The US healthcare system is a joke but no one's laughing 🥲
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(full story on the GoFundMe Campaign)
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A little out of the ordinary from what I usually post, but it's important to me and this is my account so I'll do what I want lol exorbitant medical bills suck we all know this, and until we can enact change we unfortunately must work within a broken system. Any amount helps!!!!!
Here's the link for the GoFundMe Campaign:
I'm fundraising to help my girlfriend pay off her medical bills… StarrySkies Cosplay needs your support for Help pay for medical bills for
Or you can use the direct PayPal link:
Go to paypal.me/SGravett and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
(if you see my deadname no you don't lol)
Don't worry if you're not able to donate! Spreading the word helps out a lot too! Thank you in advanced!!!
Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.
They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!
This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!
Because people are Awful, my friend in Ukraine (the one translating Heaven Has A Road into Russian) was hit by a scammer and lost all their money.
I know lots of people are asking for donations right now, and it's impossible to help everyone - but if you have a few bucks to spare, maybe throw them at their paypal? (We haven't managed to get ko-fi to work in their country)
I haven’t really seen any of the more recent U.S. election news hitting tumblr yet so here’s some updates (now edited with sources added):
There’s evidence of Trump cheating and interfering with the election.
Possible Russian interference.
Mail-in ballots are not being counted or “recognized” in multiple (notably swing) states.
30+ bomb threats were called in and shut down polling stations on Election Day.
20+ million votes are still unaccounted for, and that’s just to have the same voter turnout as 2020.
There was record voter turnout and new/first-time voter registration this year. We definitely should be well over the turnout in 2020.
U.S. citizens are using this site to demand, not only a recount, but a complete investigation into election fraud and interference for the reasons stated above:
Contact the President, Vice President, get help with a Federal Agency, or request a Presidential Greeting.
Here is what I submitted as an example:
An investigation for election interference and fraud is required. We desperately need a recount or even a revote. The American people deserve the right to a free and fair election. There has been evidence unveiled of Trump cheating and committing election fraud which is illegal. There is some evidence of possible Russian interference. At least 30+ bomb threats were called in to polling places. Multiple, notably swing states, have ballots unaccounted for and voting machines not registering votes. Ballots and ballot boxes were tampered with and burned. Over 20 million votes that we know of are unaccounted for. With record turnout and new voter registration this year, there should be no possibility that there are less votes than even in the 2020 election.
Sources (working on finding more links but if anyone wants to add info, it’s appreciated):
FBI addressing Russian interference and bomb threats:
The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. None
Emails released by Rachael Bellis (private account, can’t share original tweet) confirming Trump committing election fraud:
Pennsylvania's Centre County officials say they are working with their ballot scanner vendor to figure out why the county's mail-in ballot data is "not being recognized when uploaded to the elections software:”
Wisconsin recount:
The Milwaukee Election Commission, 'out of an abundance of caution,' will delay the reporting of about 105,000 absentee ballots that could d
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Multiple screenshots and images.
The first is a screenshot with a link and information for contacting the White House directly regarding election fraud. The instructions include choosing to leave a comment to President Joe Biden directly and to select election security as the reason.
The screenshot then instructs people to include any or all of the following information in a paragraph as a comment to the president:
32 fake bomb threats were called into Democratic leaning poll places, rendering polling places closed for at least an hour.
A lot of people reporting their ballots were not counted for various reasons.
This all occurred in swing states.
This is too coincidental that these things happen and swing in his favor after months of hinting at foul play.
Directly state that an investigation for tampering, interference, fraud is required, not just a recount.
The second image is from the FBI Twitter account that reads:
The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far. https://t.co/j3YfajVK1m — FBI (@FBI) November 5, 2024
The next four Gmail screenshots of an email sent to Rachael Bellis from Chris T. Spackman that read together as follows:
Dear BELLIS, RACHAEL E., The Dauphin County Board of Elections received a challenge to your absentee ballot you applied for in the November 5, 2024 General Election. The challenge argues that a provision of the Pennsylvania Election Code takes precedence over the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), which requires states and counties to permit U.S. citizens who move overseas to vote by absentee ballot for federal offices based on their last U.S. residential address.
The full text of the challenge that was filed appears below this email.
You may respond to the challenge in any of the following ways:
1. Call the Bureau of Registration and Election at (717) 780-6360;
2. Email a statement to the Bureau at Election [email protected]. Any statement you submit regarding the period during which you lived in Dauphin County, any family or connections that you still have here, and why you are now residing abroad would be read into the record.
