Happy release day to @gregrucka.com, @nicolascottart.bsky.social and Annette Kwok! Love this book to bits and glad to own a nice collected edition.

Out tomorrow: THE FORGED returns with issue 10 and the beginning of a new story arc. Our heroes, to prevent a massive genocide, rebel against their Empress. "Galaxy's Most Wanted" begins here! @gregrucka.com @mikeshenderson.bsky.social @airy.bsky.social @nolanwoodard.bsky.social @alejandrobot.com

Not just for sleep sound thingies. Really good curated mixes for all kinds of stuff.

Open windows season! I can hear an an accomplished young drummer, a decent oboist and a new violinist all practicing alongside all the chatty birds and it’s just lovely

Woke up convinced The Pogues once covered Stevie Wonder’s My Cherie Amour at double time with a tin whistle for the flute part. Have searched to no avail. Sad now.

Free think piece prompts: Hospitality is the best field for shy people. When people say I’m ‘not myself’ today, what do they mean? Generational cohorts (Boomers, etc.) are a myth invented by Big Punditry. Mothers’ Day should be more like The Purge. Moms get a free pass to fix shit hard.

I think Farscape was a pretty good TV show

Oh! Haiku season! Once again, I get to say Hey! Haiku Season!

NEW SHIRT ALERT! Grab the new "Rowling Funds Hate" or "Outlive The Bastards" shirts (or any other crewneck tees) from our trans-owned shop. Buy One, Get Your 2nd 30% Off, no code needed, through April 30th!

I'm so happy we're back! It's gonna be a weird and wild time.

Golden Age British detective fic can seem light, all rail timetables, missing twins, and manor houses. Just below the surface we know it’s aboil with PTSD from two wars, an epidemic, a depression, and tons of colonizer guilt and shame. Make stories now. One day the grandkids may see us whole.

I still care about California politics; where I was born and 4 generations of family lived and taught and farmed and joined their labor unions. Sending what I can spare to Xavier Becerra because I think he’d make a good Governor. www.xavierbecerra2026.com

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 521 - Snowflakes www.xplainthexmen.com/2026/04/snow...

🚨 Only two weeks to FOC and I can shut up about it! 🚨

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I had no idea how much I wanted a super heist… Ocean’s 11, with the Legion of Doom, for all kinds of awesome @gregrucka.com writes with wit & snap, & @nicolascottart.bsky.social makes very pretty pictures What’s next? Can’t wait to find out

The teens? Gen Z. The meme? Gen Alpha. The bookseller/mom, a bemused elder millennial. The giggles? Eternal. Come to Books with Pictures in Portland OR for initial D and all your manga needs!

This campaign has not raised $19k, IDK why this thumbnail says that. It's at $3,950/$20,000 as of the time of this comment. A thousand thank you’s to everyone who has shared and donated already. It really means everything 🙏💚

This is a good point, as I think saying, "People didn't vote for this" or suggesting that Trump fooled his voters enables a narrative that this is not the predictable outcome from voting for Republicans. If my In and Out fries are underdone and tasteless, I can't say "I didn't order this."

After 15+ years of observation, I have reached a conclusion about social media interactions: It is far more painful to be willfully misunderstood by a handful of almost-allies than to be screamed at by a hundred frothing enemies.

We still want to hear from you. We’re wrapping up our audience survey on Tuesday, April 7, but there’s still time to share your perspective. In just five minutes, you can tell us what matters most to you and help shape the future of Prison Journalism Project.

Because I SUCK I didn't get a blurb to @davewielgosz.bsky.social in time for this but I read it, I LOVED it, and I urge people to pre-order. Inventive take and awesome premise, quiet in its intensity and left me eager for issue 2! And Dave, sorry I dropped the ball, man. :/

Master of the craft of storytelling, @davidfwalker.bsky.social is back on Black Comics Chat to discuss the ongoing Kickstarter campaign for his incredible book, The Monster of Blackenstyne! Listen and support David's campaign at www.kickstarter.com/projects/dfw... youtu.be/D520U_2vU0k

I Ike giving my dog a lil treat so stinky that after she finds it she can still smell it and keeps looking. Is that mean?

