If you, like me, have Peacock for a limited time so you can watch the Olympics and Paralympics, give yourself the gift of watching We Are Lady Parts as many times as possible before you cancel your subscription. We Are Lady Parts. Just over and over again. Your life will improve.

as i’ve said many times in the past, substack was founded in part as a vehicle for developing the anti trans legislation sweeping the us and uk.

Pure Hell was entrenched in the NYC underground scene, living with the New York Dolls, performing with Sid Vicious when Death were in still in early stages.. “I don’t want to be remembered just because we were black, but for being a part of the first tier of punk in the 70s.” - Kenny Gordon #BHM

Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology. Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"

This one is about Rome, where there is too much time, and a man who was literally killed by the city, and two different women named Alina, and music, and ICE, and my dad.

Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.

So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.** “It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official www.propublica.org/article/trum...

This clearly should have been prepared for. Chuds currently harassing the protest are Tommy Allen, Brian Veach, and Shayne Holt.

Good afternoon and major props to this 8th century CE woman breastfeeding as she rides a Bactrian camel along the Silk Roads 🐫 art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/3254...

Addendum: It's not for me to say how long liberation or other resolutions will take, but COLLECTIVELY WE LACK POLITICAL OBJECT PERMANENCE. It's why you're hyperfixated on an electoral first/only response to the moment. Stop focusing on magical personalities and lock in on tangible OUTCOMES.

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

Life of Pi. Well, no, that was just the book, guess I never made it to the movie. But i think I hate Life of Pi (the book) nearly as much as I hated Irreligious (or whatever that Maher trash was called)

Hey so Grammarly is now basically Search Party / Ring cameras for education, enabling large-scale surveillance of both users (students) and educators alike

I designed five exclusive postcards that you can have for freeeee if you preorder Bury Me Already (It's Nice Down Here) (or if you already preordered, you can put your receipt info into this page and get them!) www.hachettebookgroup.com/landing-page...

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Labor Says ICE OUT! Keep up the pressure on Mayor Wilson & DA Vasquez! Rally and march from the Multnomah County Courthouse to Portland City Hall. Fri, 2/20 12 - 1PM Meet in front of the Multnomah County Courthouse (Corner of SW Madison & SW 1st) then march to Portland City Hall (1221 SW 4th Ave.)

If you are a fan of graphic narrative of any type, but nonfiction/memoir/journalism in particular - or if you’re a visual thinker and want some inspiration for using that to write/speak/create in any way - I can’t recommend this book highly enough! store.abramsbooks.com/products/mak...

Me stirring a 1 liter pot: tee hee making a little broth Me stirring a 5 liter pot: Here Comes Mister Alchemist, Here Comes Mister Witch

It really works! A year ago, I still had lots of FB friends posting AI "art". I was nicely talking to them about it at first, but nothing changed until I got mean about it. Zero AI in my feed now, and half those people have joined in being staunchly anti-AI. We gotta be mean!

Hey artists! Are you gonna be at ECCC? Whether you’re tabling or just attending and looking to meet up and find other artists, let me know and I’ll add you to this starter pack 🙂 The list caps at 150, so it’ll be first come first serve to join the list! go.bsky.app/3jfHCsi

you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”

Well the FCC has bullied the Colbert Show into not airing an interview with James Talarico (which they've put on YouTube) — I look forward to all of my former professors at Scalia Law condemning this massive intrusion on the First Amendment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

Sean will be back for Monday night community life drawing at Daydreamer Public House, St Johns, PDX. Join us! 6-9pm

Soft-launching this today, because Michaels has some exceptionally good weekend coupons - Help me rebuild the arts & crafts room at Park Slope Women's Shelter! www.thingstogetme.com/2169641a9c163

This is an INCREDIBLE opportunity, I have no doubt you will have so many people express interest and that this course will be fantastic. So happy to see RSS spreading and expanding!

Read the actual text of the exhibition that the regime tore down in Philly in @literaturegeek.bsky.social's excellent zine: zinebakery.com/assets/homem...

