whatsinthesmoothie
This description used to have the word casserole in it. Now that I've mentioned that, it still does. Anyway I do art, ask box is always open, etc etc.
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Ok, so. The Trump budget. It has already passed the House and now just needs 51 senators to pass it and send it to Trump for signature.
There are 53 Republican senators, 45 Democratic ones, and 2 Independents that vote with the Democrats. VP Vance is a tiebreaker vote.
So to block the bill, at least four Republican senators need to find their spines and the Democrats and Independents all need to keep their spines. This will not happen without direct action from voters.
They are only going to resist this bill if they hear from voters in their states. They do not care if some person from California calls them.
It's really fucking bad for everyone except the ultra-wealthy, surprise surprise.
I'm going to go through some of the features of this budget in reblogs, but trust and believe that it's horrible for the vast, vast majority of Americans, including you.
Highlights include:
Extends the Trump tax cuts passed in 2017. This continues $3.7 billion in tax cuts for the wealthy. If this budget does not pass, these tax cuts will expire and go back up without any action.
$150 billion in additional military spending
Work requirements for Medicaid. "childless adults without disabilities would be required to work 80 hours per month to qualify for benefits.". They expect millions of people to fail to meet work requirements and lose Medicaid.
Planned Parenthood and trans care. "Bans Medicaid from providing funding to Planned Parenthood as long as the organization continued to provide abortions, and would bar Medicaid from covering gender affirming health care to any beneficiaries. "
Reduces SNAP food stamp access that 40 million people use. "mandates work requirements for able-bodied SNAP enrollees who don't have dependents.".
Clean energy "dramatically scaling back many of the tax credits for clean energy."
Border walls and ICE. "$46.5 billion toward completing Trump's border wall. It also allots $5 billion for Customs and Border Protection facilities and more than $6 billion to hire and retain more agents and officers"
Student loans. "cut $330 billion from the student loan system by scrapping several existing repayment options, including the Biden-era SAVE program that based payments on income and household size.". Does anyone want to have student loan payments that you cannot afford?
Guts Obamacare. "Saves $100 billion, but will result in millions of Americans becoming uninsured if they fail to adhere to new paperwork requirements or can no longer afford insurance premiums."
Weakens federal courts that keep using orders that his actions are illegal and unconstitutional. It prohibits courts from enforcing contempt citations for violations of injunctions or temporary restraining orders unless the plaintiff pays a bond. Bonds can be EXTRAORDINARILY EXPENSIVE and are not currently required in these cases. The provision "would make most existing injunctions—in antitrust cases, police reform cases, school desegregation cases, and others—unenforceable," says the god of constitutional law, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.
So, you folks in red states and you folks in wobbly blue states (PA, NC, etc), you need to call your senators and save us all.
Call every day. Call after hours so you can leave a voicemail and not talk to anyone.
For real y'all, millions of people are going to starve, go broke, and be without medical care if this bill passes. Which is a feature, not a bug, of the Trump administration.
And it will balloon the national debt to pay for these tax cuts for the wealthy.
STARTING TOMORROW
Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.
They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!
This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!
TUNE IN HERE
article I posted screenshots of here
The man turned and offered a small smile, like Shishou never did.
Read here!
Happy birthday, Chrissy. And a biiig thank you to you and @kikaiz for makin this crazy story. i’m love it very much.
The last days of the petition against conversion therapy are FASCINATING to watch. I have been following it pretty closely for almost a year now, and the progress was, above all, steady. There was this jump when some algorithm in Finland picked it up, but even that was local.
And now, everyone is panicking.
Which really shows.
These past three or four days, multiple countries have reached the threshold. Even more notably, the number of signatures in total, the ones that we need to get one million of, are growing rapidly. There are only 400'000 signatures missing. Two days ago, it was closer to 600'000.
You can see the progress here:
Consider joining the fun by making everyone around you sign it!
little german boy revisits the cave of blüntsmoken! Happy 4/20 ;)
Do it for the meme. http://blinkingguy.com
Well fucks? Get to it!
MEDICATION AND HEALTHCARE HELP!
Our last post
We have a temporal job that helped us afford groceries this week and pay off the debt/tab we had at the corner store.
We still need help paying off debts, getting medication and keeping my healthcare another month.
Still offering whatever kind of trinket you want me to make through my Kofi.
We still need help getting rid of the mold but at least we don't have a hole on the roof, thanks to you all's support!!
Had to use the last funds to get emergency meds full price and my MiL's uhh faja, thing, forgot the damn word, without discount.
