Works are revealed!

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Reveals!

Works have revealed! Creator reveals will be on December 20th at 10 pm EST (countdown).

Reading lists will be posted in the afternoon EST from December 8th to December 19th, with a schedule going up by the 8th! These are, essentially, every work in the collection (unless the creator has opted out) at least once split out by length and medium. They will be posted at this tag (link), where you can see past year's reading lists as well!

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* ""Bibi sees ghosts everywhere": U.S. alarmed by Israel's Syria strikes:" https://www.axios.com/2025/12/01/israel-syria-strikes-trump-netanyahu

* "Israel says it strikes two south Lebanon towns:" https://archive.ph/0rLu5

* "Israel launches airstrike in southern Gaza after earlier attack by militants wounded 5 soldiers:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-west-bank-gaza-hamas-hostages-1daaa29f923993fe794460309e73da80

* "Pope Leo: Palestinian state 'only' solution to Israeli conflict:" https://archive.ph/zdMDa

* "‘This Is Illegal,’ He Said, Spreading His Arms. ‘This Is Illegal.’:" https://archive.ph/LOi6X

* "Dozens of masked Israelis riot, hurl stones after illegal West Bank outpost evacuated:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/dozens-of-masked-israelis-riot-hurl-stones-after-illegal-west-bank-outpost-evacuated/

* "Four countries announce Eurovision 2026 boycott after Israel allowed to compete:" https://www.nme.com/news/music/four-countries-announce-eurovision-2026-boycott-after-israel-allowed-compete-3916030

How to Help:
Revive Gaza's farmland: https://apnature.org/en/gaza
PCRF: https://www.pcrf.net/
HEAL Palestine: https://www.healpalestine.org/
The Sameer Project: https://linktr.ee/thesameerproject
Gaza Soup Kitchen: https://gazasoupkitchen.org/

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* "The Dishonorable Strikes on Venezuelan Boats:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-dishonorable-strikes-on-venezuelan-boats

* "Trump threatens strikes on any country he claims makes drugs for US:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/trump-threatens-strikes-drugs-venezuela

* "Hegseth says U.S. has "only just begun" sinking alleged drug vessels:" https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/hegseth-boat-strikes-venezuela-cabinet-meeting

* "Is This A War Crime? (Hint: Yes.):"

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* "Hegseth cites ‘fog of war’ in defending follow-on strike on alleged drug boat:" https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-trump-venezuela-540ae279827e02105e089f1bd5af37a6

* "White House says admiral approved second deadly boat strike:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/01/white-house-second-boat-strike-00671488?nid=0000018f-3124-de07-a98f-3be4d1400000&nname=politico-toplines&nrid=5209da39-4e50-433b-986a-79bdcf9a35a2

* "Hegseth dances beside sleepy Trump to avoid accountability for boat strike amid war crimes talk:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/hegseth-dances-beside-sleepy-trump-to-avoid-accountability-for-boat-strike-amid-war-crimes-talk-2472383043526

* "Hegseth’s problems snowball despite domesticated Pentagon press corps:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/hegseth-s-problems-snowball-despite-domesticated-pentagon-press-corps-2472657987689

* "Possible war crime puts Trump’s ‘illegal orders’ freakout in new context:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/possible-war-crime-puts-trump-s-illegal-orders-freakout-in-new-context-2472055363932

* "‘He wanted me killed’: Kelly rips Trump, Hegseth threats as boat strike scandal widens:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/he-wanted-me-killed-kelly-rips-trump-hegseth-threats-as-boat-strike-scandal-widens-2472360515582

* "Rep. Himes shares shocking details from boat strikes briefing; disputes key points in reported story:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/rep-himes-shares-shocking-details-from-boat-strikes-briefing-disputes-key-points-in-reported-story-2472959043802

This is so shameful. I don't understand why every Navy veteran in the country isn't out protesting.

* "‘There was no fog of war’: New video of boat strike alarms lawmakers:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/there-was-no-fog-of-war-new-video-of-boat-strike-alarms-lawmakers-2472928323651

* "I Investigated Why Trump Wants to Recall Sen. Kelly to Active Duty (ft. Sen. Kelly):"

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* Extended Jen Psaki Interview:

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* Extended Rachel Maddow Interview:

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* "Hospital massacre caps a long series of attacks on healthcare in war-torn Sudan:" https://archive.ph/tyt0G
* "The New German War Machine:" https://archive.ph/ZkVyh

* "Russia bans Human Rights Watch in widening crackdown on critics:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/29/russia-outlaws-human-rights-watch-crackdown-critics-ukraine-war

* "Pussy Riot Founder Decries Russia’s Push to Designate the Group as ‘Extremist’:" https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pussy-riot-russia-designation-extremist-group-2721804
* "HIV-positive men stage 'Kiss-In' protest at U.S.-Mexico border (in photos):" https://www.advocate.com/news/hiv-kiss-protest-southern-border#rebelltitem9

* "Trump is fighting the Institute of Peace in court. Now, his name is on the building:" https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g-s1-100576/trump-institute-of-peace-name

* "‘A workplace crisis:’ Nearly all Foreign Service employees report lower morale in union-led survey:" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/12/a-workplace-crisis-nearly-all-foreign-service-employees-report-lower-morale-in-union-led-survey/

*** Immigration/I.C.E/Autocracy/Slow Motion Civil War/Violent Illegal Occupation of Blue Cities News ***

* "Trump sharpens focus on legal immigration after National Guard shooting:" https://archive.ph/QOEAL

* "Trump to Expand Travel Ban to Around 30 Countries After Shooting:" https://archive.ph/XRDN1

* "Kristi Noem urges sweeping new US travel ban after fatal DC shooting:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/kristi-noem-travel-ban-national-guard-shooting

* "Trump administration fires 8 immigration judges in New York City:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/immigration-judge-fired-trump-administration-files-lawsuit-claiming/story?id=128014324

* "ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-detentions-immigrant-kids-family-separations?

* "ICE Goons Pepper-Spray Newly Sworn-In Congresswoman:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-goons-pepper-spray-newly-sworn-in-congresswoman-adelita-grijalva/

* "‘We have video to prove it’: Border agents push, fire pepper ball at member of Congress:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/we-have-video-to-prove-it-border-agents-push-fire-pepper-ball-at-member-of-congress-2473269827938

* "Protesters block federal agents from leaving parking garage for NYC raid:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/protesters-block-federal-agents-leaving-parking-garage-nyc-raid-rcna246474

* "In Ohio's Trump country, suburban grandmas push back against ICE:" https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/20/suburban-grandmas-protest-ice-in-ohio/87337841007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z114635p002050n11----c11----d00----v114635b0038xxd003865&gca-ft=32&gca-ds=sophi

* "Dozens protest Apple’s removal of ICE warning app outside downtown Portland store:" https://www.koin.com/news/portland/dozens-protest-apples-removal-of-ice-warning-app-outside-downtown-portland-store/

* "Massachusetts woman arrested at Portland ICE protest says counter-protester provoked her:" https://www.koin.com/news/portland/massachusetts-woman-arrested-at-portland-ice-protest-says-counter-protester-provoked-her/

* "Immigration arrest inside Home Depot sparks protest in rural Oregon town:" https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/12/ice-arrest-inside-home-depot-sparks-protest-in-rural-oregon-town.html

* "Peaceful protest in downtown Yakima raises awareness of ICE actions:" https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/peaceful-protest-in-downtown-yakima-raises-awareness-of-ice-actions/article_062520c5-e2af-4f6c-abca-e7f2ec8e4541.html

* "Protesters Urge Albany County to Cut Ties with Avelo Airlines:" https://wgy.iheart.com/content/2025-12-01-protesters-urge-albany-county-to-cut-ties-with-avelo-airlines/

* "U.S. National Parks Will Soon Require Proof of Residency or Charge Higher Rates:" https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2025/11/26/u-s-national-parks-will-soon-require-proof-of-residency-or-charge-higher-rates/

* Here are some ways to help Immigrants and the anti-ICE Protesters:

Immigrant Defenders: https://give.immdef.org/give/545119/#!/donation/checkout
The Bail Project: https://bailproject.org/
National Bail Fund Network: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directory
Amnesty International: protect asylum-seekers: https://donate.amnestyusa.org/page/113080/donate/1
The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights: https://www.theyoungcenter.org/
CHIRLA: https://www.chirla.org/
AL Otro Lado: https://alotrolado.networkforgood.com/projects/63833-al-otro-lado-fund
Mid-South Immigration Advocates: https://miamemphis.org/
"Know Your Rights:" https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights
"Disappeared In America:" https://www.disappearedinamerica.us/

* Oh look! More Perjury! "Attacks on ICE up 1,000%? Trump administration claim not backed up by court records:" https://archive.ph/CHT2w#selection-2486.3-2549.0

* "New Orleans braces for Trump’s immigration crackdown: ‘We have rights’:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/22/new-orleans-trump-immigration-crackdown

* "Trump administration launches latest immigration crackdown in New Orleans:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/03/trump-immigration-crackdown-new-orleans-00674468

* "Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country:" https://archive.ph/9SW5s

58% of the Somali Americans in Minnesota were born here. 87% of the Immigrant Somali Americans are naturalized U.S. Citizens and most of the rest are here legally.

