the-anxious-activist:

The situation:  

Top computer
security experts believe that voting machines are highly susceptible to
hacking. These experts are encouraging candidates to ask for a recount to make
sure that the machines weren’t hacked to meddle with the results.  This is especially important since Russian
hacking has already meddled in our election process!

Why it’s urgent:  

There’s a
statute of limitations for a recount: “The
deadlines for filing recount petitions are soon — for example, this Friday in
Wisconsin (margin 0.7%),
Monday in Pennsylvania (margin 1.2%), and the following
Wednesday in Michigan (margin 0.3%).”  

This isn’t just an attempt to clutch at
straws and try to get Hillary into the White House. Doing the audit would also help
discourage possible future attempts at hacking. This is an important safeguard
against external interference in our elections more broadly. It should be a
bipartisan issue!

 Action You Can Take:

1. Call the
Department of Justice (202) 514-2000

2. There will
be a menu of options.  Press #4 to
leave a message.

3. Listen to
a brief recording re: DOJ.

4. When
prompted, leave your message.  You can
use the script below:

“Hello.
My name is NAME and I am calling to support an audit of the election
results in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. Computer security experts
believe that the machines may have been hacked and I am very disturbed by the
idea a foreign state like Russia may be interfering in our elections. Please order
an audit to check the paper ballots and verify the integrity of our elections. Thank you.”

(If you live in MN, PA, or WI, you might want to add that
to your message to give it extra weight.)

Also, please sign this petition.

UPDATE: Help Jill Stein File for a Recount!

Jill Stein is going to call for a recount in MN, PA, and WI, almost certainly for Clinton’s benefit and not her own, since there’s no way she won any of those states. But candidates have to pay for recounts, so she’s raising money on her website. Please donate if you can!

You can read more
about the situation behind the cut:

Keep reading

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Heh. I figured. But it’s nice to know for reals. Thank you, Secret
Santa. 🙂

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I also loved the Lizzie Bennet Diaries! I didn’t read the novelization, but I did read, and loved, The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet. (And then listened to, and loved, MK’s audiobook recording of it.)

It may also have made me cry.

I made some inept vlog-style commentary about The Epic Adventures here:

Warning: Includes extensive closeups of my face. The surrounding scenery is nice, though.

Thanks for asking, Anon!

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Uncertainty and the New Regime

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museum-of-artifacts:

Statuette of a veiled and masked dancer, Hellenistic, 3rd–2nd century b.c.
Greek

The complex motion of this dancer is conveyed exclusively through the interaction of the body with several layers of dress. Over an undergarment that falls in deep folds and trails heavily, the figure wears a lightweight mantle, drawn tautly over her head and body by the pressure applied to it by her right arm, left hand, and right leg. Its substance is conveyed by the alternation of the tubular folds pushing through from below and the freely curling softness of the fringe. The woman’s face is covered by the sheerest of veils, discernible at its edge below her hairline and at the cutouts for the eyes. Her extended right foot shows a laced slipper. This dancer has been convincingly identified as one of the professional entertainers, a combination of mime and dancer, for which the cosmopolitan city of Alexandria was famous in antiquity.

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catharinasecunda:

All hail sage Lady, whom a grateful Isle hath blessed. Not moving, not breathing. Our very own goddess. Glorious Gloriana. Forgetting Elizabeth Windsor now. Now only Elizabeth Regina.

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wigmund:

From SpaceTelescope.Org Picture of the Week; May 9, 2016:

A Spiral Snowflake

Spiral galaxies together with irregular galaxies make up approximately 60% of the galaxies in the local Universe. However, despite their prevalence, each spiral galaxy is unique — like snowflakes, no two are alike. This is demonstrated by the striking face-on spiral galaxy NGC 6814, whose luminous nucleus and spectacular sweeping arms, rippled with an intricate pattern of dark dust, are captured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image.

NGC 6814 has an extremely bright nucleus, a telltale sign that the galaxy is a Seyfert galaxy. These galaxies have very active centres that can emit strong bursts of radiation. The luminous heart of NGC 6814 is a highly variable source of X-ray radiation, causing scientists to suspect that it hosts a supermassive black hole with a mass about 18 million times that of the Sun.

As NGC 6814 is a very active galaxy, many regions of ionised gas are studded along its spiral arms. In these large clouds of gas, a burst of star formation has recently taken place, forging the brilliant blue stars that are visible scattered throughout the galaxy.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)

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womenwearingwolves:

I know things like this have an atrocious side to them but it does bring me a sense of pleasure amidst the smoke that these trying times are already spurring my artistic friends into power and creation mode.

Sesame Street was invented by people who cared about the lack of early education lower-income kids were receiving, and they had the revolutionary idea to bring preschool lessons into television sets.

I have to believe there are so many of us who will keep fighting the good fight and that we will prevail.  I worry about the glaciers, the economy, the kids; I worry about POC and LGTBQ people; I worry I worry I worry.

