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To begin - Reparations.me, where persons who have been systematically oppressed can request reparations and those who have been privileged can make them.
A resource that will airlift support to, for example, explain why tags like #AllLivesMatter are wrong to use, so that someone doesn't have to spend their time explaining yet again.
Your public library needs to not be neutral on issues like Black Lives Matter. (Look, black science fiction writers!) Or, for that matter, on things like the abysmal treatment of Native culture in Pottermore. It's a very colonial narrative.
(Here's some help in at least getting the setting of the school right.)
Things to consider when confronted with the mass of information available on any given topic.
Now that one can personalize the data one collects through technological means, how do you ensure that factual, accurate information gets through? And what role do journalism and news outlets play in the creation and dissemination of truth?
If I say it enough times, perhaps I will believe it enough. Bad friends do not need to stay in our lives, when there are plenty of good friends that can be there for us. Occasionally, exit is the correct and only option. Self-care is not mere positivity and cheer. Gaslighting exists, and it plays fucking hell with your perception of reality. Admitting you need help often brings help. Not everyone deserves a full explanation, if they get one at all. Consent still matters, both ways.
The most difficult part of engaging in a fundamentally screwed up world is remembering to keep space for yourself to recharge and shed the darkness that collects on you. There's ways to try and cope with the flood.
Women suffer injuries from childbirth, and don't usually get them diagnosed and fixed because, well, women's health and all the things that get tangled up in that. At least the SCOTUS called bullshit on Texas's abortion restrictions that they claimed were for women's health.
People with disabilities may find alternative products to tampons more flexible and useful to themselves for controlling menstruation.
The stories we tell affect how we think about things, so much so that people who would never consider reading someone else have few qualms about assaulting people sexually. We need better stories for men. We need better stories for people of color.
The Dead Pool claims Jerry Doyle, known best for his role as Michael Garibaldi on Babylon 5, at 60 years of age. There are far too few of that cast still with us.
75 years of Wonder Woman, who continues to persist and will remain a strong icon in the years to come.
The Killing Joke did not create Oracle, Suicide Squad did, and to claim otherwise is to not give credit to those responsible. now if we could expand the ways that chair users get into stories, that would be great.
Spidey-Zine, showing what Peter Parker does when being a hero outside of the supervillain battles.
Comics for those who want no flying and no tights.
One does not succeed in spite of a disability if the thing that one succeeds at is well-suited to a person with that disability.
Accessibility, not accommodation. Which often means modifying your own speech to make it more accessible to others. And really thinking about how accessible your spaces really are.
If you don't see the anxiety brainweasels, if doesn't mean they aren't there. Some of us just get really good at working in spite of them.
Habits that may be helpful in building feelings that you can hack it in life.
Despite the faddish nature of it, the Ice Bucket Challenge seems to have done lots of good, even long after the buckets stopped dropping.
STIs are on the rise in the United Kingdom over the last four years, alarming health campaigners.
New York City libraries once had live-in superintendents keeping the place maintained and running.
Politically, the party of conformity is always going to want counterculture to adopt and pretend is their own. And then, the counterculture usually objects strenuously to being co-opted in such a way. Usually in all the venues that the matter is happening at.
Mr. Scalzi sums up cogent thoughts about Brexit and its consequences. It's not like the reasons why not to do it weren't already well-known. There's one thing still in the way that could be used to kill the process - if nobody actually makes a notification, then it doesn't happen. If what happened on the first day after is any indication, it's going to be a rough ride.
Sales and democracy are not as separated as you might think. Identity is incredibly important - Jewishness is a history of persecution, whereas "Judeo-Christian" is heavy on the Christians that do the persecuting.
The destruction wrought by a world at war must be remembered, or else it will become more likely to happen again.
Pineapple jokes are dangerous in Madagascar, and color is a protest weapon in Macedonia.
Syrian refugees in Canada pitch in to help with the wildfires around their home. Because treating refugees with dignity and respect earns their respect and willingness to help.
I'm behind, but poets featured in Lemonade deserve a mention, as does the apparent accusations contained within and their context. Decide for yourself, with the libretto of the album, and then indulge in the commentary created by the album.