* "Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/3/ilhan-omar-denounces-donald-trump-for-calling-somali-immigrants-garbage

* "5 things to know about the Somali community in Minnesota after Trump’s attacks:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/5-things-to-know-about-the-somali-community-in-minnesota-after-trumps-attacks

* "In Memphis, volunteers document Task Force arrests and provide aid to those left behind:" https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/12/03/in-memphis-volunteers-document-task-force-arrests-and-provide-aid-to-those-left-behind/




* "Trump’s night of 160 posts on Truth Social fuels debate about US president’s stamina:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/trumps-truth-social-post-health

* "Trump, 79, Repeatedly Falls Asleep in His Own Cabinet Meeting:" https://newrepublic.com/post/203865/trump-falls-asleep-cabinet-meeting

* "Trump’s struggles to stay awake adds to growing questions about his fading health:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-s-struggles-to-stay-awake-adds-to-growing-questions-about-his-fading-health-2472383555679

* "Hayes: Who is calling the shots for a napping President Trump?:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/hayes-who-is-calling-the-shots-for-a-napping-president-trump-2472605763703

* "White House gives new details on Trump’s health following exam:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/01/karoline-leavitt-trump-mri-00671504

* "Trump says he plans to cancel most of Biden’s executive orders:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/trump-canceling-biden-executive-orders-autopen

* "The President Who Never Grew Up:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/04/trump-presidency-child-renovations-entertainment-attention-00676183

* "Psaki: No one home at the White House but the man-children:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/psaki-no-one-home-at-the-white-house-but-the-man-children-2473279555605

* "Trump accepts FIFA peace prize despite ‘fuming’ over media coverage of his age:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/trump-accepts-fifa-peace-prize-despite-fuming-over-media-coverage-of-his-age-2473254467786

* "‘500 tons of cocaine’: Trump pardons trafficker who helped flood U.S. with drugs:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/500-tons-of-cocaine-trump-pardons-trafficker-who-helped-flood-u-s-with-drugs-2472950339615

* "More LGBTQ+ people are quietly planning to flee America as fears of fascism in Trump’s second term rise:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-escape-plans-trumpism

* I don't understand how this is legal for multiple reasons. "Trump administration threatens to withhold SNAP management funds from states that don’t share data:" https://apnews.com/article/food-aid-snap-rollins-blue-states-edf7a10ab409fe471ae81a13823484ab

* "Michael and Susan Dell to donate $6 billion to Trump accounts of 25 million US children:" https://archive.ph/5xhsM

* "US federal workers would lose whistleblower safeguards under Trump rule:" https://archive.ph/JEwt3#selection-1052.0-1052.1

* "Pentagon watchdog says Hegseth’s Signal chats put troops at risk:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/03/pentagon-watchdog-says-hegseths-signal-use-put-troops-at-risk-00674547

* "7 times Pete Hegseth was the definition of toxic masculinity :" https://www.advocate.com/news/pete-hegseth-toxic-masculinity#rebelltitem1

* "Trans National Guard employee in Illinois sues Trump over restroom ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-lawsuit-trump-administration

* "HHS replaces name on transgender admiral’s official portrait with deadname in act of ‘pettiness and bigotry’ :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/hhs-rachel-levine-deadname

* "Kash Patel Yelled At Girlfriend’s Security Detail To Drive Drunk Friend After Partying:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kash-patel-girlfriend-ordered-agent-to-drive-drunk-friend-report_n_6932f8dbe4b03cea5ab3f683

* CW: Rape. "Trump DOJ rolls back policies protecting LGBTQ+ inmates from sexual violence:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/lgbtq-inmates-sexual-violence-trump

Republicans are broadly pro-rape, so I'm saddened and angered, but not surprised.

* "CDC advisers vote to overturn decades-long policy on hepatitis B vaccine for infants:" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/12/05/nx-s1-5634004/cdc-hepatitis-b-vaccine-acip-meeting

Of course the children of those well off enough to have good health insurance will still be able to get vaccines. The goal here is to deprive the children of the poor so they will die of an easily preventable disease as part of RFK Jr's eugenics program.

The vaccine is very safe and saves so many lives by causing a 99% drop in cases. There is no other reason to do it than the deliberate slaughter of infants and children.

* "CDC Panel ends recommendation for newborn hepatitis B shot:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/cdc-panel-ends-recommendation-for-newborn-hepatitis-b-shot-2473252419771

* "Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time:" https://theintercept.com/2025/12/01/world-aids-hiv-trump-cuts-unemployment-lgbtq/

* "Trump administration rolls back fuel economy standards:" https://www.npr.org/2025/12/03/nx-s1-5630389/trump-administration-rolls-back-fuel-economy-standards

**** Pretextual Indictments and the Weaponization and Corruption of the Justice System ****

* "Treasury investigating tax fraud allegations in Minnesota, Bessent says:" https://archive.ph/b6GmZ

* "Congressional watchdog will investigate Trump official’s conduct:" https://archive.ph/03Yc9

* "Here are all of Trump's political enemies that have been charged or investigated (so far) :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-political-enemies-investigated-charged#rebelltitem9

* "Lesson in resistance: Hidden danger as Trump takes a page from Putin’s playbook:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/lesson-in-resistance-hidden-danger-as-trump-takes-a-page-from-putin-s-playbook-2472073283577

* "Appeals court upholds disqualification of Alina Habba as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/01/alina-habba-appeals-court-ruling-00671224

**** Trump/Epstein/Maxwell, etc. CW: CSA ****

* "Epstein island photos, videos released by House Oversight Committee:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/03/congress/jeffrey-epstein-house-oversight-jpmorgan-00674304
* "Supreme Court gives Texas OK to use House map drawn to boost GOP:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/supreme-court-texas-house-map-00678075

* "Supreme Court to hear case on Trump order limiting birthright citizenship:" https://www.advocate.com/news/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship

Will the Supreme Court rule the 14th Amendment to the constitution unconstitutional?

* "Starbucks to Pay $39 Million in Landmark N.Y.C. Labor Law Settlement:" https://archive.ph/3jv3z

* "‘We’re not going anywhere’: how unionization ‘whirlwind’ set stage for historic Starbucks strike:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/starbucks-union-strike

* "Starbucks Workers United holds rally in NYC as strikes continue for a third week:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/starbucks-workers-united-union-strike-nyc-rally.html

* "Why Healthcare Costs Are Rising So Much with Jonathan Cohn:" https://open.spotify.com/episode/4qvIs6JLTifYphzC3h1Pmi

* "Obamacare Subsidies Likely to Expire With Congress in Deadlock:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/trump-threatens-strikes-drugs-venezuela

* "Thune says abortion language a sticking point in health care talks:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/02/congress/thune-abortion-language-health-care-00672635

* "Why Republicans aren’t eager to cut an Obamacare deal:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/03/obamacare-subsidies-expire-this-month-many-republicans-are-shrugging-00672949

* "For Many Contractors, Losing ACA Subsidies Means Losing Health Care:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/aca-obamacare-subsidy-health-insurance-gop/

* "Hospital Crisis Watch:" https://www.protectourcare.org/hospital-crisis-watch/

* "House overhauls KOSA in a new kids online safety package:" https://www.theverge.com/news/829492/house-energy-commerce-kids-online-safety-package

* "Grindr supports age verification bill introduced by two Republicans:" https://www.advocate.com/news/grindr-supports-age-verification-bill-republican

* "Don’t STEAL Act:" https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5048?s=1&r=1

* "H.R.5106 - Restore Trust in Congress Act:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/315708.html

* "End arms sales to UAE:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/318426.html

* "Jack Smith subpoenaed for closed-door House Judiciary interview:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/03/congress/jack-smith-subpoena-house-judiciary-00674387

* "MAGA backlash builds as GOP women turn on Mike Johnson:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/maga-backlash-builds-as-gop-women-turn-on-mike-johnson-2472941635872

* "Ruben Gallego’s leaked texts mocking Democrats’ looks & masculinity intensify temperament concerns:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ruben-gallego-mocks-democrats

* Our job for the next year and a half is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.

We are trying to build a good list of resistance resources.

Please add more below if you have them.


* "Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

* Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide.  https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

* If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

And another: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/

White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/

ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/

"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share

Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

"Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/

Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events

"ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/

Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/
* "Republican whose child has Down syndrome opposes redistricting after Trump’s ableist slur:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/trump-indiana-state-senator-redistricting-vote

* "Republican Matt Van Epps wins US House special election in Tennessee:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/tennessee-special-election

* "‘Unhinged’: Mike Johnson takes heat as Republican vulnerabilities are laid bare by close election:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/unhinged-mike-johnson-takes-heat-as-republican-vulnerabilities-are-laid-bare-by-close-election-2472667203647

* "Transgender Army vet running for state delegate in red Maryland district is all about showing up:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender-candidate-maryland-delegate

* Extended interview with Mikie Sherrill:

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* "Here's what Zohran Mamdani has promised to do for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers as mayor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/zohran-mamdani-lgbtq-campaign-promises

* "Banning VPNs:" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/banning-vpns.html

* "Missouri judge who wore Elvis Presley wig and played singer's music in court forced to step down:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/missouri-judge-elvis-presley-wig-music-court-stepping-down/

* "Man accused of planting pipe bombs before Jan. 6 Capitol attack is charged with explosives offenses:" https://apnews.com/article/pipe-bombs-dc-jan6-40d748385b7b18ece2208c6c6690708b

* "Pipe bomb suspect said he believed 2020 election was stolen, was supportive of Trump:" https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-5632646/fbi-pipe-bombs-arrest

* "Afghan suspect in D.C. National Guard attack appeared to suffer personal crisis:" https://www.npr.org/2025/12/01/nx-s1-5627109/afghan-dc-national-guard-attack-rahmanullah-lakanwal

* "National Guard shooting suspect radicalized in US, homeland secretary says:" https://archive.ph/Zvaq9

* "Officials criticize Biden vetting, but Afghan shooting suspect was granted asylum under Trump:" https://archive.ph/9yJQv

* "Georgia law banning gender-affirming care for trans inmates struck down:" https://www.advocate.com/news/georgia-prison-gender-affirming-care

* "Maryland community outraged after ‘bigoted’ early morning rainbow crosswalk removal:" https://www.advocate.com/news/maryland-pride-crosswalk-removal

* "Oklahoma University instructor suspended for failing student’s unscientific anti-trans psychology essay:" https://www.advocate.com/news/oklahoma-university-trans-instructor-suspended

* "Cis men love top surgery—it should be available for all:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/top-surgery-cis-men

* "Women's Institute to ban transgender women after U.K. Supreme Court ruling :" https://www.advocate.com/world/womens-institute-united-kingdom-transgender

* "New puberty blockers trial to begin after UK ban:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2k4jg0wkj4o

* "Man pleads guilty to murder of gay University of Mississippi student Jimmie 'Jay' Lee:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/guilty-plea-jimmie-lee-murder

* "On World AIDS Day, thinking of progress and how to build on it in the face of hostility:" https://www.advocate.com/news/world-aids-day-progress-setbacks

* "Out former CDC vaccines head Demetre Daskalakis named chief medical officer at NYC LGBTQ+ health center:" https://www.advocate.com/news/demetre-daskalakis-callen-lorde-cmo

* "Living With Muscular Dystrophy at 50 Makes Death My Shadow Partner:" https://time.com/6960765/alice-wong-muscular-dystrophy-essay/


* "Before a Soyuz launch Thursday someone forgot to secure a 20-ton service platform :" https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/11/russian-launch-pad-incident-raises-concerns-about-future-of-space-station/

* "To Save This West Texas Lizard, They Must First Prove It Actually Exists :" https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/dixons-whiptail-lizard-conservation/

* On Japanese Internment "Rachel Maddow presents: Burn Order: Episode 1: Safecracker:" https://www.ms.now/msnbc-podcast/msnbc-podcast/maddow-burn-order-podcast/episode-1-safecracker

* "Rachel Maddow presents: Burn Order: Episode 2: The Jitters:" https://www.ms.now/msnbc-podcast/msnbc-podcast/maddow-burn-order-podcast/episode-2-the-jitters

* I still get chills remembering the production of Arcadia I saw in Ashland 30ish years later. "Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 :" https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/nov/29/tom-stoppard-playwright-of-dazzling-wit-and-playful-erudition-dies-aged-88

* Tuesday I had in home physio. She unlocked my shoulder, which really helps. It's the first time since the start of the Great Furniture Migration it hasn't felt like I had a dagger embedded in it. Of course the rest of the pain is debilitating, but I'll take spread out pain over being stabbed and the whole the arm failing to arm at random thing.

