clock is tickin'

but i don't know what time it is

[spidaerman]

To all my black followers and friends, stay safe.

Also, I would like to add that black lives have always mattered, will always matter.

It’s awful that we even have to say that because it should be a given. However, we need to say it loud and clear for the racists.

We cannot be silent. 

[husborth-deactivated20241109]

yo hey US people who sent in absentee ballots, they are tossing mail-in ballots for no reason. i just had to call my county board of elections and demand a cure for my ballot because north carolina didn't send out any notices of issues with ballots, and the issues are fake. if you voted by mail-in make sure your ballot was actually counted

[hug-your-face]

Check your ballot!

Track Your Ballot or Ballot Application - Vote.org

Ballot tracker tools for all 50 states. Find the status of your ballot.

[foolishmortal]

I actually volunteered for North Carolina Ballot Curing, and I have lived in North Carolina and Virginia and know exactly how they use bureaucracy to do their petty little shit to fuck people over.

if you live in North Carolina, You can also check your ballot with the ballot tracker tool here https://www.vote.org/ballot-tracker-tools/

and then call your local registrar office, or better yet go there in person, to fix your issue. It will likely be either a signature issue or an issue with your photo ID. Be prepared for both! You are allowed to correct any photo ID issues by emailing in an issue of your photo ID. Please verify this with your registrar and get their email address.

[jewfrogs]

the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that

[pangur-and-grim]

cars need to stop testing me. I have no problem with kicking a car. I love kicking a car. if you honk at me for walking too slowly across an intersection, I will kick your car. please instigate something because I have so much stress that could be relieved by kicking your car with my fragile meat legs

[odinsblog]

🗣️THIS IS WHAT INCLUSIVE, COMPASSIONATE DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE

Minnesota Dems enacted a raft of laws to make the state a trans refuge, and ensure people receiving trans care here can't be reached by far-right governments in places like Florida and Texas. (link)

Minnesota Dems ensured that everyone, including undocumented immigrants, can get drivers' licenses. (link)

They made public college free for the majority of Minnesota families. (link)

Minnesota Dems dropped a billion dollars into a bevy of affordable housing programs, including by creating a new state housing voucher program. (link)

Minnesota Dems massively increased funding for the state's perpetually-underfunded public defenders, which lets more public defenders be hired and existing public defenders get a salary increase. (link)

Dems raised Minnesota education spending by 10%, or about 2.3 billion. (link)

Minnesota Dems created an energy standard for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040. (link)

Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots. (link)

Minnesota Dems expanded the publicly subsidized health insurance program to undocumented immigrants. This one's interesting because it's the sort of things Dems often balk at. The governor opposed it! The legislature rolled over him and passed it anyway. (link)

Minnesota Dems expanded background checks and enacted red-flag laws, passing gun safety measures that the GOP has thwarted for years. (link)

Minnesota Dems gave the state AG the power to block the huge healthcare mergers that have slowly gobbled up the state's medical system. (link)

Minnesota Dems restored voting rights to convicted felons as soon as they leave prison. (link)

Minnesota Dems made prison phone calls free. (link)

Minnesota Dems passed new wage protection rules for the construction industry, against industry resistance. (link)

Minnesota Dems created a new sales tax to fund bus and train lines, an enormous victory for the sustainability and quality of public transit. Transit be more pleasant to ride, more frequent, and have better shelters, along more lines. (link)

They passed strict new regulations on PFAS ("forever chemicals"). (link)

Minnesota Dems passed the largest bonding bill in state history! Funding improvements to parks, colleges, water infrastructure, bridges, etc. etc. etc. (link)

They're going to build a passenger train from the Twin Cities to Duluth. (link)

I can't even find a news story about it but there's tens of millions in funding for new BRT lines, too. (link)

A wonky-but-important change: Minnesota Dems indexed the state gas tax to inflation, effectively increasing the gas tax. (link)

They actually indexed a bunch of stuff to inflation, including the state's education funding formula, which helps ensure that school spending doesn't decline over time. (link)

Minnesota Dems made hourly school workers (e.g., bus drivers and paraprofessionals) eligible for unemployment during summer break, when they're not working or getting paid. (link)

Minnesota Dems passed a bunch of labor protections for teachers, including requiring school districts to negotiate class sizes as part of union contracts. (Yet another @SydneyJordanMN special here. (link)

