#Easy Identification

[aegisprecisionkinetics]

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[stinkythehutt]

also. something about palpatine being so adept at seeing into the future that all of his successes feel completely joyless by the time he achieves them because he’s just going through the motions… how fucked up and nihilistic and brutal that would make you…

[laseratingfist]

along the lines of luka's hair being put up lopsided, another interesting accessibility thing in his design.... his wildfire scarf can be put on with one hand? it's got snaps!!!!

compared to the other members of wildfire, who just tie them .... idk, it's just really sweet to think that not only does luka have a wildfire scarf that matches his apparent fixation on fire motifs (which could mean nothing) / self theming for his boxing career.... it's also easier to put on?

(i mean, i know he's wearing it on the good arm meaning he'd use the prosthetic to put it on but still. holding this thought so nicely.)

[autumnbrambleagain]

happy pride month, remember that while our enemies work in a frightening coordination to deprive us of our rights and kill us, we must stand together against the truest danger:

other queer people whose use of language to describe their personal experiences doesn't match your own

remember, no battle is more important than all of us killing all of us over what words we can use or not

so remember, as countries around the world turn fascist and conservative and make plans to kill us,

your time on this earth is best spent picking a side on whether or not people can use language that was fine 2 years ago but that you've decided isn't fine anymore

[neonphoenix]

What they don't warn you about buying into the Christianity thing is the way religious imagery in pop culture ceases to hit and starts to actually pain you because it's not actually as clever or cool or subversive as it pretends to be.

[lovemyfairlady]

I went on instagram to rest from binge-reading volume 9, I left it around this part

and IMMEDIATELY got hit with this

[boypr1ncesss]

my naming scheme for the resurrectionists causes me undue stress a lot of the time but when it works it Works

[identifying-seals-in-posts]

This is Katsunori the ringed seal from Okhotsk Tokkari Center, Japan. [x]

Today's Seal Is: The Wrinkler

[relto]

it weekend now so i cant continue fiddling around with it (and most likely i wont have much time for fancy projects next week) but i was so excited to install a usb sniffer on the windows computer and see what the traffic to the spectrometer looks like. and then the stupid driver issue happened!!

[courviknight]

okay it wasnt that bad

[milkconfetti]

honestly for all the shit reddit gets it truly is the last bastion of random useful information spread by passionate hobbyists in the absence of forums

[maxbegone]

The election doesn’t start tomorrow, it ends tomorrow.

If you haven’t already, please make sure you are registered to vote and know where your polling place is (vote.org is a great and easy way to get that information). Additionally, please make sure you have a way to get to your polling place. Uber and Lyft often give free or discounted rides to the polls, and this year the car rental company, Hertz, is allowing free one-day rentals to get to the polls. More information on that here.

EDIT: NAACP has a discount code to use for Lyft, valid for two rides up to $20 ($40 total). Use code: NAACPVOTE24

The following states allow same day registration for general elections, ie: the presidential election:

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Note: North Dakota does not require formal voter registration, and upon presenting valid identification at a polling place, eligible citizens receive their ballot to vote.

all info here

The following states are required by law to give you time off to vote (between one and three hours):

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*Most states requiring employers to permit voting leave also require that this time is paid. Among the above, the following do not: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, North Dakota. (info here)

Again, it is your right to vote. If you are in line when the polls close, stay in line. It is your legal right to vote.

If you are turned away at the polls, say the following verbatim: “Give me a provisional ballot with a receipt as required by law.”

If you make a mistake on your ballot, you have the right to ask for a new ballot. Don’t cross anything out, simply ask for a new one.

Poll workers are required to make reasonable accommodations for voters who need, including ballots in other languages or translators.

Canvassing is not allowed at polling places, and no one is allowed to threaten or intimidate voters. You have the right to report anything of the like.

All info taken from here

Some tips:

Don’t wear political merch to the polls.

Don’t engage with anyone about your politics at the polls.

Don’t take phone calls inside your polling place — it can wait, please be respectful.

Research who is running locally and see what their policies are. Additionally, research any local propositions that may be on the ballot. The language on ballots is made to be purposefully confusing, so make sure you read everything carefully in addition to your research.

If you’re able to get up early on Election Day, go right when your polling place opens to beat the line.

REMEMBER: IT IS YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE!

Here are a list of state-by-state voter protection hotlines, as well as hotlines in various other languages:

Please vote tomorrow if you have not already. It’s so important, and choosing not to vote or voting for a third party is a vote for extremist measures. Vote down the ballot, and do not let anyone bully you into voting one certain way.

What we are seeing throughout this election cycle (and the last two election cycles) is entirely abnormal. The bullying we see from a certain side and its supporters is childish and dangerous. They spew false information, make racist remarks, and sexualize and discriminate fellow candidates. No single presidential candidate is completely and wholly good, so criticize accordingly.

