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Friday Links!

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It’s Friday! The first Friday in November! The year is running out fast.

November is usually the wettest month of the year in Seattle. Last month was one of the wettest Octobers on record, and we’ve had a lot of rain this week, so I’m starting to worry this is going to be a year we got a lot of urban flooding, again. At least my current car is much higher off the ground than the old Ford Escort hatchback I was in the year I got caught in a flash flood near downtown…

Anyway, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:

My Uncle Was Gay, and I Want to Tell the World. A very sweet post that made me tear up more than a little.

Why I Love Halloween — Now More Than Ever. I bawled my eyes out…

The Day Jesus Redefined Marriage.

What is love?

Why “ethical journalism” is still actually about sexism.

THREE LESSONS FROM THE MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS FOR LGBT EQUALITY?.

SIXTH CIRCUIT LETS GAY MARRIAGE BANS STAND IN OH, MI, TN, AND KY: LEGAL ANALYSIS, PART 1. Eventually a circuit court was going to back this ruling, forcing the Supremes to be less passive-aggressive about this issue.

JUDGE MARTHA DAUGHTREY RIPS COLLEAGUES IN STINGING DISSENT OF 6TH CIRCUIT MARRIAGE RULING.

NY Pastor Thinks Starbucks’ Secret Ingredient Is The ‘Semen of Sodomites’. Pastor Manning from Atlah Church is at it again… once more obsessing over sexual topics involving gay men. I wonder why?

Marriage is about love.

Pro Strongman Rob Kearney Comes Out as Gay.

Hollaback and Why Everyone Needs Better Research Methods-And Why All Data Needs Theory.

‘Car Talk’ Co-Host Tom Magliozzi Dies At 77.

Sherlock Holmes belongs to us all: Supreme Court declines to hear case.

New Clock May End Time As We Know It. When you build a clock so precise, that it can detect the time dilate from moving it up or down a few feet in the Earth’s gravitational field…

Students disqualified for helping girl finish race.

Why conservative Christians would have hated Jesus.

He’s Glad You Asked.

The world’s largest butterfly is now also one of the most endangered.

Antigay Haters Reserve the Right to Discriminate Against Homosexuals on the Down Low.

#DudesGreetingDudes Hilariously Proves Catcalling Isn’t ‘Just A Compliment’.

Language Nerd.

Dan Savage on those reality-show starring, anti-gay law supporting super fundies and why it’s okay for us to talk about their messed up sexual decisions. (You won’t guess that from the NSFW title of the article)

Colorado elects Obama exorcist who wants to spank transgender children.

Random Observations on a Reaming: That’ll Teach That Negro to Be President.

Dallas adds LGBT protections to city constitution in landslide vote.

Why is Firefox tweeting Gamergate nonsense?

The Absurdity of the 2014 Midterm Elections, in One Perfect Tweet.

Starstruck: half of universe’s stars are orphans with no galaxy.

SO THEY BURNED ALEX SALMOND IN MY HOMETOWN TONIGHT.

Are you participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)? Let’s be writing buddies!

The Necronomicon:

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Benny – Little Game (Official Video):

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Friday Links! (Spoooooooooky Spooks Edition)

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Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween!
It’s Friday! But even more importantly, it’s Halloween!!!!!!!!!!

Ghouls and goblins and mummies and werewolves on the prowl! We have a pile of candy to hand out, the house has some spooky decorations, and I have picked out some scary movies. We’re going to have a great night.

Anyway, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:

Happy Heteroween: In Defense of Sexy Pirates, Sexy Nuns, and Sexy Cadavers.

5 Years After Passage Of Hate Crimes Law, Religious Right’s Dire Predictions Still Haven’t Come True.

Dear Author breaks down the actions of the Author who stalked a Good Reads reviewer. (Thanks to shipperx for the link!)

The Choices of Kathleen Hale.

There Really Is an Evangelical Christian War on Halloween.

Is it just me, or does talking about religious violence feel an awful lot like talking about gun violence?

Tim Cook Speaks Up …and comes out.

Why it matters where — and when — Tim Cook spoke up about being gay.

On crying in public.

xkcd: Zombie Marie Curie.

Totally True Horror Story: A Shocking Tale from the ’80s—Illustrated.

Once you see this small typography tweak Apple made in OS X Yosemite, you can’t unsee it.

