#future current events

[manorpunk]

What's happening in Utah? Have the mormons reimplemented polygamy? Is the LDS Church taking another swing at the whole "State of Deseret" thing? Has BYU been razed to the fucking ground?

Please tell me BYU has been razed to the fucking ground.

Vtuber-President Sunny Roosevelt: Unfortunately the Mormons are still around, still getting their Morm on. And yeah, double-unfortunately, the dust had barely settled from the Polycrisis before that whole Utah-ish area declared independence as Neo-Deseret. But we’ve got the situation well under control. I would never let any harm come to my loyal voters! ❤️ 😘 We’ve got Neo-Deseret surrounded on both sides by Usonian powers, so it’s just a waiting game at this point while we keep them hemmed in. I was hoping for something bigger and flashier, but large-scale assaults into a mountain region full of religious zealots are usually a really bad idea. At least, that’s what my defense advisor said when he took the dicks out of his mouth long enough to answer my questions.

I know it’s not ideal, but it’s probably the best option, since we’re trying to stick with the whole ‘no war crimes’ thing. It’s hard! I didn’t think it would be this hard, you know? How frickin hard is it not to do war crimes? And then the Front Rangers starts complaining about Mormon cattle raids for the umpteenth time and I think to myself “this would be so much easier if we just dropped a nuke on those fu

[WE ARE EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. PLEASE STAND BY]

[kaysdenofchaos]

cough so i read that future rise comic

and thinking back on the battle scars au, i always wanted it to be canon compliant with just some adjustments and well

haha ill go see myself out now

[tex-now]

I am begging you guys to vote for kamala harris like I am being so fucking serious. If Trump gets into office we are all fucked. He's going to nuke palestine, he's going to take away the department of education, he's going to remove environmental protections, getting rid of birth control, gay rights, the ability to VOTE, and its not just a possibility, hes going to DO it. He is going to ruin our lives if he wins the elections. I'm so fucking sorry but we have no choice. We HAVE to get kamala into office or everyone who isn't a rich white man is fucked. Please

edit: turning off reblogs cause you guys are annoying as shit. jesus fucking christ just block me dude its so simple. are you 5

(oh and also... the reason why you're so unaffected by whoever becomes president is usually because you're not the target for the laws being placed)

[scarapanna]

What happened to peepaw in the new au ?

[For context]

After what happened in the spire, his subsequent awakening, and the unlikely capture of one of the beasts, Pure Vanilla seems to be doing relatively well despite the current state of things!

After offering crucial aid in the challenge that was defeating Shadow Milk, the ancient partook in those many council sessions regarding what to do with the now captive beast. Many had pitched their own piece of mind, with a frequent suggestion being that of sentencing him to 43 72 75 6D 62 6C 65.

Such a proposition is something that Pure Vanilla has shown heavy repulsion towards.

In the end, his suggestion would recieve the highest amount of votes (Considering both it's viability and the healer's knowledge of the spire, where he would awaken). This one being to take away Shadow Milk's power but not the souljam, as it'd be far more dangerous to wield compared to his and the rest of the ancients. As long as he's stripped access from his magic, it'll be left untouched.

The beast will be allowed to roam, but with constant supervision to ensure safety of everyone in his vicinity.

[rheakira]

Today, May 23rd, is Robin's birthday!

Happy birthday, Robin!

[lovelylittlelobster]

IT'S DONE!!!!

In a brisk 101 pages I have fully documented the entirety of the Agency April Mystery! (AKA, the 2025 April fools event).

Included are transcripts of every single twitter post made, as well as the responses to comments made on those posts, a full transcript of every single article (including those no longer available to view on the website), every single email made publicly available (also with their own transcripts) and character and narrative overviews with information from throughout the event!!

Here is the current link, I've made a copy to post online so editing permissions are no longer available (since the event is concluded and I believe I have all of the information available), however, if I may have missed something please don't hesitate to reach out to me!

(P.S. Thank you so much to everyone here who helped make this document possible! Couldn't have done it without you all!)

[wannabemasterofwindintraining]

The headaches aren't leaving me alone so I'm manifesting them onto the blorbo instead

[camilieroart]

But by the gods, I will go on.

I will

I will.

[troythecatfish]

[ask-thearchivists]

Why does the guidebook say to kill mortals who can cause you harm?

The Charmer: Because they can stand between us and our goals. Thankfully, most mortals can be easily crushed like little spiders.

The Charmer: Thankfully, with a few words, I can have the problem taken care of!

[reksink]

THE WORLD SPINS IN ROTATION TO REVEAL ONCE AGAIN IT'S MY BIRTHDAY 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[realifezompire]

Personally, I'd like to stop being subjected to world history

[bobcatmoran]

Just because I wanna get it down before I forget, stuff from working as an election judge yesterday:

167 new voters registered, in a precinct that had ~2900 registered voters when the polls opened.

