Many people live with an uncomfortable contradiction: They like animals and don’t want to see them harmed, yet they also enjoy eating meat, milk, and eggs. @kennytorrella.bsky.social reports for @vox.com:

This is your daily reminder that: - Colossal did NOT bring back the dire wolf - They are funded by big-business interests to push a narrative that species extinction isn't a real problem because we can just "de-extinct" them later

From one of @prisonculture.bsky.social ’s lovely essays, Dr. Sawin-

Please consider voting for @decassette.bsky.social at the Eisners! We are so excited over the 3 nominations she received this year, and it's been almost 10 years since her first nom for stages of rot. Lets go. This might be the year! Or not. But we have to at least dream.

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

I’m so sick of this shit. Animals are not going extinct for no reason. They are going extinct for many reasons, but perhaps the primary one because they have no ecosystem to live in. This is junk science and hurts actually conservation.

Inventing the air conditioner Make it a 100 fucking pounds. No, no center mass to it at all somehow. Throw some fuckin…accordion arms on it that flap out and catch on everything when you’re carrying it up from the basement. And let me get 50 razor blades on the back of it too.

pour one out for a real one

I’ve given half dozen talks to uni Ss past few weeks & in all of them have gone off on Ai & how we can’t give up what makes us human, the importance of struggling, of making mistakes, & all the decisions & surprises along the way that makes us who we are. We won’t be robbed of this. Ss don’t want it

men would rather disperse trillions of amorphous silica particles 0.5 microns in size 11 miles above the earth than ride a bike to work

That Iranian cleric who said the US can't retaliate after Soleimani's murder because they can't assassinate Spider-Man or Spongebob Squarepants continues to be proven more and more correct as time goes on

Exhibition Marks 70 Years Since Gordon Parks’ Landmark Segregation Photos Published in 'Life' Magazine

A wonderful essay. Must read.

There isn’t much left to say except that your children will be less well-rounded than you. Less well-read than you. Less intelligent than you. Less able to problem solve than you. Leas worldly than you. Less empathetic. Less equipped. And more helpless. For the first time in living history.

Even with so little left standing in Gaza City, Israel continues its campaign of destruction. Sama'a and her children fall asleep to the sound of shelling and bombing. Please give what you can to help. chuffed.org/project/1575...

Bonkers!!! Reminder that evolution is not a ladder that we climbed to the top of

Lolita by Valdimir Nabokov The Once and Future King by T.H. White The Word for World is Forest by Ursula Le Guin

Animal agriculture accounts for at least 16.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, making it the 2nd largest emitter after fossil fuels. A new study finds that 98% of climate-related commitments made by meat & dairy companies could be categorized as greenwashing. From @Mongabay.com

How to help gibbons as trafficking in these amazing apes hits an all-time high: https://therevelator.org/gibbon-trafficking/

Five years and 156 pages later, Those That Inherit the Earth Vol. 1 is all drawn. Still have a ways to go with coloring the last third of the book plus all the worldbuilding/lore section, but it still feels good to look at the stack of finished pages.

Reading right now and damn! Fish are so much more complex and cognitive than we give them credit for and reading this really gives you a sense of just HOW much of what we value about ourselves really belongs, not exclusively to humans, but to the animal kingdom at large.

If you told this person this is the same thing people used to say about "separate but equal" discrimination back in the day they would undoubtedly take great offense at that, despite it being the exact same thing

Oh dear there's Disk Horse about novels. You want my take? No? Too bad. A) any "best of" list is really "best according to whoever made the list." These lists are fun and interesting in themselves. Maybe you'll be curious enough to try a book and find a new favorite! Maybe discussion of the list is

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

Wally has been nominated for an Eisner Award!!! 🥹 So proud of my little guy 💕

Mango is my absolute favorite but I don’t think I’ve cut even one mango in my entire life and felt like i was doing it correctly.

“Accessibility and conservation are not competing priorities. With careful planning, they can reinforce each other. Controlled pathways, adaptive diving programs, and guided marine experiences can expand access while minimizing ecological impact.” As a disabled voice, this story deeply matters.

trans woman's replies when she mentions that the democrats are leaving her and her siblings out to rot

in case it's useful to anyone else, i've tossed the spreadsheet template i've been using to track my graphic novel progress in my ko-fi shop! keeps track of deadlines, pages started/finished, & how many pages you should do each day to stay on track. PWYW! ko-fi.com/s/bfcb2f39ff

I'm really sorry, I'm not ageist, I very much think people at ALL ages have a valuable place in society. But with modern health care, I think we seriously need an age cap in government. We have age minimums! If boomers aren't gonna ever fucking retire, we gotta come up with something here!

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

When Bluesky doesn’t like my posts

I posted another one of these little music-theory-slash-comic-art deep-dives. You might dig it.

I'm willing to test this theory

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

AHH, looks like the news broke! I'm absolutely floored to announce that Keeping Time has been nominated for an Eisner Award this year...! It's so far beyond anything I envisioned for myself or this comic when I started it. Thank you to everyone who's supported me and this story. #KeepingTime

Groaning and clunking as I pivot out of the color mines and back to thumbnails/layouts because I added another 20 pages at the eleventh hour...maybe not my SMARTEST move....

This has been said to death but I'll just say it again: if you're in the creative arts space stop calling your art "content". Call it "work"! Calling your art "work" shows it's the result of time and skill. "Content" makes something sound like it has no purpose other than to take up space.

This is the situation I refer to the most when trying to explain a the state of book bans right now. Utah has state mandated book destruction for books like Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and Damsel by Elana K Arnold. The vast majority of the books are written by women.

At world’s largest shark conference, scientists warn of a grim outlook across the board news.mongabay.com/2026/05/at-w...

This is the money paragraph for me.

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"can you be in a union without that becoming your personality" unfortunately, much like being openly queer, any self-advocacy in the face of systems of power that don't want you to exist are going to make you act in some kind of abrasive way. I wish I could be quiet! I can only be loud, but kind

Mulan is one of Disney’s best-designed films. For that, you can thank Chen-Yi Chang. He was the character designer, and he put an amazing amount of care and research into his work. It lifted the whole team, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-charac...

Here's a thread of art from my swiss folk horror comic, La Chèta, made for DSTLRY's Come Find Me anthology. La Chèta roughly translates to the witches sabbath, but specifically the procession of damned souls to it. Swiss mountainfolk believed anyone who saw it suffered terrible consequences.

happy #WebcomicDay 🖤 come check out SUPERPOSE, imminently entering its fourth arc: a queer sci-fi set in the early 1980s about three desolate kids setting out to build a powerful machine to reshape their lives for good. superposecomic.com by @kingfishercove.bsky.social & i

FWIW this is why, in The Originalism Trap, I say it's imperative for us to reject the idea that the Court has a monopoly on constitutional interpretation we can push for an emancipatory vision of the Constitution instead of the Supreme Court's neoconfederate nonsense bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Honestly, first country with the balls to provide UBI to all its citizens is gonna take off

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once again, just spitballing, what if we just provided for everyone's basic material needs