
Farewells:
Gary Hutzel, Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica VFX artist, dies at 60.
Ray Tomlinson, email inventor who picked the @ sign for addresses, dies.
Rev. Robert Palladino, Scribe Who Shaped Apple’s Fonts, Dies at 83.
And Another Departure:
Nancy Reagan dies aged 94, LGBT community remembers her shitty history on AIDS crisis.
Nancy Reagan Turned Down Rock Hudson’s Plea For Help Nine Weeks Before He Died.
Cat’s Story: Straight, Inc. and Why I Despise Nancy Reagan.
Things I wrote:
Weekend Update 3/4/2016 – When a dog whistle becomes a bullhorn.
Trigger Warning: misogyny, racism, Frank Miller (but I repeat myself).
Is it worth the outrage? – part three.
Confessions of a cluttering packrat.
Uniques and Reborns, Computers and Telepaths – more of why I love sf/f.
Videos!
Years & Years - Desire ft. Tove Lo:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Menow - Baby You're Like A Drug:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Ben Carson: GOP DROPOUT - Song Parody by Randy Rainbow:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
BAND-MAID / Don’t let me down:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Orkestra Obselete Blue Monday 1933:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Gives Us The Bi Anthem We’ve Been Waiting For:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
R.I.P. GOP (Part 1) | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
R.I.P. GOP (Part 2) | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
[Eng Sub] McCafé's Gay Ads in Taiwan:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Marvel's Captain America: Civil War - Trailer 2:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Friday, June 26, 2015
Friday Links (rainbow connections edition!)
It's Friday! It's not just Queer Pride Month, this is Queer Pride Weekend (at least in many places, including my home, Seattle)! Tomorrow, June 27th, is the anniversary of the Stonewall Riot, which most credit as the beginning of the modern gay right's movement, which is why most folks in the U.S. celebrate June of Pride Month and why so many Pride Parades happen on the last weekend of the month.
It's time for every les-bi-gay, transgender, genderqueer, femme, butch, stud, stem, glittering fairy, cycle mama, leather daddy, drag king, queer nerd, gym bunny, baby dyke, cuddle pup, drag queen, bear, wolf, otter, twink, single, swinger, couple, trouple, PolyFamily, anyone I left out, and everyone who loves any of the above to step out and get down in the Pride Bash Extravaganza!
(Remember, you don't have to be queer to celebrate it. Know someone who's queer and want them to have a happy life? Then you can join the party!)
Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
UPDATE: BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules Same-Sex Marriage To Be Law Of The Land Nationwide In Historic Ruling.
Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules, 5-4.
Jury finds that anti-LGBTQ “ex-gay therapy” is a total fraud.
With All Eyes on Marriage, Gays Just Won Another Enormous Legal Victory.
Supreme Court Allows Nationwide Health Care Subsidies.
In Fair Housing Act Case, Supreme Court Backs 'Disparate Impact' Claims.
SCOTUS Decision in FHA Case Reinforces Critical Tool To Address Housing Discrimination.
Police Cannot Arrest You For Watching and Criticizing Them from a Distance In Washington State.
Cops Raid Gay Bar. What Happened Next Changed History.
Every American should know about the largest mass murder of gay people in US history. Media reaction to the 1973 mass killing at Upstairs Lounge reflected society's views on homosexuality.
The Case of the Sultry Mountie: Doing Family History Queerly.
The Long, Winding Path of Same-Sex Marriage.
John Waters Says He Never Actually Came Out As Gay Because Nobody Asked.
How One Army Vet Designed The Iconic Symbol Of The Gay Rights Movement. Though I've read about (and written about) Gilbert Baker, design of the Pride Flag before, this is the first time I've ever seen a picture of the man himself.
California Judge Throws Out Ballot Initiative Calling For Execution Of Gay People.
Unfortunately, that wasn't the only anti-equality initiative filed in California this year: LGBT Coalition Forms To Fight Horrific Anti-Transgender Ballot Initiative In California.
No Matter What the Supreme Court Decides, the Fight for LGBT Equality Isn’t Over.
Catholic Church Sends Warning Letter to Australian Businesses Supporting Marriage Equality, and No One Cares.
Satanic Temple Will File Federal Lawsuit Against Missouri Abortion Laws.
Conservatives Demanding 'Fascist, Anti-Christian' Gay Pride Flag Be Taken Down. Right... and exactly when, in history, did Gay people enslave non-gays, buying a selling them, ripping them from their families, and then declaring a war the resulted in the deaths of 300,000 americans to try to keep their right to enslave?
