#Election Announcements

[nationalistbharat]

Maharashtra Assembly Election 2024: अजित पवार को झटका देगी बीजेपी? 150 सीट पर चुनाव लड़ने का प्लान

Mumbai:महाराष्ट्र में होने वाले विधानसभा चुनाव से पहले भारतीय जनता पार्टी (बीजेपी) प्रदेश में पूरी तरह से एक्टिव हो चुकी है. केंद्रीय मंत्री भूपेंद्र यादव और अश्विनी वैष्णव ने चुनावों के लिए पार्टी की तैयारियों का जायजा लिया. दोनों नेताओं ने गुरुवार को बीजेपी की प्रदेश इकाई के नेताओं के साथ एक बैठक की ��ध्यक्षता की और चुनावी रणनीतियों पर चर्चा की. इस बैठक में पार्टी के वरिष्ठ नेताओं ने चुनाव के…

[whyissupernaturaltrending]

November 5, 2024 - it's been four years since the destiel meme was born.

Supernatural continues trending as expected. At the time of writing this post, it's not appearing as a main tag but instead, 'destiel' is trending right under 'us politics.'

Because even if Supernatural isn't trending, it still is.

As shown below the cut.

[jakeperalta]

UK General Election — 4th July 2024 ‼️

Here's a collection of resources and information for the upcoming general election because voting is very important.

If you've never registered or have changed address since you last registered, you MUST register to vote here by 18 June

If you're unable to vote in person on the day, you can apply for a postal vote by 19 June or apply for a proxy vote by 26 June

Photo ID will be required — details here on what is accepted and how to apply for a free voter ID document if needed (deadline: 26 June)

For info on your constituency and candidates, visit whocanivotefor.co.uk

You can find an overview of any MP's voting record via theyworkforyou.com

For your consistency's vote share last election + the recommended vote to get the tories out, visit tactical.vote

If you're a student, you can register at both your home and term time address, but you can only vote at one of them!

[genderqueerpositivity]

I know that 2016 wasn't yesterday, but even so it seems like our collective memory is shorter with each passing year. The 2016 election and the Internet Research Agency were news a long time ago in media years...and there are bad-faith actors and agents out there who are counting on us forgetting.

As we get closer to Election Day, I encourage everyone to be more cautious of the information that you come across online. Fact check info that you come across in random social media posts, use reputable and reliable sources, get your news from more than one TV channel or website.

Be wary of anyone or anything online designed to manipulate your actions or influence your emotions, whether it's tumblr posts or advertisements or tiktoks. Do not allow propaganda and/or misinformation to sway you into voting against your personal values, your best interests, your personal safety, or the well-being of your neighbors and community in November.

I've already seen things that are concerning online within the past few months, and I expect to see an increase in this the closer we get to November.

Think critically and pay attention.

[charlesoberonn]

Wow it literally is Joever.

[vellialavellious]

FUCKING DAMMIT

[mcaxolotl]

This is completely unedited and exactly how it was viewed live /srs

[transformativeworks]

Withdrawal of Candidate Audrey R.

Effective July 25, Audrey R. has withdrawn her candidacy for the 2023 OTW Board election. The Elections Committee wishes Audrey all the best.

[satosugusbowlofcereal]

[ultrabooob]

[the-physicality]

so i'm about to dive into college basketball in addition to pwhl in addition to wnbl [sydney only] in addition to nwsl playoffs bc my brain needs to be fed constantly

[captainjonnitkessler]

Younger liberals in my social media echo chambers: Ha, Kamala Harris is going to kick Trump's ass! Can you imagine his tantrum when he loses to a woman? I can't wait to elect our first female President this November!

Me:

[jakeperalta]

the tories crashing and burning in the local elections

[tennessoui]

this has stayed in my brain for like 2 weeks: au where obi-wan gets fed up with the city council because he keeps writing them asking them to fill this pothole on his street that he hates driving around and they keep not doing it so he decides to run for city council himself on the sole platform of if he’s elected he’s going to fucking fix that fucking pothole.

and he wins because he is very charming and not a lot of people vote anyway, and he fills in his pothole and then next election cycle, he’s planning to let someone else win so he doesn’t have to be on the city council anymore because he actually hates local politics.

only there’s this asshole in university who decides to run obi-wan’s re-election campaign because he’s trying to sleep with a political science TA and he thinks she’ll be impressed if he shows an interest in local politics by doing some grassroots voting door to door work for his community service credits…..and he chooses obi-wan to support at random and very nonconsensually

so anakin skywalker becomes the bane of obi-wan kenobi’s existence. obi-wan kenobi becomes the focus of anakin’s.

(obi-wan also becomes an elected official again, mostly because of the bored housewives vote.)

(obi-wan blames this on the fact that while anakin is a very horny intense nineteen year old, he’s also surprisingly effective with his big wet eyes and his obscenely pink lips. anakin blames this on the televised debates he scheduled between obi-wan and fellow councilor maul, where obi-wan’s eyebrows are drawn and he looks furious and his shirtsleeves are rolled up to his elbows, exposing his very nicely defined forearms.)

(they fuck about it.)

[duchessofostergotlands]

Jessica, the Royal Family has announced that they will cancel engagements that may divert attention or distract from the general election. They said this is normal procedure, but I was not aware this was a thing. Is it? Are you familiar with it, and does it mean all engagements/which would qualify as distracting?

There's a thing called purdah. I think that's going out of favour as a term but whatever they call it now, it's the period between the election being announced and the election itself. During that time different institutions - particularly civil servants and local government - will have rules to follow in order to try and ensure the election is as free from external influence as possible. They may use terms like "distracting" but it's really about not being seen to be unfairly influencing people's voting intentions. I've always said the closest institution to the royal family is the civil service - deeply intertwined with government but non-partisan - and so it would make sense to me that those rules extend to the royals.

I'm not aware of them announcing they're doing it before but that doesn't mean it wasn't normal procedure. If they cancelled things no one knew they were going to do anyway and didn't tell us, how would we know? So it makes sense to me as a concept but I genuinely don't recall it being mentioned before so I couldn't say with any certainty if or how they did it before. What is clear is that Charles is managing it differently e.g. announcing it which Liz wouldn't do because she never announced anything, I suspect his interpretation of what should be cancelled might be different because of the different view of him vs Liz in terms of their political interference etc). So in short, I have no idea what they did before but if I had to I would say it's probably not entirely new but Charles is managing it differently.

In terms of the type of events it extends to, we may never know entirely for the reason I said above. If we didn't know it was happening, how do we know if it was cancelled? But you probably won't see any huge announcements for their projects. And I'd also suspect that they will avoid visits to things like food banks which are quite controversial. Normally visiting a food bank isn't an inherently partisan act but if you go to one during this pre-election period then it will be pounced on by both sides as "royals trying to influence voters by reminding them food banks exist" or "royals secretly support us because they looked sad at a food bank". But we'll see.

[spacehippieface]

I've come to make an announcement: David Tennant is a bitch ass motherfucker. He pissed on my fucking equalities minister! That's right, he took his Time Lord fucking timey-wimey dick out, and he pissed on my fucking equalities minister! And he said his TARDIS was "BIGGER ON THE INSIDE," and I said "that's disgusting!" so I'm making a callout post on my twitter dot com! David Tennant, you got a small TARDIS! It's the size of my temper except way smaller.