* Prepped a ton of news, but as you will see below this week had too many things in it. I will do my best to catch up. Please don't take large topics not being touched as a lack of caring.

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* "Four countries announce Eurovision 2026 boycott after Israel allowed to compete:" https://www.nme.com/news/music/four-countries-announce-eurovision-2026-boycott-after-israel-allowed-compete-3916030

How to Help:
Revive Gaza's farmland: https://apnature.org/en/gaza
PCRF: https://www.pcrf.net/
HEAL Palestine: https://www.healpalestine.org/
The Sameer Project: https://linktr.ee/thesameerproject
Gaza Soup Kitchen: https://gazasoupkitchen.org/

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* "What we know about Bondi Beach Hanukkah shooting:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjg22rey0lo

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* Re: the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5-2025

* "Trump's speech on combating inflation turns to grievances about immigrants:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-economy-campaign-speech-pennsylvania-rcna248291

* "11 times Donald Trump has randomly brought up his ‘transgender for everybody’ obsession:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender-for-everyone-donald-trump

I'm including this here as he's using trans people as well as immigrants as scapegoats to distract from his disastrous economic policies during his Affordability/Scapegoating tour.

* "Lack of Republican answers puts Trump on the hook for health care crisis, housing crisis:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/lack-of-republican-answers-puts-trump-on-the-hook-for-health-care-crisis-housing-crisis-2475005507796

* "Trump’s old tricks fall flat from overuse in the face of hard realities:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-s-old-tricks-fall-flat-from-overuse-in-the-face-of-hard-realities-2474341955640

* "Bernie Sanders blasts ‘pathological liar’ Trump for calling affordability a ‘hoax’ :" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/bernie-sanders-blasts-pathological-liar-trump-for-calling-affordability-a-hoax-2474618947979

*** Immigration/I.C.E/Autocracy/Slow Motion Civil War/Violent Illegal Occupation of Blue Cities News ***

* "College student deported during Thanksgiving trip could’ve fought removal as a kid, US says:" https://apnews.com/article/college-student-deported-thanksgiving-lopez-belloza-79bb528c96102cd72a50e707610d34b8

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* I support the Boycott. "Starbucks workers' union expand month-long strike to more cities:" https://archive.ph/YjAmY

* "Why Walmart Wants to See the Starbucks Barista Strike Fail:" https://truthout.org/articles/why-walmart-wants-to-see-the-starbucks-barista-strike-fail/

* Reminder: Republicans want this to happen. It was in the budget they pushed through because they wanted to steal from worker's to give a massive tax cuts to billionaires.

* "Obamacare Users Face Higher Deductibles, Higher Premiums:" https://archive.ph/32bVl

* "ACA shoppers face sticker shock as Congress dithers on health care:" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/12/15/nx-s1-5644978/aca-costs-congress-health-care

* "The Senate voted down dueling health proposals. Here’s what’s at stake for Americans:" https://apnews.com/article/health-care-affordable-care-act-senate-vote-e143b36cc01b4d7f27a1c07e17d1583c

If you plan to complain, best to do it now.

* "Capitol agenda: GOP struggles on affordability message:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/08/congress/republicans-affordability-2026-midterms-health-care-vote-00680489

* "House passes defense bill, forcing Pentagon's hand on boat strike videos:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/10/house-passes-ndaa-boat-strike-videos-00685641

* "‘Safety whitewash’: Defense bill spawns uproar over military helicopters in DC:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/12/safety-whitewash-defense-bill-spawns-uproar-over-military-helicopters-in-dc-00689408

* "Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill:" https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/09/us_military_right_to_repair_stripped/

* "House overhauls KOSA in a new kids online safety package:" https://www.theverge.com/news/829492/house-energy-commerce-kids-online-safety-package

* "Don’t STEAL Act:" https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5048?s=1&r=1

* "H.R.5106 - Restore Trust in Congress Act:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/315708.html

* "End arms sales to UAE:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/318426.html

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* Our job for the next year and a half is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.

We are trying to build a good list of resistance resources.

Please add more below if you have them.

