Nicole M. Wolverton

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👻 Recreational fear habitué & (mostly) #HorrorWriter | HWA | #CreativeNonFiction dabbler | Pushcart-nominated, with #ShortStories published with dozens of anthologies, lit mags, & podcasts | #author, The Trajectory of Dreams (Bitingduck Press) | #editor, Bodies Full of Burning anthology (Sliced Up Press)

🎓 PT #academic | 💥Elections security enthusiast | 🌊

🌍✈️ | next up: Basel, Switzerland

Hey, #Philly, hey | she/her | #dragonboating

Author Websitewww.nicolewolverton.com
Travel Blogwww.prettyasanairport.com
Nicole M. WolvertonNov 7, 2022

On nights when I don't #sleep, or I don't sleep well, I always wonder if maybe I AM actually sleeping-- but dreaming that I have. #insomnia, and I'm too neurologically damaged from #COVID2019 to tell.

#LongCovidisReal

Nicole M. WolvertonNov 7, 2022
Flying Yogini Nov 7, 2022

RT @[email protected]

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1589021659289239553

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Molly WhiteNov 6, 2022
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Bathsheba BlueNov 7, 2022

Every vote counts in crucial Pennsylvania and the Monroe County Democrats need help getting ballots cured, and mail in ballots turned in.

Even out of state volunteers can make calls to remind voters.

Please help if you can and share.

https://twitter.com/monroepadems/status/1589399677757452290?s=12&t=uerdtGKHSwEjJ-ko-T2N0A

Monroe County PA Democratic Party on Twitter

“🚨 URGENT!!! WE NEED HELP!!!🚨 🧵 The GOP have filed a lawsuit to stop the Monroe County Elections Office from contacting voters who submitted incomplete mail-in/absentee ballots to fix or ‘cure’ them. THESE ARE DEMOCRATIC VOTES THAT WILL NOT BE COUNTED IF NOT CURED!!!…”

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Nicole M. WolvertonNov 7, 2022

For the past year+, I've been using #Duolingo to keep my basic French and Spanish #language skills up, as well as to learn Italian. In anticipation of this potential Basel, Switzerland trip next month, I'm trying to learn some German (since Duolingo does not offer the local Swiss German dialect).

It's not going well. Not sure why, but I'm having the worst time with vocabulary. I can be polite & order a beer, but that's about it so far.

Nicole M. WolvertonNov 7, 2022
Jay o' the SeaNov 7, 2022
I don't use a screen reader, but it's a habit to check images before descriptions before boosting, and please... describe your images. ​ If there's any reason you can't, a lot of instances have a dedicated emoji to ask others for help; you could follow @PleaseCaption which will tell you if you upload a captionless post; or you can simply add a note like "image description help welcome" in your post, and it's very likely someone will help you. It's an important part of using Mastodon.
Nicole M. WolvertonNov 7, 2022
a.a. de levineNov 7, 2022
if you feel like reading a little #shortstory about #aliens, #dogs, and a #crunchwrapsupreme, i have just the thing for you: here's my story, "vicky," published in taco bell quarterly. 👽 🌮 and if you don't feel like reading about any of that... then idk what to tell you, i'm sorry. https://tacobellquarterly.org/vicky/
Vicky

Taco Bell Quarterly
Nicole M. WolvertonNov 6, 2022
The laziness burns! I bought a pack of pre-sliced stir-fry veg and a roasted chicken from the supermarket, and I'm feeling the short-cut guilt. I mean, at least I made my own stir-fry sauce.
#CookingFromHome
Nicole M. WolvertonNov 6, 2022
Apparently the RNC has filled 6,000 poll watcher positions in #Pennsylvania this year, compared with 1,000 in 2020. Luckily, poll watchers can only function in counties where they live--which means I may have to be more strict re: checking poll watcher ID this year. I'd be curious to see a heat map of where these trained poll watchers reside--I'm guess it's a preponderance of rural counties.
Nicole M. WolvertonNov 6, 2022

Except for packing my #ElectionDay backpack full of bandaids, Sharpies, and extra pens, reading glasses, tape, etc, I'm ready. I just finished finalizing #PollWorker assignments & making up the little flag labels I use on paperwork to keep me organized.

The only thing left to do is review #Pennsylvania #PollWatcher rules so I'm confident about what they're allowed to do in my precinct.

I can't wait until it's all over!