Lots and lots of kiddos who came to the polls with their parents and got "Future Voter" stickers, which they were almost always pumped about, though a few asked for the same "I Voted" sticker that their parents got.

A few hostile voters upon being told that their precinct had changed since they last voted, but they all took the directions to their actual new voting spot and left without more than being like, "This is BS, I voted here last time, how dare you."

Only one actual freakout that I saw, from a voter who, when he put his ballot in the tally machine, was told that he'd overvoted (voted for more candidates than allowed) in at least one race. He was given the standard option of choosing to have his ballot count for all races except what he'd overvoted for or to have his ballot returned, have that ballot spoiled, and get a new one to fill out, hopefully correctly. He decided to get his ballot returned and then yell at the ballot judges, at which point I, who was on the greeter/troubleshooting position, nudged the Head Judge to use his deescalation training. It worked, thankfully.

A woman a couple decades older than me who came in and said she'd never voted before. I congratulated her for coming in once I got her registered.

Another woman who asked which parties Trump and Harris belonged to, because she "wanted to make sure [she] was voting for the right one." (the answer was that their parties were listed next to them on the ballot)

1000 voters reached by 3:30. An overall turnout, including the 1/3ish of the registered voters who'd voted abesentee, of about 84%.

Having to join an election judge of the opposite party in emptying out the ballot bin of the voting machine mid-afternoon (with a sign posted to explain what we were doing — fortunately the machine design let folks continue submitting ballots while we scooped them out) because it was in danger of filling up since it's only built to handle about 1000 ballots. We filled one of our two cardboard ballot boxes to the brim and then sealed and signed it, per procedure.

The owner of the donut shop across the street dropping off a couple boxes of unsold pastries for the election judges once the store closed for the day

High drama with both the DFL and GOP poll challengers, the former having a LOT of questions to the point where our Head Judge was like, "I have other things I have to do, why do you not know this," and the GOP challenger being grumpy at being moved to a plae where he couldn't see what we were all entering on the tablets we were using to sign in/register ballots.

Later on in the day, both the DFL and GOP poll challengers expressing thanks that our precinct was run like a well-oiled machine with friendly and helpful election judges, and they didn't have to deal with any drama

Almost a dozen new voters being registered by the — as far as I know — uniquely Minnesotan procedure where a registered voter in the precinct can vouch for a new voter, signing a form where they basically say, "Yes, I swear this person is legally able to vote and lives at this location in the precinct, and I know this personally."

Recording the write-ins and running into two separate ballots where they filled in "Mickey Mouse" and "Donald Duck" for pretty much every judicial race

The family who came in with their kids in school uniforms with a private religious school's logo embroidered on their uniforms, and complained while waiting in line that this precinct had a voting location located at this particular church while the affiliated church for their children's school was not a voting location.

Voting locations here are based on wherever is willing to offer a polling place with no cost to the city. There are some municipal voting locations (the library, civic center, fire stations), but they're not enough for all the precincts, and since schools are in session on Election Day locally and don't want a bunch of strangers around the kids while churches are generally not used on Tuesdays, a *lot* of voting locations are at churches that volunteer for it.

In other words, this couple's complaints about not having a voting location at their church is entirely the fault of their church board.

Big shout-out to my fellow Election Judges, regardless of party — I know 1/2 of them were not from my party, but aside from one gal who had some questions that I side-eyed, but still did her job, and another I was assigned to do something because we're registered from different parties, I had NO idea which party any of them were registered for, because we all genuinely worked to ensure everyone who came in could cast a ballot if they legally could and worked with them to find as many possible solutions that we could. Lots of, "can this person vouch for you?" "Do you have any of these documents? Can you show me one on your phone, that's perfectly ok, it just needs to have your name and current address!"

So glad that our briefing about where the fire extinguishers were located was never used.

[astro-egg-celent]

Does anyone else like "pre-apocalyptic" as a genre? Like I love the calm before the storm, fiction where you're assured that the end of life as we know it is coming but get to live and breathe in the world before that end, seeing the raw uncertainty experienced and how humanity tries to cope with the oncoming end. I personally love near future sci-fi versions of this where civilization attempts to muster all the strength of its technology and hold it back with the Works of Man. Example of this vibe are Evangelion, the Final Station, and Interstellar (though the latter isn't a true apocalypse it gets pretty close). A less tech oriented example would be Children of Men. Am I alone here in liking this vibe?

[affairsmastery]

Astronomers have discovered record-breaking wind speeds of up to 33,000 km/h on WASP-127b, a gas giant 520 light years away. These winds, moving six times faster than the planet's rotation, are the fastest ever observed on any planet.

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐏-𝟏𝟐𝟕𝐛:

A hot Jupiter, 30% larger than Jupiter but with low density

Orbits its star in just 4 days, causing extreme temperature differences

Atmosphere contains hydrogen, helium, carbon monoxide, and water

With searing temperatures of 1,127°C, WASP-127b remains an exoplanet of extreme and fascinating conditions.