Minnesota Dems created a state board to govern labor standards at nursing homes. (link)

Minnesota Dems created a Prescription Drug Affordability Board, which would set price caps for high-cost pharmaceuticals. (link)

Minnesota Dems created new worker protections for Amazon warehouse workers and refinery workers. (link)

Minnesota Dems passed a digital fair repair law, which requires electronics manufacturers to make tools and parts available so that consumers can repair their electronics rather than purchase new items. (link)

Minnesota Dems made Juneteenth a state holiday. (link)

Minnesota Dems banned conversion therapy. (link)

They spent nearly a billion dollars on a variety of environmental programs, from heat pumps to reforestation. (link)

Minnesota Dems expanded protections for pregnant and nursing workers - already in place for larger employers - to almost everyone in the state. (link)

Minnesota Dems created a new child tax credit that will cut child poverty by about a quarter. (link)

Minnesota Democrats dropped a quick $50 million into homelessness prevention programs. (link)

And because the small stuff didn't get lost in the big stuff, they passed a law to prevent catalytic converter thefts. (link)

Minnesota Dems increased child care assistance. (link)

Minnesota Dems banned "captive audience meetings," where employers force employees to watch anti-union presentations. (link)

No news story yet, but Minnesota Dems forced signal priority changes to Twin Cities transit. Right now the trains have to wait at intersections for cars, which, I can say from experience, is terrible. Soon that will change.

Minnesota Dems provided the largest increase to nursing home funding in state history. (link)

They also bumped up salaries for home health workers, to help address the shortage of in-home nurses. (link)

Minnesota Dems legalized drug paraphernalia, which allows social service providers to conduct needle exchanges and address substance abuse with reduced fear of incurring legal action. (link)

Minnesota Dems banned white supremacists and extremists from police forces, capped probation at 5 years for most crimes, improved clemency, and mostly banned no-knock warrants. (link)

Minnesota Dems also laid the groundwork for a public health insurance option. (link)

I’m happy for the people of Minnesota, but as a Floridian living under Ron DeSantis & hateful Republicans, I’m also very envious tbh. We know that democracy can work, and this is a shining example of what government could be like in the hands of legislators who actually care about helping people in need, and not pursuing the GOP’s “culture wars” and suppressing the votes of BIPOC, and inflicting maximum harm on those who aren’t cis/het, white, wealthy, Christian males. BRAVO MINNESOTA. This is how you do it. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

👉🏿 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1660846689450688514.html

[blossomhaze-deactivated20230523]

i was tagged by @milly23 to choose one preexisting photo from my camera roll that sums up my personality — thank you milly for the tag! this was hard abshdkd

i had some even better ones but they were from a message with a friend and i didn’t want to post it lol

tagging with no pressure: @cvtstiel @doc-cas-holligay @i-can-sabotage-me-bi-myself @anlomijo @evermorecastiel @sourpatchdean @smiledean if you’d like! also if you see this and wanna join in feel free to do so <33

[doc-cas-holligay-deactivated202]

Thank you for the tag @deans-honeybee 💙

Tagging: @cas-natural @castiel-angel-of-thursdays @sapphic-dean @elegies-eulogize-dean @castielsbeeslippers @smiledean @spn-world-666 @meadowdean no pressure tho 💙💙💙

[cas-natural]

lol thanks for the tag @doc-cas-holligay 💖

tagging: @imbrokenfromthestart @https-castiel @a-really-tired-really-gay-bitch no pressure 💖

[a-really-tired-really-gay-bitch]

Thxs for the tag @cas-natural 🖤

Tagging: @bisaster-energy @scrapy-ghost @dean-is-love @wapjackles @annballofyarn @ari-castiels-bi-wife @celestialsodomite

[scrappy-ghost-deactivated202303]

Thank for the Tag @a-really-tired-really-gay-bitch

Tagging: @mothmans-favorite-lamp @geigerzaehler @willgrahamsdumptruckass

[mothmans-favorite-lamp]

Thx for the tag @scrapy-ghost

Tagging @im-just-trying-to-survive-man, @gremlin-pattie, and @perplexed-arson-goblin

[gremlin-pattie]

Thanks for the tag @mothmans-favorite-lamp :)

Tagging @rosebian @aqueenbutgenderneutrally @i-ll-be-the-moon @yngwtasfour (no pressure!!)

