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He did a LOT of overcompensating for being considered a hick from the sticks. Georgia the country does share some of that reputation with Georgia the state.

Georgia the country. Not the US state.

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"Here we see the wild gerrymander in its natural environment, a red state."

Probably a niche political interest, but every election I watch the polls to see if Idaho votes to redraw their third congressional district which only covers the Amigara Township and a few small farming communities.

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Exceptions do not exist, because the people in charge of enforcing abortion bans think that stuff like ectopic pregnancies or rape are God's Will, and clearly a punishment for something the mother did, because Eve was the source of all evil or something. Sure, if it happens to them or their family, THEN there will be an exception granted (even if they have to fly to a civilized country to get medical care), because obviously God loves THEM. But all those other people dying from lack of care or stuck giving birth to a rapist's child? God's Will is to punish them.

Tonight, the night before Election Day 2024 in the US, I am thinking about my stepkid.

I am thinking about the phone call they made to us earlier this year, the one where they told us they'd gone to the hospital thinking they had appendicitis and found out, instead, that a zygote - a tiny splodge of cells - had taken up residence not in their uterus but in a fallopian tube. The one where our kid said they were waiting for their partner to arrive, hoped that said partner would get there before the docs took our kid back to terminate that pregnancy, & assured us that they'd be okay.

After all, our kid lives in a state with choice measures embedded in state law. That pea-sized blot of tissue doesn't have more right to their health than they do. Nobody is standing between them and their doctors. They made a decision, and that was that.

In this tiny tragedy, the kind that plays out dozens of times a day at minimum across the country, we only had to worry about the small risk of surgery complications. We didn't have to worry about Ken Paxton threatening to charge their doctors with felonies. We didn't have to think, "What if the hospital's legal team doesn't think an ectopic pregnancy - which is never ever viable and must be terminated before it kills our kid - is really that big of a deal?" We didn't have to worry that they live in a state where ob-gyns are fleeing, leaving few experts behind, as has happened in Idaho.

We didn't have to watch our kid vomit up black blood before dying the day after their baby shower the way Neveah's mom did. We didn't have to pray in a waiting room (while doctors took our kid apart until their heart stopped because the doctors waited too long out of fear of anti-choice laws) until a doctor came to tell us we'd have to bury them the way that Amber's mom did. We aren't having to pick up our lives after fully treatable miscarriage-related sepsis took them from us the way that Josseli's husband and daughter must.

I could go on for far, far too long.

Listen. If you are a single-issue non-voter and have already decided that "both parties are the same" or whatever other thing you've told yourself so you can sleep at night, smug and secure, then I can't reach you and I can't help you. But if you genuinely think that your votes don't matter, if you're just suffering from a bout of overwhelm or apathy, if you're too young to remember the 2000 election and can't see that Dobbs is a direct result of that election and every one that's followed, please, I am fucking begging you.

I didn't really talk about this when it happened. I mentioned something briefly, maybe. The posts I've started writing about it are still in my drafts. It was too fresh, too frightening. It's not any less frightening now, honestly - because if this week doesn't end with President Kamala Harris, we're headed for a national abortion ban, at the minimum - but it's not about how fucking frightened I was or how sad and bewildered I was to realize that my kid was going through this crisis in a nation more hostile to them than when I needed a D&C for an abortion at 21, in 1998.

It's about stopping this chapter of this fucking bullshit and at least finding some new fucking bullshit.

Vote, dammit.

Do the other work on Wednesday. Tomorrow, the work is to vote.

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They almost never get mine right without being told, because it's pronounced as if there's a double M in the middle, but five generations back we lost an M. So it looks like the first vowel should be long, but it's not.

Has anyone ever mispronounced your last name?

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Dreadful taste in color aside, she's practically an Addams already.

Addams Family Values (1993) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld I don't wanna hurt anybody. I don't enjoy hurting anybody. I don't like guns, or bombs, or electric chairs. But sometimes people just won't listen. And so, I have to use persuasion. And slides.

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It makes me wonder if all the original posts about being a hiking perfume were people deliberately trolling people and setting them up for big cat encounters.

i like perusing fragrantica (perfume information website) as a pastime, but the number of people??? who wear perfume??? to bed?? wild

also have seen MULTIPLE variations of "good hiking perfume"/"good going to the gym perfume"?????

