They were journalists at major news outlets in New York and D.C. before taking big pay cuts to run the Midcoast Villager, a paper covering a rocky, coastal part of Maine.

its my birthday! as always my only wish is for people to look at and appreciate my art 🙏 thank you

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This still has the vibe of one of those dramatized people pleading with/yelling at Pontius Pilate after the flogging & before the crucifixion paintings Evangelicals love. It just *feels* biblical in a way that makes it so much funnier.

Is this like a Benoit Blanc situation

This isn’t data, it’s a warning. Serious 30 month and 9 month rainfall deficiency in the Mt Lofties, SE SA and the Otways…levels which in the past have led to catastrophic bushfires. Prepare people…clean up, repair, save cash and insure. And join community agencies now. #auspol

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

With all the discussion over the last several months about the future of support for Israel on the nationalist right, I wrote for @zeteo.com about an often overlooked aspect of the ideological relationship.

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

yes hello i am in this!!!

I cannot stress enough how much I despise GenAI, but I really need people to remember that the promise of evaluation models in research spaces is endless & those models are entirely different things than the murder & plagiarism machines of OpenAI & GPT. Support scientists when they discuss them.

Not to be dramatic, but a provision in an executive order Trump issued Monday has the potential to transform the National Guard into a force for domestic repression. Measures like these are not “distractions”; and politicians who call them that will never protect your freedom or your safety.

you're laughing. the ultra militarized pigboy got bested by a floppy phallic sandwich snack and you're laughing.

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...

REIGN OF TERROR // AVAILABLE NOW // VIKING

Some thoughts on @noahshachtman.bsky.social's very good piece about the ADL & the contradictions of Zionism as a nativist movement that enjoys elite respectability.

The mass scale divestment from aerospace research is so disheartening as an indicator of a decline in valuing science, but more pressing in my mind is the lives it will cost. Research for space travel & safety concerns are huge drivers of innovations in QoL tech from sanitation to food.

Doing this thing now where I'm tracking my feelings about movies/shows to reflect on later when multipart arcs are completed as a nice reference point. First steps was a solid movie. I found Pascal made me like Reed for the first time in decades.

I think this is as forward-thinking an approach to future-proofing quality journalism during what we can think of as a crisis of distribution as can be. Bravo to @katie-drummond.bsky.social and her immensely talented team.

Nobody wanted to talk to me about comic books when I was a kid and I found it really frustrating because comics were like the #1 thing I cared about. Decades later and huge swaths of my time revolves around getting people to talk to me about comic books. It's basically my Citizen Kane backstory.

Portland Maine! I’ll be there Wednesday at 6pm at Back Cove Books—hope to see you there

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

Tonight I’m interviewing Spencer Ackerman about his new run on Iron Man. As always I’m happy get listener questions. I can’t wait to talk w @attackerman.bsky.social about this perfect match of creative team to character!

H5N1 is showing signs of adapting to humans with recent mutations (A134V, N182K, E186D) enhancing its ability to bind to human-like α2-6 receptors in the upper respiratory tract. This raises serious concerns about the virus’s potential to become more transmissible among humans.

Done drawing for today? Draw some kinda wanky elseworlds Magik where she's John Wick I guess? I dunno, guys, I'm tired today. Illyana Wick? Baba Yaga still works... maybe better?? Whatever. Enjoy.

realizing i never posted it here….but too long have we been limited by the 2-dimensional political alignment chart. i think by using my new tool we can truly map another person's politics. here it is: The Ideology Cube

I’ve had enough of woke ugly men in our games, so I’ve improved Geralt

It's The Power Fantasy #5 week!

Dutton doubling down on his Aboriginal flag and Torres Strait Islander flag nonsense. Vows he will work with the NSW government to get the Aboriginal flag removed from the Harbour Bridge. What does this guy actually do that is productive?

Meanwhile, the construction of Adelaide's Tarrkarri Aboriginal art centre has been on hold for more than two years.

Cant possibly have a story across media on Aboriginal men standing up against violence-that would ruin a lifetime of racist tropes & narratives

shoutout to UnitedHealth CEO for being so out-of-touch that every message to staff results in another wave of angry leaks and tipsters for me

Peter Dutton has said "we should have respect" for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags, but pledged not to display them if he is elected Australia’s next prime minister, claiming they're "confusing" and “dividing” the country.

similar energy

The lawsuit claims UnitedHealth illegally denied "elderly patients care owed to them under Medicare Advantage Plans" by deploying an AI model known by the company to have a 90% error rate, overriding determinations made by the patients' physicians.

"While planning the Malicious Actor Framework, these feelings of futility gave way to something worse: 'I’m actually going to be an active participant in harm,' she recalls thinking. The speech of people she’d met in her studies abroad were exactly the kind her job might suppress." @sambiddle.com:

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

It’s Tuesday.

Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

NYC friends! If you're around Wednesday night at 7pm, join me and good pal @charlessoule.bsky.social as we launch ALTER EGO into the world at the legendary Strand bookstore! RSVP here! Please "re-ekeet"?? www.eventbrite.com/e/alex-segur...

Pardon Leonard Peltier and Ahmed Omar Abu Ali next.

At this point it’s been said in a hundred different ways, so I think people are being intentional about not getting it.

He’s not going to Mars, just like he’s not bringing about the end of fossil fuels. He’s not an entrepreneur, he bought both Tesla and SpaceX. All that is slop so people look to the stars instead of at how he’s robbing the treasury and controlling what they see on the app he bought.