Crystal

You are correct that a majority of white women voted for Trump. This sucks. White women specifically can and should do better. I agree!

But the fact that you responded to my post about how a lot of effective political organizers are middle aged women with stats about the voting choices of middle aged women indicates that you might be a little bit confused. I'm not claiming that every single middle aged woman in the world is involved in political organizing or that every single middle aged woman in the world supports progressive causes. That would be stupid. Middle aged women are people, and therefore they are capable of having opinions across the entirety of the political spectrum.

I'm claiming that the political work women do is not recognized like it should be--that your mental picture of an "activist" should be an older woman because that's who fucking shows up to events and calls people and canvasses and makes sure the voter registration database is accurate. You know who doesn't show up? Young people. You know who really really doesn't show up? People who brag about not voting on the internet.

Poor robot

The Swedish warship Vasa. It sank in 1628 less than a mile into its maiden voyage and was recovered from the sea floor after 333 years almost completely intact. Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, is the world's best preserved 17th century ship

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

but holy shit