A friend from the Old Life is having farewell drinks before going back to London (as irony would have it she’s flying back on the day I return from there), and texted to meet with her friends and her at the last moment at the River Cafe.
I have been there once before – hardly remember anything but don’t recall feeling so distinctly uncomfortable.
This was only my second time I was at a place that requires jackets, and I didn’t have one, so they gave me a very ill fitting one that smelled of some rich person and had an embroidered anchor on its front pocket.
The worst part was that I actually never made it all the way inside – the reservation was in someone else’s name and I didn’t know who it was!
Why am I even trying to relive something that was never meant to be?
The disunity and distraction that will give us many years of trumpism.
It looks like someone went through trouble of putting this on every one of many lamp posts that the original message was on.
Seeing Little Prince on Netflix was really nice and pretty perfect and reminder of what’s important.
And Camille did the soundtrack that I recognized instantaneously, and that was a nice little bonus.
There are times when the whole thing feels upside down! #4 of my long exposure series from Iceland. #longexposure #iceland #latergram #fujifilm_xseries #travelersnotebook #xpro2
This is directly in line with Palmer Luckey’s (Oculus Rift cofounder) very Trumpist vision of giving the VR to poor folks in poor countries to let them pretend that they are in lovely first-world California, and that awful reality outside doesn’t really exist or even matter.
I highly respect Peter Diamandis, follow his podcast and try to read everything he has to write, but some of those things make me very uneasy.
If anyone is currently confused on what’s happening, JILL STEIN (in a shocking turn of events, I know) has put together a campaign to raise enough money to call for a recount in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Very recently, a number of analysts have reached out to the Clinton campaign to urge them to request a recount. Why?
THE STEIN CAMPAIGN NEEDS TO RAISE $2 MILLION BY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25TH AT 5 PM EST. THIS IS VERY TIME SENSITIVE. She’s already raised quite a bit in just a few hours, but that doesn’t guarantee that she will get enough. Here’s a direct statement from the website:
THE LINK TO DONATE IS HERE. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD EVEN IF YOU CAN’T DONATE. WE DESERVE TO HAVE THE VOTE CONFIRMED. THIS CAN AND WILL BE DONE.
I don’t think she can file for a recount. Can she?
As you probably already know, I’m a lesbian who used to work on Wall Street. I was encouraged this year when Wall Street stood against the anti-trans law HB2 in North Carolina. But the industry has been shamefully silent on the bigots Trump has tapped for the White House.
Last week, the Ranking Members of the House Financial Services and Senate Banking Committees, along with Rep. Keith Ellison and Senator Elizabeth Warren, sent a letter to the major Wall Street trade associations, asking them to stand up to Trump and demand he fire Steve Bannon.
This inspired me to reflect on my experiences as a queer person on Wall Street, so I wrote this piece on Medium about my time there, my experiences with the LGBTQ associations, the time I met the CEO of Bank of America at a diversity roundtable, and the hypocrisy I’m seeing now:
Really, really want to see my old company take the lead on this. Especially since Bannon did have a stint there. And Trump had a campaign commercial featuring our CEO as the face of evil.
Why does a hospital have a need to demand to know the religion of a baby?
Babies have no religion by definition.
When they grow up to become conscientious adults, then they can decide what religion they want. How is this not obvious?
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