Last of the Crow war chiefs turns 101 in Montana.

Lonesome George, the Last of His Kind, Strikes His Final Pose.

Woman sues to use wife’s name on South Carolina driver’s license.

Godless millennials could end the political power of the religious right. We can only hope!

Top Ten Most Famous Swords of the Middle Ages. Note: it’s not a slide show, so you don’t have to click-click-click to see them!

Chemists Find A New Chemical Bond—Forming it requires replacing atoms’ electrons with more exotic sub-atomic particles.

#GamerGate Supporters Demonstrate They Don’t Know What Ethics in Journalism Means.

Every Other Planet in the Solar System Would Fit Between the Earth and Moon. Factoid I knew long ago, but the image is nice.

Cassini Spies Methane Ice Crystals in Titan’s Atmosphere.

WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE GAY IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA.

Brownback Covered Budget Deficit By Tossing Disabled People Off Medicaid.

Ken Ham’s tax-payer subsidized creationist theme park is already in trouble for religious discrimination.

Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian! (bettybowers.com)
Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian! (bettybowers.com)
The Evangelical War on Halloween.

And Halloween, Jack Chick, and Anti-Catholicism.

And Colbert is on it: War on Halloween – Costume Swapping & Jesus Ween. (Video plays automatically)

Pope Francis admits he believes in evolution and the Big Bang, says science and religion can peacefully coexist.

On the other hand, Stop Celebrating the Pope’s Views on Evolution and the Big Bang. They Make No Sense.

Time magazine is just an embarrassing Internet troll now.

SOUTHERN BAPTISTS TELL PASTORS: HOLD LINE ON GAYS.

Couple plead guilty to torture death of 8-year-old they believed was gay.

The Universe Might Be A Billion Years Older Than We Thought.

Five science ‘facts’ we learnt at school that are plain wrong.

Digging through 316,669 tweets from three days of Twitter’s two-month-old #GamerGate trainwreck. He really digs into the metadata. It’s fascinating!

Viewpoint: Arrow of Time Emerges in a Gravitational System.

They don’t all have to be heroes, but….

Fairy rings and h/a/y/ fungal fever.

Are you participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)? Let’s be writing buddies!

HALLOWEEN PARTY MIX:

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Jessica Lange – Gods and Monsters (Lana Del Rey Cover):

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GROOVIE GOOLIES MUSIC VIDEO – MONSTERS ON PARADE – GHOST BAND:

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Monster Mash:

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Beetlejuice – Day-o (Banana Boat Song):

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Melanie Martinez – Carousel (American Horror Story: Freak Show Theme) (Official Video):

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LOL! “Don’t TOUCH My Girlfriend” Pres.Obama! Couple Interviewed – Chris Hayes:

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The Endless Night: A Valentine to Film Noir:

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Avengers: My Ultron Will Go On (setting the visual of the Avenger’s trailer to Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” is surprisingly awesome):

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Friday Links (difficult people edition)!

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It’s Friday! The fourth Friday in October, and Halloween is still a week away!!

Who knew that October ’14 would be the month when more than a dozen states would get marriage equality? We knew the good news about equality couldn’t last, but why did this week have to be all about douche-y people?

Anyway, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:

Morning Maddow: Rachel’s Pantheon Of Heroes (Video). In case you’re losing your faith in humanity.

GOP using increasingly racist arguments against gay marriage.

How Mars Hill and Mark Driscoll Wooed Unchurched Seattle.

Alvin McEwan explains why “The Erasure of ‘Gay’ From Black History & the Black Community Must Stop.”

The Gamergater’s Glossary.

Isaac Asimov Mulls “How Do People Get New Ideas?” An previously unpublished essay on the origins of creativity.

The entire Idaho wedding chapel story is a lie. And it get’s better: Caught ya: Far-right’s latest marriage ‘victim’ edited website to make more solid legal case.

What your 1st-grade life says about the rest of it. (Thanks to @tdjohnsn for the link!)

Phyllis Schlafly: End Early Voting Because It Helps Democrats.

>Conservatives Converge Around Fox News as Main Source; No Single Source Dominates on the Left

6,000-Year-Old Temple with Possible Sacrificial Altars Discovered.

Queen of the Underworld Sheds New Light on Greek Tomb – Newly revealed mosaic may hold key to unlocking mystery: Who was buried in the massive mound?