So after, I needed to go to the library quick and stop at the coop on the way back for cheese, veg, broth, and to see if there was any veggie loaf etc.. left, as I pretty much missed all November chances because of the one disaster after another/chaos. I estimated an hour an a half. Bwahahahaha!

Some asshole broke into my nearly thirty year old clunker. Locked my steering wheel trying to steal the car, tried to steal my radio, but it's the kind the front pops off, but you can't get the radio without specialized tools. All they got was my roll of paper towels I keep against condensation and some blank generic deposit slips I keep for emergencies with the name and number for the bank, but no personal details. They did not spot the jug of oil in the back or the dolly in the trunk for which I am grateful.

Wasted me so much time as the wheel wouldn't unlock so I couldn't turn my key. Radio's an asshole to put back together and I think they low key fucked up the wheel/ignition as I had a ten minute battle to unlock it at the library and a three minute battle at the grocery. This delay and the physio being very late meant I was now doing everything during rush hour instead of heading home as it was heating up. Sigh

I literally own nothing worth the effort of stealing at all except my lap tops which stay in the apartment and theoretically the apartment itself. Like they peeled some of the weather tape off the window that no longer closes the last half inch because the motor in the door is dead to get the jimmy in. I am not convinced they would make more than a few hundred selling it for parts.

One of my library books is missing. I had hoped it had slipped off the passenger seat, but if it did, it's gone. I know it's not on the library book shelf. I shall have to do a more exhaustive search. My worry is it could have been trapped between door and passenger seat and the thieves maybe grabbed it. Let up hope not.

The grocery store was inevitably packed with slow moving indecisive people, but it was worth it as I scored the last two korn loaves and the last three frozen tofurkey gravies. I am extra excited about tofurky graving as we stopped being able to get it in 2020 and I was worried it's gone for good. Korn loaf came back a year or two ago, but not in the quantities we used to get. This combination is the easiest protein I know of that I can actually eat. Five minute prep time. Perfectr when I'm too ill to manage anything much. Stab it a few times, pop it in a loaf pan and forget it. Heat the gravy in the microwave towards the end of the cook cucle. Slice loaf. Pull off plastic. Eat. Tofurkey gravy is the perfect vegetarian gravy. I will need to score some boca chick'n patties to make chick'n and gravy burgers with, but this is a huge win, really.

I blew 2/3rds my ebt, but it was worth it and I now have all the parts for home made soup too, plus things like the cheese.

Still, but the time I had it away I had the shakes bad, and I am still not in great shape. My arm works though at least, as much as it ever does.

* I went to sleep early and ended up spending about 20 hours in bed, which given how far my body had been pushed seemed about right.

Squirrel Reports that when I am asleep and she hears Squirrel moving around, she comes out and stands sadly in front of my door curtain, gazing at them with her big moon eyes and trying to lure them inside. There is no way to convey to her human concepts of privacy.

* I had planned to settle in Thursday night, do some work on the apartment, then really work on aggregate links, but just a lot things happened. Friday was kind of the same, so I am behind again.

* I'm still running the horror movie Tournament poll: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls/tagged/Horror%20Movies

* "Trump Berates Reporters, Gets Mystery MRI & Closes Border to (Non-White) Immigrants | The Daily Show:"

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I debated whether to share this one or not because of some ablest etc. things in there, but it also has a lot of key footage of Trump's remarks at Thanksgiving which I think are pretty newsworthy, but which most news outlets aren't showing in aggregate.

I do think it's useful sometimes to see just how bad it actually is instead of the normalized version.

* "Trump Launches War on Drug Traffickers… Unless They’re Also Honduran Ex-Presidents | The Daily Show:"

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* "Trump's Holiday Cash Grab | Release The MRI Results | The President Won't Exercise | "Kill Them All":"

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* "Our Unpopular President | Cabinet Meeting Nap Time | Hegseth Throws Admiral Bradley Under The Bus:"

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* "Winter Vomiting Disease | Trump's Cocaine Double Standard | Melania En Español | Drunk Raccoon:"

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* "‘Proudly Queer’ Photo Exhibition Celebrates Hidden Roma Voices:" https://balkaninsight.com/2025/11/24/proudly-queer-photo-exhibition-celebrates-hidden-roma-voices/

* "A Three Hour Bore:"

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* "Inside Entertainwood: Harrison Ford | Megan Thee Stallion | Jennifer Garner | R.I.P. Fonzie:"

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* "Scarface 2: The Pardoning:"

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* "Trump Tinsel: Made from Recycled Epstein Files You Shouldn’t Piece Together | The Daily Show:"

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* "Will Prince Harry Ever Get To Be A Hallmark Christmas Movie Prince?:"

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* "Merry Christmas And Happy Chanukah From "Weird Al" Yankovic:"

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*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* CW: Suicide "These hotlines are still available for LGBTQ+ youth after Trump kills 988 services:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-youth-hotlines-still-available

* "Hospital Crisis Watch:" https://www.protectourcare.org/hospital-crisis-watch/

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rec-cember 3-4 💖️❄️

Dec. 6th, 2025 16:09
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The Book of Vengeful Demons, by [archiveofourown.org profile] Un_finished
Fandom: Babylon 5
Words: 8.1k
Rating: T
Characters: Garibaldi, Delenn, Sinclair, Talia, Ivanova, Franklin, Lennier


Later, Garibaldi will tell himself - almost convincingly - that he flagged the crate in customs because it was an anomaly.
An episode tag (of sorts) for the S1 episode “The War Prayer.”
- and -
The Third Principle of Sentient Life, by [archiveofourown.org profile] Un_finished
Fandom: Babylon 5
Words: 69.5k; 6/8 chapters so far [WIP]
Rating: T
Characters: Delenn, Shaal Mayan, Draal, Branmer, OCs


Delenn. Child of two very different worlds. Budding mystic. Unwilling pawn.
Mayan. A gentle outcast with an extraordinary voice.
G’Had. Refugee. Survivor. Possibly the last remaining practitioner of Narn’s most sacred art.
Three remarkable younglings, a mysterious Sisterhood, and a race against time to solve a two thousand year old mystery and right an ancient wrong before it’s too late.
Set in the same universe as The Book of Vengeful Demons.


I'm reccing these as a pair because - well, they really go well together. In a way Third Principle is a prequel to Book of Vengeful Demons but they're distinct enough that you could read them in either order. Book of Vengeful Demons is complete; Third Principle of Sentient Life is a WIP but I have faith the author will complete (and I'm pretty sure any encouraging thoughts right now that someone might be so inspired to leave would very much help 💖️).

These are both intensely Delenn-focused, and feature prominently her friend Mayan, and also a goodly dose of extremely wonderful Minbari worldbuilding. Third Principle of Sentient Life has some extraordinary Narn worldbuilding as well. And the author does a really great job with the mystical aspects of Delenn that I feel go unused in Babylon 5 a lot: Delenn isn't just a political leader of her people, and she's not just a religious leader - she's a mystic, which makes her more-than-Minbari, one-foot-in-two-worlds: the mundane and the magic. These fics lean in strong to that role.

Canon knowledge required: For Vengeful Demons, only S1 is needed (it's an episode tag for the S1 episode "The War Prayer" so technically you don't even need further in S1 than that).
For Third Principle, only S1 is needed (it's set roughly 30 years pre-series).

All Works Are In!

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Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: Breakfast and battle plans.
Word Count: 1123
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS

 

Chapter 403: Made Us Stars )

 

Enemy Territory

Dec. 4th, 2025 13:02
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I considered Desmond actually recognizing the accent (or that Chandra is an Indian name), but he’s not that cultured.

Main Points: Assassin's Creed/The Secret World

Summary: Desmond, Alice, and Rukh go to check out the second Orochi camp.
Word Count: 2369
Rating: Teen

 

inauspicious meetings )

 


rec-cember 2 💖️❄️

Dec. 4th, 2025 16:34
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we could call it even (you could call me babe for the weekend), by [archiveofourown.org profile] dharmainitiative
Fandom: Stranger Things
Words: 54.9k
Rating: E
Pairing: Steve/Jonathan, Steve/Nancy/Jonathan


“Do you think it’s weird that you two never, like…I don’t know. Became friends?” Robin asks.
Steve blinks. “Me and Jonathan?”
“Yeah,” Robin says. “I mean, didn’t you guys beat up a Demogorgon with Nance that one time? It feels like that kind of experience would forge a bond, you know? Like, it would transcend all the love triangle drama, or something.”

Or: when Nancy breaks things off with Steve and Jonathan and goes to college, Steve accidentally becomes friends with Jonathan.
Just friends, though. Obviously. Anything other than that would be weird.

I love this one for a lot of reasons but the two most important ones to me are:
- it focuses intensely on the Steve/Jonathan and really develops the chemistry and relationship between them in a believable and organic way
- Nancy's reaction to discovering how they've been carrying on without her

Look I love Nancy, but I really really love nuanced Nancy (nuancy) and it's so believable to me that she really would skip off to college leaving both exes behind, fully believing that she's living a life while they are just on pause for her until she returns. Is that self-centred? Yeah maybe! But it's also really believably Nancy in a way that I think someone of her age and upbringing would be! So I was really delighted to see it here. Anyway! The Nancy characterisation, in this primarily Steve/Jonathan fic, is fucking stellar. I really really love it.

Canon knowledge required: It's technically canon compliant up to and including ST 4 as it was written post-ST 4, but there's no mention of ST characters from 2-4 and very few spoilers for plot events, so you could read this with only ST 1/2 for context on the relationship between Steve, Jonathan, and Nancy. I have seen ST 5 Vol 1 and there's no spoilers for anything in there.

ao3 scambaiting

Dec. 3rd, 2025 23:56
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so this would be an unusual situation, but--if anyone out there has an interest in scambaiting and can write fanfiction, draw fanart, or do interesting meta/criticism in popular fandoms, there absolutely would be a way to go scambaiting on Ao3, because the number of scam artist comments is out of hand, and Ao3 is doing what it can but it's bad, ya'll.  (Basically, they'll a) write something really generic, b) pop your story into Chat-GPT to spit out a comment that looks a lot more legit, or c) just go right in for the kill [this piece inspired me!  I'm a commissions artist!  Hit me up here *insert link*].  If a) or b), usually they're smart enough to just go 'contact me on a different platform, usually email, instagram, or discord', where they'll then try to solicit you for 'art commissions'.  For those who have fallen for it or just are curious, it becomes clear that they'll way overprice it and then give you stolen or AI art.  I haven't gotten farther than a), b), or c) before I report them to Ao3, but having someone waste their time sounds nice.)  You would probably have to do a new piece now and again (just changing the publishing date is a jerk move), and couldn't just have a placeholder or something.  Alternatively, some people said they've gotten similar things on reddit, so you could just post in fanwriting subreddits and wait for a scammer to bite.
(Insert general disclaimer about 'examine how you feel about scambaiting because it's definitely more on the vigilante side of things' and 'don't go fishing if you don't know what you're doing because giving out your own personal info could be dangerous, make sure to use protections like vpn, aliases, etc')

Oncoming default deadline

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The default deadline is the cut-off point for defaulting on your Yuletide assignment without a penalty. This applies if it's your first Yuletide, or if you posted successfully last time you signed up or took a pinch hit. Default before this time, and you're free to sign up again in future. If you're not sure whether the default deadline applies to you, please talk to mods (yuletideadmin@gmail.com).

