I didn't want to post about the school shooting

I mean, one mass shooting is like another. It sucks, and is miserable, and nothing ever changes, and I feel so voyeuristic for caring at all, but I can't ever care enough either.

Nevertheless, I've now accumulated an awful lot of links, so here they are.

One note: My perspective is that we could really do with some reasonable gun control in this country, and that I, personally, wouldn't weep if we had an unreasonable amount of gun control either. You're entitled to have another point of view. Just have it somewhere else. Usually I'm all up for different points of view in the comments, but not this time. Just not feeling it. (And this should go without saying, but just in case - I'm also not in the mood for arguments about whether or not I should want your argument here, whether or not I should want to argue about whether I want your arguments here, etc. Take your recursive praeter itio and go.)

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Comments are screened just in case. I've been adding people left and right lately, so....

Why is Disqus broken lately?

And is it just me? I can't respond on any webpage that has Disqus, instead I have to find the Disqus version of that comments page and respond there. Which is annoying. So mostly I don't.

(Also, Patheos is also b0rked in different ways, and since Patheos blogs use Disqus and I comment frequently at a few of them that means trying to a. read them and then b. respond to them has been a total disaster lately.)

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The Africans Who Called Tudor England Home

Deaf Eritrean twins break barriers in fashion world (Video)

Hawai‘i’s Last Outlaw Hippies

Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms Brought the Ideals of America to Life and A 21st-Century Reimagining of Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms”

LOL! Smart bunny!

What it's like being a female director in Bollywood (Video)

Doctors In China Lead Race To Treat Cancer By Editing Genes

China’s great leap forward in science

The way humans point isn’t as universal as you might think

Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet?

Imagining a Fuller Spectrum of Autism on TV

Tea, Honey And Lemon: Does This Classic Trifecta Actually Help A Sore Throat?

Your chips may soon be made of jellyfish

Utah bill would give teens fleeing polygamy more rights

How Killer Rice Crippled Tokyo and the Japanese Navy

Census Rushes to Respond to Request to Add Citizenship Question

US visa boss insists mission statement isn't anti-immigrant

Trypophobia—the fear of holes—may not be a real phobia

Worst Roommate Ever (Content note: violence and murder)

Women who clean at home or work face increased lung function decline, study finds

CPR survival rates are lower than most people think (What, you mean it's not clean, pretty, and reliable?)

Can You Hack Coral to Save It?

Poison. Traps. Rifles. The methods for eradicating island predators like rats are brutal. Some conservationists want to use Crispr to do the same job. This method isn't brutal, but it could fundamentally transform our power over nature.

US gymnasts tell AP sport rife with verbal, emotional abuse

Crisis actors, deep state, false flag: the rise of conspiracy theory code words

My High School’s Tragedy Actually Led to Change

The Criminalization of Private Debt

Should Cops Be Allowed to Rip Up Your Stuff While Looking for Drugs? (All the more reason to never consent to a search. JFC.)

US Border Patrol Hasn’t Validated E-Passport Data For Years

Mueller and Trump: Born to wealth, raised to lead. Then, sharply different choices.

Putin is heir to Russia's long disinformation experience

U.N. Security Council delays vote on Syria ceasefire resolution

Myanmar bulldozes what was left of Rohingya Muslim villages (More)

Dear store managers of the world:

If it is cold outside, you can expect that your customers will be wearing coats. Perhaps you can take this into account when setting the thermostat? I'm not suggesting that your employees have to shiver, but I can't help thinking that maybe they can learn to be just as comfortable in sweatshirts as they currently are in t-shirts. Just maybe. Perhaps you can ask all the other stores in the area what temperature they set theirs to and match it?

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Watch this caterpillar fling its beetle attacker through the air

Tribes cut out of California pot market might grow their own

Extra Doorbells, Satellite Dishes: How Cities Search for People the Census May Miss

From ‘barely surviving’ to thriving: Ontario basic income recipients report less stress, better health

Women Are Free, and Armed, in Kurdish-Controlled Northern Syria

Romance fans have long loved the genre for its unapologetic celebration of female power and sexuality. Now, more and more writers are beginning to consider the ways in which their work can offer not just a happy ending, but a powerful statement.

Pediatricians Call For Universal Depression Screening For Teens

Democrats march toward single-payer health care

Jane Jacobs v Robert Moses, battle of New York's urban titans

A fertility doctor's secret, a special kinship decades later

'Baby factory' mystery: Thailand's surrogacy saga reaches uneasy end

Arizona could face fines in lawsuit over prison health care

Silicon Valley’s Tax-Avoiding, Job-Killing, Soul-Sucking Machine

Avant-garde mosque angers hard-liners in Iran

Trump and Congress Are Making It Easier for Banks and Companies to Rip Off Black People

More than half of U. S. gun owners do not safely store their guns

The NRA has blocked gun violence research for 20 years. Let's end its stranglehold on science.

How Lobbyists Normalized the Use of Chemical Weapons on American Civilians

Syria starts rebuilding even as more destruction wreaked

Iraq's ethnic, religious groups fragmented as elections near

Oh, wow.

So I definitely have to rewatch that episode with the ability to pause, because a LOT happened. But take this recommendation/review of the season in the meantime!