Passed along from Gehayi

I found out about Katie Babs/KB, who is doing something about the recent rash of teen suicides due to bullying and cyberbullying. She’s made a post about them and has pledged that for every comment she gets, up to five hundred, she’ll donate a dollar to an organization dedicated to helping kids.

500 comments = $500.00.

To quote her:

$250 will go to The Trevor Project, “the leading national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth.”

$250 will go to the Matthew Shepard Foundation, [which] was founded by Dennis and Judy Shepard in memory of their 21-year old son, Matthew, who was murdered in an anti-gay hate crime in Wyoming in October 1998. Their mission is to “educate and enlighten others on the importance of diversity, understanding, compassion, acceptance and respect.”

I commented in support, and I hope that the rest of you will do so as well.

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Pocket hoops!

I have finally finished my pocket hoops, the first step towards making myself slightly posher 18th Century clothes.  They look like small covered wagons and involved about the same amount of engineering, since each one is boned with three lengths of steel.  They also have padded channels at the top to make the tops rigid.  I will be able to keep a brace of pistols and a small library in them, but a slight disadvantage is that they’re so big I can’t reach to the bottom of them.  I also have to go sideways through doors.  Which is as it should be, of course.

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