[linkspam]

[kaberett]

• If you are a UK resident or citizen, please sign this petition calling on the gov't to let me self-define my gender rather than having to pay to have a Gender Recognition Panel (comprised, one assumes, entirely of cis people) decide whether I really mean it. (Ireland's just introduced decent legislation on this; several other countries around the world were there already.)
  
• Have a BBC article on "ghost trains", trains that run so infrequently as to be pretty much useless, and usually entirely empty.
  
• Jealous of what? Solving polyamory's jealousy problem. Still thinking about this one. Nice in principle (and roughly where I am in principle, in terms of connected networks rather than solo poly), but.
  
• Last First Snow stuff: meta at Tor, and some access-locked meta by forests_of_fire (link for my own reference etc etc). (20% of the way through this one, want to keep track of everything for when I'm done!)
  
• One of my mates' friends had, uh. uh. well. you know the hipster cop meme? ... have an life-imitating-art story about the origins of the hipster cop meme.
  
• Beautiful wood-based modern sculpture, vaguely steampunk aesthetic.
  
• cosmolinguist on space science and the funding thereof, linking on to an hour-long panic about having lost the photo of Pluto, yes, that photo of Pluto, feat:

  Parker feels pride, but knows that the image was a collective effort that began many years before the spacecraft’s 2006 launch, and one that will stretch beyond the solar system. “If you’re going to credit who made this image, you have to credit a thousand people,” Parker says. “I can’t say that it’s my image. None of us can. No one person can. We put the bow on it.”