Apathy is my Good Friend

I'm 27, male, and I'm desperately trying to find some direction in life. I recently started this blog and I hope to use it often!

[utilitycaster]

I'm going to *remembers suicide jokes are detrimental to my mental health* quit my job and start making shoes for American Girl Dolls

[m0thmancore]

suck, and i cannot stress this enough, my cock to the fucking base

[m0thmancore]

oh no! i dropped this screenshot that explains how to bypass this with a free adblocker! you shouldn’t reblog this or anything; it’d be terrible if people used this advice to watch ad-free youtube!!

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[bramblepatch]

anyway my hot take is that the modern night-of live reporting model is bad and probably should be illegal. democracy is not a spectator sport and the fact that news outlets are allowed to exploit partial vote counts for ratings is ghoulish. there is nothing you can learn the night of a major election that has greater value than waiting the several days to a week that it will take, and always has taken, for the final vote totals to be established

[anoptimisticdevil]

[depsidase]

[thecarvingwitch]

Stay safe, guys

[gendernewtral]

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it’s three taps anywhere on the screen on a smartphone!

[our-trans-punk-experience]

This is important punks. Deadly important.

[hazey-magnolia]

I’ve texted their hotline before. It was super helpful and even if it hadn’t been the amount of time you’re there can be enough to let your urges fade and stay safe.

[unforth]

Everything feels awful right now but it isn't really. We still don't officially have a winner, but regardless of how the presidential election ends up, I wanted to take a minute and find what lights I can in the 3 a.m. darkness. Here's what I know:

* Kentucky overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to undermine the public education system by offering private school vouchers:

Kentucky rejects Amendment 2 to allow private education funding, passes Amendment 1

Amendment 2 to allow public funds to go to private and charter school education was rejected universally in Kentucky counties when the Assoc

* Delaware has elected a transgender woman to the House of Representatives, the first out trans person of any gender ever elected to congress:

Sarah McBride becomes first out trans person elected to US House

McBride wins Delaware’s at-large House seat against Republican candidate John Whalen III, a former state police officer

* For the first time in history, two Black women will be serving in the senate at the same time, and they are only the fourth and fifth Black women ever elected to the senate:

US will have two Black women serving as senators for first time in history

Democrats Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland both saw victories

* New York State has passed a constitutional amendment enshrining the rights of pregnant people (including the right to an abortion), LGBTQIA+ people, the disabled, immigrants regardless of legal status, and other at-risk groups:

New York voters pass Prop 1, enshrine abortion rights into state constitution

The constitutional amendment faced a tougher-than-expected fight after a right-wing campaign against anti-discrimination protections.

* Democrat Josh Stein has beaten self-avowed Nazi Mark Robinson to become governor of North Carolina:

North Carolina’s Josh Stein wins race for governor over Mark Robinson

 Stein is the current attorney general and he noted his work winning opioid settlements. But it was controversy over Robinson’s inflammatory

That's everything I know off the top of my head. It's not many bright spots, but it's not zero. I'm going to try to find more and I'll add them to the post. It's the only thing I can think of to do that isn't sobbing and throwing up or looking up Canadian immigration rules.

If you know more good news, I encourage you to add it in reblogs.

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* Nevada has amended their constitution to guarantee abortion rights, overturning a state ban:

Nevada Question 6 Election Results 2024: Right to Abortion

Get live results and maps from the 2024 Nevada general election.

* Colorado has passed amendment 79, guaranteeing the right to an abortion, with more than a 20 point spread between the Yes and No vote:

Colorado voters approve constitutional amendment on abortion access

This means that now, the right to an abortion is codified into the state constitution and a future state legislature cannot restrict it.

* Maryland Question 1, also focused on reproductive rights and abortion, has passed as well: https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/maryland/issue-1

Maryland Question 1 results 2024 | CNN Politics

Question 1 on the Maryland ballot offers voters the choice to enshrine reproductive rights in the state’s constitution. View the 2024 ballot

* Likewise, Amendment 3 has passed in Missouri, overturning a near-total ban to add reproductive rights to the state constitution:

Missourians vote to pass Amendment 3, enshrining abortion rights into the state constitution

Missourians voted to enshrine reproductive health rights into the state’s constitution Tuesday by voting yes on Amendment 3.

* Arizona Proposition 139 to protect abortion rights also passed:

Arizona Proposition 139 Election Results 2024: Right to Abortion

Get live results and maps from the 2024 Arizona general election.

Every glimmer helps.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

[unforth]

* New Jersey has elected the first Korean-American senator in history:

Democrat Andy Kim wins open New Jersey Senate seat, defeating Republican Curtis Bashaw

Democratic U.S. Rep. Andy Kim was elected Tuesday to the U.S. Senate, defeating Republican businessman Curtis Bashaw for the seat that opene

[fruitydiaz]

the fact that so many people continue to back trump every year makes me nauseous. it doesn’t matter if he loses because too many fucking people have clearly become comfortable with and supportive of right wing extremism thanks to him. what do you mean you support fascism. what do you mean.

[skarabrae-stone]

NY just passed Prop 1, a constitutional amendment which will enshrine protections against sex/gender-based discrimination in the state. This includes the right to abortion and protections for trans, gay, and gender non-conforming people. Whatever else happens in this election, this is a big win!

[werewolfesam]

[banji-effect]

All of you women should move to Connecticut. I say this all the time but I genuinely mean it. Start a small business in Wallingford! Lowest electricity prices in the state!

[royalhandmaidens]

instead of arguing about the no-fly list and the memes it spawned, please consider donating to CAIR (Center for American Islamic Relations) or the CCR (Center for Constitutional Rights)

CAIR, specifically, is group of muslim lawyers who routinely represent muslim americans fighting for their legal rights - all for free

both groups have already won multiple cases for muslim americans who have been wrongfully profiled and surveilled by the government, and they’ve announced plans to take even broader legal initiative to protect our rights. it’s because of their work thus far that the supreme court recently ruled that muslims who have been wrongfully placed on no-fly lists are now allowed to sue the government for damages

we still have a long way to go, but organizations like these are doing so much work to make sure we get there

[vulto-cor-de-rosa]

Shout out to the Cat girl that found the TSA no fly list and posted it with the caption "Holy fucking bingle"

[alanshemper]

“The lists found by maia and shared with journalists and researchers confirm the TSA’s (1) Islamophobia, (2) overconfidence in the certainty of its pre-crime predictions, and (3) mission creep.”

[kdoxkeic]

Y'all keep saying when Princess Diana see the Queen, they not in the same place honey. Stop that right now

[thesuperduckling24]

holy shit

[dancefloors]

so was anyone gonna tell me Kurt from glee had a shrine to the Queen in his American home or was I meant to find that out by myself

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