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Friday Links!

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10440947_796190347067387_2731448087041358516_nOnce more, Friday is upon us.

Here’s a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

What Does This Mean?. A great article about deciphering a 1903 trade magazine advertisement.

It’s three times cheaper to give housing to the homeless than to keep them on the streets.

Don’t Worry So Much: How Not To Review Women’s Writing.

Catholic Parents Furious Same-Sex Couple Has Adopted The Children They Abused.

Why It Matters That Politicians Have No Experience of Poverty.

Judge: Conservative groups cannot become co-defendants in Miami-Dade gay marriage lawsuit.

Star Within a Star: Weird Stellar ‘Hybrid’ Discovered.

Marvel At The ‘Most Colorful View of Universe’ Ever Seen By Hubble Telescope.

Science Confirms: Yup, This Book Really Is Bound in Human Skin.

LEGO’s new toys celebrate women in science.

GOP Homophobia So Bad Not Even GOProud Can Stand It Anymore.

It Shouldn’t Take Magic to Be Accepted.

The Missing Neutrino Evidence –“A Clue to the Origin of the Universe and Matter”.

FLORIDA: Backlash Grows Against AG Pam Bondi For Supporting Marriage Ban.

The Zero Gravity Cocktail Project, Boldly Designing a Cocktail Glass for Space.

My alma mater, Seattle Pacific University, was the site of a multiple-shooting yesterday. This occurred just two miles from my house: Mayor, County Executive, and Governor Respond to Seattle Pacific University Shooting and Call for Action on Gun Violence.

Ryland’s Story (I needed a hanky…):

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ASAP Science – Can You Trust Your Ears?:

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Sam Smith – Stay With Me ft. Mary J. Blige:

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Show Me Your Pride – By Miss Coco Peru:

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Friday Links!

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It’s Friday again! It’s already June!?!?! Here’s a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

Balcony Burglar Bolts for Bay. The people who write for the Seattle PD Blotter blog & twitter stream trying to keep it fun.

Catholic Church Ordained Women Before, Can Do it Again. An essay ignored by the Vatican since the ’70s, translated into English for the first time, shows that the Catholic Church has ordained women in the past, and could do so again.

Visual gags in comedies: US vs UK. This is a very thoughtful, entertaining, and short meditation on how all films can be improved.

Jackson Hole is first Wyoming city to pass LGBT nondiscrimination protections. (I only lived in Wyoming for a few months during third grade, but I’m always happy when something good happens there)

The mammoth that trampled on the history of mankind.

Let’s call the Isla Vista killings what they were: misogynist extremism.

Stormé DeLarverie, “Rosa Parks” Of The Gay Rights Movement, Dies At 93.

Physicists Prove Surprising Rule of Threes.

Pluto’s big comeback: Why it could be reclassified as a planet.

When the Earth Had Two Moons.

Derpitude: Open Carry Group in Texas sues because they can’t approach motorists while fully armed.

An ancient battle: A 900-pound croc takes on a 58-foot snake.

In Your Face, With Cake.

Eli Lieb – Young Love (Official Music Video):

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Sam Smith – Leave Your Lover:

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Maya Angelou on Sesame Street – My Name:

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A thoughtful commentary on the history of the words trans, tranny, and the current controversy:

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“Man up” (really?):

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Friday Links! (for a 3-day weekend!)

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It’s Friday again! Here’s a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

New York roomies return $41,000 found in thrift-store couch.

Curbing Online Abuse Isn’t Impossible. Here’s Where We Start. How one enormous gaming community actually reduced online harassment.

The Art of the Title: Rockford Files. A nice look at the design of an awesome title sequence.

Artifact of the month: Disk of Enheduanna. Part of the Ur Digitization Project.

Americans Claim to Attend Church Much More Than They Do.

Maine: State ethics investigators recommend national anti-gay-marriage group be fined $50,250. They broke the law in ’09 by not registering as a political group and then spent at least $2,000,000 on the campaign. They refused to disclose their donors, also as required by law. They lost every appeal, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and have missed multiple deadlines to file tax information. Yet they still insist that theirs is the moral high ground?

