Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

#StarTrek

You may at times feel left out, left behind, that you don't fit in. Take heart! Even if there is no place that seems made for you, there can be a place made BY you, where others find they are not alone. I would be proud to count myself among them.

"The United States has always been a terrible place to be sick and disabled. Ableism is baked into our myths of bootstrapping and self-reliance, in which health is virtue and illness is degeneracy. It is long past time for a bedrock shift, for all of us."

This article is devastating:
https://wapo.st/3s1vP2i

src: https://twitter.com/the_freakin_yui/status/1689166051374968832

When I gathered the courage to tell my mother that I was her daughter, not her son, she simply said:
"I have suspected so, ever since you were born."
"Why?"
"I was cursed when expecting you. A demon would take my firstborn son."
"And?"
"It came, looked at you and said 'Nah'."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

So, voted today, though in lieu of the poll worker sticker I would usually have with this, I have the medication that is my reason for not being a poll worker today.

"But how do you vote on election day (as opposed to absentee) and not walk into a building with people you would be infecting," you ask? Well, Ohio actually has this covered - it's called curbside voting.

First, drive to your polling location. OHIO IS A STICKLER ON HAVING YOU VOTE AT THE PRECINCT ASSIGNED FOR YOUR CURRENT ADDRESS. Next, you need to get the attention of the Precinct Election Officials (PEO's) inside; they may have a person or two assigned to keep an eye out, but it probably works better to ask another voter going inside to let them know they have a "curbside voter".

They will send two people out to help you, from differing parties, because auditing is important (and really more than half of a voting process, tbqh). They will then start by doing what they'd do at a roster table - ask for acceptable ID (Good news, US Passports are acceptable in Ohio now! Bad news, utility bills are no longer acceptable), ask you to state your name and current address, and write stuff down on a pink envelope. They will hand this pink envelope for you to look at and sign. They'll then head back inside for a bit.

After the PEO's verify you're in the poll book and haven't voted (or asked for an absentee ballot), you're in the right location, find and log the paper ballot they're bringing out to you, and hopefully sterilize things, they'll both come back out with the envelope and a paper ballot. Fill in the circles (completely, as instructed) as you wish, then fold the ballot loosely in half and stick it in the pink envelope. At this point, you seal the envelope, which you can lick but, as neither I nor the voting location manager felt like offering COVID-19 samples, a spare vote sticker was used in my case.

They then take the envelope back inside, and you're done! They both sign at the bottom as well, and do any further logging as necessary. If there are issues, such as "you moved or changed your name", you may end up voting provisionally, and may have some follow-up on a later day.

Remember that polls in Ohio close at 7:30 P.M. Also, note that this is a method where you are not in a line, so you will want to let them know you're out there before 7:30. But, if you didn't get an absentee ballot and you can't walk into the polling location, this is an option and I encourage you to vote however it has to happen.

"We just updated our services. Pray we don't update them any further."

Flying is actually the safest mode of transportation. The second safest is dreaming. The third safest is decomposing into rich earth and drifting away with the wind and rain.

Welcome... to Night Vale.

Gemelos, el arte de la naturaleza.

#cats #caturday #caturdayeveryday #twins #gemelos #gatos #catsofmastodon

The Ohio vote was decisively "no" it seems (that is the good outcome)

The hyper-short version: a dirty attempt at making it harder to pass constitutional amendments right before a vote to enshrine abortion rights in their state constitution was voted down

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/08/ohio-issue-1-special-electionresults-voters-decide-tuesday-on-august-8-ballot-issue/70487461007/

#ohio #uspol

Disaster movies seem to have an extremely strict formula! One: add a divorced cis man, the more disaster life the better, absolutely soaking wet meow meow. Two: ex wife is Much Cooler than him. Three: kid hates him and is the coolest person in the entire movie usually. Four: disasterrrrrrrr YOU MUST OUTRUN THE PHYSICS. Five: get the exes together in the rubble, because clearly they forgot in the excitement why they divorced each other. Neither party has really actually changed.

awesome job, #ohio and all y'all that worked so hard getting the word out (lookin' at you & your team @RavynWitch ❤️ )

So it turns out that the name Tate is not short for Potato

#StarTrek

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