#also florida sucks

[zetterbabe]

[everybody (backstreet's back) plays in the background] 11.27.23

[queenlua]

choice excerpt, emphasis mine:

When Cavanaugh wasn’t killing time on the floor, she and many of her colleagues spent the days rehashing their arguments over the bill and fighting about matters of procedure. They only needed one Republican to vote against the bill for it to fail. All of the Republicans hated the filibuster, but several of them disliked the bill that had prompted it, too. They struggled to understand its relevance. They had campaigned on expanding broadband access, reducing property taxes, making the government more efficient — things they felt actually mattered in the daily lives of their constituents. They hadn’t run for local office because they wanted to take up arms in the culture war, especially not for a cause many of them had never thought about before and didn’t have much interest in thinking about now. “I’ve spent way more brainpower on this than I ever wanted to,” Senator Jana Hughes told me. One day, a freshman senator named Christy Armendariz led me to a bench in an empty hallway. She found it puzzling that a reporter from New York would come all the way to Nebraska to cover this affair. “I don’t watch the news or get the newspaper,” she said. “Is there anything going on I should be aware of?” I mentioned that other states had passed similar bills and that a federal appeals court in the same circuit as Nebraska had ruled one of them unconstitutional. “So is it a big widespread thing?” she asked. As far as she could tell, ordinary Nebraskans did not know about the issue. “I knocked doors for a year, and nobody brought this up.” She said she wished the bill had never been introduced.

state-level politicians are often, lbr, kinda dipshitty, but the wounded-deer-routine of oh-deary-me-i-can’t-possibly-know-anything-about-the-news is the exact type of dipshittery that particularly makes me go “aaaargh” and tear out my damn hair

and i find it extra annoying since i honestly believe you don’t have to be some hyper-lefty bleeding-heart to oppose this (vile) bill.  there’s a very solid, boring, small-c conservative case to be made against it, on the basis of, “why the fuck is the state senate passing laws prohibiting stuff that should really be left to the judgment of a doctor and their patients, the AMA and board certification and malpractice suits already exist to cover Actual Medical Abuses and this is not that, nuke the damn bill”

(and i don’t think that reasoning would even be particularly out of step with their base!  people like their local representatives, and “keep Big Government TM out of your child’s health decisions” is the kind of thing that markets well in that area, etc)

anyway, if anyone could make that case & weather whatever blowback came of it, it’d be a self-avowedly "not even into the bill in the first place” state senator who’s coming up against their own term limit anyway, who need not be especially accountable to the national party, and who works in a state where senators are very explicitly a part-time not-well-renumerated thing (so, like, worst-case scenario, you get primaried out of office—boo hoo, oh no your measly 12k a year is gone, seriously just get another part-time gig it’ll be fine)...

...buuut they’ve apparently all got jell-o spines and/or blackened coals for hearts, so,,,

[ratatatastic]

happy we love defending our teammates around here from mr aj "thats one of the biggest things is im very loyal to my teammates and no ones going to take liberties and take any cheap shots towards my teammates" greer

if youd like to know what caused aj to go after kastelic its because of two hits on adam and jesper that happen within 7 seconds of each other and while casters were quick to note the jesper hit they never mentioned kastelic basically riding adam near the benches hard not even a few seconds before that and those within tandem is what makes aj go enoughs enough! and shed his gloves

there has to be something so funny about jesper and uvis hovering nearby as aj just (insert the dog eating cabbage angrily video)

despite wrastling the shit out of a guy aj wants more and honestly a perfect addition to our kitty lineup!! oh delightful little cat!!

boston bruins @ florida panthers | 10.8.24

[ibetittering]

Fuck all of y'all in Florida how dare you misrepresent my liberal king that man loves women (not in that way) and he would not STAND for this smh

[breadboylovin]

dude if something gay doesnt happen to me soon i might actually go insane

[solarpunkani]

I understand why it’s important and why this question may be interpreted as rude, but I am genuinely curious and I want to learn more. What is the best case scenario for completely boycotting voting for the democrats?

See that's the fun part

I genuinely am not sure.

I genuinely don't know and at this rate I'm a little scared?

I don't wanna vote for Biden again. And in a perfect world (or at least my ideal) enough people would vote for hard for 3rd party that Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia would be voted into office. Hell, if the Democrats backed someone who wasn't Joe Biden for president I'd have more hope (depending on the person of course).