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rec-cember 1 💖️❄️

Dec. 1st, 2025 23:47
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I think I can manage 3 posts a week, but probably only until the 20th when we head home. At that point I will probably not bring my laptop and won't be able to make such nice recs. I think I am also probably too shy to put the recs in one by one at something like recthething. But maybe I'll manage a rec roundup for that! Wish me luck, you guys.

one step back and to the left, by [archiveofourown.org profile] sithlordbinks
Fandom: Star Wars (Clone Wars specifically)
Words: 126.3k; 7/10 chapters so far [WIP]
Rating: E
Pairing: Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi


Cody’s mouth is dry, words stuck in his mind. Which perhaps is a good thing considering in response to I think I may have you, all Cody’s brain is providing him is please do.
And it’s then, Cody realizes, that with the most inconvenient, embarrassing, unprofessional timing ever, he’s hard.
Kriff. Fucking
kriff.

or: cody thinks he's doing Real Great at the friends with benefits thing with his general. spoiler: he is not…and somehow this saves the entire galaxy

This is the fic I've been waiting for in the codywan side of fandom. It has everything I was hoping for, in no particular order:
- a very much forbidden relationship
- intense extremely tight 3POV from Cody's perspective with a goodly dose of unreliable narrator with Cody outwardly classically stoic while inwardly immersed and overwhelmed by feelings
- societal-wide clone depersonalisation and extremely bitter clones as a leitmotif
- Obi-Wan's immense guilt over whether or not Cody can even consent and being left wondering if he's not only crossed boundaries but committed a crime
- Cody whump both emotional and physical
- competence from both Cody and Obi-Wan
- not a strong focus on clones being Mandalorian (there's a tidge of the fanon Mando'a but most of it is actually centring around the clone<->Mandalore culture shock, and how Cody feels being a fish out of water even on Mandalore because of the clones' aborted cultural upbringing, all of which is extremely compelling to me)

It's still WIP, but I have faith the author will complete it, and in the meantime there's already so much to enjoy and it doesn't end on a super-cliffhanger, so it's quite enjoyable even as-is. I just, I love it so much. There's such a good focus on Cody and Cody's friendships and relationships that are not only revolving around Kenobi - I am not usually much of an Anakin fan, but I loved Anakin & Cody's interactions in this and it's extremely sweet and organic - they really feel like in this universe they could be friends. ;_;

Canon knowledge required: Basic knowledge of Star Wars Prequel Trilogy (at least films 1 and 2) suffices, but very helpful to have seen most of Clone Wars (animated show, set between films 2 and 3) and film 3.
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* "Gaza death toll tops 70,000, health ministry says:" https://archive.ph/Nlmif

How to Help:
Revive Gaza's farmland: https://apnature.org/en/gaza
PCRF: https://www.pcrf.net/
HEAL Palestine: https://www.healpalestine.org/
The Sameer Project: https://linktr.ee/thesameerproject
Gaza Soup Kitchen: https://gazasoupkitchen.org/

******

* This is horrific and embarrassing. "Trump’s $2 Trillion Plan to Cash in on Ukraine ‘Peace’ Leaks:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-2-trillion-plan-to-cash-in-on-ukraine-peace-leaks/

* I really hope Europe can pull together and save Ukraine now we have betrayed them all. "Zelenskiy says 'tough issues' still need to be resolved after Florida talks:" https://archive.ph/jcnHJ
*** Immigration/I.C.E/Autocracy/Slow Motion Civil War/Violent Illegal Occupation of Blue Cities News ***

* "Where things stand 2 months after Trump ordered troops to Portland:" https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/28/donald-trump-national-guard-portland-oregon-ice/

* "Left in the dark’: Dozens protest deportation of Beaverton man:" https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/28/beaverton-protest-deportation-paulino-martin/
* "Every Illegal Act Trump Committed in 2025 (So Far):"

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* "Authoritarianism Is Here:"

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* "The Red Cup Rebellion Expands :" https://sbworkersunited.org/the-red-cup-rebellion-expands/

* Our job for the next year and a half is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.

We are trying to build a good list of resistance resources.

Please add more below if you have them.


* "Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

* Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide.  https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

* If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

And another: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/

White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/

ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/

"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share

Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

"Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/

Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events

"ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/

Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/
* "Gay NYC councilman running for Congress says America is at a crossroads:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/erik-bottcher-nyc-congressional-candidate

* "21 times Marjorie Taylor Greene was the worst :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-worst-moments#rebelltitem1

* "The Trump administration is choosing silence on World AIDS Day, but we're showing up louder than ever:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/world-aids-day-silence-trump-opinion

* "What the AIDS crisis stole from Black gay men:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/world-aids-day-2026




* "US-19 Exposes the Failure of Federal Investment in Transportation Infrastructure:" https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025-10-9-us-19-exposes-the-failure-of-federal-investment-in-transportation-infrastructure

* From here down, many items are older.

* "Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom:" https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/

* "I was a chess prodigy trapped in a religious cult. It left me with years of fear and self-loathing:" https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/sep/07/chess-prodigy-trapped-religious-cult-danny-rensch

* "How Not to Get Away With Murder:" https://torontolife.com/deep-dives/how-not-to-get-away-with-murder-the-stranger-than-fiction-story-of-the-stoney-creek-killing/

* "The city of 700 languages:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/new-york-city-700-languages?

* "Istanbul’s porters keep centuries-old trade moving:" https://apnews.com/photo-essay/turkey-istanbul-porters-photo-essay-37447b6100aa7fa7b6246ff06ad669e3?

* "12 Funeral Foods And The Stories Behind Them:" https://www.thetakeout.com/1952528/funeral-foods-stories-behind-them/

* "What is Marshmallow Fluff? A guide to the iconic New England spread.:" https://www.boston.com/community/wickedpedia/2025/09/15/marshmallow-fluff-massachusetts/

* "‘I try to make them feel as ignorant as possible’: German museum’s ‘grumpy guide’ is surprise hit:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/01/german-museum-grumpy-guide-kunstpalast-dusseldorf?

* "Inside the Very Expensive, Extremely Overwhelming, Engineered Fun of Theme Parks:" https://archive.is/Yhau8#selection-572.0-572.1

* CW: Human Remains. "Is it Time to Bury Vladimir Lenin?:"

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* "Legal Loopholes So Absurd They Work:"

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* I likely wasn't sick, as the symptoms would switch on and off and seemed to be gone by Saturday evening which is too fast for a pathogen, but normal for allergens.

I'm still not really recovered from The Great Furniture Migration, but I was able to do some of the "advanced arm physio," but I very not up to much of anything else and am barely managing bare minimum maintenence.

Livia's still mostly hiding in my room.

* I'm still running the horror movie Tournament poll: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls/tagged/Horror%20Movies

* "Gomez goes gay in Kiss of the Spider Woman?:"

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* "What makes X-Men so gay?:"

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* "Richard Hunt: The Gay Man Behind the Muppets:"

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* "The Messy Politics of Enemies to Lovers:"

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* "The Problem with Fantastical Racism:"

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* "Babylon 5 is the Anti-Fascist Show We Need:"

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* "To Kill A Mockingbird ~ Lost in Adaptation:"

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* "Holes ~ Lost in Adaptation:"

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* "The Count of Monte Cristo ~ Lost in Adaptation:"

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* "12 Movies And TV Shows That Started As Fan Fiction:" https://www.looper.com/1950927/movies-tv-shows-started-fan-fiction/

* "A Nerdy Breakdown of the Costumes in Muppet Treasure Island (y'all asked for this...):"

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* "Photographing the Microscopic: Winners of Nikon Small World 2025:" https://archive.ph/DWo6P#selection-600.0-600.1

* "True Facts: Bats, The Science of The Hunt:"

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* "Horny Bones:"

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* "True Facts: The Science of the Praying Mantis:"

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* "Zany Zeus:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3yn_ZKy8yKs

* "Cheeky Caesar:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/56vCPOthtmw

* "Aggressive Agrippa:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pLPfVwwCNQw

* "Manageable Myths:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_C2FN0njGa0

* "Egregious English Kings:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G30l2-fAkiw

* "Sassy Shakespeare:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kii6g5wMkg8

* "Meanwhile in a Parallel Universe:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Hq_0zCCTtns

* "Marauding Mary:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PH6RMlKye2I

* "Sinister Siblings:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qDVyNaB6snI

* "Sunday Sweets: Dark Beauties:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-dark-beauties-2025

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* CW: Suicide "These hotlines are still available for LGBTQ+ youth after Trump kills 988 services:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-youth-hotlines-still-available

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Ends and Means

Nov. 30th, 2025 21:39
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Given that Surak’s whole thing was essentially ‘sacrifice the individuality that leads to rage and murder for the greater good of society’, Vulcan society tends to read more communal society (Asian, among others) to me, therefore ‘it is good for the individual to sacrifice on behalf of society’. Not as much Omelas or ‘the end justifies the means’.

Main Points:
Star Trek (the 2009!movie verse) Cambion AU (New Genesis)
Summary: Spock and Uhura learn more of the Admiral's plans.
Word Count: 1330
Rating: Teen
Minor Spock/Uhura

 

Spock contemplates philosophy )

 

Made Some B5 Fanpages

Nov. 30th, 2025 11:38
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I used this year's Minvember as inspiration for making B5 fanpages! Each page is themed after a prompt and its palette. These work best on desktop, but should be fine on mobile.
 

Constellation - Start here! It's basically the site map

Ambition - Random B5 quote generator with a focus on perseverance

Release - Fanpage for Dureena Nafeel (Crusade)

Delirious - Word scramble game using B5 characters names, places, etc.

