MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown

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Cake day: March 7th, 2024

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  • I was thinking the same thing. I’ve only ever seen local voting in various schools and municipal buildings, so i looked up my local precincts:

    • 60% vote in churches (though each church serves two precincts…)
    • none vote in schools.

    At first I thought could be because the schools have tightened up security in recent years when it comes to visitors, but in next zone over in the same school district:

    • 75% of the precincts vote at schools
    • none in churches.








  • Don’t get me wrong. I love me a nuanced conversation about the intersections of sustainability and accessibility. If you want to, we can have that.

    But this is a shitpost community. Posts here aren’t really expected to conform to reality, let alone provide exhaustive coverage of all cases. This stupid shitpost also neglects to consider folks who need to have fluids introduced intravenously and the plastic waste created by single use saline bags, or the material/lifetime of the cup in which a straw is used. This is a dumb meme about the choices that some people make with the options that they have. It is not an indictment against the people to which those options may not be available.


  • If your PR team is well versed on the minutia of Nazi symbology, they are either expensive or they are Nazis.

    Establishment candidates have more support from the national party than progressive primary candidates running for the chance to challenge an incumbent. I’d give the latter more benefit of the doubt, especially when they express remorse and regret.

    he was unaware until recently that the image has been associated with Nazi police. … while his campaign initially said he would remove the tattoo, he chose to cover it up with another tattoo due to the limited options where he lives in rural Maine. … “Going to a tattoo removal place is going to take a while,” he said. “I wanted this thing off my body.”