CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION STATUS. You can usually do it at the website of your local secretary of state, or at Vote.org.
Anyone who follows me from Georgia? If not, pass it on.
sigh.. Actually, let me just add, THIS BULLSHIT RIGHT HERE, THIS IS WHY YOUR VOTE MATTERS. You think they’d be so hot to take away your rights if it didn’t?
If you can register to vote by mail DO SO!!! Not only does it give you more time to research your ballot options, it provides a paper trail, so you can PROVE how you voted, no matter how the Russian hackers massage the electronic numbers.
CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION STATUS. You can usually do it at the website of your local secretary of state, or at Vote.org.
Anyone who follows me from Georgia? If not, pass it on.
sigh.. Actually, let me just add, THIS BULLSHIT RIGHT HERE, THIS IS WHY YOUR VOTE MATTERS. You think they’d be so hot to take away your rights if it didn’t?
If you can register to vote by mail DO SO!!! Not only does it give you more time to research your ballot options, it provides a paper trail, so you can PROVE how you voted, no matter how the Russian hackers massage the electronic numbers.
-Join and create rallies and protests for causes you support.
-Join, donate and volunteer for political parties you support.
-Join, donate and volunteer for local groups who support causes you support.
-Share social media (twitter, tumblr, etc) in regards to causes you support.
-If you feel ambitious create a blog dedicated to any particular issue or for many of them (as I have done here).
-Encourage your friends and families to vote, and not to vote for particular political parties that you believe will perpetuate the bad things currently happening in Canada (i.e. Not Conservatives, and ideally not the Liberals either).
– Call or email or write to your representatives and tell them what you want them to do. Include your ZIP and/or address so they can confirm you’re their constituent (i.e. you live in their jurisdiction) or it’ll be junked.
Free Graphic Novels (DC, Marvel, Image, etc), Music, TV shows, and music on HOOPLA.
Free music that you can KEEP on FREEGAL
You are PAYING for all this with your tax money – USE THEM. Most likely systems will have all 3 or 2 out of 3, so if you aren’t sure call your local library’s reference/information desk and how you can get set-up or started.
Hey, highkey from a library worker:
Overdrive has a new mobile app called LIBBY I find it easier to use. It’s the same content as Overdrive just better for mobile. Overdrive and Libby both let you send items to your kindle as well.
Just downloaded Libby the other day as an upgrade from Overdrive and I can honestly say it is a DELIGHT. They even have an icon next to titles to give you an idea of how long you have to wait if it’s checked out – so you don’t get your heart set on something and then it’s like SURPRISE! 4 month waiting list! – AND a way to sort for only items that are currently available.
I’ve been devouring media for a solid week now and 2018 has been such a drought for me before this.
I remember being around 12 and 100% set on being a Marine. I’m not talking like a vague dream that I kinda had in the back of my head. I’m saying watching shit tons of YouTube videos about life in the Corps, about what to expect when applying, basic training, etc. Reading whatever I could to get prepared. Just reading general Marine shit. And thinking absolutely nonstop about it too. I even tried to get into better shape so I could pass the physical examinations.
I daydreamed about arriving on a bus to MCRD San Diego (where they train all recruits from west of the Mississippi) and being given my first orders as a Marine recruit. I daydreamed of acing my physicals, of getting on the good sides of my instructors with my discipline and behavior, of shooting my rifle in the range for the first time. I dreamed of working at a base with guys I’d consider my best buds and that would be my new life. No more social isolation, no more abuse, no more poverty, no more Depression. Just me enjoying the life of a fully trained Marine, protecting the people and forging lifelong friendships with my comrades.
That’s what appealed to me the most. I would escape everything and I wouldn’t be this miserable, worthless poor kid. I’d be a Marine. And even when those specific dreams died away, they were merely replaced with different dreams of joining the military throughout much of my teenage years. I just thought that’s where I could belonging, discipline and a purpose in life.
All I’m saying is it deeply hurts seeing militaries not just in America but around the world capitalize on these feelings to lure desperate and impoverished teens into their ranks. Seeing that British military ad, a few soldiers huddled together with “THIS IS BELONGING” written in the center and knowing that it was deliberately targeted at teenagers stressed out with school
Just
Hurts
when I was 16, I was waiting outside GameStop right before midnight for the release of a new game. a second game was apparently being released at midnight as well – a military game, a black ops or battlefield or wtf ever. right outside the entrance to the GameStop was, and get this –
a military recruitment tent.
in my high school, in the commons area where the students hung out in the morning before class, the military had set up a pull-up bar dead in center of the room with a huge whiteboard keeping score of who had the most pull-ups. next to it, a table to sign up for JROTC.
the military preys on kids, preys on their desire to belong, to accomplish. never forget how fucking insidious the military is to its core.
They’ve been doing it for a long time. My grandfather joined the Navy to get out of the coal mines. It was ‘join the Navy’ or ‘go into the mines’ and family lore says he threatened his dad to get his dad to sign the form so he could go in at 17.
That was 1936.
I think the only time I’ve seen military recruiters at school was at college job fairs. I don’t even think they sent people when universities and colleges sent recruiters to show off the schools. I saw the occasional student in uniform but those were fellow students who’d enlisted or kids who were in cadets. I’m sure it happens in Canada but I’ve never seen it in my old high school and I’m glad because.
That’s just your arm! The Cluster won’t look anything like that!
ARE! YOU! KIDDING! ME!
feralphoenix’s tags also pointed out:
i was too lazy to go get screencaps so thank u for sourcing the brick joke
Everything that happens in this series is foreshadowing for something, I’m still waiting for Steven to defeat a giant foot by slamming his face into a bowl of cereal
Check the Cookie Cat lyrics in the very first episode
EVERYTHING MEANS SOMETHING O.O
I swear when this show is over, my boyfriend and I are watching the whole series over again so we can pick up on foreshadowing.
The clip shows a heart-shaped gem spinning while some music sets the mood.Images of Steven, Amethyst, Pearl and Garnet are visible within the gem as it turns.But as the melody crackles away into ominous laughter, the gem turns to reveal the silhouette of a mysterious smiling character who appears to have a gem high on her chest.
No additional details were revealed about the movie, other that it is “coming soon to Cartoon Network.”
!!!!!!!!!!
My boyfriend told me about this today and I am SO EXCITED.
Basically, if you download the app and use a coupon, you can get a free medium fries once every Friday, as long as you buy at least $1 worth of other stuff.
IIRC, their drinks are $1, so that’s a drink and fries for $1. They also have a dollar menu. I’m sure this will help out a lot of folks.
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