Last week I re-organized the Links post to put all the non-election (and mostly happy) links first so readers could avoid all that news if they just stopped at the warning. This week I’m going back to something close to my usual layout. Still trying to get most of the fun and happy news (such as there is) first.

Links of the Week

Can’t Hurry Love: Rare Snail Finds Romance After Global Search.

The ACLU’s Donation Website Couldn’t Keep Up With Everyone Trying To Donate After Trump Won.

Dear Trump Supporter who says they love me.

News for queers and our allies:

New Kids On The Block Singer Jonathan Knight Proposes To Boyfriend In Africa.

You have to see how people reacted when a trans woman’s car was graffitied with hate slurs.

Here’s How LGBTQ People Can Protect Themselves Before Trump Takes Office.

Baptist church in Dallas votes to accept LGBT members.

Science!

The Supermoon and Global Warming: A Taste of Things to Come.

Hubble Just Spotted an Enormous Bubble in Space. This actually happened back in April, but the article I linked to then didn’t have the pretty pictures.

Man dissolves after trying to soak in Yellowstone hot pool.

Scientists have measured the smallest fragment of time ever.

Seriously beautiful science cocktails will have you rethinking your alcohol choices.

Oil and Gas Industry Ensnarled in Spate of Oklahoma Earthquakes.

Thank Neanderthal and Denisovan genes for health and skin colour.

Physicists just discovered a second state of liquid water.

CERN boffins see strange … oh, wait, that’s just New Zealand moving 2m north.

How Teamwork Brings Home the Tuna in Lego Land.

Some Dinosaurs Were Iridescent.

Antarctic quest to find ‘oldest ice’.

WHY THE DISCOVERY OF ‘GLOBULAR CLUSTERS’ COULD HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW GALAXIES ARE CREATED.

Geologists discover how a tectonic plate sank.

Thousands of dead fish clogged a New York canal. Why?

Humans are still evolving – but in ways that might surprise you.

Huddled mice could change the way we think about evolution.

Watch How Slime Mold Smartly Crawls By Itself All Over Everything.

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!

All the science fiction and fantasy novels you need to make it through winter.

Arrival shows there’s still room for literary science fiction films in Hollywood.

12 YA Books With Characters of Color and LGBTQ Characters.

This Week in Tech

How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour.

Facebook’s Fight Against Fake News Was Undercut by Fear of Conservative Backlash.

Culture war news:

LGBTQ People Are Scared About What Trump’s Victory Means for Them. Here’s Why.

God Magicked Donald Trump Into the White House, Says Pastor Who Doesn’t Get the Electoral College.

Which LGBT rights are on the chopping block?

Baptist Churches in Dallas, Austin Expelled Over LGBT-Affirming Stance.

A Survivor Of Gay Conversion Therapy Shares His Chilling Story.

On Day 1 President Donald Trump will take away Rights of The LGBTQ Community!

This Week in Fighting Back in the Culture War:

The Resistance: How to Defeat Donald Trump’s Plot Against America.

The Democrats must change – here’s how they can do it.

DONALD TRUMP WILL BE PRESIDENT. THIS IS WHAT WE DO NEXT.

Progressives must lead the Democratic Party and develop its economic populism.

This Week in Difficult to Classify

HOLY FUCK THE ELECTION. This isn’t an article, it’s not quite a game… but go answer a few questions and get some answers…

This week in why the Electoral College must go

CLEARING UP THE CONFUSION SURROUNDING VALLEY HIGH’S HOMECOMING KING SELECTION PROCESS.

This week in Comments, Trolls, and Wankers

Twitter Just Banned a Bunch of Alt-Right Mouthpieces.

Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’.

This week in the deplorables

Gay man attacked by Trump fan who warned ‘my new president says we can kill all you f*ggots now’.

Trump is already consorting with a hate group.

If Your Election Postmortem Ignores Racism and Misogyny, It’s Probably Wrong.

THINKING BIG IN A SMALL WORLD.

‘An ape in heels’: WV officials slur Michelle Obama — and say Melania Trump will be ‘refreshing’.

Here’s Why It’s Fair—and Necessary—to Call Trump’s Chief Strategist a White Nationalist Champion.

Trump draws sharp rebuke, concerns over newly appointed chief White House strategist Stephen Bannon.

This Is Not Normal.

Bernie Sanders: Trump already breaking campaign promise to ‘drain the swamp’.

Trump Supporter Uses Japanese Internment Camps To Defend A Muslim Registry.

This week in Politics:

The Majority of American Voters Did Not Choose Trump for President.

Hillary Clinton Didn’t Shatter the Glass Ceiling.

THE MYTHS DEMOCRATS SWALLOWED THAT COST THEM THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Congressional GOP Pursues Codified Discrimination Against Range of Identities.

Terrorism deaths fall despite widening impact of attacks, global study reveals.

What the Hell Just Happened?

This Week in Hate Crimes

Hundreds of hate attacks recorded in US since election.

This map tracks where people are being harassed by Trump supporters.

