I'm enjoying your photographic compositions - the buildings, the people and the plants.
And Juno, of course!

: )

Mazel Tov!

Go, kid!

Congratudolences!

Conga Rats 🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀!!

Are you...a cat?

And Carl can play the bagpipes!

Cat for scale. I wish I knew more about music so I could make a better scale joke.

I haven't been able to quite articulate it enough (in my head) to post about it here, but it made me weep last night thinking about how much we owe Minnesota for standing up to ICE the way they did last winter (and still do!). A lot of other people have stood up and shown up, and worked hard (godDAMN, Georgia!)- don't get me wrong - but by fighting back so forcefully and publically "ordinary" Minnesotans just galvanized the country in the way it really needed and they deserve some credit for what happened nationwide yesterday.

@williwaw I think Minnesotans recognized that simply caring about your neighbors in this day and age has become a radical act, and we made the most of it that we could. There were dozens (maybe hundreds) of small groups organizing help for people here, so while the cartoonishly evil of ICE helped make it a national story, the roots of support and connection went so much deeper. Even farther out from the Twin Cities, ICE was abducting people and disrupting communities, and that helped those more isolated parts of the state both recognize the problem and find support networks in ways that cut through their haze of right-wing media. MN Isn't uniformly blue, but this election pushed the state as a whole back toward the left.

Also, much of this goes back further to George Floyd and the networks of support that grew from those killings. ICE focusing here just reactivated that feeling of being under siege and the need to band together.

hell yeah

💙

I was just thinking of rtha the other day.

I have no idea why Prop 134 and Prop 135 is doing so well, both seemed to be out of step with the general Colorado Vibe but who knows? At least they are just Propositions, and not attempts to amend the constitution. We can repeal them easily enough.

@jazon yea, honestly, this is probably more of an indictment of our ridiculous voter referendum system than it is specifically about bigotry.

That we've allowed ballots to become partisan via absurd 'surveys' is the core problem.

Yeah I'm totally down with all the happiness going around but we have a long way to go.

Here in Washington State, I'm glad that one of the transphobic measures was shot down, and I feel like part of the reason 638 (sports) looks like it will pass is because the opposition messaging just wasn't clear enough of how awful and evil this measure is. If it passes, I'm sure it will be challenged in court and hopefully promptly defeated there. It is disappointing that there are still so many shitty people out there. There's no hate like Christian love.

The silver lining here, if there is one, is that one of the main reasons this sort of stupidity makes it on the ballot to begin with is to motivate specific groups of people to vote - where they typically vote for whatever candidate most closely aligns with the proposition. At least that's what happens here in Ohio.

They wasted their shot this year, and won't be able to do it again in 2028.

If kids were actually being given unauthorized surgeries it would be a real scandal, a horror show.
But you won't hear another word about it after last night. I guess they don't care about them little kids getting "mutilated" if there isn't an election going on.

"How will you enforce this?"
"Uh wellll we hope we don't have to, that it's a deterrent"

Yeah yeah right ... a deterrent .... stupid laws bring stupid results

I think y'all are conflating and assuming other people's motivations for voting yes on surgeries. Drinking, fucking, tattoos, voting, taxes, and driving are all things that are and should be withheld until assumed maturity. And they are all less consequential than chopping up your junk.


Sure love up the kids and support them in their choices. Educate each other, live in a grand world but if societally, those other things have been deemed to demand mature responsibility than so does surgery. If it's right for that person it will still be right when they are 18.


I'm autistic and apolitical but I notice blues acting the same as reds with just stepping in line and knee jerk reacting to pre supported arguments and demonizing "the other"


There is only one enemy and that is the slave masters. Everything else is their distraction to keep the slaves fighting amongst each other so do the opposite and love them red fucks. Empathize their dicks off.

Also I'm sure there's lots of nuance to surgeries. I know nothing about this topic and have literally never heard about teenagers doing it till this post.

Another thought I had was when I think about all the stupid shit I did in a trendy rebellious way as a teenager and I wanted to prove myself to other teenagers this is something I could see doing to out hardcore others. I did hella stupid shit and I know y'all did too.

And I left out a step in the above comment between being autistic and towing the party line was the hierarchical neurotypical tribal bonding step of agreeing with your people against the other

@Jimbo, These aren't impulse surgeries after a night out drinking in the dug-out. There is a massive amount of consultation, doctors, therapists, psychologists wrapped up in all of this. If it gets to the point of surgery, there is a really good fucking reason for it.

Bottom line, this is one group of people denying children access to medical care because...they don't understand any of this.

And I'm not mad at you, Jimbo. Hope that is clear. I am mad at the amount of bullshit hatred spewed from the right...and frustrated by those that feel that the left 'hating bigotry' is as bad as the bigotry itself.

Also...a lot of these weren't even about surgery. They were about kids. Playing sports. And adults thinking genitals should have anything to do with that. These are kids. That want to play on a team. With their friends. That's all.

But, not, republicans want to strip search them for...reasons?

