Ok, to prove to my husband that this is more a European device than a U.S. device I am going to need more non-US people to reblog this.

Do not reblog for science. No science will be happening. Reblog to help me prove a point!

(If I am right I will show him this poll. If I am wrong he will never know this happened)

I am from the U.S. and I know what it is BUT ONLY BECAUSE my wife was raised in Europe!!!

Realised what it was about five seconds after clicking I didn't know, but, to be fair, I've never actually seen one in person, so the answer is still probably indicative.

My dad is from Europe, but we didn't have one. However, I saw a few around in use when I was a kid, I think because I'm from a traditional hand pottery producing area, and the potters are absolutely trying to bring these bad boys back and so they are more broadly available in my region in thrift stores and gift shops etc

If your democrat friends start muttering about stolen election conspiracy theories, the time to have a sit down with them and express your concerns is NOW, while you still have a chance to reach them, not 6 months from now when they're fully conspiracy-pilled.

Here's some of the talking points and why they're bullshit:

But just as importantly as the facts: sit down with your friend and talk about the anxiety that's behind their conspiracy leanings. Acknowledge their pain and fear. Help them find ways to feel less powerless and regain their sense of agency. Take them to a mutual aid event, involve them in a fundraising event for a marginalized group, invite them to a local community effort. If they spend more time feeling connection and empowerment and less time doom scrolling online, they're far more likely to stay in reality.

This this this

I worked as an election judge across multiple polling locations and election types in my state from 2018-2023 (presidential primary and general elections, midterms, and special elections like for the school board etc.)

US elections are extremely secure. There are so many safeguards in place. Everything is double and triple counted.

The number of ballots electronically counted by the box are checked against the number of physical ballots at the end of the night, and also the receipt papers that individuals exchange for their ballot. All three of these counts MUST MATCH. Sometimes you're off by 1 number and it means everyone stops and triple counts these papers until you find the error (human error, it's been 16 hours and two pieces of thin receipt paper were stuck together and the second person to recount finds it and everyone cheers because thank fuck, it means no one dropped anything on the floor anywhere.)

There are eyes everywhere and there's a deliberate mix of poll workers across political parties/affiliations. It's simply not possible to alter even 1 ballot at 1 polling place, much less thousands.

Unfortunately, Donald Trump won this election. If there was interference, it was NOT at the voting booth. That's simply not possible. The "interference" (if you can even call it that) comes from right wing propaganda convincing stupid and/or hateful and/or selfish people to vote for him.

The interference also came long before the election, in the form of gerrymandered districting, voter roll purges, disinformation and even just honest chaos and incompetence regarding how to handle stuff like people who move (who could have possibly predicted that people change address sometimes?! /s) or people who were able to regain voting rights after losing them (such as a felon). These kinds of events occur little by little throughout every year, not just at the day and place of voting. I heard of one person who had moved, went to their new polling place to discover that their update to their address had been too recent, so was directed to go to their old polling place. They went there, where the more competent person said, oh you can file an amendment of address on the same day of voting, and helpfully assisted the voter in doing so. At which point, they cheerily said, okay you're good to vote at your new polling place! You know, the one the voter had just been at, which was all the way across town. So they got back in their car and drove BACK there, where that same poll worker checked the system, saw the update, and allowed them to cast a provisional ballot. If they'd had work to get back to, or kids in the car losing their shit, this simple bureaucratic snafu would have posed an insurmountable barrier to voting. Now imagine if that person had been entirely removed from the voter roll and had only discovered it when they went to vote?

Give a fuck about making elections equitably accessible to the busiest, poorest, least mobile, most stressed members of our society.

Hello again! You might remember my illustration of the "Last Supper" featuring characters from "The Locked Tomb". Right now, I'm working on illustrating all of "Harrow the Ninth" (it's my favorite part of the series). My skills have improved over time, and I'm excited to bring new artwork to the fandom. Please follow me so you don’t miss out!

