HOW TO FUCKING PASSPORT ALL HANDS ON FUCKING DECK EDITION(UNITED STATES)
AS OF TODAY, FEBRUARY 12 2025, A BILL KNOWN AS THE SAVE ACT HAS PASSED THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND IS HEADING FOR THE SENATE.
EFFECTIVELY THIS MEANS THAT YOU WILL NEED TO PROVIDE PROOF OF US CITIZENSHIPTO BE ABLE TO VOTE IF THIS THING BECOMES LAW.
THIS IS A FUCKING PROBLEM FOR EVERYBODY, ESPECIALLY MARRIED WOMEN AND MARRIED MEN WHO HAVE CHANGED THEIR NAMES
THEY WOULD BECOME INELIGIBLE TO VOTE, SIMPLY BECAUSE THEIR MARRIED NAME WON’T MATCH WHAT’S ON THEIR BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
FROM A NEWSWEEK ARTICLE:
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IF YOU DON’T WANNA PRESENT YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE/NATURALIZATION CERTIFICATE/OTHER FORM OF ID, GUESS WHAT YOU’RE GONNA HAVE TO GET?!
PASSPORT
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IF YOU HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO GET A PASSPORT BUT WERE ON THE FENCE ABOUT IT NOW IS THE FUCKING TIME. THERE IS NO CHANCE THAT IF THIS THING BECOMES LAW THAT THE REQUIREMENTS TO GET A US PASSPORT WON’T SUDDENLY CHANGE TO MAKE IT A LOT HARDER TO GET ONE.
IF YOU KNOW SOMEBODY WHO IS MARRIED, START SPREADING THE WORD.
IF PASSPORT COSTS ARE WHAT’S STOPPING YOU, THEN THERE IS A FAIRLY EASY SOLUTION, WHICH IS A PASSPORT CARD.
THE PROCESS FOR GETTING ONE OF THESE BAD BOYS IS THE SAME AS GETTING A PASSPORT BOOK, BUT YOU ONLY PAY $30!!
ADD IN THE PROCESSING FEE OF $35 AND THE COST OF A PASSPORT PHOTO (say roughly 7-10 bucks) AND THE GRAND TOTAL WILL BE $75 (as an example).
NOT TO MENTION THIS IS A VERY STRONG FORM OF PRIMARY ID. I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT EVEN IF YOU CAN GET THE PASSPORT BOOK, SPEND THE EXTRA 30 TO GET THIS AS A DL/STATE ID BACKUP.
[diverting for a moment. I got the passport card as backup for my DL because quite honestly I am afraid of what would happen to me should I ever get pulled over/whatever situation, because of my skin color. And if you’re reading this and you haven’t gotten your DL/State ID/things are fucked up with it–I am saying this right now, please. Unfuck it. Get the driving test done. Get the state ID. We are in the fuck around and find out stage and you having solid forms of identification will provide you some means of protection. If you are in a situation where you are experiencing difficulty unfucking your ID or aren’t too sure on how to go about getting it, I would suggest contacting the state DMV for info or seek out your local community immigration/queer/whatever your situation may be help resources, specifically legal aid. They can advise you far better than I, I have no experience in this department save for my own as a biracial woman. I am sharing what knowledge I can because for me, this is how I can help right now.]
SPREAD THE WORD.
CURRENT PASSPORT PROCESSING TIMES AS OF 2/12/2025
4-6 WEEKS ROUTINE 2-3 WEEKS EXPEDITED (YOU PAY AN EXTRA 60 BUCKS)
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AND CALL YOUR REPS! EVEN IF YOU’RE IN A RED STATE! BECOME A PEST!! THIS IS GETTING AS MUCH SAND IN THE GEARS AS POSSIBLE TO SLOW/STALL/STOP THIS SHIT!!
You’re not supposed to apply stickers, paint, or markings to hard hats because they might conceal damage. You are ESPECIALLY not supposed to apply large amounts. You can get away with your name and mayne a small sticker. But that many? Garfield is getting a write up.
We also figured out—the hard way—that the ancients probably cut each layer of linen to the proper shape before gluing them together. For our first linothorax, we glued together 15 layers of linen to form a one centimeter-thick slab, and then tried to cut out the required shape. Large shears were defeated; bolt cutters failed. The only way we were ultimately able to cut the laminated linen slab was with an electric saw equipped with a blade for cutting metal. At least this confirmed our suspicion that linen armor would have been extremely tough. We also found out that linen stiffened with rabbit glue strikes dogs as in irresistibly tasty rabbit-flavored chew toy, and that our Labrador retriever should not be left alone with our research project.
I love this in every way possible. What is it from? Where can I read more?
The pitfalls of experimental archaeology and puppies.
link to source:
“Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery, or how Linen Armor Came to Dominate our Lives.”
We found that even more of a threat than rain was one’s own sweat on a hot day. So, yes, it does need waterproofing, both inside and out. We did a number of experiments along those lines, and found that rubbing a block of beeswax over all sides of the armor provided nice waterproofing. It also makes the armor smell nice! When you wear it for a couple hours, your own body heat softens the glue a bit and makes it conform to your body shape, so it is much more comfortable to wear than rigid types of armor. Our reconstructions weighed about 10 pounds–about one third the weight of bronze armor that would provide the same degree of protection.
Honey i gotta go to war… not to smell my bee armor or hang with the boys or anything no.. uhh we need to uh do war things?
