#elections (by type)

[bruhstation]

I TURN 20 YEARS OLD TODAY.

#zin.txt #GOOD LORD. I'M ALREADY REACHING MY TWENTIES......... #gonna ignore the future of my country due to yesterday's presidential elections but UMMMMMMMWELL IM GETTING OLDDDDDD #I can feel my skin sagging as I'm typing this ...

[apollos-boyfriend]

i think the qsmp elections are actually a super interesting idea. because, to me, the issue with elections on minecraft servers is the elevation of a player to be on a higher level than others. the idea that one player's word can be law, and that their power can be abused in whatever way they want and not much can be done about it. these arcs can be done correctly, but in concept they appear very unfair and powertrip-y to those not elected/not running.

but that's because, for most servers, all players are equal, and they are at the top of the totem pole. they are on top by default, and by elevating another player as president/leader, it feels unbalanced. what's the point if they all had power before? why should they elect a president when they were all on equal ground and could equally make decisions?

the qsmp does not have an equal ground. the players don't have power, they can't make their own decisions, they have no say in anything related to server rules. the federation are the ones on top, detached from the players, so there was never equal ground between every entity on the server. the federation has power that the players don't, and the presidential role finally gives them some semblance of control over their situation.

for most smps, president is just a figurehead. everyone had those powers before the election, and now it just feels unfairly given to just one member. for the qsmp, there is genuine power that was previously out of their hands. not only can they make rules that genuinely impact gameplay (adding members, mods, etc), they can use it to attempt to gain more information on the organization that's been keeping them captive.

#icarus speaks #does this make sense? i've been trying to type this out for a while #but like. most smps. everyone has the power of president when they start #and it just feels taken away when the election hits if done incorrectly #the qsmp didn't. the president was always the federation #and the players had no power. they are actually Gaining something by doing this #instead of every person but one losing it

[sporesgalaxy]

dungeon meshi is threatening to make me actually put effort into figuring out what id need to do to go back for a masters degree because Laios makes me miss working with other insane biologists so bad

#adddna #laios would not stick out among like most of my biology elective professors and their biology friends #i need you to knownthat. i need you to know theres a whole world out there. of beautiful laios type motherfuckers #i dont know what it is about biology that makes you a little unhinged in this way. freaks me out that not all pre med students r like that

[radarsteddybear]

Optional: share your answer in the tags along with what generation you belong to, whether or not you successfully learned how to touch type, etc.

#poll #typing #touch typing #keyboarding #school #my poll #original post #my school taught it to everybody in 6th grade (age ~11) and I'm a Millennial #but my parents' school only taught it as an elective (which they both took) and they're Gen X

[arizonaconservativegal]

Did anyone else ever have to do that assignment in like the third grade where you have to write absurdly detailed instructions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? And you have include things like "unwrap the bread" and "retrieve a knife" and "unscrew the peanut butter jar"...?

My job is like that sometimes.

#'I typed 'primary' into the search bar and all it showed me was from from the 2000 election' #'did you scroll to the bottom of the results?' #'no I just looked at the first one' #oh boy #it was right there he just had to scroll a little bit through CHRONOLOGICAL information to get to the most recent entries #he's not stupid either he seems like a reasonably intelligent person so I don't know why this needed to be spelled out

[waveridden]

i've long held a fascination with blaseball gamma 1 (the test circuit that was revealed on the website after it had finished running) because there's a whole lot about it that doesn't add up. if you compare the rosters in the last available gamelogs for teams to the rosters on the websites they don't match up - and i don't just mean "oh the static charges" i mean there are new players and reverbs that have happened that aren't recorded. it is a weird, messy circuit that we didn't get to see, and i care for it quite dearly.

(personally i've long held the theory that there was a third season of this circuit that we didn't get to see that led to additional weather and another round of charges. this is beside the point but i think if they ever do another IAB y'all should help me flood the question box asking about this. i want to know.)

one thing you Can see when looking at gamma 1 teams is that several of them have four pitchers. this is, obviously, not how blaseball works; teams should have five pitchers. some of them were charged, and we know some of these from feed messages. some of them are just missing.

i found some of them tonight.

i've been working on recreating the election results from gamma 1, season 1, and through that i've found three pitchers that i'm not sure people know about. i don't have their stats info, i don't have their performance records. but i found three players who were missing. those players are:

pedro greatlakes, miami dale

jamaal hardison, baltimore crabs

manuela byron, new york millennials

there are, per my best count, three teams with pitchers that are still missing from the record (firefighters, sunbeams, lift) and because of the quality of pitcher feed events i'm not sure they'll ever be found. and maybe this is actually old news and i'm out of touch. and maybe (definitely) i'm a bit of a sap. but i wanted to publish those names. because blaseball is over and gone, and this was a dead circuit in a dead world in a dead game. but there are still new things to find.