400-plus years for gang rape of targeted lesbian. A good, long time…

Twitter joke took five years to pull off — but totally worth it for Rocky Horror fans.

Found: the dinosaur that survived a mass extinction.

Uncovered Papers Show Past Government Efforts to Drive Gays From Jobs
. What’s kind of surprising about this article is 1) how recent some of this is, and 2) just how casually they hurl around blatantly awful ideas in these official memos.

Maine report suggests NOM violated laws in other states, lied to government authorities. As Gomer would say, “Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!”


Yu recites oath, becomes first openly gay justice on Wash. state Supreme Court.

Strange Findings on Comb Jellies Uproot Animal Family Tree.

Sailor Neptune and Uranus Come Out of the Fictional Closet. The gay content isn’t news to Anime fans, but the new English releases that no longer hide is are welcome.

I Don’t Want to Die Alone. It’s not just tuxes and cakes…

Why Chess Will Destroy Your Mind. This article from an 1859 Scientific American may surprise you.

Local Lawmaker Compares Gays To Nazi Youth.

Snake Species That Went Missing For 78 Years Is Found.

92-year-old Texas woman denied photo ID to vote: “Not to be able to vote breaks my heart”.

House Science Committee Asked Some Very Non-Scientific Questions at the Astrobiology Hearing.

Yay for same-sex marriage, but ….

‘You guys are HUSBANDS?’: Boy’s incredulous (but adorable) reaction to meeting a gay couple for the first time.

I wrote about a sort of recent historic event: “…that mountain top is sure to blow!”.

Arcade Fire – We Exist (and who knew Andrew Garfield would make a hot transgirl?_:

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KOGA “Lucky Man” Directed By Emile Hirsch:

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Pentatonix – Love Again [Official Video]:

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Go! Go! Godzilla (and Friday Links)!

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It’s Friday again! Here’s a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

Rare insect believed to be extinct since 1946 is pictured on Kent coast.

Oldest living orca ‘Granny’ visits NW over Mother’s Day weekend.

Gross. Disgusting. Weird. Watching NFL players kiss wives, girlfriends.

Virginia official: Non-Christian public prayer violates my rights ‘because I don’t believe that’. Talk about the mote in your neighbor’s eye…

The Seven Most Popular G.K. Chesterton Quotes He Never Said.

Bring asteroids to life with NASA’s Target Asteroids! project.

Dangers Of Supreme Court Prayer Ruling Quickly Become Clear.

Giant 17-million-year-old fossil sperm found.

Quantum positioning system steps in when GPS fails.

Magnetar Formation Mystery Solved?

The Last Living Recipient of VA Benefits from the Civil War.

Ohio teacher at Catholic school refuses to sign contract that requires her to condemn her gay son.

Dumbest argument against marriage equality yet?

The Library of Congress Wants to Destroy Your Old CDs (For Science).

LGBT Couples Participate In Great Facebook Kiss-In.

And proof that no one is immune to writing headlines in click-bait cliches:Oddball Eclipse Makes Sun Brighter. Because titling it, “Binary star demonstrates gravity lensing” is too boring.

The Impossible Anatomy of Godzilla.

A LITTLE HISTORY: LGBT REPRESENTATION IN MAINSTREAM AMERICAN COMICS, PART 1. A long, but interesting, read.

On ‘The John Green Effect,’ Contemporary Realism, and Form as a Political Act. Or, people who don’t actually read a lot of young adult fiction shouldn’t write about young adult fiction.

How to Talk to Your Kids About Michael Sam:

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Tom Goss – Illuminate the Dark:

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Chris Salvatore covers Imagine Dragons – Demons:

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Awesome 1940’s Swing-style Cover of a Madonna Classic:

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Blue Oyster Cult Godzilla:

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Friday Links!

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It’s Friday again! Here’s a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

Something Weird Happens When Three Master Fencers Battle Fifty Novices.

Drone Whale Watching Hawaii. Footage of whales taken from a drone.