Anti-Semitic propaganda was mailed to me at my home. This is not normal.

Farewells:

Robert Vaughn, ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ Star, Dies at 83.

Robert Vaughn may be best known for ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,’ but he had a range of colors to display.

Gwen Ifill, Host Of ‘Washington Week’ And ‘PBS NewsHour,’ Dies.

Gwen Ifill, legendary PBS reporter, is dead at 61.

Farewell to the Irreplaceable Gwen Ifill.

Things I wrote:

Facing an existential threat yet again….

Stop saying ‘We’ll get through this’ because not everyone will.

Imagining hope.

Getting indicted, still faking it (badly), & other weekend updates.

Five months later, Pulse shooting still a gut punch.

Not forgotten.

I am a writer, have pity on my husband.

Just keep writing, just keep writing, cry when you need to, just keep writing.

Videos!

Robbie Williams | Love My Life – Official Video:

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SAINT MOTEL – “Move” (Official Video):

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Alicia Keys – Blended Family (What You Do For Love) ft. A$AP Rocky:

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Passenger | When We Were Young (Official Video):

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It’s a Friday. I’m usually happy and excited that the work week is almost over. Happy is not an emotion I’m feeling right now.

However, I also know what a grind it is to confront nothing but more stories about the big thing that happened this week. So I’m changing the format of this post from the usual. We’re going to start with a couple of music videos, followed by Science links and so forth that have nothing to do with the election or its fallout. Then I’ll have a warning that the rest of the links are on the other topic, so you can stop scrolling down and go read some other part of the web instead if you want.

Videos!

Nathan Sykes – Famous:

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Eli Lieb – Until You’ve Fallen Down:

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Science!

Fastest Animals: Brazilian Free-Tailed Bat Takes Top Mammal Spot From Cheetah.

Rats Can Laugh—Provided You’re Willing to Tickle Them.

Power outage in the brain may be source of Alzheimer’s.

Extinction or Evolution? The Answer Isn’t Always Clear.

Oldest Beer Brewed from Shipwreck’s 220-Year-Old Yeast Microbes.

A funnel on Mars could be a place to look for life.

Wireless brain-to-spine connection gets paralyzed primates walking.

Your flu risk may be linked to the year you were born.

Electrons cooled close to absolute zero reveal their quantum nature.

Beetle Bailing: Beetles represent about 40% of all insects and 25% of all animals.

The Difference Between Highly Sensitive and Hypersensitive: High sensitivity is biological. Hypersensitivity is a coping style..

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!

Joshua Sky interviews legendary author Larry Niven.

Fabulous, Darling!

‘Mr. Robot’ Star Rami Malek to Play Freddie Mercury in Queen Biopic.

Orlando to buy Pulse nightclub, turn it into memorial.

Why anti-gay discrimination is illegal, in one short footnote.

Human Rights Campaign President “Formally Apologizes” To Transgender Community.

Drawn to Comics: Annie Mok’s “No Exit” Will Make Your Heart Stronger.

This Week in Tech

Many iCloud users receiving spam Calendar & Photo Sharing invitations, here’s how to fix.

New MacBook Pro has already outsold every other notebook in 2016.

LONG LIVE THE MACINTOSH STARTUP CHIME.

How to restore the classic Mac startup chime to Apple’s new 2016 MacBook Pros.

Farewells:

Janet Reno, First Woman to Serve as U.S. Attorney General, Dies at 78.

2 Live Crew’s Luther Campbell Remembers ‘True Florida Icon’ Janet Reno.

Leonard Cohen, singer/songwriter and master poet, dies at 82.

Leonard Cohen Dead at 82.

Dreadful Things

If you don’t want to read anything about the election, turn back now…

Ain’t That a Kick to the Rubber Parts?

Margaret and Helen: This too shall pass… like a kidney stone.

It Really Is That Bad.

What Happened on Election Day.

Elections have consequences.

The Audacity of Hopelessness .

This Week in Denial

On “Woke” White People Advertising their Shock that Racism just won a Presidency.

This week in Topics Most People Can’t Be Rational About

Consider a Monarchy, America.

This Week in Enablers

Media obsession with a bullshit email scandal helped Trump to the White House.

AMID CLINTON CONTROVERSY, FBI DOCUMENTS SHOW WHY AMERICANS SHOULD WORRY ABOUT INTELLIGENCE GATHERING.

States that passed voting restrictions saw decreased turnout, flipped to Trump.

This Week in Understanding

The Cinemax Theory of Racism.

I’m a Coastal Elite From the Midwest: The Real Bubble is Rural America.

This Week in Dismay

I Still Love America. But, After Trump’s Victory, I Don’t Trust It: I’ve never felt less American and more Jewish. I hear my grandmother’s voice in my ear: As Jews, we know history doesn’t always march forward toward a better day.

In America, Love Does Not Trump Hate.

Trans group reports suicides post-election; LGBTQ hotline calls surge.