#waveridden.txt #i need a blaseball tag #honorable mention to sloth palladium of the lovers who i Think was recorded elsewhere idt i found them but they also only exist in the form #of one election feed message. #also for anyone who is curious how i did this: #my personal project a while back was reconstructing the gamma 1 season 1 elections from a combination of feedeck and the datablase. this wa #one of those elections where teams could pick one stat and every relevant player got a boost in that stat but due to a bug (?) if teams #picked baserunning/defense then the Entire Roster got that boost. which means that feed messages exist for every player on that roster #which includes the missing pitchers! #ETA the exception to the above is pedro greatlakes who i found bc they won a blood type blessing but afaik nobody else knew that lol #also per sibrcord a couple people might've known some of these but afaik they weren't. like. Known #whatever. let me have this

[foxsarah]

ethan & erica academic rivals who pretend they aren't academic rivals but when report cards come around and one side glance sees that one's grade in a class they suck at is better than theirs, it's an instant intellectual bloodbath. erica swears up and down she doesn't give a shit about human studies because she's immortal and none of this will matter in a million years, but if studying for finals means she can keep her high gpa AND make ethan cry loserstyle? it is a great day in ericaland.

#dont ask me how canadian gpa works i personally do not know or give a shit #hermit #empress #also ethan who is a math and electives boy is a surprisingly good match against erica who is a science and literature girl #sometimes they study together when they dont feel like one upping each other. type stuff

[gammija]

i keep constructing elaborate political speeches in my mind. as if somehow if i could just talk to pvv-voters compellingly enough, explain to all of em why this is moronic on every level, they'd all suddenly find out that they're actually leftists at heart who just heard a few facts wrong

#as if the racism is an accident instead of the driving force #i spent too long looking at twitter replies and there are a lot of people who voted for wilders so obviously a lot of different types too #theres the naive ones who genuinely seem to regard politics as kind of a game thats being played to the sidelines #you cheer for your team but it doesn't ACTUALLY have an effect on reality. So stop complaining! cheer up! #theres the dumb ones who 'just wanted something different' and who thought 'well the Left screwed things up' #- weve had a centrist/right government for over a decade - #'so lets try the right ¯\_(ツ)_/¯' #and then theres just the unapologetically islamophobic who DEFINITELY are NOT racist~ #they júst want all brown people to go back to 'their own' country #and if you call thát racist! well then! you are protecting the fundamental rights of muslims right to religion so obviously you also suppor #extremist governments in the middle east! and those are also discriminatory! which somehow makes the pvv nót discriminatory even though #they're drawing a direct comparison between themselves and these extremist governments! so there! #... anyways #very very very minor point but this also once again strengthens my resolve to not reblog or dive into every terrible news story from #usamerican politics despite how guilt-trippy posts about them get; #cause the only people on tumblr ive seen reblog aaanything at all about these results are dutch themselves #ik its not like we have a similar influence to the entire usa at all. but neither does random kentucky county elected official number 9 and #i still hear about them all the time #it makes sense for the circles im in dont get me wrong. just annoying. #joos yaps #delete later

[slaviclore]

you know what i really want? folders in the likes, and you can drag and drop the like into the folder

#i'd have a folder for every slav type #i'd be so organized u wouldn't even recognize me #apropos at my american friends do yall remember when a man lost the presidential election for saying he had binders full of women? #fuck #those really were the days #staff #have i said this before? #i've thought it before re the thing about the folders #i don't always say what i think but today my brain is broken because i slept 4 hours last night because otherwise i wouldn't be able to do #work that makes me feel anxious today #which i have to do as it is part of my job #for fucks sake somebody medicate me just the exact right amount pls

[gremlin-pattie]

if trump gets re-elected because you cunts want to make a statement by not voting i’m killing all of you

