Just a reminder to anyone who will listen! There’s a huge cold front coming up in America right now and I want to remind everyone to NEVER use or rely on a gas stove to heat up your home. You will die. If your power goes out, the best thing you can do is cover your windows, or get to an area in your house with no windows, and bundle up to the best of your ability to conserve heat. I know generating heat with whatever you have sounds good in theory, but we lost a LOT of people to carbon monoxide poisoning in last years Texas Freeze because many relied on gas stoves and other propane heat sources. A lot of people went to bed and never woke up. Please be aware of the things you can’t see, like fumes from your generator, built up gas when starting a car in an enclosed space, and of course, the excess carbon monoxide that can be generated by leaving a gas stove on for too long.

This too shall pass but like holy fuck

By the way, I saw in the news today that thousands of mail-in ballots in Nevada can't yet be certified because the signature on the envelope doesn't match the name on the voter registration. They suggested that this could be attributed to young people not being used to signing their name.

So if you're a young person in a swing state who voted by mail, it'd be a good idea to check that there isn't a problem with your ballot. They official said they'll be contacting all of the voters in question, but you could be proactive in making sure.

NEVADA VOTER SEARCH

Nevada BallotTrax

yo hey US people who sent in absentee ballots, they are tossing mail-in ballots for no reason. i just had to call my county board of elections and demand a cure for my ballot because north carolina didn't send out any notices of issues with ballots, and the issues are fake. if you voted by mail-in make sure your ballot was actually counted

Check your ballot!

if you're feeling powerless right now—and god knows I am—here's a reminder you can donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds, the Trans Law Center, Gaza Soup Kitchen, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and hundreds of other charities that will work to mitigate the damage that has been and will continue to be inflicted

life continues. we still have the capacity to do good, important work. that matters

Please, spread this for those who might need it right now

Take care of yourself and each other. Please stay safe ♡

Nearly 14,000 mail ballots in Nevada have signature issues

Officials urge residents to use online tool to check if ballot was accepted

The total number of ballots — 13,906 — needing curing include 6,383 from registered nonpartisan or other voters, 4,026 from Democrats and 3,497 from Republicans.

The deadline for voters to cure their ballots is 5 p.m. Nov. 12, officials said. Ballots can be cured here.

The main issue they're having with young voters is that Nevada allows for voter registration through the Department of Motor Vehicles, and the "signatures" are digital (the licensee types it into a form), so their hand-written signatures on their ballots don't match the KEYSTROKES that serve as signatures on their license.

It would be hilarious if it weren't so fucking infuriating.

Please share so Nevada folks see this and can cure their ballots and help people close to them do so!

Two things to prop up right now:

I guess Twitter really needed a middle-aged trans man on the timeline today. Happy to oblige.

This is extremely funny to me. Yes, I am Twitter OP and I see all y'all thirst tagging and assigning me Professor at Birth. 😅

hey friends,

I know we are waking up scared, threatened, disappointed, and in complete shock. please remember this feeling. we have four years of this. we need to do everything in our power to fight back against the fascists that will be in power. we need to harness this frustration and put it towards advocacy. this spark needs to light the fire within all of us.

seeing defeat- seeing a woman, yet again, be rejected of a job she’s more qualified for a male felon who’s a threat to our democracy- is jarring to say the very least. but we just have to be vigilant. look out for your minority friends. be a shoulder or ear for them. and if you are minority, I am here to listen and hear your cries. it may seem like a black hole and a fucking nightmare, but we will fight to our last breaths to protect you and your human rights. because no matter how you spin it, trump’s policies and actions are a direct threat to human rights.

so today. scream. yell. cry. lay in the grass and curse at the sky. but don’t lose hope. it’s still there.

love you guys. thinking of you and your anxiety ridden hearts today. i’m with you. 💙

Anyway American trans friends, now's the time to put "be gay do crime" into practice and the first step is to get onto secure communication channels so you're not discussing details of what you're doing and how on the public internet.

Don’t put anything sensitive or incriminating on electronics ever. Don’t discuss things around microphones. Leave your phone at home when you go to an action. Take public transit if you can because your car can track you.

Use the internet to gather information, to organize meetings, to share resources, to stay calm in this fucking world. But don’t put anything incriminating on it.

in the village tn flitting btwn gay bars n the best vietnamese place ever and everyone’s asking if everyone else is ok. not a bad night if you’re outside for it. or at least less shitty lol

the vietnamese place gave me a free shot of chartreuse, i held my favorite bartender while they fell apart, i made out with the girl i like and told like 10 transsexuals i loved them. there is no better place to be tonight than among dolls and twinks and tattooed straight guys and homeless people and service industry veterans and friends.

to the vast majority of the world--to palestine, to lebanon, to iran, to latin america and zimbabwe and vietnam, to billions of people around the world--it's just tuesday. the people in charge of your life and who operate the machinery of empire have failed you, like they have every day since before you were born. you'll get through it by relying on yourself and on each other, by building support networks and giving a fuck about other people. same as any other tuesday.

the most depressing part is that it's not even kamala's stance on genocide that is costing her the elections. i wish it were. it's people genuinely shifting for trump. but it's the pro-palestine movement that's going to get the blame for it.

obviously she fucked up on that front and on multiple other fronts (an understatement) but if these results have showed anything it's that the alt right white majority will never vote for a black woman even if she were perfect. but liberals will blame arabs for the faults of white nationalism and misogyny. at this point if you're blaming the pro-palestine movement and saying shit like "are you happy now? is this what you wanted?" you're just brimming with anti-arab hatred that you're desperate to release at any given opportunity

so what now? the genocide is still ongoing and the rise of fascism is unimpeded but now people will point to those most affected by it and saying "this is what you wanted, right?" and you and i could spend the next four years arguing and yelling at those people or we can do something that matters.

mahmoud needs to pay his fees in 5 days or he will fail this semester.

amal needs to meet the soaring prices of baby food in gaza for the sake of her daughter maryam.

look out for the vulnerable and watch out for the way people are venting their frustration at fascism by blaming its victims.

please reblog this version. anger without action is nothing. if you feel like this is the end of the world remember that this is just another day of the genocide for those in gaza.

I said this months ago but I'll say it again: if you're transgender you HAVE TO LIVE

please, I love you.

I'm gonna fight like hell to stay alive btw, nothing keeps down the Salemator! from a black trans guy to other queers/BIPOC/and women

you will survive no matter how hard it gets

if you're waking up like me thinking "where do we even go from here?"

you:

been sitting on this one for a WHILE

Just so you all know, if things don't go our way tonight, the name of the game for the next four years will be mutual aid. We will protect each other and weather the storm. Powerful individuals can be subverted and circumvented by large enough networks of everyday people.

Little life advice:

Everyone who says not to set your stove clock or microwave clock because you won't use them and don't look at them anyway is lying.

Set them.

Because sometimes, you will come come from a week away when no one was in your home, and see the stove and microwave clocks blinking and go, "Oh shit, the power went out while I was gone, even though it's clearly back, which means every single thing in my fridge and freezer might have gotten room temperature and refrozen, and will give me food poisoning."

And it will be the only indication whatsoever not to eat it.

Anyway, just got back from the grocery store, but at least I don't have botulism.

Tapping the sign.