Lethal - Fanpage for Na'Toth

Idol - A dedication to Lennier's forever intriguing obsession with Delenn

Resources - A list of various assets and tutorials I used


I intend to keep adding content and making adjustments even after Minvember is over. B5 is so extensive, I still have lots of quotes and fun facts and interviews to explore and compile. But I wanted to get things to a share-able state by the end of the month, so here we are!

I hope people have fun poking around and, of course, feel free to let me know if you encounter any glaring errors.

Happy Minvember!

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Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means [staff profile] karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

The fine print and much more behind this cut! )

Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.

In the Empty Space

Dec. 2nd, 2025 12:14
madimpossibledreamer: Jotaro thinking 'yare yare daze' (jotaro)
[personal profile] madimpossibledreamer
schrodinger's secureboot is an issue for installing linux, it turns out

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Iron Man Crossover (Self-Made Hero)
Summary: faster to read 
Word Count: 145
Rating: Teen

        “He still had a crush, by the way. ‘Till the day he died. Which means you’re a cool guy, so I’d like to get to know you.” Xander, for once, doesn’t manage a response, so he laughs. “Not like that. It’d be a little soon after, don’t you think? Besides, you’re attractive, but not my type. I just…” He sighs, drawing in on himself a little. “I could use a friend right now.”
        Instantly any hesitation vanishes. “I’ll warn you, I have no idea how to be a friend despite extensive research, but complaints only run in the hundreds, so I think you’ll be fine.”
        “Oh, that good, huh?” Cho asks with a raised eyebrow and the ghost of a grin, and in Xander’s head Tony mouths ‘finally’ over a cup of...you know what, Tony probably has no idea either. That gets Xander to laugh.

idle thought #725

Dec. 6th, 2025 23:59
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[personal profile] madimpossibledreamer

I actually like the Yakuza Prime show so far (2 episodes in) but this is such a remix. The most ???? moment was Shimano having hair, though. (And all hail Aoki for playing Majima, he’s great so far even though we haven’t really seen a lot of him 2 episodes in.)

idle thought #724

Dec. 3rd, 2025 23:56
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[personal profile] madimpossibledreamer

I feel like the demon of shinjuku thing is just them taking inspiration from, uh. “Lily”. I forget her actual name.


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* "China’s shadow navy trains to take Taiwan:" https://archive.ph/yzQ4d
* "Japan's ban on marriage equality is constitutional, according to a Tokyo court :" https://www.advocate.com/news/japan-marriage-equality-ruling
* "A ‘Death Train’ Is Haunting South Florida:" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/brightline-train-florida/684624/

* From here down, many items are older.

* "FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site:" https://www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to-unmask-owner-of-infamous-archive-is-site/

* "Your passwords don’t need so many fiddly characters, NIST says:" https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/10/your-passwords-dont-need-so-many-fiddly-characters-nist-says

* "2.5 billion Gmail users endangered after Google database hack:" https://www.pcworld.com/article/2880822/2-5-billion-gmail-users-endangered-after-google-database-hack.html

* "Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs:" https://www.theverge.com/news/792032/discord-customer-service-data-breach-hack

* "How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World:" https://www.404media.co/how-teas-founder-convinced-millions-of-women-to-spill-their-secrets-then-exposed-them-to-the-world/

* "GoFundMe takes responsibility for creating pages without nonprofits' consent: 'We're very sorry':" https://abc7news.com/post/gofundme-apologizes-creating-donation-pages-nonprofits-consent-vows-make-changes/18082313/

* "‘Scamming became the new farming’: inside India’s cybercrime villages:" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/30/scamming-became-the-new-farming-inside-india-cybercrime-villages

* "Rise of the ‘porno-trolls’: how one porn platform made millions suing its :" https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/nov/04/strike-3-porn-copyright-lawsuits

* "The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age:" https://thewalrus.ca/collapse-of-self-worth-in-the-digital-age/

* "Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show:" https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88

* "Flock Wants to Partner With Consumer Dashcam Company That Takes ‘Trillions of Images’ a Month:" https://www.404media.co/flock-wants-to-partner-with-consumer-dashcam-company-that-takes-trillions-of-images-a-month/

* "China is sending its world-beating auto industry into a tailspin:" https://www.reuters.com/investigations/china-is-sending-its-world-beating-auto-industry-into-tailspin-2025-09-17/

* "BYD’s cars can now fully park themselves. Game over, Tesla:" https://www.fastcompany.com/91366273/byd-bests-tesla-again-cars-are-the-first-to-truly-park-themselves

* "Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyk6kvyxvzo

* "Audi Infotainment Screens Were Bricked for Months by a Bad SiriusXM Update:" https://www.thedrive.com/news/a-siriusxm-update-sent-some-audi-screens-into-a-forced-reboot-loop-for-months

* "German court convicts 4 ex-Volkswagen managers of fraud in emissions scandal:" https://apnews.com/article/volkswagen-germany-diesel-emissions-court-fraud-3878fcf6c06c9574bf5bff8d31029f90

* "You Don’t Actually Own That Movie You Just “Bought.” A New Class Action Lawsuit Targets Amazon:" https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/prime-video-lawsuit-movie-license-ownership-1236353127/

* "Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads:" https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-confirms-smart-refrigerator-ads-are-coming-3598848/

* "Satellites reveal weak spot in Earth's magnetic field keeps growing: "There's something special happening":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-magnetic-field-south-atlantic-anomaly-weak-spot-satellite-data-esa/

* "The school for astronauts hidden inside a Swiss mountain:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251023-the-school-for-astronauts-hidden-inside-a-swiss-mountain?

* "NASA discovers ‘clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars’:" https://archive.ph/1kyNT#selection-264.0-264.1

* "A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-cell-so-minimal-that-it-challenges-definitions-of-life-20251124/?

* "Some ant architects design a colony to cut the risk of disease. Humans, take note!:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/10/21/g-s1-94240/ants-disease-architecture

* "These Ant Queens Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch Into Another Species:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ant-queens-seem-to-defy-biology-they-lay-eggs-that-hatch-into-another-species-180987292/

* "Mystery of dancing spiders' DNA could explain how they develop into new species:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzl2zj72jo

* "Octopuses prefer to use different arms for different tasks, scientists find:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/11/octopuses-prefer-to-use-different-arms-for-different-tasks-scientists-find

* "Baby giant tortoises thrive in Seychelles after first successful artificial incubation:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/10/baby-giant-tortoises-thrive-seychelles-first-successful-artificial-incubation

* "Florida’s Hot Spot for the Crocodile’s Comeback Is…a Nuclear Power Plant? :" https://gardenandgun.com/articles/floridas-hot-spot-for-the-crocodiles-comeback-isa-nuclear-power-plant/

* "Generations of Bearded Vultures Stashed Humans’ Treasures, Including a 650-Year-Old Sandal, in These Bird Nests:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/generations-bearded-vultures-stashed-humans-treasures-including-650-year-old-sandal-in-these-bird-nests-180987443/

* "Snakes Pee Solids. Chemical Analysis Suggests Why.:" https://www.the-scientist.com/snakes-pee-solids-chemical-analysis-suggests-why-73631?

* "Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/oct/16/bird-migration-is-changing-what-does-this-reveal-about-our-planet-visualised-aoe

* "Evidence of ancient tree-climbing 'drop crocs' found in Australia:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2lpyrnjleeo?

* "How a huge dinosaur trackway was uncovered in the UK:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-5f8c77b0-92bc-40f2-bf21-6793abbe5ffe?

* "New fossils show that the ‘bizarre’ armoured dinosaur, Spicomellus afer, grew neck spikes up to a metre long:" https://www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office/press-releases/new-fossils-show-that-the--bizarre--armoured-dinosaur--spicomell.html

* "Stone tool discovery suggests very first humans were inventors :" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8zn4ln85ro

* "Signatures meant more in Mesopotamia than they do now − what cylinder seals say about ancient and modern life:" https://theconversation.com/signatures-meant-more-in-mesopotamia-than-they-do-now-what-cylinder-seals-say-about-ancient-and-modern-life-266547

* "Archaeologists Found a Hoard of Coins That Hint at an Ancient Civilization:" https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a68990168/celtic-coins-czech-republic/

* "Ancient Scythian animal-style art began with functional objects, study finds:" https://phys.org/news/2025-10-ancient-scythian-animal-style-art.html

* "Ancient Egyptian sick notes and invoices go on show:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8r2k1g043o

* "Yet More on Ancient Greek Dildos:" https://alpennia.com/blog/yet-more-ancient-greek-dildos

* "Trans History Moment You Need to Know:"

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* "Debunking Viking Soap: Horse Chestnuts or Horse Apples? (or Boiled Animal Fat):"

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* "How Did a Chinese Sword End Up on a French Crusader’s Tomb? The Secret of the d’Aluye Knight:" https://www.medievalists.net/2025/09/chinese-sword-crusaders-tomb/

* "Michaelina Wautier: the female Flemish artist now seen as an old master:" https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/sep/28/michaelina-wautier-female-flemish-artist-exhibition-vienna?

* "The 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuse :" https://theconversation.com/the-17th-century-woman-who-wrote-about-surviving-domestic-abuse-260128

* "My Favorite History Myths Debunked:"

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* "The Sexist History of Belladonna & Botox:"

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* "Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years:" https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/17/lost-js-bach-organ-compositions-performed-for-first-time-in-300-years?

* "Why Every Strawberry Traces Back to a Secret Spy Mission in 18th-Century South America:" https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/health/food-and-nutrition/why-every-strawberry-traces-back-to-a-secret-spy-mission-in-18th-century-south-america/

* "Did an Enslaved Chocolatier Help Hercules Mulligan Foil a Plot to Assassinate George Washington?:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-an-enslaved-chocolatier-help-hercules-mulligan-foil-a-plot-to-assassinate-george-washington-180987327/?

* "London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting:" https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/oct/21/london-museum-identifies-black-waterloo-veteran-in-rare-1821-painting?

* "The 1830s Device That Created the First Animations: The Phenakistiscope:" https://www.openculture.com/2025/08/the-1830s-device-that-created-the-first-animations-the-phenakistiscope.html

* "Why tradwives aren’t trad: The housewife is a Victorian invention. History shows us women’s true economic power:" https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/history/70945/why-tradwives-arent-trad

* "In 1907, This Daring Performer Walked on Water From Cincinnati to New Orleans, Covering Nearly 1,600 Miles in 40 Days:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-1907-this-daring-performer-walked-on-water-from-cincinnati-to-new-orleans-covering-nearly-1600-miles-in-40-days-180987576/

* "The Legendary Children’s Librarian of Harlem:" https://daily.jstor.org/legendary-childrens-libriarian-of-harlem/

* "5,000 Photos of Rural Life Taken by Vagabond Photographer Discovered Decades After Death:" https://mymodernmet.com/roberto-donetta-blenio-valley-swiss-photographer/

* "The First World War, in Sharp Focus:" https://archive.is/rC7vP

* "Messages in bottle written by World War I soldiers in 1916 found on Australian beach: "Absolutely stunned":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/messages-bottle-world-war-i-soldiers-found-australia-beach/

* "The Upper East Side tailor who took poetic street scene photos over six decades from his shop window:" https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/the-upper-east-side-tailor-who-took-poetic-street-scene-photos-over-six-decades-from-his-shop-window/

* "How a Harvard maverick forever changed our concept of the stars:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cecilia-payne-gaposchkin-stars?