* "Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

* Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide.  https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

* If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

And another: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/

White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/

ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/

"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share

Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

"Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/

Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events

"ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/

Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/

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* "Indiana Republicans Just Defied Trump’s Pressure Campaign to Rig Their Congressional Maps:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/indiana-republican-redistricting-trump-bill-fails/

* "At least 11 Indiana Republicans were targeted with threats or swatting attacks amid redistricting pressure from Trump:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/indiana-republicans-swatting-attacks-redistricting-rcna246689

* "‘Absolutely extraordinary:’ Buttigieg on Trump’s Indiana redistricting flop:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/absolutely-extraordinary-buttigieg-on-trump-s-indiana-redistricting-flop-2474965571911

* Voting is so important. I keep saying it's essential to come out for off year and special elections and here is the proof. I would like to thank everyone who came out to vote.

* "In 2025, Democrats Flipped 21 Percent of GOP-Held Legislative Seats:" https://boltsmag.org/legislative-elections-results-2025/

* "‘Proud’ pro-LGBTQ+ Democrat flips Republican state House seat in Georgia electoral upset:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/eric-gisler-lgbtq-georgia-ally

* "Democrat Eileen Higgins wins Miami mayor’s race, beats Trump’s pick :" https://archive.ph/PPoos

* "How I Learned to Transcribe Braille in Prison :" https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2025/12/02/in-prison-ive-learned-to-transcribe-braille-and-found-joy/

* "Three lesbian attorneys general beating back Trumpism in court warn of marriage equality’s peril:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/lesbian-ag-marriage-equality-warning

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes reached record-highs last year in this gay haven:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/anti-lgbtq-hate-crimes-california

* "Denver LGBTQ+ youth center closed indefinitely after burglar steals nearly $10K:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/denver-lgbtq-youth-center-burglary

* "Lesbian educator wins $700K after she was allegedly called a ‘witch’ in an ‘LGBTQ coven’:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lesbian-california-lawsuit-witch-coven

* "Tucker Carlson and Milo Yiannopoulos spend two hours spewing homophobia and pseudo-science :" https://www.advocate.com/news/carlson-yiannopoulos-homophobia

* "Women gamers boycott global esports tournament over trans ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/dead-by-daylight-womens-world-cup-trans-ban

* "Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant:" https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506595-man-unexpectedly-cured-of-hiv-after-stem-cell-transplant/

* "South Carolina officials report ‘accelerating’ measles outbreak" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/11/south-carolina-measles-outbreak

* "Sick in a Hospital Town: Why were the people in Albany, Georgia, so sick, when the town’s most powerful institution was a hospital?:" https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/

* "Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/22/free-birth-society-linked-to-babies-deaths-investigation

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* "Elizabeth Kolbert - The Climate Crisis & “Life on a Little-Known Planet" | The Daily Show:"

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* "A hidden Antarctic shift unleashed the carbon that warmed the world:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251202052209.htm

* "Satellites spot rapid “Doomsday Glacier” collapse:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251130205511.htm

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* "They Worked Underground in the Uranium Mines. They've Been Surrounded by Death Ever Since.:" https://inthesetimes.com/article/they-worked-underground-in-the-uranium-mines-theyve-been-surrounded-by-death-ever-since-navajo-nation-war-trump-labor-abandoned-vanadium-cancer-lung-transplant-industry-homeland-southwest-atomic-energy-environment-justice?

* "Rhode Island's $85 Million Expansion Masquerading as Maintenance:" https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025-12-04-rhode-islands-85-million-expansion-masquerading-as-maintenance

* "Massachusetts is turning retired cranberry bogs into natural wetlands. They’re on track to rewild 1,000 acres:" https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/massachusetts-cranberry-bogs-rewild

* "How Solar Flares Could Have Corrupted An Airbus Plane :" https://gizmodo.com/how-solar-flares-could-have-corrupted-an-airbus-plane-2000693690

* "A Founder Got Fed Up With Potential Hires Using AI to ‘Fake It.’ What She Did Next Was Brilliant:" https://web.archive.org/web/20251206003801/https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/a-founder-got-fed-up-with-potential-hires-using-ai-to-fake-it-what-she-did-next-was-brilliant/91271819