Sean will be back for Monday night community life drawing at Daydreamer Public House, St Johns, PDX. Join us! 6-9pm

Just saw @ovaettr.gay say “shut the fuck up prompter” to an AI asshole and oh my god the absolute perfect new moniker for people who claim to be creatives that are making nothing.

Many people died to defend a "multicultural economic zone." And then Donald Trump had their deaths hidden because he's a racist. www.military.com/daily-news/i...

This was me after finishing Hello Sunshine. So, you know, do recomend.

Here is an excellent Bluesky account that I've been following since the Twitter days. Take a good long look at what the Texas Rangers did to Black, Brown, and Native people to make this place "safe for whites" bsky.app/profile/refu...

How Hard Could Getting Voter ID Be? Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon Help us make more! ----> patreon.com/barry

www.youtube.com/shorts/6rQfI... Good video from @leiladelduca.bsky.social and Helioscope, but it'll have a tough time living up to that thumbnail.

This is probably not shocking coming from a socialist but IMO the non-profits that steward PCEF would insulate it from constant attack & make it toxic to even come near if they supported dedicating a portion to a big universal social good like public power, social housing, or public transit.

I had to look this up (and this seems SUPER-complicated, beyond my expertise, and I've had a negroni) so yes, $934 per month per violation doesn't seem like much.. ..BUT it seems to unlock the "Reconsideration of Land Use Approvals" in code section 33.700.040 See: www.portland.gov/sites/defaul...

👇 this is a very good summary of all the anti-trans positions Newsom has taken:

Luda Kinok, a Yupik Indigenous activist originally from Chukotka and now living in the U.S., experienced a rollback of freedoms after Perestroika ended in Russia. She says it feels eerily familiar as she watches democratic institutions erode in the United States.

The annual HIPAA training I have to do and the time I was literally given a written final warning at a job for “breaking HIPAA” (I didn’t) by looking at MY OWN medical records is SCREAMING at this blatant violation by our government. Can someone give them a written final warning please?

This bit from my current WIP is making me happy rn

HAL3000 and Skynet jokes are fun, but a relatively small number of individual humans are the problem in this unfolding scenario.

When a Mazzy Starr track comes up on my kid's playlist it always hits as a bit of a shock. She HangsBrightly/Among My Swan owned very a large and particular headspace for years following their release. She's My Baby beams in from another planet that was just the other day & a thousand years ago

Juno is hardly an unbiased source here, NASA. “‘Guy Not As Big a Deal As He Claims,’ Says Vengeful Wife Guy Cheated On Constantly”

This stuff needs to be challenged as a violation of the human rights act. It's absolutely indecent in terms of destroying children's rights to express themselves.

Unasked for advice in response to someone is criticism. Etch this onto your souls. Ask first.

Today was a full-circle moment. 💕 In 2020, Portland voters passed police accountability reform with 82 percent of the vote. That didn’t happen by accident. Community members organized, testified, drafted language, debated structure, and refused to accept a system that wasn’t working. 🧵

for no reason whatsoever, I am bringing out my favorite 12th-century illumination today, which depicts 1) a Thracesian woman killing a Varangian Guard who tried to assault her and 2) his comrades praising her and giving her all of his stuff for her very understandable and justifiable actions 🙏

I’ll always repost Josie when she promotes this book, thoroughly insightful to the present American condition and wildly entertaining besides. The Audiobook is outstanding too.

Bluesky, help me find a book please! I seem to recall coming across a book about the economics or politics or something (?) of end-user license agreements in modern life. Does this ring any bells?

Let me be problematic for a moment. Sometimes decent people are decent people solely because they got popped in the mouth and learned where the humanity guardrails are. White supremacy removes those guardrails. Lax gun laws remove those guardrails. Absurd wealth removes those guardrails.

When Border Patrol shot two immigrants in Portland, they claimed they had ties to gangs. The Guardian later wrote a story exposing those claims as a smear campaign, but the narrative was regurgitated by city leadership that took DHS at their word. Now we see the true agitators in Eugene were DHS.