* "Hidden in plain sight - Mumbai's glorious Art Deco legacy at 100:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2p2xp19r3o#2

* "In the early days of flight, airships were hailed as the future of war. Then disaster struck the USS Akron.:" https://magazine.atavist.com/2025/american-hindenberg-zeppelin-disaster?

* "How the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz Survived the Death Camps:" https://lithub.com/how-the-womens-orchestra-of-auschwitz-survived-the-death-camps/

* "Twist and Shout: Music, Race, and Medical Moralization:" https://nursingclio.org/2025/09/03/twist-and-shout-music-race-and-medical-moralization/

* Oooo! We had some of these! "Cereal Box Records Sound Horrible. They Still Look Incredible.:" https://archive.ph/1QJut

* "Newly Declassified Records Suggest Parents Collaborated With the FBI to Spy on Their Rebellious Teens During the 1960s:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newly-declassified-records-suggest-parents-collaborated-with-the-fbi-to-spy-on-their-rebellious-teens-during-the-1960s-180987694/

* "1970s True Crime:"

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* "Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games:" https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/oct/07/stasi-coldwargames-its-all-a-game-alliiertenmuseum-berlin

* "A new book of Edward Gorey’s drawings shows what’s lost when the artist’s sexuality is glossed over:" https://theconversation.com/a-new-book-of-edward-goreys-drawings-shows-whats-lost-when-the-artists-sexuality-is-glossed-over-257938

* "The Candy Cane Park Murder Was Almost Solved. But Then …:" https://archive.ph/02xaf

* "Pizzastroika:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/11/pizza-hut-cold-war-us-history-russia.html?

* "The End of History: Global Events 1995-1999:"

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* I got invited to a Friday Friendsgiving thing Thursday night, which was really too short notice for me. I am really struggling to recover from the Great Furniture Migration a couple weeks ago and all the sleep disruption and stress from dealing with phone and contractor things. I am still in pain and covered in bruises and I'm really struggling to do even the basics. I would have had to bake something on no real notice and I just couldn't handle it physically.

After I went to bed Friday, I also noticed my sinuses were bothering me, so now I'm playing Allergen or Pathogen, one of my least favorite guessing games, right up there with what's that smell. I did wear an mask when assorted workmen and such were here the last few weeks and I'm fully vaxxed. I keep going back and forth on cold vs. allergies. It's likely best I didn't go as it's about 50/50 on me being contagious, and that was reason enough to bow out.

I still have almost no spoons from being pushed to hard physically, so I've made no progress at all on the living room this week, beyond slowly migrating some plants inside and spreading out some others that are likely staying out there, and the usual stuff that must be done like feeding, watering, litter boxes. I am molasses slow and unsteady.

Instead, I have been chipping away at link backlogs, as y'all may have noticed.

* I'm still running the horror movie Tournament poll: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls/tagged/Horror%20Movies

* "8 LGBTQ+ films coming in 2026 that we can't wait to see :" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/gay-films-coming-in-2026#rebelltitem12

*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* CW: Suicide "These hotlines are still available for LGBTQ+ youth after Trump kills 988 services:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-youth-hotlines-still-available

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Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: The party visits the Way Station and thus sets up what may become their temporary base of operations in Paxil.
Word Count: 1583
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS

 

Chapter 402: Face of Hospitality )

 

holiday loveee

Nov. 27th, 2025 18:10
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holiday love meme 2025
my thread here
you know the drill: comment with your username (any and all social media platforms welcome!) and people will anonymously reply to your thread with bits of encouragement, well wishes, declarations of undying devotion, etc.

always have so much fun with this one!!

11/24/25 - 11/27/25

Nov. 27th, 2025 09:00
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* "Israel launches new military operation in northern West Bank:" https://archive.ph/GI8vF

* "Disputed Gaza aid distributor backed by US and Israel ends operations:" https://archive.ph/eTryv

How to Help:
Revive Gaza's farmland: https://apnature.org/en/gaza
PCRF: https://www.pcrf.net/
HEAL Palestine: https://www.healpalestine.org/
The Sameer Project: https://linktr.ee/thesameerproject
Gaza Soup Kitchen: https://gazasoupkitchen.org/

******

* "Full text of European counter-proposal to US Ukraine peace plan:" https://archive.ph/HDeNo

* "Ukraine says it hopes to finalize a peace deal as U.S. and Russia hold new talks:" https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraine-deal-zelenskyy-trump-meeting-russia-war-abu-dhabi-talks-rcna245800

* "Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump:" https://archive.ph/UN6eQ

* "Seven killed in Kyiv as Russia hits Ukraine’s energy sector with missiles and drones:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/25/russia-strikes-kyiv-ukraine-us-brokered-peace-talks-abu-dhabi
* "Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro begins 27-year prison sentence for coup attempt:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/25/brazil-president-bolsonaro-prison-sentence-coup-attempt-00669193

* "Trump appears to blurt out secret plan, not knowing it’s already a bust:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-appears-to-blurt-out-secret-plan-not-knowing-it-s-already-a-bust-2470093379507
* "A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal:" https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5575254/spacex-starshield-starlink-signal

* "X's new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/x-new-location-transparency-feature-questions-origins-maga-accounts-rcna245487

* "Consumer confidence slides as Americans grow wary of high costs and sluggish job gains:" https://apnews.com/article/consumer-confidence-economy-55848421b5ff33ed244c8a4291f7facf

* "Scott Bessent Gives Deranged Financial Advice on Beating Inflation:" https://newrepublic.com/post/203598/scott-bessent-advice-beating-inflation-red-blue-states

* "Trump Goon Stumbles Claiming Trump’s ‘I’ll Fire Your A**’ Line Was Only a Joke:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goon-stumbles-claiming-trumps-ill-fire-your-a-line-was-only-a-joke/

*** Immigration/I.C.E/Autocracy/Slow Motion Civil War/Violent Illegal Occupation of Blue Cities News ***

* "Immigrating while queer: America has a complex history of exclusion:" https://www.advocate.com/news/immigrating-queer-america

* "'Flatly false': Trump admin lied to judge about Costa Rica's willingness to accept Abrego Garcia, filing says:" https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/flatly-false-trump-admin-lied-to-judge-about-costa-ricas-willingness-to-accept-abrego-garcia-filing-says/

* "Kristi Noem made final call on deportation flights after judge ordered planes to turn back, DOJ says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/kristi-noem-deportation-flights-judge-ordered-planes-turn-back-aea-rcna245987

* "Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino, Federal Agents Repeatedly Lied About What They Did During Aggressive Immigration Raids: Judge:" https://news.wttw.com/2025/11/24/border-patrol-chief-greg-bovino-federal-agents-repeatedly-lied-about-what-they-did

* "Home Depot Hit by ‘ICE Scraper’ Protest As Dozens Line Up To Buy 17¢ Item:" https://www.newsweek.com/home-depot-ice-scraper-protest-monrovia-california-11097010

* "Minnesotans gear up to fight Trump ending Somalis’ temporary protected status:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/25/minnesota-fight-trump-somalis-tps-order

* "Charlotte activists met the immigration crackdown with ‘bless your heart’ resistance:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/activists-immigration-charlotte-north-carolina

* "ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol:" https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article313010544.html

* "Students at Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School walkout in protest of immigration enforcement:" https://abc11.com/post/ice-nc-southeast-raleigh-magnet-high-school-students-walkout-protest-immigration-enforcement/18202246/

* "‘Don’t feel safe’: McMinnville students protest ICE arrest:" https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/dont-feel-safe-mcminnville-students-protest-ice-arrest/

* "‘Detain first and ask questions later’: Oregon ICE arrests shot up in October:" https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/14/oregon-ice-arrests-shot-up-in-october-portland-detain-first-ask-questions-later/

* "'ICE Kidnapped My Neighbor' protest leads to 31 arrests outside Krome facility:" https://cbs12.com/news/local/ice-kidnapped-my-neighbor-protest-leads-to-31-arrests-outside-krome-ice-facility-miami-dade-sheriffs-office-krome-detention-faclity-wplg-sunrise-movement-november-25-2025

* "Beloved chef released after spending nearly month in ICE detention facility in Newark:" https://abc7ny.com/post/restaurant-owner-nj-released-ice-detention-facility-newark-month-being-detained/18172267/

* Here are some ways to help Immigrants and the anti-ICE Protesters:

Immigrant Defenders: https://give.immdef.org/give/545119/#!/donation/checkout
The Bail Project: https://bailproject.org/
National Bail Fund Network: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directory
Amnesty International: protect asylum-seekers: https://donate.amnestyusa.org/page/113080/donate/1
The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights: https://www.theyoungcenter.org/
CHIRLA: https://www.chirla.org/
AL Otro Lado: https://alotrolado.networkforgood.com/projects/63833-al-otro-lado-fund
Mid-South Immigration Advocates: https://miamemphis.org/
"Know Your Rights:" https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights
"Disappeared In America:" https://www.disappearedinamerica.us/

* "Thousands Rally to Demand Trump’s Impeachment:" https://washingtonian.com/2025/11/24/photos-thousands-rally-to-demand-trumps-impeachment/

* "Trump administration won't observe World AIDS Day:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trump-no-world-aids-day

* "Gobble-degook: Trump talks turkey and trashes another presidential tradition:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/25/thanksgiving-trump-turkey-tradition

* "Trump turns turkey pardon into Chicago attack:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/11/26/trump-turns-turkey-pardon-into-chicago-attack-00669501

* "Trump’s clown car Cabinet lives up to the name:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-s-clown-car-cabinet-lives-up-to-the-name-2470403651822

* "DOGE is gone, leaving behind 300,000 fired federal workers, 600,000 USAID deaths, and more:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/doge-lgbtq-impact-elon-musk

* "DOGE is no more, and in its wake, only chaos:" https://www.theverge.com/news/827390/doge-is-no-more-and-in-its-wake-only-chaos

* "Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts:" https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-strategy-group-senate-probe

* "Scouting America 'surprised and disappointed' after U.S. military threatens to cut ties:" https://www.advocate.com/news/military-boy-scouts-partnership-ended

* "How the Boy Scouts became a target of the Trump administration's wrath:" https://www.advocate.com/news/how-scouting-became-inclusive