It's. Not. Complicated. (but if you want more (trans, intersex and gnc) Torah Values, there are a lot here):

a friend recently shared this with me and i'm obsessed — it's an MTV/VH1 simulator with almost 30,000 videos (organized by decade) along with special sections for things like 120 Minutes, Unplugged, Yo! MTV Raps, and Pop-Up Video (!!!) wantmymtv.vercel.app

I don't get to treat myself to things often but Bibi makes useful items for disabled people that are beautiful and colorful as well as just having cute stuff for everyone and I always like what I get and I really think you will too.

New badge bricks in time for #BricksCascade, Oregon’s biggest & best LEGO event! Preorder now at Brickdiculous.com

Had the opportunity to read an advance of this and it is terrific!!

#Parapsychologist out now by @takisoma.bsky.social @marks22 with art by @cattifer.bsky.social#Parapsychologistis an unlikely psychologist whose patients are nothing but supernatural whilst juggling his work and family- #bigfoot #Nessie #Ghosts and more fun coming from @Comixology https://a.co/d/0fCPi5w7

Post something random or you will have an awful April. (Doing this despite my certainty that I will have an awful April.)

it's never "meet the liberals pushing for nuremberg 2.0" is it?

We’re wrapping up our audience survey in less than a week. Can you can tell us what matters most to you and help shape the future of Prison Journalism Project? (If you've already taken the survey, please help amplify. Thank you.❤️)

Carefully consider what you want from the comics industry, because a worthwhile career often doesn't come from "breaking into" this business, but instead carving your own unique space out of it.

#Booksky Not an April Fool’s post! @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social in Brooklyn is working on buying the Bureau of Investigative Services - Queer Division bookstore before it closes on 4/30. Keep a queer bookstore alive in Manhattan! www.gofundme.com/f/save-manha...

I think “so that” should be replaced by “while” but I’ve got no edit button.

You might forward this story to every Marine you know.

I think it’s interesting how much energy marginalized groups spend self-policing so that those closer to the unattainable hegemonic center can 1) police them more efficiently, and 2) never self-police.

Summer 1990, @gregrucka.com & I are at the Village Gate to see Bob Dorough & Bill Takas and when we request, late in the evening, School House Rock songs, they are genuinely *astounded*. One of the best nights of my life.

Tell them that mole looks like cancer. Tell them they smell like piss. Tell them even their dog hates them. Tell them they'll die alone and unfulfilled. Tell them they have dandruff. Tell them their kids will tell people their dads died in a septic tank accident just to get people to stop asking.

The year is 2030. I now own a home in every walkable US neighborhood, which I've paid for by selling rubber stamps that say "refused to release the Epstein files"

I have no friends in San Diego clearly but bumping in case.

Mass Defense Hotline has been a gateway to support for anyone dealing with the carceral system in Multnomah County since 2017. Wear this design as a reminder to memorize it when risking arrest. All proceeds to Defense Fund PDX, Portland's longstanding bail fund. 🔗 cottonbureau.com/p/E44M9H/shi...

Two prestigious Portland theater companies are teaming up to stage a Tony-nominated Broadway show, reimagining Shakespeare’s sulky prince of Denmark as a queer Black teen at a backyard cookout. His mom is still marrying his uncle (!), but after that, things diverge from the expected route.

As a lady of a certain age who thoroughly enjoyed enjoying HP with her children as they grew up: Fuck this IP and JKR for the harm she’s done with the money and socio-political capital she’s found herself with, much on the backs of the oddballs and misfits who trusted her. All the way to hell.

If you need a sort of audio timeline cleanse: the equivalent of some sort of baby wild animal being adorable: Highly recommend almost anything by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers.