The silly season has already started? For those interested, I’ll hide this election tracker here early for now. It’s a homework in progress. I’ve added incumbents (using 2021 polling data) and a timeline. Hopefully I didn’t make or copy too many mistakes…

After powering through years of local news, I’m no longer clueless and if there’s one thing that’s legendarily accurate, it’s letters to the editors in printed papers. Once 2026 polling data is finalized, I’ll make myself extra rare while pouring a nice cup of hot tea.

Red fox standing in snowfall, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (© Radomir Jakubowski/naturepl.com)

Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park, California (© Jorge Villalba/Getty Images)

The Dragon’s Eye rock formation at Uttakleiv Beach, Norway (© reisegraf/Getty Images)

Przewalski’s horses (© Nemyrivskyi Viacheslav/Getty Images)

Red lanterns celebrating Chinese New Year (© Gins Wang/Getty Images)

Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC (© Westend61/Getty Images)

Humpback whales in Monterey Bay, California (© Kiliii Fish/Cavan Images)

Bleeding hearts (© Dorene Hookey/Cavan Images)

It’s Friday the 13th and I’ve just been lorem ipsum’d in the face. I’ve always preferred the textual rickroll while researching (quick & painless gotcha). Since 2023, I’ve mostly stopped reading articles.

The time saving trick now is to look at title dissimilarities and speed-read lightly. The new lorem ipsum is a thick labyrinth of maze like semantics that looks amazing, says nothing and something, and may violate the simpler laws of physics.

There are mistakes in places where they shouldn’t be and unfortunately I can’t play industrial scale spot the difference.