Bringing my wife home after FFS and also juggling taking care of our elderly dog in decline. It's been a rough day or so but I'm working through it.

While my whole career isn't due to social media itself, it gave me some incredible connections and opportunities that I took that led me to having a career as a young adult author AND the day job that brought me to Chicago over ten years ago now.

This has been a really hard day and it's not over yet.

We are getting Mac back today, and the news is good overall with his results but the grand total for his vet visit is $6330.

FWIW, this morning I realized how much The Bride reminds me of Birds of Prey in specific ways. Which is to say a lot of people with taste will probably get a kick out of it.

Like the constant Trolley Problem chatter feels linked to the over-eagerness of the Yglesiases and Newsoms of the world to find vulnerable people to sacrifice for the greater good. Like it's a way to make HURTING people somehow seem VIRTUOUS. No thanks!

"Knowing that any reader may catch a thread ... that could lead to a new budding interest beyond the page is an awesome reward as a writer for young readers," Barbara Perez Marquez told @fanbasepress.bsky.social in an interview on a new volume in our YA #STEM graphic novel series, The Curie Society:

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

My wife is having FFS this morning.

Very cool!

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

Going out to see The Bride for my wife's birthday (which was Weds but we've been spreading the celebration out a bit).

LOOK WHAT I GOT

So this is Tony Hawk Pro Skater but it's on a bus.

The kids don't know about the Amanda Bynes poster hastily airbrushed to avoid implying she endorsed peace

Been a while since I've banged this drum, but: Cancel your fucking game pass subscription

During my lifetime, the American conservative agenda has been preoccupied with expanding violence in schools—and normalizing violence against children more broadly. School shootings, campus sexual violence, bathrooms bans, ICE raids, and now bombing a girls’ school in Iran.

I’m gonna mute the word “distraction” for the next 72 hours. None of this is a distraction from anything else, the US Government is, and has been, a death cult run by rapists. Every atrocity they commit is its own reward.

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Seeing a lot of people sharing the Trans Continental Pipeline, which is good for those Kansans who can and wish to exit the state, but for those who cannot, there are other organizations you can support! Please share these as well! 👇

Me with Pombon

Look, I'm going to pick the fluffy fire dog. Have you MET me??

i need allies to stop looking at the ongoing horrors that trans people are facing and responding with "wow imagine what will happen when this comes for [others]" yeah that'll suck, can we talk about it happening to us RIGHT NOW? we're more than the canary in the coal mine. we deserve to live too.

Queer werewolves is a very exclusive club! Did you know that you can get this cool design on either a shirt or totebag if you get yourself a copy of The Shards of Reflection? Grab it and some cool comics today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/149... #werewolfwednesday

There is just no metric (stylistically/aesthetically/mathematically/vibes) by which the same group of 10-20 mostly-white-guys, or the next crop of the same behind them, are the best/all that the comics medium has to offer. But the big 2 keep pushing them on us, giving them the highest profile work

Helllll yes.

Hey. Tell people when they do good job. When you like the stuff they make. When you like the characters they’ve created. The stories they’ve told. Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time. Trust. They don’t. Tell. Them.

"indie devs are the future of the industry" damn that's awesome so when do i get health insurance then

Why watch an old man when you can hug an old dog?

CALL YOUR CONGRESS PERSON NOW!!!!!! Tell them: — NO to KOSA — NO to Section 230 reform — NO to the SCREEN Act — NO to the App Store Accountability Act —NO age verification laws —NO to digital ID systems

Most of the worst things happening to humanity are just 500 or so men (and at least one woman) who get together to bankroll evil. It’s not nuanced or complicated. Just true.

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

The annual naming of the city snow plow contest is a Chicago tradition. Many great name suggestions as usual, but "Abolish ICE" seems a perfect one to land on. Love this city!

"I'm wanting a 'taste of honey', *if you know what I mean*."

Quick reminder that Substack recently sent out push notifications to random users promoting a literal Nazi blog that they host. There's a reason why a lot of us don't share Substacks, or even visit sites hosted with them anymore.

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

The Supreme Court:

After seeing him on Instagram for months, we finally found Chad the Bird's YouTube Channel and it has been a delight today.

It's incredible how it was revealed that the anti-trans push over the past decade was concocted in no small part by a literal PEDOPHILE CONSPIRACY and the reaction of transphobic lawmakers, journalists, academics has been a shrug and a "well, we gotta carry out the orders from pedophile island"

over and over again the efficacy of these programs gets proven and yet

I'm always saying this

This is good. I love grants. I wish we had more. Things like this remind me that lots of people in comics (and elsewhere) are pushing for things to be better from a variety of angles. check out these critics and dig into some comics:

One of the lessons I hope people take away from Jesse Jackson’s life and the outpouring of remembrances small and large is that progress is made and measured in every act and utterance against oppression and not measured solely in legislative or electoral victories.

It's Pączki Day, y'all

It's Pączki Day, y'all

This is a fantastic thread that you should read. Join your neighbors and defend your neighbors. The people united will never be defeated.

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

👇 this is a very good summary of all the anti-trans positions Newsom has taken:

Pedantic thing about me, I can't stand slant rhyme nor imperfect meter in Roses Are Red poems.