For times of strife, like right now for many of us, whether we're making the reasons fully public or not:

https://twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield/status/1515367363293589508

In case of would-be autocrats, specifically. We can modify this list for local circumstances in Canada, the UK, Australia, South Africa, Israel, anywhere that we think the bad actors are acting up...

https://terikanefield.com/things-to-do/

...you might want to look at this posting and then make a decision if you can spare some cash:

https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/13479545.html

I note thatwendelah1 and I don't know each other. Yet.

Still, her post re: resources for dealing with the Texas Situation should be linked far and wide. I don't know what I can do beyond this, at least for now.

Okay, so today's got a Day of Action scheduled by OpenMedia.ca re: Bill C-10, specifically the site-blocking provisions...

Listening to this as I look for the next job:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/political-scientist-doom-meister-shares-prescription-for-a-better-world-1.5817323

So Biden is declared the president-elect by the world's news services now.

So now, we celebrate and prepare to both build upon that victory and fight off whatever rage against that victory yet comes our way.

And 2022 is coming. And so are the further consequences of climate derangement. And the new fascist international isn't done trying to murder the rest of us yet (with or without help from climate derangement)!

In Klingon: qapla'!

In English: Good luck!

Because librarygeek rightly reminded me. Before I forget due to twenty other things much closer to home.

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2016/11/17/the-post-election-case-for-speaking-out-naomi-shulman

I don't know that I want to care about which calendar system we're operating under right now.

Her death is a sad thing in and of itself, and the timing of it, the consequences of it terrify so many of my American friends right now. They terrify me.

We have to turn that fear from a paralytic to a carefully aimed goad to righteous action. And we need to do that right now. And I expect there are people who have already made their own plans to counter the expected and announced plans of Trump and McConnell and who knows who else.

Maybe some of you reading this.

We cannot surrender to any empty heart in these of all days. We dare not.

This one seems particularly appropriate to the moment, right?



Lyrics at the Cockburn Project