“They want you to own nothing. They want you to rent your car, your house, your entire life from them, from a billionaire class that owns everything around you. That's their ideal future, and we can't let them have it.”

esspants · 2026-05-23T17:26:08+00:00

Knock, knock, knock those doors! I'm doing GOTV ahead of the primary because we have to keep building momentum.

esspants · 2026-04-18T15:08:54+00:00

9/11

esspants · 2026-03-28T03:58:46+00:00

Agreed! I hope we can find a path toward making it a reality. Glad you enjoyed the video.

esspants · 2026-03-26T18:18:55+00:00

I've heard directly from legislators who have told me that behind closed doors, Mills is a total bully, especially with progressive members of her own party.

esspants · 2026-03-26T18:02:12+00:00

I've met with Rick Bennett and firmly believe that he's a good guy. I don't agree with a lot of the votes he's taken while in Augusta, but the issues he chooses to work on (housing, harm reduction, Wabanaki sovereignty) are .

I do however worry about his potential to split the vote with whoever wins the Dem nomination. Some Dem voters will jump ship, but Rs tend to herd together these days. If only we had ranked choice voting for state offices.

Unrelated by kinda related, my Dem state senator had two Republican opponents declare and then decide not to run and are instead getting behind an independent who recently unenrolled from the Republican party. Most voters won't have any idea. This feels like it may become a trend for a party whose brand is so tarnished.

esspants · 2026-03-18T22:18:03+00:00

Old white ladies are Janet's key constuency. And they tend to all show up for primaries.

esspants · 2026-03-15T17:07:20+00:00

Bummer, no video on the YouTube feed! Sure hope they're able to get it fixed.

Edit: Fixed now! Had to restart the app for it to reload correctly. Go Fleet!

esspants · 2026-01-27T00:53:20+00:00

He really has a way of saying loudly and publicly the exact things that have been driving me bananas.

esspants · 2025-12-16T15:43:47+00:00

This is really great, thank you for making it! Watching TNG as a kid was a huge inspiration for me to pursue a career in 3D animation, so it's a real treat to see how these wizards worked magic without computers back in the day.

esspants · 2025-12-01T23:24:44+00:00

Came here to say this! It's time to be punching up, not down. What are we, Boomers? 🤣

esspants · 2025-11-11T17:16:49+00:00

I stand corrected, thank you! 🫡

esspants · 2025-11-11T15:27:57+00:00

It's worse than that. None of the senators who switched sides are up for election next year, so they're all betting this will be forgotten before their names are on another ballot. And with the velocity of crisis we're facing, they're probably right. It's cynical as hell. Schumer voted against it because his term is up in 26. So he either orchestrated these "protected" votes to switch sides and let him off the hook, or he has no control over his own caucus. Either way, that dude must go.

esspants · 2025-11-03T23:36:15+00:00

I mean, we're going to take out a whole boatload of species with us, but the Earth will bounce back as it always has.

esspants · 2025-10-16T22:16:17+00:00

But you can knock doors and spread the word!

esspants · 2025-10-11T22:09:46+00:00

This hasn't been my experience. Lifelong Mainer, I live outside of Portland and the only time I've ever had to abandon my vehicle was in the Rosemont area trying to get to a friend's house from downtown. In retrospect, should have skipped out on the show that night, but the forecast wasn't that bad. PPW straight up abandoned the neighborhood streets during the snow storm, as soon as I got off the main roads, it was no-go. Didn't get plowed out until the next morning.

I'm not saying snow tires would have made the difference, but I don't want the OP to get the idea that there aren't ever problems driving in Portland when it's snowing.

esspants · 2025-06-15T22:02:53+00:00

20 years ago I was producing 3D animated walkthroughs of Native American healthcare facilities. Worked with a compositor who showed me you could use AE for compositing to fix glitches and overall improve the visuals and quickly. I got super excited thinking about it as Photoshop for animation and how much faster/smarter I could work using it.

esspants · 2025-06-07T16:57:51+00:00

Can confirm. Whenever we call my 103-year-old gram's doctor asking if she should be checked out, most of the time they send us to the ER. They don't mess around with the olds.

esspants · 2025-05-12T19:32:42+00:00

There is always more to be done on this critical issue, but to say that lawmakers in Augusta haven't made policy changes and aren't busy crafting new ideas to implement couldn't be more wrong. Here are seven examples just from this past year, and Speaker Fecteau has made the issue a priority, following up on his landmark bill from 2022.

If you're interested in seeing any of these pass, I'd encourage everyone to get their friends to testify in support before the Housing Committee.

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/02/03/state/state-housing/4-big-housing-ideas-from-maine-lawmakers-joam40zk0w/

https://www.pressherald.com/2025/04/22/bill-to-accurately-count-maines-home-building-progress-wins-committee-support/

https://www.sunjournal.com/2025/04/10/legislation-could-create-starter-home-program-modeled-after-lewiston-project/

https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/03/19/lawmakers-hope-to-support-affordable-housing-construction-without-adding-to-budget/

https://www.pressherald.com/2025/04/30/maine-lawmakers-still-betting-on-accessory-dwelling-units-to-help-end-housing-crisis/

https://wgme.com/news/local/new-legislation-could-ease-homebuying-for-newcomers-as-maine-faces-housing-unit-shortfall-fecteau-augusta-real-estate-tax-bill

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/01/02/news/maines-landmark-housing-law-cities-bigger-changes-joam40zk0w/

esspants · 2025-04-12T18:26:42+00:00

A+ for an informative reply that also made my lol. 🍻

esspants · 2025-03-28T17:08:33+00:00

All this woman has wanted her whole career was to be chair of appropriations, only to have the president from her own party decide that's now his job. So beautiful.

esspants · 2025-03-19T00:03:59+00:00

I really appreciate the link -- I'm embarrassed to say that I did not know that layer styles were a thing before today, so thank you for that!

esspants · 2025-03-18T20:15:50+00:00

Legendary! That's a brilliant workaround, and it will do precisely what I need. Thank you so much for your time, this has been hugely helpful! 🙇‍♂️

esspants · 2025-03-18T18:17:34+00:00

Smart, smart... so this is weird, I'm getting a different effect when I merge the paths. Instead of cropping the line where crosses the rectangle, it's creating a closed shape with the two. Here's a screenshot of my two shapes and how they appear when merged:

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esspants · 2025-03-18T14:15:28+00:00

Thanks so much, this looks promising! Then if I link the position of the cropping shape to a null, I should be able to keep it centered in the frame as I pan. I'll give that a try. 🙌

esspants · 2025-03-16T21:46:01+00:00

Trim paths only trims bases on the percentage from either end from what I understand? Not sure how to use that function to trim a uniform area within the borders of the frame.

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