we should have a third industry besides AI and gambling

How it started / how it’s going — Jay Bhattacharya edition. 2025: “We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree" 2026 : Bhattacharya “has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits”.

BREAKING: The so called 'SAVE' Act has FAILED in the Senate and will not become law. I wrote this piece on how in reality, this is the Voter Restriction Act to prevent women from voting. It is fascism and would have installed Trump as a permanent dictator. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-save-a...

Nothing better than waking up to a great review of a book you poured your heart into!

This is tonight at 7 at Elliot Bay Books! Celebrate at the park & set an alarm to amble over to our reading.

I’m doing a book giveaway on my Substack! Leave a comment on the latest post for a chance to win a signed Pip & Pals ARC 🦦🚀❤️ jendeoart.substack.com/p/a-pip-and-...

NYT runs a nonsense op-ed by an 84-year-old man yelling at cloud about darn kids that is on face directly contradicted by months of its own reporting.

Last week, a worker one of Amazon's Portland area facilities died on the warehouse floor. Employees were told to look away and keep working. A new story by @ryanjhaas.bsky.social for @thewesternedge.bsky.social - reporting this news first. www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-i...

TV show too short, movie too long.

I'll be at Hissy Fit this year running a workshop for youth!!! I hope to see you there!!!!

Got an email from Adobe saying that they were nearly doubling the cost of my creative cloud subscriptions and adding a bunch of Gen AI dogshit I didn't ask for! If you don't want to get charged you have to log in and downgrade to a "standard" plan that's just the fuckin apps.

How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email

In exchange for public funding for the Moda Center, I want at least two strings attached: 1. Guaranteed cheep/free seats for residents (perhaps through the MultCo library card, like cultural passes to the ballet and Japanese Garden) 2. Street pricing on concessions like PDX (bc why is beer $17??)

TRUMP: "I'm gonna fuckin' blow up all the fuckers! I wanna use all the bombs before I die! Helter skelter! Helter skelter! Race war! Race war! Fuck Easter and fuck you, too!" NEWS: "Trump promises to strengthen military in early morning Easter greeting."

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

“‘All I’m going to say is that I stand by my decision,’ she said… “Much of the audience at the board meeting broke into cheers and applause after her statement. Chants of ‘shame’ were heard as board members voted to fire her...” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

I do not know if an updated COVID19 vaccine will be available for Fall in the United States. All because little men got their feelings hurt because their ideas are fucking dumb and thousands of scientists told them that. firstwordpharma.com/story/7157141

Hey cartoonists, do not sign on for this. If they aren’t paying animators or authors, they sure as hell aren’t paying livable graphic novel advances. And also, it sucks.

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.