While all of this mayhem (both scientifically controlled and free-form) convinced us that our linothorax was ancient-battlefield-ready, we still felt compelled to try a real-life scenario, so Scott donned the armor and Greg shot him. And while we had confidence in our armor, our relief was still considerable when the arrowhead stuck and lodged in the armor’s outer layers, a safe distance away from flesh.
a good life-size mannequin is expensive but i guarantee it would’ve cost way less than they were spending on all that linen.
The number of people who want a community where their neighbors shovel their driveway for them but also a community where they don’t ever make eye contact with their neighbors.
“I want to be pampered like a prince and waited upon hand and foot by my lowly serfs, also ACAB 1313 NO GODS NO MASTERS!”
“The markings upon the band begin to fade. The writing, which at first was as clear as red flame, has all but disappeared… a secret now that only fire can tell.” – The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, 2001
Want to knit this scarf? You can download my free pattern here! 🙂
This is called illusion knitting! Basically, you knit a pattern in 2 color stripes, but then you use the difference between the texture of knits and purls to make a pattern appear at a low angle
When you look at it from the aide, a knit stitch looks flat while a purl stitch looks like a little bump. So if you have a pattern of knits and purls you look at from the side, the knit stitches will fade into the background while the purl stitches will stay visible. You use that effect, while keeping a steady stripe pattern, to create the illusion:
From above: plain stripes because your eye focuses on the colors
From the side: you see the pattern of purl stitches because they stick up above the flatter knit stitches
“The markings upon the band begin to fade. The writing, which at first was as clear as red flame, has all but disappeared… a secret now that only fire can tell.” – The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, 2001
Want to knit this scarf? You can download my free pattern here! 🙂
This is called illusion knitting! Basically, you knit a pattern in 2 color stripes, but then you use the difference between the texture of knits and purls to make a pattern appear at a low angle
When you look at it from the aide, a knit stitch looks flat while a purl stitch looks like a little bump. So if you have a pattern of knits and purls you look at from the side, the knit stitches will fade into the background while the purl stitches will stay visible. You use that effect, while keeping a steady stripe pattern, to create the illusion:
From above: plain stripes because your eye focuses on the colors
From the side: you see the pattern of purl stitches because they stick up above the flatter knit stitches
“A tribal-led nonprofit is creating a network of native bison ranchers that are restoring ecosystems on the Great Plains, restoring native ranchers’ connections with their ancestral land, and restoring the native diet that their ancestors relied on.
Called the Tanka Fund, they coordinate donors and partners to help ranchers secure grazing land access, funds needed to install and repair fencing, increase their herd sizes, and access markets for bison meat across the country.
That’s the human part of the story. But as Dawn Sherman, executive director of the Tanka Fund, told Native Sun News,they’re “buffalo people” and these four-legged, 2,000 lbs. “cousins” are equal-part-protagonists.
The return of the bison means the return of the prairie, one of the three great grassland ecosystems on the planet, of which just 1% remains as it was when the Mayflower arrived.
“Bringing buffalo back to their ancestral homelands is essential to restoring the ecosystem. We know that the buffalo is a keystone species,” said Dawn Sherman, a member of the Lakota, Delaware, Shawnee, and Cree.
“Bringing the buffalo back to the land and to our people, helps restore the ecosystem and everything it supports from the animals to the plants to the people. It’s come full circle. That’s how we see it.”
As Sherman and the Tanka Fund help native ranchers grow their operations, everyone is well aware of the power of the bison to transform the environment: just as nations across Europe are, who are reintroducing wood bison to various ecosystems, for all the same reasons.
Sherman points out the variety of ways in which buffalo anchor the prairie ecosystem. The almost-extinct black-footed ferret, she points out, lived symbiotically with the bison, and with the latter gone, the former followed—nearly.
The long-billed curlew uses bison dung as a disguise to hide nests from predators. Deer, pronghorn antelope, and elk all rely on bison to plow through deep snows and uncover the grasses that these smaller animals can’t reach.
Everywhere the bison hurls its massive body, life springs in the beast’s wake. When bison roll about on the plains, it creates depressions known as wallows. These fill with rainwater and create enormous puddles where amphibians and insects thrive and reproduce. Certain plants evolved to grow in the wet conditions of the wallows which Native Americans harvested for food and medicine.
Native plants evolved under the trampling hooves of millions of bison, and that constant tamping down of the Earth is a key necessity in the spreading of native wildflower seed.
Indeed, Sherman says some of these native ranchers are bringing bison onto lands still visibly affected by the Dust Bowl, and already the animals are acting like a giant wooly cure-all for the land’s ills.
Since 2020, the Tanka Fund, in partnership with the Inter-Tribal Buffalo Council and the Nature Conservancy,has overseen the transfer of 2,300 bison from Nature Conservancy reserves to lands managed by ranchers within the Tanka Fund network.
“[T]he more animals that we can get the more of that prairie we can restore,” said Sherman. “We can help restore the land that has been plowed and has been leased out to cattle ranchers.””
-Article via Good News Network, February 13, 2025. Video via Tanka Fund, July 17, 2024.
shirt that says “i love redundancy!” on the front and on the back it says “i love redundancy!”
before this reaches 1k notes i would like everyone to take a moment to appreciate my position of seeing it over and over again as i scroll thru to try to find notes on literally any of my other posts
People are like “well republicans are able to bomb a building to the ground, why can’t Democrats snap their fingers and give the voters a beautiful 5 star building in a single day?”
They also say this while handing Republicans the bomb and refusing to give Democrats the tools to build anything
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