Though the Wonkette's headline is even better: Oppressed Wingnuts: Please Stop Lynching Us With Gay Rainbow Flag!
Atlanta Gay Man Bashed With Bat While Helping Change a Flat Tire.
Transgender Teen Killed In Mississippi.
Jon Stewart doesn’t give a damn anymore: Why the “Daily Show” host has never been more watchable.
Why Christians Aren't Being Oppressed By Gay Marriage.
Kennewick Man Was Native American; DNA Analysis Confirms What Tribes Said All Along.
DARPA: We Are Engineering the Organisms That Will Terraform Mars.
70-Year-Old Tree Cut Down in NYC Will be Cloned and Planted Again.
Spooky Physics Phenomenon May Link Universe's Wormholes.
Ancient Human With 10 Percent Neanderthal Genes Found.
Interview: David Gerrold.
An open letter to the WSFS about unintended consequences.
Combating My Racism.
Because I Would Otherwise Scream.
The Confederate Flag Doesn't Commemorate the South's ‘Lost Cause'—It's the Symbol of a Cause Won.
Not a Tea Party, a Confederate Party.
How long will we let conservatives write off Republican racism as a coincidence?
Why I Can’t Forgive Dylann Roof.
How White Christians Used The Bible -- And Confederate Flag -- To Oppress Black People.
Republicans have firm rules for fighting terrorism—unless it’s committed by domestic racists.
Michael Moore Nails Every Racist, War-Mongering, Pseudo-Christian, RW Gun Extremist - In One Tweet.
The Key Thing Conservatives Don’t Get About Obama’s Use Of ‘N*****’.
Just Putting These Here So They Can Be Part of the Permanent Record.
Fox News Race Experts So Mad Obama Allowed To Use N-Word And They Aren’t.
Burning the Flag: This is one of the hardest things I’ve ever written. It may cost me readers, and it may cost me friends.
John Oliver shows how trolls have turned the internet into a nightmare for women.
The New Law That Would Outlaw LGBT Discrimination Everywhere.
My Whole Life I've Been Asked If I'm a Girl or a Boy.
What same-sex marriage reform could mean for the LGBT youths of America.
Op-ed: I'm Gay, Not Trans, and That's OK.
These Black Trans Couples' Stories Tug At Our Heartstrings.
An Island With Only 48 Residents And No Gay Couples Just Legalized Same-Sex Marriage.
Reclaiming the spirit of Pride.
Allah Made Me Muslim; Allah Made Me Queer.
On choosing pronouns and embracing ‘queer’.
Everyone is sharing this special engagement notice from today’s Irish Times.
How ‘Twin Peaks’ helped one queer teen find himself.
I was a family man in my 50s when I finally came out of the closet.
What The Hell Do Butch And Femme Even Mean Anymore?
'Cisgender' Added to Oxford English Dictionary.
BREAKFAST OF BULLSHIT: FUTUREPHOBIA, THE HUGOS AND THE INVENTION OF SF’S PAST.
Silence is Support.
The two-time Oscar winner, 61, worked on three James Cameron films, two 'Star Trek' movies and classics like 'A Beautiful Mind,' 'Field of Dreams' and 'Apollo 13.'.
Patrick Macnee, Star of ‘The Avengers,’ Dies at 93.
Who raised the kid?.
“I can’t be a bigot, because…”.
Oppressed oppressors, part 3.
What’s there to be proud about?
Savage Heroics and Barbaric Eroticism – more of why I love sf/f.
Magic Mike XXL - Matt Bomer sings 'Heaven':
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Leonard Nimoy reads Isaac Asimov's 'The Last Question':
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Asimov said of all the stories he wrote, this was his favorite. And he said the story had “the strangest effect on my readers. Frequently someone writes to ask me if I can give them the name of a story, which they ‘think’ I may have written, and tell them where to find it. They don’t remember the title but when they describe the story it is invariably ‘The Last Question.'”
He said people wrote and asked him so often, and the story they were trying to remember was always this one. So one time when he got a phone call that was clearly an international call on a bad connection (which we had to put up with back in those days), he could barely understand the person, but he thought he caught the phrase, "don't remember the title." So Isaac said, "I yelled into the phone, 'the name of the story you can't remember is The Last Question!'" Then he repeated it, in case the person couldn't understand. The line was just static for a moment, he heard, "thank you" and the person hung up. "So now he probably thinks I'm psychic."