In every heated conversation about faith and violence, there’s one thing that everybody gets wrong.

Never say never: why TV networks are suddenly ready to unbundle.

Get Down Tonight: Seattle’s first disco nudged the city toward its left-leaning future.

ADHD Is Different for Women.

The Bad Apples Of #GamerGate.

The worst known case of workplace lead exposure at a U.S. range happened during renovations at Wade’s Eastside Guns in 2012. But documented hazards there go back to 2008.

The real lesson of Ebola in Dallas: this virus is very difficult to spread.

Anti-Gay Group Vows War Against Rob Portman, GOP Over Marriage Equality.

Here’s a Better Idea for the Gay Man Who Wants to Raise $150,000 for Anti-Gay Bakers. The self-proclaimed “gay activist” referenced in the story is not; he’s gay, yes, but the only things he’s ever done is scold other gays for not being tolerant of Christian bigotry.

Vultures circle GamerGate: the narcissists, grifters and creeps arriving in its wake.

Unfortunately for a rare few of you, this is a necessary infographic.

Canada’s parliament attacked, soldier fatally shot nearby.

CNN disappointed with Canadians’ lack of panic.

Maybe Guys Are the More Emotional Sex. (thanks to @Sharpclaw for the link!)

Sweden May Have Mystery Sub Cornered, Ready To Use Force To Surface It.

We are citizen radio: Rainn Wilson to produce TV series with accused rapist, White people live life like it’s one long frat party.

13 Lies We Have to Stop Telling About Bisexuals. Listicles are always problematic, but this one suffers more than the usual amount of redundancy. #1 and #2 are the same myth, rephrased, for instance.

Stunning View of Solar System’s Largest Volcano and Valles Marineris Revealed by India’s Mars Orbiter Mission.

Things Are Improving For LGBT Students, But They’re Still Really Bad.

White menaces to society: Keene State and the danger of young drunk white men.

Kooky Straight Couple Claims Same-Sex Couples Want to Steal Their Marriage. They filed a typo-ridden epic privilege tantrum as a motion to a federal appeals court.

Churning galaxy boasts a fiery halo of baby stars.

Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron” – Teaser Trailer (OFFICIAL):

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A working hoverboard, it’s finally here:

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Star Wars (Guardians of the Galaxy Style!):

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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson – Weird Al Performs:

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Pumpkins Spice:

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Stephen Colbert Sings Friday with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon):

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$5.7 BILLION Drop in Hospital Uncompensated Care Costs Due to Obamacare:

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Bright Light Bright Light – An Open Heart:

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HALLOWEEN PARTY MIX:

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Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne – Real Love [Official Video]:

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Ricky Martin – Adiós (English Version) (Official Video):

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Friday Links (with prehistoric giant kangaroos)!

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It’s Friday! The third Friday in October—only two weeks before Halloween!

Last week was so crazy amazing: ten states got marriage equality over the course of five days. How could anything top that? Well, the dominoes keep falling!

Anyway, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared.

So, here are my links for the week:

20 HILARIOUS RESPONSES TO NOM’S WARNING THAT GAY MARRIAGE WILL LEAD TO PEOPLE MARRYING THEMSELVES.

Largest, oldest creature on Earth?.

Why I Deleted IHeart Radio From My Devices And You Should Too.

Texas Just Crowned Their First Transgender Homecoming King.

Uprooted, Again. An interesting ending to a story about one woman who used DNA testing to fill in her family tree…

The strange world of the bright blue Velella.

New Particle Is Both Matter and Antimatter: The Majorana fermion.

Second draft of document on accepting gays bows to pressure from bishops.

Everyone Keeps Falling for the Catholic Church’s Good Cop/Bad Cop Routine.

Adorable photos of flying lemurs! And other interesting pictures, but the flying lemurs are incredibly cute! (They aren’t true lemurs, they’re a species that split off from the primates 79 million years ago, but they’re basically a cross between a lemur and a flying squirrel!)

A wonderfully accurate comic about Gamer Gate.

Presbyterian workers wore no hazmat suits for two days while treating Ebola patient.

Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ Moon May Hide Subsurface Ocean.

Frigid Polar Vortex Unlikely to Repeat This Winter.

Locomotion in Extinct Giant Kangaroos: Were Sthenurines Hop-Less Monsters?

The media is doing an awful job explaining Ebola, and #ClipboardMan is proof.

