#State of Maine

[parttimesarah]

As my discord mates called it, I have been “persheenved”

Here’s the video, for any fellow loon lovers!

[stevviefox]

Part of vacation is romping off to Maine. We paddled in the ocean, we got lost in Portland, and we ate chocolate cake for dinner. The real reason for going was to visit this place. The International Cryptozoology Museum (cryptozoologymuseum.com).

It’s tiny (one up-one down) and such fun.

We got home safe with the lobsters for dinner tomorrow!

[stil-lindigo]

lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)

if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.

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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.

I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.

I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.

If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.

[minnesotafollower]

Another Documentation of the U.S. Need for Immigrants   

Just yesterday this blog published a lengthy post about how the problems in the U.S. asylum system were promoting increases in U.S. immigration that were benefiting the U.S. economy.[1] Now the New York Times has published a lengthy article focusing on the positive impact of new immigrants to this country with its declining and aging population.[2] The Example of the State of Maine The State of…

[siriuslystargazing]

Things in America that I (a jet lagged northern British person) have experienced and would like to express my confusion: a bullet point list.

• toilet water is really close. The chances of a Poseidon’s kiss raise by 50%

•Pepsi is not as sweet

•moxie tastes like medicine

• I have been complimented on my accent multiple times

•8hr layovers should be criminalised

[roadtripnewengland]

[emaya-chan-the-potato-headed]

"Potato" Maine and "Lobster" Maine, as in fact two entirely separate NATIONS! 😆

[aestum]

(by Evan Leith)

[queerdraws]

projecting on luffy again. get bited.

[parttimesarah]

As a native Mainah who still lives here and whose family has a cabin on a lake in Maine, this makes me both very happy and very angry (at the unnamed past girlfriend of Michael Sheen). WE COULDA BEEN NEIGHBORS!

[reasonsforhope]

"Governor Janet Mills announced that Maine has, two years ahead of time, surpassed its goal of installing 100,000 new heat pumps by 2025, a milestone that represents significant progress in reducing Maine’s reliance on heating oil, lowering heating costs, and curbing harmful carbon emissions.

To continue Maine’s momentum, Governor Mills also unveiled a new target: installing another 175,000 additional heat pumps in Maine by 2027, thereby bringing the number of heat pumps installed in Maine homes, businesses, and public buildings during her time in office to 275,000.

If this target is achieved, Maine would have more than 320,000 heat pumps in total installed across the state.

Heat pumps can be thought of as temperature recycling machines. They are filled with refrigerant fluid and contain a compressor, and they work by extracting excess heat and moving it around, either in or out of a house depending on whether it’s hot or cold.

It’s believed they work best in hot weather, but in February, Maine’s temperatures in some places plummeted during a cold snap to -60°F. Efficiency Maine, which aided in the state’s adoption of heat pumps by organizing rebates for customers under the provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, did a survey of owners they had helped the previous year.

Many of [the heat pump owners] reported they were comfortable and warm, and offered to bring up the fact that by February they had already saved hundreds of dollars on home heating systems, over boilers, gas furnaces, and heating oil.

“We are setting an example for the nation,” said Mills at the announcement event. ​“Our transition to heat pumps is… curbing our reliance on fossil fuels, and cutting costs for Maine families, all while making them more comfortable in their homes—a hat trick for our state.”

The transition began in 2019 with bipartisan support of the Legislature, when Governor Mills enacted laws setting ambitious targets for transitioning to renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions."

-via Good News Network, July 31, 2023

[officialspec]

ill be honest as much as i love to criticise the use of fatphobia for comedy ill never be able to hold the fatphobic jokes in kung fu panda against it

like yea those movies are guilty of dipping into The Usual Tropes for a cheap laugh but not only is the character writing for the fat characters the strongest and most sympathetic ive Ever seen literally just the character designs of the pandas in the 3rd movie get me choked up sometimes. theyre all so appealing and clearly treated with the same care and attention as everyone else without copping out and making them Barely Fat. po is already a size that doesnt exist in film protags and hes still the thinnest person in that whole village and that meant a lot to me

[surasca]

This beautiful commission I got from @mooreaux of my Dragon Age Oc Sancha Fonte! She is a Courtesan/Opera singer from Antiva that has a nice romance with Warden Alistair.

[estheraholic]

instant manifestation is completely natural

spawning things in real life is completely natural

manifesting things out of thin air is completely natural

changing the past is completely natural

molding reality like it's a piece of clay is completely natural

being able to shift realities as an instant is completely natural

going back in time is completely natural

walking on water is completely natural

raising from the dead is also completely natural

you can do all of this effortlessly because this is your NATURE.

YOU ARE GOD.

don't be afraid of the illogical, the physical substance holds no power against you, you will always be greater than everything.

if you are ever afraid to dream big or manifest things that go against the laws of nature, read this post again and again and ask yourself: is it worth it to worry about things that I could reach easily if I believed in myself a bit more? because the ability to mold reality is GIVEN to you, you were born with it, you don't have to fight for it, you just have to accept that this is who you are

(corrected the typos so it won't damage your eyes lmao)

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo being put into a situation where there is absolutely no fighting, just verbal manipulation and perception games, would be amazing to witness. We see a lot in the series how good he is at subterfuge and how he uses his perception to manipulate to great effect, so it’d be so cool to really see it put to the test even more.

Manipulation is one of the most effective tactical strategies of all time, so just imagine Leo putting this skillset of his to the full test. Imagine the boys slowly get up to busting bigger and more powerful criminals, including those with networks of crime under their belt, and a simple fight isn’t enough to take them down. For criminals like this, Leo’s skills in subterfuge would be deadly.

[pangeen]

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