#infographics

[rthwrms]

HOW TO START (2026)

[coolnessgraphed]

Credit for this goes to @willfulwizard. Thanks for the idea. If you have any graph ideas, send em!

[watchandread02]

Supernatural Season 7 infographics

Distance calculated with DistanceFromTo. This is not the actual driving path and just the shortest distance between the two points. Take the timeline with a grain of salt because this one was hard to figure out and sometimes I just estimated which month it could be.

Taglist | Masterpost (for the other seasons and destiel focused infographics)

(As always I don't guarantee that all of this is 100% correct. Wie immer alle Angaben ohne Gewähr.)

[jareckiworld]

Dr. Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) — The Mammary Gland [infographic, 1943]

[godbirdart]

so Canada's federal election just got bumped up to April 28th, 2025, and you all know what that means. it means yall have to see me make another long-winded post about it.

let's recap: WHY THE ELECTION DATE: APRIL 28, 2025?

Typically, Canada's federal election is hosted on the third Monday of October once every four years. The reason Canada is hosting it in April is because Carney, the new Prime Minister, requested a Dissolution of Parliament. This action can be requested at any point by request of the sitting Prime Minister or by the King of Canada, but cannot go forward without the approval of the sitting Governor General. The Governor General serves as the King's representative within Canada, among a variety of other constitutional duties, and thus oversees the procedure.

WHO ARE THE POLITICAL PARTIES?

Canada's parliament is currently [as of March 2025] occupied by five political parties. There are more than just these five, but these ones are considered the main players in Canadian Politics. ◦ New Democratic Party / Policies & Publications ◦ Bloc Québécois / Policies & Publications [French] ◦ Green Party / Policies & Publications ◦ Liberal Party of Canada / Policies & Publications ◦ Conservative Party of Canada / Policies & Publications

HOW DOES ALL THIS WORK?

I've seen a few comments floating around treating former Prime Minister Trudeau's tag-out with replacement Prime Minister Carney like it was a federal election [it was not] and that it was somehow illegal [it was perfectly legal]. Being America's neighbor has even Canadians confused as to how our own election system operates, so here are the cliff notes: ◦ You are eligible to vote in Canada if you are a Canadian citizen, are 18 years or older, and can prove your identity and address. ◦ Eligible voters can still register to vote at the polling station if they forgot to register in advance. ◦ Eligible voters can vote early on specific days, register for mail-in voting, vote at an Elections Canada office, or vote on election day itself before polling stations close in their respective time zone. ◦ Eligible voters can still vote while incarcerated, homeless, live abroad, or are outside of Canada during the election. ◦ Employers are obligated to give employees three hours off from work to vote. ◦ Federal elections do not utilize automatic ballot-counting machines. If someone's going off about ballot-hacking or interference, they likely haven't voted in a Canadian federal election. From casting ballots to counting, Canadian voting is largely analog. All golf pencils and paper. ◦ Canada does not vote to elect the Prime Minister specifically. There are 343 Ridings [Electoral Districts] across Canada. These correspond with the 343 seats in the House of Commons:

Each riding elects a member of Parliament to represent them in the House of Commons. Each member of Parliament is typically affiliated with a political party, but they can be independent. The party that wins the most seats in the House becomes the prevailing government and that party's leader becomes Prime Minister. ◦ This is not a celebrity contest. Election ballots vary from riding to riding and list the names of the candidates running for Parliament within each individual district. Party leader names only appear if they happen to be the representative for your particular riding. Voters can find out their riding's candidates using the Elections Canada website.

While Canadian elections don't have nearly the same sensationalism as the States, these basics should still give you the knowledge to recognize when someone [or a bot] is trying to manufacture social media outrage or otherwise spew some bullshit. So I'm going to close this all off with this:

Elections are not Team Sports

In the social media era, it can be alarmingly easy to get swept up in hype and spectacle. Canada operates on a multi-party system, sure, but you still need to pay attention and read into to the policies and guarantees each party is dangling in front of you. Don't just leave it to election day vibes. You need to think critically about who you want writing the legislation, and that also means equipping yourself with the awareness to vote strategically. If you live in a riding that's detrimentally attached to a party whose policies conflict with human rights and values, you may need to place your vote in the candidate whose party has the best chance to oust them - even if that party isn't the one you'd personally prefer to vote for.

Be critical, don't get swept away, and please spare a thought for Canada's House Hippo. They've been trending increasingly endangered since the 90's, but thanks to conservation efforts in the late 2010's they've a fighting chance to make a comeback.

[courtingwonder]

Guide For The Geological Time Periods In Order

[mckitterick]

Income inequality, charted

CEOs make 632× their average workers, who mostly don't earn living wages

worst example: Starbucks CEO rakes in $96 million in salary alone, while the average worker - who actually creates the value that C-suite leeches drain - earns less than $15 grand

that's 6500× as much pay

six thousand, five hundred times as much pay as an actual worker

the lowest disparity shown on this chart (Walmart) still has its CEO taking almost 1000× as much income as its average worker

don't let the rich propagandize workers against one another. the rich are our real enemies

[saritazoo]

Started drawing blobfish and tripped over this soapbox. Who put that there?

I find that a lot of people who make cheeky posts about what living blobfish look like tend to not mention how the typically inedible blobfish is getting pulled up from the deepest depths of the sea in the first place. The new documentary “Ocean” with David Attenborough provides a chilling underwater look at a trawling net in action. You can watch a clip here. And you can find a link to Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch here.