CASSINI CAUGHT IN HYPERION’S ELECTRON BEAM.

Condition Called Tetrachromacy Allows This Artist To See 100 Million Colors.

Hubble Finds Extremely Distant Galaxy through Cosmic Magnifying Glass.

Man with possible explosive device lodged inside his leg brought to UAB Hospital.

Paramedic refused to leave man with grenade lodged in his leg: nerves, humor and body armor all part of 8-hour ordeal.

Nijicon: Philly’s First-Ever LGBT Comic Convention Is This Weekend.

Leaving the GOP Gov. Huckabee? Great, Take the Other Anti-gay Republicans With You.

In North Carolina, Thom Tillis is the Last Holdout Against Gay Marriage.

And by the way, those people claiming these marriage equality rulers are anti-Christian? Remember that in North Carolina, it was United Church of Christ ministers (among others) who sued to get the ban overturned: United Church of Christ wins for marriage in NC.

Christian right’s vile PR sham: Why their bizarre films are backfiring on them.

A conservative judge’s devastating take on why voter ID laws are evil.

Anti-Gay Marriage Group Alleges Bias on Federal Appeals Court. They don’t understand probability…

Matt Zarley – I Just Knew:

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Nick Deutsch – Run:

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Columbus Day – How Is That Still A Thing (HBO):

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David Guetta – Dangerous (Lyric Video) ft Sam Martin:

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Friday Links (‘I do’ edition)!

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Snapshot of Wikipedia's Marriage Equality map as of Thursday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States)
Snapshot of Wikipedia’s Marriage Equality map as of Thursday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United_States)
It’s Friday! The second Friday in October, a week with birthdays of at least two people I know, and only three weeks before Halloween!

Anyway, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared. I’m grouping them by topic, today. I know there’s even more links related to gay rights than usual, but think about this week in perspective. Wikipedia had to update the map showing which states allow same sex couples to marry, which ban them from it, and which have some form of domestic partnerships instead eight times over the course of the first four days of the week.

That’s just amazing!

So, here are my links for the week:

Creationism Is About Gay Marriage, Not Science. Interviews with the financial backer and the primary “scientific consultant” at the Creation Museum reveal all.

I Demand Pocket Equality.

“So yes, there is a blog out there that is praising Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Notorious R.B.G., but if you don’t know the difference between a blog and a tumblr, that’s because you are not as hip and with it as 81-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”

All Your Life, Charlie Brown. All Your Life: The complete history of Lucy’s pulling the football away..

A SWEET TRIUMPH: SAME-SEX COUPLES CAN FINALLY WED ON THE LAS VEGAS STRIP.

Why the GOP hates U.S. history: Inconvenient truths that freak out American conservatives.

Voter ID Explained In One Photo.

This is what same-sex marriage looks like now: as gay as the Mormon missionary position.

When ‘Redefining Marriage’ Meant That Women Had To Be Treated Like Human Beings.

Huckabee Urges States To Ignore Rulings On Marriage Equality, Abortion Rights & Church-State Separation. Related: Why the wingnut base won’t let Republicans move on.

WWE “Going Purple” and Partnering with GLAAD for Spirit Day.

How Straight Spouses Cope When Their Partners Come Out.

Best of the worst: The 10 most unhinged conservative reactions to expanding marriage equality.

Transgender Actress Erika Ervin On Her ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ Role. A trans actress playing a trans character! Whoa!

Traditional marriage?

Romanian ‘Orthodox Priests’ Calendar 2015 Pays Tribute To Social Tolerance. “the 2015 Orthodox Calendar features 12 months of hunky models striking homoerotic poses alongside religious iconography.”

Reading Stuff Will Eliminate 90 Percent of Your Stupid Questions.

What If You’re Against Football, But for the Seahawks?

OPEN CARRY ENTHUSIAST’S GUN STOLEN AT GUNPOINT.

Everyday People: 12-year-old boy gains confidence through My Little Pony.

Scientists say DNA determines coffee consumption.

Forget Ebola. Worry about the unvaccinated kid down the street.

New global Mars image from Mars Orbiter Mission features Gale crater.

Strange Red Supergiant-Neutron Star Object Discovered.

An iPad filled with apps weighs more than one with nothing installed.

Why I’ve stopped using Google apps on my iPhone 6 Plus.

