Living in the US is wild because not only is everything way too expensive but everyday we wake up to our president typing some shit like “I SWEAR TO CHRIST I’LL DO IT” and we just have to wait and see what that means

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

So excited to see a former mentor get recognition!

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...

Sometimes.

For my capstone in grad school I wrote six zines on the labor movement with the intent on completing a full set after I graduated. I’m excited to say that the full set is complete and I risographed the covers this week! Here’s what they look like! #zines #labormovement #unions

I muted my grad school group chat when this happened because people had a lot of spicy takes. But this was a nice summary that gets across a lot of the nuances of what’s going on for someone who isn’t completely plugged in.

The greed is wild. Apple is worth nearly $4 trillion but can't tolerate a single store with unionized workers because they're so against workers getting what they deserve.

Okay guys we need to think of a new name for a new party to replace the democrats. I’ll get the ball rolling here: •The SILVER Democrats? •The Cool Democrats? •The Bestest Leftists •Antifa •The Not Useless Old Fucks Party •The We Need to Actually Act Party •Workers and Twerkers •School finishers

Well, this blows: FSG has shuttered their MCD imprint & Sean McDonald is leaving the company. MCD published so many good titles/authors: Questlove, Enshittification, Robin Sloan, Jeff VanderMeer, Sloane Crosley, Dilla Time, Tamara Shopsin… [publishersweekly.com]

Oh wow a new podcast "two cenrist dickheads just asking questions" can't wait

My latest for @newscientist.com

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

i was trying to explain to a friend the way new fonts look, so i made this graphic

By all means--continue. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/go-ahead-a...

the only thing that matters

i love science!

Sam Altman: ‘If I Don’t End The World, Someone Far More Dangerous Will’

My favorite detail is the kid passed out in the couch in the background which I assume is from computering too hard.

Is it unionize their workplace?

I read part of Paul Krugman's "The Conscience of a Liberal" in grad school for my labor and economy class and I was always struck the fact that it wasn't until the 80's when CEO's had to be celebrities.

yeah i separate art from the artist. i put the harry potter books in the recycling and jk rowling in the trash.

If you need help convincing people not to watch the new HP show, here it is. JKR will make $20m per year from the show, per Forbes. She also openly admits that she pours her fortunes into anti-trans activism, per Yahoo News. There’s a direct pipeline between HP and trans people’s suffering.

Ezra Klein: I'm Ezra Klein, and today I'm joined by one of the foremost intellectual theorists of Trumpism. He is an associate editor at the Rancho Cucamonga Review of Ideas and a fellow at the Schlafly Institute of Punitive Economics. [a baked potato in a top hat]: Thanks for having me, Ezra.

This is an excellent episode of @upstreampodcast.bsky.social on what Cuba was like before the revolution. Listen to understand why we can never allow the US and its stooges to re-establish neocolonial power in Cuba. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

My parents gave my nephews my old X-Men cards from the 90’s and I spent half an hour tonight just identifying various mutants they’d never heard of while flipping through the card sheets. Apparently I’ve been training to be an uncle since childhood.

Watched my nephew’s elementary school volleyball game today and the combination of low stakes, positive sportsmanship, and quick play made it the most enjoyable sports event I’ve ever attended.

Last night I saw the price of unleaded gas jump 10 cents on the digital sign of the 76 as I passed by.

I saw Lizard Boy at Portland Center Stage last night and it was such an delightful show. Hopeful, earnest, funny, and also very gay. Plus the indie-rock musical influences scratch a very particular part of my millennial brain.

PCC Board of Directors: I'm asking you to do the right thing and step in and repair the damage that Dr. Benning's administration has done to labor relations at the college. @pccffap.bsky.social and PCCFCE make this institution run and deserve contracts that have a COLA that meets the moment ✊🎓👷‍♀️

Absolutely incredible essay by my friend James Mapes, about his time as an ACLU Legal Observer during the 2020 Portland protests and beyond. Y'all should subscribe to The Western Edge - started by a couple of OPB reporters, they're doing good stuff. www.thewesternedge.media/p/a-life-of-...

Oh no, it looks like 'business interests' are full of shit again.

Every day I want to die more.

9 Minutes and 10 seconds of bliss.

Even if AI could write a novel what problem has been solved? The problem of knowing what you’re reading was written by another person? Who loves reading novels but hates the part where your mind briefly and mysteriously touched another?

In this article, you will find NOLC labor leader Laurie Wimmer: - conspiring to undermine the city charter with a Stoel Rives lawyer, - lobbying to keep progressive councilors out of city leadership, - failing to report her lobbying after Q1 2025, - calling DSA the “MAGA of the left”, [more 👇]

The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.

House House, the video game developers who brought you Untitled Goose Game, have a new world for you to explore called Big Walk. And Portland studio Panic want you to come play it in their downtown offices for FREE. It made me dizzy but I'd go again.

This story contains a porn-texting police chief, a money-hungry police union, a nasty mayor’s race, a man in a Waldo costume and the phrase “pig pig pig” — your weekend read from The Western Edge.

Picked up my novel again after setting it aside for a few years while I finished grad school and this was the basic experience of rereading it:

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

Next week in The Atlantic, probably

The headline is great. Almost like all these good kids were sitting around being wholesome, and slurs started snapping and cartwheeling like it was Westside Story and overwhelmed the youths.

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region. Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat. We live in Orwellian times.