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via rm, amberite:

An Iranian actress will be executed if she's deported from the UK, and they're just standing by and letting it happen. Sign a petition. If you're in the UK, you can probably take more direct political action than this.

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More specifically, a quote from the article: "According to legislation in Iran, the punishment for lesbian sex is 100 lashes. If the act is repeated three times and punishment is enforced each time, the death sentence will apply on the fourth occasion. But the Home Office refused her request for asylum earlier this month, despite acknowledging her appeal was legitimate."

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via rm, amberite:

An Iranian actress will be executed if she's deported from the UK, and they're just standing by and letting it happen. Sign a petition. If you're in the UK, you can probably take more direct political action than this.

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More specifically, a quote from the article: "According to legislation in Iran, the punishment for lesbian sex is 100 lashes. If the act is repeated three times and punishment is enforced each time, the death sentence will apply on the fourth occasion. But the Home Office refused her request for asylum earlier this month, despite acknowledging her appeal was legitimate."

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My brain is very weird. Passing in and out of the same dream for about two hours this morning (between 8 and 10 AM), one of the people featured at some kind of outdoor picnic or convention I was at was a "Bill Gates, Jr." (alongside the Bill Gates we all know, who was his father). I was just checking now to see if there actually was such a person, and sure enough, there is, but not quite as my brain constructed it -- Microsoft's Bill Gates is a III and his father is the Jr. In the dream this notional son (who would be Bill Gates IV if he existed in the real world) he was tallish and slender and a bit gawky, as 17-year-old boys will be, with a shaggy 70s-ish cut of light brown hair, and apparently I desperately wanted to get my fingers into it (this sounds like my M.O.; I have a big weakness for shaggy haircuts on young men). What is really amusing me is that although I had not seen the following picture before, I apparently managed to de-age him quite well and he looked almost exactly like this.

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My brain is very weird. Passing in and out of the same dream for about two hours this morning (between 8 and 10 AM), one of the people featured at some kind of outdoor picnic or convention I was at was a "Bill Gates, Jr." (alongside the Bill Gates we all know, who was his father). I was just checking now to see if there actually was such a person, and sure enough, there is, but not quite as my brain constructed it -- Microsoft's Bill Gates is a III and his father is the Jr. In the dream this notional son (who would be Bill Gates IV if he existed in the real world) he was tallish and slender and a bit gawky, as 17-year-old boys will be, with a shaggy 70s-ish cut of light brown hair, and apparently I desperately wanted to get my fingers into it (this sounds like my M.O.; I have a big weakness for shaggy haircuts on young men). What is really amusing me is that although I had not seen the following picture before, I apparently managed to de-age him quite well and he looked almost exactly like this.

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Does anyone out there happen to have a woodruff plant in their yard? I wanted to make some May wine and bought dried woodruff, and I fear it's just not going to cut it. If I crumble it in my fingers I can faintly smell its characteristic odor, but it's clearly very weak in essential oils compared to the fresh stuff, apparently not something that well handles being dried and stored.

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Does anyone out there happen to have a woodruff plant in their yard? I wanted to make some May wine and bought dried woodruff, and I fear it's just not going to cut it. If I crumble it in my fingers I can faintly smell its characteristic odor, but it's clearly very weak in essential oils compared to the fresh stuff, apparently not something that well handles being dried and stored.

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http://ronaldchalkywhite.org.uk/2010/04/22/ethics/ :

The following notes were scribbled on a piece of paper in Chalky’s handwriting. I think they date from late 1966/early 1967. The last line is clearly an allusion to, and critique of, the principle known as the Wiccan Rede:
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Love somebody

Build Something

& (Build it in love)

Not do what you will: but try to do as little damage as possible.

The subject of how to interpret the Rede, if one subscribes to it, is another one (IMO, briefly, =/= "do what you want", and figuring out your Will is not as easy as it sounds), but I rather liked this.

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http://ronaldchalkywhite.org.uk/2010/04/22/ethics/ :

The following notes were scribbled on a piece of paper in Chalky’s handwriting. I think they date from late 1966/early 1967. The last line is clearly an allusion to, and critique of, the principle known as the Wiccan Rede:
R

Love somebody

Build Something

& (Build it in love)

Not do what you will: but try to do as little damage as possible.

The subject of how to interpret the Rede, if one subscribes to it, is another one (IMO, briefly, =/= "do what you want", and figuring out your Will is not as easy as it sounds), but I rather liked this.

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I find it ironic and annoying to be repackaging new copies of An Inconvenient Truth, which come slipped in the pocket of a simple folded 100%-post-consumer recycled cardboard sleeve, into plastic DVD albums and jewel cases (to prevent theft, we separate the discs from the albums and keep them in closed stacks not accessible to the public). *shakes head*