Love Will Be the Center of My Resistance. “This election was a referendum on how this country values the humanity of marginalized people, and the message we received is that we are not valued by a vast number of our fellow countrypeople.”

This Week in Wishful Thinking

Despite Republican pledges, ‘repealing Obamacare’ will be almost impossible — but it could be vandalized. Since kicking 8 million children off of insurance rolls in one of the things this article classifies as “vandalism”…

Culture War and Hate Crimes

Transgender Woman Shot to Death in Virginia.

Pence confirms once and for all that Trump will be an anti-LGBT president.

Vandals Scrawl Nazi and Pro-Trump Messages in Philadelphia.

Maple Grove School Investigating Racist, Pro-Trump Graffiti.

Anti-LGBT activists set out their plan to roll back equality under President Trump.

Message Left on a Car in North Carolina: ‘Gay Families = Burn in Hell. Trump 2016’.

Day 1 In Trump’s America.

Ku Klux Klan Steps Up Recruiting After Trump’s Win: Stand Up For The White Man And Fight “Black Savages”.

White Supremacist Leader: Trump’s Victory Means We Now Can Drive A Stake Into Jews And Minorities.

This Week in Cracking Down

Trump’s potential Homeland Security chief says anti-Trump protests ‘must be quelled’.

How I got arrested while recording New York City’s first protest against President-elect Trump.

Trump Shows Every Sign of Carrying Out Sweeping Immigration Crackdown.

Where Do We Go from Here?

Calexit: Californians want to secede now that Trump won.

Here’s What We Can Do When the Trump Administration Challenges LGBTQ Rights.

Muslim Americans Grapple with a Trump Presidency.

No, Let’s Not Congratulate Him.

DONALD TRUMP WILL BE PRESIDENT. THIS IS WHAT WE DO NEXT.

How to preserve the ideals of liberal democracy in the face of a Trump presidency.

It’s a Friday! But it’s November already. How did THAT happen?!

I’m doing NaNoWriMo again, and we a little surprised at how many links I amassed even though I’m spending less time reading that news.

Anyway, here are links to some of the interesting things I read on the web this week, sorted into various topic areas.

Links of the Week

7 Appearance Related Comments Trans People Wish You’d Stop Making.

Geocachers find woman trapped in wrecked car at bottom of ravine.

7 Reasons So Many Guys Don’t Understand Sexual Consent.

This week in white privilege

“While land rights and anti-Washington activists greeted the jury’s decision as a long-overdue victory for American liberty, others called it a terrifying invitation for armed protesters to occupy federal land and buildings with impunity, potentially putting federal workers at risk.”.

Suspect in ‘ambush-style’ killings of two Iowa police officers taken into custody.

This week in the deplorables

DOJ To Send Elections Monitors To Four Counties In North Carolina.

This week in awful news

Sexual violence is one of the most horrific weapons of war, an instrument of terror used against women. Yet huge numbers of men are also victims. In this harrowing report, Will Storr travels to Uganda to meet traumatised survivors, and reveals how male rape is endemic in many of the world’s conflicts.

This week in awful people

Twitter Suspends Account Posting Voter Misinformation Aimed At Minorities. But only after being shamed in the media about not suspending the account earlier…

News for queers and our allies:

Diana Davies Recorded Early Gay Lib. Here Are Some Of Her Incredible Photos.

The great gay subversion of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”.

These TV Shows Are Finally Giving Queer Women Happy Endings.

Science!

Australians, Pacific Islanders carry DNA of unknown human species, research analysis suggests.

Meet the Seattle scientist who composes horror film music.

Men Pull Out Of Male Birth Control Trial After Experiencing Side Effects Women Have Been Told for Decades Were Just In Their Heads.

Study blames ‘exceptional warmth’ for low snowpack levels.

Scientific Proof That Support For Trump Is Driven By Anger At Women.

DNA clues to how chipmunk earned its stripes.

[Most Articles About] Supermoons Are Super Dumb.

“Parking-garage” structures in nuclear astrophysics and cellular biophysics.

Abandoned in space in 1967, a US satellite has started transmitting again.

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!

Jillian Holtzmann: queer as a salty parabola, she’s not here for straight people.

Fear of a Feminist Future: The alt-right hopes to be saved by the apocalypse.

We Have Always Been Here, Motherfucker.

Groot’s best friend.

This week in Writing

Maybe You Like Comma Splices, Maybe You Don’t: Jane Austen and Lewis Carroll used comma splices, but your English teacher might have a problem with them.

The POC Guide to Writing Dialect In Fiction.

HOW ROUGH A ROUGH DRAFT REALLY IS.

The connection between writing and dancing: What Beyonce Taught Me.

This Week in History

Which Political Party Has Created More Jobs?

This Week in Tech

No, Facebook, ‘Diversity’ Doesn’t Explain Your Support of Thiel.

Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race. And in at least some cases this is an actual violation of federal law.

I am in a test for Twitter’s new @ reply design and it is a mess. When users are confused, it is not because users are dumb, it’s because the design is bad. Unfortunately, the sort of designers/engineers who assume it is because the users are dumb always make the design even worse when trying to fix it.

