Stuff by Bec

Man, I love glitch Pokemon

She (?) looks like this

and, at 80 feet and 3 inches, is tied with another glitch Pokemon for tallest of all Pokemon.

In the just released EIP report, North Carolina’s overall electoral integrity score of 58/100 for the 2016 election places us alongside authoritarian states and pseudo-democracies like Cuba, Indonesia and Sierra Leone. If it were a nation state, North Carolina would rank right in the middle of the global league table – a deeply flawed, partly free democracy that is only slightly ahead of the failed democracies that constitute much of the developing world.

Indeed, North Carolina does so poorly on the measures of legal framework and voter registration, that on those indicators we rank alongside Iran and Venezuela. When it comes to the integrity of the voting district boundaries no country has ever received as low a score as the 7/100 North Carolina received. North Carolina is not only the worst state in the USA for unfair districting but the worst entity in the world ever analyzed by the Electoral Integrity Project.

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And by “cisgender heteroromantic heterosexual” I mean ALL THREE of those things.

Are you a trans (binary or nonbinary) person who is heteroromantic heterosexual? You belong in the LGBTA+ community.

Are you a cis person who is heteroromantic asexual? You belong.

Are you a cis person who is heterosexual aromantic? You belong.

Are you a cis bisexual who is currently dating a member of another gender? You belong.

Vera Rubin died on Sunday. She was one of our most important astronomers and was the first person to discover evidence of dark matter

The science community pushed for Rubin to get a Nobel Prize, hoping she’d break a more than 50-year streak without a female winner, according to The Washington Post. One supporter of this movement, University of Washington astronomer Emily Levesque, told Astronomy.com that “the existence of dark matter has utterly revolutionized our concept of the universe and our entire field; the ongoing effort to understand the role of dark matter has basically spawned entire subfields within astrophysics and particle physics at this point.”

and my personal favorite

It’s very easy to make people desensitised to words. It’s easy to turn them into ‘umbrella’ terms, or the ‘word of the week’, all because your hyperbole and exaggeration is important to you in making a point, but … all it does is make people automatically switch off and stop listening when they hear that word.

I was just scrolling through the news, saw an article about your favourite p-word, and my first thought wasn’t “oh god, that’s awful”, but: “huh, is this just an attraction, or some age difference, or something blown out of proportion, or some -”

Like, you guys have turned the word into something it’s not … I’m so used to it being applied to adults, or age gaps, or just thrown around as an insult, that when I saw it in another context it generally took me a moment to realise that it was in reference to actual abuse and actual people were harmed. I nearly scrolled past, because - at first - it was like ‘not this crap again’.

So - yeah - keep throwing around words without meaning …