Fundraiser for librarian Luanne James, who stood up to her rightwing library board that demanded she remove kids books with any trace of LBGTQ+ characters or content. "I will not comply." They sacked her and cops escorted her out. She's a hero. This banned author just donated.

I can't get over people whining, "But what if I'm baaaad at that?!" in response to everyone telling them not to outsource their creativity to fucking AI. Who raised you? What did they teach you? Fuck all, apparently, because being shit at something isn't an excuse to cheat. Come on.

I don't mean to brag but many of my friends are authors, and I am an author, and also we would all rather die than use AI to do even a fraction of our craft. AI in art is for cowards unwilling to be vulnerable for long enough to learn. The prompt is the easy part. Always has been.

Excited to share my dandelion dad hat— my first embroidered merch! I’ll be selling these at Sunny Day Art Market May 10, but also releasing a limited number online (in charcoal) this Friday 4/3 at 11am ET. I’ll also set up a preorder in black! And if you prefer, a patch is coming soon :)

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

You know he would too

CSS is DOOMed! I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms. cssdoom.wtf Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.

This is from ten years ago and yet the threats and bribes the NBA and Blazers are making to Portland and Oregon are exactly what's talked about here www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcwJ...

Remember when education was all like “git gud” and now everyone is like “but automating homework is the same as learning, right?” smh

Here's my breaking up with Harry Potter essay comic- if you need some fuel to convince relatives or friends not to watch the new show, maybe this will help: redgoldsparkspress.com/projects/718...

IMPOSSIBLY important to rally against this - vote NO, fight against banning books

If you willingly use this. You have to be one of the dumbest shits alive. This company is no friend to artists. Its become a AI shill, nothing more. (How long till workplaces abuse this by feeding off the work done in house, then fireing staff to "cut costs"?) My guess is not long.

The USPS IS NOT LOSING MONEY. THE USPS IS SPENDING TAX DOLLARS ALLOCATED TO IT BY THE BUDGET. THE USPS SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TO ZERO OUT ITS BALANCE SHEET IT IS NOT A BUSINESS IT DOES NOT HAVE SHAREHOLDERS. IF THE USPS IS OUTSPENDING ITS BUDGET IT SHOULD BE ALLOCATED MORE BUDGET.

Leaving aside the blow this would be to our democracy & civil society, the collapse of USPS would likely destroy the US economy & US businesses. No regular business can afford to double their shipping expenditures by using a private service. It won’t happen. They’ll all just go out of business.

Publishers: What will motivate you to work faster on this book, please we'll give you anything Me: money Publishers: except that

Hey! All of you playing Marathon, share with me one (or more) cool stories that you have experienced while playing the game. Try to keep them short (one post per story, please) and know that I might end up using them in a blog. Thanks! (Sharing this post is appreciated!)

But seriously we are on the precipice of the demise of the USPS and too overwhelmed with crises to give it proper attention. The Constitution will not save it, the admin wants it dead, and Republicans in Congress are on permanent vacation. No one is coming to save it unless we show them it matters.

The government asked a judge to stop the spread of the videos on YouTube. The judge agreed, and ordered their immediate removal.

A pleasant side effect of playing Marathon is that instead of falling asleep to various regrets of my 44 years of being alive and what I could have done differently, I am instead focusing on my regrets during my runs in Marathon and what I could have done differently.

I'm a HUGE basketball fan, but I HATE being held hostage by an owner and the league to pay for stadium upgrades. The billionaire can pay for that shit and we can use that money to take care of our community.

Today is the last day to fill out my D1 Budget Survey! More than 300 of our neighbors have already let me know their priorities for how our City should invest our dollars. The survey should take around 15 minutes to complete, so there’s still time if you haven’t submitted your input yet.

Public records obtained by OPB suggest the scope of the Blazers’ campaign for public funds to pay for Moda renovations. From a staff trip to North Carolina, to implicit threats to relocate the team, to nudging from Nike’s CEO, the documents pull back the curtain on months of private talks:

Who is playing Marathon? It has wormed its way into my brain like nothing else in a really, really long time. Would love to have other folks to run with.

Who do I know in San Diego? I will be there next week at the SDPL and I am afraid that I do not have enough people there. I will be talking about the Japanese American Incarceration, book bans, and what our current climate of censorship yields for us while simultaneous state sanctioned raids occur.

My next comic, The Lionharts, comes out on Tuesday and recently received its 3rd starred review! Inspired by a dnd campaign I wrote for my kids, if you like fantasy: this book is for you. #comics #middlegrade #fantasy #dungeonsanddragons

Portland politics taught me you don't have to settle for Dan Ryans and Rene Gonzalez, you can get Angelita Morillos and Mitch Greens.

This creep's entire line of thought here is eugenicist trash. People are PEOPLE. You don't measure their value by energy consumption. They have inherent value as HUMAN BEINGS. A fucking LLM has no inherent human value. You cannot compare them.

Be here today (Feb. 16) as we welcome cartoonist Rupert Kinnard to celebrate his new collection 'Ooops...I Just Catharted!: 50 Years of Cathartic Comics' featuring the first ongoing gay and lesbian African-American comic strip characters. cartoonart.org/calendar/2026/2/16/oops-i-just-catharted

Here's my basic beef with "a.i." First, do no harm. We consume things all day long without knowing for sure what harm they cause people or planet, but with "a.i." WE KNOW. 1. built from theft 2. consumes water 3. pollutes Add to that, I've done just fine without it for 52 years? A hard no.

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

I found the poop guy in Nioh 3

Yayyyy!!!! So excited to see so many great books and authors as finalists!!!!

“Grown ass man in Texas went to place where high schoolers were protesting the American Gestapo, he went with the intention of beating up the teenagers, mostly girls, and got his ass kicked” feels like the truest expression of the American right and why they want state murder agents killing everyone

The ACLU wants to hear from any families with kids or anyone who was significantly impacted by the use of chemical munitions at yesterday’s protest. Please email my office so we can help connect you with their legal team.

We are at a crossroads. The Police Union can choose to stand with Portlanders, to stand against fascism, or they can continue to obstruct policies that would reign the feds in because they see a kinship with corrupt law enforcement and not with the good people of our city. There is a choice here.

If your children got tear gassed today I want to hear from you, even if you don’t live in my district. You can contact my office at [email protected]

A gaiter is not a mask. ICE agents don’t wear respirators and neither do most white libs and leftists.

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

Man who wouldn’t wear mask to protect people fine wearing mask to shoot them

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

NVidia chief creep says resistance and scorn for AI have done a lot of harm. Good. Nice confirmation it's working. Keep it up. Although the main thing is this stuff is harmful crap so the mind and body tend to revolt against it automatically.

The memory-holing around COVID just dazzles me. Like, nine months after the trucks of dead bodies they were like "naaaaaaah"

Cartoonists, I’d love to hear your stories! For local resources, please check out @defend612.bsky.social defend612.com

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

I worry that people are relying too heavily on the fact that all this is unpopular in the polls. Most autocrats are unpopular with their people. Once you control every branch of government, muzzle the press, and start murdering your own citizens with impunity, you don't need to be popular.

He could have used his time to disavow the comments in the group chats. He could have called or had his staff call to get more insight before giving comment, as was suggested in the Mercury's initial email to his office. Instead he took a page out of the Trump playbook and just attacked our reporter

The fact that thousands of Minnesotans continue to show up day after day and night after night to protect their communities knowing ICE agents are a hair's breadth away from murdering them is a fucking testament to their bravery, empathy, and resolve. America has not earned it, but there they are.