(Sorry for my bad English)

I’d also like to show you my Ianthe cosplay. For it, I sacrificed an arm and asked Harrow to grow me a new one.

Photographer's Instagram: @achem.ph

Upg: For those interested: my real hand is behind my back, and the skeleton hand is taped to my shoulder. Photoshop wasn't used for this detail. The hand is made of hot glue and a bit of modeling clay to smooth the surface. The base is wire, and the hand is coated with enamel.

Thank you all for the reposts and nice comments!

And please use the pronoun 'they' when reblogging 🤗 I really appreciate it.

One last talent show to save the rec center

Ok everybody here's the deal.

My science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist (you might know her, creator of the squid facts hotline and matcher of classrooms + scientists) has secured absolutely no grants to support general operations for 2025. But! We're selling advent calendars to fund our program! They absolutely rule. They can save our nonprofit asses. If we sell 5000, which I realize, is so many, we can fund our program for 2025. Then I can offer a bunch of programming for free. Running a nonprofit is a weird job.

Every day, counting down to frankly whatever you want (it's usually Christmas, but man, maybe you want to count down to Halloween, that's fine by me) scratch off the sparkly sparkly iridescence and reveal a fact about frogs! We have 24 top-notch frog facts here.

You should get one for every kid in your life, then get one for all the adults who still let themselves access joy in critters.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

You stated your goal was selling 5000.

Among the various advent calendars you've sold since you first posted this adpost, how far along have you gotten towards that goal?

I've sold 2179 so far this year. So... pretty far from the goal unfortunately! But... way way better than nothing!

That's not fair.

(If you want to see me vent I'm on tiktok, @cryingbard)

Thank you for putting these thoughts into words and art.

My fucking cat has figured out how to gently dig his claws into my eyelid and pull my eyes open while I'm sleeping. He does this. It does not hurt. He is remarkably precise and gentle. I however am asleep when it happens and do not appreciate being clockwork oranged by a needy clingy goddamn animal who thinks he needs attention.

I would like to clarify that this animal self feeds and is not being denied breakfast by my sleeping in. He doesn't do this to anyone else. Everyone else simply gets increasingly invasive headbutts and even thats a fairly rare occurence. This fucking cat needs to cuddle with me specifically, And he is decided that the best way to do it is to gently shove his claws underneath my eyelashes and pull. There is no way I can train him out of this because believe it or not shoving your fingers in somebody's eyes to wake them up has the desired reaction.

We have come to a compromise. One that neatly illustrates the reason I'm not wearing an eyemask.

If I have a hair tie on my wrist, my darling sweet baby boy, love of my life and apple of my eye, can gingerly dig his teeth underneath and grab it in his mouth and then back up. and pull. And Snap the hell out of me with the elastic. Again, he is very gentle and precise, there are never teeth touching my skin. This is not a fluke, he managed this several times in various circumstances and positions.

This is worse than a toddler. We are approaching diabolical machinations hitherto undreamt of by domestic felines.

Behold, Prince Shithead himself.

it's times like these that lead people to believe animals contain a human spirit and motive - because who else but old Joe would delight in my bedevilment???

Silvery-Cheeked Hornbill

Watercolor 5"x7"

I did a whole little series of little 5"x7" paintings that had to be done in one day. Well, this one was done in two... heh

These little dinosaurs are so precious

O sapo-de-chifres ou sapo-folha (Proceratophrys boiei) é uma espécie de anfíbio da família Odontophrynidae. Essa espécie é endêmica do Brasil e é encontrada em várias regiões do país. Sua distribuição inclui principalmente áreas de Mata Atlântica, que é um bioma caracterizado por florestas tropicais úmidas e diversidade biológica excepcional

I had no idea the entire horns closed as the eyelids oh my god

eatin my dark lunch. logically know that cubes of tofu and tinned meat are reasonable items to have in a soup but i cut everything in too even cubes so now i feel like i'm eating a star trek replicator meal

I did that once by dicing my chicken absentmindedly in about half inch cubes to make curry

I just couldn't shake that dog food texture? because the chicken breast of course overcooked and turned to stiff mush in the instant pot

Tuunbaq has put a hole in the linoleum in the bathroom so now I am forced to do what I said I wasn't going to do and perform a Facebook reels esque DIY to replace the floor with tile and paint the vanity cabinets to match it.

