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Hey. Listen. Because someone just caught me with this:

If you find yourself shaking and feeling cold, you may be feeling the effects of mild shock. Please get yourself something warm to drink, wrap yourself in a blanket, and watch comforting TV or play some Tetris, okay?

I'm serious. A friend reached out and asked if I was shaking, and i realized that I was and had been for like ten minutes. I have a warm drink and I'm going to watch Star Wars.

Take care of yourself.

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Hey for those of you that aren’t polisci nerds like me, I thought I’d share a term for something that happens every election.

“Red Mirage”

Rural areas contain less people. Less people means fewer votes. Fewer votes means faster counting. Faster counting means earlier results. The map turns red as rural republican areas get counted first and without any other data from larger counties.

“Blue shift”

The cities and highly populated counties start reporting their data. It took them longer to count all those votes. Once they report in, their areas of the map either flip from red or get colored in blue. Over time the map turns blue.

If you are looking at early reporting you are looking at the red mirage. It happens every four years. It is not unusual. It is expected.

The question isn’t “what color will the map turn first?”

The question is “what color will the map end as?”

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Reblog so someone can give something to you, as well...

You deserve a break today.

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in 2020 the blue shift took four days, in 2020 the blue shift took four days, in 2020 the bl

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take my hand for a moment

your objective from this point on is to survive

the election results are going to take a few days. The world is going to be very tense. I want you to take all the things you like to do to distract yourself and splurge on them. I want you to go eat your favroite foods and spend time with friends. I want you to do what you gotta do to make sure you can make it through the week.

There are people out there who want you to survive. There are people out there who are just as scared as you are.

We'll get through this. We will find a way

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Drinking white grape juice and also watching game grumps

I’m stress eating skittles and baking a lemon tart

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Can’t chance it

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This woman quite literally did more for people in Gaza than the Western tankies who want her dead ever will.

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Welcome to the Month of Cheshvan.

Spelled חֶשְׁוָן with Nikud, חשוון with no Nikud, and pronounced /khesh-'van/, this month is also referred to as Marcheshvan מַרְחֶשְׁוָן /'mar-khesh-van/.

/mar/ מַר in Hebrew is bitter, which is one of the assumptions as to why this month is also called מַרְחֶשְׁוָן /'mar-khesh-van/.

Unlike the month of Tishrei which comes right before it, the month of /khesh-'van/ is unique in its lack of holidays, and no special observances.

This may be the reason it is referred to as bitter, because if its lack of sweet celebrations.

And yet, the emptiness of /khesh-'van/ holds a special opportunity for all of us.

After the intensity of Tishrei, with Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Simchat Torah, this month offers us space — a chance to catch our breath, reflect, and plant seeds for what we want to grow in the months ahead.

If Tishrei is about beginnings, reflection, and celebration, then /khesh-'van/ is about grounding.

It’s a month where we can pause and ask ourselves what those insights and intentions mean in our day-to-day lives.

Without the festivities, /khesh-'van/ reminds us that life itself — our daily choices, interactions, and thoughts — is a vessel for all the inspiration we’ve gathered.

This is the time to bring light to the simple moments, to create our own significance in the “quiet” spaces.

Think of /khesh-'van/ as an invitation to make room for new, gentle growth in a way that is unassuming but deep.

May this month be a time of peace and grounding for each of you, filled with moments of quiet strength, personal insight, and the sweetness we find in the everyday.

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‼️One more election post, because I'm officially about to mentally shut down until Wednesday:

The most important reason Donald Trump needs to lose is because of the power granted by the SCOTUS appointments. We stopped focusing on this, and that was a mistake.

Think about what he has accomplished since successfully getting THREE conservative judges in the court.

They overturned Roe v Wade. That was always the goal. Then after one of his numerous trials this year they decided that the president of the United States is IMMUNE from criminal prosecution while in office. POTUS is officially above the law! This is what people mean when they say Trump is running to stay out of prison. The man is LITERALLY out on bail and awaiting sentencing! But if he is elected, he will never be sentenced.

SCOTUS just approved the purging of votes in Virginia. It never stops.

This is what he managed because of ONE term and appointing THREE judges. Two judges are most likely retiring next term and we are FUCKED of Trump wins and gets to put FIVE judges in the Supreme Court.

Yes, every election that involves Donald Flop is "the most important election of our lifetime".

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I've been in a bit of a creative writing block lately (in between finishing my Beit Din essays) so I used Mag Archives as inspiration. I wrote a statement - I might do one for all of the entities.

This last time was in a coffee shop, I'm pretty sure I came straight here from there. I would be happier to speak aloud than write with this pen, or perhaps not, since I can look back at the words. I suppose I'll get on with it. There was a ticking sound every time. I could remember the ticking sound, but nothing else. It was like being tapped on my brain's shoulder - I knew I was about to turn around and face him, it, them, that. But I'd forgotten them entirely. Sly, sly smile, too wide, too many teeth, not enough humanity. His fingers, long and sharp - had I ever seen sharp fingers before? Yes - maybe those were the source of the ticking. It was like falling down, the urge to smile back. Not like a trip and fall, like being hurled down a pit that never ended. Perhaps only if the fall was cut short by a wrong-shaped foot pulling you back up by the hairstrings. It never stopped smiling, I thought, or I think. Did I? No. If you've ever seen hair, the head of that, it, would convince you otherwise. I both wish and wished the hair would cover his eyes - oh, oh, the eyes! Eyes? Yes, if yes is very tenuous. Dark and light at once, wide and the opposite of their fingers if sharp was up and round was backwards. I want us to blink more. Maybe that is the source of the ticking, is the blinking, but there was none. That laughs at me, perhaps every time or last time or this time. It tells me I ask the same thing. "Have we met before?" My voice is raspy, and it escapes into the wind that is inside this coffee house. I blink, and there is a fading ticking sound. I will be in it forever, I think, or I thought. I should go back if I ever left. [statement ends]

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stop making fun of bad people for being fat or having small dicks or being socially awkward or whatever else you seem to think is a fair target. none of that shit has anything to do with why theyre bad. i don’t care if a nazi has a stutter or a terf has thinning hair or whatever. at best youre missing the point, at worst your comments are gonna hurt vulnerable people more than they will ever affect the shitty person you’re mocking. why are you so attached to these bullshit standards anyway?

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I haven't seen dancing pumpkin guy ONCE this year, are you guys okay?

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Your gender is now the first randomized wikipedia article you get. No rerolls.

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I’m sobbing, in small part because I’m so worried to have to make this kind of list for my own synagogue someday. It would likely look much the same in terms of age and community involvement.

Don’t forget these anniversaries and don’t forget these people.

Today is the anniversary of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre in the Gregorian calendar. It happened in 2018, not that long ago, almost yesterday in Jewish time, but so many more horrific things have rocked our community since then, that it seems to have been overlooked. And it's devastating. It's devastating that in the six years since that day, hundreds more Jews have been killed for the sole reason that they were Jews, for the same ancient hatred that fueled Robert Bowers to open fire in a synagogue on Shabbat and kill eleven Jews. We can't let it be forgotten. It was forgotten by the rest of the world almost as soon as soon as it happened, but we can't let it be forgotten amongst us Jews. Our memory is what keeps us going.