While in Seattle I met the most Seattle old radical hippie you can imagine. He's peak keep it weird Seattle. Does not drive, doesn't have phone or internet, yard covered in signs. I passed the vibe check and he stopped by my God mom's place to give me a book on the union strike of 1937 and a shirt.

✨turn off the smart features in your Gmail✨ Gemini is being trained off of your private emails.

Our lyft driver to dinner asked about our opinions on Waymo driverless cars and I spun it to how Waymos are union busting scabs designed to make tech billionaires make more money and so they don't have to pay local workers and can outsource their workforce. I'm anti Waymo all the way brother. ✊

Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength. Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans. The American people need more from their leaders.

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons. "ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The original Dem demands were: 1) Permanent ACA subsidies 2) Medicaid funding restored 3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission) They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today. The Senate Democrats!

Call your senators. I don’t care if they’re Republicans, or if a deal has already been reached. Call them anyway, and let them know exactly what you think of what’s happening. Don’t give them a moment’s peace to forget the blood on their hands. (202) 224-3121

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

We're at Disneyland for my friends visiting and I must have mentally blocked being on the matterhorn before. because cramming myself and my backpack into a Bobsled seat in a skirt with my knees folded up to my ears was a ride that left me with no dignity left.

Frankenstein is an extremely visually rich movie, and a delight if you are a sicko who loves art history visual metaphor and historical anatomy studies.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

DiONYSUS representing one of the many 2025 experience havers

I'm back in in LA but here's last night Seattle water views

Del toro continues to make movies for monster fuckers as a man who supports monster fucking.

It’s almost gift giving time! 🎁 I’m doing some fun pet portraits for just $30aud. They’d be great for printing onto cards or put into a frame. All I need a pic of your pet and suggestions of colors that would suit (or I’ll pick some colors for ya!). DM me for more info! 🐕 🐈🪿🦈

originally I was supposed to fly back to LA yesterday, my god mom and I got food poisoning from a salad she made. so yesterday was hell, but I did nap a lot? doing better now. but flying out tomorrow instead.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

The fuckers got away with it. The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them. They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬

You don't need me to tell you this is yet more good money being burned after bad. But as someone who's worked with that QA team, I'll say they're unsung heroes who truly play a huge role in maintaining SE's reputation for high quality locs and to attempt to replace them with AI is deeply insulting.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Sharing AI Slop "ironically" is still fucking sharing it. Please knock it the fuck off.

hi folks the union at the org i teach through (asian american writers workshop) is having a hard time with upper management, please read their letter & sign www.instagram.com/p/DQrkIq4ESz...

If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency

lol

Doodling in VR again

I did postcard writing for swing states and I got PA happy to see they kept their democrat majority on their Supreme Court! www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

If you've already called your reps about the shutdown, tariffs, Epstein files, ICE raids, etc. and feel like they aren't listening, try giving them another round of calls now. They may be thinking a bit differently after those election results...

She's absolutely right. As a producer with several films in development with female directors, I can say it is an absolute uphill battle to get execs to fund their projects. Great scripts are sitting on shelves while a generation of our most talented women sit idle. www.avclub.com/kristen-stew...

this is such a fantastic example of the transformative power of design when used collaboratively and intelligently. the visual design of this campaign is deep-rooted in history and culture and is thoughtful and beautiful

This is the election I’ve been posting about for the last few months and I genuinely can’t believe we won 😭❤️

In 2021, we published a series of portraits and interviews with people shot in the eye during the George Floyd protests. One of them, Soren Stevenson, just won his race for Minneapolis City Council.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

Deeply moving to see this first family.

EAT SHIT BOOK BANNERS

this was for a colorado measure guaranteeing universal free lunch for kids. funny how a short two-column table can say so much in so little space.

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Quick reminder: NYC’s new First Lady, Rama Duwaji, is a cartoonist! www.comicsbeat.com/zohran-mamda...

love this bit re @jfrejnyc.bsky.social: "Sasanow described what people should do today: Find a political home, be it a nonprofit, mutual aid group, or a community garden, so you “have a network of people you want to be with as things get harder.” The article links to JFREJ's Thurs online debrief

City of Sickos

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

BREAKING: Democrats just broke the GOP supermajority in the Mississippi Senate! In a stunning victory, Democrats gained seats in court-ordered special elections and will now head to Jackson to represent and fight on behalf of their constituents.

This is worse than the worst thing ever attributed to any “Bernie Bro”. The Democratic leader literally refusing to say WHETHER HE VOTED FOR THE DEMOCRAT.

Whose job do he want and how do we get him it