* "Why Science’s press team won’t be using AI to write releases anytime soon:" https://lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/12/why-science-press-team-wont-be-using-ai-to-write-press-releases-anytime-soon/

* "Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn:" https://www.404media.co/ai-porn-secret-desires-chatbot-face-swap/

* "The AI Invasion of Knitting and Crochet :" https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/the-ai-invasion-of-knitting-and-crochet/

* "AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children:" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-stuffed-animal-pulled-after-disturbing-interactions

* "The Right to Say "No":" https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-right-to-say-no/

* "I don't care how well your "AI" works:" https://fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-dont-care-how-well-your-ai-works.html

* "India tells smartphone makers to put state-run cyber safety app on new devices:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedxyvx74p4o

* "Arduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition:" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/arduinos-new-terms-of-service-worries-hobbyists-ahead-of-qualcomm-acquisition/

* "Meta wins monopoly trial, convinces judge that social networking is dead:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/meta-wins-monopoly-trial-convinces-judge-that-social-networking-is-dead/

* "Equal Rights Center v. Meta is the most important tech case flying under the radar:" https://www.brookings.edu/articles/equal-rights-center-v-meta-is-the-most-important-tech-case-flying-under-the-radar/

* "Earth’s early oceans hid the secret rise of complex life:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251206030755.htm

* "Scientists found the key to accurate Maya eclipse tables :" https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/study-how-the-maya-created-such-accurate-eclipse-tables/

* "The fading of Japan’s Shōwa era – in pictures:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2025/dec/02/fading-japan-showa-era-in-pictures

* "American “Heritage” vs. American History | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart:"

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* "Amazing Photographs of People Posing With Giant Sponges in the Early 20th Century:" https://www.vintag.es/2025/12/giant-sponges.html?

* "Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy :" https://laist.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/thousands-of-rare-american-recordings-go-online-for-all-to-enjoy

* "Forgotten photos reveal women who powered India's freedom struggle:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr435zp7wy5o

* "The Buried Treasure of Baltimore :" https://strangeco.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-buried-treasure-of-baltimore.html

* "Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order: Episode 3: One Drop:" https://podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/episode-3-one-drop/id1854194292?i=1000739710526

* "Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order: Episode 4: Like an Ordinary American:" https://podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/episode-4-like-an-ordinary-american/id1854194292?i=1000739710607

* "Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order: Episode 5: Sheep and Goats:" https://podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/episode-5-sheep-and-goats/id1854194292?i=1000741079876

* "Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order: Episode 6: A Reckoning:" https://podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/episode-6-a-reckoning/id1854194292?i=1000741082322

* "Years before Stonewall, a cafeteria riot became a breakthrough for trans rights:" https://www.advocate.com/news/comptons-cafeteria-riot-explained-transgender

* "‘We’ve been eating it for more than 100 years’: how one community turns stink bug infestations into lunch:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/21/turning-stink-bug-infestations-into-lunch-india-the-alternatives?

* "Rob Reiner, Legendary Comedic Actor and ‘Princess Bride’ Director, Found Dead in His Home:" https://variety.com/2025/film/news/rob-reiner-dead-princess-bride-spinal-tap-1236608541/

* "Rob Reiner, filmmaker and marriage equality advocate, and wife Michele dead in apparent homicide:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/rob-reiner-michele-reiner-homicide

* "As he turns 100, Dick Van Dyke is an unsung gay idol from an era of Judy, Liza, and Cher :" https://www.advocate.com/voices/dick-van-dyke-gay-idol

* It's been a really hard week for me physically. As is often the case in December, but AS and fibro are ramped up to 11 so I am exhausted and in the kind of pain that makes sleep difficult and unrestful. Add on I keep needing to be up during the day. Add on I'm still behind on bills from Tavy's final expenses. Add on the attempt to steal my car which makes starting it painful and physically demanding and also means it's been pissing down rain inside my car since the theft attempt left the window unguarded. Add on that New Millennial has been too ill to do standing up work for a couple of weeks so I ran out of things to feed Livia. (Livia needs to eat out of small plastic plates. Small and plate because anything else freaks her out so she doesn't eat and she's still off her feed and mostly hiding in my room. Plastic, because ceramic, Squirrel will step on and break when they go into visit her).