New Dark Matter Theory Solves Milky Way’s “Missing Satellite-Galaxies” Puzzle.

Foom! ‘Superflares’ Erupt From Tiny Red Dwarf Star, Surprising Scientists.

THE POETRY OF THE ICE AGE.

How bad user interface design killed a child cancer patient.

5 Fonts that will kill your design (and 5 great alternatives).

Tap, tap, tappity-tap-tap-tappity-tap!.

If Buying Condoms Was Like Buying Birth Control:

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THE LIQUIDATOR ‘Main Title’ – Shirley Bassey:

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Levi Kreis, Handcuff My Soul:

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George Ezra – Blame It on Me:

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Mary J. Blige – Right Now (From The London Sessions):

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[Official Video] Rather Be – Pentatonix (Clean Bandit Cover):

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Friday Links (with super science)!

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42758086-super_science_and_fantastic_stories_canada_1945061It’s Friday! The first Friday in October, a month which contains one of my favorite holidays, birthdays of several people I love, an anniversary, and some of my favorite weather.

In honor of this first Friday in October, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:

Cyber harassment study reveals the unsurprising!

OMFG Teach Your Kids Accurate Names for Body Parts Already.

Look: Harlem Hate Pastor Posts Violent New Anti-Gay ‘Biblical’ Message.

Consumer Reports tests suggest iPhone 6 ‘bend-gate’ a bit overblown.

Bendgate Unbent: Apple And Viral iPhone 6 Plus Bender Are Both Right.

No, you probably can’t bend the iPhone 6 Plus. Unless you’re a bodybuilder.

The Death Of The Saturday Morning Cartoon Is Complete.

R.I.P. Buster Jones. The voice behind some of your favorite Saturday morning cartoon characters.

The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes. “no one feels individually accountable for financial crisis mistakes because management is through consensus.”

High School football death is 3rd in recent days. Ebola has killed zero people in America this week, while High School football has killed three. So, what should we be worried about?

Most People With Addiction Simply Grow Out of It: Why Is This Widely Denied?

Strange New Type of Brain Cell Discovered.

Calif. governor signs bill prohibiting ‘gay panic’ defense in murder charges. And that’s not all: Four Exciting New Laws Protecting Gay and Trans People Passed in California!

Man exonerated after 10 years in prison will get $500,000.

Video: Late-night octopus-watching off West Seattle’s shore.

The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times.

The War Nerd: Let’s put Islamic State’s menacing advance into perspective by… looking at a map.

Why the genetic code is not universal.

Building an Ark for the Anthropocene.

Alaska actually wants to use the Jim Crow approach in defending its gay marriage ban.

Weird ‘Island’ on Saturn Moon Titan Puzzles Scientists (Video, Photos).

The Babylonian map of the world sheds light on ancient perspectives.

How American parenting is killing the American marriage.

Adorable Alligatorellus.

Rejected Princesses: HYPATIA: THE MARTYR MATHEMATICIAN.

The Unexceptional Devil’s Hole Pupfish.

The Enemy Of Archaeology Is Not People, It’s Salt.

Rumor calls out Windows 95 as the reason Microsoft skipped version 9.

Republicans Angry that a Republican Attorney General Who has been caught having registered to vote in multiple states, has been removed from the ballot in accordance with state law. The irony meter is exploding…

Republicans In ‘Republicans Are People Too’ Ad Are Not Actual Republican People. The entire lame campaign is stock photos.

5 public health threats in Texas scarier than Ebola.

Lost ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Film Discovered After Almost a Century.

‘Science’ Center Teaches Boys Rocketry, Girls Makeup. Internet Certain To Be Pleased. (Updated).

Supernova! –“Are They the Reason the Milky Isn’t Crawling with Biological and Machine Intelligence” (Or Is it?).

Lies of the Devil Talkers.

…and a sonic screwdriver!

Lesbian Misogyny #YesAllWomen:

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Pharrell Williams – It Girl:

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At Long Last, An Invisibility Cloak We Can Believe In:

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Hollysiz – The light (you may need a whole box of kleenex):

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Handsome Man ~ Matt Alber (Official):

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Friday Links (birthday bash edition)!

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Surprised-Cat-Popped-BalloonIt’s Friday! The final Friday in September, in fact! Don’t forget, September birthdays are extra special, because September babies are superior. It’s a fact. No, really.

