what the fuck is a "kroger"

re: the "AI will level the playing field between those with talent and those without it" argument having been in creative spaces for a hot minute "talent" is just a word for ppl who got through their 'i need to push through sucking at this' phase in their teens by people going through it later

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

i'm putting the finishing touches on the public version of this as we speak! it'll probably be out early next week, but you can watch it RIGHT NOW if you give me literally a single dollar

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

Happy bandcamp friday!!! Nothing new from me today, but you should go listen to waves. #bandcampfriday #furrymusic

[dejectedly] the epstein emails are a database thriller...

While Mamdani is announcing universal childcare for New Yorkers, we're getting return to office mandates and nothing else. It's pretty infuriating.

Heard about a young mom who works at King County Public Health this morning that's struggling with finding childcare and absorbing the costs now that they're going to have have to come in office 200% more than they have for the past 6 years.

I genuinely don't know why @girmayzahilay.bsky.social is choosing this incredibly stressful and financially challenging time to burden parents with needing to make these choices, especially those that work in the public sector and *especially* those that work in public health.

damn true?

cairn has some serious tetris energy

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

you get no social reward or acknowledgment for being right too early about any given thing 99.9% of the time and people will still act like you were wrong or annoying for doing so. but at the very least you can exercise your ability to not give a fuck about what a lot of "experts" think will happen

Do you rent in Seattle? @mayorofseattle.bsky.social wants to hear from YOU! City Hall is conducting a renters survey to help inform policy, and deliver help where it's needed most. Share widely! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Massive group of students at city hall calling for ICE out of Seattle

it's ableist to suggest that i should have to do anything

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

I don't think I could better parody the state of the Washington Post opinions page than an essay from a crypto guy and the legal academy's worst amateur epidemiologist that earnestly argues that "stolen land" rhetoric is misguided because of statutes of limitations on lawsuits to recover property

JUSTIFIED “FUCK ICE” CHANTS #AEWDynamite

in any case I hope this is an eye opener for any folks who think having a lot of followers on social media (of any platform) must have it made. about 0.28% of my followers have bought and read my latest comic haha. sm is not NOTHING but it's also not that meaningful in the grand scheme of things

once again I am wishing there was way more interest over here in the culture of China especially but also just, the whole rest of Asia?

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I think if you're serious about covering indie games or comics or cinema you have a moral, professional, and aesthetic duty to cover porn as part of your beat if you're not talking about indie porn you're not talking about indie.

we are maybe a few years away from the rise of revenue-sharing newsletter collectives. it'll be a controversy-ridden disaster until someone gets it right and suddenly it becomes a dominant model, and then a year or two later we'll look around and realize we just reinvented newspapers

NEW: Only four WA State Senators haven't signed on to the millionaires tax. It's the usual moderate suspects, but they're borrowing progressive rhetoric to explain their hesitancy. Best of both worlds! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/almost-...

“HB 2517, and its companion SB 6309, wouldn’t completely change the game when it comes to Sound Transit’s need to get local approval to build its projects. But they would remove hurdles that don’t align with Sound Transit’s unique status as an agency working across multiple jurisdictions.”

Causing Jeff Bezos to flee our state should be a point of pride for Washington.

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

anime is stupid

apparently David Lynch had written 20-22 episodes of a show for Netflix and passed away only a week before a big meeting with them. it looks like those scripts might be getting published as a book, according to his daughter (and author of The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer) Jennifer Lynch. man.

This should be getting a lot more attention but this road widening will plow over 91 homes in the apartment building just to the east of this interchange. We are bulldozing housing in a HOUSING CRISIS to save cars a few seconds @kromandavid.bsky.social @seattletimes.com

writing is easy, it's my protagonist's penis that's hard

Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet. But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...

one of my life goals is to keep the spirit of the 90's aspiration to be a slacker that priorities hanging out with friends in a shitbox wood panel basement and smoking weed while watching music videos instead of 9-5 corporate ambitions alive

new video, up early for anyone giving me money! "what would a better youtube look like" is a speculative essay about how one would go about reimagining the platform to make it more equitable, sustainable, safe, and friendly to novel use cases.

imagine if they made a hammer and you bought the hammer and used the hammer for years and then halfway through building a house the people who made the hammer said "we're disabling your hammer in a month" and there was basically no tool available to replace it without a significant learning curve

in high school i spent about 3 months obsessing over my theory of parallel universes, heavily inspired by bad documentary that i liked at the time "what the bleep do we know." it was convincing, until someone *else* showed me their own theory and i realized we were both just making shit up for fun.

tfw you thought you escaped samsara but the wheel of fate refused to let you go

im building machines that i keep saying will both throw you out of work and allow masked special police forces in service to a lunatic i bought and paid for to recognize your face and check if i agree with your beliefs. im part of a pedophile ring that put this into motion. why are you rude to me

Looking for Mayor Wilson to do some cool little quick-hit stuff like this. My advice: Pedestrianize some streets and put a stop sign at Mt Baker Beach (the one Bruce killed). I'll be the first one there posting about it

Sometimes, very rarely, we get a customer who comes in and asks us "but where are the comics for *ME*???", pointing at the pride flag and the BLM sign and the kids comics and so on. What they are *really* asking is "but where are the comics centering people like me, young cishet white men???" 🧵

Ignoring the fact that the reason why we don't have a sign for "straight white guys comics" in a US based comic store is because it's been the default for a century, the real issue here is that they're basically saying "if something is not about me, then it's not for me to read / I don't read it".