Blue-Maned_Hawk

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[yesterdaysprint]

The Richmond Independent, August 24, 1942

[bluemanedhawk]

When people say that they're disgusted by something, do they mean it in the same way every time? Do there exist people for whom, say, gory imagery produces the same physiological response as rotten foot?

[bluemanedhawk]

They used to say that a computer will always do what you tell it to, but never what you want. Nowadays, we can't even be sure that it will do what you tell it to.

[randomitemdrop]

Item: Ball’s Good Luck Jar Rubbers. Next time your good luck jar needs a good rubbing, be sure to reach for your Ball’s!

[otesunki]

THEY CHANGED IT

THAT USED TO SAY "SEE EVERYTHING"

[bluemanedhawk]

Like those video games which, upon creating or updating a savefile, decide to show a status message along the lines of “Saving the world…”?

[bluemanedhawk]

I have a license to em dash.

[bluemanedhawk]

Personally, i suspect that if Tumblr dies, you'll find me setting up a way to be dialed directly instead of through services.

[bluemanedhawk]

I find the term ‘skill issue’ to be exactly as unfunny as the term ‘git gud’. It is nothing more than giving unhelpful non-advice for the sake of being mean, as if in acknowledgement that one could have helped and chose not to.

[staffs-secret-blog]

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[bluemanedhawk]

Wouldn't this be considered a cult of personality?

[randomitemdrop]

Item: the Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel

[bluemanedhawk]

[danskjavlarna]

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I’ve encountered quite a few vintage human giants in the course of my research.

[randomencounters]

Encounter: guy with command over one-third of birds. Roll d3:

One third of all species, but every member of those species

One third of the total bird population, probably including members of all species

One third of the bodies of each individual bird

[bluemanedhawk]

I'm sorry, “Roll D3”? How exactly am i meant to do that?

[yesterdaysprint]

The Star-Journal, Warrensburg, Missouri, December 30, 1924

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[bluemanedhawk]

I don't think that supposed secret-ballot elections are secret enough with their ballots. To truly ensure secrecy of the ballots, a number of problems need to be solved:

All people must be required by law to submit a ballot (even if they fill in nothing on the ballot), as not submitting a ballot is a form of political participation as much as submitting a ballot is.

All ballots must be required to be filled in sealed secret voting booths, so that it will be physically impossible for a person to prove how they voted. If a person cannot make their own way to the booths, they must be able to be brought to the person.

All ballots must have their choices marked by means of a standardized system, so that differences in how the ballot is filled in are minimized to make it as difficult as possible to determine who made a ballot. This is particularly relevant for write-in candidates, where differences in handwriting could make identification particularly easy.

All people must be required to stay in the voting booth for a constant period of time, as measurement of how long they stayed in the booth could be used to infer what their ballot was.

Of course, the standard requirements for elections still apply: the polling station must be staffed by representatives of all sides who have a stake in the election, no parts of the election can be computerized, the operating procedures for the polling must be public knowledge, and whatever else i'm forgetting off the top of my head.

[bluemanedhawk]

Fear.

[bluemanedhawk]

Apparently, sleepiness makes me forget how english spelling works, because i apparently wrote myself a note when i was trying to fall asleep saying “misogeny is thw process by which miso soup is created”.