Okay, okay, it’s possible I’m not completely objective about this. It is true that this week I ceased to be prime. My age, which last week was a prime number of years, is now a number that is divisible by 2, and also by 3 several times. But enough about that!

Anyway, in honor of this final Friday in the glorious month of September, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:

Is it actually ironic? 3 TED-Ed Lessons on irony. Three great videos. I embed the first one below.

A Neo-Nazi Is Running For The Kentucky Senate On The Slogan ‘With Jews We Lose’.

46 Years Later, Owner to Get Stolen Jaguar Back.

Absurd Creature of the Week: The Parasitic Worm That Turns Snails Into Disco Zombies.

Do You Suspect That Right-Wing Trolls Are Psychopaths? You’re Correct (Video).

Hatred and Bigotry: It’s All They Have Left.

Banned Books Week: Why Gay Characters Matter.

New Horizons Spies Pluto’s Tiny Moon Hydra.

Neil Gaiman: ‘Terry Pratchett isn’t jolly. He’s angry’.

Denver Area Students Walk Out Of School In Protest.

Up to half of Earth’s water is older than the sun.

7 Gadgets Rosetta Is Sending To the Surface of the Comet.

The 12 Weirdest Reasons For Banning Science Fiction and Fantasy Books.

John Oliver’s takedown of Miss America boosts donations to women’s scholarships.

JIMMY CARTER: ‘I NEVER KNEW OF ANY WORD OR ACTION OF JESUS CHRIST THAT DISCRIMINATED AGAINST ANYONE’ – VIDEO.

A Look Back At Bisexuality Studies And Their Weird, Troubling History.

HOLLOWAYS: ROADS TUNNELED INTO THE EARTH BY TIME.

Pat Robertson: Genocide Commanded By God Totally Different From Genocide Commanded By Allah.

‘The Roosevelts:’ Ken Burns Closets Eleanor, Disappears FDR’s Gay Sex-Entrapment Scandal in the Navy.

Limbaugh’s decision to publicize the personal information of volunteers who encourage his sponsors to drop his show highlights his fears over bleeding sponsors, stations dropping him.

Ignore the typos, also, NSFW: UPDATED: Fleshlight should sponsor the NFL since Proctor and Gamble won’t.

Ig Nobels: British researchers take coveted science humour prize.

New Study Favors Quantum Mind: Quantum coherence in brain protein resembles plant photosynthesis.

Somepony Else’s Friends.

Oh, bi the way….

Feeling lucky.

Situational irony: The opposite of what you think – Christopher Warner:

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Adrian Peterson, Child Abuse, and the NFL:

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The Physics of Space Battles:

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iPhone 6 Plus vs 6 vs 5S vs 5C vs 5 vs 4S vs 4 vs 3Gs vs 3G vs 2G Speed Comparison Test (half the fun of the video is watching all those hands working the phones at once):

Friday Links (Shocked! Shocked! edition)

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It's a lynx! On Friday! (network54.com)
It’s a lynx! On Friday! (network54.com)
It’s Friday! The third Friday in September, in fact! Don’t forget, September birthdays are extra special, because September babies are superior. It’s a fact. No, really.

Anyway, in honor of this third Friday in the glorious month of September, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:

A Pennsylvania teenager is facing criminal charges after posting pictures to Facebook of him simulating a sex act with a statue of Jesus.

After 13-Year Search, A Woman Reportedly Tracked Down The Owner Of A Photo Found At Ground Zero On 9/11.

Nothing is scarier than a pack of white dudes drunk on privilege and microbews within spitting distance of my sofa.

5 Things I Learned as the Internet’s Most Hated Person.

I love reading anything Stephen Fry writes: Apple Hit Successive Sixes.

Texas Law Enforcement Groups Come Out for Gay Marriage.

Dear DC Comics, This Is Why You Shouldn’t Leave Creative Little Girls Behind.

Lawmakers unveil bill to de-militarize cops.

New York pastor’s wild ‘rectum’ rant: NASA Voyager probe proved ‘homos’ are perverts.

“Wretched, disgusting commie leftists”: My nightmare fighting gun nuts in a red state.

CBS Sports’ James Brown: ‘More than 3 women per day’ are killed by their partner.

How Attending a Gay Wedding Impacted My Straight Marriage.

You have to read this just to click through to see the crazy web page, still active but unchanged 17 years later: The Online Legacy of a Suicide Cult and the Webmasters Who Stayed Behind.