The Golden Girls on Marriage Equality:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
What's the Definition of "Traditional Marriage"?:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Show Me Your Pride - By Miss Coco Peru - OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Benny - Little Game (Official Video):
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Conchita Wurst - You Are Unstoppable:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Tove Lo - Timebomb:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
It's time for every les-bi-gay, transgender, genderqueer, femme, butch, stud, stem, glittering fairy, cycle mama, leather daddy, drag king, queer nerd, gym bunny, baby dyke, cuddle pup, drag queen, bear, wolf, otter, twink, single, swinger, couple, trouple, PolyFamily, anyone I left out, and everyone who loves any of the above to step out and get down in the Pride Bash Extravaganza!
(Remember, you don't have to be queer to celebrate it. Know someone who's queer and want them to have a happy life? Then you can join the party!)
Anyway, here is a collection of some of the things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. Sorted into categories with headings so you can skip more easily:
Link of the Week
UPDATE: BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules Same-Sex Marriage To Be Law Of The Land Nationwide In Historic Ruling.
Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules, 5-4.
This week in Justice:
Jury finds that anti-LGBTQ “ex-gay therapy” is a total fraud.
With All Eyes on Marriage, Gays Just Won Another Enormous Legal Victory.
Supreme Court Allows Nationwide Health Care Subsidies.
In Fair Housing Act Case, Supreme Court Backs 'Disparate Impact' Claims.
SCOTUS Decision in FHA Case Reinforces Critical Tool To Address Housing Discrimination.
Police Cannot Arrest You For Watching and Criticizing Them from a Distance In Washington State.
This Week in Queer(ish) History
Cops Raid Gay Bar. What Happened Next Changed History.
Every American should know about the largest mass murder of gay people in US history. Media reaction to the 1973 mass killing at Upstairs Lounge reflected society's views on homosexuality.
The Case of the Sultry Mountie: Doing Family History Queerly.
The Long, Winding Path of Same-Sex Marriage.
John Waters Says He Never Actually Came Out As Gay Because Nobody Asked.
How One Army Vet Designed The Iconic Symbol Of The Gay Rights Movement. Though I've read about (and written about) Gilbert Baker, design of the Pride Flag before, this is the first time I've ever seen a picture of the man himself.
Political/culture war news:
California Judge Throws Out Ballot Initiative Calling For Execution Of Gay People.
Unfortunately, that wasn't the only anti-equality initiative filed in California this year: LGBT Coalition Forms To Fight Horrific Anti-Transgender Ballot Initiative In California.
No Matter What the Supreme Court Decides, the Fight for LGBT Equality Isn’t Over.
Catholic Church Sends Warning Letter to Australian Businesses Supporting Marriage Equality, and No One Cares.
Satanic Temple Will File Federal Lawsuit Against Missouri Abortion Laws.
Conservatives Demanding 'Fascist, Anti-Christian' Gay Pride Flag Be Taken Down. Right... and exactly when, in history, did Gay people enslave non-gays, buying a selling them, ripping them from their families, and then declaring a war the resulted in the deaths of 300,000 americans to try to keep their right to enslave?
Though the Wonkette's headline is even better: Oppressed Wingnuts: Please Stop Lynching Us With Gay Rainbow Flag!
Atlanta Gay Man Bashed With Bat While Helping Change a Flat Tire.
Transgender Teen Killed In Mississippi.
Jon Stewart doesn’t give a damn anymore: Why the “Daily Show” host has never been more watchable.
Why Christians Aren't Being Oppressed By Gay Marriage.
Science!
Kennewick Man Was Native American; DNA Analysis Confirms What Tribes Said All Along.
DARPA: We Are Engineering the Organisms That Will Terraform Mars.
70-Year-Old Tree Cut Down in NYC Will be Cloned and Planted Again.
Spooky Physics Phenomenon May Link Universe's Wormholes.
Ancient Human With 10 Percent Neanderthal Genes Found.
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!
Interview: David Gerrold.
An open letter to the WSFS about unintended consequences.
This Week in Love vs Racism
Combating My Racism.
Because I Would Otherwise Scream.
This Week in Racism
The Confederate Flag Doesn't Commemorate the South's ‘Lost Cause'—It's the Symbol of a Cause Won.
Not a Tea Party, a Confederate Party.
How long will we let conservatives write off Republican racism as a coincidence?
Why I Can’t Forgive Dylann Roof.
How White Christians Used The Bible -- And Confederate Flag -- To Oppress Black People.
Republicans have firm rules for fighting terrorism—unless it’s committed by domestic racists.
Michael Moore Nails Every Racist, War-Mongering, Pseudo-Christian, RW Gun Extremist - In One Tweet.
