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To those coming over from Failbook from the Great Account Suspension of 2022, I have an explanation over here.
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Never forgotten.

Honor your dead; Praise the fallen warriors who fight and die for what you hold most dear and precious.

But also honor the living, those who went to fight as boys and girls, and came back men and women... if at all.

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Mississippi Personhood Amendment (signal boost)

Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media.

Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status.

Putting aside the contentious issue of abortion, this would effectively outlaw birth control and criminalize women who have miscarriages. This is not a good thing.

Jackson Women's Health Organization is the only place women can get abortions in the entire state, and they are trying to launch a grassroots movement against this amendment. This doesn't just apply to Mississippi, though, as Personhood USA, the group that introduced this amendment, is trying to introduce identical amendments in all 50 states.

What's more, in Mississippi, this amendment is expected to pass. It even has Mississippi Democrats, including the Attorney General, Jim Hood, backing it.

The reason I'm posting this here is because I made a meager donation to the Jackson Women's Health Organization this morning, and I received a personal email back hours later - on a Sunday - thanking me and noting that I'm one of the first "outside" people to contribute.

So if you sometimes pass on political action because you figure that enough other people will do something to make a difference, make an exception on this one. My RSS reader is near silent on this amendment. I only found out about it through a feminist blog. The mainstream media is not reporting on it.

If there is ever a time to donate or send a letter in protest, this would be it.

What to do?

- Read up on it. Wake Up, Mississippi is the home of the grassroots effort to fight this amendment. Daily Kos also has a thorough story on it.

- If you can afford it, you can donate at the site's link.

- You can contact the Democratic National Committee to see why more of our representatives aren't speaking out against this.

- Like this Facebook page to help spread awareness.


Writer's Block: The day the earth stood still

The day the earth stood still
What does this day mean to you?
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Well, it's Caturday, which means I get to sleep in waay late. and maybe go to the range if I can drag myself up to functional level before it's over 9000 degrees out.

It's also the second Caturday of the month, which means I get to show movies for the fresh fish of T.H.E.M. tonight on the projector, which also means that I need to make sure the house is something resembling presentable. (Python and the Holy Grail, followed with some else, time permitting) Whoopsie, my bad.

It's a non-payweek weekend, which means I'm watching my spend a bit closer as well.

Otherwise, nope- normal weekend.


(Side note to the idiots who run the QOTD: Do you have any fucking idea just how stupid and offensive that question is? are y'all shooting dope into your scrotums?)

... and that's the final nail in the coffin... [rant]

This will be the last post for this journal on Live journal. Please go over to my dreamwidth journal for any new updates. This journal will be largely closed except for moderator duties and being a commentard to LJ only posts.

Don't ask me to cross-post my comments, or anything else, for that matter, to twitter or facebook- you'll probably be de-friended.

Twitter: I came from a time where you have to pay $$$ for each and every 160 character message your phone sent. I do not see the rational of telling people what I'm doing in real time and in under 160 characters. (See canonical "on toilet taking dump-wish u were here" twitter posting) Hence, I don't use twitter, and I don't see any reason to start. (Sorry web 2.0 peoples, I'm kind of a crotchity old bastard in this respect.)

Face(palm)book: Until Facebook starts respecting privacy, I refuse to do anything more involved then logging in to shut off whatever privacy invading 'feature' they've opted me into and maybe updating my wall. (Hence my new name for it: 'Face(palm)book')

In short, Thanks for all the fish, and come visit me on dreamwidth under the same usertag- We use OpenID and I have a buttload of invites for the asking.
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Oh, also:

Because:

a) the Anizona web site appears to be down for duration (i.e., the person* running it let it die);
b) I took the damn pictures and I wanna show them to people;
and
c) Because I can. (I claim my "Use in Portfolio" provision as spelled out in the contract I signed.)

I present the Anizona 1 and 2 archive, free for viewing. Enjoy.

http://www.sub-ether.net/Anizona_a…



* Probably the only time you'll ever hear me refer to the thing that took something special and completely annihilated it in under a year as a person. But I'm Not Bitter.

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