271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book. A handmade instruction book on how to much watercolors. It’s amazing! Thanks to my husband for the link.

Apple’s iPad business isn’t collapsing, but the rest of the tablet industry sure is.

Spilled Milk: Scouting for My Son’s America.

Retired Colonel Offers His Burial Plot To Lesbian Vet Denied Burial In Idaho.

55,000 Christians: We’re ‘Appalled By Sarah Palin’s Twisted Misrepresentation Of Our Faith’.

Polls don’t identify the real science education problem.

A Marine Biologist Explains Godzilla’s Exponential Growth.

Meet Carl DeMaio: Anti-gay gay, newest victim of the war on intolerance.

Porn Websites or Religious Websites—Where Are You Likelier to Pick Up a Computer Virus?.

It’s Different for Girls. “The PC manufacturer’s senior vice president who had been instrumental in crafting the deal suggested he and I sign over dinner in San Francisco to celebrate. When I arrived at the restaurant, I found it a bit awkward to be seated at a table for four yet to be in two seats right next to each other, but it was a French restaurant and that seemed to be the style, so down I sat…”

Nearest bright “hypervelocity star” found.

New model, spanning 13 billion years of cosmic evolution, makes important advances.

CEO Of Biggest Fast Food Chain Comes Out In Favor Of A Minimum Wage Increase.

Murray bill would force Social Security to pay same-sex spouses survivor benefits.

Ted Cruz Champions Nuremberg-Style Laws for Gays and Lesbians.

DAILY SHOW: Jon Stewart’s Gaywatch – Lesbian Life Cycle Edition.

Hercules & Love Affair ft. John Grant — I Try To Talk To You (Official Video):

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Friday Links!

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Just a little pepper spray! Happy May Day! (And let’s be disturbed that the only people of color visible in this photo are the one’s being run off by the police…)
It’s Friday again! And it’s May. In Seattle we celebrated May Day with protest marches. A lot of protest marches. (You won’t believe this, but this is one of the official Seattle Police Department comments on their twitter account during the protests: “Officers were able to separate the superheroes and their black-clad adversaries. No arrests made.”)

Here’s a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

America Is Losing Its Religion… and We’re All Better Off Because of It. It’s a statistical fact!

Beware of Those Who Do Things ‘For the Children’. Why don’t they oppose convicted murderers, drug addicts, and even those those convicted of child abuse getting married and having children?

Top Ten Characters Who Need Their Own Novel. If you love books and don’t follow The Librarian Who Doesn’t Say Shhhh, you are really missing out!

The Eye of Sauron Appears Over Sweden. Sunlight and ice crystals in the atmosphere do freaky things!

Watch the video for Brett Gleason’s Imposter.

Local GOP Party Chair Compares Obama To Zebra-Donkey Hybrid Who Is All ‘A**’.

Church Sues For First Amendment Right To Perform Gay Marriages In NC. When the news came out earlier that they passed this law criminalizing ministers performing ceremonies, I was wondering how anyone could have thought this would pass Constitutional muster. I’m just surprised it took this long for someone to fill the lawsuit.

American Family Association LEADER SAYS MISSISSIPPI BUSINESSES DISPLAYING GAY-FRIENDLY ‘DON’T DISCRIMINATE’ STICKERS ARE BULLYING CHRISTIANS. They keep stretching that definition further and further…

Nobody Gets To Tell My Sons What It Means To Be A Man.

We Are Comics. A project in response to the “no girls” folks in the comics world.

Op-ed: My Two Dads.

93 Percent Of Straight Men In This Study Said They’ve Cuddled With Another Guy.

IOWA LEGISLATURE APPROVES UPDATE TO ‘BADLY OUTDATED AND DRACONIAN’ HIV CRIMINALIZATION LAW.

Biden gets out in front of Obama on LGBT discrimination.

Dark Matter Might Be Hiding In Microscopic Black Holes, Astrophysicists Say.

This Town Needs a Better Class of Racist. It’s easy for polite American society to condemn Cliven Bundy and banish Donald Sterling while turning away from the elegant, monstrous racism that remains.