[vraxhis-visceris]

Thanks for the tag @gremlin-pattie

Tagging @m-e-w-666 @snikithequeer @toppinghughdancy @/anyone who wants to do it

[eldritchqueerture]

tagging @soft-round-bees @starhavens and @jammydodger666 if you feel like it :3

[hqwke]

thank you for the tag, niki!! 🥺💕 i'll tag @waterside-wanderer @scolopendress and @magicalgirlastarion !!

[waterside-wanderer]

Thanks for the tag @starhavens 🥺 I'd have to go with my old Tumblr icon:

@shewholistens and @indigoforiver I feel like y'all could have some great pics >:3c

[shewholistens]

Thanks @waterside-wanderer i don’t know what i’d do without you lol.

I’ll tag @violinnorkling @ktminn01 @indigoforiver

[indigoforiver]

After being tagged by both @waterside-wanderer and @shewholistens, I'll come in with this solid (and painfully accurate) meme:

I'll tag @tiddy-kitty and @sorceressofthefake (no pressure to either of you!), as well as anyone else who feels like it!

[seconddoubt]

The real personality test is which Simon and Garfunkel song you think is the saddest

[phoneybeatlemania-bit-the-dust]

Bookends Theme shatters me

[theolddivorcedzukka]

i hope you write, i hope we both write

[waterside-wanderer]

Unnamed Cathedral (WIP) in Minecraft Java Edition inspired by real gothic cathedrals.

After the nether update (1.16), I wanted to make a moody cathedral using some of the new blocks, such as blackstone, basalt, warped wood, and shroomlight.

Let me know if you'd like to see more pictures, and I'm open to answering any questions about the build!

Planned and built by myself in creative mode, with a bit of help from @shewholistens (thank you!). The shaders used in the above pictures are Sildurs Vibrant Shaders (v1.28 Lite).

[livepasthope]

feels weird to be sitting in my living room while there's an attempted coup happening on a wednesday afternoon

[topherchris]

[panerasexual-deactivated2017100]

Some lady next to me at the airport was crying hysterically, she got up, came back with McDonald’s and she stopped crying the second she started eating

[susiephone]

i literally cannot stop. will reblog with the link once i’m done.

[susiephone]

LET’S GET META, Y’ALL

[gl0wc0r3]

[fangirltothefullest]

This is not something I actively thought about but boy oh boy am I glad that someone did this because it's SO satisfying!

[toastp1ercer]

i don’t know how to insert a readmore in mobile so you’re going to have to deal with this post. bear with me. i don’t understand why ds9 fandom casts garak as some sort of suave oscar wilde daddy dom when he’s clearly the kind of older man who gets trashed at a casino at 3pm on thursdays and tips dabo boys extra to hold him while he cries

the first thing we ever see him do is beeline over to the very shiniest twink from a nation comprised solely of shiny twinks (while he’s fucked up on space oxy btw) like “hey, i usually don’t approach people from space grindr in crowded public places before noon like this, but i haven’t had sex in nine years, so hmu if you ever want to…. ‘visit my tailoring shop’……… as they say.” he’s not that smooth.

imo that’s the very thing that makes g/b so great. like while garak IS technically a dangerous feminine powerful enemy spy, which as we all know is julian bashir’s charmingly bisexual fetish, even when bashir runs into ops for the first time like “I THINK GARAK IS A SPY AND WE CAN LEARN ALL MANNER OF SPY SECRETS FROM HIM” jadzia is immediately like “bro maybe but i’m pretty sure he mostly just wants to s your d.” and it’s actually incredibly magical that it even works!! ONLY fucking julian “teach for america” bashir would look at this portly middle-aged disaster of lizard man like “holy shit, i finally found my very own bond girl, holy shit, my dream.“ i honestly honestly just don’t think people understand the central themes of star trek: deep space nine at all

[everydaylouie]

hello, world (a test of some virtual singer software!)

(soundcloud)

[babyfairy]

[melodramaticsoprano]

why does this have so much emotion? melancholy? I dunno why but this slaps and makes me feel sad

[kuboe-deactivated20231023-deact]

creepypasta nah call that fettuccine afraido