How Apple could have avoided much of the controversy. “A lot of it boils down to this concept: We demand Apple innovate, but we insist they don’t change anything.” … “If you think about it, perhaps the biggest change from my older, 2013 laptop is that it’s gone from having seven (yes, that many) ports, each with a specific purpose to having four points, each customizable by a cable to dongle to solve the problem you have… My laptop has a power port, an SD card port, 3 Thunderbolt ports and two USB ports. I know that in the four years I’ve owned it, I’ve never used the SD card, I use the Power port, one Thunderbolt port, and occasionally plug a USB cable in. So half the ports in this thing are never used — and yet I paid for them because they were built into the computer.”

No SD Card slot? It’s the camera companies you should be upset with, not Apple.

How black people built social media.

This week in Health

How the Fight to Legalize Cannabis Balms and Lotions Gave People with Chronic Pain More Options.

Feeling Happy for Others Can Make You Happy.

This Week in Inclusion

Why Queer Retellings of Classic Stories Are So Necessary.

Once Taboo, Gay Characters Are Taking Over YA Fiction. Not exactly…

TV Is Better for L.G.B.T.Q. Characters than Ever—Unless You’re a Lesbian.

This week in Difficult to Classify

Who is buying these $66 collard greens from Neiman Marcus?

Culture war news:

fundamentalism, satan, and the end of a loyal opposition.

School won’t host haunted house depicting Pulse shooting.

‘Token’ civil rights leader attacks Obama’s racial heritage for supporting lgbt community.

‘Ex-Gay’ Speakers Warn That Satan Tries To Drag People Back Into Homosexuality.

Mom wants ‘graphic’ book pulled from high school library.

Christian Dominionism’s Fruitful Distortion of American History.

Anti-LGBT Activist Steve Hotze: Gays Are Eating Away America’s Moral Fabric Like Termites.

The headline should be, “White Supremacist Militia Plots Domestic Terrorism as Election Nears” U.S. militia girds for trouble as presidential election nears.

Justice Department to North Carolina: Stop Illegally Purging Black Voters From the Rolls.

This Week in Fighting Back in the Culture War:

Universities work to purge male students of their ‘toxic’ masculinity.

This Week in Hate Crimes

University of Wisconsin-Stout Student From Saudi Arabia Killed.

This Week Regarding the Lying Liar:

The Ku Klux Klan makes it official, endorses Donald Trump saying ‘Make America Great Again’.

370 Economists Debunk Trump’s Right-Wing Media Myths On The Economy.

Fran Leibowitz on Donald Trump –”He’s a Poor Person’s Idea of a Rich Person”. Watch.

Best reason not to vote for Trump: Franklin Graham: Vote Trump Or Else Right Wing Christians Will Lose Control Of America.

This week in Puff Pieces about the Election:

Staving Off the Apocalypse in Cleveland: I Canvassed in Ohio with Gary Shteyngart and We Saw the Real America.

The Only Article You Need To Read About Why Trump Voters Are Angry. “But, except for roughly 7,200 articles on the subject, there has been scant effort made by the mainstream media to understand the kind of voters who say Trump speaks for them.”

This week in Politics:

CNN confirms James Comey violated FBI policy today by trying to sabotage Hillary Clinton.

FBI’s Comey opposed naming Russians, citing election timing: Source.

Republicans Pile On James Comey Over Handling Of Clinton Probe.

Five Reasons Not to Panic About Hillary Clinton Right Now.

Growing evidence of a hidden women’s vote for Clinton.

FBI Agents Are Attempting to Sway a Presidential Election. That’s Horrifying.

The Strange Career of the Voter-Fraud Myth.

GMA Fined $18 Million over Cover Up in GMO Labeling Fight. That’s my state’s attorney general winning the largest campaign finance fine in history, in this case against the Grocery Manufacturers Association for failing to disclose the source of $11million dollars worth of fundraising they did to defeat a food labelling initiative.

This Week in Racism

Why I Left My Dream Job at Second City.

White nationalists plot Election Day show of force: KKK, neo-Nazis and militias plan to monitor urban polling places and suppress the black vote. It’s not a show of force, it is domestic terrorism.

This Week in Hate Crimes

Met Police ‘sorry’ for not investigating homophobia.

This Week in Sexism

The first time a man hurt me, I was 8. My story isn’t unusual.

Frank Cho & Milo Manara Prove They’ve Learned Nothing at “Art and Women” Panel.

Farewells:

Legendary horror host John Zacherle passes away.

John Zacherle, Host With a Ghoulish Perspective, Dies at 98.

Don Marshall, Actor on ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Land of the Giants,’ Dies at 80.

Star Trek’s Don Marshall Dies at 80, But His Lt. Boma Profoundly Changed Spock.

Things I wrote:

No one else can tell the stories I have to tell.

False equivalency and taking a page from J. Edgar Hoover.

I’d rather be talking about Tricks and Treats!

It’s NaNoWriMo time again!