Nearby galaxy is a ‘fossil’ from the early universe.

“But why does he have girl’s hair?”.

Over the course of 12 years, Richard Linklater made a film about a boy growing up. Here’s the trailer:

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Imposter – Brett Gleason (Official Video):

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Matt Goss – I Do :

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Good Links for a Good Friday!

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It’s nearly Easter! And it’s Friday once more. Here’s a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

President Obama pulled a surprise move Monday at the White House’s Easter Prayer Breakfast when he selected Gene Robinson (the first openly gay Episcopal bishop) to lead the closing prayer.

How we found the giant squid. I know it’s over a year old, but it’s cool. Other than the dig against space research at the end…

‘Oh, I’ve got to write? Time to clean the stove first’. Thanks to Seashellseller for the link!

Salt Lake Tribune: Utah takes a nasty step against same-sex couples.

Peter LaBarbera came to a college to “expose” the “gay agenda.” He wasn’t expecting what would happen instead. Money quote: “As an institution, we have a duty to protect free speech, hateful or not. But we don’t have to listen to it.”

LOUISIANA: House Votes 66-27 To Keep Unconstitutional Anti-Sodomy Law.

Living the dream: 3-year-old kid escapes from home, climbs inside claw toy machine at bowling alley. Sounds like a kid who knows what he wants!

Fake Geek Guys: A Message to Men About Sexual Harassment.

In Sickness and in Health: A Couple’s Final Journey. You’ll need to have some tissues handy.

Epigenetics Helps Explain Early Humans’ Appearances.

I’M A GAY GUY AT A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE.

Zoologger: Gender-bending cave insects found in Brazil.

Daffy Duck, Glorious Archetype of Selfishness, Is 77. Here Is His First Cartoon.

The Gay Father I Never Knew.

US radio host: Advert featuring gay dads is like axe murder.

Revealed: Samsung misled investors, pundits with shipments vs. sales. ‘Market share’ is never what you’ve been led to believe it is.

Meet the Ten Most Endangered and Distinctive Birds in the World.

Former monk pleads with Pope Francis on behalf of LGBT youths.

Tony Perkins’ Disingenuous Boycott ‘Outrage’.

Stop twisting the Bible: There is no message against same-sex marriage.

President Obama kicked off Holy Week at the White House Monday with 150 Christian leaders at the fifth annual Easter Prayer Breakfast.

Matt Gold “Appreciated” (a sweet, fun song):

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Mike Munich covers Kylie Minogue’s SEXERCIZE, then makes an all male version of the video:

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(A whole lotta) Friday Links!

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It’s Friday again! Where does the time go? Here’s a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

THE FALL OF BRENDAN EICH HAPPENED WITHOUT ANY GAYS DOING MUCH OF ANYTHING.

Head of Anglican church: We must discriminate against gays lest someone think we’re gay and bash us. “Yes, because everyone knows that Jesus’ principal message for those confronted with dangerous exposure was to have you “deny” it, preferably three times.”

FBI Smashes Alleged Radical-Right Terror Plot in Texas.

Check out the all-American lunar eclipse on April 15!.

The less Americans know about Ukraine’s location, the more they want U.S. to intervene. (Thanks to Chip Unicorn for the link!)

Elizabeth Warren schools Paul Ryan on poverty in 80 seconds.

New method confirms humans and Neandertals interbred.

“Anti-Christian religious bigotry” is apparently what conservatives are now calling LGBTQ rights.

These Are The 10 Biggest Myths In Psychology.

Tramp stamps, racism and “icky” pronouns: 8 new life tips from “Bell Curve” author Charles Murray. Surprise! Surprise! Racist author is bigoted about other things, too.

OP’s woman-haters club swells: Why their hatred is actually getting worse.

The truth is out: money is just an IOU, and the banks are rolling in it. The Bank of England’s dose of honesty throws the theoretical basis for austerity out the window.

Atheists are adoptive parents, too! Why agencies must stop discriminating.

