This petition has less than half the signatures of the paypro one, and while I'm really happy we've done so well with that and should keep spreading it every day and get more signatures, bill C-2 is a disastrous piece of legislation and is arguably more important

also let’s remember that Economics is a developing study in which like any academic field the experts speak authoritatively to cover up stuff they don’t know and can’t explain game theory per se is only 80 years old. the Nobel Prize for Economics was first awarded in 1968. this is new stuff

In college one of the problems I had with my Economics courses was that they constantly posited consumers as informed rational actors, which was absolutely not what I was being taught in my Advertising courses

Shout out also to the folks in DC who've been hectoring them like puppies. & The millions who joined over 1000 organized protests across the country on Labor Day, even if the media doesn't cover it. It's a long cold civil war but they are not going to enjoy invading Chicago.

So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do. This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won. 11/end

And yeah, they'll be back. It's going to get a lot worse. It's going to suck ass for a long time in America, but they aren't invulnerable, they're just empowered bullies and like all bullies, they can't handled working harder than they're supposed to and they can't stand being thwarted. 10/

So, Chicago, it's your turn now and man, I am so so sorry. Nobody should have to go through this. This is awful. This is fascism. Organize. Step up. Don't think other people will do it -- the might, maybe even they will, but they need you, too. Be like LA -- be sand in their gears. 9/

We didn't stop them, but we slowed them down. They got hundreds of us, but we kept them from getting hundreds more, and it wasn't violence or graffiti or insults that did the job, it was regular people getting involved. It was my neighbor the speech therapist, it was my friend the life-coach. 8/

LA kept a small, peaceful, totally fucking irritating presence at the Federal buildings and LA showed up at the hotels where ICE was staying and made sure they didn't get any sleep. LA Unions got involved. LA limousine liberals got out of their fucking limousines and stood watch on corners. 7/

LA got on Signal and ICE-watch. LA's biggest non-profit advocacy groups like the LA Tenants Union widened their missions to incorporate saving the whole fucking city. LA showed up. LA filmed. LA *knew its rights* and handed out red-cards at every opportunity. 6/

Why? Well, for starters, 300 ICE agents have been moved to Chicago, leaving only about 300 in LA County which is about what we had before Trump took office. Why are they leaving? Because LA made their jobs TOO FUCKING HARD. LA Organized. LA sat on corners outside Home Depots with radios. 5/

Los Angeles is back in action. The neighborhood parks were thronged today, abuelitas and little children, full families and stragglers in the sun. The playgrounds were *hopping* and I saw venderos I hadn't seen in ages... 3/

ARE YOU OKAY? ⚡ Look I'm just saying: Surge could def pull this off and you can not change my mind on that. #digitalart #art #fanart #sonic #sonicidw #surgethetenrec #sonicthehedgehog

SURGE THE TENREC #digitalart #art #fanart #sonic #sonicidw #surgethetenrec #sonicthehedgehog

This is one of the most important lessons a trans person can learn, IMO We all have dysphoria triggers, we all have things that set us off, but someone just posting about their life or selfies or what have you triggering your dysphoria is a YOU issue, not a THEM issue. You gotta learn to deal.

Your reminder that 99.99% of the artists you interact with are sustained by a second job or spouse/family, and followers do not actually translate directly to dollars

Btwn the salt trucks and another unsourced video I just saw purporting to be from Chicago today with a reply saying it was from two months ago figured we could all use a reminder

People who use AI, this is what I'm lumping you in with. The U.S. Department of Labor generating the whitest fake dudes on the planet for recruiting posts that look like they're right out of Axel Braun's "This Ain't The Man in the High Castle" porn parody. (Yeah, I checked, these are real.)

In less than one month too, jeez. Even if it ultimately gets restored through businesses begging, whole sectors are just gonna be nuked from this.

Next they'll outlaw playing hopscotch. 🏳️‍🌈

KILL THE RICH. SAVE THE WORLD

Australians, spread this petition far and wide. Demands Parliament “open anti-trust investigations and penalize the unregulated monopoly of a key part of everyday infrastructure,” as “payment processors are not there to regulate what legal content people consume.” www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

I definitely should use this framing of social media more. I should only scroll on here for like, at most five minutes collectively a day, maybe ten if I've got nothing going on.

"Bluesky is boring." Social media *should* be boring. Being algorithm and dopamine poisoned is bad, actually. When your feed dries up for the day, that's your cue to go do something else until new stuff shows up later.

As soon as a producer or show runner shows a lack of respect for the source I know the project is doomed. It happened with Halo when the show's writers gloated about not playing the games. The Witcher show became ass when the writers thought they could come up with better material than the book.

Ah, yes, for all you young people: there was a relentless effort to manufacture a consensus that Columbine was caused by Goth culture, industrial music, and videogames. The neo-Nazism was buried, and anyone who pointed to easy access to guns was denounced as a liberty-hating tyrant.

Taking Weretober suggestions on patreon until Friday! 🐺🌕

This may not seem like much, but there’s an entire century-plus legal framework in the US built around the USPS postmark as the *definition* of when an item was mailed — an item like your payment check or your MAIL-IN BALLOT. I only know this from printing; I would sure like a lawyer’s opinion.

I wish to escape into the fabricated worlds full of magic and mystery. ✨

Fucking FINALLY someone in authority is actually saying it

My dad is gonna be 60 next year and is already retired and he has only gotten more progressive. He unlearned every slur he used to say (such as the ones used to refer to Romani people being swindlers) and basically sits in his room watching the news yelling at Republicans all day. He's great.

this became conventional wisdom off the premise that you'd be able to afford things relatively easily and be able to check out from political reality like previous generations did

I promised at the beginning of the year I'd draw Samus every month, and I did it! (was cutting it close a few times 😅)

Samus Metroidus

saaaamuuusssss

Quoth with thy blue art! 💙

Zero Suit Samus redesign!

The wait is almost over! #Metroid

"Degenerate" queer artists have always been central to progressive political and cultural movements btw, and we always will be. Our art has always been uniquely scrutinized, ridiculed, and demonized in the process. History is constantly just repeating itself.

I also blame the young generation who voted for Nader, and any other vote that has been made because "there's no DIFFERENCE between Dems and GOP". Remember that ??

Oh, it's simple, the Boomers got their $10k college education and their $60k home then decided to pull up the ladders and rip up the roots of the American dream by putting in charge the worst people they could find, such as Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump.

Rainy, winner of the latest poll!

Symbiote Samus ⚡

Any time Serena Williams so much as reacted badly over a bad call the media would say she was either having a meltdown or called it “embarrassing”. Just sayin’.

I got an early morning email from Image's accounting that raised some red flags for me. Do not put your account info in the link they shared. contact your editor first asking about this. I hope I'm wrong, but I really think somebody got hacked

I’m not making art in a time where things are safe or normal. I’m making art at a time art itself is threatened constantly on every level. In a time where I can see authoritarianism taking over my country. In a time people harass REAL people over CARTOONS.

I know sometimes I shouldn’t, But It’s hard not to bite back about shit when I’m a creator of queer stories in a time where queerness is under attack. I’m the daughter of an immigrant when people are being stolen away. I’m a woman seeing my rights are a constant debate. Maybe I’m just PISSED off.

Remember, working with magic potions can be just as dangerous as working with science potions! - The art in this piece is by the ever-talented Janexas! - #TFTuesday #transformation #transfur #unicorn #wereunicorn

(repost) dragon feelings #tftuesday