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Queen! 👑👑

Screenshot from NC Board of Elections page showing results of voter turnout for recent election at 19.64%

Voter turnout for the election in North Carolina was less than 20%. I keep thinking of a recent bumper sticker which read "Have the day you voted for." If you didn't vote, don't complain?

Corinne Bailey Rae: ‘If you weren’t tits-out-for-the-lads, they called you middle of the road’ Her first album was a huge hit – then she faced the sudden tragedy of her husband’s early death. She describes the rupture of grief, her return to music and the harsh reality of fame as a woman in the...

This is my interview with the inspirational Corinne Bailey Rae. She's brilliant on grief and what the music press wanted from women in the noughties

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

World history timeline : the rise and fall of nations / Oxford Cartographers ; compiled by Terry Hardaker ; distributed in North America by Map Link

Oh just me looking at this map of the duration of empires for no reason at all

(collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/coll...)

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.

At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

So when the fuck is someone gonna write a banger folk ballad called "The Blizzard of '26"

And reading...just finished Queen of Fury. So. Good. The epilogue is perfect with the celebration that really matters: The Greenwood.

Practically the same with cravats and heliotrope!

My burgundy ones are in full bloom, my greenish-whites a bit slower. All the jonquils are up!

Adorable, and even he thinks it's sus.

Indeed he (your dad) is!

Videos of shelters where dogs choose their new adopted owners make me weep every time. Dogs are too good for us.

Huzzah!

Sometimes all you need is a feral affirmation to help you weather the eclipse season storm 😭 What's one of yours?

Labour organizing SFF.

Soooooo good!

"Try every combo! Write all the dreams! Follow every glimmer, 'til you find your thing!" To the tune of "Climb Every Mountain" from The Sound of Music
I am a stationary enabler, tho...

I think Bridgerton, like many Netflix shows, are suffering from the two screen mentality, I.e producers producing with the full understanding that almost everyone will be distracted by their phones, and keeping the plot simple and easy to pick up at a 15 minute later mark is imperative. I hate it.

🙄🙄🙄🤮

Thank goodness indeed!

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

“Your silence will not protect you.”

- Audre Lorde

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

Reminder that doomscrolling isn't activism. Log off and rest if you need to.

The world will need you tomorrow. There's a lot to do.

Water is big mad at me and Kari, jeez

Please help. Disaster has struck.

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

Image: A single-panel cartoon inside a thick square frame. Top title: “SPECTRUM” (in large, striped letters), “by A Girl Named Earl” (written sideways to the right). Inside the frame: Drawing of a person sitting in a news desk, hands folded in front of him, reporting the news. A yellow banner with the words "BREAKING NEWS" (in bright red) appears at the top of the panel. Two speech bubbles are coming from the reporter, one above and centered, and a smaller one at the bottom right of the panel. Words inside the top speech bubble: "Dangerous ICE STORM threatens safety across the U.S. Millions of people at high risk of loss of power." Words inside the smaller, secondary speech bubble: "(Also, there will be some inclement weather moving in over the weekend.)" Cartoon subtitle, written underneath the frame: "Imminent Threat Alert"

🚨 Imminent Threat Alert!! 🚨
(Also, inclement weather.)

Being a helper is radical.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Oh noes!