Seeing people like yourself on stage is an empowering thing. Seeing a festival devoted to people like you is incredibly empowering. Seeing people write you in a book is devoutly empowering. Seeing authors understand what stories need to be written is inspiring.
Writing fanfiction requires knowing a character well enough to know how they would change to a new situation and rules, which means good writing skills, not just indulging yourself in silly things.
The Toast has closed, removing a site that celebrated uniqueness. Like navigating parenthood when not in a mom or dad role, the difficulties of being a writer seen to represent an entire ethnic group, and the extra benefits of getting stronger. It was also a place that celebrated women.
Mr. Rod Serling talks about the pressures of being a television writer when the studio and the advertisers have their own opinions of the writing. Ms. Suki Kim talks about having her investigative work reclassed as a memoir, and the attendant dismissal of her that followed.
Fiction about the information professional that manages to land themselves a job with Leverage. Art about Wolverine attempting to buy eggs. Fiction about the woman who makes bees, free will, and mansplaining.
Using spray paint on a flat surface to create ripples of color and dimensionality. Using the canvas of buildings to build realistic works of art. Using the canvas of the body to build something very, very creepy. Fannish expression rewarded. Carnival atmospheres. The best pictures from someone whose job it is to make iconic pictures. A suggestion on why so many nail salons age stated by people of Vietnamese descent. Civic murals putting art in the eyes of Montreal residents. Rob Gonsalves makes Escher-like illusions. Cassini took great pictures of Saturn, its moons, and Jupiter. Pictures of young Native American women. Pictures of New York City's Pride parades.
The understanding that creativity cannot be always-on.
The third season of the television show Fringe was the best of its five. Four and five were not as good.
In technology, the movie created by feeding a learning intelligence a lot of science fiction screenplays and seeing what it could create.
Some typefaces are easier to read than others. Some languages are easier than others. A historical thesaurus to help you find new ways of expressing yourself.
The use of cognitive-enhancing drugs in work and school carries ethics questions with it that have yet to be fully worked out. Environments have power to shape success and failure. They can also be used as methods of controlling populations.
Finding family in all the children conceived from a single sperm donor.
Air bags created by the Takata corporation are under recall for deploying themselves without a crash.
Philae, who landed on a comet, is going into deep sleep mode until the final phase of his mission.
A visualization of the air traffic network,
a chemistry set that is patterned after a tea set, scaling the minifig up to human sizes, a dirigible repair robot, the possibility that solar and lunar gravity pull causes more than just tides, using volcanic lightning to predict the amount of ash that will be spewed during any given eruption, the official Nintendo Entertainment System emulator, using public domain photos to create a Street View of 1800s New York City, using sheep to create a Street View map, a truly portable low-power air conditioner, an open-source loom, music as a cultural product rather than a universal anything, the mixed martial arts of the Victorian scene, the reasons why simulcasts might drive those that when on them to stress relief, why localization always takes so long, an app that will help interpret laundry symbols, injectable cameras, attempts to make pizza a fast food item, the reasons why movie lava death scenes are wrong, a rather beautiful music box that can be interacted with to change the parts of the tune being played, a prediction that video will be the majority of social media, the ways in which sexism held back space exploration, because the computers were women, the resonances of the Caribbean Sea, cancerous cells that can infect multiple species, bacteria in the human gut that use brain chemicals to thrive, the artifice behind wedding photographs, fun playgrounds, the history of data visualizations, free typefaces, and the trap of using technology as shorthand for something else.
A creation myth that acknowledges our selfishness and biological urges and yet allows us to build great things from them.
Looks of affection from dogs, cats using their gifts properly, cats caught during downtime, animals in a predicament, comparing vision of cats and humans, an orangutan that can mimic human sounds, the coo of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, more evidence on the evolutionary chain that links dinosaurs and birds, foods for cats to avoid, signs of cat illnesses, more humane methods of factory-raising chickens, Arctic fox dens as environmental assistance, the effects of invasive hippos, and repopulating butterfly populations in your backyard.
Last for tonight, more pizza styles of the United States.
The adult size catbus is ready for those who want to travel. Which will go well with the other Ghibli exhibition. And the animated sorry of the oldest known manga.
And the Mertz Library inside the city of New York and the Bronx Zoo Bug Carousel.