* "Patel Under Scrutiny for Use of SWAT Teams to Protect His Girlfriend:" https://archive.ph/RHmjd

* "Will Dressing Up Fix Flying? Will It Fix Anything?:" https://archive.ph/GReDL

* "RFK Jr. and the Inexplicable Appeal of Repulsive Men:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/rfk-jr-olivia-nuzzi-cheryl-hines-attraction/

* "‘Sober’ RFK Jr. Spilled Wild Drugs Secrets, Alleged Ex-Lover Claims:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/sober-rfk-jr-spilled-wild-drugs-secrets-alleged-ex-lover-olivia-nuzzi-claims/

* "RFK Jr. says he directed CDC to remove claim that vaccines do not cause autism:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/21/rfk-jr-vaccines-autism-cdc-00665361?nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nname=playbook&nrid=1baa4a95-6674-4546-a73e-ef850be0db49

* "Why outrage is erupting over Trump plan to exclude nursing from ‘professional’ designation:" https://archive.ph/MZtRv

* "Funding cuts could cause 3.3 million additional HIV infections by 2030: report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/hiv-funding-cuts-new-infections

* "Georgia prosecutor drops election interference case against Trump, others:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/georgia-prosecutor-drops-election-interference-case-trump/story?id=127898245

* "Federal court rejects Trump Justice Department’s effort to access trans kids’ medical records:" https://www.advocate.com/news/philadelphia-trans-patient-subpoena-quashed

* "Democrats and rights groups accuse Trump's Justice Department of ignoring hate crimes:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/doj-accused-ignores-hate-crimes

**** Pretextual Indictments and the Weaponization and Corruption of the Justice System ****

* "Judge Casts Doubt Over Pam Bondi’s Justification for Appointing Lindsey Halligan:" https://www.notus.org/courts/lindsey-halligan-pam-bondi-james-comey-letitia-james

* "Comey, James cases dismissed as judge disqualifies interim US attorney Lindsey Halligan:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/24/james-comey-letitia-james-cases-lindsey-halligan-00666896

* "I Witnessed Trump's Case Against James Comey Implode in Court:"

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* "‘Highly suspicious’: Trump official hit with lawsuit alleging abuse of power against foes:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/highly-suspicious-trump-official-hit-with-lawsuit-alleging-abuse-of-power-against-foes-2470709315661

* I legitimately don't understand how referencing the Uniform Code of military Justice can be a violation of the Uniform Code of military Justice with the death penalty as punishment, as how can they conduct any Courts Marshall at all without referencing the Uniform Code of military Justice?

It seems illogical, as does the Republican claim that the Uniform Code of military Justice is inherently seditious and following or referencing it for any civilian is also a death penalty offense, but here we are.

* "FBI probes congressional Democrats who warned military about illegal orders:" https://archive.ph/dkMzl

* "Pentagon to investigate Sen. Mark Kelly for anti-Trump video:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/24/pentagon-to-investigate-sen-mark-kelly-for-anti-trump-video-00666894

* "‘It’s absurd’: Sen. Kelly bites back at Trump, Hegseth threats over ‘illegal orders’ video:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/it-s-absurd-sen-kelly-bites-back-at-trump-hegseth-threats-over-illegal-orders-video-2470067779687

* "‘Just following orders’ is no excuse: former Army JAG explains the ‘illegal order’ PSA :" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/just-following-orders-is-no-excuse-former-army-jag-explains-the-illegal-order-psa-2470414403642

**** Trump/Epstein/Maxwell, etc. CW: CSA ****

* "Justice Department renews bid to unseal Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury materials:" https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-epstein-grand-jury-transcripts-441c932c63d726167c09f3ab813f68b5
* "“Nobody Blames the Landlord. They Just Take Away the Kids.”:" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/child-welfare-housing-missouri/?

* "Trump was going to roll out a health care plan. Then Republicans weighed in.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/24/trump-health-care-subsidies-backlash-00667751

* "Following Epstein files tactic, Democrats aim to override GOP on health care vote:"

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* "How a united message of 'Tax the Rich' could make life more affordable, and win elections:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/tax-the-rich

* "Don’t STEAL Act:" https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5048?s=1&r=1

* "H.R.5106 - Restore Trust in Congress Act:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/315708.html

* "End arms sales to UAE:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/318426.html
* Our job for the next year and a half is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.

We are trying to build a good list of resistance resources.

Please add more below if you have them.


* "Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

* Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide.  https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

* If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

And another: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/

White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/

ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/

"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share

Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

"Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/

Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events

"ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/

Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/
* "Alito lets Texas reinstate gerrymandered House map that could give GOP 5 more seats:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/21/texas-supreme-court-map-case-00665951

* ACTION ITEM: Tennessee's 7th, please vote in the Special election! "Can Aftyn Behn Stun the GOP in Tennessee Next Week?:" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/aftyn-behn-interview-tennessee-special-election/

* "GOP panics as Democrat closes gap in red district special election:"

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* "Illinois Democratic candidate glitter bombs anti-LGBTQ+ Christian group:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/reed-showalter-glitterbomb-transgender-survey

* "‘Morale has never been lower’: More GOP reps reportedly plot early exits:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/morale-has-never-been-lower-more-gop-reps-reportedly-plot-early-exits-2470705219852

* "Where is bi former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema now?:" https://www.advocate.com/news/where-is-kyrsten-sinema-now

* "Here's what we know about the shooting of 2 National Guard members in D.C.:" https://www.npr.org/2025/11/27/nx-s1-5622955/national-guard-shooting-washington-dc-updates

* Trump is now using it as a pretext to send even more troops to illegally occupy D.C. instead of withdrawing them. "Trump Vows Crackdown on Immigration and Orders More Troops to D.C. After Shooting:" https://archive.ph/2E9O1

* "Florida driver arrested and accused of trying to run over LGBTQ+ running group:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/florida-driver-suspected-run-over-runners

* "'Just holding a Doritos bag': Student handcuffed after AI system mistook bag of chips for weapon:" https://www.wbaltv.com/article/student-handcuffed-ai-system-mistook-bag-chips-weapon/69114601

* "LGBTQ+ people are more likely to be stopped, arrested, and falsely accused by police: report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-police-mistreatment-report

* "Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson:" https://archive.ph/Upkof

* "Southern states ban transgender books from YA and children's sections in libraries:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/alabama-tennessee-transgender-books-libraries

* "The Uncle Sam Billboard Along I-5 Is Now Brought to You by the Chehalis Tribe:" https://www.wweek.com/news/business/2025/11/04/the-uncle-sam-billboard-along-i-5-is-now-brought-to-you-by-the-chehalis-tribe/

* "Sean Sherman - "Turtle Island" & Fighting Native American Erasure With Food | The Daily Show:"

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* "He Died at a School for Disabled People. Decades Later, His Brother Sought Answers.:" https://archive.ph/p0TI2

* "When the Headline Gets It Wrong: Feminism Isn’t the Problem—Patriarchy Is:" https://msmagazine.com/2025/11/08/conservative-feminism-new-york-times-headline-liberal-feminism-ruin-workplace/

* "Rigid gender roles are prompting women to leave rural Japan:" https://www.npr.org/2025/11/03/g-s1-95310/japan-population-decline-gender-inequality

* "North Dakota's top court revives state's abortion ban:" https://archive.ph/k4OBd

* "6th Circuit Rules Cis Students May Bully Trans Students By Repeatedly Misgendering Them:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/6th-circuit-rules-cis-students-may

* "How community 'goodwill' helped open a new shelter for LGBTQ+ young adults in Harlem:" https://www.advocate.com/news/ali-forney-center-shelter-harlem

* "How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland:" https://www.propublica.org/article/methodology-bird-flu-outbreak-ohio-indiana

* "mRNA Covid shots may boost the effects of certain cancer treatments, study suggests:" https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/19/mrna-covid-shots-boost-cancer-immunotherapy-lung-cancer-melanoma/

* "Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation:" https://archive.is/xJgda#selection-1496.0-1496.1

* From here down, many items are older.

* "Does the news reflect what we die from?:" https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from

* "Scientists make embryos from human skin DNA for first time:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2vyee0zlo

* "Blood Money: My experience as a plasma donor hasn’t been what I expected.:" https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/donate-plasma-gig-work-grad-school.html

* "How the Brain Moves From Waking Life to Sleep (and Back Again):" https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-moves-from-waking-life-to-sleep-and-back-again-20251017/

* "The Kid Is All Right: In Defense of Picky Eating:" https://www.seriouseats.com/the-kid-is-all-right-in-defense-of-picky-eating-11832437

* "There’s Now a Casino in Everyone’s Pocket. For Some Young Men, It’s a Near-Fatal Gamble:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/mobile-sports-betting-gambling-addiction-fanduel-draftkings-1235444172/

* CW: Suicide. "The Business of Killing: Newly Released Data Reveals Air Force Suicide Crisis After Years of Concealment:" https://theintercept.com/2025/10/27/air-force-suicide-deaths-maintainers/

* "‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/08/heroic-actions-natural-tendency-bystander-apathy-myth


* "For the first time in 40 Years, Panama's deep and cold ocean waters fail to emerge:" https://phys.org/news/2025-09-years-panama-deep-cold-ocean.html

* "There’s A Reason I Say “Climate Change and Environmental Collapse”:" https://www.ianwelsh.net/theres-a-reason-i-say-climate-change-and-environmental-issues/

* "The pivot:" https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/10/the-pivot-1.html

* "5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you:" https://theconversation.com/5-forecasts-early-climate-models-got-right-the-evidence-is-all-around-you-263248

* "Wildfires are getting deadlier and costing more. Experts warn they’re becoming unstoppable:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/02/earths-wildfires-growing-in-number

* "The Hidden Devastation of Hurricanes:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-hidden-devastation-of-hurricanes

* "On North Carolina’s rivers and streams, the cleanup of Helene’s fury seems never-ending:" https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-helene-north-carolina-rivers-damage-cleanup-787332a031e07de813b005505505ec24

* "Beneath Your Feet: Sinkholes cost almost as much as tornadoes in annual damage. The problem is only going to get worse.:" https://slate.com/business/2025/10/sinkholes-dangerous-new-jersey-florida-roads.html
* "The Federal Farm Policy Trap: Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive:" https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-farming-soy-corn-flooding-subsidies-insurance

* "It's harder to get home insurance. That's changing communities across the U.S.:" https://www.npr.org/2025/11/12/nx-s1-5546754/climate-home-insurance-cop30-prices-expensive-disasters?

