beatrice-otter

We have 30 days until the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) laws are rescinded.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.

wandering-aloneo-o

please please please submit a comment! it closes on the 27th of March. this is in 25 days as of posting this. i Know how hopeless you can get feeling about Everything thats going on right now, i know how futile something as simple as submitting a comment seems. but i promise every voice counts. we have the numbers, we just need to be vocal and keep fighting.

here's a text frame i took and edited from @bethanyactually which i highly suggest tweaking and submitting for yourself!!!

The EPA's regulations are based on decades of research and observations by millions of scientists. Removing them is an attack on all Americans, and middle and lower-class Americans will suffer the most. This is an attempt to consolidate power in the hands of greedy corporations who have no care or concern for how many people they harm in pursuit of money. Poor air and water quality cause neurological and intellectual impairment in children, and raise risks of cancers and respiratory ailments to everyone who becomes exposed to them. Not only is this proposal a threat to our health, productivity, and security as a nation, it will make us a symbol of ridicule and pity for the world. Please, protect the people, animals, land, air, and water of our great nation. Do not remove the EPA regulations

veluigi

Action Item‼️🚨

short-n-sweet-espresso

Yearly Lent reminder: if you have an actual illness or condition that makes it dangerous to participate in a fast you are exempt from the fast altogether and should simply offer up another penance in its place.

Ash Wednesday is tomorrow.

lightblueminecraftorchid

To be very clear: eating disorders fall under “conditions that exempt you from fasting”. If you have an ED or had one in the past, do not fast.

liberalsarecool

Capitalism has run out of people to grind into dust. Now it's coming for your public dollars.

infiniteorangethethird

"aros can still date!!": boring. tired. overused. frequently used to make aros look more palatable and acceptable to amatonormative society.

"alloros can still stay single!!": fresh. new. exciting. hearing it could change many people's lives for the better regardless of romantic orientation

thundergrace

Feels like a good time to remember that most Americans did NOT, in fact, vote for Trump.

75M voted for Harris

2M voted third-party

89M did not vote at all.

Overall, 166M Americans did not vote for Donald Trump. 77M did.

He won the popular vote by less than 2%. It was not a landslide. And he probably just won the Electoral College by two states. So there's no "America wanted this." He won by a slim margin, AND we know there's nuance involving massive interference from Elon Musk and the usual misinformation campaign run by Fox News every election.

Mostly anecdotal evidence: While most third-party voters were right-leaning, most non-voters are left-leaning. This is why democrats always have a "voter turn out" issue. If democrats don't like the democratic pick, they just don't vote. Contrary to that, republican voters pretty much have no standards and show up to vote for anything the RNC puts in front of them, even if they hate it.

And I'm NOT excusing people for not voting. They deserve what they get just as much as those who voted for Trump directly. THIS^ is what we meant by "not voting is voting for Trump." Yet again,'did not vote' could've won if it were a candidate.

kingbynature

This emotional logic and false narrative that 'not voting is voting for Trump'. This is the most idiotic democratic emotional response I've ever heard. Might just be me, but I've never heard a republican say 'not voting is a vote for Kamala, Biden, Hilary or Obama'. For those that subscribe to this rhetoric are absolutely correct, 'this is what they mean', however, that does NOT make you right. Many eligible voters chose not to vote because they did not agree with the politics or either candidate. They simply chose to exercise their right NOT to choose either option because neither illustrated representation for them.

More people began to understand that neither side, red nor blue, democrat or republican has the interest of the people. Trump, like others before him, would continue to keep Black people in america the permanent underclass. Kamala, like others before her, would have continued to ignore real issues and passify Black people in america with no effort or assistance to improve conditions, laws, or quality of life for Black people in america.

Amerikkka will remain amerikkka until it falls or is burnt to the ground. Either way will be the only way amerikkka changes. But that change still won't be for the betterment of us because we are not unified to stand together as a people, a community and collective. It's long past due that we stop pointing fingers while being pawns in their game. We could never win as a whole. The game/system was designed that way by the very political system this post is crying about.

thundergrace

Low voter turnout has historically benefited Republicans, which is why Republicans do not echo the sentiment that sitting out a vote is, in effect, a vote for their opponent.

Republicans literally try to decrease voter turnout through gerrymandering, voter suppression, and many other tactics.

Actually, their latest tactic is trying to decrease women voters. They were really worried that women voters would vote for Harris and were really nervous on election day. A few MAGA dudebros started the echo chamber whisper of "we need to go back to when women couldn't vote." Now, they're trying to introduce the SAVE act, which would require that your name on your ID matches your name on your birth certificate. This would mostly impact married women's ability to vote.

ace-disgrace-on-the-case

For those who needed to hear it today

damesaf

Looking for Actual Play suggestions. I've watched Critical Role, and Dimension 20. Not looking for Vampire, it's not my jam, but other WoD is fine. Doesn't need to be D&D, just needs to be fun and interesting.

sabrinahawthorne

@partyofonepod, hosted by @jeffstormer, is a one-on-one AP with a new guest, and a new game, every week! Jeff's enthusiasm for RPGs is infectious, and you'll find games & people who you'll want to follow.

