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In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be. Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

it would probably be sorta hard for just anyone to do it *this well* because it requires you to actually be normal about trans people, but still it feels important to state for the record that WE ARE NOT HARD TO STAND UP FOR AND ANY OF THEM COULD DO IT.

DON'T PRINT LIES IN THE VOTERS PAMPHLET

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Couldn’t say it better myself.

look if Dolly Parton needs you to pray for her then you find a scrap of floor and get to fucking work

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

"Who Goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson, Harper's, August 1941. Give it a read, play the game, see if you recognize anyone you know today. Sadly, it's going to matter. Brilliant, uncanny, timeless. Oh, and btw, RESIST like your life depends on it, bc it might. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Fuck me running.

Not that I would support banning any book but King’s definitely have the highest occurrence of someone reading his books waaaaay too young “Book about scary clown” —> “child orgy” Reading King in middle school and getting something far above your age group is practically a rite of passage

Daily bunny no.3094 has been caught red-handed

Because he's one of the few comic writers who can do real palpable Drama, Greg Rucka doesn't get too many chances to do a story that's just purely Fun. CHEETAH AND CHESHIRE ROB THE JUSTICE LEAGUE might be his most fun book.

Out tomorrow, Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League #3. Klarion has a crush. Art by @nicolascottart.bsky.social with colors by Annette Kwok, lettering by Troy Peteri!

In that note, Seattle folks: from now through spring when the cruise ships come back, Pike Place Market is heavily reliant on locals. Swing through to pick up some fish or some fruit or a book from one of the bookstores if you can. As an added bonus, you get this view all to yourself:

SUPERGIRL!

Dear My Phone, My Computer, My Apps, My Electronic Devices, and so forth: Please stop asking me if I want to enable AI. Or use your janky AI tool. Or load my documents or pictures with a bunch of useless, off-putting, earth-killing AI junk. I don't want it. I SAID I don't want it. Stop offering.

Don’t forget that LAZARUS: FALLEN 4 is out today, with a back cover that’s hilariously funny if you are me and therefore get all of the references. Good stuff inside from @gregrucka.com @airy.bsky.social @michaellark.bsky.social @mercuryeric.bsky.social @alejandrobot.com and Santi Arcas.

working with Jay as a writing coach has been immensely beneficial to my process as well as to my mindset going into pitching season. i highly recommend Jay’s services to any of my friends who’re looking for a way to reach the next level of their comics career.

L’shana Tova! Got my flu and Covid shots today! My nurse was super sweet, shots nearly painless, and we did a little dance to celebrate her very full waiting room and both of us having a great hair day.

Cheating History kickstarter is live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/che...

My therapist and I are Of An Age such that we recently reflected on how, when we were young, people who wanted Followers were generally not to be trusted: Jim Jones, Manson, etc. Sometimes it’s strange be in a world where Follower Count just Is a Thing that justified whatever dumb shit you say.

So my go-to comfort food reading is mid-century whodunnits. But surprise! Everyone in these books is worried about Nazis and the price of eggs.

Heads up, the Burbank Progressives (who initiated today's protest at Disney) will be present again tomorrow at 12 PM at Disney in Burbank. I'll be there and I’ve spoken to other WGA and SAG members who will join us as well. Please spread the word! See y'all tomorrow! #JimmyKimmel #FreedomOfSpeech

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

My take from the last few days: protest if you feel safe doing so. Sign up to protest if you are fortunate enough to feel safe doing so. Protest however you can, big or small. They are trying to take from us even the language with which to object. Protest that, and all their other myriad sins.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Good news for Oregonians: you can now get the new Covid vaccine without a prescription (which had been required before now for some stupid reason). Go get it! Keep yourself and your community safe. #PDX

Folks, these are OLD friends of mine. Like 20+ years friends. We've seem some shit together. They're good people, working hard to make the world a more progressive place. 1100 bucks is not a huge ask. Can we do this?

So there are three Apple trees in my yard and bc I am a Bad Arborist they don’t make great eating apples. But Today! I have picked a gazillion of them! And squished! And now cooking the beginning of a cider to rival all ciders! Also pectin! I feel so 19thc accomplished!

Sometimes that involves specific skills, like working in a new medium. Sometimes it involves career goals, like pitching or querying agents. Often, it involves recovering from burnout and establishing a safe, sustainable writing practice. (cont'd)

Coaching isn't editing, nor is it teaching, although it can involve components of both. In its most basic form, it's meeting writers where they are and helping them a) figure out where they want to go, and b) get there. (cont'd)

I've been posting about coaching for writers on and off for a while, and I want to take a minute to talk a bit more about what exactly that is and why I do it. 🧵

If you know @heroinitiative.bsky.social, you probably know long-time volunteer Desiree Rincon gofund.me/ef0d133a0

I like my martini with a twist because what goes better with liquor than a soupçon of yellow starburst? Ya boy sold a creator-owned book today

Just about everything Greg Rucka writes* is a favorite, not sure why it took so long to get into The Forged. Loving it, such a great hard sci-fi “bioengineered humanity 10,000 years in the future” kind of thing, but so compelling from the get-go among all the […] [Original post on ohai.social]

This is a really fun book that people seem to be sleeping on. Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League by Nicola Scott, Greg Rucka, Troy Peteri and Annette Kwok. #Booksky #Comicsky

Repeating with proper linkage -- new newsletter today, talking process, heists and Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League #2! Free! Might make you smile, and God knows we could use some smiles.... front-towards-enemy.ghost.io/16-whackjobs...

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

Out today! If the world has been beating you up, this is a book that @nicolascottart.bsky.social and I believe will bring some smiles!

Jade and Barbara Anne's chemistry is perfect in Cheeta and Chesire Rob the Justice League. I shouldn't be surprised by how good a Greg Rucka book is, but I'm still blown away, and @nicolascottart.bsky.social's art is phenomenal. #comicsky

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Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future

Share this tweet if you are down for a national walkout.

Bluskie Femme-presenters of a Certain Age: is it normal to see frequent following accounts that look like ‘a great catch’ if you’re a hetero single lib, & they’re only following others in your demo? I assume this a catfishing thing and it’s both hilarious and super annoying. I block instantly.