The Key Thing Conservatives Don’t Get About Obama’s Use Of ‘N*****’.
Just Putting These Here So They Can Be Part of the Permanent Record.
Fox News Race Experts So Mad Obama Allowed To Use N-Word And They Aren’t.
Burning the Flag: This is one of the hardest things I’ve ever written. It may cost me readers, and it may cost me friends.
This Week in Sexism
John Oliver shows how trolls have turned the internet into a nightmare for women.
News for queers and our allies:
The New Law That Would Outlaw LGBT Discrimination Everywhere.
My Whole Life I've Been Asked If I'm a Girl or a Boy.
What same-sex marriage reform could mean for the LGBT youths of America.
Op-ed: I'm Gay, Not Trans, and That's OK.
These Black Trans Couples' Stories Tug At Our Heartstrings.
An Island With Only 48 Residents And No Gay Couples Just Legalized Same-Sex Marriage.
Reclaiming the spirit of Pride.
Allah Made Me Muslim; Allah Made Me Queer.
On choosing pronouns and embracing ‘queer’.
Everyone is sharing this special engagement notice from today’s Irish Times.
How ‘Twin Peaks’ helped one queer teen find himself.
I was a family man in my 50s when I finally came out of the closet.
What The Hell Do Butch And Femme Even Mean Anymore?
'Cisgender' Added to Oxford English Dictionary.
The obligatory Sad Puppies/Hugo Awards update:
BREAKFAST OF BULLSHIT: FUTUREPHOBIA, THE HUGOS AND THE INVENTION OF SF’S PAST.
Silence is Support.
Farewells:
The two-time Oscar winner, 61, worked on three James Cameron films, two 'Star Trek' movies and classics like 'A Beautiful Mind,' 'Field of Dreams' and 'Apollo 13.'.
Patrick Macnee, Star of ‘The Avengers,’ Dies at 93.
Things I wrote:
Who raised the kid?.
“I can’t be a bigot, because…”.
Oppressed oppressors, part 3.
What’s there to be proud about?
Savage Heroics and Barbaric Eroticism – more of why I love sf/f.
Videos!
Magic Mike XXL - Matt Bomer sings 'Heaven':
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Leonard Nimoy reads Isaac Asimov's 'The Last Question':
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Asimov said of all the stories he wrote, this was his favorite. And he said the story had “the strangest effect on my readers. Frequently someone writes to ask me if I can give them the name of a story, which they ‘think’ I may have written, and tell them where to find it. They don’t remember the title but when they describe the story it is invariably ‘The Last Question.'”
He said people wrote and asked him so often, and the story they were trying to remember was always this one. So one time when he got a phone call that was clearly an international call on a bad connection (which we had to put up with back in those days), he could barely understand the person, but he thought he caught the phrase, "don't remember the title." So Isaac said, "I yelled into the phone, 'the name of the story you can't remember is The Last Question!'" Then he repeated it, in case the person couldn't understand. The line was just static for a moment, he heard, "thank you" and the person hung up. "So now he probably thinks I'm psychic."
The Golden Girls on Marriage Equality:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
What's the Definition of "Traditional Marriage"?:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Show Me Your Pride - By Miss Coco Peru - OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Benny - Little Game (Official Video):
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Conchita Wurst - You Are Unstoppable:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Tove Lo - Timebomb:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Friday, July 18, 2014
Friday Links (with Weird Al)!
It's Friday! Again. And this week I really, really, really am glad that the weekend's here.
Here's a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:
Red Lobster Comps Widow's Check on Anniversary.
In case you needed more proof that the ex-gay movement is a fraud: Pastor Duane Youngblood, author of the book Freedom From Homosexuality: No Longer Living The Lie, was arrested for molesting a teenage boy dozens of times. But wait! This should be a surprise to no one. Back in 2006, the very same year his ex-gay book came out, Youngblood was arrested for molesting a 15-year-old boy in his church office! And that 2006 arrest wasn't the first time...
One of the very few attempts to render a male superhero costume in the same ridiculously "sexy" female supers are routinely drawn: Why Must Dudes Ruin Perfectly Good Superheroine and Action Franchises with Their Requests for Diversity?
Research: Human friendships based on genetic similarities beyond the superficial.
Church of England approves women bishops for first time in history.
CNBC's Climate "Expert": "Demonization Of Carbon Dioxide Is Just Like" Demonization Of "Jews Under Hitler".
ENDA: The Nightmare Scenario in Which GOPers Push a Bad Bill That Gay Groups Dropped.
Non-Believers Win A Decisive Court Victory In Indiana.