@jazon I'm not not that surprised, actually. I just peeked at my county's result break down- a fairly rural, somewhat red country - and while a lot of them held their noses to vote blue at the top, for local stuff they still voted red. Here so much of this election was about the economy/tariffs/some ICE etc. Or they didn't vote at all down ballot, which means for an issue like this many of the voters could be people who really cared one way or the other. I'll be interested to see how the entire state breaks down when all the results are in to see if that holds true other places. One thing's clear though: Dems shouldn't mistake this wave for what it *isn't*.

Also, a lot of people don't know anything about trans issues AND don't realize that these are *also* super based in misogyny, so end up just going with the vibes. They don't see who's sponsoring this shit. So you get these uneducated voters who might be against it who think, "oh, that sounds ok," or are heavily influenced by the algo etc., or maybe think, "I did stupid shit as a teenager, this sounds like a good thing," vote yes without realizing Just How Harmful these initiatives are. Also, educating oneself requires work, and, well . . . people are *exhausted* right now, yeah? Or isn't it easier to go with where the algo's driving you? Some people don't vote when they don't know enough. . . others, unfortunately, think their vibes are good enough. And thus they cause extreme harm.

Also, unlike, say gay rights or what's going on with immigration or abortion rights, many people just haven't had any personal exposure in any meaningful way. Chances are most people know someone who is gay or might have seen/known an ICE arrest, or know a woman who had struggles with getting pregnancy care, etc. We can't understate how powerful that exposure can be for changing people's minds (as much as other people are still bigoted, yes, yes, yes). But trans issues are slightly different. Right now, frankly, it's a lot easier to talk to someone "who knows someone who [made up shit]" than to actually know someone themselves. It's probably gotten even harder with the sheer amount of anti-trans shit out there right now: trans folks are literally being terrorized at the moment we need their voices.

Anyway, the whole situation is awful and yeah, there's a lot of work to be done.

Oh, wow, viola: an example right here.

Don't tread on me.

MO shaped hole in the middle

@scruss I *believe* this particular graph is based on Senate races and neither of MO's seats were up on this cycle. It was a pretty good day here too, though, with Paul Wellman (D) flipping MO-02 and the two big statewide amendments (3 & 6) failing and passing, respectively.

@ufez @scruss yeah this particular map is based on Senate returns. Not every state had a Senate election this year.

That's a really interesting visualisation

@scruss @ufez @ian_crowther There's a more complete one here using all data, which shows the interesting shift in Nevada, Utah, and Arizona too https://www.reddit.com/r...

^using all *currently available* data

@williwaw nice

@ufez yeah, ms scruss (ex Liberty, MO, where she voted last week) was pretty happy to see Emanuel Cleaver reelected. But that question about abortion access was so convoluted!

@scruss Deliberately so! The wording allowed a bunch of PACs to run bullshit fearmongering ads in support of it. Fortunately the No campaign was *very* well organized and well-run, keeping it to simple, basic facts and the message got through.

It's kind of wild though; given the option, Missourians will fairly consistently vote for policies that are moderately progressive (by current US standards), which is why reinforcing the State Constitutional Amendment mechanism via Prop 6 was so vital. But when it comes down to [R] vs [D], they just don't seem to be able to get over the hump.

The Governor's race in '28 could get pretty interesting. Mike Kehoe and his wife were the public faces for the Yes on 3 campaign, making this another in a rapidly growing list of recent public Losses. He said as recently as last week that he intends to run again, but I imagine his seat is getting awfully warm.

I imagine it's pretty wet.

Flood warning

@wjcstp and @poorusher +++

Lots of big blue waves last night

Oof 😢

I've seen other photos from that corner this morning, the number of stickers is growing fast

also every day

Make Aryans Grimace Again

or one minute for each milligram of the gummy you just ate

@y95 only a minute? but it's so pretty!

What a fucking damning ratio there. Love it.

smoke if you got em

[bubbling bong sound intesifies]

Ripping a bowl tonight in your honor!

title

Love!

This is so wonderful. Will listen later. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

@waa xoxo

🧡❤️🩷💛💚🩵💜💙🤎

It's Margret’s (second interview) that got me welling up a little. I'm right there with her on all points. Watching the open corruption here in Austin, TX between big business and politics grow over the last two decades has been a horror show. It’s made Austin much less, er… Austin. Today, I woke up feeling hopeful about school funding, small business breaks, an affordable cost of living, funding for the arts, and the return of exceedingly lax laws concerning recreational drugs.

St. Madge

🥲

JUNO!

Oh like Joan of Arc would give up her religion

That is A-MA-ZING

@snarkout we talked about Joan of Arc for a second!

@waa she's so sweeeeet

I've enjoyed her online. Also I got a fake Jane kicked off of facebook.

Did you tell her she's my favorite Go-Go?

@drurystephanie "she's so sweeeeet"

Joan of Arc..?

😜

Congrats on the conversation with Jane. She's a gem. Can't wait to hear it.

@dogwelder I stopped short of telling her she's my favorite Go-Go because I was afraid I'd sound like a kissass but it's true!

@LocalStain both of them! thank youuuu

@LocalStain both of them! thank youuuu

@dad a fake Jane! Yeah we met through Instagram a few years back