Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

So tired of blacking out every full moon when I really want to stay up and help the townsfolk hunt for the werewolf

I’m starting to worry that a lot of the guys gushing about Obsession might not get the obvious point. 🧵

Screw a comfort character, who’s your CONFRONT character?! Like a character you'd beat the absolute sh*t out of if you had the ability to? Steve Dayton, what a loser. Anyone who plays with Rita's feelings like that is dead to me. Also, he's like a billionaire or something so it's morally correct

I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.

These are my kids, NISSAN ALTIMA and Psycho Killer

To a surprise to nobody, I think the new Olivia Rodrigo album is pretty great

Overheard conversation between two middle aged white guys: “Dude, you realize Helen of Troy is a fictional character, right?”

“No one in America was sentenced to die of heatstroke in a prison." As temperatures soar across the U.S., prisons become increasingly deadly. Must-read 👇

Watching some folks in my industry trip over themselves to dogpile this lady to essentially say "shut up & dribble" has been so disappointing & it's the exact reason why so many below-the-line folks fear publicly talking about exploitive work conditions.

Unreasonably excited for the Olivia Rodrigo album tonight

I'm begging for transhumanists to add an ounce of hamster suffrage to their politics.

This is what the U.S. calls a “proportionate” response to the downing of an Apache helicopter: destroying reservoirs that leave 20,000 people without water. “Staying below the threshold of escalation” yields not deescalation, let alone peace, but atrocities like this.

i love seeing apes but the older i get the more i think "these are people and we probably shouldn't have them on public display like this."

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

Happy Pride Month!

I’m finally caught up with Dimension 20: City Council of Darkness, and this season with the intrepid heroes might be one of the best yet

In case you needed a reminder: union baristas are still asking you to NOT BUY STARBUCKS at ANY location. Delete the app off your phone, and sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge to get updates on local calls to action! nocontractnocoffee.org

Big Brother is watching you Learn to become Invisible

I came up with a metaphor for US military intervention If you see two people fighting on the street, it’s the right thing to do to try to break it up. It’s not the right thing to do if you have chainsaws for hands

I went to some garage sales today. The first house had pat buchanon books for sale and what I think might have been confederate paintings(?) and the last house was a nice queer throuple. Indianapolis is weird

I am incapable of hearing the word “carnival” without the Bikini Kill song playing in my head

what’s your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 2000s - 28 Days Later 2010s - BlacKkKlansman 2020s - Everything Everywhere All At Once

Standards are different than purity tests, and being willing to give someone a second chance does not mean you need to immediately trust them with a seat in the US Senate.

One time I got so drunk I apparently made my roommates listen to Sticky by Tyler, the Creator etc about 12 times on the apartment tv. No nazi tattoos

Announcing DOWNRIGHT SCOUNDRELS NEEDED. The Anarchist Cookbook meets Unforgiven in a story that is unapologetically about the means and methods one should use to interfere with the logistics and supply lines of those in power. March 2027.

Rest In Power

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

My pick for Best Ongoing Series is The Department of Truth by @jamesthefourth.bsky.social, @martinsimmonds.bsky.social, @adityab.net, Letizia Cadonici and Jordie Bellaire. This is probably a surprise to nobody who knows me as I won't shut up about how much I love Tynion comics, especially this one.

Getting my little brother to finally watch X2 with me tonight and he’s loving it

I agree with this. I’m a Fever fan, and it does frustrate me how much the media and other fans treat Clark and Cunningham as the star and face of the team instead of the better (black) players who actually carry us. Give Aliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell at least the same attention.

My favorites for the Eisner awards thread starting here: Best Limited Series Everything Dead & Dying by @tatebrombal.bsky.social, @thatjacobphillips.bsky.social, @pipmartin.bsky.social, and @adityab.net is phenomenal, if you haven't heard already.

Nobody told me Lamorne Morris was in the Spider-Noir show. I guess I’ll watch it now

Reminder to lawmakers across the U.S. wishing the LGBTQ+ community a Happy Pride Month: Lesbian, gay, & bisexual people are 2.25x more likely to be arrested than straight individuals. It’s time to stop the criminalization of LGBTQ+ people.

Happy pride y’all

Together, our voices will be heard! Sign our #DHWU petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/da... 🐴✊

Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

If you don’t know: Kettling is used to trap people, then issuing an order to disperse when there’s nowhere to disperse to, then gassing, beating, and/or doing mass arrests. I’ve been arrested this way before. Wishing everyone outside Delaney tonight safe home. Love to those trapped inside. 🖤

For some reason, the Platner sycophants always frame it as if there is absolutely no other choice besides Planter vs. Collins. Ranked choice voting means that even the frontrunners can lose, and badly, to a more popular 3rd choice. You just have to have the capacity to think beyond binaries.

Second night of Jersey cops attacking protesters who are there supporting hunger strikers inside a sadistic immigrant jail

Following the trend of Democratic politicians leaning to the right, James Talarico walks back previous statements made in support of transgender people. @alyssaur.bsky.social brings you the story in this week's TWIBS!

Wife just got back from a 3-day doctors conference and she told me that one of the keynote speakers mentioned AI during his presentation and the doctors in the audience booed. Loudly. Someone tell that Google CEO it's not just college kids who hate this shit.

"Prohibition was an anti-domestic-violence issue" was a mind-blowing thing to learn. Imagine that it was easier to pass an amendment outlawing alcohol than laws outlawing wife-beating.

More early Bendis time babeee

Backrooms was… okay? The cinematography, production design, and acting was good but there wasn’t much of a story. I only have a passing knowledge of the concept and have seen a few of the videos, so that’s where I’m coming from.

If the U.S. wants to stop the housing crisis, it should invest in housing, not criminalization. This legislation is another example of the U.S.'s cruel commitment to expanding the carceral system.

Louisiana has the 2nd highest incarceration rate in the world (falling behind only El Salvador). And now, thanks to regressive "tough on crime" policies, even more people are being funneled into the system. A massive moral & financial failure.

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.