Churyumov-Gerasimenko is a contact binary!.
The distorting reality of ‘false balance’ in the media.
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Calls for Death of Comic Creator.
A History of Throwing Shade for Black Women and Gay White Men. Before "white gays" copied it from black women, black women stole if from black gays...
Why do we have blood types? Scientists still trying to figure out the evolutionary reason for blood types.
Arizona Politician Mistakes YMCA Campers For Undocumented Children. Warning: auto-playing video on site (grrrr)
Marvel Comics Just Made Thor Female, And Conservatives Are Furious.
NBC STRAIGHTWASHES JOHN CONSTANTINE.
File this under "Duh!" Studies: Stand Your Ground Laws Lead To More Homicides, Don't Deter Crime.
Salem Mayor: ‘Apparently, Glenn Beck Is Not Happy With Us’. City hall inundated with angry calls from homophobes, starts donating to gay youth charity.
Blues Guitarist Johnny Winter Dies At 70.
‘Nano-pixels’ promise thin, flexible, high-resolution displays.
Connecticut Supreme Court: Same-Sex Marriage Rights Are Retroactive.
California Experiences Warmest, 3rd Driest Year Since 1895.
Robert Reich: Deadbeat 1 percenters endanger U.S. democracy.
'Bye Sierra': A Slightly Angry Queer Response to the Sierra Mannie Controversy.
In case you missed it, earlier this week I had a more concise, less angry response to the same weird op-ed piece: Confessions of a white homo devil, part 3.
Matt Alber Covers "Walking on Sunshine":
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
National treasure “Weird Al” Yankovic is releasing a new video each doy this week of a parody of a hit song. This was Tuesday's, which is my second favorite thus far, Weird Al's parody of Blurred Lines, Word Crimes:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Jenny Lewis - Just One Of The Guys [Official Music Video]:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Church of England Votes to Allow Women Bishops:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Exclusive "Weird Al" Yankovic Music Video: FOIL (Parody of "Royals" by Lorde):
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Here's a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:
Red Lobster Comps Widow's Check on Anniversary.
In case you needed more proof that the ex-gay movement is a fraud: Pastor Duane Youngblood, author of the book Freedom From Homosexuality: No Longer Living The Lie, was arrested for molesting a teenage boy dozens of times. But wait! This should be a surprise to no one. Back in 2006, the very same year his ex-gay book came out, Youngblood was arrested for molesting a 15-year-old boy in his church office! And that 2006 arrest wasn't the first time...
One of the very few attempts to render a male superhero costume in the same ridiculously "sexy" female supers are routinely drawn: Why Must Dudes Ruin Perfectly Good Superheroine and Action Franchises with Their Requests for Diversity?
Research: Human friendships based on genetic similarities beyond the superficial.
Church of England approves women bishops for first time in history.
CNBC's Climate "Expert": "Demonization Of Carbon Dioxide Is Just Like" Demonization Of "Jews Under Hitler".
ENDA: The Nightmare Scenario in Which GOPers Push a Bad Bill That Gay Groups Dropped.
Non-Believers Win A Decisive Court Victory In Indiana.
Churyumov-Gerasimenko is a contact binary!.
The distorting reality of ‘false balance’ in the media.
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Calls for Death of Comic Creator.
A History of Throwing Shade for Black Women and Gay White Men. Before "white gays" copied it from black women, black women stole if from black gays...
Why do we have blood types? Scientists still trying to figure out the evolutionary reason for blood types.
Arizona Politician Mistakes YMCA Campers For Undocumented Children. Warning: auto-playing video on site (grrrr)
Marvel Comics Just Made Thor Female, And Conservatives Are Furious.
NBC STRAIGHTWASHES JOHN CONSTANTINE.
File this under "Duh!" Studies: Stand Your Ground Laws Lead To More Homicides, Don't Deter Crime.
Salem Mayor: ‘Apparently, Glenn Beck Is Not Happy With Us’. City hall inundated with angry calls from homophobes, starts donating to gay youth charity.
Blues Guitarist Johnny Winter Dies At 70.
‘Nano-pixels’ promise thin, flexible, high-resolution displays.
Connecticut Supreme Court: Same-Sex Marriage Rights Are Retroactive.
California Experiences Warmest, 3rd Driest Year Since 1895.
Robert Reich: Deadbeat 1 percenters endanger U.S. democracy.
'Bye Sierra': A Slightly Angry Queer Response to the Sierra Mannie Controversy.
In case you missed it, earlier this week I had a more concise, less angry response to the same weird op-ed piece: Confessions of a white homo devil, part 3.
