The headline:

That's a name which probably isn't familiar to those outside the States, along with a number of those who live here. It may take a few minutes for you to catch up. And once you come to know him, there's a very good chance that you won't exactly like him. Not liking him is sort of a bipartisan thing.

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This isn't a pleasant story. In telling the group about what happened through the medium of this blog, I'm hoping to make a few people think. Passing on the details of events -- or rather, mostly doing so. Because in writing this, I'm not going to include any names. Not just yet, anyway. Those who want an ID on the self-assigned 'victim' of the tale are welcome to come into the chat server, and we'll be happy to fill you in. (Not that the primary online ID may still be good -- but if you

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The questions you ask yourself on Kickstarter...

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...I've been struggling to find words for most of the day.

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Every so often, logging in to my Patreon account will generate a popup: this is generally the site trying to tell me about a new feature. In this case, I've been given the ability to write posts which only members on the 'Free' tier would see. As discussed in an earlier blog, anyone can join without actually making a pledge, and it gives them the ability to -- read certain posts. So now I can put up things just for the free members, and

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Just a little 5.2 (or so) Richter. My entire building swayed for several seconds, and I had one item fall off a shelf. Other than abruptly-spiked stress levels which don't want to go down again, that's it.

...it's not as if I haven't dealt with this before. I used to live on a volcano. Having the local landscape play Vibro-Massage with the world was quasi-normal. But I don't expect to go through it here.

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In the present, I haven't been having a good couple of days.

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I promised a transparent vote. As such, I took screenshots of the Google Surveys results. However, those images are currently being hosted by the chat server, and nothing else. Those links have a nasty tendency to break, and I may have to replace them several times.

...I swear this isn't stalling.

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Final notice: you can vote through midnight Eastern Standard Time today, aka 'March 8th'. After that, the polls close.

As of this writing, there are 116 ballots in. Last year's total was 125, and I'd really like to beat that. (I really wanted to see a 10% voter turnout as compared to my follower count, but... dreams.) And if you don't make your voice vote-heard now, then you don't get to complain about the results after.

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I'm reposting this because the original intent was to have this blog visible from the userpage until one day before voting deadline: at that point, I was going to put up a One Day Left To Vote blog entry. Apologies for the extra notification.

As of this writing, there are ninety-nine ballots in. I'd like to beat last year's total, which was 125. Two hundred is the dream.

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