Two Years, 1000 Followers, And One Soul-consuming Fandom. Everyone Has Been So Very Supportive Of My

She got no standing ovation.  She got no mainstream media lauds for her heroism.  She got no kudos for leaving home, a much longer journey than that other senator, the one from Arizona, to get to DC, and there are no mainstream media stories on it that I can find… I only found out from a friend who spotted it on Twitter.   She didn’t do it for publicity.   Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii was just doing her job as a good politician, voting not to repeal the ACA so as to protect her constituents.  She has Stage Four kidney cancer — that means scarce chances of survival — is recovering from a second surgery to remove part of a rib, and made sure she got to her seat in the Senate Chamber to vote “no” to whatever Republican wealth-care crap was thrown at her.   But you’ll only find out about it on social media.  Because she’s not a pale male, maybe?

The heroic Senator with severe cancer who interrupted treatment to vote… NO (via wilwheaton)

OK GUYS LISTEN UP

I BARELY EVER ASK Y’ALL FOR ANYTHING BUT JUST THIS ONCE

PLEASE COULD YOU WATCH THE HELL OUT OF THIS VIDEO

IT’S A CUTE TORTOISE BUT THAT’S NOT ALL 

EVERY PENNY OF VIEWING REVENUE WILL GO TO CHARITIES SUPPORTING SYRIAN REFUGEES IN EUROPE

IT WAS MY FRIEND’S IDEA AND SHE GOT ALAN RICKMAN (no I’m not kidding) TO DO THE VOICEOVER

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The Public: No Quentin Tarantino Involvement in Star Trek

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Star Trek matte paintings, by Syd Dutton. Romulus; the First City of the Klingon Empire; Ocampa Underground City; Cardassia Prime; and Gagarin IV. All except the third one (Voyager) are from TNG/DS9. (Matte paintings were often re-used across the different series.)

Yesterday, I went to help my neighbor with her barn duties. She has owned her horse Winni for almost the entire 14 years of his life and he is seriously just the sweetest horse I’ve ever met. He’s helped me a lot with overcoming my fear of horse riding after my accident two years ago. Because of him, I’ve started riding again and I really love every second I can spend with my neighbor and her horse at the barn.  

Winni is the horse in the middle of the last picture. The little girl is my neighbors two year old daughter. She had a blast sitting in the hay rack and cuddling with Winnis stable mate Endor.

The Good in People Makes the hairs stand up on my arms and neck sometimes… 

On January 10th A pod of eleven killer whales, a family of 2 adults and 9 juveniles  were discovered trapped in the ice of the Hudson bay off the coast of the small inuit village of inukjuak. Confined for two days in the small breathing hole that was shrinking by the day, the whales began to panic as they tried unsuccessfully to find another breathing hole and their way to sea.

While an icebreaker ship would typically be brought in to free the orcas, the closest crew was thirty six hours away, so the villagers decided to cut a half mile of holes for the killer whales to travel through to get them to open water.