Philly Hate Attack Mob Claiming Self Defense After Brutal Beating Sends Gay Men To Hospital.

… and: Catholic High School Coach Fired For His Role In Beating Of Philadelphia Gay Couple.

… and :Alleged Hate Attack Group Members Reportedly Claiming Self-Defense [UPDATED].

… and: The Catholic Church Is Shocked—Shocked—to Learn That Catholics Are Attacking Gay Couples.

Adrian Peterson: The excuses we hear for inexcusable violence.

Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers.

Pat Robertson loses it after Air Force nixes ‘God’ oath for atheists: ‘How can they fly?’ – I want to know what form of black magic is keep this fossil breathing.

Seattle Tunnel Tops “Highway Boondoggles” List.

NASA Finds ‘Big Surprise In Teeny Tiny Galaxy’ (PHOTO).

Listen To A Fox News Hero Lash Out At Gay People On A Conference Call.

‘Queer People Don’t Have the Luxury to Stop Telling Our Stories’.

Facebook ‘Name Change’ Policy Disproportionately Affecting LGBT Community (UPDATE).

Brazil Selects ‘The Way He Looks’ For Foreign Language Film Oscar, Adding To a Very Queer Race This Year.

Europeans drawn from three ancient ‘tribes’.

#WhyIStayed #WhyILeft.

The internet rage machine.

Homo devils in space! (though I really should have titled it, “Homo Devils in Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!”

Meet Billy, Rescued From a Puppy Mill – 2013 CINE Award Winner:

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Branden Urie and Panic! At The Disco: Bohemian Rhapsody (LIVE):

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Erasure – Elevation:

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Annie Lennox – I Put A Spell On You:

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Huntington – Secret:

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Friday Links (with truth bombs)!

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It’s Friday! I’d be happier about it if I wasn’t sick. Don’t forget, September birthdays are extra special, because September babies are superior. It’s a fact. No, really.

Anyway, in honor of this second Friday in the glorious month of September, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:

5 ways America changed God. (Thanks to @foxraven for the link!)

Obama Outperforms Reagan On Jobs, Growth And Investing.

Straw man arguments are the scourge of public discourse, but there is an alternative.

Possibly headline of the week: Man With Horns and Bolts Tattoos on his Face Stabs Couple and Skates Away.

But this one is also a contender: Devil statue with giant erection pops up in Vancouver, BC [NSFW].

WATCH: Benedict Cumberbatch Has A Giggle Fit In This ‘Sherlock’ Blooper.

How they made those gorgeous end credits for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. I love these as a work of art, but also how they evoke some of classic illustration technique while evoking the characters and events of both Captain America movies.

Hot Alaska Gossip: Sarah Palin’s Whole Family Was in a Nasty Brawl. Best quote: “This isn’t some damned Hillbilly reality show!”

Pop Sonnet: Is this the waking world, or do I sleep?

Cold Dark Matter May Have Kept Our Milky Way All Alone In Its Corner Of The Universe.

EA Pledges to Fix “Gay Filter” in Sims 4.

Bush apologist hits new low: An infuriating attempt to rewrite Iraq history.

It’s hared to love gay culture if you don’t know what it is.

Social Contracts and “the Cult of Likability.”

A Conservative Judge Did A Stunning About-Face On Gay Marriage.

A Black Hole Doesn’t Die — It Does Something A Lot Weirder.

Remarkable 3,900-Year-Old Suit Of Bone Armor Found In Siberia.

Sir John Franklin: Fabled Arctic ship found.

Our birds are in real trouble. Can we fix it? Yes we can!

Pennsylvania town will no longer evict domestic violence victims who call the police seeking help.

Georgia State Senator: Voting Is Too Convenient For Black People.

Ancient Egyptian Art Contains The Records of Past Extinctions.

Al Franken Drops a Truth Bomb On The Senate: Citizens United Is Money Laundering.

The Best Commentary on Ray Rice’s Suspension Comes From Joe Biden.

Southern secessionist group forming paramilitary unit called the “Indomitables.”

With genetic testing, I gave my parents the gift of divorce.

20-Year Mystery of the Universe’s Brightest Objects Solved.

Huffington Post: We Figured Out Why The Westboro Baptist Church Hates Us So Much.