But I also hope that we do not despair and we voice our opposition.  And I meditate on the novels, the paintings, and the outcry that this opposition may spawn.

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.”
― John F. Kennedy

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6ting-deactivated20150830:

Lupita Nyong’o and Fan Bingbing at Cannes Film Festival 2015

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marykatewiles:

jaynaneeya:

Sean + Sinéad = Sibling Goals

I was hoping someone would gif this :)

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rikkisixx:

25 GIFs of Christmas ::
     White Christmas (1954)

“Miss Haynes, if you’re ever under a falling building and somebody runs up and offers to pick you up and carry you to safety, don’t think, don’t pause, don’t hesitate for a moment, just spit in his eye.“

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poisoned-apple:

A midsummer night’s dream performance by the Australian Ballet.

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sylvia-morris
replied to your post “I was tagged by @teddybearofdeath. Thank you for feeding my vanity!…”

MMA Ramotswe, yes! I was thinking about her yesterday :)

I neglected to reply-reply to this the other day. I pondered a while for that question, but once I thought of her I knew that was my answer. Especially with recent events, I’d love to sit in her office for an hour. I wouldn’t even have to share my dilemmas (though that would be a great bonus, since I’m sure she’d have excellent advice). But I’d be happy just to sit quietly in the corner listening to her talk with Mma Makutsi, with maybe a visit from Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni. And a cup of bush tea.

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“

[…] Sadly, the past few days have drawn important attention away from your incendiary cabinet appointments, your ditching of the American press, your inclusion of your daughter in closed-door meetings with Japan, and your massive settlement of the Trump University fraud case—and that is unfortunate.

However, what these days have done, is once again illustrate that you are not ready, qualified, or seemingly interested in leading the diverse complexion of this country in any meaningful way  For all your talk of making America great, it seems those dreams are for a highly selective few and with a very limited pigmentation.

You Tweeted yesterday that the theatre was supposed to be a “safe and special place” for all people. No, Mr. Trump, you’re thinking of America. America is supposed to be a safe and special place for all its citizens; those of color, those who are gay, those who claim the Muslim faith, those whose voices are often silenced by people in power—you know, people like the cast of Hamilton.

In fact, the American theatre has historically been one of the few places marginalized communities have been represented and had a voice and been openly celebrated. Your attempt to use equality and safety there as a weapon against these same folks, highlights your inability to show the slightest compassion toward those most maligned and most jeopardized by your campaign and victory. The very Americans most in need of you as their President-Elect to reassure them that you see and hear and respect them, are once again having confirmed for them by your very conduct—that you really don’t give a damn about them.

[…]

I’m not sure you really wanted this job, and I know that you don’t understand it, so let me help you: You work for the American people now, not the other way around. You don’t get to bully and shut down discussion and bulldoze citizens expressing free speech. You get the distinct and undeserved privilege to listen to the disparate voices of all the American people, and to serve them all as best you can. You get to humble yourself and consent to their will, not your own.

You received only a small percentage of Americans’ votes, Mr. Trump. The boos are going to be here for four years, so my advice to you is to put on that thick skin and those big boy pants your supporters are always saying Liberal “snowflakes” so need. Get off of Twitter and crack open some books because you are woefully ill prepared for this task at hand. You can’t Tweet or sound bite your way to leadership, so do the work that needs doing.

And perhaps more than anything, stop lecturing and ranting and scolding those who have been so very hurt in this country and who are right to feel threatened and worried right now—and start listening to them and trying to be their President-Elect, instead of a fragile Twitter personality trolling for sympathy. If your mind and attention are on Broadway shows and Saturday night comedies and newspaper reporters, your mind and attention are not on the things a President’s mind and attention should be on, which is the biggest problem here. You shouldn’t have time for this stuff and it shouldn’t even be on your radar.

Ask Barack Obama, George Bush Senior or Junior, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter how to honor this position.

You’re charged with leading America and *all* its people. Start leading.

”

– John Pavlovitz, Dear Donald Trump, Hamilton Proves You’re Not Ready to Lead

(via thefederalistfreestyle)

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marykatewiles:

The second part of my Poe Party Behind the Scenes series is here! Watch as I take you through production–well, as much as I could between producing and acting and repairing costumes. Enjoy and stay tuned for the final installment next week!

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by Jeni Madjarova

by Jeni Madjarova

floralls:

by

Jeni Madjarova

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The Art of the Protest – New York Times:

femininefreak:

Without the consent of the governed, power disappears. The goal of a civic movement should be to withdraw consent. Pull out the pillars, and the whole structure falls.

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tarthlannister:

       Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not.

     Wear it like a r m o u r, and it can never be used to hurt you.

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propitlikeithot:

Found this on my desk. Looks like I forgot to RSVP. I hope they had a good time!

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