who's up way too late reading star wars fanfic? i am!

did u know the ship name (remember kids, ship is fandom slang for relationship) for finn and poe dameron is stormpilot? i think that's delightful. i may have mentioned this beforeto be honest, knowing that the writers of the next film will probably pair finn with rey makes me sad inside. though ( Read more... )

Yesterday I spent all day in the office helping to get the summer edition of our newsletter, all 1500 copies of it, ready for mailing. When I came back here at 22:00 I didn't feel like writing anything, oh well ( Read more... )

The US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is a Constitutional right, WHEW.

and,

President Obama eulogizes Charleston pastor Clementa Pinckney, and closes by singing "Amazing Grace."

Here is the full version of Obama's speech, which I will watch tomorrow, because even the clip in the Guardian article brought me to tears.

I shared this ( Read more... )

Because I found a lot of things and also didn't do much with my day besides bike downtown and back!

- This video about being gender queer made me nod, and laugh, and nod again.

- This story about a horse being able to say goodbye to her human friend made me a little weepy, but in a good way.

- This video of an enthusiastic dog teaching a human ( Read more... )

Look, here, photos from yesterday's parade! I did not take any of them - they're all by my teammate Chris, with her super-awesome camera - but she gave me permission to share them with you.

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Yesterday we were in London, Ontario, tabling on behalf of CPT for the annual London Anarchist Book Fair. We also lead and co-lead two workshops, one on nonviolent civil disobedience, and one on Christian anarchism (Peter led that one on his own). It was pretty interesting - on the book fair side, there were a lot of books, primarily nonfiction, as ( Read more... )

Last night Chris and I went to the World Pride Toronto opening ceremony, entirely because Melissa Etheridge was playing a free concert, woooooot! We hadn't quite thought about the "opening ceremony" part, but it meant we stood around for several hours longer than we'd thought we would, listening to various politicians talk about how awesome this ( Read more... )

Taking a small break from Iraq updates, largely because I was away from my laptop for much of the day and haven't been keeping up. Also it is definitely depressing. And I have happier news for you tonight.

Kathleen Wynne has just become Canada's first openly gay woman premier! Yaaaay! (She was Premier before today, but because she inherited the ( Read more... )

(Uncle Roy, I haven't forgotten about your question. I'll respond to it soon, I promise ( Read more... )