WHAT are other people's discretionary funds for fragrance looking like??? that you would have a "hiking" perfume?????

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Maybe it's this orchestra.

this worksheet belongs to vulvacrat!

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"I don't tip because tipping is a broken system."

Yes, it's broken, but if you go to a sit-down restaurant and refuse to tip, you're an asshole. If you insist on not tipping, stop going anywhere that expects it.

"I refuse to vote for the lesser evil because the two-party system is broken."

Yes, it's broken, but if you continue to live in America and refuse to vote for the less-bad candidate, you're an asshole. If you insist on your PURITY, move to a country that has multi-party voting. With an attitude like that, odds are pretty good you have the means to do so.

Vote.

No buts. No 'all evil candidates.' No excuses. No bullshit. You either give a shit about what's happening to you in the United States or you fucking don't. No pleasantries, no argument to hide behind, this is it. Been seeing a lot of Propaganda cropping up again in my feed and I am 10,000% not here for it. I have officially hit my absolute limit for complete and utter nonsense spouted by right-wing bots and plants as some psyop to get the chronically online to not vote.

Bite your lip. Hold your nose. Hell, complain the whole time if you want. But fucking vote. If you care, you fucking vote. That's it.

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Sadly, the bill did eventually pass and take effect, but the legislature had to nerf the filibuster to get it through. And even after that, she and another state rep (Hunt) gummed up the works as much as possible.

Nebraska hasn't passed a single bill this year because one lawmaker keeps filibustering in protest of an anti-trans bill: 'I will burn this session to the ground'

Damn. I thought she was just gonna up and make a fuss and her swearing to protect trans kids was a bunch of empty words (again).

But no. She's one-woman filibustering the entire Nebraska legislature into a complete standstill until they agree to protect the rights of trans kids.

She was 100% serious when she said she'd make it as painful for everyone as it is for trans kids. Gahddamn.

This is why small elections matter. She's not a country wide senator or president or shit. She's just a local official representing District 6 in Nebraska.

This is why the "smaller" elections between the presidential elections matter.

-fae

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Putting the blorb in blorbo.

my favorite video of all time ever

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One advantage of being one of the Olds on Tumblr...my Tumblr is ten years old, but I was 44 then and 54 now and all of my truly embarrassing youthful online stuff is buried on Usenet.

the problem with having a decade old tumblr blog is that there are posts on it from a decade ago

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Imagine trying to explain all of this from scratch.

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So, protagonist being Mood Gal? Wood Lady? Domo Dame?

has anyone considered tapping the fiery sword ever turning this way and that in front of Eden for energy

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That might be how we get Doom.

has anyone considered tapping the fiery sword ever turning this way and that in front of Eden for energy

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The very SPIRIT of House.

say something funny

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I've been saying for a while now, MAGA is a toxic fandom and they are absolutely unmovable on their headcanon.

An unshakeable headcanon regarding fiction is generally just annoying. But their headcanon is about reality.

Before you get all riled up, take a sec to digest this key quote:

Unnervingly rapidly, our culture has become a fan-based landscape that the rest of us are merely living in. Our entertainments may be cancelled prematurely through an adverse fan reaction, and we may endure largely misogynist crusades such as Gamergate or Comicsgate from those who think “gate” means “conspiracy”, and that Nixon’s disgrace was predicated on a plot involving water, but this is hardly the full extent to which fan attitudes have toxified the world surrounding us, most obviously in our politics.

He's right and he should say it. MAGA is at its heart a spectacularly toxic fandom. People treat matters of state like they're sports games, and they treat their entertainments like they're papal bulls.

Moore can certainly be a giant crank when he wants to, but when he's right, the man is right.

("Alan Moore knows the score", indeed.)

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So, corn mazes started in 1993, within four years of becoming economically feasible.

I never really thought much of why we hadn't had corn mazes when I was a kid, because my area didn't go big on corn in the first place, and by high school I wasn't terribly interested in outdoorsy attractions like hayrides and the like. But I guess no one had 'em when I was a kid.

corn mazes were invented WHEN???