Is replacing light fixtures with zero experience in electrical anything a fatally stupid idea

light fixtures are straightforward if you're just like, removing the old one and putting a new one with the same stats in its place. I'd say this is a "safe with the guidance of a trusted manual/experienced DIYer" level activity.

okay so idk how to say this but. i found a cat

one year later

yes i did find a fucking cat

source

When I was 19 or 20, I sewed myself a wool dress for medieval re-enactments. I hated it almost as soon as I put it on. The bodice was cut wrong; the lacing was uneven; the colour was garish; the front closure was historically inaccurate; the embellishments were sewn on with terrible thread. Wearing it, I was constantly aware of its myriad flaws.

Then in my twenties I hit my adult metabolism and didn’t fit into any of my old clothes anymore. I gave my old dresses to my foster mother, who sells costumes for a living, and the green dress sold. It entered the local medieval re-enactment secondhand economy.

Every time I go to an event, someone different is wearing my green dress. It draws my eyes because it’s a lovely colour and the fabric—real wool and enough of it—moves beautifully with the wearer’s body. I never recognize it at first, because every wearer has worn it a different way; it can be mixed and matched, dressed up and down, moved around a good century of history. From ten feet away its lacing looks elegant, its embellishments beautiful gracenotes. I think: Oh my god, that dress looks beautiful. Wait a minute, that’s MY DRESS.

That dress teaches me, every time I see it, to stop looking at myself through such critical eyes. That dress doesn’t just look good, it looks better than most other dresses in its category, because I put in the time and the effort (including using pliers to force a needle through six layers of wool) to make sure it was done right.

It’s my reminder that sometimes the things I do are actually good, and if I indulge my natural tendency to criticize myself in everything, I’ll end up missing when I’m actually awesome.

So some people in PA got an email TODAY saying that their vote might not have been counted. If that's true, then they actually fucking cheated.

Link here, though Musk will probably try to delete it, so here's the images directly:

Hi. What.

Related news sources:

1. CBS: Pennsylvania officials say "bad-faith mass challenges" target more than 3,500 voters

2. NPR: Thousands of Pennsylvania voters have had their mail ballot applications challenged

3. AP: Pennsylvania election officials weighing in on challenges to 4,300 mail ballot applications

4. CNN: Last-minute challenges in battleground Pennsylvania target thousands of mail-in ballots

No matter where you voted, but especially if you voted in a battleground state, please make sure it counted. Check your texts, emails, voicemails, and answer your phone if it rings.

Be cautious about providing personal information to strangers in this high-stakes situation. Grifters love a time crunch. Verify phone numbers and email addresses. Look up the ballot curing process, and make sure you understand what should and should not be asked of you.

gonna start asking hockey dudes on tinder if they can define goaltender interference and if they give me any answer other than “i don’t know” i’m unmatching them

men? not disappointing me? what is this feeling

how do i tell these guys this post got 200+ notes on tumblr

UPDATE ONE OF THESE GUYS IS ACTUALLY A REF I’M LAUGHING SO HARD

In times like these, it's important to come together and perform odd but harmless displays of chaotic comradery.

I'm hosting a 'cathartic scream' event where we go to the nearest water feature (reservoir dam) and shriek into the rushing waters.

This isn't exactly activism, but we had a little gathering of queers today to unwind about the election and we all agreed that a scream would do each of us some good.

Anyways. Don't hold out on your screaming spots. Organize and come together to scream in groups.

this art exercise is small and simple, but its easy to do anywhere with any materials