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Advice on old physical records (reddthat.com)
 

My grandma passed years ago, I now possess some of the odds and ends no one in the family has strong enough attachment to hold on to.

There are a few things I suspect might be of historical value to some folks. Like high school yearbooks; I've reached out to her high school to see if they need a physical copy. Other than that, any advice for where to search for interested parties? Geneology hobbyists? Universities doing anthropology research? I'm willing to put in a few attempts. After a couple attempts and "noes", I'm fine trashing the stuff.

Yearbooks, government records, teachers license, to the more personal, diaries, photographs that I have less expectation of finding someone interested in them.

Any advice on where to search, fellow lemmies? I am US-based.

Edit: thanks, I'll def add local museums, libraries, and historical societies to the list. Anyone with any geneology hobby experience? What little I've been exposed to them, they're absolute sleuths, I just don't know ways to find contacts other than cold calling a random individual. I'm assuming if they do organize, it's more online since searches for local chapters of some sort hasn't gotten me anywhere yet.

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Interesting data visualization from elections (reddthat.com)
submitted 3 days ago by to c/iowa
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One of my faves I've seen tonight, it tells a lot of info with a simple, easy to read graphic. It doesn't hurt that I like the data too and not just the visualization.

Geographic map of Iowa, counties outlined with vector lines showing whether a county has shifted Democrat (blue vector points left) or Republican (red vector points right). The length of the vector indicates how much the county has shifted.

Source, snapshot taken at 10pm Central on 11/3/2026: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-elections/iowa-governor-results

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TIL about Canadian (and other Commonwealth) poppy pins (en.wikipedia.org)
 

I am watching CBC's coverage of the US mid-term elections because they're slightly less annoying than CNN/C-SPAN/Fox/ABC/etc. All the Canadian News people are wearing poppy pins, which led me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole on how the poppy flower is a symbol for remembering military service members. It dates back to a WWI era poem, and also inspired France to do create a similar bleuet de France.

It also led me to this 2015 article in which some Canadians considered it "defacing" the symbol to use a safer pin design than an inches long stick pin. I'm just glad USians aren't the only that get mouth-frothing stupid about arbitrary symbols. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/remembrance-day-poppy-pin-that-won-t-fall-off-1.3311799

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Where to go and what to know to vote early in the Nov. 3 election (littlevillagemag.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by to c/iowa
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Early voting in the Nov. 3 election is now underway. County auditors’ offices have started mailing out absentee ballots requested by voters and are opening their doors for early in-person voting.

Early in-person voting will run through Monday, Nov. 2, the day before the election, and all mail-in absentee ballots must be received in the auditor’s office by 8 p.m. on Nov. 3, when the polls close on Election Day.

Voters wanting to request an absentee ballot by mail must submit a written request form to their auditor’s office by next Monday, Oct. 18. That’s also the final day to register to vote by mail before Election Day. Same-day registration is available at all polling places on Election Day and during early voting.

More in the article

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Person with autism or autistic person? (reddthat.com)
 

In English, most people I have had direct conversation with prefer to be called "a person with autism" instead of "an autistic person". The distinction being a person with a condition versus the condition defining them.

Do spanish speakers have similar differentiation and preference? Un persona autista or una persona con autismo?

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Iron Lung (2026) by Markiplier (filmdb.landmarkcinemas.com)
 

The stars are gone. The planets have disappeared. Only those aboard space stations or starships were left to witness the universe dim, giving the end a name: The Quiet Rapture. Now, humanity decays in the rusting halls of crumbling stations, scavenging barren moons by the ghost light of long-vanished stars. But one moon stands apart. In the darkness of the void, a scanner detects an impossibility: an ocean of blood. In a desperate bid for survival, the last remnants of humanity craft a crude submarine to explore the bleeding depths. They weld one soul inside to pilot it. But as the hatch is sealed, the terrifying reality sets in. Hope in this void is as illusionary as the starlight. This is not an expedition. This is an execution.

Written, produced, acted in by game streamer Markiplier

Indie film inspired by an indie cosmic horror game

<$3 million budget, self-funded release in over 2,000 theaters

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Methacholine Challenge experience for asthma diagnosis (reddthat.com)
 

Have you had one? If so, did the medical professional conducting the challenge stay with you the whole time?

I had one years ago. The person administering the challenge put me in a glass chamber, explained the amount of methacholine would increase until it induced an asthma attack and that how much methacholine it took would determine whether I have asthma or not, then left the room for 10-15 minutes. Looking back now, it seems wild that one would leave when trying to give a person an asthma account. What if I had asthma and was stuck without help for 10+ minutes?

Curious what others have experienced, whether they were left to deal with a possible asthma attack alone or if they were monitored?