no candidate in the history of any democracy anywhere has ever met the exact expectations of a given voter

First: don't let polls freak you out. Second: if polls DO freak you out, consider throwing some money at orgs OTHER than the Harris campaign in hopes of getting out the vote through other means/strategies. One suggestion: secure.actblue.com/donate/gp-aafd

I remember people saying things like “you can’t fix an empty page” as an explanation for why writing a shitty first draft is better than no writing, but it’s not because it’s easier to edit than draft. It’s because the act of drafting tells you about the shape of the story.

The coverage now is "How did Harris lose her momentum?" when her polling position is the same now as it was six weeks ago. If anything, the race is getting closer because Trump is getting more popular as he presses an explicitly ethnonationalist agenda, which is really uncomfortable to wrestle with.

Yup. Writing is thinking. So if you write a shitty first draft, you did some thinking and are on your way! If you got “AI” to write the draft, you haven’t thought AND now you’re trying to fix up what some non-thinking robot “thought.” You just put yourself 30 yards behind the starting line.

I keep seeing the clip of a meteorologist breaking down when discussing Milton. As a glaciologist, I say: Getting emotional about the effects of climate change is not unprofessional; it is a rational reaction based in scientific and cultural knowledge of the past, present, and future of the planet.

Watching political events from 2012 it was a strong reminder of how many attacks on Obama centered around his intelligence and jokes about reading from a teleprompter. Mitt Romney joked about Obama’s college transcripts. It was ubiquitous.

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if your Vulcan is in pon farr but there are no potential mates nearby can you just rub their cloaca with a q-tip or what

I've talked before about how Indigenous kids are 16.4 times more likely to interact with foster care than white kids - Indigenous adults make up 12% of the state's unhoused population, despite being 1% of the residents of this state. Fucked and racist. Not even going to talk about the 1% statistic