Elon Musk just claimed that he has never used the X algorithm to boost his account, and as far as he knows, no one at X is deboosting posts from OpenAI figures

I can finally share that I've written a graphic novel about one of the most important women in the Golden Age of comics who is also one of the most glossed over and forgotten, Ruth Roche. She wrote and edited hundreds of comics in the 1940s and 1950s. www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-ru...

just opened up a new email draft and gmail just spellchecked my fucking name in my signature

I'm running a May Day (weekend) sale of my work! Everything is 30% off, and you can also get my entire backlog of self published comics for a pithy 25 dollars in the bundle, including my Ignatz Award winning comic "Home by the Rotting Sea" :] Check it out! itch.io/s/185269/1st...

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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might read a comic today

And it works!

some late-breaking news on @theonion.com’s quest to take over Infowars: A Texas appeals court just stayed the turnover of the site to the official who inked the agreement with an affiliate of The Onion. This puts the deal in bizarre legal limbo for now. More TK.

Worth noting that *in the wake of this requirement* the prosecutors dropped the conspiracy charge.

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the worst part of smoking discourse is how it makes me want a cig

"The agency has reversed the position it held in July 2025, when it categorized drug-checking strips as life-saving overdose prevention tools."

you may recognize this VRA argument from the dril tweet "the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: theres actually zero difference between good & bad things" here, the GOP is saying there's no difference between causing and curing race-based harm ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

every day i feel myself inching closer to an all-limb screaming tantrum of 'i don't wanna do it' about literally everything, which feels unsustainable.

Hey! I’ll be at Halftone Zinefest in Lexington, KY on May 16. Come thru plz. I’ll post about it more asap.

As I lie here with my nephew asleep in my arms, my dearest wish is for sama'a's young girls to know the same peace and contentment. Please give what you can.

realizing i have been trying to refill one non-critical prescription for like three weeks, including two separate in-person conversations and a follow up phone call from my rheumatologist? what is happening and will it happen when my critical meds run out next week.

Sprint 3: Accountability Enablement, STRY001023: As the Attorney General nominee, I need to hire, train and deploy 1,000 forensic accountants in order to investigate the many financial crimes of the previous regime.

trying to pay attention to the crumbling of american institutions but also do literally anything else...folly.

john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever

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“We’re still sitting here.” Diane Wilson has spent decades fighting industrial pollution on the Texas Gulf Coast. In March, she began a 24/7 encampment and hunger strike outside Dow/Union Carbide’s Seadrift plant.

yesterday hulu informed us that The Mentalist was trending

i think it would be neat if the nyts brought a fact-checker to these trump voter interviews to lay out how much of their current assumptions are also incredibly wrong. or maybe just a graph of the budget.

her family groupchat must be poppin' today lmao

anyway as i'm listening to old music today, did matt skiba get better technically at singing

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Sorry to hear about the "final nail" for Newsarama. They were very good at what they did for a great stretch of time and it's just a shame we no longer give enough attention to people who are very good at what they do or the patience to let them keep doing it...

When I was a kid, "Possum Kingdom" was always on bc it was one of my mom's favorite songs. For @chron.com's series on media that gets the Texas Experience(TM), I wrote about urban legends and having a Young Mom. Ft. interviews with the Toadies drummer and my Mom! www.chron.com/culture/musi...

do you ever revisit old fave albums you thought were kind of known and the streaming numbers suggest that no, no one was listening to this and no one has bothered to revisit it either?

this is such a funny way to frame it lol 'he will be the first to address congress since the last monarch'

Listen to David (Brothers, and me, I suppose): Everyone should buy and read and love Good Devils: Don’t Play Fair With Evil, one of my favorite comics of 2025 and an incredible showcase of the gifts of @iamdavidbrothers.com and @nickdragotta.bsky.social.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Coco Gauff

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need a shirt i can flip on that says "this bikelane is one way" in big lit up letters

RIP.

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lrt: unfortunately going to have "Jim @Acosta threatened to fight me tonight at the Substack party." rotating in my mind like a big word art gif all day today

If you are in line to beat up Michael Tracey in the Hampton Inn parking lot, stay in line

saw ben mckenzie's crypto doc and he's just like me (constantly mentioning he's from texas)

slightly challenging jazz piano concert occurring at the neighbors' house venue... not sure how into it i am

I don’t have to be back to work until later so I have a little wiggle room but I’m down to just $200 to pay off today and the rest of the week. Any dollar helps and so does just sharing this post. So close to the finish line on this one!

nothing has better explained my decent into kpop

damn they hadn't even gotten to the salads lol

*incredible* ten minutes for this rule

actually always wondered how much of dc high profile security was theater versus effective so curious to see the reporting later