i increasingly feel that the owner should be arrested and charged with some sort of securities fraud. make something up i don't care

Bottom Line Up Front: despite confused reporting & less than clear statements from FDA, Taylor Foods lettuce remains implicated in the Cyclospora outbreak. My recommendation remains the same: avoid lettuce if you are not absolutely, affirmatively certain it did not ultimately come from Taylor Farms

Just got some advance copies of our public health graphic novel, The Greater Good! Out 11/3 from @23rdstbooks.bsky.social!

dawg the brazilians are calling it asfaltos unidos in the QTs we're getting cooked

What? Count von Count has so little to do in this game they had to put him in the half-time show to wake him up?

THE ODYSSEY (dir. Nolan, 2026)

Is there any research on how being raised within a particular religious tradition’s approach to text shapes the approach you have to text as a scholar (whether you remain in that religious tradition or not)?

Zohran’s definition of the working class is good, but I would remind everyone that working people have families, children and elderly and disabled and nonworking spouses, who don’t “work.” The working class is those who work AND those who working people support.

We're at pride!! Omg tabling with the water behind us 😍 @gipki.bsky.social and I are in the maker's market at the Portland Pride waterfront festival, so come say hi!! We're here 12-8 Saturday and 11:30-6 Sunday.

I think it's time for Squarespace to offer two-tier pricing. One, fancy and expensive for cutting edge content creators who love and use ai. Two, bargain basement for slackers who can't be bothered with ai, llms, etc. Otherwise it needs to get fucked.

This is the playbook to destroy families across culture and community, around the globe. Go after their children. Residential schools. Enslaved families. The Yemenite “children affair.” Indigenous Mayan families in Guatemala. Literally Pharaoh shit.

This week's book cover art project. I tried to pick another scene to work with, but, c'mon... #booksky

Broke: National service Woke: Pouring a bunch of money in the systematic expansion of state-funded but organizationally independent CSOs that get people involved in their local community

I remember worrying about how to make this page work. In the end, it just took lots and lots of thumbnails until I found the right compositions.

Just after Independence Day, I started thinking about national symbols. Who defaces them, and who becomes them. So I went back to the beginning and wrote about Sean Dunn, aka Sandwich Thrower Guy, and the sandwich he threw - an American Hero: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

don’t you just hate it when that happens

Wow. I'd forgotten what a beautiful album Phranc's Goofyfoot was.

A tumbler from the first round of collaboration with ceramicist, Caleb Phillips, picapottery.com Pulled eight pieces, a variety of compositions to test my skills and the materials, mostly on diner mugs. We'll do a larger, more focused round come autumn.

The Trail Blazers ownership group continues to behave like moving to another city is their preferred outcome, but strategically they've decided to first bully and bluster their way in bad faith through a series of non-negotiations, so they can unfairly blame the city on their way out the door.

Some media outlets are reporting on the Moda term sheet with some framing that is suggesting that Council sent it terms. Not the case. Let me clarify what happened yesterday 🧵

Sorry you can’t breathe this summer, but it would have hurt profits. What you want oxygen? For free? Radical socialism.

This week's book cover art project. I tried to pick another scene to work with, but, c'mon... #booksky

Well, that sucks. No offense to the West Coast, but it was annoying enough that "Comicstown" was set up in the whitest city in America that was a literal sundown region at one point. At least Portland was affordable. We're gonna go from two black editors in mainstream comics to zero over this.

A lady on the Clock app in Canada said that the wildfires keep happening because Canada outlawed indigenous people from doing prescribed burns. Did a little digging and yep - settler colonialism is to blame. indiginews.com/features/wil...

I want to hear from art directors, editors, game devs, people who work with artists and have jobs to give Are you still checking out portfolioday? Are you still looking for new artists here? I feel I see you less and less but maybe you are silent observers and making notes. Or is socmed over?

The marvelous folks at Hundred Rabbits (a low-tech-focused artist collective working aboard a sailboat) are making a tiny comic full of not-so-hidden maritime skills. Each colored object in the story links to an illustrated instructional page. I love this more than I can say. rabbitwaves.ca

sharing specifically because these tags on tumblr made my week

Listen, once the consumer tech made us FEEL good/right/in control? Our libidinal desires took over. we are “feeling” our way right into corporate sovereignty and ceremonial government.

One more page from after Saturday's match between England and Norway. I am fascinated by Tuchel.

Just got followed by a bunch of innocent looking bots all shilling for the same ai tools creator named Bogdan. So creepy in a "seemingly harmless and therefor extra extra slimy and creepy" way.

Every once in a while, my eyebrows like to climb way out over my glasses then turn around, reach back, and tap a hello like a gremlin on some airplane wing

Okay, one more thing for #portfolioday which is that time, not long ago, when Justin Hocking and i made a FICTIONAL comic about an Oregon resort town that entirely washed into the sea: www.lastwater.net/the-town-tha...

In my lifetime, I've seen segments of society lose trust in evolutionary biology, climate science, and vaccines. None of this was due to anything scientists did. All of it was because non-scientists perceived some advantage (political, cultural, financial) in attacking science's credibility.

Type II land use decision incoming in NW. For those following all things land use related to storage, load / unloading of asphalt and liquid fuels in the CEI Hub and adjacent area you’ll want to mark your calendar for Tuesday July 28 at 10:30 to listen to an Early Assistance meeting with PP&D.

WICKHAM: “I am going to be a man of God. No, wait, a man of the Law. Ah, screw it, I want to molest a child.” This seems INCREDIBLY on the nose for 2026 for some reason.

I am on the hunt for two artists to recommend for the two scripts I've just been contracted for through Scholastic, soooo...if you are a cartoonist who finds a sweet older midgrade romcom set in New England in the fall totes your cup of hot apple tea..MESSAGE ME. (before end of July)

me, looking up fast from a manuscript: shut up! SHUT UP!

little daoist is a lotus seed sprite that came to life one day in a pond

Hello there #portfoliday! I am Gabriel Liston, an illustrator looking for cover work to distract me while I write my own stories. lastwater.net All my book stuff is represented by (the!) Andrea Colvin of ACCA! andreacolvincreative.com

I would pet the dog a lot and give him lots of treats instead of making him work. And then a bomb would explode.

vote no this is so irresponsible

In book cover design is it okay to paint the most simple, obvious, and visually irresistable scene? Because so help me that's what I'm about to do

A small painting from the tail end of a wedding day, or, at least, from sketches of that day.

As I prepare for surgery in a couple of days I wanted to dash off a quick 'actionable analysis' post that's our tag line here at Shouldn't Need to be a (Public Health) Lawyer.... Here's how to protect yourself from Cyclosporiasis, the explosive diarrhea parasite taking the country by storm

I guess I feel the same way now about people using ai that, once upon a time, I felt about people using Bartlett's Book of Quotations. Or, no, no really it's kinda like that but much much worse I could understand a Bartlett's browser.

Everyone on the family thread is wishing my sister a happy birthday TODAY, but I called and wished her a happy birthday YESTERDAY and she didn't correct me and I am still pretty sure i am correct about her birthday and so DID I JUST WAKE UP IN A DIFFERENT TIMELINE? Should i be worried?

Happy Space Whales Sunday.

an idea: in addition to judges, priests, and captains on ships, letter carriers should be empowered to perform wedding ceremonies if inside the post office

VAR is too much like the rest of our lives run by offsite rooms filled with screens