#‘we shouldn’t have to choose between two horrible options’ ok but we do. realistically that is what’s going to happen #biden is a monster too #but you can not choose the far right fucker who has openly announced his plan to overthrow democracy #not voting isn’t going to prove anything #you’re just letting him win. you may as well vote for him at that point #kat is typing #us politics #us presidential election

[calware]

i've always loved vriska i think this poll is going to put me in my vriska era for a few days

#i was typing things in the tags but IT GOT DELETED #homestuck #🕸️ #tumblrwoman election 2023

[chocolatebageltje]

Anyone got some good deep dives / video essays to recommend me on The Purge franchise? The hyperfixation demands sustenance 👹

#the purge #the purge anarchy #the first purge #the purge series #the purge election year #the forever purge #the ed tw suggestions when I'm typing these tags oof #movies #horror #horror movies #chai's chatter

[the-typing-dragon]

#the dragon types #democratically elected neurodivergency #the dragon polls #polls

[humanmorph]

ik I said 'they could put me in that thing' about the divine guilt but it'd actually probably work better as something you have to carry around (think the righteousness briefcase). But it's more wieldy and kind of actively hindering

#Of course it wouldn't actually be in there physically but like. In the elects(?ig) brain etc. A type of software that type of divine #Rosa rambles #They could put them in that thing still though like maybe it opens. Maybe it's a case and a shield to hide behind #idk what it does though. #Making up divines(in this case just a design) always makes me wanna skip&hop. #tralala machine gods embodying a concept that have an intimate and often terrible relationship with their pilots #Not always. You know. A loving look....... Anchor......... #But bad consequences are fun to come up with. #I'm never getting weird enough when I do this but it's fine since it's for fun. Still. One day I'll think of a really good 3rd gen divine

[bl-bracket]

I don’t think you understand how much I need both rain and Porsche to win. I need them to go up against eachother bc they are both babygirl but are on opposite ends of the spectrum

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#character propaganda #there are two types of voters in this election

[darkwood-sleddog]

pride this year for me has been about using my new position of power within my community to force change and acceptance. even subtly. i wore my bi flag pin this week, i have never come out to any of my co workers, i didn’t feel the need to. But now that I’m elected and have solidified myself for years as a fixture in my community I’m forcing everybody that comes into my rural office to ask a service of me to interact with somebody wearing a pride pin. You want me to issue your marriage license? Your dog license? Notarize your documents? You’re getting a bisexual doing those services. Ordering new indexing cards for our birth, death, and marriage index i’ve made the switch to more gender neutral language and options because that’s something I can control and it’s wonderful.

I looked the gay man that came in scared of his neighbor in the eyes and there was a mutual understanding between us that we knew of each other and I assured him of his safety with me, he spoke in codes I was only familiar with from my days years ago in drag clubs in a less liberal area of the country. We understood each other.  Yesterday, the first day of June, we hired not only a woman to an opening in a widely male dominated planning board, but an openly lesbian woman. 

Vermont may be more welcoming to LBGTQ+ folks compared to many areas of the united states, but being open can still feel scary to many. Some of us still feel the need to speak in code in our widely left leaning, blue voting communities which is in part due to how past people in similar positions of power to me have acted towards them. But i can help change that, even if just a little. If you’re LGBTQ+ you are safe in my office and safe in my care. 

#not dogs #pride #lgbtq+ #municipal stuff #do i dress in a way at work to sometimes make people that expect a certain type of dress from an elected person uncomfortable #yes #yes i do #i am of the opinion that marginalized groups need. i said NEED to feel safe in their municipal offices #which is very important imo in tiny white vermont #do we vote very left? yes #does that mean people are exempt and/or never engage in bigotry? nope #i see posts on r/vermont all the time of LGBT folk #looking to move and hoping its a liberal left leaning haven here #and sure yeah it can feel that way compared to other areas of the country #but you're naive if you think that a majority white farming state is going to be a left leaning monolith #we have extremely poor mental health care here and limited medical resources for trans folk btw unless you are close to MA in southern VT #or NH in eastern vt #but also eastern vt trends less left #so pick your poison #that being said i love it here and many of my LGBTQ friends from ohio who have visited note how different they feel they are treated here #(in a good way)