3. Appear in person at a Board of Elections hearing scheduled for Friday, November 8 at a time to be determined in the Commissioners Public Hearing Room, 4th floor of Dauphin County Administration Building, 2 S 20d St, Harrisburg, PA 17111. The meeting is also likely to be livestreamed on Facebook on the Dauphin County channel.
Sincerely,
Christopher T Spackman
TEXT OF CHALLENGE BEGINS
Dear Dauphin County Board of Elections,
I am submitting this challenge to an absentee ballot application pursuant to 25 Pa. Stat.
3146.8(f).
25 Pa. Stat. 3146.8(f) Any person challenging an application for an absentee ballot, an absentee ballot, an application for a mail-in ballot or a mail-in ballot for any of the reasons provided in this act shall deposit the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) in cash with the county board, which sum shall only be refunded if the challenge is sustained or if the challenge is withdrawn within five (5) days after the primary or election. If the challenge is dismissed by any lawful order then the deposit shall be forfeited. The county board shall deposit all deposit money in the general fund of the…
The rest of the forwarded email is cut off.
The last image is a screenshot of the official statement from the Centre County, Pennsylvania Board of Commissioners released on November 6, 2024 that states:
Centre County Working with Ballot Scanner Vendor to Export Election Results.
(Bellefonte, PA) -Centre County Elections Office is working continuously to provide mail-in ballot data in order to post unofficial results.
To this point, all ballots have been scanned, including all mail-in ballots.
Centre County's Election team and IT team have identified that the data are successfully being exported from the mail-in ballot scanners, but that the data is not being recognized when uploaded to the elections software.
Centre County's Administrator, John Franek, Jr. stated, "We have not stopped working, and we will continue to work until unofficial results are posted and reported to the Pennsylvania Department of State."
As a next step, Centre County has begun working with the equipment vendor to adjust configurations to make the two systems-the mail-in ballot scanner and the elections software where data are uploaded -compatible with one another.
I wanted to opt out of tumblr's new abyssmally tone-deaf and reprehensible scheme to scrape their users' content to sell to their generative AI business partners, but neither app or desktop version showed the toggle, despite updates.
For me, what finally worked was to go to tumblr.com/settings/blog/x (where x is the username of your blog) in a web browser and scroll all the way down.
There I finally found the toggle to opt out.
Please opt out, in solidarity with artists and writers and other creatives, to protect yourself - and to send the higher-up a clear message that we tumblr users aren't "content", and our posts are not for sale.
Chapter 54 - Banish These Inner Demons of Heaven Has A Road But No One Walks It is up! :D
“It's not a ghost,” Xue Yang said, sounding bored.
The old villager who had implored them to help was cut off so abruptly in the middle of his litany, Xiao Xingchen thought he could almost hear him stand there gaping.
“You were saying that this shrine has been haunted lately, laobo?” Zichen said pointedly to encourage the old man, ignoring Xue Yang's frustrated huff.
“Yes!” the man exclaimed, clearly offended at having been so rudely interrupted. “There was an old woman from out of town who was ridden down and killed by some young lord here many years ago, when I was just a little boy - they buried her and built the shrine here to keep her spirit at rest. But the last few years the ghost has started haunting the road again! Accidents keep happening around here, with carts losing a wheel or sudden noises scaring horses and oxen! That's why I hoped you could help, worthy daoshi. Find out why the ghost is angry and maybe help lay it to rest again.”
“Not a ghost,” Xue Yang repeated, boredom audibly giving way to annoyance.
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Good things come to those who wait! (And especially those who cheer struggling authors on with encouraging tags, comments and asks! 🥲)
I fucked up a nerve bundle in my neck/arm a while back and spent more than a month immobile in excruciating pain - on top of the usual seasonal depression - so writing's been slow. But new chapter, at last!
I also created a handy little Heaven Has A Road Companion, with chapter-by-chapter summary of the story so far, a world map with itinerary, a character list and a glossary. If you need to freshen up your memory, go check it out!
(And really, please comment. We're slowly closing in on the final arc and I desperately need the support to be able to bring this beast across the finish line!)
Please reblog and add your nationality in the tags along with what you answered! I'm very curious about this; and it's not to shame anybody, so don't be rude!
Here's a long overdue shot of my Sticky Fingers cosplay from HolMat'18! I love the character vs cosplay thing so I might start doing that with other cosplays too! Most of the design differences in this one are because I used the SAS Figure and the anime model as a reference rather than the game model shown here 😊 I'll have to work on my pose game for MomoCon so I can do more of these 👌
I do have a snapchat! But I hardly post on my story because Snapchat refuses to make a good version of their app for Android 😅 but I am very active on Instagram @ starryskiescosplay!
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