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.
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
🗣️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. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
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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
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 💙💙💙
lol thanks for the tag @doc-cas-holligay 💖
tagging: @imbrokenfromthestart @https-castiel @a-really-tired-really-gay-bitch no pressure 💖
Thxs for the tag @cas-natural 🖤
Tagging: @bisaster-energy @scrapy-ghost @dean-is-love @wapjackles @annballofyarn @ari-castiels-bi-wife @celestialsodomite
Thank for the Tag @a-really-tired-really-gay-bitch
Tagging: @mothmans-favorite-lamp @geigerzaehler @willgrahamsdumptruckass
Thx for the tag @scrapy-ghost
Tagging @im-just-trying-to-survive-man, @gremlin-pattie, and @perplexed-arson-goblin
Thanks for the tag @mothmans-favorite-lamp :)
Tagging @rosebian @aqueenbutgenderneutrally @i-ll-be-the-moon @yngwtasfour (no pressure!!)
Thanks for the tag @gremlin-pattie
Tagging @m-e-w-666 @snikithequeer @toppinghughdancy @/anyone who wants to do it
tagging @soft-round-bees @starhavens and @jammydodger666 if you feel like it :3
thank you for the tag, niki!! 🥺💕 i'll tag @waterside-wanderer @scolopendress and @magicalgirlastarion !!
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
Thanks @waterside-wanderer i don’t know what i’d do without you lol.
I’ll tag @violinnorkling @ktminn01 @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!
The real personality test is which Simon and Garfunkel song you think is the saddest
Bookends Theme shatters me
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).
feels weird to be sitting in my living room while there's an attempted coup happening on a wednesday afternoon
