Looks like turnout for my county was 28% which does seem pretty dismal but might actually be higher than usual.
That library thing is appalling, Matt!
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Nov 09, 2022 9:53:10 am PST #18487 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Kate P. - Nov 09, 2022 10:16:22 am PST #18488 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Ugh, Matt, that's awful. We hear a lot (as well we should) about school libraries being targets for book challenges/bans and harassment, but a lot of public libraries are having to deal with this shit too.
Laura - Nov 09, 2022 10:19:58 am PST #18489 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Oh Matt, that is awful. At least my county always does well on funding schools, arts, libraries, and such.
amyparker - Nov 09, 2022 10:37:09 am PST #18490 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Matt, you were with me the entire time. We had a great day at MoPOP (we went to this, it was amazing) and a well bundled-up walk along the waterfront.
JZ - Nov 09, 2022 10:45:44 am PST #18491 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Ugh, Matt, how infuriating and vindictive and petty and spiteful and you were definitely visiting us here all along.
Turnout in SF is currently around 31%, but they're nowhere near done tallying up all the mail-in ballots, so it should go up quite a bit. It damn well better, because that's embarrassing.
-t - Nov 09, 2022 11:10:56 am PST #18492 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Alaska uses ranked choice, right? Do we care whether it's Tshibaka or Murkowski? I think I do, but not as much as I care about Georgia and Arizona and Nevada.
Sorry to people who are trying to not think about this stuff
Tom Scola - Nov 09, 2022 11:15:29 am PST #18493 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
My district was 54.9%, but a lot of Brooklyn was well over 60%.
-t - Nov 09, 2022 11:49:52 am PST #18494 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I"m shopping online for groceries for the potluck (to pick up Friday, none of it is very perishable) and I forgot the Peeps! So I searched for them to see if I can add to my order after I checked out and it's showing me peeled shrimp, which also seems hilarious to me. I guess I will have to look elsewhere for Peeps.
Kate P. - Nov 09, 2022 11:51:33 am PST #18495 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Okay y'all, I have an etiquette question. I need to write thank-you notes to two parent volunteers who ran a fundraiser for my library. I know generally what I want to say, but do I need to make the messages noticeably different from each other? I don't really know either of them and so it's hard to personalize the notes in any meaningful way. I just don't want them to feel like it's a boilerplate message.
msbelle - Nov 09, 2022 11:52:50 am PST #18496 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Work rant
This is becoming more and more common, like every other day. People asking me to do things that I have NO IDEA what they are talking about or sending emails that say, “please assist” again with items I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF.
Like assist how, with what specifically, or “that is not anything I have anything to do with”.
It’s as if I’m in a dream and people are asking for me to work on the bathtub balloon contest like I should know what that is or that it makes any sense. I can no longer fix my face I just looked at my boss like she was an alien as she directly pointed at me and told me to start on something.