Matt Alber Covers "Walking on Sunshine":
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
National treasure “Weird Al” Yankovic is releasing a new video each doy this week of a parody of a hit song. This was Tuesday's, which is my second favorite thus far, Weird Al's parody of Blurred Lines, Word Crimes:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Jenny Lewis - Just One Of The Guys [Official Music Video]:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Church of England Votes to Allow Women Bishops:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Exclusive "Weird Al" Yankovic Music Video: FOIL (Parody of "Royals" by Lorde):
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Friday, July 11, 2014
Friday Links!
It's Friday!
Again!
I mean, wow, where did the week go?
Here's a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:
Why Classic Rock Isn’t What It Used To Be. Five-thirty-eight dot com looks at the statistics of radio play. (Thanks to MintRainbow1 for the link)
BBC staff ordered to stop airing "debates" featuring members of the anti-science fringe. (Thanks to Wildrider51 for the link)
Five Legitimate Scientific Controversies. None of them are probably what you're thinking they are.
Physicists spot potential source of 'Oh-My-God' particles. This has nothing to do with the Higgs Boson.
New Species Found in an Everyday, Store-Bought Mushroom Packet.
World's biggest-ever flying bird discovered: Twice as big as the royal albatross.
New Horizons Enters ‘Pluto-Space!’ To Celebrate, Here Are Pictures Of The Dwarf Planet.
Listen to the Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Ago.
Should the LGBT Rights Movement Forgive and Forget?
Supernova Reveals Origins of Universe's Dust.
Guy Finds FBI Tracking Device On Car, Posts Pics Online... FBI Shows Up Demanding It Back.
Gay Marriage Ban Overturned in Colorado, But Utah Just Made Things Really Interesting.
Astronomers Discover Milky Way Galaxy's Most Distant Stars.
Claiborne Richardson Wants Pictures of a Kid's Cock. Richardson is an Assistant Attorney General in Manassas, Virginia, who is trying to prosecute a teen-age boy on the charge of "creating child porn" not because the teen-ager created porn, but because the teen-ager sent a picture of himself naked to his teen-age girlfriend. Claiborne has ordered police to take pictures of the kid naked, and then got a warrant from a judge ordering the kid to be taken to a hospital, pumped full of drugs to make him have an erection, and take pictures of him like that in order to prove that the pictures the kid sent his girlfriend are him. This is insane. If a kid taking a picture of himself naked with his cellphone is producing child porn, isn't all this picture taking by the police also producing child porn?
Adam Lambert channels the hell out of Freddy Mercury. Wow (and awesome to see Brian and Roger still rocking!):
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Freaks Like Me by Todrick Hall:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Jessie Ware - Tough Love:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
My secret boyfriend, Mika, sings a wonderfully bouncy tune in French while rocking a Fist Full of Dollars/Lawrence of Arabia/James Bond/Maltese Falcon/is there a classic movie they didn't hit homage!:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Again!
I mean, wow, where did the week go?
Here's a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:
Why Classic Rock Isn’t What It Used To Be. Five-thirty-eight dot com looks at the statistics of radio play. (Thanks to MintRainbow1 for the link)
BBC staff ordered to stop airing "debates" featuring members of the anti-science fringe. (Thanks to Wildrider51 for the link)
Five Legitimate Scientific Controversies. None of them are probably what you're thinking they are.
Physicists spot potential source of 'Oh-My-God' particles. This has nothing to do with the Higgs Boson.
New Species Found in an Everyday, Store-Bought Mushroom Packet.
World's biggest-ever flying bird discovered: Twice as big as the royal albatross.
New Horizons Enters ‘Pluto-Space!’ To Celebrate, Here Are Pictures Of The Dwarf Planet.
Listen to the Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Ago.
Should the LGBT Rights Movement Forgive and Forget?
Supernova Reveals Origins of Universe's Dust.
Guy Finds FBI Tracking Device On Car, Posts Pics Online... FBI Shows Up Demanding It Back.
Gay Marriage Ban Overturned in Colorado, But Utah Just Made Things Really Interesting.
Astronomers Discover Milky Way Galaxy's Most Distant Stars.
Claiborne Richardson Wants Pictures of a Kid's Cock. Richardson is an Assistant Attorney General in Manassas, Virginia, who is trying to prosecute a teen-age boy on the charge of "creating child porn" not because the teen-ager created porn, but because the teen-ager sent a picture of himself naked to his teen-age girlfriend. Claiborne has ordered police to take pictures of the kid naked, and then got a warrant from a judge ordering the kid to be taken to a hospital, pumped full of drugs to make him have an erection, and take pictures of him like that in order to prove that the pictures the kid sent his girlfriend are him. This is insane. If a kid taking a picture of himself naked with his cellphone is producing child porn, isn't all this picture taking by the police also producing child porn?