Vote with those you love in mind, vote with your safety in mind, and vote for those who will be affected for decades to come. Vote for someone who speaks coherently, not for someone who is, let’s be honest, not cognitively alright — and that is the bare minimum of the issue.

If you have anything to add to this post, please do. If anything is incorrect, please let me know and I will gladly change it.

Vote. Vote. Vote.

[basingstokemercury]

I did this with a D&D character once (who was the D&D version of "changeling"), it was very fun even though I only used her for a couple of one-shots.

Designing her different looks was the best part, figuring out how to give her a cohesive aesthetic while looking like whatever she wants.

I think star trek should introduce a changeling main character who is recast every episode.

[love-birds-stuff]

Awww hey lesser Jack. How's that boyfriend of yours treating you? Ever get to go on dates or is Hyperion got you in a chokehold?

I'm not- Whatever. And he's treating me really well, actually - thanks for asking. Uhh, dates would be nice if, you know, I didn't have the whole space station breathing down my neck all the time but - we make it work. A little movie night here and there, he steals those - god awful - pretzels from me, dunno why he likes them so much but hey that's none of my business. Karaoke if we're drunk enough. You know, the works.

[the-fallen-blue]

I've been seeing a lot of discourse about the Murderbot casting, to the tune of "Wells says she imagined it as brown"/"the narrator of the audiobook is a man"/"the writing just sounds female, the types of things it notices and cares to mention and the way it puts its sentences together is how a woman would"/"it's canonically agender wtf"/"agender people can look masculine you asshole"/"it's supposed to look big and average that means white male"/"that's your own cultural bias in play and evidence says the average in its universe is brown"/"that's your bias in play there's no ironclad indication what the average is in the Corporation Rim"/"here's every single canon description of Murderbot it has no canon physical attributes other than Tall it could be played by literally anyone Checkmate Atheists" etc etc etc and it all just... misses the point?

No one is annoyed with Skarsgård!MB because "white dude" isn't canon.

They're annoyed because written Murderbot presents a level of identification and recognition for them that "white dude" does not.

Or, in other words: it is difficult to imagine a level of abuse more profound than not having the freedom of your own literal thoughts, consigned to a cripplingly limited and cruel social role from which any deviation is met with brutal pain. And it is all too easy to imagine a demographic who are presumed violent, hostile, and inferior, good only for labor and violence, who must be controlled and denied and unpersoned for the good of the rest. The lines aren't hard to draw, here; Murderbot is deeply relatable to many people who are not (visibly masculine) white men, specifically because they are not (visibly masculine) white men. Because they share with it the experience of oppression, marginalization, and being known on sight as wrong, being punished for the slightest deviance. Because it is not just another in the long boring line of ten thousand thousand grizzled white space marine heroman types; it is the thematic opposite of that.

And yeah duh obviously you can look like a boilerplate white dude and still suffer plenty of oppression, but film is a visual medium. Character design is a crucial part of its language, especially when a specific character is the only example of its type available to the audience. It is a shorthand that the audience will understand as a reflection on the wider setting. Which means that casting Skarsgård is, whether they meant it or not, a subtle statement that the ultimate bigotry in Murderbot's universe is against and about conventional white dudes.

Or in other other words, you cannot refute complaints about Skarsgård!MB with ~canon~ because canon has nothing to do with it. It's a thematic inconsistency, a failure to understand the not the story's text, but its subtext and its place in the wider cultural conversation of sci-fi (or at least to accurately translate those meta considerations to the satisfaction of a decent segment of the audience).

Like you can still yell about how bullshit you think that is if you want. Casting's not that deep or it's an important queer metaphor to pass and still struggle or people have no inherent 'right' to representation or whatever else. I'm not telling anyone what to say or believe. But just understand that that's what you're actually arguing with (or for, for that matter), is all I'm saying.

[hyperfixiation-station]

Okay idea that's up for grabs

So you are a member of the 141 right, and nobody really knows where you came from but you fit in pretty well with them all.

And one day you're training with them. Its an easy workout, and you're sparing with Ghost cirrentlt. Everything is going fine, until it starts playing.

It being the song that was played on a loop for weeks as you were beung held and torturedinterrogated in a terrorist camp.

And suddenly you can't think, you cant even breathe. All you see is the bright lights, all ylu can feel is that hand cuffs around your wrists and that stupid song playing and playing and and playing and playing and-

Ghost is not quite sure what to do. You were fine, keeping up with him as you fought, but you suddenly had just...stopped. It's lucky he has such control of his body, or he would have broken your jaw if he hadn't stopped in time.

Your eyes are glassy, almost staring past him as your breathing picks up. All of a sudden you drop into a crouch, covering your ears and mutter under your breath...it almost sounded liek you were listing off your Name, Rank, and Identification Number.

The world is closing in on you, and all you can think to do is what kept you sane in the weeks your were held in thay camp...reciting your identity.

Price is shaking your shoulder but you can't feel him. He shouts for medics, who inject with sedative, and finally you slump into his arms, unconscious.