I keep trying to do things and failing. I keep trying to do things and injuring myself because my body won't work right. I keep trying to do things and because everything is awful and hurts, I keep forgetting a thing.

I thought I had 3-4 Millennials coming for gift exchange Wednesday night, so I made two types of cookies for them Tuesday Night. (I can't have egg yolks. I can have a little bit of egg whites. When I make meringues for guests, I use the yolks for a butter cookie variant right after. I was careful to leave out stuff the guests are allergic to). It ended up just being 2 coming buy for a brief exchange of things in the morning. I managed to find two things to box half of them up in, thinking I could give the other half to New Millennial to take home, but New Millennial didn't come.

I can eat the meringues. I just need to space them out over the course of several days. Meringues keep it you treat them right. The butter rum cookies do not, and If I'd known, I'd have dug out a third container and passed them to New Friend. Instead I gave them a bag of candies I was given that I couldn't eat. Sigh. So I'm trying to get Squirrel to eat them, but they are meant to be eaten with a dollop of I'm or preserves, and that's a lot of things for someone with their level of ADHD without getting distracted. (Step 1: Remember there are butter rum cookies. # 2 go get cookies. #3 Put cookies on plate. #4 get out jam. #5 get spoon. #6 Bring cookies back to eat with whatever food they were also making at the same time.

They do not like meringues. This is not me being mean.

The butter rum cookies came out absolutely perfect, which is a miracle as I hadn't made them in a couple of years and the recipe was entirely in my head. I was guestimating proportions and cooking time. I knew the temp was 350 and the ingredients, but proportions matter as does cooking time).

So I had been counting on New Millennial to wash Livia' dishes which meant me going out in the pouring rain to buy emergency ones at the dollar store. At night. And I needed to put oil in the car to take it anywhere. Which was hard because pain, exhaustion and my body not working right because this weather makes my AS worse. I am putting the oil in when I realize I can't see where the dipstick goes because it's hidden in shadow. Luckily a neighbor pulled up and they were willing to use their phone to help.

I also needed to tape up the window because the inept car thieves pulled off a bunch of weather tape. Which does not really work in the rain, but it couldn't wait any longer and partial protection is better than none. I now have literal fungus growing in my car because of asshole car thief who likely lives in my building.

I managed to chip two teeth, stab myself twice, and break the fragile toe last night and Still didn't find any Little Livia plates. I went to the aisle where they normally sell them, but they'd rearranged the store. Went and found the Employee. He sent me to a corner. Everything that used to be in the aisle with the little plates was there except plastic plates. Found the employee. He sent me to the opposite corner diagonally from the first corner. Yet more paper plates. I did find one packet of the Wrong Plastic Plates jammed in at random. These were too big and divided into three sections.

I bought them anyway, which was lucky as the next store didn't have them and the other two places I might have checked were closed as I set out really late, having waited for New Millenial in case they were coming. Livia refused to eat out of it. She was hungry enough Thursday night to eat about half her wet food. I went out searching a different store, as I had to take library books back anyway and buy a thing I forgot to buy Monday and Tuesday. No plastic plates.

On the upside, I did find the missing library book and take it back Thursday. If it had been in the car as I feared it would have been stolen or soaked, but it was literally where it was supposed to be, a place I'd searched 4-5 times in the two weeks it was overdue. It was thin and the much larger book next to it had it in shadow. When I moved that book to take it back there the missing one was. Sigh.

I am still chipping away at things that are still out of place from all the renovation stuff. I am mostly down to 1. living room table. 2. Some lighting stuff requiring a ladder, a good arm day, and me to not be exhausted and in pain. 3. the table behind my desk. 4. The tall desk.