There wolf! There castle! why sf/f doesn’t have to be serious.

Videos!

Feelin’ Alt-Right (Act 1, Part 1) | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee:

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Feelin’ Alt-Right (Act 1, Part 2) | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee :

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Halloween Treat: Obama Sings ‘Purple Rain’; Halloween 2016 at the White House:

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Beyoncé performance at CMA Awards 50th ft. Dixie Chicks | Daddy Lessons Full Video:

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WONDER WOMAN – Official Trailer [HD] (this is the first DC movie that looked interesting in a long time):

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I’m still trying to recover from the cold/flu thing, so I haven’t had much energy to do anything other than work.

Anyway, here are links to some of the interesting things I read on the web this week, sorted into various topic areas.

Links of the Week

Why I Was a Teenage Hoarder. “only some compulsive hoarding is comprised of the need to acquire; many hoarders are driven only by the need to retain.”

“They Were Taken Alive, We Want Them Back Alive!” (Artists for Empathy, Part 2).

This Week in Restoring Our Faith in Humanity

City says liens against Pulse nightclub property will be nixed.

This week in mildly unnerving

Hospital Ward Gripped by Mysterious Hallucinations Quarantined After Five Fall Ill.

This week in Comments, Trolls, and Wankers

A third of pro-Trump tweets are generated by bots.

Twitter’s troll problem likely killed Disney’s bid.

Anti-Semitic Posts, Many From Trump Supporters, Surge on Twitter.

This Week in Difficult to Classify

The white flight of Derek Black: one man’s journey out of White Supremacy.

Voices From Wells Fargo: ‘I Thought I Was Having a Heart Attack’.

News for queers and our allies:

The most important gay rights case since marriage equality was won.

LBGT Students Are Not Safe at School.

New survey finds more U.S. cities protecting LGBTQ rights.

MICHELLE VISAGE HELPS GAY TEEN FIND SHELTER AFTER HE WAS KICKED OUT OF PARENTS’ HOUSE.

Hillary Clinton: “It is important that we not reverse marriage equality”.

Thousands of Men to Be Pardoned for Gay Sex, Once a Crime in Britain.

The Gay Film That Survived the Nazis Is Premiering in NYC.

Science!

5 Ways to Deal With a Psychopath.

A possible ninth planet may be the reason for a tilt in our solar system.

Radio galaxies: the mysterious, secretive “beasts” of the Universe.

Biggest map of giant voids and clusters in the universe solves major cosmological puzzle.

‘Extremely rare’ ancient swordfish fossils unearthed in outback Queensland.

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!

Mary W. Shelley: Life After the Monster.

GeekGirlCon Seattle 2016.

This week in Writing

Ann Leckie: On Blacklisting.

This Week in Tech

Samsung Issues Takedown On Video Of Grand Theft Auto 5 Mod Turning Galaxy Note 7 Into A Weapon.

Samsung sets up airport kiosks for last-minute Galaxy Note 7 exchanges.

7 LESSONS FROM SAMSUNG’S GALAXY NOTE 7 CRISIS.

This Week in Inclusion

There were enough women outlaws in the old west to justify an entire nonfiction comic series.

This week in Topics Most People Can’t Be Rational About

First criminal case filed from Washington state’s two year old background check law.

Culture war news:

After Pulse, coalition wants to drive change on gun laws.

GOP State Lawmakers Sign Brief Opposing Same-Sex Benefits.

Outrageous! Felony Charges Given to Journalist Filming Anti-Pipeline Protest.

How Trump Took Hate Groups Mainstream.

Louisiana attorney general wins court victory in fight against gay rights order.

Memo For The NY Times – The US Has Inequality, Not Child Poverty.

‘Calm down, dear’: how bishops talk down to gay people – by leading bishop.

Hyperpartisan Facebook Pages Are Publishing False And Misleading Information At An Alarming Rate.

This Week Regarding the Lying Liar:

How Trump’s Casino Bankruptcies Screwed His Workers out of Millions in Retirement Saving.

Trump Incorrectly Blames Clinton Campaign For Rally Violence.

Hillary Clinton’s 3 debate performances left the Trump campaign in ruins.

This week in Politics:

‘Rigged?’ Western PA Republican circulates fake meme about online voting in PA.

Miami Herald recommends Patrick Murphy for U.S. Senate.

Inequality Defines the American Election.

Why Was There No LGBT Question in the Debates?

RNC Warns Against Poll Watching, Citing Decades-Old Court Decree.

The American Public Overwhelmingly Sides with Clinton over Trump on Immigration Policy and Politics.

This Week in Racism

How Interracial Romance ‘Loving’ Became the Most Relevant Movie This Election Season. Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton star in the true-life story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a Virginia couple arrested in 1958 for marrying.

New report details Trump-inspired surge in anti-Semitism.

This Week in Hate Crimes

‘Walking while trans’ can be a death sentence in the U.S..

This Week in Misogyny

The silver lining of Trump’s misogyny? More men are decrying his ways.

