Let's begin with Heard, Half-Heard, in the Stillness, a story about lights in the sky and the festival of lights called Diwali. There is also an audio version of the story as well from Escape Pod.
As major holidays of the Western tradition approach, a reminder that you get to choose how, or if, to celebrate, which means you get to select the things you like, or to say no to the people that you don't want to be around.
( Several More Things, Not All Of Them Nice, Inside )
Last for tonight, an advertisement for a voting rights and protection bill in the United States Senate, in the style of an erectile dysfunction medication advertisement. [YouTube] Starring people you might recognize from television and movies. It's a very well done advertisement, even if there's a certain amount of despair about how USPol is rapidly devolving into "one party rules, the other party can't because they're too invested in playing by rules that are being used to deliberately prevent them from ruling." and soon enough, the one party that chooses to play by authoritarian tactics and ideas will engineer a way of giving themselves a permanent majority, even if they maintain the fiction of there being two viable parties.
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cmcmck, cosmolinguist, jadelennox, lilysea, oursin, owlmoose, rydra_wong, sonia, thewayne, and anyone else that's I've neglected to mention. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
As major holidays of the Western tradition approach, a reminder that you get to choose how, or if, to celebrate, which means you get to select the things you like, or to say no to the people that you don't want to be around.
( Several More Things, Not All Of Them Nice, Inside )
Last for tonight, an advertisement for a voting rights and protection bill in the United States Senate, in the style of an erectile dysfunction medication advertisement. [YouTube] Starring people you might recognize from television and movies. It's a very well done advertisement, even if there's a certain amount of despair about how USPol is rapidly devolving into "one party rules, the other party can't because they're too invested in playing by rules that are being used to deliberately prevent them from ruling." and soon enough, the one party that chooses to play by authoritarian tactics and ideas will engineer a way of giving themselves a permanent majority, even if they maintain the fiction of there being two viable parties.
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cmcmck, cosmolinguist, jadelennox, lilysea, oursin, owlmoose, rydra_wong, sonia, thewayne, and anyone else that's I've neglected to mention. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
