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Mail in ballots have security features and a processing workflow that mirror that of in-person voting. Just about every mechanism that prevents you from showing up to vote in person multiple times or without being registered has an analog - sometimes a stronger one - in mail-in ballot processing.
The precise details vary from state to state and for different voters, but roughly:
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Gen-X to Gen-Z Translation Matrix
Meaning Gen-X Gen-Z
That’s cool Dope Bussin
Lame Bogus Cringe
I agree Word Facts
Nonsense Whatever Cap
True For real No cap
Impressive Tight Goes hard
Weird Sketchy Sus
Funny That’s rich I’m dead
Attractive Fine Baddie
Any others?
It's Maundy Thursday, so the perfect time to listen to St Johns Passion by #Bach. The opening is the Baroque equivalent of listening to Opeth in a world of The Monkees. https://youtu.be/zMf9XDQBAaI #Music
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Obsolete Sounds is the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds/
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horse magnifier. a game where you magnify horses. https://wer8888.itch.io/horse-magnifier (via @nothings)
The Local Government results are in for Surrey, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Hampshire.
#Essex splits into 5.
Existing unitary areas grow. #Southend adds Rochford and Castle Point. #Thurrock adds Basildon.
The rest splits into areas for Colchester, Harlow and Chelmsford (the previous seat of the county council).
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/03/local-government-reorganisation-update.html
Early to bed if you want the full 40 winks of sleep tonight. I assume people sleep at a rate of 5 winks per hour?
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Clocks go forward tonight in UK and Europe ⏰
Clocks go forward tonight in UK and Europe ⏰
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Unpopular opinion: Numbered streets can be wonderful. (An important consideration as US cities rename hundreds of streets named for César Chávez.) My take: https://humantransit.org/2026/03/the-joy-of-numbered-streets-or-call-it-39th-avenue.html
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To fully confirm that I am middle aged and live in a bungalow. I am very pleased to announce that my tea and coffee shelf is now organised.
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Final report on last year's Iberian blackout has been released, including this very interesting diagram showing the contributing factors
Lovely population density map: worldwide, accurate to a few kilometres, with an api for it, too!
https://tomforth.co.uk/densityisdone/ #maps
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Whoa: <https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html>
> What is now known as the Slug Algorithm for rendering fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU was developed in the Fall of 2016, so this year marks a full decade since its inception.
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> Therefore, effective today, I am permanently and irrevocably dedicating the Slug patent to the public domain.
Southend getting 750,000 litres of underground water storage (to avoid floods) https://www.southend.gov.uk/news/article/3503/750-000-litre-flood-defence-to-protect-southend-seafront-businesses-as-better-queensway-works-accelerate #Southend
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I just managed to make another watchface, this time (pun intended) it's always 11 AM, but the timezone changes every hour to where it's 11 AM in the world.
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The Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society https://improbable.com/2026/03/17/the-telephone-appreciation-society/
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Flightradar24 is doing a really good job of aviation/logistics documentaries these days.
@christianp yes, not really possible! Although I was expecting it to say "instruction manuals" which would've been less useful :)
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