The tall desk is a massive problem as a bunch of things are in boxes that need sorting, a bunch of things fell and got put back at random, I need a ladder and a day I'm not in pain and exhausted to clean and put the high shelf things back, and a bunch of things are piled that I'd need to put somewhere else while I'm sorting and cleaning. It's monumental and I just can't when my body is this bad, and the broken bone makes everything So Much Harder.

In the last week I did manage to put the Under desk stuff back and it's legitimately better arranged now than it was. I boxed the Behind the Monitor paperwork I generally need once or twice a year for Poverty Bureaucracy, so I keep it where I can get at it easily. I put three smaller boxes I need access to there, and I figure once I sort the paperwork, it can go back. (Usually somethings can get moved into longer term storage this far out from the last produce paperwork emergency, as some things expire. I have a second easy to grab spot for things that replace those things and I do a Grand sort whenever I need to do the bureaucracy.

Thursday, my arm was able to take the weight o I took a long term storage box upstairs to storage. I knew I had at one time two hard shell cat carriers and a soft kitten carrier. I know the soft carrier is upstairs in storage. I had one hard carrier downstairs for emergencies, but it broke the day Tavy died. I couldn't remember if we still had the purple hard shell, as I had last used it literally 15 years ago. It was up there and I was able to pull it which meant I could remove by a replacement carrier off the things I need but can't afford list.

I am scared I'm going to have to take Livia to the vet. Really, it's mourning most likely. she's very cat centric and she keeps having panics over not having a cat to hang out with for cat group nap time. The weight she is losing is her winter weight, but as of tonight, she's down to her spring weight and the having to deal with strange plates is not helping.

And there's always the chance it's not just mourning and she's sick again. Stress can trigger it.

I can't afford the vet. I spent everything I had and everything I could raise failing to save Tavy.

If she is sick, we're fucked.

UPDATE 3:38AM: It was absolutely Too Much for my artificial Shoulder in it's current state.

* I was already way behind on things, when Waterfox insisted I update, and one again fucked me over buy throwing out my damned tabs. I don't understand why Water and Firefox no longer save tabs when they update. I do not need six to 48 hours extra work. I'm hoping this one's six to eight, but we'll see. I really, really didn't need this.

UPDATE: It was not nearly as bad as last time. I estimate recovery is more the 2-3 hour range. It likely helps that I was caught up recently. It is possible some things will end up duplicate posted by accident. It is one thing to remember reading an article, another to remember if I posted the link.

Similarly, I will inevitably have lost articles. I am so sorry.

* So I used to love to do kits and things, but my hands really can't any more with the arthritis. I just don't have that kind of control. Periodically my Sister sends me kits and I save them along with other sitting down jobs for people to do on days when they aren't up to standing tasks.

This one my Sister sent for my birthday, and new Millennial has been working on it at times when they had taken a break, then realized they weren't up to doing more standing up work.

They finished it last time they were here. I downloaded the photos, promptly got swamped, but here they are now. This is a temporary spot for the photo shoot. A few nights ago I put it in my room where I can see it from my bed. Inevitable this meant moving books, but it fills me with delight, even with things not quite squared away.

https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/802872822284288000/so-i-used-to-love-to-do-kits-and-things-but-my?source=share

* Companion Cookies

Someone asked me for the recipe, so I'm posting the current iteration in case anyone wants it.

Ingredients:
8 med or six large egg yolks.
Vanilla Extract.
Butter Scotch, Rum and Butter, or Butter Rum Extract.
1 Cup Sugar.
2 cups flour (max).
butterscotch chips, toffee bits, and/or pecan bits.

Preheat 350 Degrees and butter your cookie pans.
8 med yolks or 6 large. Mix with vanilla and either butter scotch or rum and butter or butter rum extract to taste. (They used to be butter scotches, but I had a hard time finding the right extract so they became butter rum. Brandy extract will do in a pinch).

1 Cup sugar. Cream with:
1 Stick butter (1/2 cup) Mix with eggs. Add on low:
2 cups flour (max) +plus your choice of butterscotch chips, toffee bits, and or pecan bits.

It will get very stiff. Do them like drop cookies or roll them into balls on two greased baking sheets. Use a spoon to press an indentation on top.

