i wish i had enough social media influence to encourage people to call the miami-dade offices, specifically their post office, and demand that the 27% of missing ballots be counted, seeing as miami-dade could flip all of florida blue, and then change the outcome of the entire election
i just discovered that the secretary of state is responsible for calling recounts!
Please be vigilant about your vote, especially so in battleground states like Florida and Georgia with Republican governors who have explicitly shown that they have no compunction about suppressing the vote.
Fuck doomscrolling, I’m going to aggressively hope.
While I was asleep Michigan and Wisconsin tilted blue. Pennsylvania was definitely red last night and now it’s gray and too close to call. Georgia is too close to call.
Votes are still being counted. All is not lost, yet.
So I’m gonna hope.
with nevada, wisconson and michagin, biden has 270. hes starting to close the gap in pennsylvania and theres still many votes left to count. We were told not to give up early or fall for the red mirage and now the mirage has faded and there is a clear path to victory
Hey, to you sci-fi/fantasy writers out there (and maybe some others, but this is mainly for things that can’t really be researched irl), if you want to write a character who is a driven, passionate expert on something, don’t write about them rambling indifferently about some boring, mundane part of it. Give them a deep, intense hatred of some oddly specific wow-I-did-not-even-know-that-was-a-thing-and-it-would-have-never-occurred-to-me-that-it’s-a-bad-thing thing they’ll gladly rant about.
Write a dragon rider who really fucking hates it when a dragon is trained to bow while being reined. A space ship engineer who is pissed off when perfectly good antimatter ship has been adapted to run on neutral matter. A historian who is still not over the massive failures of a general who lost a specific battle 300 years before she was born.
The guy currently giving us a series of lectures on the restoration of historical buildings really, really hates polymer paint. At the artisan school our stained glass teacher really hated this one specific Belgian artist - we never really figured out what did that guy even do, but he’s been dead for over 200 years and our teacher was glad that at least he’s dead.
Experts don’t just know things you’ve never thought about. They’ve got strong opinions about it.
a geologist who is very very critical when people refer to certain igneous rocks as sedimentary.
