All - The Justice Department has sued Alabama for purging voters too close to the general election. Today is a good day to check your voter registration: * iwillvote.comvote.orgvote.gov And ask five people in your life to do the same.
In a new lawsuit, the Justice Department claims Alabama violated federal law by systematically removing voters fewer than 90 days before a federal election.
Eternally baffled by this idea of how you have to engage with people you disagree with on the internet. I don't have to engage with anyone, thank you. I don't care if you're the nicest, correctest, wisest, or most virtuous person on the planet: I'm not talking to you if I don't feel like it.
The fact that Bluesky makes it easy to purge your timeline of immensely shitty people is a feature, not a bug
Getting into the habit of reading research papers and books with one main question in mind “What can we do, see, or understand (etc) with this research that we couldn’t without it?”
Also! To write Toph in the first place, blind Judo practitioners were consulted. Her style is based on reality. This is why I get so mad when sighted actors play blind people. You can't act what you don't understand, and most people have no idea where blind people are or what we're capable of.
I had not. So I found the last of my Marabou salt licorice bar and had that while I debated what next to consume. The souls of my enemies are unavailable, so I think I'm going to make myself a sandwich.
Slow but steady. Reworking goals to things that aren't making me feel guilty for not achieving them when it's unreasonable for how drained I am, and slowly coming together. Things are slower than I'd like at times, but there's more progress and less guilt, so...so far, so good.
Sometimes self-care is really difficult to do. I've found myself overextending lately for lots of reasons. I've just had to write some tough emails (stopping a volunteer thing, having to drop off some panels another place) but I needed to so that I could focus more tightly on other goals.
