@randomgeek that EOD / COB tension

@randomgeek when we lived there -- in the naughts -- my graduate advisor described Tucson as "an island of conservatism in a sea of fascism", and I've been flogging that line ever since.

@randomgeek 1) I have once again forgotten you’re not in WA >_<
2) our return status thing includes the ability to sign up for email and/or text messages about status changes …which is nice
3) my personal pref is to drop ballots off at the drive-thru box at the local courthouse — which I will do tomorrow morning. Vote-by-mail is great, but there’s something satisfying about handing your ballot off to an election worker!

@randomgeek supposedly in these parts they track your ballot return status and don’t bother you if you’ve already voted.

We never vote early enough for this to matter though …but we also don’t seem to get door knockers, but shit in the mail.

Y’all, I didn’t have any particular sort of emotion around coloring in the Harris box on my ballot, but now that the whole thing is marked, sealed, and signed, just waiting for drop off tomorrow?

I have no illusions that Tuesday SETTLES anything, but my personal anxiety just unclenched a stage or two, after doing the thing.

As with pretty much every election I participate in here, I will take the chance today to say: if you live somewhere that does not offer vote-by-mail — you really should be aiming to get universal vote-by-mail. No-cause absentee ballots are nice, but having the chance to sit down, at your leisure, and review ballot guides, candidate and interested party statements, discuss with family, and mark the ballot with no time pressure, then drop it off or mail it in — so nice!
https://dementedandsadbut.social/@genehack/113422719308485404

I'm lucky that I get to work with people who do cool important stuff: https://nextstrain.org/blog/2024-10-22-oropouche-analysis-and-resources

@zachleat usually I mean, “I think this is a bad idea, and I don’t wanna”

@randomgeek @m yeah, this plus I’m ~90% sure I’m some flavor or other of neurospicy myself but I’m not gonna bother with a diagnosis at thia point which means I’m also not gonna claim any labels either and it all adds up to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@m 1) I’m not sure I’ve known you as long as you’re looking for
2) I know so many neurospicy people that I’m not sure I’d notice it as “different” even if I knew you

@SwiftOnSecurity won’t somebody think of the entropy

TFW you realize you've lived through all the major eras of modern software development:

* writing your own blog software
* writing your own GTD software
* writing your own static site generator software
* ...