Unfortunately any conversation I have outside of Tumblr about the election basically ends in 'yeah I don't like Biden and I don't like Trump but voting 3rd party isn't really an option because of how the system works' so it's really hard for me to believe that enough people are gonna actually vote third party for it to work the way we'd like?

So the best case scenario would be 'so many people vote for a third party candidate like Claudia and Karina that they get elected into office and make sweeping changes we all love and need.'

I'm just not sure if the best case scenario is what's actually gonna happen. In fact, I am really scared that it won't.

I know this isn't the bright sunny hopeful take people were probably hoping for from the resident SolarpunkAni but its something that's been kinda haunting me for the past few weeks so here's my thoughts.

[rigginsstreet]

Florida debates whether or not a 14 year old being forced to live in an 8x8 room in the garage with only a bed a desk and bucket is child abuse 🙄

[wingsofhcpe]

Begging people to realise that conquest/war isn't necessarily the same thing as colonisation, also why would you accuse an author who's a woc and who explicitly wrote a Filipino-inspired story with a Filipino-coded FMC, of "writing coloniser romance".... the reading comprehension is out of the window I'm afraid.

[netripper]

actually now that i think ab it johnny wouldn’t get pissy over vic’s driving. he strikes me as a joyride kinda guy. i’m like 100% sure he grew up around a bunch of car rednecks with these crazy ass hotrods in the 90s, then hotrod culture died down, then he got to NC and lo and behold it’s fuckin flourishing

[batemanofficial]

got randomly nostalgic for living in florida. somebody shoot me

[ghwosty]

don't ask but I've been checking in on the Marlins v Yankees game and im new to paying any real active attention to this sport so like.. is it normal for it to be the 4th inning and nearly everyone's striking out and neither team has scored yet? do both teams just suck at hitting a damn ball?? is this my life now? are you there god? It's me, fuck you

[3416]

maybe this is just my frustration with being forced to watch mitchless hockey but last year's push to the playoffs felt genuine - there were multiple trades made for players that clearly added value and kicked the end of the season into high gear (we got ror and had that electric game against buffalo when anything felt possible). this year has just felt so bleh bc we've known about the glaring gaps in depth scoring and the blue line since the beginning of the season and then it just got worse throughout the season and now we haven't had anything to address it - it's hard to see genuine hope for this team and it feels like a slog of hot streaks and disconnected play in between. i watch them bc the core does incredible record-breaking things almost every game but it's hard to belive in a team that's really not that exciting or can barely hold their own in some cases, other than the core.

i agree to an extent!! maybe it's bc last year was my first full year really paying attention to hockey too and everything was shiny and new, but i had a really good time and then. kyle leaving hit and a lot of the old room guys left and it just....... idk. i needed last summer for a reset and i went into this year hopeful but. it's been a disappointment in a lot of ways.

as for the playoffs part... i mean, i just convince myself the leafs are gonna win the cup until they don't so lfksdjlf it's easy for me to be like go leafs ! ! ! but i'm definitely not having as much fun or putting as much stake in the overall team success as i was last year. the fact that they won their first playoff series in decades last year was SO special and cannot be replicated or outdone or relived unless they win a cup now, which is a tall ask esp with this lineup. i definitely care less about this team on the whole and have less belief in them than i did which is... fine. they also feel less like a team. maybe every year i'll just care less and less or maybe brad will do something over the summer that's exciting or, idk. the fandom in general has really detracted from it for me too this year, and i just care less/feel actively annoyed by more and maybe that's a me thing or maybe the average age of ppl everywhere is staying put pretty low and i'm just getting too old for some of this but. can't wait to get a break this year, that's all lol

[ratatatastic]

or alternatively dweeb meets other dweeb more news at 11

LIGHT. LIGHT IN HIS EYES. LOOK AT EM BIG OLE EYES. LOOK AT HIM TOUCH HIS JERSEY.

GLORY BE TO THE MIKKSY SIGNED JERSEY RAAAAAAAAA

CanesWear Signing | 7.1.24

[scullysflannel]

detour (the x-files 1997) is like a green screen episode to me. man this one’s gonna be good when they finish it (replace the canada trees with florida trees)

[solarpunkani]

Laying in bed wishing I was in a field full of milkweed collecting seeds

[toughtink]

wish people would stop saying cosplay is banned in florida