Insult generator.
A resource that will airlift support to, for example, explain why tags like #AllLivesMatter are wrong to use, so that someone doesn't have to spend their time explaining yet again.
Your public library needs to not be neutral on issues like Black Lives Matter. (Look, black science fiction writers!) Or, for that matter, on things like the abysmal treatment of Native culture in Pottermore. It's a very colonial narrative.
(Here's some help in at least getting the setting of the school right.)
Things to consider when confronted with the mass of information available on any given topic.
Now that one can personalize the data one collects through technological means, how do you ensure that factual, accurate information gets through? And what role do journalism and news outlets play in the creation and dissemination of truth?
If I say it enough times, perhaps I will believe it enough. Bad friends do not need to stay in our lives, when there are plenty of good friends that can be there for us. Occasionally, exit is the correct and only option. Self-care is not mere positivity and cheer. Gaslighting exists, and it plays fucking hell with your perception of reality. Admitting you need help often brings help. Not everyone deserves a full explanation, if they get one at all. Consent still matters, both ways.
The most difficult part of engaging in a fundamentally screwed up world is remembering to keep space for yourself to recharge and shed the darkness that collects on you. There's ways to try and cope with the flood.
Women suffer injuries from childbirth, and don't usually get them diagnosed and fixed because, well, women's health and all the things that get tangled up in that. At least the SCOTUS called bullshit on Texas's abortion restrictions that they claimed were for women's health.
People with disabilities may find alternative products to tampons more flexible and useful to themselves for controlling menstruation.
The stories we tell affect how we think about things, so much so that people who would never consider reading someone else have few qualms about assaulting people sexually. We need better stories for men. We need better stories for people of color.
The Dead Pool claims Jerry Doyle, known best for his role as Michael Garibaldi on Babylon 5, at 60 years of age. There are far too few of that cast still with us.
75 years of Wonder Woman, who continues to persist and will remain a strong icon in the years to come.
The Killing Joke did not create Oracle, Suicide Squad did, and to claim otherwise is to not give credit to those responsible. now if we could expand the ways that chair users get into stories, that would be great.
Spidey-Zine, showing what Peter Parker does when being a hero outside of the supervillain battles.
Comics for those who want no flying and no tights.
One does not succeed in spite of a disability if the thing that one succeeds at is well-suited to a person with that disability.
Accessibility, not accommodation. Which often means modifying your own speech to make it more accessible to others. And really thinking about how accessible your spaces really are.
If you don't see the anxiety brainweasels, if doesn't mean they aren't there. Some of us just get really good at working in spite of them.
Habits that may be helpful in building feelings that you can hack it in life.
Despite the faddish nature of it, the Ice Bucket Challenge seems to have done lots of good, even long after the buckets stopped dropping.
STIs are on the rise in the United Kingdom over the last four years, alarming health campaigners.
New York City libraries once had live-in superintendents keeping the place maintained and running.
Politically, the party of conformity is always going to want counterculture to adopt and pretend is their own. And then, the counterculture usually objects strenuously to being co-opted in such a way. Usually in all the venues that the matter is happening at.
Mr. Scalzi sums up cogent thoughts about Brexit and its consequences. It's not like the reasons why not to do it weren't already well-known. There's one thing still in the way that could be used to kill the process - if nobody actually makes a notification, then it doesn't happen. If what happened on the first day after is any indication, it's going to be a rough ride.
Sales and democracy are not as separated as you might think. Identity is incredibly important - Jewishness is a history of persecution, whereas "Judeo-Christian" is heavy on the Christians that do the persecuting.
The destruction wrought by a world at war must be remembered, or else it will become more likely to happen again.
Pineapple jokes are dangerous in Madagascar, and color is a protest weapon in Macedonia.
Syrian refugees in Canada pitch in to help with the wildfires around their home. Because treating refugees with dignity and respect earns their respect and willingness to help.
I'm behind, but poets featured in Lemonade deserve a mention, as does the apparent accusations contained within and their context. Decide for yourself, with the libretto of the album, and then indulge in the commentary created by the album.
