This is a long-to-medium-term worry, but I think the fact that we've all just internalized that immeasurably powerful people often just throw tantrums and you shouldn't take anything they say seriously is going to be catastrophic for American civic governance going forward indefinitely.

why arent men at the lighthouses. theres so many ships at sea and so many foggy eves looming and yet the men are still at home, playing call of duty and feeling sad. but yet the lighthouses lie empty

in its latest scumbag move, google added nebulous "smart" features you can only use when you consent to let them scrape all your data, added a "when you check this box we get all your personal data" box in settings, then, in an act of generosity, ticked it for themselves and didn't tell users.

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

Wii Shop Wednesday!

Reports that the upcoming Angoulême Fest is canceled. The autocratic president Franck Bondoux, & his equally disliked daughter, legally "own" the fest & agreed to step aside... but not just yet. This is unacceptable to publishers & authors, who are boycotting. This year's fest is dead. Sad.

This is one of my favorite comics stores in the entire country, and due to the pandemic and some other issues, it is asking for a bit of help. I hope you go look and spread the word, donate a little bit (or a lot) if you can. I'm going to donate some in the morning, hope you will consider it, too.

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These articles always depend on a bizarre Schroedinger's Seattle: The city is falling apart due to progressive overreach but we should have re-elected the conservative non-socialist who has been in charge for the last four years.

I'd written the Post off about a year ago but damn

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

We took on a powerful incumbent who was expected to coast to reelection. We faced more corporate PAC money than has ever been spent attacking a candidate in a Seattle election. We built a people-powered movement rooted in hope for our city’s future. And we won. This is YOUR city!

I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

working at the nyt

This race had a "Dewey defeats Truman" moment when Election Desk HQ prematurely called the race for Mayor Bruce Harrell. One Reddit user made a parody. That proved incorrect as Wilson closed an eight-point gap from earlier results.

The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them

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Katie now leads by 1346 votes! “We’re going to wait for all of the ballots to be counted, but I think we won this race,” Wilson said Tuesday.

KATIE WILSON FOR THE SEATTLE WINNNNN OH MY GOD

Seattle friends: the race for mayor is extremely close. Ballots can be cured until Nov. 24 at 4:30 p.m. Please go check your #vote: voter.votewa.gov/portal2023/l...

Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”

Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot. Vote in your local elections! www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...

And if you did vote in Seattle, check to make sure your vote was counted! If not, you may have a chance to cure your ballot: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it! info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

SEATTLE!!! We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

Monday drop. WILSON LEADS FOR THE FIRST TIME ALL ELECTION! It's neck and neck heading into the final count! She leads by 91 votes! Only about 10,000 ballots remain, per reporting from @kromandavid.bsky.social. Cured ballots from the weekend will be counted tomorrow.

LESS THAN A HUNDRED VOTES ARE YOU KIDDING MEEEE

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

Check your ballot. It’s possible that it’s been challenged due to leaving the ballot envelope unsigned or a signature mismatch. You can cure that with King County Elections so your ballot is counted! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...

katie wilson is still in the race for seattle mayor but this thing is tight—like, it could come down to double digits. check your ballot & make sure it’s counted!

This shit is so bleak. If we had any sense at all, we'd ban chatbots and charge their CEOs w/ public endangerment. We're not even dying to Terminators or cool Matrix squids. LLMs pick which life-saving public services to end, coach kids to end their lives, & catfish retirees into pointless deaths.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Check the status of your ballot and sign up to help cure ballots at the link in our bio! #thisisyourcity

setting my Rude filter to SHOW. setting my Unruly filter to WARN. setting my Vulgar filter to HIDE. setting my Churlish filter to SHOW BADGE. setting my Impudent filter to TSK STERNLY. setting my Callow filter to FROWN. setting my Naughty filter to... hmmm... DEPLOY OPERA GLASSES FOR FURTIVE PEEPING

YES! I'm so excited to announce that I'll be writing my first comic story with the amazing @drooliasnott.bsky.social for the new @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social anthology Lie Machine!!!! And you should send in your own submission when they open Dec 1st at www.ironcircus.com/lie-machine/

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Finally a big city mayor raised on “YOU CAN’T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!”

According to King County elections they had "a LOT" of dropbox activity in this election (emphasis theirs). They expect there's probably another 230-235K ballots countywide, so probably 115K or so in Seattle. Tonight will be a drop of 50-55K countywide, 25K or so in Seattle.

Insane the Mayor probably heard his wife complain about Fantagraphics.

This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...??? Like....

“Crawl your way out” 🩸⚡️ Self portrait number 7 in my annual series! I’ve been making these yearly portraits ever since I realised I was trans in 2018. I started 2024 with huge amounts of fear and self doubt and slowly learned that I deserve to be kind to myself (thanks, therapy). #art #selfPortrait

if you would like to know more about how zohran's look came together (designed by Aneesh Bhoopathy of co-op studio Forge!) please check out this great writeup in curbed

Quick reminder: NYC’s new First Lady, Rama Duwaji, is a cartoonist! www.comicsbeat.com/zohran-mamda...

Wilson gained 8 points from election night to final results in the primary election. The same bounce would propel her to victory. www.theurbanist.org/2025/08/12/u...