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Ballot Cure Phone Bank · 2024 NV Victory

We need your help to make sure every voter’s ballot counts in this critical election! Join NV Dems in making phone calls to voters who need to “cure” their mail-in ballots. The process is simple, but voters only have until Nov 12th to do so. With thousands of ballots on the line, we must ensure every vote counts. Training will be provided to volunteers at the beginning of each phone bank shift.

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@KamalaHarrisWin

NV’s sec'y of state, seeing high number of rejected ballots in Clark and Washoe, says biggest issue is signatures of younger voters don’t always match what’s on their driver’s licenses:

“It’s mostly the fact that young people don’t have signatures these days. And when they did register to vote through the automatic voter registration process, they signed a digital pad at D.M.V., and that became their license signature.”

THERE'S STILL TIME TO SIGN UP TO BALLOT CURE IN NV
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/05/us/trump-harris-election/nevadas-secretary-of-state-is-worried-about-the-states-high-level-of-rejected-ballots?smid=url-share

Two years ago today, @clive posted on twitter that he was moving to Mastodon, and anyone who wanted to join him should click the provided link. We weren't mutuals and I had no idea what Mastodon was, but I was done with twitter so I clicked. When I arrived I followed the only person here that I knew irl (Matt Blaze) and started my social media life over from scratch.

A month later I knew I was home. It's just a whole different world here. Going into Tuesday, I'm so grateful for you all. Thanks.

A genie grants you two wishes this election season. The first, obviously, is a Kamala blowout. What one specific race is your second pick? Easy one for me:

Allred beats Cruz

My kid in NYC voted yesterday.
A pigeon dressed as a witch for Halloween is pretty epic as stickers go

I have started making plans for various post-election outcomes. Most of them have to do with how to protect other people. But the one thing I can't prepare for?

Aside from all the fascism and violence and horrors, I don't think I'lll survive having him front and center for even a month never mind the next four years.

He triggered so much PTSD the last time around. The relentlessness was overwhelming, I'm really not sure I can go through it a second time. I never want to see his face again.

I wish I could see a gender breakdown on these answers

I don't boost things that don't have alt text. Every so often I see a toot that I *really* want to share and my choices are

1. ignore my own rule
2. repost the image myself with alt text
3. post the alt text as a reply and hope it gets updated

I've learned not to do (1) whenever possible, and (2) seems kinda dickish. When I volunteer alt text, I'm not scolding anyone. I'm saying "Your post is awesome and I really want to boost it."

Is it considerate or is it passive aggressive to reply with alt text when the original poster neither wrote any nor asked for any?

[boost if you're so inclined]

@AkaSci
I never get more than 30 seconds into something like this before switching it off. This one? I watched the whole thing. It's f'n amazing.

Thank you for posting it here.

@anildash
I've been out of NYC for a while now. Is David Lerner still running TekServe? Feels like he might employ or know someone who could do that.

Why do people keep pointing out that Jeff Bezos has Fuck You money? My good people, ten million dollars is Fuck You money.

Two hundred billion dollars is Fuck The Entire World Until The Heat Death of the Universe money.

Since it's a Peanuts kind of day, and MSG is hosting a Nazi rally, a reminder that Charles Schulz recognized fascism back in 1970:

"I think it is more difficult these days to define what makes a good citizen than it has ever been before ... Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call "American Virtues" who lack this faith in our country. I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities."

@jeffjarvis
<ahem>

https://mas.to/@kims/113201666482175269

@jalefkowit @sundew
Lol, I was about to ask, "How many cities do you think have gay cabaret shows?" but then realized how awfully provincial that sounds from someone who's lived mostly in SF, NYC, and now Las Vegas.

NV is an open carry state, no permit needed. (This makes doing poll watching extra special this year.) He's worried about gay-bashing when he leaves work. I pressed a little; he has a locked locker he can keep it in while he performs. He has no plans to bring it to yoga classes.

@jalefkowit @sundew
One of them is my British yoga teacher. His parents are apoplectic.

I pressed him on this. He knows how to use a gun. (I guess he learned shooting skeet in a posh boarding school?) He said it's for self-protection. He lives alone, no kids, and said a gun safe didn't make sense if, "I'm sitting in my living room and someone breaks in."

He also performs in a gay cabaret show, often leaving work at 1am going home to a poorly lit neighborhood. Trump supporters terrify him.

@jalefkowit
I regret to inform you that before The Sphere opened, battlefieldvegas was the #1 tourist attraction in town. Be sure and get the SWAT package where they pick you up at your hotel in a Humvee (maybe "upgraded" to a Cybertruck now)

@jalefkowit @tofu
I went to a gun range while on vacation in Las Vegas ten years ago. It was one of those "pay $100 to shoot twenty bullets each from five different guns" experience

I shot six bullets from the first gun, four from the second, and one from the third. That was it. I was done

I hated the way they felt in my hands. I know some people get a thrill they first time they experience that kind of power. Not me. The whole thing made me physically and emotionally ill

Never again

In the last 48 hours, three friends (all of whom I know to be lifelong pacifists) have told me they're buying or have bought a gun. They all say the same things in whispered tones, "If you had told me eight years ago that I'd even *consider* owning a gun, I'd have thought you were nuts."

I spend a lot of time thinking about how Trump has poisoned the minds of his supporters. I don't spend anywhere near enough time thinking about how he has contaminated the rest of us

@thegibson
I sometimes find that those two things aren't necessarily mutually exclusive

Every line in this Stevie Nicks interview is better than the previous one, but holy shit... good day to not be Lindsey Buckingham or Katy Perry

Also, she vigorously defends masking

"As a singer with asthma, I fucking hate the masks, but I wear them. People give you dirty looks. I dare anybody to give me a dirty look. I would just say, “Hey, you know what? I’m Stevie Nicks. And if I get sick, my entire thing goes down. Forty families are out of work. So that’s why I have a mask on, asshole.”