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OH Senate votes to shorten mail-in ballot return window; OR officials will not conduct criminal investigation of errantly registered voters who cast ballots; Schwarzenegger, others urge Supreme Court to hear ND's Native American voting rights case: electionline.org/news/2025/11...

40 years ago, I was thoroughly enjoying Epyx' brilliant multi-event cold-climate sports spectacular, Winter Games. It continued the series' tradition of unusual but very entertaining events, all articulated via absolutely top-tier audiovisuals, and all extremely fun to play.

I think people from the @TEIConsortium or @adho.org would help us enormously if they found the time to intervene here and describe use cases from our field for a modern XSLT in the browser: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11578

#balisage Shiela Thomson Encore Presentation: From iXML to XSpec (originally given at Markup UK)

#balisage Is Invisible XML Ready for Undergraduates? Trying iXML and XProc on a Music Analysis Project in an Undergraduate Text Analysis Course—Michael Simons, Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/html/Beshero-Bondar01/BalisageVol30-Beshero-Bondar01.html

Attn Election 🤓🤓! NIST recently published “Implementation Guidance for Common Data Formats”. The CDFs support the VVSG goals for interoperable election systems and this guide ("missing manual"?) dives deep into implementing NIST’s CDFs. Read, share, and reach out! turnout.rocks/our-blog/nis...

Thursday mood www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Eun...

FUTURE COMPUTERS? (Source.)

RECURSIVE PANDA (Source.)

Ruby is an odd mix: high level but primitive, familiar but strange.

Soft rock is wailing guitars put real low in the mix

Windows 11 is the buggiest, least reliable version since at least ME.

And while it is too early to talk about 2025, I think interoperability will be a major theme! Interoperability with what and how? Let me know your guesses!

Thursday's Mood music.youtube.com/watch?v=-1cJ...

Thursday mood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjUw...

election worker: any person who interacts with those coming to vote. This includes any poll worker, election day worker, early voting worker, or other temporary staff engaged in supporting the voting or vote counting process. #ElectionTermOfTheDay #ElectionGeeks pages.nist.gov/ElectionGlos...

vote-by-mail: method of voting by which eligible voters are mailed ballots and information packets by the local jurisdiction. Voters may be able to return their marked ballots by mail, bring them to an election office, or drop them off in secure drop boxes. pages.nist.gov/ElectionGlos...

Tuesday mood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG17...

absentee voting: voting that can occur unsupervised at a location chosen by the voter either before or on election day. #ElectionTermOfTheDay #ElectionGeeks pages.nist.gov/ElectionGlos...

Good morning to all the psychadelic data cats out there!

election day: the last day on which voters may cast a ballot. Absentee votes and early votes may be cast in advance of election day. #ElectionTermOfTheDay #ElectionGeeks pages.nist.gov/ElectionGlos...

special election: primary or general election that is not regularly scheduled. A special election may be combined with a scheduled election. #ElectionTermOfTheDay #ElectionGeeks pages.nist.gov/ElectionGlos...

presidential primary election: Primary election in which voters choose the delegates to the presidential nominating conventions allotted to their states by the national party committees. #ElectionTermOfTheDay #ElectionGeeks pages.nist.gov/ElectionGlos...

If video games have taught me anything, this cat has a side quest to offer me.

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primary election: Election held to determine which candidates qualify to appear as contest options in subsequent elections. #ElectionTermOfTheDay #ElectionGeeks pages.nist.gov/ElectionGlos...

general election: election in which all eligible voters, regardless of party affiliation, are permitted to select candidates to fill public office and/or vote on ballot measures. #ElectionTermOfTheDay #ElectionGeeks pages.nist.gov/ElectionGlos...

Monday mood www.youtube.com/watch?v=hph8...

#ME is Wikipedia’s main page feature today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.🎅

election: A formal process in which qualified voters select candidates to fill seats in one or more offices and/or vote on one or more proposed ballot measures. #ElectionTermOfTheDay #ElectionGeeks pages.nist.gov/ElectionGlos...

If the FTP protocol hasn't been updated in 30+ years, why does FileZilla request to be updated every 5 days?

"I don't sleep, I just dream"

In the 'Make it Make Sense' category. ME/CFS prevalence increases dramatically (and tragically) post-2020. NIH funding for ME/CFS research following FY 2021 decreases from ~$17M/year to $13M/year. Mind-numbing & head-scratching

street segment data: The portion of a street between two consecutive cross streets that can be assigned to a precinct. #ElectionTermOfTheDay pages.nist.gov/ElectionGlos...

They wanted to make the world's best video game. They made the world's best selling computer.

Alaska chooses to keep ranked choice voting; Tennessee to count provisional ballots by people convicted of felonies who had rights in limbo; Mississippians ask U.S. Supreme court to strike state’s Jim Crow-era felony voting ban: electionline.org/news/2024/11...

precinct split: a subdivision of a precinct which arises when a precinct is split by two or more election districts that may require different ballot styles. #ElectionTermOfTheDay #ElectionGeeks

Day 98 - Realizing no outside help is coming, you hit the online forums hard to see if anyone has found a way to improve. The answer is yes, and no, but mostly maybe, kind of, a little, I guess. Undaunted, you try one thing, then another. But not the hook worms. That's just weird. #LC #LongCOVID

polling place: location at which voters may cast in-person ballots under the supervision of election workers during one or more specific time periods. #ElectionTermOfTheDay

Tuesday mood music.youtube.com/watch?v=18EH...

election district: administrative area in which voters are entitled to vote in contests that are specific to that area. #ElectionTermOfTheDay

I’m introducing something new to your feed. Every day I’ll post a different #ElectionTermOfTheDay, from the NIST Election Glossary. Let’s learn about elections together!

The Evening Sentinel, Stoke, England. 17th November 1990. "An illness which presents a major threat to world health and economy is not being adequately researched" - thirty-four years ago today. #myalgicencephalomyelitis #cfsme #myalgice #mecfs

And another one

I have started a Starter Pack for ME and Long COVID. 💙 It includes some mutuals with other packs but also some new faces too. :) Please let me know if you want to be added. I know I still have about a million wonderful people to add. 💙 go.bsky.app/6R7bqc7