elisi | Lockdown Update Day 149

"This isn't the furture I expected", you type into the touch screen computer which never leaves your hand. LED signs on bustops warn you to wear a face mask, and recorded messages blare out from shops telling you to maintain a safe distance. It's 35°c in London. The year is 2020.
— John Reppion (@johnreppion) August 12, 2020

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Anyway, today was overcast and cool, thank you weather gods. Here, have two lovely threads (one from yesterday, one that's a little older):

Just spent the last 2 hours phone banking here in Texas. I called a grandmother. She’s 91. Black. She answered so sweet. I told her who I was, and asked if she was registered to vote for November. She said YES MAAM! I said, “wonderful. I hope we can expect your support...”
— Stephanie Clay 🐝 (@_StephanieClay) August 12, 2020

We need @JoeBiden. We need a mensch.

From Rabbi Michael Beals of Delaware :

"The story I’m about to share with you about Joe Biden is special -- in fact, I’m fairly certain I’m the only living person left who actually witnessed it firsthand.

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— Stanley Krute (@StanleyKrute) June 23, 2020

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And today's art: Helene Schmitz, contemporary Swedish photographer (x).

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Great Biden story. Liked this response in the comments:

"That was so beautiful Unlike Trump, who, when building his casino in New Jersey, fought an 80 year old widow to take her house away from her because her house was in the way of his parking lot. She won, so Trump built around her house and made the last years of her life a misery"

*nods a lot*

Also reminds me of a story I came across about Hillary - how she had shown up to... I think it was memorial or funeral for women who had been killed by their partners. There was no press. She didn't speak with anyone. She was just there.