who only by moving can balance

• Teal cakes, via azurelunatic
  
• a cardamom bun recipe I want to get around to trying
  
• "Kitten-sized extinct 'lion'"
  
• Geoscience Australia partners with Google to showcase Australia's natural history (thank you to elizabeth_fitz for bringing this to my attention!)
  
• The importance of being disabled, a Graun article by James Beddard, who me_and and I saw in Threepenny Opera last weekend; I was initially dubious about Wheelchair Use On Stage (not least because last time I saw it and it wasn't me it was in Wicked; and in this instance, people were swapping around who was using the chair, but... yeah, no, disabled actor playing a role in the National Theatre)
  
• UK Border Control being unsurprisingly but still terribly awful, on which topic I really need to work out a phrasing to write to my MP, for all the good it will do
  
• Who, if not you? is a guide on addressing racist abuse/violence in public, which I have seen linked around a fair bit in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.

What I didn't know at the time was that this is what time is like for most women: fragmented, interrupted by child care and housework. Whatever leisure time they have is often devoted to what others want to do – particularly the kids – and making sure everyone else is happy doing it. Often women are so preoccupied by all the other stuff that needs doing – worrying about the carpool, whether there's anything in the fridge to cook for dinner – that the time itself is what sociologists call "contaminated."

I came to learn that women have never had a history or culture of leisure. (Unless you were a nun, one researcher later told me.) That from the dawn of humanity, high status men, removed from the drudge work of life, have enjoyed long, uninterrupted hours of leisure. And in that time, they created art, philosophy, literature, they made scientific discoveries and sank into what psychologists call the peak human experience of flow.

Women aren't expected to flow.

• 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.
  
• hollymath 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.”

• The new DWP minister wants to bring back capital punishment [Indy]
  
• The new Equalities minister voted against same-sex marriage and gives no indication of having changed her position [PinkNews]
  
• The new minister for disabled people is strongly against disability benefits and human rights [Benefits&Work]
  
• "Limit the reach of human rights cases to the UK, so that British Armed forces overseas are not subject to persistent human rights claims that undermine their ability to do their job and keep us safe." [Conservative policy on Human Rights, which is horrifying in its entirety.]
  
• ""For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'," [David Cameron] will say." [BBC, the Graun]