Wednesday!!!! If you're an East Bay person who's missed all my San Francisco events, you can come see me along with some truly incredible authors, no need to cross the bay! <3

Some companies would rather self-annihilate by closing popular locations than just recognize their union. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/26/b...

Reminder during this Canada Post strike. It's a service, not a business. Should the fire department make profit? If anything this is a sign that it should be a government agency like the USPS.

Threads is starting to surpass X/Twitter in worldwide daily active users, according to Similarweb.

Looking for recommendations for things to do in London and Dublin while on vacation! I like art and computer stuff, but open to anything really.

@pulitzercenter.org seeks applications for their reporting initiative focused on AI and surveillance technologies and their impact on communities around the world. Deadline: December 31, 2025

This artist's work was used without permission on a fortune telling vending machine. :(

This is so dirty. I still get mail. Important mail. Canada Post is THE ONLY mail delivery option for much of Canada's landmass. Solidarity with CUPW!

hear me out, government of canada, you could just FUND THE FUCKING POST OFFICE YOU ABSOLUTE GHOULS www.thestar.com/business/pos...

With five days left to go, we're well on our way to our funding goal for September, but we still need your help! Support a NSFW-friendly independent platform and help keep Pillowfort's lights on: pillowfort.social/donations

I'm very skeptical of MS's "We had no idea they were doing that!" but this does seem to be a pretty big deal.

BOOK COVER ARTISTS QRP with your book covers 📚 #BookCovers .................................................... Grateful to my art directors who really took a chance on me and let me try different things for these book covers. All made with physical mediums from coloured pencil to embroidery <3

Hey, I built a desktop app that lets you download video and audio files from *most websites* with basically zero friction. No ads, spyware, or sketchy web-redirects. Sends stuff straight to your Downloads folder. Should work on Windows *and* Mac. Free to use. I need beta testers. Any takers?

Comics are under attack in Canada. We cannot stay silent. Read and share TCAF’s statement on censorship in Alberta’s public schools, then join us in taking action! www.torontocomics.com/post/comics-...

Keeping things simple, not overthinking too much. Working with very diluted liquitex carbon black ink and my trusty 11 years old dried up Pentel brush which makes the most beautiful marks 🖤

I was going to assign my students a salvaging project, but after doing some salvaging myself for the first time in ages I realize how much harder it is these days with smd components etc. What specific things are still easy and accessible to salvage ?

My first double-blind peer-reviewed article is now out in the journal Balkanistic Worlds. I explore the uneven trajectory of modernization in a Balkan country and how a resilient Ottoman architectural legacy domesticated a medical discipline. bit.ly/46Gk8Pa

Interested in turning into a fieldmouse? We'll be opening for submissions November 1st - 30th, 2025. Find out more about what we're looking for at our website! www.fieldmouse.press/submissions

"You can watch a million TikToks, but to engage, you still need to go to the hot bakery. You still need to actually make the ramen you saw on YouTube. You still need to get the reservation, and then your taste buds have to wrap themselves around a chutney pizza.... No one else can taste it for you."

Gantz also says that he believes Israel must immediately annex the occupied Jordan Valley, which constitutes nearly 30% of the occupied West Bank. Gantz claims this is a "security measure" and not a political maneuver.

I'm not gonna have time to make anything with this but I started on a tiny interactive web thing for Vancouver Game Garden using @pietepiet.com's art and LDtk (arrow keys): vangamegarden.com/events/02/ga...

We've been looking forward to this! Very nice comics AND Paradise Systems got peow2 designer/boss @picturecrotty.bsky.social to handle big chunk of design so it looks extra cool

Really enjoyed reading (and helping translate) this cutely packaged existential comic about real estate and inter-species gentrification 🐭

Instant MUST GET new book from the great folks at Paradise Systems @paradisesystems.bsky.social ‼️ Make sure to check this one out, collecting a ton of really cool upcoming alternative comic artists from China's alt comics scene 🔥

Hi. I want to write a book for kids. DOGMAN-esque. Comic book style, but in the smaller size that kids seem to eat up nowadays. I have written some sample chapters. If anyone knows an artist that has some time, I will totally pay. Just want to do a chapter and see how it goes.

Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned the prominent British-Egyptian coder, blogger, and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has been imprisoned for six years, state media and his family say. www.bbc.com/news/articl...

Health PSA for Ontarians 🦠 covid-19 vax is now available for high-risk individuals; general public roll out is Oct 27 flu vax available Oct 14 More info: www.ontario.ca/vaccine-loca...

I had the pleasure of speaking with @tega.bsky.social + @lav.io about their new exhibition — which engages with surveillance, data infrastructures, and climate — at @pioneerwork.bsky.social!

Thanks for including Downpour even though it came out already 🥰 I'm also here to hype The Snow Theater because it's so dreamy and gorgeous—I loved it when I read it ❄️ enchantedlion.com/all-books/th...

related: how the fuck do i move passkeys from android to ios?

Mercator size vs. true country size by @neilrkaye.bsky.social

Canada still allows military goods to be sold to Israel, has yet to even recognize the genocide in Gaza, though it “strongly condemns” what is going on over there (wow, chilling). But it’s definite hardline action barring an Irish musical group from the country because we don’t tolerate terrorists.

At this point, it’s not that people don’t know that there’s a genocide in Gaza, it’s that they don’t care.

The sweet pea flowers I planted made peas 🫛🫛🫛 Going to wait for the pod to split and try planting these next spring #fragrancesky

The Vancouver Police Board's handling of a complaint by BCCLA and Pivot regarding surveillance of Palestine solidarity protests failed on many substantive and procedural fronts.

Lots of things going down to drown this out but don’t want it to be forgotten about, check it out.

🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨 We just launched a Kickstarter for a book we’ve been working on for over two years now - a brand new anthology of comics from some of the most exciting cartoonists in China’s alt comics scene! It’s called SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel ✨ www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...

There are independent servers emerging! Here’s a few, feel free to add more in the replies. selfhosted.social blacksky.app zeppelin.social We built a protocol because the last thing I want to be is your dictator, but centralization always has a single point of failure.

This is the way to do it. Substack wants to own ALL your audience on its own tools. Beehiiv is like, “sure, put your chat on Discord and your videos on YouTube, we’ll make it all work out.” Best of breed > suites. Every. Single. Time.

In this new piece, I explain why focusing only on red tape and proceduralism (as the Abundance thesis does) misses the bigger story about the American Political Economy and fails to explain the staggering build out of data centers across the country. www.valueadded.tech/p/america-ca...

#Swordtember “Bell”. Just a little guy being clanged around.

China bans tech companies from buying Nvidia AI chips www.ft.com/content/12ad...

🔝 This is the most-read story on FT right now >>

“This zine is for an audience of anyone who wants to think or reflect more on the way that big tech and politics are intersecting in North America.” - @kristenthomasen.bsky.social www.uwindsor.ca/news/2025-09...

I had missed this exchange last month between Nate Silver and Tyler Cowen in which Silver more or less admits that the academic conversation has moved to Bluesky, but rather than thinking that this shows how Bluesky has become more important, he claims it's why they've "lost influence."

Very quick haul pic, SPX was invigorating as always! I love all my friends and thank you to everyone who I got to chat with! Now time to go back in the hole 🕳️

There were no hate crimes reported in NYC the week of Sept 1–7, a big drop from the previous year. compstat.nypdonline.org

Think of a story you’ve read from us that stuck with you. Now imagine never reading stories like that again. Let’s not let that happen. globalvoices.org/donate/ #KeepGVStrong 🌱

MacOS 26 Tahoe is out!