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I’m available for cover commissions. #booksky

I think he's managed (or mismanaged, more accurately) to claw back all the job gains of the Biden presidency.

Alan H @alan678.bsky.social shares a beautiful shot of a HolidayRobin today. I love the bird looming in the background, too. 🐦

It's been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

Oh also - lawyers aren’t allowed to tell jurors this so i do: “Jury nullification” is a fancy phrase that just means, “This jury decided not to convict and there’s nothing anyone can do about that.” If we think a law is unjust or unjustly enforced, we can just not convict. We don’t need a reason.

Still cleaning my office/studio. Came across this high school photo. The photographer told me (a teenager) to smile. He got my active bitch face instead.

Kavanaugh kidnapping.

"...hundreds of patients across New Jersey affected by the abrupt closure of nearly 90 Optum Health medical offices."

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declared a state of emergency on Thursday after Typhoon Kalmaegi left at least 114 people dead and more than 100 missing in central provinces. n.pr/3JNSyIa

#ACA now with alt text

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 94th day out of the last 106. 12 days of work in 106 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

I dream this will happen in the US in what’s left of my lifetime. I’m not holding my breath, but I’m holding onto hope.

i friggin love biology

The thing about being a woman and navigating the world, is that you are never safe from being sexually harassed by strangers even if you are a freaking head of state. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Interesting study. Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism www.psypost.org/trump-suppor...

Trump has decimated Republican support in one year. EVERY county in both Virginia and New Jersey has moved blue, some by double digits! LFG!

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Yanno, if we had the ability to do a National recall #election, that would solve a shit ton of problems.

A very skeptical lizard has appeared!!! #photography #lizards #AnimalArtTuesday

with 70 minutes until close of polls, 52.5% of registered voters in my district have voted. 40.5% of registered voters voted in the last gubernatorial election #newjerseyelection #voting #nj #election

We’re seeing bigger numbers of voters at my district than the last governor race. #vote #election2025

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

Go vote. I’ve been here at the polls since 5:15AM and we aren’t busy enough. #elections2025 #vote #njelections

Good morning #NJ Your task today: Make sure everyone you know has voted or will vote tomorrow. #CrunchTime

Each year, many more Americans see live theater in local schools than on Broadway. So when a show has a short run in New York? It's not over. n.pr/4olRgmZ

This is what happens when you train your LLMs on the sludge that is the Internet. Maybe the devs all need to (re)watch Odyssey 5 (including the few episodes showtime was to chickenshit to air)

By changing the way gun violence is covered, reporters can take an active role in minimizing harm to injured people, communities, and society—and even make an important contribution toward preventing gun violence.

I just came across some threatening postcards I must have picked up at Pennsic 40 years ago. If I were still freelancing, I’d save them for slow paying clients.

I have so far found no less than SEVEN padlocks. Thankfully 4 of them use keys and I wrote the combination for one of the other ones. The remaining 2 will be a lock-picking exercise for someone else.

If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.

You never know how much useless crap you've accumulated until you completely empty out your gigantic desk.

Yes, I’ve been indicted. But I don’t want people to lose sight of what got us here. Thank you for having me, @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social to discuss why these atrocities need to end and why there needs to be real accountability.

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.

On a scale of 1-10, how creepy is it to leave a small plastic treasure chest with some of my baby teeth in it for my eventual heirs to find after I die?

I've also uncovered around $75 worth of postage in the form of 3 coils of 100 23-cent stamps. I wish I could just cash that in. I must have been planning a massive card mailing campaign in the early 00s.

Area Man Afraid Some Woman Might Come Out Of The Woodwork To Hold Him Accountable For Something https://theonion.com/area-man-afraid-some-woman-might-come-out-of-the-woodwo-1820345646/

I've been reorganizing my studio/office for the past 2 weeks. And I keep finding pocket-sized KALIEDOSCOPES tucked away in boxes of miscellany. And they continue to delight me and offer me a break from the tedium. I hope I'm not the only one that has a small collection of these things.

It's my birthday! Happy me! @pmpress.bsky.social celebrates by offering my collection Talk Like a Man for a mere 5 capitalist bucknuts: pmpress.org/index.php?l=... We love you, man....

May the odds be ever in your favor

We need someone who can stand up for New Jersey and deliver solutions, we need to elect Mikie Sherrill as our next governor.

Who else gets paid to stay home and not do their jobs?

"American culture runs on jealousy" When I was teaching little paint & sip classes, I think the most important moments were watching an "I can't paint a stick figure" tech worker realize they could be an artist, that it is within their grasp if they want it.

The Taliban comes off *better* in this comparison. They don't deny the existence of global warming.

Thank you for the love on this piece - I was really pleased with it! I thought I would share the WIP blocking out stage of this piece. I find these early stages extremely satisfying.

Damn, this is so powerful. MeidasTouch nailed it.