I remember the 2000 Election. There were enough votes for Ralph Nader to hand the election to George W. Bush.
I remember the 2016 Election. There were enough votes for Jill Stein to hand the election to Donald Trump.
In 2024 the Green Party is running Cornell West. Let’s not repeat this history, friends
Your vote is not a marriage. You’re not choosing a life partner. It’s a chess move for what’s best for the country and the world.
The other day I mentioned that I was considering a meal subscription service. I mentioned specifically Hello Fresh, cause it was the one I had on the top of my head. Someone on my Mastodon feed came up and mentioned they were seemingly anti-union and created a lot of waste.
That's good information, for sure, and I plan to consider it. But something I'm noticing online where every choice comes with it's share of shaming. While the post I got on Hello Fresh wasn't really shaming, many of the others are, ranging from being a terrible person for making choice A or how choice B is destroying the planet.
Here's the thing: Everything is terrible. Everything is bad. Everything has secrets. Everything has issues. It's how we navigate that terribleness that matters.
I want to buy a pickup as my next vehicle. There's a lot of anger towards that depending on who you talk to. But the navigation is that I genuinely use it, not just as a daily driver, but a truck.
It's not a status symbol, it's not a gas guzzler (in fact, I'm planning the next pickup to be an EV), it's genuinely going to be my daily driver, and it's going to be put to work whenever there's work to be done. Just like when I had Cheyenne.
There will never be a perfect corporation or service. It's the navigation of the choices that you have in front of you that matter.
I'd like to be snarky about this, but it's sad to watch #Twitter's slow death. That stupid, beautiful site has been vital to me in my development as a poet. And as someone who can probably be described as Very Online, I used to find the site good in a bunch of other ways as well. But at some point, you have to go. He's deleting old tweets to save a bit of money on storage space. And meanwhile, all the tweets on the Arab Spring, the Mumbai attacks, etc, are gone. They're just...gone.
Tears of the Kingdom Post-Game Milestone:
All Gleeoks defeated!
Current status:
All Shrines
59 Light Roots
All Korok Seeds, Main Quests, Side Adventures, Shrine Quests, Side Quests and Memories completed
91.93% Complete
340 Hours Played
#tearsofthekingdom
I'm already planning for a run of Threadgill's yeast rolls for this week (looking for that perfect yeast roll recipe, still), but I'm gonna save this bread recipe for later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7W9GLTVTyg
Conversion therapy for #LGTBQ youth is banned in #Michigan, under 2 bills signed by governor #Whitmer on Wednesday https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4121643-michigan-bans-conversion-therapy-for-lgbtq-youth/
Here's a comparison I haven't seen elsewhere. Maybe it'll be helpful for people in other countries, illustrating the challenges of distance in Canada's far north.
Evacuees from #Yellowknife need to drive 14.5 hrs to get to Edmonton. This is like evacuees leaving Manhattan, at the Lincoln Tunnel and driving to an #evacuation reception centre in Jacksonville, Florida.
And the route in Canada's north is flat-out highway driving – not urban streets and stop lights.
#wildfires
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Creative Text Writer for MTG: Universes Beyond
Writer for Sea of Legends
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