Adam Lambert channels the hell out of Freddy Mercury. Wow (and awesome to see Brian and Roger still rocking!):
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Freaks Like Me by Todrick Hall:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Jessie Ware - Tough Love:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
My secret boyfriend, Mika, sings a wonderfully bouncy tune in French while rocking a Fist Full of Dollars/Lawrence of Arabia/James Bond/Maltese Falcon/is there a classic movie they didn't hit homage!:
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Friday, April 18, 2014
Good Links for a Good Friday!
It's nearly Easter! Here's a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:
President Obama pulled a surprise move Monday at the White House’s Easter Prayer Breakfast when he selected Gene Robinson (the first openly gay Episcopal bishop) to lead the closing prayer.
How we found the giant squid. I know it's over a year old, but it's cool. Other than the dig against space research at the end...
‘Oh, I’ve got to write? Time to clean the stove first’. Thanks to Seashellseller for the link!
Salt Lake Tribune: Utah takes a nasty step against same-sex couples.
Peter LaBarbera came to a college to "expose" the "gay agenda." He wasn't expecting what would happen instead. Money quote: "As an institution, we have a duty to protect free speech, hateful or not. But we don’t have to listen to it."
LOUISIANA: House Votes 66-27 To Keep Unconstitutional Anti-Sodomy Law.
Living the dream: 3-year-old kid escapes from home, climbs inside claw toy machine at bowling alley. Sounds like a kid who knows what he wants!
Fake Geek Guys: A Message to Men About Sexual Harassment.
In Sickness and in Health: A Couple's Final Journey. You'll need to have some tissues handy.
Epigenetics Helps Explain Early Humans’ Appearances.
I'M A GAY GUY AT A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE.
Zoologger: Gender-bending cave insects found in Brazil.
Daffy Duck, Glorious Archetype of Selfishness, Is 77. Here Is His First Cartoon.
The Gay Father I Never Knew.
US radio host: Advert featuring gay dads is like axe murder.
Revealed: Samsung misled investors, pundits with shipments vs. sales. 'Market share' is never what you think it is.
Meet the Ten Most Endangered and Distinctive Birds in the World.
Former monk pleads with Pope Francis on behalf of LGBT youths.
Tony Perkins' Disingenuous Boycott 'Outrage'.
Stop twisting the Bible: There is no message against same-sex marriage.
President Obama kicked off Holy Week at the White House Monday with 150 Christian leaders at the fifth annual Easter Prayer Breakfast.
Matt Gold "Appreciated" (a sweet, fun song):
(If embedding doesn't work, click here.)
Mike Munich covers Kylie Minogue's SEXERCIZE, then makes an all male version of the video:
President Obama pulled a surprise move Monday at the White House’s Easter Prayer Breakfast when he selected Gene Robinson (the first openly gay Episcopal bishop) to lead the closing prayer.
How we found the giant squid. I know it's over a year old, but it's cool. Other than the dig against space research at the end...
‘Oh, I’ve got to write? Time to clean the stove first’. Thanks to Seashellseller for the link!
Salt Lake Tribune: Utah takes a nasty step against same-sex couples.
Peter LaBarbera came to a college to "expose" the "gay agenda." He wasn't expecting what would happen instead. Money quote: "As an institution, we have a duty to protect free speech, hateful or not. But we don’t have to listen to it."
LOUISIANA: House Votes 66-27 To Keep Unconstitutional Anti-Sodomy Law.
Living the dream: 3-year-old kid escapes from home, climbs inside claw toy machine at bowling alley. Sounds like a kid who knows what he wants!
Fake Geek Guys: A Message to Men About Sexual Harassment.
In Sickness and in Health: A Couple's Final Journey. You'll need to have some tissues handy.
Epigenetics Helps Explain Early Humans’ Appearances.
I'M A GAY GUY AT A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE.
Zoologger: Gender-bending cave insects found in Brazil.
Daffy Duck, Glorious Archetype of Selfishness, Is 77. Here Is His First Cartoon.
The Gay Father I Never Knew.
US radio host: Advert featuring gay dads is like axe murder.
Revealed: Samsung misled investors, pundits with shipments vs. sales. 'Market share' is never what you think it is.
Meet the Ten Most Endangered and Distinctive Birds in the World.
