February 28, 2019

OMG, KHYUTE! Japanese service creates wearable realistic replicas of your pet's head !!

https://omg.blog/omg-khyute-japanese-service-creates-wearable-realistic-replicas-of-your-pets-head/

Okay, so there’s a service now where you submit a photo of your pet and have expert craftsmen create super lifelike replica headgear of them to dress up as. You just have to fill out some online contact form on the Shindo website (you fill out your information and check the box that says “My Family”).

While you can try your hand in English, there’s no word of international shipping or language service available, so those serious about inquiries may want some Japanese help. They are quoted at the price of 300,000 JPY ($2,712.60 USD) plus shipping.

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I'm tempted

February 28, 2019

Coachella turned these two trans siblings away from their restrooms, and now the ACLU is involved

https://www.queerty.com/coachella-turned-two-trans-siblings-away-restrooms-now-aclu-involved-20190228

Two transgender siblings, Taiyande and Donavion Huskey, say that security guards at the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival last April refused to let them use restrooms matching their gender identities. So, the ACLU of Southern California has contacted the festival’s organizers to try and secure policy changes to prevent such discrimination in the future.

If organizers don’t create new policies soon, the ACLU could sue.

Donavion identifies as a woman and Taiyande identifies as a man. In two separate incidents, both were standing in lines to use the restroom, reportedly without any disturbance from other concert-goers, when security guards informed each one that they couldn’t use the single-gender facilities.

The guards neither explained why nor pointed out where to find trans-inclusive toilets. Both siblings began using gender-neutral restrooms located elsewhere, fearful of another incident.

February 28, 2019

'Call Me By Your Name' director creates provocative, homoerotic new show for HBO

https://www.queerty.com/call-name-director-creates-provocative-homoerotic-new-show-hbo-20190228?utm_source=Queerty+Subscribers&utm_campaign=400e3c1775-20190228_Queerty_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_221c27272a-400e3c1775-429775501

Fresh off the success of Call Me By Your Name and the acclaimed Suspiria remake, director Luca Guadagnino has inked a deal with HBO to create and direct a new miniseries.

The new show, written with writers Paolo Giordano and Francesca Manieri, bears the tentative title We Are Who We Are, and like Call Me By Your Name, the plot tells a love story set against an Italian backdrop. We Are Who We Are follows American teenager Frasier Wilson who gets relocated to a military base in Italy courtesy of his army Colonel mom, and her wife. There, he befriends another teen named Caitlin. Gossip around the base speculates that Frasier and Caitlin have fallen in love, but the young American has a secret: he actually opines for his friend Mark back in New York, and also develops a romantic connection with a soldier named Jason.

February 27, 2019

Top Democrats want 2020 candidates to sign non-aggression pact

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/26/2020-cyber-nonaggression-pact-1187926

Democratic Party chairs in the four early presidential states are working to convince the 2020 presidential candidates to avoid waging social media disinformation warfare against each other.

The effort began this week with a letter to state party chairs across the country broadly laying out the issue with an ultimate goal of establishing what amounts to a non-aggression pact, according to a copy of the letter obtained by POLITICO.

“We would like your support in recommending the ASDC [Association of State Democratic Committees] work towards developing a collaborative approach to battling disinformation, illicit campaign tactics, bots, trollfarms, fake accounts, altered text, audio, and video, any and all inauthentic speech in our Presidential Primary process," wrote the four chairs, including New Hampshire's Ray Buckley, Iowa's Troy Price, South Carolina's Trav Robertson and Nevada's William McCurdy.

February 21, 2019

Unions call end to strike; teachers returning to classrooms Thursday

Source: WV Metro News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The statewide education strike will end after two days following the House of Delegates not acting Wednesday on the omnibus legislation that was the source of the work action.

Leaders of the state’s three leading education unions and legislators announced the decision to end the strike after the House adjourned for the day.

The House moved Tuesday to indefinitely postpone action on the omnibus education bill, which included a 5-percent pay raise in addition to provisions establishing education savings accounts and charter schools.

“This is about the members who made the most difficult decision that you can make, and that’s to step out of the classroom. But they did it for their kids,” said Dale Lee, president of the West Virginia Education Association. “They said they weren’t interested in the pay raise if it was going to hurt their kids.”

Read more: http://wvmetronews.com/2019/02/20/unions-call-end-to-strike-teachers-returning-to-classrooms-thursday/

February 15, 2019

Latino labor rights icon endorses Kamala Harris

Source: Politico

Dolores Huerta, the iconic labor and civil rights leader who co-founded what became the United Farm Workers, is endorsing Sen. Kamala Harris for president, according to a statement shared first with POLITICO.

Huerta, who started the National Farmworkers Association alongside the late Cesar Chavez, is also signing onto Harris’ campaign as a California co-chair, joining Rep. Barbara Lee, a former Congressional Black Caucus chair, who endorsed Harris on Wednesday.

Huerta’s backing is a significant development in the early stages of the 2020 campaign and gives the California senator a leading voice in the labor movement and among Latinos nationally.

“I have spent my career advocating for workers’ rights, immigrants’ rights, women’s rights, and on behalf of the LBGTQ community because I believe our country is only as great as the opportunities we afford all our communities,” Huerta said. “Senator Kamala Harris is the right leader to expand those opportunities as president, and I am proud to endorse her.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/15/huerta-endorses-kamala-harris-2020-election-1172256