Jen Van Meter is very anxious these days
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Jen Van Meter is very anxious these days
@hopelessjen.bsky.social
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Don’t even know if this is a good idea but here I am. Comics. Dog. Unionization. Trying not to lose my grip over the state of the world.
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To my creative friends, which is all y’all: punk rock outlived Reagan & Thatcher.
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“There’s no way I’m bending the only knee I have left for a king here in America.”
Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:
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@nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @cnn.com are you going to write about the president of the United States posting a clip of himself literally dumping shit on Americans, or is it nbd?
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Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.
I am giving up on Bluski because I can’t heart this more than once. Boo
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Some people are writers for a reason but I tried.
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So I was with guy who works the Shamrock Run every March which apparently gets about 60K each year, participating+ support. He said this seemed at least twice as big when we were able to track how far along the waterfront people were packed in before the march started.
I mean I feel like anyone selling adorable infant-sized tadpole costumes these next few days could clean up.
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I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.
Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
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You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on.
Yes, it does look like the government accounts joining Bluesky are real, including Homeland Security and the White House. They're tweeting about it on X.
Wanted to thank you for inspiring me to make this guy. Don’t know how to get that glossiness, but delicious nonetheless.
I feel like I remember a horror film speaking back to this: The People Under the Stairs; the Evil people are thinly veiled references to Ron & Nancy, the ‘monsters’ are sort of like Shelley’s Creature, made monstrous by the cruelty & callousness of ‘real’ people.
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Hey y’all wanna see a murder
MCCALLUM: “Margaret Thatcher said socialism’s great until you run out of other people’s money.”

🔥ZOHRAN: “Cuomo had $900 million and gave it to Elon musk in tax credits— I wish the debate were like NASCAR so people could see logos of billionaires who sponsor him on his jacket.”
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On today's A Beginner's Guide to Creative Well-Being on Patreon we'll be talking about "Make it Short and Make it Simple," as well as Z.O.G.U. -- two very important things to know about when it comes to CREATIVE WELL-BEING. You can see all the CW-B posts here... www.patreon.com/collection/1...
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for Portlanders marching this Saturday who want the best tactical gear without feeding Amazon, our local party supply house The Lippman Company has plenty of inflatable costumes
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In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be.

Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.
To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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it would probably be sorta hard for just anyone to do it *this well* because it requires you to actually be normal about trans people, but still it feels important to state for the record that WE ARE NOT HARD TO STAND UP FOR AND ANY OF THEM COULD DO IT.
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.