#sinesalvatorem #fun wif forn fronting #although to be fair it’s not like it’s actually an *accent* issue #(hell for all I know I might have pronounced it right by accident)
(I was going to submit this to @justice-turtle, but it looks like they don’t have a submit option? I’ll ping them instead.)
Happy birthday! Just because I’m not nearby doesn’t mean I can’t sing to you. I don’t think I could manage voice chat (tbh, I barely managed this), but I did some asynchronous singing for you.
(I’m so terrible at breaking silences that I recorded this in my shed, so that the complete isolation could take the edge off the stifling. But hey, I got there in the end!)
*birthday hugs*
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#and many moooore #justice turtle #oh look an original post #that excuse for communication called speech #birthday #(so I was looking at the public birthday tag to see if I should avoid being in it) #(and apparently it’s also Mickey Mouse’s birthday) #(it’s the anniversary of the premiere of Steamboat Willie)
The United States is about to elect a new president. I’ve previously polled UK Grindr users on Scottish independence, the 2015 generalelection, and Brexit. This time, I decided to poll US Grindr users on who they think should be leading their country.
The following is a representative sample of the replies.
(Identifiable faces have been censored.)
For every state, I aimed for a number of responses equivalent to each state’s number of presidential electors – from 55 for California to 3 for Delaware, Vermont, Alaska etc. A few fell a little short as I was banned (my 10th Grindr ban to date) just before I could finish, though most matched or exceeded the target. The number next to each state is the number of responses I received, though the percentages are only taken from the responses that can reasonably be interpreted as a decisive answer – undecided voters, non-voters, and evasive responses are listed separately. Major candidates who received 0 votes are also listed.
CALIFORNIA: 53
68% (21) Hillary Clinton 6% (2) Donald Trump 6% (2) Bernie Sanders 6% (2) “Yo momma” 3% (1) Gary Johnson 3% (1) Barack Obama 3% (1) John F. Kennedy 3% (1) “Myself”
0% (0) Jill Stein
2 Undecided 4 None of the above 3 Not eligible to vote 13 Evasive or unclear responses
0% (0) Donald Trump 0% (0) Jill Stein 0% (0) Gary Johnson
1 Evasive or unclear responses
0 Did not respond
SOUTH DAKOTA: 3
100% (2) Hillary Clinton
0% (0) Donald Trump 0% (0) Jill Stein 0% (0) Gary Johnson
1 None of the above
1 Did not respond
NORTH DAKOTA: 2
100% (2) Hillary Clinton
0% (0) Donald Trump 0% (0) Jill Stein 0% (0) Gary Johnson
1 Did not respond
WYOMING: 2
100% (2) Donald Trump
0% (0) Hillary Clinton 0% (0) Jill Stein 0% (0) Gary Johnson
1 Did not respond
MONTANA: 1
100% (1) Donald Trump
0% (0) Hillary Clinton 0% (0) Jill Stein 0% (0) Gary Johnson
8 Did not respond
WASHINGTON, D.C.: 2
100% (1) Hillary Clinton
0% (0) Donald Trump 0% (0) Jill Stein 0% (0) Gary Johnson
1 Evasive or unclear responses
3 Did not respond
The overall US-wide vote is as follows.
63.25% (191) Hillary Clinton 17.88% (54) Donald Trump 3.31% (10) Jill Stein 1.99% (6) Gary Johnson 1.99% (6) Bernie Sanders 0.99% (3) “Yo momma” 0.66% (2) Deez Nuts 0.66% (2) Cthulhu 0.66% (2) Mickey Mouse 0.33% (1) Evan McMullin 0.33% (1) Vermin Supreme 0.33% (1) Don Bacon 0.33% (1) Barack Obama 0.33% (1) John F. Kennedy 0.33% (1) Ronald Reagan 0.33% (1) Vladimir Putin 0.33% (1) Eric Andre 0.33% (1) Beyoncé 0.33% (1) Harambe 0.33% (1) Mighty Mouse 0.33% (1) Patti LuPone 0.33% (1) Prince 0.33% (1) Cardi B from Love & Hip Hop 0.33% (1) Jesus 0.33% (1) Katya 0.33% (1) “Space raptors” 0.33% (1) “A giant meteor”
In addition, 1.99% (6) voted for “Myself”, although these aren’t lumped together as they refer to separate individuals – namely, “WOOF!”, “MiamiLatino”, “nICE GUY!!!!!”, “2017 ready now”, “no pic don’t”, and “DatFckboi”. 0.66% (2) also voted for their own penis – 4 if we count pictures of a respondent’s penis as an actual answer to the poll.
Not counted towards the percentage are the following responses:
19 Undecided 60 None of the above 9 Not eligible to vote 181 Evasive or unclear responses
“Evasive or unclear responses” can be roughly divided as follows:
55 Miscellaneous evasion 41 Explicitly declined to answer, “none of your business” etc 25 Irrelevant or incomprehensible 18 Too horny to engage politically 13 Total bewilderment 12 “Anyone but…” (10 Trump, 2 Clinton, 1 Johnson, 1 Stein) 7 Overt hostility 3 Nudes
Here are the number of states candidates win when only Grindr votes.
Hillary Clinton: 42 (6 as part of a tie) Donald Trump: 13 (7 as part of a tie) Bernie Sanders: 3 (3 as part of a tie) Jill Stein: 1 (1 as part of a tie) Evan McMullin: 1 (1 as part of a tie) Deez Nuts: 1 (1 as part of a tie) Beyoncé: 1 (1 as part of a tie) Ronald Reagan: 1 (1 as part of a tie) ″A giant meteor”: 1 (1 as part of a tie) ″My big fat cock”: 1 (1 as part of a tie) Gary Johnson: 0
In the electoral college, this should translate into the following numbers of electoral votes. When dealing with ties, electors are divided evenly between candidates.