* "Why this one area of cities is usually the poorest:" https://archive.ph/QJMdW#selection-288.0-288.1

* "They help preserve America’s dominance in the Pacific. They’re paying a painful price:" https://www.reuters.com/investigations/they-help-preserve-americas-dominance-pacific-theyre-paying-painful-price-2025-09-24/

* "A Tower on Billionaires’ Row Is Full of Cracks. Who’s to Blame?:" https://archive.is/20251019112709/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/nyregion/432-park-avenue-condo-tower.html#selection-720.0-720.1

* "Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/07/indian-factory-workers-fast-fashion-recycling-panipat-discarded-clothing

* "'I had no idea it would snowball this far': Why a Brazilian favela facing eviction decided to go green:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250821-why-a-brazilian-favela-facing-eviction-went-green-with-gardening

* "How Japanese 'tiny forests' are sweeping Scotland:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250910-the-tiny-forests-that-thrive-in-cities

* "A guerrilla gardener installed a pop-up wetland in the LA River. Here's how — and why:" https://www.npr.org/2025/11/17/nx-s1-5589228/garden-environment-restoration-ecology-la-river-guerrilla

* "Closely sown corn plants communicate to defend themselves:" https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-08-24/closely-sown-corn-plants-communicate-to-defend-themselves.html

* "Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-renewable-wind-solar-coal-electricity-demand-abf7b587b038bf7580de1baee6576bbc?

* "World’s largest sand battery switches on in huge boost to clean energy:" https://www.the-independent.com/tech/sand-battery-renewable-energy-finland-b2818348.html

* "Why Are Train Tracks Built on Rocks?:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/transportation/trains/why-train-tracks-are-built-on-rocks?

* "Why Popcorn Ceilings Used to Be So Popular—and Why They Vanished:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/culture/design/why-were-popcorn-ceilings-popular?

* "In a Skyscraper City, They Fix Cobblestone Streets by Hand:" https://archive.ph/UJvUk

* "He crossed 26 miles in a kayak made from mushrooms – and lived to tell the tale:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/07/mushroom-kayak-plastic-alternative?

* "Jet engine shortages threaten AI data center expansion as wait times stretch into 2030 — the rush to power AI buildout continues:" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/turbine-shortage-threatens-ai-datacenters-as-wait-times-stretch-into-2030

* "AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring:" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/

* "DRAM prices skyrocket 171% year-over-year, outpacing the rate of gold price increases — AI demand drives massive price hikes as shortage takes hold:" https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/dram-prices-surge-171-percent-year-over-year-ai-demand-drives-a-higher-yoy-price-increase-than-gold

* "Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/bombshell-report-exposes-how-meta-relied-on-scam-ad-profits-to-fund-ai/

* "Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books:" https://www.404media.co/librarians-are-being-asked-to-find-ai-hallucinated-books/

* "Libby’s library app adds an AI discovery feature, and not everyone is thrilled:" https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/libbys-library-app-adds-an-ai-discovery-feature-and-not-everyone-is-thrilled/

* "Dad Baffled When 6-Year-Old Daughter Turns Off AI Function on High Tech Doll and Plays With It Like Regular Toy:" https://futurism.com/dad-daughter-ai-toy

* "‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy:" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/16/i-love-you-too-my-familys-creepy-unsettling-week-with-an-ai-toy

* "OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws:" https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html

* "A Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test Subject:" https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a-review-of-grokipedia-using-myself-as-test-subject/

* "UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’:" https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/university-breaking-school-of-ai-20251009

* "Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents:" https://arxiv.org/html/2502.15840v1

* "20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me:" https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/2025/10/27/20-ways-ai-has-created-more-work-for-me/

* "OpenAI stops 'disrespectful' Martin Luther King Jr deepfakes:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y0g79xevxo

* "Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission:" https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-created-flirty-chatbots-taylor-swift-other-celebrities-without-permission-2025-08-29/

* "First-of-its-kind Stanford study says AI is starting to have a ‘significant and disproportionate impact’ on entry-level workers in the U.S.:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/first-kind-stanford-study-says-154521204.html?guccounter=2

* "YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission

* CW: Suicide. "ChatGPT affirmed Greenwich man's fears about his mom before murder-suicide, YouTube videos show:" https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/chatgpt-greenwich-ct-murder-stein-erik-soelberg-21022277.php

* "We set out to craft the perfect phishing scam.: Major AI chatbots were happy to help. :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ai-chatbots-cyber/?

* "Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors’ AI Lawsuit: “Largest Publicly Reported Copyright Recovery In History”:" https://deadline.com/2025/09/anthropic-ai-lawsuit-settlement-1-5-billion-1236509423/

* "Microsoft’s Copilot AI is now inside Samsung TVs and monitors:" https://www.theverge.com/news/767078/microsoft-samsung-tv-copilot-ai-assistant-launch

* "‘We were forced to burn bodies’: will survivors of the Tadamon massacres see justice?:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/nov/13/survivors-tadamon-massacres-justice-syria

* Gay Hollywood and art house star Udo Kier dies at 81:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/udo-kier-gay-dead

* Ongoing Phone Saga, Monday: It is a holiday here Thursday, so the electrical inspection is a real issue and we missed three already. They are jammed because holiday. If I don't get inspected, the contractors don't get paid by the city. The inspector said it was unlikely, but he'd try to squeeze me in so I had to be dressed at 9AM and hope he knocked really loud because I couldn't just never sleep. Service tech window is 4-6. Inspector came 3:45ish and inspected. I heard something on the inner door a little after four, but no one was there. I even yelled hello very loudly. No one was there. Dispatch at 6:15ish claimed it was them.

I had even posted a note illegally where the the tech could see if they went to the front door with a little map on it showing how to get to my door. I'm going to move my "We are home Knock Louder" sign from patio to inner door, as the inner door is really hard to hear even when one is standing in the kitchen unless someone pounds it.

So I need to be up and dressed for a supposed 3-6 appointment Tuesday and hope the tech reads the note on the account and/or the notes I put up in defiance of management.

Oh, so this not knowing when they are coming thing also means I can't leave my apartment even to check mail between 8 and 6 every day just in case.

* My belief that the phone was nothing we could fix was correct. Problem required some sort of manual switching at their end, which they could have done at any time in the last week if they'd wanted to. It took the in my home technician most of an hour to convince advanced tech serve at home office to get off their ass and do the five minute fix instead of just repeating things we already knew didn't work. In home tech: I can see why you were so frustrated.

We then had a couple hours of internet instability that also meant my emergency thingie kept calling for help every time we got back on line.

In other news, papers are now signed and the city is releasing funds to contractors. Odds are the poor bastards will finally get their money tomorrow.

Livia hates All of It.

* I'm still running the horror movie Tournament poll: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls/tagged/Horror%20Movies

* This is so good. "DÛ BIST MÎN ICH BIN DÎN – Medieval Coming of Age Short Film (English & German Subs):"

Embed: )

* "A Spooky Night in a New Country:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2nlhgluk_Q8

I still feel bad about a family of Vietnamese refugees we accidentally alarmed this way in the early '70's.

* "11 modern horror books that should be turned into prestige TV:" https://winteriscoming.net/11-modern-horror-books-that-should-be-turned-into-prestige-tv

*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* CW: Suicide "These hotlines are still available for LGBTQ+ youth after Trump kills 988 services:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-youth-hotlines-still-available

More )

Pitiful Party

Dec. 1st, 2025 13:52
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Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Iron Man Crossover (Self-Made Hero), dialogue-fic
Summary: faster to read
Word Count: 15
Rating: Teen

        “Is this a pity date?”
        “If it is, the bell tolls for me, not thee.”

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Pinch hits are participants who are without creators; pinch hitting is the practice of volunteering to make a gift for a pinch hit. These pinch hits are all due on December 5th at 10:00 PM EST.

Fic In A Box has a very unusual set of assignment requirements: everyone is owed (and is asking for) 10k of fanfiction, which by default can be given as one 10k+ fic or several 1k+ fics. Participants have also had the option to opt-in to other minimum lengths or to other formats of fanwork. The other fanwork mediums are given word count equivalents, which you can view on the medium ruleset post.

Additionally:

  • Fic In A Box creators may default after partially filling their assignment—say, if they discover that they can only write 9k of fic—and PHs can be picked up in 1k increments!
  • You may always swap all or part of your assignment for a PH, just let us know that's what you're doing when you post to claim the PH.

In order to pick up a pinch hit you need to either email us or comment on this post (comments are screened) with:

  • The amount of wordcount you would like to claim (even if you're going to do fanart or some other non-fic opt-in medium! If you aren't sure what the equivalent would be, we'd be happy to help you convert it!)
  • The exact username of the AO3 account you will be posting your fill(s) from (if you post from a different account from the one you give us, we won't be able to count the PH as filled unless you update us!)
  • An email where we can reach you (you might not be getting the AO3 assignment when you pick up a PH, so we need to know where to send the assignment!)

PH 12 - CLAIMED - 鹿鼎記 - 金庸 | The Deer and the Cauldron - Louis Cha, 鹿鼎記 | The Duke of Mount Deer (Hong Kong 1984), 老洞 | The Old Miao Myth (TV), 神鵰俠侶 | The Return of the Condor Heroes (TV 1983) )

PH 101 - CLAIMED - 少年歌行 | The Blood of Youth (Live Action TV), 少年白马醉春风 | Dashing Youth (Live Action TV), Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko's Basketball )

PH 129 - CLAIMED - 괴담에 떨어져도 출근을 해야 하는구나 - 백덕수 | Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story I Still Have to Go to Work - Baek Deoksoo, 내가 키운 S급들 - 근서 | S-Classes that I Raised - Geunseo, 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong (Novel), Omniscient Reader - singNsong & UMI & Sleepy-C (Webtoon), 내가 키운 S급들 | The S-Classes That I Raised (Webcomic) )

PH 134 - CLAIMED - InuYasha - A Feudal Fairy Tale, Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey, Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) )

PH 138 - CLAIMED - Given (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), Given (Manga), Wind Breaker (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga) )

1 Week Delay To December 6th

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One Week Delay!

The reveals date is being delayed one week to December 6th at 10 PM EST (countdown) to allow time for pinch hits to be finished! Updates on the posted schedules and a new PH post will be put up shortly!

All currently assigned pinch hits have been updated to a due date of November 28th at 10 PM EST unless they were already due that day. You may ask for an additional extension to December 3rd!

Pinch Hits picked up from this point will have a due date of December 5th at 10 PM EST.

If at any point you don't believe you can complete a PH, please default immediately. If you do end up being able to complete the PH you can always pick it back up later!

If you're looking for people to treat, don't forget to check the comments of the pinch hitter post (link)! These are pinch hitters who aren't signed up to the exchange, and it would be lovely if some (or all!) of them got treats!

promo :3

Nov. 26th, 2025 16:43
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[personal profile] elasticella is hosting sapphic stocking stuffers 2025...


Just wanted to promo this one because it's so fun and I really enjoyed it last year ^.^ Here's my stocking ;-)

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