Seeing people like yourself on stage is an empowering thing. Seeing a festival devoted to people like you is incredibly empowering. Seeing people write you in a book is devoutly empowering. Seeing authors understand what stories need to be written is inspiring.
Writing fanfiction requires knowing a character well enough to know how they would change to a new situation and rules, which means good writing skills, not just indulging yourself in silly things.
The Toast has closed, removing a site that celebrated uniqueness. Like navigating parenthood when not in a mom or dad role, the difficulties of being a writer seen to represent an entire ethnic group, and the extra benefits of getting stronger. It was also a place that celebrated women.
Mr. Rod Serling talks about the pressures of being a television writer when the studio and the advertisers have their own opinions of the writing. Ms. Suki Kim talks about having her investigative work reclassed as a memoir, and the attendant dismissal of her that followed.
Fiction about the information professional that manages to land themselves a job with Leverage. Art about Wolverine attempting to buy eggs. Fiction about the woman who makes bees, free will, and mansplaining.
Using spray paint on a flat surface to create ripples of color and dimensionality. Using the canvas of buildings to build realistic works of art. Using the canvas of the body to build something very, very creepy. Fannish expression rewarded. Carnival atmospheres. The best pictures from someone whose job it is to make iconic pictures. A suggestion on why so many nail salons age stated by people of Vietnamese descent. Civic murals putting art in the eyes of Montreal residents. Rob Gonsalves makes Escher-like illusions. Cassini took great pictures of Saturn, its moons, and Jupiter. Pictures of young Native American women. Pictures of New York City's Pride parades.
The understanding that creativity cannot be always-on.
The third season of the television show Fringe was the best of its five. Four and five were not as good.
In technology, the movie created by feeding a learning intelligence a lot of science fiction screenplays and seeing what it could create.
Some typefaces are easier to read than others. Some languages are easier than others. A historical thesaurus to help you find new ways of expressing yourself.
The use of cognitive-enhancing drugs in work and school carries ethics questions with it that have yet to be fully worked out. Environments have power to shape success and failure. They can also be used as methods of controlling populations.
Finding family in all the children conceived from a single sperm donor.
Air bags created by the Takata corporation are under recall for deploying themselves without a crash.
Philae, who landed on a comet, is going into deep sleep mode until the final phase of his mission.
A visualization of the air traffic network,
a chemistry set that is patterned after a tea set, scaling the minifig up to human sizes, a dirigible repair robot, the possibility that solar and lunar gravity pull causes more than just tides, using volcanic lightning to predict the amount of ash that will be spewed during any given eruption, the official Nintendo Entertainment System emulator, using public domain photos to create a Street View of 1800s New York City, using sheep to create a Street View map, a truly portable low-power air conditioner, an open-source loom, music as a cultural product rather than a universal anything, the mixed martial arts of the Victorian scene, the reasons why simulcasts might drive those that when on them to stress relief, why localization always takes so long, an app that will help interpret laundry symbols, injectable cameras, attempts to make pizza a fast food item, the reasons why movie lava death scenes are wrong, a rather beautiful music box that can be interacted with to change the parts of the tune being played, a prediction that video will be the majority of social media, the ways in which sexism held back space exploration, because the computers were women, the resonances of the Caribbean Sea, cancerous cells that can infect multiple species, bacteria in the human gut that use brain chemicals to thrive, the artifice behind wedding photographs, fun playgrounds, the history of data visualizations, free typefaces, and the trap of using technology as shorthand for something else.
A creation myth that acknowledges our selfishness and biological urges and yet allows us to build great things from them.
Looks of affection from dogs, cats using their gifts properly, cats caught during downtime, animals in a predicament, comparing vision of cats and humans, an orangutan that can mimic human sounds, the coo of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, more evidence on the evolutionary chain that links dinosaurs and birds, foods for cats to avoid, signs of cat illnesses, more humane methods of factory-raising chickens, Arctic fox dens as environmental assistance, the effects of invasive hippos, and repopulating butterfly populations in your backyard.
Last for tonight, more pizza styles of the United States.
The adult size catbus is ready for those who want to travel. Which will go well with the other Ghibli exhibition. And the animated sorry of the oldest known manga.
And the Mertz Library inside the city of New York and the Bronx Zoo Bug Carousel.
Insult generator.