‘I refuse to be victimized anymore’: Former WA first lady on sexual harassment.

2016’S MANIFEST MISOGYNY.

Think It’s #NotAllMen? These 4 Facts Prove You’re Just Plain Wrong.

Farewells:

Bhumibol, a King of the People, Leaves Them to the Generals.

Things I wrote:

Amazing and heart-wrenching: Cracked explains this election so accurately it hurts.

Judging or policing, or maybe just taking note.

False dichotomies: talking weather, mostly.

Trust the reader to keep up.

Videos!

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Sneak Peek:

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BAD HOMBRES, NASTY WOMEN (ft. “Weird Al” Yankovic):

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Cher: I Got You Bae:

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My hubby and I are going to GeekGirlCon tomorrow and I’m soooooo looking forward to it! I need a vacation. Let’s hope this one doesn’t get interrupted.

Anyway, here are links to some of the interesting things I read on the web this week, sorted into various topic areas.

Links of the Week

‘Superhero’ Dethrones ‘Princess’ As Favorite Kids’ Costume.

How Pennsylvania Rye Whiskey Lost Its Way: The near-extinction of America’s oldest brands and the death of a spirits category. This is actually a history of the American rye whiskey industry from the turn of the previous century to today, and is fascinating!

A gay werewolf tale from the 12th century.

This Week in Restoring Our Faith in Humanity

Famed Target Cashier Gets A Big Reward For His Viral Act Of Kindness.

This week in mass hysteria

The Wave of Evil Clown Sightings Is Nothing to Worry About. It Happens Every Few Years!

Here Are The Best And Most Ridiculous Evil Clown Safety Alerts.

‘Killer Clowns’: Inside the Terrifying Hoax Sweeping America.

Clowns were creepy long before they were fun.

Professional clowns fighting back against ‘scary clown’ image.

Clown sightings: the day it all began..”Sociologist Robert Bartholomew at Botany College in New Zealand has studied mass hysteria for decades, and said the current clown scare is a result of two rising forces in the US: social media, and a fear of otherness”

This week in evil people

Creepy: This story about Ted Bundy before anyone knew he was killing women.

British book dealer slain for his first edition of ‘The Wind in the Willows,’ prosecutors say.

News for queers and our allies:

For many LGBTQ people, even a routine doctor visit can be a ‘degrading experience’.

How Exclusion From the Military Strengthened Gay Identity in America.

‘Follow your current and love yourself’: Meet the mermen swimming against stereotypes.

Kylie Minogue And Fiance Joshua Sasse Vow Not To Marry Until Same-Sex Marriage Is Legalized in Australia.

This week in weather

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-hurricane-matthew-florida-20161007-story.html.

Hurricane Matthew Makes Old Problems Worse for Haitians.

Why the ‘tough love’ on Hurricane Matthew evacuation?

Matt Drudge’s Hurricane Conspiracy Theory Comment Is Irresponsible In The Worst Way.

Conservative Hurricane Truthers Downplay Danger Of Hurricane Matthew.

Orlando’s first post-Pulse pride celebration was postponed this due to the change in course of Hurricane Matthew.

Science!

Implication of sabotage adds intrigue to SpaceX investigation.

The Human Remembering Machine.

What if PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological?

Scientists gave squirrels fitness trackers and found that males are lazy and females do all the work.

UW professor is co-winner of Nobel Prize in physics.

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!

Stopping Harassment After the Fact Just Isn’t Good Enough.

Quick Thoughts – Some Opinions on the State of Short Fiction.

Real-Life Superhero Roxane Gay Is Writing Queer Black Women Into Comics.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show and four decades of queer sci fi punk.

Three Easy Steps to Fix the World Fantasy Convention.

A Gallery of George Salter F&SF Covers.

And other news:

45 YEARS AFTER ATTICA UPRISING, PRISONERS ARE REBELLING AGAIN.

Man Steals Barrel Full Of $1.5 Million Worth Of Gold Flakes.

This week in Writing

WHAT MAKES A CHILDREN’S BOOK GOOD?

The doxxing of Elena Ferrante: the uproar over the novelist’s secret identity, explained.

This Week in History

British Fascist leader fo short shrift from his Welsh audiences.

This Week in Tech

Security Design: Stop Trying to Fix the User.

Yahoo ‘secretly monitored emails on behalf of the US government’.

More details: Yahoo Adapted Email-Scanning Spam Filter to Satisfy ‘Secret Court Order’ Related to Terrorist Hunt.

Why an iPhone master key is better than a backdoor, but still too dangerous.

This Week in Police Problems

Why It’s So Hard to Stop Bad Cops From Getting New Police Jobs.

In the Chicago Police Department, If the Bosses Say It Didn’t Happen, It Didn’t Happen: story of a massive criminal gang operating within the police department.

Culture war news:

The states that siphon welfare money to stop abortion.

GOP Candidate: There’s A Secret Gay Plot To Sodomize Your Children.

Pope warns of ‘ideological colonization’ in transgender teachings.