Finally, here is the electoral map, according to Grindr.
Hillary Clinton comfortably clears her target of 270 electoral votes, and the Democrats are re-elected. Grindr is, for once, with her.
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#long post #nsfw text #nsfw image #Grindr #oh my god they’re doing a series of these #I remember seeing one of the previous ones #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #election 2016
Daniel Kahn (of Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird) performing a Yiddish translation of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”.
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#music #interesting #Leonard Cohen #so I went and looked up Hallelujah on Youtube #like you do #and…look #my parents had a set of three mix CDs they played a zillion times in the car when I was growing up #one of the tracks was ”Hallelujah” #and that track is How Hallelujah Sounds as far as my brain is concerned #I’m beginning to suspect it was a cover #because the two Leonard Cohen versions I tried were so Wrong I couldn’t bear to finish them #it may have been from the Shrek soundtrack #apparently there were two versions involved with the Shrek soundtrack #and I listened to both of them and they both sound Correct in a way that the Leonard Cohen versions very much did not #I don’t know #I get the impression from looking around that Leonard Cohen did a lot of versions of Hallelujah #was there a Correct one at some point and it’s just not what comes up first on Youtube? #because it’s kind of awkward to see all these people mourning Cohen and gradually realise you may have never actually heard a Cohen song #and your brain is in fact rebelling at having to listen to a Cohen version of the archetypical Cohen song? #anyway this one is neat as long as I don’t think of it in terms of Correctness #tag rambles
The best way to watch Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is to wait until Garak kills someone and then dramatically rip off your sunglasses and say “looks like they just got… eliminated”
Holy shit, why did I not buy No Name knockoff Thin Mints sooner?
They’re better than Girl Guide cookies (none of that Oreo-like cream bullshit), and very nearly as good as Girl *Scout* cookies.
(Not sure why they’re square, but hey.)
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#oh look an original post #I’m saving most of them for use in my birthday pseudo-cake #but I tried one first to check if they were good enough #yes. yes they are. #(I didn’t intend for this to be part of the post-election emigration discourse) #(but it occurs to me one could interpret it that way) #(come to the Canadian side we have cookies) #bluespace #maybe? I never thought of my counter as Tumblr-coloured before but it’s kind of similar when seen side-by-side #food #our home and cherished land
Remember: Do not move to Canada in response to this election.
Move to Florida. To Ohio. To Pennsylvania. We need you there for Warren/Booker 2020.
Here is a fact that it seems like a lot of people don’t know, and which is relevant to the decision: in America, you do not lose your vote if you move out of the country. Even if your move is permanent. Even if you were a minor when you moved away. Unless you renounce your citizenship–note that most countries will let you hold up to three citizenships simultaneously, and Canada in particular is perfectly happy to let you keep your American citizenship while becoming a Canadian citizen (if you don’t already have three, and if you do it presumably doesn’t have to be the American one you give up in exchange)–you retain voting rights indefinitely. Jurisdiction-wise, you vote as if you still lived in your most recent American residence.
(People who are American citizens only through their parents and have never actually lived in the country may be able to vote depending on where their parents lived: states vary. Check out the website linked above for details.)
I don’t know what happens if you move to a swing state just to establish it as your voting jurisdiction, then move to Canada. I don’t know if there are any consequences if the government catches you at it, and I don’t know how likely they are to catch you. Anyone interested in doing that should look into it further. But at the very least, if you already live in a swing state, you don’t have to choose between voting there and leaving the country. You can do both.
I mean, you do lose going door-to-door canvassing and whatnot, I suppose. But people planning on moving to Canada because of Trump who wouldn’t have done it anyway are probably doing it because they expect to be in danger if they stay. Staying in a dangerous situation in order to go canvassing is…well, if you want to do that, you do you, but it seems above and beyond the call of duty to me.
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#home of the brave #election 2016 #our home and cherished land #reply via reblog #this is the third post I saw on Tuesday which #appeared to be written under the assumption that People Like Me do not exist #I’m responding directly to this one because its People Like Me #is ”people whose relationship with the American government is like mine” #and our existence is an external fact that I can point to #the others were ”people whose minds work like mine” #which is much harder to prove and much likelier to lead to goalpost-moving #”we totally believe you exist! we were just using universal language for rhetorical effect! stop derailing!” #and for all I know maybe they’d mean it when they’d claim they were being rhetorical by pretending I don’t exist #let’s just say I’ve been feeling that authoritarianism post again lately
Free-tailed bats have now been clocked flying horizontally at over 160 kilometers per hour (that’s nearly 100 mph!), toppling the previous record-holder, the swift. The record for speed of diving is still held by the peregrine falcon but we’re coming for you next, feathers.
it’s like a horrible reverse rapture and I know if I eat all the ice cream I’ll have a sugar crash and my teeth will hurt and I won’t be able to sleep but I want to eat all the ice cream :-(
*hides*
To be perfectly honest, my first thought when Mom knocked on my bedroom door this morning to tell me Trump had won was “goddammit, JT is going to lose their mind”. (In part because of trying to help you keep your mind last night, but still.)
*hugs* I love you, please stay safe, and if ever you flee to Canada, I will be the first to welcome you home.
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#home of the brave #election 2016 #our home and cherished land #reply via reblog