Former monk pleads with Pope Francis on behalf of LGBT youths.
Tony Perkins' Disingenuous Boycott 'Outrage'.
Stop twisting the Bible: There is no message against same-sex marriage.
President Obama kicked off Holy Week at the White House Monday with 150 Christian leaders at the fifth annual Easter Prayer Breakfast.
Matt Gold "Appreciated" (a sweet, fun song):
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Mike Munich covers Kylie Minogue's SEXERCIZE, then makes an all male version of the video:
Friday, March 21, 2014
Friday Links!
Amazingly, it's Friday, again! Here's a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:
Measles was on the brink of being eradicated, but Thanks, Anti-Vaxxers. You Just Brought Back Measles in NYC.
Anti-science Wingnut Jenny McCarthy Asks; the Internet Slam Dunks.
ANTI-GAY GROUPS FAIL: ALL THREE ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS WHO VOTED FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY WIN PRIMARIES.
Country resistance to gay marriage an urban myth - in Australia.
NASA releases 680-gigapixel interactive mosaic of Lunar North Pole.
Oregon AG Files Brief: Marriage Ban Serves No Rational Purpose And Harms Citizens.
Why doesn’t god kill Bill Maher?.
GOP Obsessed With Birth Control Banning, OK With Penis Pumps And Viagra.
Why Are So Few Books From the 20th Century Available as Ebooks?.
Republicans Outraged Americans Are Happy With The Affordable Care Act.
McConnell fundraiser: Wives have 'obligation' to sleep with husbands. Except he didn't say 'sleep,' of course, he said "sexual relations regardless of their mood."
Louisiana Public School Finds Out It Can't Force Christianity On Students. (You may have seen the story earlier of the teacher who singled out a buddhist student in her class to explain to the other kids how "stupid" such beliefs were.)
How Not to Sound Like a Creationist to a Trans Person.
Fred Phelps, Founder of God Hates Fags Church, Is Dead. My grandma taught me to only say nice things about the dead. "He's dead. How nice."
RIP, Fred Phelps: Your Legacy Is Not What You May Think.
When An Arkansas High School Tried to Silence a Gay Student, He Spoke Even Louder.
Power Lines Look Like Terrifying Bursts of Light to Animals.
Scientists Discover Why Dark Chocolate Is So Good For You In Most Delicious Research Project Ever.
Geek Girls Night Out: Truth Hurts. And I'm not just linking to it because Joi, the author, is a friend. I've written about a similar topic myself.
Harlem parents counter hate sign with support for LGBT youth.
Kylie Minogue - Sexercize:
Measles was on the brink of being eradicated, but Thanks, Anti-Vaxxers. You Just Brought Back Measles in NYC.
Anti-science Wingnut Jenny McCarthy Asks; the Internet Slam Dunks.
ANTI-GAY GROUPS FAIL: ALL THREE ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS WHO VOTED FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY WIN PRIMARIES.
Country resistance to gay marriage an urban myth - in Australia.
NASA releases 680-gigapixel interactive mosaic of Lunar North Pole.
Oregon AG Files Brief: Marriage Ban Serves No Rational Purpose And Harms Citizens.
Why doesn’t god kill Bill Maher?.
GOP Obsessed With Birth Control Banning, OK With Penis Pumps And Viagra.
Why Are So Few Books From the 20th Century Available as Ebooks?.
Republicans Outraged Americans Are Happy With The Affordable Care Act.
McConnell fundraiser: Wives have 'obligation' to sleep with husbands. Except he didn't say 'sleep,' of course, he said "sexual relations regardless of their mood."
Louisiana Public School Finds Out It Can't Force Christianity On Students. (You may have seen the story earlier of the teacher who singled out a buddhist student in her class to explain to the other kids how "stupid" such beliefs were.)
How Not to Sound Like a Creationist to a Trans Person.
Fred Phelps, Founder of God Hates Fags Church, Is Dead. My grandma taught me to only say nice things about the dead. "He's dead. How nice."
RIP, Fred Phelps: Your Legacy Is Not What You May Think.
When An Arkansas High School Tried to Silence a Gay Student, He Spoke Even Louder.
Power Lines Look Like Terrifying Bursts of Light to Animals.
Scientists Discover Why Dark Chocolate Is So Good For You In Most Delicious Research Project Ever.
Geek Girls Night Out: Truth Hurts. And I'm not just linking to it because Joi, the author, is a friend. I've written about a similar topic myself.
Harlem parents counter hate sign with support for LGBT youth.
Kylie Minogue - Sexercize:
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