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I keep seeing people talking about the “Red Mirage” the idea that it only looks like Republicans are winning and it could still go either way.

I fucking hope so because my anxiety is spiking.

vaspider

Yes. So here's what happens:

Voting is reported by precinct.

Smaller, more rural precincts finish counting first and report first. These tend to swing much heavier towards R than D.

This makes it look like a state is fully and quickly "going red." This is the Red Mirage.

Bigger, more urban districts take longer to count and may stay open to allow everyone in line to vote. (STAY IN LINE)

As those urban districts, which swing much heavier D, start to report in, we see what the news calls The Blue Shift.

In addition, some states don't allow counting of mail-in/absentee ballots to begin until election day.

Those ballots tend to lean very heavily D.

As those ballots come in, the Blue Shift gets more pronounced.

That's what Trump was complaining about 4y ago about how "oh suddenly at 2 am all these votes out of nowhere." Those were absentee ballots being reported.

Additionally, deep red states are most likely to be called very quickly after polls close. This is why it looks like Trump is way ahead in electoral college votes right now.

The Blue Shift is no guarantee of how a state will eventually go, but don't freak out. This is gonna be a long night, and it may take several days before we know for sure how things will go.

cal-is-a-cuddlefish

All good and true information. Don't lose hope. Don't panic. It looks scary right now but polls only closed less than two hours ago in the first states. We have a long way to go.

#politics #election 2024

calebisdrawing

I am become boop, the destroyer of worlds.

calebisdrawing

Reblogging for the Boopening.

#boop #the boopening #boopoween

bebs-art-gallery

Tumblr today

(Source.)

#halloween #boop

trumpet-geek

morning glory, sweet pea [bnha, tododeku]

rating — e characters — midoriya izuku, todoroku shouto tags — NSFT, bunny!izuku, injury, first meeting word count — 3400+ notes — for usagi zine! thank you so much for having me!

Read in full on: AO3

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Izuku hops through the mountain forest, weaving between dense tree trunks and leaping over gnarled roots with skill.

Nights like this, where he can test his limits, feel the strength of his hind legs as he effortlessly moves through his domain, are his favorite. It’s calm and the air is sweet with the coming spring, the ground cool and hard beneath his paws.

He genuinely loves it. Loves the sound of the forest at night, the sway of the branches and the rustle of the leaves in the wind. The juxtaposition of the darkness among the roots and the brightness in the canopies. The way the bright white snow reflects the moonlight in the open spaces on the mountainside, bare from human activity. That moment, hovering between winter and spring, is truly beautiful.

It’s coming soon. He can feel it — the urge to make a grey winter world bright again. The light of the bright full moon paves his way, highlighting new growth that appears here and there along the forest floor. The moonlight strengthens him, bolstering the effects of his magic.

Midoriya Izuku: rabbit god, bringer of spring and protector of moonlight. This is his element.

#tododeku #tddk #bnha #macfic #maczine #macstuff #finally getting around to posting the second to last zine piece #!!!

the-insidious-dr-grey-matter

Origami knight made from a single piece of paper with not cuts or tears.

Video of how it was done below

fuckyoukatherineheigl

sindri42

[looking at the photos]: ‘yeah i could probably do something like that in about six sheets of paper. Maybe as few as four. One square is straight up impossible though, at least without cutting it.’

[watching the video]: ...OH.

#origami #video #edogawa queuenan

730kc

oh no, something spicey is going on here. guys, get a room

#dcmk #detective conan #magic kaito #kaishin #edogawa queuenan

stovetop00-deactivated20230907

We’re winning.

lilnasxvevo

I found his bio on societyofpresidentialdescendants.org and it was so delightful I had to copy paste the whole thing:

“Ulysses Grant Dietz grew up in Syracuse, New York, where his Leave it to Beaver life was enlivened by his fascination with vampires, from Bela Lugosi to Barnabas Collins. He studied French at Yale (BA, 1977), and was trained to be a museum curator in the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (MA, 1980). A decorative arts curator at the Newark Museum for thirty-seven years before he retired, Ulysses has never stopped writing for the sheer pleasure of it. Aside from books on Victorian furniture, art pottery, studio ceramics, jewelry, and the White House, Ulysses created the character of Desmond Beckwith in 1988 as his personal response to Anne Rice’s landmark novels. Alyson Books released his first novel, Desmond, in 1998. Vampire in Suburbia, the sequel, appeared in 2012. His most recent novel, Cliffhanger, was released by JMS Books in December 2020.

“Ulysses lives in suburban New Jersey with his husband of 45 years. They have two grown children, adopted in 1996.

“Ulysses is a great-great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant. His late mother, Julia, was the President’s last living great-grandchild; youngest daughter of Ulysses S. Grant III, and granddaughter of the president’s eldest son, Frederick. Every year on April 27 he gives a speech at Grant’s Tomb in New York City. He is also on the board of the U.S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at Mississippi State University.”

wakingfromthewater

And frankly, the novels sound like they slap:

Desmond was nominated for a Lambda Award.

doctorscienceknowsfandom

“With his husband of 45 years.” You kids don’t know ... they got together before AIDS, at the peak of the Gay Glam Life. They stayed together as their generation died around them, and made through it to the point where they could marry and have a legal family. He looks like a chipper preppie who never had a serious thought or care in the world, but it took *incredible* determination, commitment, and also luck to get here.