Morning News Round-Up: Shakespearean Weed, Racist Holidays And Good STIs

Birthdays are just the beginning. #sense8 is reborn. https://t.co/tmMV66gKhm

— Netflix US (@netflix) August 8, 2015

• Stars of Netflix’s Sense 8 reveal that the Wachowski’s groundbreaking, pro-LGBT, sci-fi series has been renewed for a second season.

• Cannabis residue found in 400-year-old pipes taken William Shakespeare’s garden suggest that the Bard may have gotten stoned.

– Illustrator Nathan Anderson creates badass book of mythological monsters from A to Z with historical info on each monster.

• Cool! Georgia Governor Nathan Deal gets two confederate commemorations removed from the state’s official 2016 holiday calendar.

• Uh-oh. Amid a national drought crisis, the Brazilian military are preparing to quell uprisings at local water facilities.

• The EPA estimates that “biogas” that turn cow manure into electricity (while trapping greenhouse gasses) could “power over a million homes and cut emissions by the equivalent of taking nearly four million cars off the road.”

• There will be an Archie Comics musical thanks in part to Funny or Die co-founder and writer/director Adam McKay.

• A “face of war”: Ukrainian artist Daria Marchenko creates portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin using 5,000 shell casings taken from Russian’s invasion of Eastern Ukraine.

• A 51-year-old transgender Californian inmate battling the state to pay for her Gender Affirmation Surgery has gotten parole, effectively ending her battle.

• A Tumblr we love: Fuck Yeah, Chubby Guys of Color reminds us how rarely we see such guys celebrated in any sort of media, LGBT or otherwise (NSFW)

• Turns out there’s such a thing as a beneficial sexually transmitted illnesses, including one that “can boost the survival of patients infected with HIV.”