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[saint-vore]

call me australian but i just think that everyone should be required to vote and every municipality should have the obligation to make it as easy for everyone to vote as possible

[cavedraconem]

This drives me nuts. In NZ the right-wing government has recently changed the law so that you can no longer enroll to vote once the early voting period (2 weeks) has started. If you're not enrolled and you rock up on the day, they will give you a special voting form, get you to fill it out, let you vote, and then throw your vote away because you were not enrolled.

The National party claims that this was done purely to speed up the vote count after election day (there are ways to do this without disenfranchising people but whatever). The leader of the libertarian(ish) ACT party, David Seymour, had this to say:

Frankly, I'm a bit sick of dropkicks that can't get themselves organised to follow the law. [...] It’s outrageous that someone completely disengaged and lazy can rock up to the voting booth, get registered there and then, and then vote to tax other people’s money away.

I think the governor-general should have the right to fire politicians who stand up on national television and say "Yes, I'm pleased that we changed the law because it makes it more difficult for people to vote for my opponents." Or at least hit them with a massive fine and use the money to fund more vote counters.

[hope-for-the-planet]

From One Surviving Male Bison, Azerbaijan Now Has 25 Calves Born Wild in 7-Year Success Story

Once native to most of Eurasia, these big-bodied ecosystem engineers lumbered freely around the whole of the continent

In the 1920s, the last Eurasian bison were hunted out of existence in the Azerbaijan region. Efforts to restore the species began in 2012, and the first 12 European bison were released back into their native habitat in 2019.

Now only seven years later, 25 wild born calves have been added to the Azerbaijan population.

[escabye-deactivated20190922]

when ur mutuals are mutual with each other 

pro: squad con: i saw this post like 18 times today

[skingrad]

[secondclassvines]

“what my sims do when im offline”

[officalsuper-k]

I watched this video like 5 times before reading the caption cause I thought I was having a stroke.

[teathattast]

[feeshu09]

They disgust.

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[catboycommunist]

evergreen

[suspiciousmammal]

So whenever the news cycle gets too depressing, I scroll through horse sales ads while drinking my morning coffee instead. Even tho I'm not around horses anymore, and don't intend on getting back into that world.

Now, my partner hasn't been around horses much at all. So you can imagine my surprise when he not only became very invested in looking at random horses with me, but started actively enforcing horse ad time like it's some long-established relationship ritual we have.

After like three months of this, he has a surprising amount of opinions on horses and horse breeds despite never having been around one since he was 8. And since I kinda live for his comments on these horses by now anyways, here are some highlights:

he seems to have a nagging suspicion that irish cob yearlings aren't real, because they look too fluffy to be true. I'm with him on this

he likes Mustangs the most, because they have the friendliest faces.

He groups ottbs into the 'boring' or 'looks like a very big dog' category.

He dislikes American Miniature Horses so much that whenever we come across one, it's like he's discovering them all over again

He has developed a certain dislike for Icelandic Horses specifically. When I asked him what makes him hate Icelandics but love shetlands for example, he gave me a rather passionate explanation of how Shetland Pony ads are at least honest about selling some equine poltergeist, while Icenaldic Horse people act like they're selling Sleipnir itself. And jfc he's got a point?

Speaking of shetlands, he's a big fan of shetland sales ads and the euphemistic language they use

He also always asks me to save particularly... memorable pictures of horses to add to his growing collection. Here are some of the recent additions:

[suspiciousmammal]

He has since dropped the fact that his family history includes one grandpa who, upon failing to become a saddlers apprentice, pretended to be 16 to join the "cavalry" of the german military in wwii. It was near the end of the war (which is also why nobody cared about an obviously underaged 13yo kid signing up), cavalry charges were a thing of the past and what few horses were left alive got put to use pulling artillery and supplies for the nazis.

But he was 13 and an idiot and signed up to join some glorious cavalry. In reality as soon as he'd been issued a uniform they were sent on foot towards the eastern front.

He ended up captured, lost his teeth but eventually got released. It took him a couple more years to walk back home, where he worked in the trades for the rest of his life. In his home he had a small office room that his grandkids called the "horse room" as he had decorated it with paintings, newspaper clippings and the odd horseshoe.

I may have been swinging wildly at the childhood memory piñata of his, so now he's enforcing horse ad time like a cockatoo terrorizing its owner until he puts on its favourite song.

He also has some more opinions on horses that I'm allowed to share if anyone is even still seeing this

[red-garden]

I feel like it’s pretty common knowledge that martial arts has very little to do with raw physical strength, and much more dependent on dynamic strength. For Liu Qingge it wouldn’t make a lot of sense for him to do much strength training— more so endurance/speed, especially considering that he can use his qi to move really heavy things on the rare occasions he might need to. That said, I cannot decide who I think should be the physically strongest peak lord. Wei Qingwei is the logical choice, because metal heavy. However Yue Qingyuan is the infinitely more lustful and personally motivated choice.

[talesfromtreatment]

Really wanted to try to get a nice photo of Sticky Bob.

Sticky Bob had other ideas.

Thanks Sticky Bob. These are certainly something

[gaysadist]

If there's sexual abuse subtext no there isn't, if there's allusion to sexual abuse you're ruining it for everyone else by talking about it, if there's a metaphor for sexual abuse you're reading too far into it and it's actually a metaphor for anything more palatable, and if there's on-screen sexual abuse? Well that's exploitative torture porn, of course.

[atelier-xm]

There's a new mural in Szczecin

[kaava]

You forgot to add the best thing about it

[arekyve]

it is very important to me that binghe gets the idea of sqq getting a collar for him from liu qingge. Liu qingge who has to put up with a scowling and snarling binghe who's always acting like a guard dog for sqq finally got on his nerves one day and prompted, "shen shixiong put a leash on him" said with the utmost of disrespect and binghe in all his protagonist glory and optimism took it in good grace and thought, "actually hold on that's an incredible idea"

[gyrovagus-bibliophile]

Luo Binghe:

[onlytiktoks]

[pangur-and-grim]

How old are all of your creechurs at this point? I feel like it was only yesterday that Belphie was still a kitten, but I also feel like Panger is like 3000 years old

Pangur and Grim were born in winter 2012, which means they're both turning 14 this year!

they mostly just sleep all day, but they still seem fairly healthy for their age. in the evenings, Pangur will sometimes run around with Belphie and weasel-wrestle.

and then Belphie was born in February 2024, so he's a two-year old baby boy

[innerchildabortionclinic]

kind of niche discourse but that "david" company can keep its monopoly on the ingredient EPG. I don't want MORE foods available with anal leakage as a side effect. if you want to lose weight by wreaking havoc on your digestive system leave the public food supply out of it

[innerchildabortionclinic]

i've had ice cream using a similar recipe once and I was legit sick for 24 hours straight. if you can eat and enjoy this stuff you are not ensouled

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s