Wow they sent out postcards to the Democrats that told them to vote on the 3rd when the election is on the 2nd and they sent out messages to the Republican voters and said they were being tracked on their voting record... This is in the Tennessee race and it's absolutely abominable
The people of Tennessee's seventh district have a chance to send a message to the Republican Party by voting for Afton Bayne in the special election tomorrow.
Well, another day, nothing specific on my plans for #today a bit more cleaning and straightening, clearing some snow, chipping away at this house. Need to find somewhere in #stl to donate clothing, its one of the three big clearing projects here, books and comics being the other two. Yes, I should be working, but if'n you saw our weather on the news, you can guess why I'm not.
Victoria will become the first Australian state to ban unnecessary surgeries on intersex children, with legislation to be introduced to parliament to ensure procedures are deferred until patients are old enough to consent to them.
The health minister, Mary-Anne Thomas, will on Tuesday introduce the health safeguards for people born with variations in sex characteristics bill, which if passed would prohibit deferrable, irreversible procedures and treatments on intersex infants and children until they can provide informed consent.
Intersex people are born with variations in sex characteristics – such as reproductive organs, chromosomes or hormones – that do not fit typical definitions of male or female.
Thomas said the reform – first committed to in 2021 – gives intersex people agency over their own bodies. She said it follows instances where people born with variations in sex characteristics have experienced harm and trauma through inappropriate and unnecessary medical interventions.
“Every person deserves the right to make decisions about their own body, with respect, dignity and safety at the heart of the care they receive,” Thomas said.
“This is an important step forward for people born with variations in sex characteristics and their families – who for too long have not had the fair and proper legal recognition of their rights.”
Polish president cancels meeting with Orban after #Hungarian leader's trip to Moscow
"President #Nawrocki decided to limit the program of his visit to #Hungary exclusively to the summit of the presidents of the #Visegrad Group," Marcin Przydacz, head of the international policy office of the #Polish presidency, said
"Europe's #security depends on #solidarity action, including in the field of energy," Przydacz wrote, while referring to #Orban's trip to #Moscow.
Remember when you thought age verification laws couldn’t get any worse? Well, lawmakers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and beyond are about to blow you away. It’s unfo…
Opinion. During last year’s Idaho election, a Republican state senator lost his composure when a candidate forum turned to the topic of racism. About The AuthorAuthor: Levi RickertEmail: This email address is being protected from spambots.
Two weeks since my last post, and... Well, not much going on here. Little of this, little of that. Lets see, 18th I met with the lawyer to wrap up the estate, Vik hadn't planned on going so soon, somewhat surprising after losing his mom a few years, but then there are really two ways to react to that, plan for your time, or try not to think about it. Guess which one he did? Yeah, bunch of accounts don't have a beneficiary, so the lawyer is working on that including subpoenaing companies for the amounts as they're not particularly interested in giving it out to a non-account holder. Well, should be, I haven't heard from them since that meeting, and I do need to pay a retainer and such before they can do anything, so going to have to check in with them. Thanksgiving was a big nothing, his family which I don't know all that well is 150 or so miles away. I had been thinking of wandering around eastern IL along I70 near to the Indiana border as its possibly where I'll relocate to, but just didn't feel like it in the end, which was prolly good considering the storm that hit today. Instead I've been doing various things around the house, packing up the books my sister wants from Vik's collection, ditto for the comics @RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist wants, though those will likely get repacked into smaller flat rate boxes, as you're not supposed to ship comics Media Mail. Also moved the altar to the book case the living room TV'd been on, I moved the TV, the unfinished media computer and the power station or whatever you call it into the computer room.
A little cramped compared to the table, but it'll do for now, after all, long term I expect to get rid of that book case as well as some of the others, so it'll be re-located to a semi-permanent home, permanent until I move then.
What else... Cancelled the WalMart+ membership, not out of any belief of striking back at them or anything, its just that now its me as both Vik and the roomy's cat passed, it just doesn't seem worth it, I get very use out of it, the only thing of value in there is the Parmount+ membership, and that's cheaper than the W+ membership. Sure, W+ offers an electric car charging discount, much like they do for fuel, however that's only for Walmart charging, and that's only in like half a dozen states right now, who knows when it'll get here, plus I mostly charge at home. Ordering a Boox Go7 tablet/e reader tonight, its basically an Android tablet with an e-ink screen, which should work for most of what I use my tablet for. Oddly I can order it direct cheaper than I can get it from WalMart.
Oh, did a small project on T-day, removed the shower doors as I've never been a fan of them. Oddly, I tossed them up on Marketplace for shits and giggles, a set of shower doors, tracks and hardware, dirty but complete free... And they were taken less than 6 hours later. Didn't think anyone wanted them any more, colour me shocked.
Kinda chipping away at various little projects, debating how I want to handle the books and comics, prolly contact Half-Price Books for the former, I have a CSV file with all of them, as for the comics... Not sure, have a store that's supposed to be buying them, but I'll prolly be old and grey by the time they make an offer, so I might just throw the collection on Marketplace at a flat price and see what I get, 10,500 comics with a few graphic novels for... $7K maybe? I think that's a very generous price, prolly higher than a store would give me, but still quite reasonable.
Beyond that, gotta get my insurance situation sorted out, and that's about it other than chipping away at the estate.
The CFIA has recalled Your Fresh Market broccoli florets in six provinces due to possible Salmonella contamination, urging consumers not to eat or distribute the product.
So, y'all might remember that I arbitrarily decided that March was cover song month, and posted a song a day.
Well, I had so much fun I decided next year was going to be a repeat, so I started collecting songs, and ... Well, I have enough for next month, and 9 so far for 2027. Amazingly enough, no repeats, and no violating the rules, must be a released song, can't be a comedy band.
#Ukraine struck the #Saratov #oil #refinery, a facility that produces more than 20 petroleum products and supplies the #Russian army. The strike sparked a fire at the site, though the full extent of the damage is still being assessed, according to the report.
#Ukrainian forces have repeatedly targeted the refinery in Saratov Oblast this fall, with the previous strike recorded on Nov. 14. The latest Nov. 28 attack is the fifth since the start of the season.
@John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺 Thanks, I struggle with describing pics and putting pics into words, but haven't found a solution here, I used to use AltBot, but it got so glitchy that I gave up on it
You're welcome! I also struggle while writing descriptions, though I think I get better through making the effort. I'm able to use Google Lens for quick text recognition, so I try to help with it where I can.
Oh joy, it snowed. Meh, pup doesn't like snow, thank you very much. Going to be watching Ryan Hall for a bit this morn ( youtube.com/live/Z0YWlul2v90 ), and do stuff around the house, we are so not going out in this, especially as its still coming down
Its that kind of morning, woke up around 0330 to use the bathroom, and didn't fall back to sleep until after 0600, in and out of sleep until getting up near 0900. Going to be a long day me thinks, that or there's going to be a lot of coffee and at least one nap.
Airbus said a recent incident involving an A320-family aircraft had revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.
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