anyway I don’t think the story of the 2016 election is that America wanted Trump.
I think the story of the US election is that a supreme court decision allowed states with a history of totalitarianism to arbitrarily change voting law in ways that made it disproportionately difficult for people likely to vote Democrat to vote while a foreign country was running an intelligence campaign to discourage voting on the left and, real time, prod right wing voters in important districts to vote during the election in a race with massive question marks about the security of voting infrastructure, with a widely unpopular Democratic presidential candidate–
And Trump still lost. By roughly three million votes.
That’s six times the loss George W Bush had when he won the electoral college without winning the popular vote in 2000.
Hilary Clinton won the popular vote by a larger margin than Jimmy Carter or Richard Nixon or John Kennedy; she just won it in the wrong places.
Trump is now president because the electoral college assigns more weight to rural states, which are also states with more discriminatory voter laws and more disenfranchisement and therefore states in which it is harder to vote for people likely to vote Democrat.
And all of that is what I mean when I say the biggest problem with the American system is gerrymandering.
Time for another episode of “I Don’t Want To Go To The Store (But We Really Need Some Fresh Food)” 🙄
At least, if I go ahead before it gets much later in the afternoon? Even on a Saturday, I’m hoping there might be fewer assholes hanging around the tables outside the pub next door there than there would be in the evening. Hard to tell, though. Mad dogs and Englishmen…
Backup fan obtained!
The similar model in the bedroom decided to start making worrying bearing noises. So, especially with this ongoing heatwave? I figured I should probably go ahead and get another one in case it does conk out.
I can’t sleep without at least a fan in even slightly warm weather, much less with the bedroom staying over 80F again. That’s enough of a sweatbox with a decently working fan, with this island humidity.
These move a surprising amount of air for something that size, and this one was only around £12. No reason not to go ahead and get a backup.
Though, I may set this one up for the kitchen in the meantime. Been using the fan setting on the space heater, which is way better than no air movement when you’re trying to work in there. Not as good a breeze as with a fan intended for the purpose, though.
Disconcerted again, just realizing that this is the first time in at least a few years that I’ve heard a grasshopper out back. (As in, one lone grasshopper AFAICT.)
It’s been longer than that since I heard any crickets, and I think I’ve only seen two of them here in over 14 years. No exaggeration.
Almost a shame the flying bugs are nowhere near that scarce with no screens, but yeah. Having to wonder how the inner burbs here would react if screaming cicadas suddenly appeared everywhere 😊
[Transcript of Twitter thread by nor @alljustletters:
being chronically ill with a full time job actually means having two full time jobs.
# Not Your Inspiration: i’m 25, multiply disabled with a 40hr job. this means sacrificing my social life, hobbies, interests. using the weekends to recuperate and sleep. being stressed and in pain and overwhelmed constantly. that’s not inspiring, that’s fucking sad.
i haven’t “overcome my disability” or am “succeeding despite my disability”, i’m continuously forcing myself to endure further damage to my health in a desperate attempt to survive under capitalism & be allowed to contribute to/partake in society.
i actually wanna work cause it gives me structure and purpose, and i enjoy my job. what i want is for my job to not require me to hurt myself day after day & to pay me a living wage regardless. it shouldn’t be either back-breaking work or poverty.
# cripple punk
hey what the fuck is this new monstrosity of an error message?????
conditions under which i encountered this message: i answered an ask on mobile, then reblogged it on mobile and added two images (from my phone gallery) to the body of the reblog. went back on desktop because i wanted to add it to my #pop tag, which is where popular posts go. link to post (screwed up on my desktop theme sorry)
UPDATE: I CAN NO LONGER EDIT EVEN TEXT POSTS THAT WERE MADE FROM THE APP WHILE ON DESKTOP??
ALSO AFTER RECEIVING THIS ERROR IT WOULD NOT LET ME SCROLL AWAY FROM THE POST UNTIL I REFRESHED
IS ANYONE ELSE EXPERIENCING THIS??? WHAT THE HECK
tested it and got the same problem. this is bullshit, how the hell does this even become an issue
alright so PSA apparently now if you make a post on the tumblr app you can only edit it from the tumblr app.
basically, stop using the tumblr app if you ever want to edit your posts, ever! do you like to edit things? update them? want to correct facts you posted at a later time? want to correct a typo without deleting the post? does typing on a tiny screen hurt, so you would rather edit on desktop later? add tags? delete tags? all of these and more are now not possible on desktop if you make the initial post on the tumblr app for who knows why.
this extremely sucks as someone who is not always able to sit in front of a computer for health reasons, as most of my posts are initially made on mobile and then edited later on desktop. cool thanks! great
I just learned the hard way that even if you ONLY use the Browser version of Tumblr- if you reblog / reply to a post created by the app, and then try to edit your reply you’ll get the same error message.
I live in a deadzone, no smartphone service. I literally CANNOT use the app version to edit my reply / reblog. Since so many people use the app this has essentially crippled me against editing my replies to literally anything. I have to delete the reblog and write it over to make the slight edit. This is ridiculous.
My best guess?They’re doing this in order to get the people to use the app most of the time, instead of the desktop client. Why would they do that? Well, for one, the app contains ads that are much more difficult to block than those on desktop (you need at least a rooted phone and a specialized program like AdAway to be able to block in-app ads on Android, for example). Secondly, maintaining two codebases, one for the desktop site, one for the app, is likely something they want to do away with, particularly if they ever start implementing cost-cutting measures. Which, again, would mean them finding ways to shunt as much of the user-base to the app as possible, by making use of the desktop page more and more onerous.
Looking at the comments, it seems that someone else has made a similar point:
This is, yet again, another reason why groups such as fannish communities would be best served by finding alternative havens, preferably ones that respect desktop users and don’t knee-cap us just because ‘app development is where it’s now at.’
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