If the Mariners ever win the World Series, Seattle fans are going to be loud enough to accidentally set off the Cascadia fault zone

When God closes a door He opens a window. This drives me NUTS. Terrible roommate. The electric bill is outrageous. There's a bird's nest in the bathroom

Goodbye Yankees, at least something is good and just in the world

FRIEND: I'm starting to get my son into reading through graphic novels. You know comics. ME: That's great! Yeah, I've a ton of suggestions! FRIEND: He's hyperfocused on specific interests right now though. ME: That's fine. FRIEND: Know any about trains? ME: ... I shouldn't say "Snowpiercer", right?

I like how years of hating the Yankees has trained my mind that it was still nervous when the Blue Jays were only beating the Yankees 9-0, but once it became 11-0 it could finally relax

#Solar becomes main source of electricity in the #EU for first time. More than half of the EU’s #electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from #RenewableEnergy www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-p...

AI art wouldn't be as much of a thing if more people made photocomics, and if more people treated photocomics as actual comics

Honestly don't care if the Red Sox lose. They never should have gotten rid of Mookie, Xander, and Devers, and the easiest way to stop being bitter about it is to not care about them anymore.

I can easily see my high school freshman theology teacher doing this, as well as the evil nun who was the principal

Feeling for all my former colleagues at NIST today.

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night. All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

ME: You should be able to pitch this well in your grant application, the educational comics research you're doing in our group is pretty novel GRAD STUDENT: I might even say it's... graphic novel ME: GRAD STUDENT: I'll see myself out

We don’t want empowerment months and remembrance days. We want our healthcare.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care. #DidThisToday

What's a good option to Substack if I'm just looking for a newsletter that I can email out regularly/irregularly but am not looking for subscribers to pay for?

I still think AI is a bubble that will burst, and for the sake of general humanity's ability to think logically and creatively, it better be

Everyone knows Carey already but I'll add to it to say she does really great short comics work and you should definitely work with her if you can! She drew this spherical cow in our assumptions comic and I'm not sure art gets better than that! sciencetheworld.sites.northeastern.edu/science-comi...

One of the more understated but most important history lessons seems to be just how much damage one person on a fraudulent crusade can do.

i’m so old, i remember when going on the internet made you smarter

Call your senators and your house rep. Make a stink by being clear that abandoning trans adults and children is a no-go. Cis people, call and be loud for us. We are tired.

When I was coming out of grad school, I once complained to my advisor that there was a large chunk of political power in this country that 'hated science', and I got a kind but firm rebuke that I was wrong. Anyway, I maintain I was right, and after today, even more so than I was ~15 years ago.

Ok, I'm definitely doing my re-read of the whole series and writing something short about each book like I've always wanted to. Dang, these are incredible new covers

I've been asked to go back to my undergrad college this week and speak at a symposium honoring my German professor upon her retirement, and darn right I'm going to talk about how she always showed empathy and cared about us and made sure we all knew we were fortunate to get to support each other

I want people to dislike me for *me*

MMOLB is definitely a variation on blaseball, but it does its own thing very well. The changes mean less collective community, but slower pace also reduces time commitment and stress, and the "everyone's individual team is in a 1000+ team playoff" is building community in its own way. Recommended.

Today was my first day of 35th grade!

People talk about others living rent free in your head like that's a bad thing. You think I put any nemesis from any time in my life in a 4-star brain hotel? Heck no, every single one is being Cask of Amontillado-ed and I'll return often to paint those brain bricks with some fresh murals

I can

Apparently the almond tree I ordered and planted four years ago, have been caring for as it grew dramatically quickly, and seemed ready to provide a bumper crop this year in its first year of truly fruiting... is actually a peach tree. I now have nearly 200 peaches and no almonds

I have bought at least 5 of Chris's puzzles and wish that number was higher. I desperately want a mutli-tiered one! You (or the person you gift them to) will not be disappointed.

Any suggestions on good non-fantasy non-comics novels where the story is basically comics? Such as: "Kavalier and Clay" - Chabon "Secret Identity" (+sequel) - Segura "The Nobody People" (+sequel) - Proehl "Vicious" (+sequel) - VE Schwab "Hench" - Walschots "Dreadnought" (+sequel) - Daniels

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

There are certain people I trust most on specific topics, and Josh is unquestionably one of the top experts in the world on batteries.

@ryanhwalsh.bsky.social Had a dream last night that I went to take your CD out of the player and it turned out to be a cone-shaped disc, and I thought, oh yeah, of course, this is the cone-shaped album, it's a good one

"Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" is the favorite Tom Lehrer song of people who found the "Who's Next?" too uncomfortable

You can tell exactly how much editing was done in a grant proposal based on how many paragraphs are near rectangles of justified-aligned text Just keeping cutting a few words over and over and over until you juuuuuust sneak under the page limit

Happy us day to all the other enbies and gentlethems out there

Gotta say, this is just a really great time to be trying to build the grad side of my engineering education research group

My "Was meant to be a shapeshifter, was born a regular human" T-shirt is answering a lot of questions about my gender identity

Saw the Superman movie. Superman is portrayed well and it might be the best depiction I've seen of Lex Luthor, in his character, his motives, and all. The movie as a whole is way too James Gunn-ish but solid enough if you can get around that.

a top 5 R.E.M. song, unquestionably

Anima Rising was kind of remarkable, how effectively art and history and literature and Moore-isms were blended together. More great work by @theauthorguy.bsky.social. Definitely recommended.

Superman is a story of a planet destroyed when those in power refused to listen to scientific analysis. It's the story of an immigrant vowing to protect a new home and all those who live there. It's the story of compassion-centered strength defeating a billionaire. Of course Superman is political!

Honestly, one of the best things about being professor and why I'm so grateful I get to be in this role. There are more differing viewpoints and experiences in this "bubble" than most other societal or professional groupings.

some of this was decided long before you were even born that doesn't mean you don't have to fight it, and that doesn't mean you don't have to try to survive, but this happening isn't some failing of you in the context of your time--no need to make one wound into two, don't give them any freebies

Happy July 4th from STW

Old STW comic survivingtheworld.net/Lesson3276.h...

Honestly, I still can't believe an IRB approved this national study 10 years ago

Re-reading some old Oglaf and this panel feels like it summarizes certain politician's viewpoints on health care