@tinytablepodcast is another anthology-style show. The cast guide their listeners through the entirety of playing a game, from rules to rolling to review, and they take the systems they play seriously, making them an excellent way to learn a new game.*

@ladytabletop hosts the quiet and thoughtful Alone at the Table, where she plays solo games, turning them into what feel almost like guided meditations. If you're looking for something generally less bombastic, this comes as a high recommendation.*

* My work is going to feature on these two shows! I share this not to brag (although, yeah, that too), but to disclose that I'll benefit from you listening to these, so they're not unbiased recommendations. I still think you should check them out, though - I wouldn't want my games featured if I didn't enjoy them on their own merits.

tinytablepodcast

Thanks for the rec!! <3 Excited for you all to see Broke Wizards next month

haveievermentioned

My brother, who does not like D&D, loves Dungeons and Daddies.

onemagpie

Au where Goncharov and Andrey survive everything, grow old together and sit on a street all day somewhere in the south of Europe

sunflowerinanoldshoe

This is my favorite Goncharov post so far because:

1. The concept of an ALTERNATE UNIVERSE for a movie that DOESN'T EXIST is sending me into another dimension.

2. Despite appearing nonsensical, we of course are living in a world where the established Canon of Goncharov is that they do not survive everything and grow old together.

3. Of fucking course Tumblr would imagine a movie with two characters with intense homoerotic subtext, kill them violently with their love unfulfilled, and THEN create AU FAN ART WHERE THE LOVE IS FULFILLED.

And all of it fucking slaps I love this so much

onemagpie

Thank you for the great addition! I’m so glad that people get my joke hehe

appaeve

twilight princess sillies

snow124-art

Zelda in a dress from the Elie Saab Spring Summer 2020

Because it’s beautiful

leejungjaes

president zelenskyy is a stronger man than me because if two ignorant and deluded men like trump and vance started demanding i say please and thank you and calling me disrespectful like im a naughty child instead of a very traumatised and frustrated man trying to save his country from putin id have put them both in the ground with a single fucking punch

antlersish

ALT

Mad about politics again

masterfuldoodler

Okay let's talk about Kingdom Hearts and sacrifice.

There's a lot of stories where someone sacrifices themselves, but then gets brought back. And sometimes it feels right, and other times it hits weird. Kingdom Hearts is one of those stories that gets it right for me. But why does it work? The obvious answer is bias, but I think there's some other stuff at play.

1. Steeped into the world building of kh is the thought that death is not that permanent. There's Nobodies and Heartless, and they're dead but not exactly. And they could come back. It's very hard to die all the way in kh

2. The magic system of kh is pretty loose. Somethings have rules. Somethings have multiple methods. Somethings we know can do stuff, but we don't know how it works. So in this landscape pretty much anything could happen.

When Sora is brought back by Kairi in kh1 it feels pretty cheap at first. Oh he can just...come back? The game does explain it but we don't really understand what that means since it's game one and this is the first we're seeing it in action. (Princess of light and the connection of the heart) The idea that you can call someone out of the darkness through the bonds of the heart does come up in other kh games! This isn't a throw away idea to bring Sora back.

Something else is the way it effects the story. Sora dying and coming back is like a second starting point for the series. It doesn't just give a happy ending yay he's not dead! No it snowballs into multiple games. Whole characters are created and the story gains complexity. If Sora hadn't been called back by Kairi, Roxas would probably have been a more normal Nobody and not a person of his own right. There would have been no Castle Oblivion, and what would happen to Namine? Xion probably wouldn't exist.

Also often the sacrifice isn't Necessary. There were other routes that could have been taken, but the characters choose this instead, which makes a statement about them. (The power of Waking could have gotten Kairi's heart out, but Sora doesn't know this and doesn't stop to find another option. Ventus would rather put an end to himself. Axel burning himself up all at once.)

Axel coming back is funny because it feels like a trick played on him. "haha thought you could die your way outta this one, guess what there's a round two."

I'd love to talk about Roxas and Xion's return, but I still haven't seen the end of kh3. So I guess the best I can say is that them coming back shouldn't feel contrived (same as Ventus, Aqua, Terra) because it's been a goal out characters are working towards, same as bringing Sora back in kh2. There's build up to it!

Kingdom Hearts is riddled with sacrifice, some moments bigger than others. It's very fascinating to watch, pretty much every character has had their moment.