Louisiana governor sues his attorney general for not following LGBTQ protections.

Leaked Videos Show Mormon Leaders Getting Possibly Classified Information from a U.S. Senator.

My Homeschooled Friend Killed Himself, And His Family Wouldn’t Talk About It.

Jack Falahee and Conrad Ricamora Speak Out After Philippine TV Censors Gay ‘HTGAWM’ Kiss.

This Week Regarding the Lying Liar:

Donald Trump: Terroristic Man-Toddler.

Don’t underestimate Cosmo. Women’s magazines are taking on Trump.

DONALD TRUMP’S TAX RECORDS: A TALE OF BUSINESS FAILURES.

Pence Spends Entire Vice Presidential Debate Pretending Trump Doesn’t Exist.

Here’s Why Mike Pence Advised Against Hiring Gay People: He also has opinions on “gaydom”.

6 things Donald Trump definitely said that Mike Pence claimed he didn’t.

Democratic Congressman: Trump Will “Gut You,” “Walk Over Your Cold Dead Body”.

Mike Pence’s Defining Moment As Governor? Enabling An HIV Outbreak.

POLITICS George Takei Just Destroyed Mike Pence In Epic Tweetstorm.

This week in Politics:

Stephen Colbert Rips Mike Pence’s Anti-Gay Record in VP Debate Wrap-Up: WATCH.

Texas Newspaper Destroys The Myth That Hillary Clinton Is The Lesser Of Two Evils.

Whitewater Prosecutor Backs Hillary.

Years before ‘Aleppo moment,’ Gary Johnson showed little interest in details of governing.

Judges Who Are Elected Like Politicians Tend to Act Like Them.

Don’t Hold Your Breath For Gender Parity In Congress — It Could Take Another 100 Years.

For the third time since The Atlantic’s founding 159 years ago, the editors endorse a candidate for president. The case for Hillary Clinton.

Hillary is running on the most progressive platform in the modern history of the Democratic party.

This Week in Racism

The U.S. Owes African-Americans Reparations, Says United Nations.

When We Turned #ThatMexicanThing Into Stories Of Our Patriotism and Resilience.

Fox News fit an impressive number of offensive Asian stereotypes into 5 minutes.

This Week in Sexism

Students see male professors as brilliant geniuses, female professors as bossy and annoying.

“But, what was she wearing?”

Sarah MacLean: Bashing Romance Novels Is Just Another Form Of Slut-Shaming.

Farewells:

Rest in Power: Gloria Naylor, Author of ‘The Women of Brewster Place,’ Has Died.

‘Thriller’ Writer Rod Temperton Dies at 66.

Things I wrote:

Weekend Update 10/1/2016: Six-year-old in critical condition.

Oppressed Oppressors: Not all Christians….

Videos!

Stephen Colbert: Don’t Paint All Clowns With The Same Giant Brush:

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Parekh & Singh – I Love You Baby, I Love You Doll:

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Katy Perry – Rise:

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We have now reached the fifth and final Friday in September. The most blesséd month is drawing to a close.

This week was weird. I had such a good week at work last week. And then a lot of fun celebrating my birthday, until we got the next set of news about the selling of our building. So we spent a lot of this week doing a lot of cleaning and sorting and hauling. My feet are still sore.

Anyway, here are links to some of the interesting things I read on the web this week, sorted into various topic areas.

Links of the Week

My Son, the Prince of Fashion. This story isn’t about fashion. It’s about a boy, his father, family, and finding your people…

HERE’S WHY TEAL PUMPKINS ARE SO IMPORTANT FOR TRICK-OR-TREATERS THIS HALLOWEEN.

Happy News!

Jeffrey Tambor, Coming Out, and “The Most Important Time To Be An Artist”.

This week in Comments, Trolls, and Wankers

The One Psychological Characteristic That Online Trolls Tend to Share.

This week in awful news

2 kids, teacher shot at Townville Elementary School; Teen arrested.

Teen kills father, opens fire on South Carolina schoolyard.

1 Dead, More Than 100 Hurt in Hoboken Train Crash.

Remembering the victims of the Cascade Mall shooting.

This week in evil people

Stumpf Pay Surrender Buys Time But Lawmakers Say It’s Not Enough.

State Senate Candidate Calls Gay Teen Who Committed Suicide A Murderer, Internet Comes For Him.

News for queers and our allies:

Can Gay Parents Provide Everything Their Children Need? No, but Straight Parents Can’t Either: The Children of Gay Parents, Like All Kids, Need More Than Their Parents Can Provide.

‘Everybody Could Feel Safe’: Remembering LA’s Revolutionary Black Gay Nightclub.

Why the Queer Gaming Conventions GaymerX Puts Politics Second.

A Light During Darkest Days of AIDS: Hat Sister John Michael Gray Dies.

For LGBT Students, History Lessons Often Leave Out A Key Chapter.

With Insurers on Board, More Hospitals Offer Transgender Surgery.

The Closet Is Still Killing Us.