Tennessee Pastor Robert Gallaty Suggests Gays ‘Must Be Put To Death’ Or Remain Celibate.

Two New Rulings Unmask the Weakness of the Case Against Marriage Equality.

Fossils push back origins of modern mammals.

Shattering DNA may have let gibbons evolve new species.

So You Want to Understand Bayes’ Theorem and/or Look at Photos of Cats.

The Planets that Never Were.

A High-end Watch Guy’s Thoughts On The Apple Watch After Seeing It In The Metal.

Life In The Only State Where Gay Couples Can Get Married One Day, Fired The Next.

Robert Plant – Rainbow | Official Music Video:

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In The Ray Rice Situation, Everyone Must Go:

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What a lovely song: Holly Johnson ‘In And Out Of Love’ (Official Video):

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A Den Of Kittens (just 2 and a half minutes of purring kittens, really):

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Baby Bear on Golf Course – At Fairmont Hot Springs Resort, BC:

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Friday Links (Hair Bear edition)!

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Hair_Bear_DVDIt’s Friday! The first Friday in September. It’s a month full of birthdays and anniversaries. Okay, okay, every month is, but September birthdays are extra special, because September babies are superior. It’s a fact. No, really.

Anyway, in honor of this first Friday in the glorious month of September, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:

New Atlanta LGBT Youth Homeless Shelter Benefits From Viral Campaign.

Father Charles Pope: Cancel The St. Patrick’s Day “Anal Sex” Celebration. These haters always focus on a sex act that not all gay people participate in, and which literally millions of straight people do.

Incredibly stupendously high resolution picture of the Andromeda Galaxy.

EMBARRASSING TYPOS MAR OTHERWISE SPARKLING ROLL-OUT OF LGBT ‘RAINBOW HONOR WALK’ IN SF.

Want Marriage Equality? Don’t Sit out These Elections.

Gay Board Games from the ’70s and ’80s.

Prehistoric Leafcutter Bee Pupa. (Because invertebrates are cool, but fossil invertebrates are cooler!)

Dramatic Cave Art Confirms that Neanderthals Were Capable of Abstract Expression.

How junk food changes eating behaviour.

The Point of Pointing.

Time Travel Simulation Resolves “Grandfather Paradox”.

Whitman Was Not a Neuroscientist, or Why There is Yet No Grand Unified Theory of Neuroscience.

University Of Kansas Considered Community Service Too ‘Punitive’ For Rape Punishment.

If the NFL doesn’t want people to think it’s homophobic, it should stop being so homophobic.

S.E. Cupp on nude photos: Don’t own things other people want if you don’t want to have them stolen!

“I Went to the Woods So I Could Steal Candy From Children”: The Maine Hermit Is A Terrible Hero To Have.

The Forsaken: A Rising Number of Homeless Gay Teens Are Being Cast Out by Religious Families.

The Pros and Cons of Straight Guys in Gay Bars. The guy who wrote this seems to live in a completely different universe than I do. I can’t figure out if this is a profound commentary or fluff.

What Happens to “Holdouts” Who Refuse to Sell Their Homes to Developers?

One Year Later, Horror Stories About This City’s LGBT Non-Discrimination Law Haven’t Come True – Prohibiting Anti-LGBT Discrimination Hasn’t Threatened Religious Liberty.

Barely Literate? How Christian Fundamentalist Homeschooling Hurts Kids.

Senior GOP spokesman comes out as gay. Someone needs to tell him that those “friends” who consider his sexuality corrosive to society were never his friends; they liked the person he was pretending to be while closeted, and never knew him.

DEFROCKED PASTOR DEFENDS GAY RIGHTS AT NEW PULPIT.

The golden age of science fiction magazines served up some interesting queerish images. We have seen the future, and the future is gay. I don’t normally like linking to slideshows/listicles, but some of these covers were too silly.

How gay marriage made me want to get straight married.

Dreadnoughtus! New Dino May Be Largest Land Animal Ever.

Is There Any Rational Case for Banning Gay Marriage?
In an exhilarating takedown of Indiana and Wisconsin’s prohibitions, Judge Richard Posner rules there isn’t.

Recycled Boy: 5 Years on Testosterone Picture/Timeline:

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The 2 Bears – Get Out:

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(I have no idea why the decided to use footage from the 70s Saturday Morning Cartoon, “Help! It’s the Hair Bear Bunch!” but the song is very cool.)