beto being elected would be huge for texas. as someone from there, lemme tell you, he’s someone the state sorely needs. texas is in desperate need of a democrat and Beto is our best bet. in recent polls, cruz was shown to be ahead, but not by much. cruz. cannot. win.
there are ways you can help! if you live in Texas, you can sign up to volunteer. you can volunteer to do things such as send texts, emails, knock on doors. typical campaign stuff.
if you don’t live in Texas, you can donate. you don’t have to live in the state to donate. donating is one of the best ways you can support him because it funds his campaign! as mentioned above, he doesn’t take PAC money. he is 100% grassroots campaign, funded by people, for people.
i’m going to reiterate this. any us citizen* can donate. any. doesn’t matter where you live in the united states. so, I urge. if you don’t live in texas, donate. the average donation amount is $35, but any amount will help.
*if you don’t live in the united states/aren’t a citizen, legally you cannot donate. i don’t make the rules guys.
if you can’t donate, please reblog this so others can see it. people can’t vote in midterms if they don’t know who their nominees are.
this midterm election is crucial. getting Beto into the senate is crucial. reblog or donate!
It wrinkles my brain that Jupiter’s moon Europa has oceans that are sixty miles deep, while Earth’s oceans only reach seven miles deep at most. I’m willing to bet good money that there’s life in Europa’s oceans. Like five bucks. You hear me, NASA? I bet you five bucks that there’s life on Europa… Now that there’s money and reputation on the line, I bet they send a mission there real quick.
I have no idea when this was originally posted, but NASA is working on their Europa mission RIGHT NOW to look for alien life! But get this, they theorize that because of the depth, gravity, and composition of the oceans, any organisms that lived there would be waaay bigger than aquatic life on Earth. So far everything’s going well with regards to their Europa mission so they should have a spacecraft on its way to look for giant sea monsters in space in only a few years. (The planned date is in the early 2020s.)
Looks like my negotiations worked. You’re welcome, humanity.
I’ve never been gripped with such cold terror and pure delight in my LIFE
I’m caught between desperately wanting us to find nothing big and expecting kaiju
me sitting here two weeks before the midterm elections watching my twitter and tumblr feeds fill up w/ memes and discourse about how voting is useless and democrats aren’t gonna save us: uh guys? guys? hey guys? guys? you guys? guys? hey you guys? you guys? guys? uh guys? guys? guys? guys?
one of the most common tactics of the right isn’t to change who you vote for. they know that’s unlikely to work. it’s to do everything in their power to make sure you decide to stay home.
republican turnout wasn’t actually that high in the last election. democratic turnout was just fucking abysmal, because of attitudes like this.
I have a lot of pet peeves but I think the biggest one is when people say things like “oh it’s such a small town, only 35,000 people” like bitch my town has 200 people, you need to pick a new adjective
According to Wikipedia, a small town is 1,000-20,000 people. So although you are correct in stating that 35,000 people is not a small town (it is a large town), you are incorrect in thinking that you live in a town. You live in a village. You are a villager.
I…… don’t know what to do with that information……a villager…
tag yourself with your living place’s population and what youre classified as. im 278,508 city boy
Here are the hierarchical classifications from Wikipedia
Ecumenopolis – a theoretical construction in which the entire area of Earth that is taken up by human settlements,
or at least, that those are linked so that to create urban areas so big
that they can shape an urban continuum through thousands of kilometers
which cannot be considered as a megalopolis. As of the year 2009, the
United Nations estimated that for the first time more than 50% of the
world’s populations lived in cities, so if these were linked, the total
population of this area would be about 3,400,000,000 people as of 2010.
Megalopolis – a group of conurbations, consisting of more than ten million people each.
Conurbation – a group of large cities and their suburbs, consisting of three to ten million people.
Metropolis – a large city and its suburbs consisting of multiple cities and towns. The population is usually one to three million.
Large city – a city with a large population and many services. The population is <1 million people but over 300,000 people.
City –
a city would have abundant services, but not as many as a large city.
The population of a city is between 100,000 and 300,000 people.[citation needed]
Large town – a large town has a population of 20,000 to 100,000.
Town – a town has a population of 1,000 to 20,000.
Village
– a village is a human settlement or community that is larger than a
hamlet but smaller than a town. A village generally does not have many
services, most likely a church or only a small shop or post office. The
population of a village varies; the average population can range from
hundreds to thousands.
Hamlet – a hamlet has a tiny population (<100) and very few (if any) services, with only a few buildings.
Isolated dwelling – an isolated dwelling would only have 1 or 2 buildings or families. It would have negligible services, if any.
I….I guess I live in a conurbation. Chicagoland has a population of roughly nine and a half million, so a bunch of our suburbs must be full on cities.
I am conurban. A conurbanite. This is my conurb. Conurbs in Horto. My condo in the conurb.
I received a few well-meaning messages these past couple days in regards to all the work I’m doing. By work I mean lots of sewing and quilting.
Yes, it’s stressing my wrist. I have a special brace I wear overnight that’s just shy of being a cast. In the morning my wrist is happy and allows me to work all day.
I’m not actually working all day. I’m up at around 6am because the sun fills the bedroom by 7am and there’s no sleeping through that. Most especially because it gets too warm in there due to the bedroom being on the east side of the house. After breakfast and a shower I need to be doing something, I need to feel productive. Housecleaning takes less than a hour because I do it daily.
Being disabled means I can’t work a “real” job. I receive $720/month, all of which is eaten up within 24 hours by our bills. My husband is the only one who can work, but he’s not getting paid enough (who the fuck is?) so I do my best to make money. I create things and sell them. Or at least list them on Etsy and HOPE they sell.
I stop working under any of the following circumstances:
Not feeling “right”, which is usually what happens a few hours before a seizure.
Sunset has arrived. Yup, I stop working at sunset.
My sewing room is too warm. It’s on the west end of the house, we live in a desert, it gets REALLY hot in there from May-September. By 4pm I’m done. It’s why I start at about 9am.
I feel a burnout coming on.
My wrist is being a bitch.
Currently I’m grieving. Sitting idle just makes it so much harder for me to grieve. Creating things isn’t distracting, it’s cathartic. My grandfather LOVED quilts. My grandmother is a quilter, he 100% supported her, adored her work, and encouraged her. He was thrilled when he learned I’d taken up the family tradition. I create because it makes me happy, I know it made/makes him happy, and it helps me through this emotional mess I’m dealing with.
Not only am I grieving but am also poor, as you may have guessed. I create because it brings me joy and satisfaction, but also as a means of extra income. I’ve made $160.50 thus far this year. It’s not enough, so I make more and hope someone purchases the work. My financial situation isn’t helping with my grieving and has me extremely stressed. I need to stay occupied.
I appreciate your concerns. I ice my wrist when it swells or hurts too much, I take an NSAID (non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug) before going to bed so the swelling and pain diminish overnight, and I don’t rush my work. Thank you for your comments, but know that I’m well aware of what I’m doing as well as my limits.
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