Bake at 350 for 27 mins (Your oven may vary so look in on them at 20 to make sure another seven makes sense. It may be less if your oven runs hitter. Mine runs a little cold.

Serve with a selection of jams and/or preserves.

* Sunday: New Millennial is understandably still shaken up from an Incident* last week, but they came and removed a micro splinter that had started to encyst on my ankle, towards the back. There was no chance of me getting it out as while I could reach it with tweezers just barely I couldn't see it well enough to work on it in the position I'd need to be in to do that. It took ages and had time to get infected, but we disinfected it and it already feels better.

I did make some progress with sorting papers and doing paperwork, but am not remotely close to finishing. Sigh. Plus I'm behind on some things and just getting further and further behind. Poor Livia was ill Saturday night pretty much everywhere, poor thing, but it also meant I had to change the bed alone, borrowing a bunch of next week's spoons.

* The Incident did not happen here, but would have been bad enough on it's own without Everything Else, and is why they did not come Wednesday.

* I was about twenty minutes away from switching over to work on the aggregate when the lemon lenovo disconnected itself from the internet irrevocably. I tried the usual things, but it sure looked like the drivers which meant yet another trip to the Best Buy when it opened. Another hour lost, I thought, but I was wrong, it was two and a half. The tech guy wasn't scheduled for another hour. I settled in at the tech area anyway as they had chairs and I suspected my 5-10 minute fixed get done first thing if I was spread out at the counter. One of the computer department guys had nothing to do and took pity on me at 9:45, so I was fixed and gone before the actual tech help guy checked in.

I'd already blown the gas to get there and I needed TP and buns which are best bought at ethical grocery which is right there, but that took longer than expected, as inevitably there were people in the way and I thought of a couple other things best bought there. And then there was traffic. And the putting things away. And the cat reassurance.

So I am once again posting a truncated version of the aggregate because So Many things This Week. Apologies.

* The horror movie Tournament poll is close to the end: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls/tagged/Horror%20Movies

* "Exploring Horror with Andrew Joseph White:" https://open.spotify.com/episode/7avEzaynjAyIUVX9TO0qkg?go=1&sp_cid=ff630af34f0cd6b4ddc6cd829351b957&nd=1&dlsi=48ed7a46a3f24530

* "A Rare Look Inside DC’s Famous FBI Spy House:" https://washingtonian.com/2025/12/11/a-rare-look-inside-dcs-famous-fbi-spy-house/

* "Armand lived in Venice during the absolute sluttiest period for mens’ clothes and I gotta talk about it.:" https://www.tumblr.com/apoptoses/703925802479321088?source=share

* "Hysterical Hades:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjD5xWrFBOM

* "Antithetical Ares:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZOJ2dngj-E8

* "Hellenic Himbos:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O4_RcjQuNFQ

* "Triregnum Trading Relics:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47wlilfCU4o

* "Peace Prices 2:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqbGCO1QLgI

* "Egregious English Kings 2:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cwxav-AMSRo

* "Philanthropic Phillipe:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nZ0RodpLPjU

* "Playing Plantagenet Politics:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8az1-Z7QLgc

* "Sleeping Beauty/Social Etiquette:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XxIkUsQJk_w

* "Sleeping Beauty/Slumber Secrecy:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o6ikZaWbXmE

* "Pentagon Press Conference Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "A Helping Hand - SNL:"

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* "'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix:"

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* "These 15 Gorgeous Photographs Capture the Beautiful Art of Blown and Stained Glass:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/15-gorgeous-photographs-capture-beautiful-art-blown-stained-glass-180987623/

* "50 Tiny Cats In Big Rooms Looking Way Too Precious For This World:" https://www.boredpanda.com/tiny-cats-big-spaces-pics/

* "Timey-Wimey Sweets:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/timey-wimey-sweets-2025

* "Sunday Sweets: Polar Opposites:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-polar-opposites-2025

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* CW: Suicide "These hotlines are still available for LGBTQ+ youth after Trump kills 988 services:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-youth-hotlines-still-available

* "Hospital Crisis Watch:" https://www.protectourcare.org/hospital-crisis-watch/

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