German Neo-Nazi Party Rocked by Interracial Porn and Penis Cake Scandals.

Mike Huckabee: Same-Sex Marriage Supporters Not ‘On The Right Side Of The Bible’.

Senate Republicans Block Bill on Equal Pay. But remember, the war on women is a myth!

How the “Gooey Universe” Could Shed Light on the Big Bang.

I Have No Idea How I Ended Up in That Stupid Geocentrism Documentary.

All set for our first comet landing.

Why Stephen Colbert is dangerous — and invaluable.

Noah: the movie and the myth. And the power of stories. (Thanks to Seashellseller for the link!)

Utah Gay Marriage Opponents Drop Debunked Research, Reduce Argument to Gibberish. (Though, let’s be honest: it wasn’t much better than gibberish to begin with)

Homophobe in denial: Why it’s important to call Mike Huckabee the H word.

Ludus Imperatorum. Or, The Latinist Dies Hard.. Game of Thrones’ family’s slogan translated to Latin. (Thanks to Foalie for the link!)

13 Year Old Liza Minnelli sings OVER THE RAINBOW :

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Brendan Velasquez – Things That Go Bump In The Night:

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Karmin – Crash Your Party:

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Friday Links!

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It’s the first Friday in April! Where does the time go? Here’s a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

‘Persecuted:’ Christian Conservatism Is Now A Movement Of Querulants.

Mudslide survivors, rescuers tell their stories of tragic day.

PHOTOS: Real Vintage Men In Their Undies Put Others To Shame.

The Meaning of Life Revealed.

The House of Representatives Committee on Science is turning into a national embarrassment. Turning?

Multiverse Controversy Heats Up over Gravitational Waves.

Gene Robinson: Religious Conservatives Aren’t Victims.

10 weirdest things the Christian right thinks will turn your kids gay.

Will Christians condemn persecution of gays?

How The Supreme Court Just Legalized Money Laundering By Rich Campaign Donors.

GOP’s hideous strategy to survive as the “white party”.

Maybe time’s arrow needs ergodicity as well as entropy .

Judges Now Recognize Anti-Gay Marriage Laws Are Irrational. Rational basis is the lowest hurdle, and judges are finally pointing out that these laws can’t even get over that one.

A Groundbreaking Court Ruling Suggests Anti-Gay Job Discrimination Is Already Illegal.

The Myth of Christian Discrimination in the LGBT Rights Movement .

Why Coming Out Is A Question Of Safety, Not Honesty.

Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO.

What a fool am I! I did not post an April Fool’s day joke.

Sweet little girl takes her horse, Cinnamon, for a walk:

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Mister Chase – Wonderful (A Message For The LGBT in Russia):

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Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Segel Sing “Confrontation” from Les Mis:

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Honey Maid ran a commercial that included families of many kinds. Some people got angry. The company didn’t back down:

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Classixx – “A Stranger Love”:

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Friday Links! (an asteroid with rings??!)

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Amazingly, it’s Friday, again! Here’s a collection of news and other things that struck me as worthy of being shared:

A recent study has shown that if American parents read one more long-form think piece about parenting they will go f—ing ape shit.. Worth at least a couple of chuckles.

The Genderbread Person v2.0. Thanks to Dehd for pointing out this adorable and concise way to talking the topics of gender identity, sexual orientation, and all the tangled related topics!

Why the bizarre ocean dandelion is like an ant colony on steroids.

Astronomers Surprised to Find Asteroid With Rings.

New Dwarf Planet Found At The Solar System’s Outer Limits.

We Are All Mutants. On the hunt for disease genes, researchers uncover humanity’s 
vast diversity.

The real, true story about how parents adopted out their child when he came out as gay.

Oregon’s Next Export? Discrimination, the Anti-Gay Ballot Measure That You Will See On the Next Ballot.

New trailer for new Spiderman movie opening next month:

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Famed cartoonist Mark Fiore explains the Miracle of Anti-Gay Denial:

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X-Men: Days of Future Past:

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Calculated – Brett Gleason:

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