91% of the prisoners in Ohio are in Republican districts: they aren’t allowed to vote, but they are
counted in the census, creating winnable districts with tiny voting
populations that would otherwise be included with large groups of nearby
Democratic voters.
It’s a little-understood bit of gerrymandering beyond the usual packing and cracking tactics – more like the early 18th century English rotten boroughs, abolished in 1832.
A conversation on the fluidity of terms, and how to understand and have a productive conversation with a shifting generational gap in trans terminology.
The easiest way to deal with this is the same as the easiest way to approach all the newer labels and identities:
he and a couple other neighborhood cats were caught fighting a couple nights ago and someone picked them up and took them to the shelter, it doesn’t open until 11 so i can’t go get him yet
😑 costs 15 dollars to get a pet out of the shelter even though they’ve already inconvenienced me enough by kidnapping my son
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My dog got arrested on a drug bust once. Literally the police called and said “We have your dog.”
Why did they take your dog?
Okay well, in our neighborhood, dogs just sort of… ran all over the place. There were my family’s two dogs and a few neighbor dogs that just kind of ran around. Everyone was fine with it. All the dogs were harmless and super friendly, and there was just an unspoken agreement that you didn’t call animal control on them.
Now, the thing you have to know is that the dog in this story, is kind of… a little different. She’s just smart enough to get herself into trouble, but too dumb to get herself out of it. She and her “sister” would get into the garbage, and the other dog would run and hide to avoid getting punished, and she’d run right up to you and just hope you didn’t notice the mess she made.
So one day, my genius dog is out running around, and we don’t think anything of it until we get the phone call. It’s the local cops, and they have our dog.
Now, my mother, who got the call, was very confused about why the police had our dog, instead of Animal Control. Well, it turns out there had been a drug bust in a nearby neighborhood, and somehow my dog had made it all the way over there. And as a result of this, we have to explain that no, we’re not part of the… drug ring or whatever. No, we don’t know the people in the house. No, we don’t know what happened, our dog just gets out sometimes can we please have her back. Eventually we manage to convince them, and my mother goes to pick her up, joking about how either the dog or my family would be in the Police Beat section of the newspaper the next day.
And that’s the story of how my dog got a criminal record.
(For the record, she’s like thirteen now and still getting in trouble. She lives with my mom, who just moved, and like a week and a half ago, got out of her new backyard. And I had to go pick her up from the pound. I want to be that kind of old person–committing crimes and getting picked up by the police when I’m too old to hear anything anymore. 😂)
Press release by the Center for Biological Diversity:
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Kelly Susewind today issued a new order authorizing the killing of the last two remaining wolves of the Old Profanity Territory pack in Ferry County. The targeted wolves are likely the pack’s last pup and its breeding male.
The decision to kill wolves was made despite the fact that the cattle involved in a recent livestock predation were on a public lands grazing allotment past Oct. 15, when the rancher was legally required to remove his cattle. Additionally, calves with prior injuries were not removed from the field to avoid drawing in wolves or other predators.
Since 2012 the state has killed 21 state-endangered wolves, 17 of which were killed for the same livestock owner. That rancher is a vocal opponent of wolf recovery who has historically refused to implement meaningful nonlethal measures designed to protect his livestock from wolves.
The state killed two members of the Old Profanity Territory pack this summer for the same livestock owner, shooting a five-month-old pup and then the pup’s mother. Cattle were drawn to a salt block near the pack’s rendezvous site, but the salt block was not removed. And though the agency recommended moving cattle out of the area, many still remain.
In early October multiple calves were found with two-week-old injuries from wolves; these injured animals had been left on the range, even though it is well known that injured animals draw predators.
The latest predation was found Oct. 23, eight days past the date the cattle were required by the terms of the grazing permit to be removed. As of today the state wildlife department reports that 20 to 35 cow-calf pairs still remain onsite.
“Washington residents are fed up with wolf-management policies that reward livestock owners for irresponsible business practices,” said Weiss. “The wildlife department’s mission is to preserve and protect the state’s wildlife, not slaughter endangered wolves to keep the livestock industry happy.”
Don’t waste your time trying to correct someone who constantly misunderstands you on purpose. They want you to go in circles and get angry from trying to correct them.
People who do that to you aren’t worth the time or the effort. Let them think what they want. It’s not your problem.
Save your energy for more important things. The people misunderstanding you on purpose will look silly in the end.
On this day in music history: November 1, 1974 – “Autobahn”, the fourth album by Kraftwerk is released. Produced by Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider and Conny Plank, it is recorded at Conny Plank’s Studio in Cologne, Germany and Klingklang Studio in Dusseldorf, Germany in Spring – Summer 1974. Releasing three albums between 1970 and 1973, by the mid 70’s Kraftwerk begin making the transition away from the free-form progressive rock sound of their earlier work, toward a new musical direction. Led by founding members Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider, by 1974 the band also includes Klaus Röder (violin, guitar) and Wolfgang Flür (percussion). Another key element to Kraftwerk’s sound is recording engineer Konrad “Conny” Plank, who offers valuable technical assistance and helps the band’s work to evolve in the studio. They use numerous synthesizers on the new album including the Minimoog, ARP Odyssey, EMS Synthi AKS, as well as their own custom built keyboards and drum machines. “Autobahn” is created as a concept album about traveling on the controlled-access highway system on the A 555 from Köln to Bonn in Germany. It is broken up into five separate “movements” including the twenty two minute plus side long title track (#22 Pop) subtitled “Motorway”. The album’s cover artwork is designed by Emil Schult, who also co-writes the lyrics to “Autobahn” and is an erstwhile member of the band. The international and US covers of the album differ, with the international version featuring the blue and white German road sign. The US version features a painting of a drivers side view of driving down the autobahn, with small photo of the four members of Kraftwerk placed on the car dashboard. The back cover features the band’s heads superimposed into a painting of them sitting in the backseat of the car. “Autobahn” proves to be Kraftwerk’s breakthrough album on worldwide basis, and becomes a surprise hit in the US. Released by Mercury/Philips subsidiary Vertigo Records, the title track pared down to a three and a half minute single for radio play, and it takes off. The album becomes a huge seller and brings the band a new audience beyond their original cult following. In time, “Autobahn” is regarded as a pioneering and influential electronic music album, paving the way for the even more groundbreaking and highly innovative work Kraftwerk creates throughout the rest of the 70’s and beyond. Originally released on CD in 1988, the album is remastered and reissued in 2009 as both a stand alone release, and as part of the box set “The Catalogue” (German language version “Der Katalog”). Out of print on vinyl for decades, it is finally remastered and reissued as a 180 gram LP in 2014. “Autobahn” peaks at number five on the Billboard Top 200.
If you are a patron of my patreon, you can now read the opening sequence to Phangs! Chapters 2 and 3 will also be coming soon in anticipation of book launch.
For those of you who moved over to ko-fi, I’ll be posting over there too, and if you are someone who previously pledged but had to unsubscribe, drop me an email at info@joydemorra.com with your patreon email, and I’ll send you the files.
I really, really, really hope you enjoy reading the opening of the book. I’ve been scared witless the whole day in anticipation of this, but here we go!
Reblog for the daylight people!
Ko-fi is being ridiculous but y’all over there can expect a download link to appear tonight ❤
This made me so happy last night!
You have no idea what a relief that is to hear haha, I didn’t even get to enjoy Halloween last night I was so anxious knowing I was about to do this. Just white knuckled gripping my keyboard wondering if it was too late to change my name, flee to the Canadian wilds and live out the rest of my days as a hermit.
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