$25/$1,108
Have until the 17th for my healthcare.
Pay•pal K°Fi
PLEASE HELP SHARING, ANYTHING HELPS!!!
Eight by fourteen inches equals roughly 22,000 individual stitches and just as many reasons to regret my poor life choices, but it’s DONE! I don’t want to think about how many hours of work went into this, but I’m so pleased with how it came out. I’ve had this in the works for about a year now, working on it here and there, but the last few weeks I’ve really pushed to finish it up, and I’m super happy with how this came out.
HEY, FELLOW HATERS OF INSANELY-BRIGHT CAR HEADLIGHTS, SOMEONE HAS STARTED A PETITION TO REGULATE THEM.
It's an official petition through the Australian Government's e-petition page, which means if it gets enough signatures, it will be tabled in government.
You do have to be an Australian citizen to sign it, BUT!!! PLEASE REBLOG THIS EVEN IF YOURE NOT, because these kind of things have a roll-on effect, and if Australia legislates LED headlights, then other countries may follow.
FYI, the petition asks only for your name and email, and once you've clicked the sign button, they'll send you an email to confirm your signature --- you need to click the confirmation link in the email to have your signature counted.
Commissions: OPEN (2/5)
Opening five more slots on my commissions!
Shoot me a DM or a an email (kettlebirdillustration@gmail.com) if you are interested or have any questions about my work!
Full T.O.S. is under the cut.
By commissioning work from me, you agree to the following terms of service:
All prices are in USD, to be paid through PayPal or Ko-Fi. Half-payment is required up front before commission will be added to queue, with the second half to be paid on completion.
I reserve the right to refuse any request at my discretion and without elaboration.
Commissioned art is for personal use only unless otherwise discussed before start of work. I reserve the right to use commissioned art for portfolio and sample purposes. I claim no ownership over the IP of characters that do not belong to me.
Full refunds available before requested commission is started, half refunds available before commission is completed.
My work is not to be minted into a non-fungible token (NFT) or used in the training of generative artificial intelligence models or modified using generative artificial intelligence models.
hey, friends, and foes,
i have to move out of state and unfortunately my two, beautiful, wonderful, well behaved cats cannot come with me and i am Losing my mind trying to rehome them.
i had someone to take them and they backed out last minute and i am scrambling
i have a bonded pair of 3 year old cats who are in perfect health. they’re lap kitties, super affectionate, don’t claw furniture, fully litter box trained and have never bitten or clawed me or any guests.
they’re not active at all, they just want affection and they are the sweetest most well behaved cats i’ve ever met
we’re located in the houston area but i am willing to relocate them anywhere as long as they stay together and go to a loving home.
please help me find a place for my sweet, sweet kitties
current state of the US: having a tally going for every time I call my human services caseworker/his supervisor and they don’t pick up 😔
‼️ URGENT AND EXTREMELY TIME SENSITIVE, PLEASE REPOST‼️
I have an extremely important doctors appointment tomorrow in regards to something horrible that is happening to my body and I CANNOT miss it. My spouse just found out they have to work all day tomorrow and cant take me
I don't have any family or friends in the area who can take me. And I can't go alone because I'm a wheelchair user with a lot of nerve death in my hands so I can't get myself around without help
A friend can come help but they won't have their car tomorrow so we both need to Uber to the Dr's office separately and then they'll uber back home with me until my spouse gets home to take them back home.
Due to lack of public transportation and high demand Ubers are very expensive around here. I need at least 90 dollars by tomorrow morning or im screwed
This appt is so important, and im sorry to beg but I really need help. I've tried figuring out another way but this is the only plausible plan at the moment.
Anything helps and thank you so much
My PayPal mileslaneflem@gmail.com
And cashapp $milesgoen
We have 30 days until the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) laws are rescinded. This is the 50-year bedrock of American conservation. Normally, these actions take years but the administration has provided 30 days for public comment gutting clean water and clean air. Drop what you’re doing, before you make any more calls or read any more social media posts, please populate the Federal Register with dissent.
A. Go to https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/25/2025-03014/removal-of-national-environmental-policy-act-implementing-regulations
B. Click on the green rectangle in the upper right corner ("SUBMIT A PUBLIC COMMENT") .
C. Fill in your comment, and info at the bottom, and SUBMIT COMMENT.
Donate!!!!!! Boost!!!!!
Splinter union. They want better wages for dealing with Dirks bullshit. Dirk is also there he's tired of his shit too
if YOU'RE in the union and I'M in the union... then who the fuck is flying this plane????? (its ult dirk and cal)
USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.
Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.
If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.
Are you with me?
Spread the word.
dash is dead im teleporting to the past
https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard?max_post_id=606474489540042752
UPDATE || Thursday February 13th || 2025
--Current readers, click *here* for the update--
* NEW READERS || PATREON || BLUESKY || INSTAGRAM *
Special thank you to @barbelzoa for making every update so much more beautiful!!
Feb 4, 2025 - Thousands of Los Angeles high school students walked out of class and marched on the city capitol in third straight day of Anti-ICE protests. (Source)
PROTESTS ARE HAPPENING. THEY ARE JUST NOT BEING COVERED OUTSIDE OF LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS. DO NOT RELY ON MAINSTREAM MEDIA.
There was a huge Trans-rights demonstration last night in New York outside of NYU Langone hospital in protest of their decision to halt gender-affirming care under Trump's order. (Source)
alright everyone, the FABULOUSLY TALENTED and LOVELY lucille valentine needs our help! 💕 she's moving cross-country so she can be safe, and that's expensive. if you can help her out, please donate to her at one of the places below!
Her PayPal: LucilleValentine
Her Venmo: LooseEel
Her CashApp: $LooseEel
click if it looks blurry but. Heres to the anon, sorry it took a while but here it is! Lalna, as the freshly-ascended Mage of Light!
It's been a month of unexpected emergency expenses (RIP my car windshield 😔), and I could really use some funds, so your friendly local dabbler is opening up commissions!
Writing Commissions:
Message me with a concept or a pairing and I'll write you something! Comfortable with Hermitcraft, Life Series, and some Empires! If you have another fandom in mind, message me and we can chat! I have a variety of other interests (including Critical Role, D20, Star Trek, Sherlock Holmes and Firefly to name only a few) and would be happy to work in any fandom I'm familiar with :)
Any amount guarantees at least a 100 word drabble!
$5 and up - 250 to 500 words
$10 and up - 500 to 750 words
$15 and up - 750 to 1000 words
$20 and up - 1000 to 1500 words
$30 and up - 1500 to 2000 words
More than that - DM me and we can talk!
Character Doodle Commissions:
Any characters! OC's welcome with references :)
Any amount guarantees a doodle of a character of your choice!
$10 and up - 2 characters
$15 and up - 3 characters
$20 and up - name me an idea and I'll do my best!
Tattoo Commissions:
Message me with a specific idea or some concepts that are meaningful to you and I'll work with you on a design! Examples of my work here and here (tumblr isn't letting me add the images, so please feel free to DM for further examples!)
$30 - Simple tattoo
$40 - Detailed tattoo
$50 - Complex tattoo
Please reach out with an ask or a DM if you have any questions, any signal boosting would be deeply appreciated!
Donate!!!!!! Boost!!!!!
mutual aid los angeles (MALA) has put together a spreadsheet with valuable resources for people affected by the ongoing los angeles wildfires and wind storm. the sheet is constantly being updated with resources such as shelter info, animal boarding info, addresses for distribution centers, volunteer opportunities and so much more.
please share this spreadsheet widely
Hi! My name is Jack (he/any), and in honor of Paranatural's upcoming 15th anniversary, why not do something special? That is why I am now hosting an interest check for the Paranatural 15th Anniversary Zine, a free digital zine dedicated to the love we have for this world and the characters in it!
This zine will be open to whoever would like to join! The only thing is that there will be a limited application and acceptance period just so that the link is not posted publicly and so we can ensure we meet the deadline. There will also be page size requirements because, if it's possible, I would like to create one physical copy to send to Zack. We shall see though!
That being said, I would also like to keep this zine as much of a surprise for Zack as possible. I will not be posting information about it on Twitter/Bluesky since those tend to be where they're most active. Share this with whoever you like, but do NOT share it with Zack!!!!
If you would like to learn more, please read the Carrd below, and feel free to send an ask if you have any questions/comments/concerns!
PLEASE SPREAD THIS AROUND, I WANT AS MANY PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT IT AS POSSIBLE!!!
👻 CARRD
👻 INTEREST CHECK
@freakinflipflop its been an honor
@mentall-son im glad to see u back online as well
and teags your blog is archived so i wont @ u. but heres to a decade lol
positivity train!
if you see this or are tagged in it, tag a couple of your favorite mutuals/blogs and let them know you appreciate seeing them on your dash!
@h0neysugarfree @blueberrylovv @bequiteanddriveeeeeee @cherri-bomb-bomb @eg0mechan1c @fatrexicisback