We Asked People Why They’re Proud To Be Bisexual And The Responses Are Perfect.

Norwegians now can change genders legally with a mouse click.

I‘m the gay son of a preacher man. When I came out to Dad, he was perfect.

First Pride Flag Launched Into Stratosphere.

Professional skateboarder Brian Anderson comes out: ‘I’m a skateboarder first, gay second’.

A Trans Life, Captured by Mark Seliger.

Has It Really ‘Gotten Better’ for Gay Kids?

Same-sex couple celebrate their modern-day fairytale by dressing up as Disney princesses.

Science!

Science Is What Made America Great.

Colossal wasps’ nest found in attic is the stuff of nightmares.

Mercury Is More Earth-Like Than We Thought.

World’s First Baby Born With DNA From Three Parents.

All of our astrological signs are wrong, according to NASA.

Self-powered fish tag tracks fish for as long as they swim.

Scientists Have Discovered A Way To Kill Superbugs Without Antibiotics.

‘This is one little pond and yet there’s thousands in there’: Okotoks mass poisons illegally dumped goldfish.

The UN plans to go to space in 2021.

Japanese inventor’s typhoon turbines harness storms’ energy.

Scientists find evidence for alternate theory of how life arose.

Happy Galactic Tick Day! You just moved around the Milky Way.

Bruce Campbell, Justin Willman and Nick Swardson deliver groundbreaking scientific discoveries about social media.

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculation!

Mark Reads ‘Hogfather’: Part 17.

The Space Between Us trailer: Asa Butterfield leaves Mars for Earth in search of answers.

This week in Writing

11 Ways to Ask for Writing Advice (And 10 Major Mistakes to Avoid).

This Week in Tech

How not to get hacked by Mr. Robot.

the internet of crappy, crappy things.

This Week in Inclusion

Who Gets to Write What?

LGBTQ and Other “Diverse” Books Lead Banned Books List.

Why It Matters That Greg Rucka Finally Admitted Wonder Woman Is Queer.

This Week in Not Understanding Diversity

Let’s Discuss Cultural Appropriation with Owls.

New NBC Series Makes Light of Human Trafficking and Asian Stereotypes.

Culture war news:

NOM continues to called blog post by anti-gay reviewer a “study”.

Mother Sues Hospital for Discriminating Against Deceased Trans Son.

Is the NYT going to give every hate group in America a similar sympathetic article? Split Over Donald Trump and Cut Off by Culture Wars, Evangelicals Despair.

Many Evangelical Christians Feel Out of Place in Society (But You Shouldn’t Feel Bad About It).

Insightful Poll Reveals Who Opposes LGBT People on Two Big Issues.

Activists Say They Have Signatures Needed To Put Repeal Of Transgender Rights Law Before Voters.

Christian Activist: Sex Offenders Live Near Target Stores, So Trans People May Rape Our Daughters.

This Week in Hate Crimes

GAY MEN ATTACKED AT SAN FRANCISCO’S FOLSOM FESTIVAL.

This Week Regarding the Lying Liar:

Out of his depth, Donald Trump clings to deception.”Knowledge is not elitism.”

Donald Trump “Jokes” About Kicking Non-Christians Out of His Rally.

Dear liberals for #GaryJohnson: you’re just voting for a tea party Republican who likes weed and helping Trump win.

A historian on why so many people want Donald Trump to “make America great again”. “Hopes can be extinguished but nostalgia is irrefutable.”

This week in Politics:

Why do Republicans support a bigot for president?

At the First Debate, Clinton Faced Asymmetric Warfare—and Won.

VOTING THIRD PARTY IS THE ELECTORAL EQUIVALENT OF SENDING THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS.

Here’s How We Need to Watch the Next 2 Debates.

Gary Johnson is not worth any liberal’s protest vote: He’s a free-market ideologue who would work to undermine large pieces of the left’s program.

Senate Votes to Override Obama Veto on 9/11 Victims Bill.

Political Provocateur Randy Rainbow Is the Best Thing About The Election.

Early votes: High interest buoys Clinton in key states.

Where Does Chris Christie Go from Here?

Taco Trucks Register New Voters.

This Week in Racism

“I Wanted to Dramatize the Racist Attitude of the Majority”.

This Week in Misogyny

The narrative of women in fear and pain.

Things I wrote:

Weekend Update 9/24/2016: Bring the SOB to justice.

Act my age?

I don’t need to watch the debate, I know which candidate thinks I have a right to exist, and which doesn’t.

…on my mind….

Videos!

***OMG!*** NEW “Will & Grace” scene about 2016 Election:

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Supergirl 2×01 Sneak Peek “The Adventures of Supergirl” (HD) (OMG! Tyler is soooooo adorkable as Clark Kent!):

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‘American Male’ Short Film:

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EXCLUSIVE׃ Adam Lambert Nails ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ Ballads Behind the Scenes:

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Niall Horan – This Town (Live, 1 Mic 1 Take):

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“Radio Gaga” Hong Kong Sep28.2016 Queen+Adam Lambert:

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