me, who has spent the last two months reading the collected works of Tolkien:

On Kepler-22B, a telescope pointing back at me.

Within the dogs?

For washing clothes, remarkably little soap is needed to clean ordinary soiling. Washing machines are very efficient. Using too much, besides simply being a waste, can accelerate the degradation of some fabrics, shortening the life of your clothes, and on the extreme end it results in overproduction of suds. Most washing machines from the last 30ish years will detect this and stop their cycle until the suds have died down, so it also wastes time.

The working draft of the Republican Party's HHS funding bill for next year includes a stipulation to withhold federal funding from any recipient that provides HRT.

For the last few years, the GOP has coalesced around an idea that would short-circuit essentially all trans health care in America: banning federal funds from going to businesses that provide health care specific to changing one’s sex or gender identity, including hormones and surgeries. It would essentially signal to the private sector that if it wants federal dollars, it needs to stay away from sex- or gender-affirming care, and bow down to right-wing pundits who aim to, in their own words, “eradicate” and “erase” this form of health care.

Language in House Republicans’ most recent funding bill for the Health and Human Services Department would do just that — ban money from any federal program to entities that do “social transitioning” or drugs and surgery for “gender dysphoria.” Gender dysphoria is the specific diagnosis doctors use to justify those medical interventions. This legislation has not gotten a vote yet and would need to be reintroduced next Congress to be considered. But it has been a top priority for Republican lawmakers in the House, and Trump himself has promised he’d ask Congress “to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these [trans] procedures.” (You can hear all his promises on trans health care in this short campaign video.)

Bans like these can lead to the private sector discontinuing behaviors altogether — and once they are in place, they are hard to get rid of: The Hyde Amendment, enacted in the 1970s, led to most abortions no longer being performed in hospitals, and is continually renewed each year.

Medical groups and civil rights advocates in D.C. tell Rolling Stone they believe that if a Hyde-level ban on federal funding were enacted, many hospitals will simply prioritize federal dollars over continuing this highly specialized form of medical care. So much medicine is performed through hospital systems and universities that this could mean ending access for many.

Given the Democratic Party leapt at the chance to scapegoat transgender people for all their own failures in the election, I think it would take a miracle to prevent this from going into law. It will immediately put large health institutions in certain states between a rock and hard place, as local legislation requires them to offer these services, which will likely lead to appeals, but as it stands I doubt they will make even a token effort to get this language out of the bill, and it will make HRT completely legally inaccessible for anyone who can't afford private practice virtually overnight. This article's author, Jael Holzman, is the guest on this week's Chapo, you can hear the story in her own words there.

Would you believe he got kicked out of school and had to leave the country to avoid being investigated after this?

Per MSNBC by way of Reuters, backpack possibly belonging to shooter found in central park containing "Monopoly money"

A backpack resembling the one worn by the suspect has been recovered near a playground in Central Park, according to media reports. MSNBC said on Saturday that police examining the bag and its contents found a jacket and Monopoly money, but no firearm.

The CIA Stare.

I have one and it's filled entirely with DRM-free ebooks, works like a dream, wouldn't change a thing, keeps me reading every day, get one.

We disavow.

You don't have to "go way back", native americans still exist, and to wave away the colonial nature of the US displays a dangerous ignorance of the subject on which you speak.

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Perhaps this is what it takes to get people to Play Another Game.

doxxing myself here but that is the old coffee room at Powell's Books in downtown Portland, before the remodel. It's an enormous multistory bookstore that takes up a whole city block and people do sometimes treat it like a library.

Takahashi...!

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it's actually Debian, The Operating System For Lesbians.

thankfully the power stayed on here in the city proper. as usual, i took any excuse to light every candle in my apartment.

no "congressional representative" will ever represent you when your very nature is incompatable with the foundational myths of the empire. never be fooled and never give up any part of yourself for their false acceptance.

Bifurcated penis.

If these are my options I choose celibacy.