the Portland Protests, annotated

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

It’s official! I can talk about it!

I’ve spent the last 2+ years leading the narrative for the Magic: the Gathering Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set!

I’m excited to see all of this release! TMNT is such a weird, wild franchise that meshes weirdly well with Magic

magic.wizards.com/en/news/feat...

It works because of the matching paneling and stark heaviness of the line art. It’s an amazing effect! Only I’ve looked around and never seen anyone else mention it, so I’m not even 100% sure it’s happening on purpose or if I’m just imagining it.

Fun book and I really enjoyed the discussion.

There’s an incredibly cool thing that (I think) happens in the central Driving Through Fog sequence where it uses the bleedthrough of the printing on the verso side of the page to double as ghostly images poking through the fog on the recto side…

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Even sex resulting in pregnancy after one partner lied about their fertility, or resulting in STD transmission after one lied about having an STD*, is not considered to legally invalidate consent, despite far more demonstrable harm than lying about body parts for sex acts not involving those parts!

That would be considered treason in any country.

Here’s one of my articles covering Venezuela’s last election, with links to several more articles at the end. No legacy media outlet covers Venezuela like I do.

There’s a reason for that.

extremearturo.substack.com/p/venezuela-...

🧵 Am I surprised they gave Maria Corina Machado the Nobel Peace Prize? No. Does she deserve it? Also, no. There’s a reason she was barred from running for office in Venezuela: multiple violent coup attempts and calling of foreign governments, like Israel, to invade Venezuela.

One of the reasons De Klerk moved to release and negotiate with Mandela in 1990 was that he was the only viable alternative partner to negotiating with the later, more radical generations of MK and Poqo militant leaders. Slovo and Hani were considerable more hardline, let alone Sabelo Phama.

We all got to meet the man who thought the plague of frogs was Spaniards

Come for the One Big Frog even theoretically, get thoroughly wrecked

As I was posting this, Discord was dealing with hackers getting access to users’ personal info uploaded as part of the UK’s age verification law

MPs and Senators are getting ready to put Canadian users of porn websites in the same position – what could possibly go wrong!

bsky.app/profile/404m...

NO SERIOUSLY I DIDN'T NEED YOU TO SO OBVIOUSLY DEMONSTRATE THE LINK BETWEEN ANTI-JUDAISM AND NEUROABLEISM. AT LEAST LEAVE ME A *LITTLE* WORK TO DO.

nb: there is actually a serious conversation to be had re: circumcision and bodily autonomy (that I DON'T WANT in my relplies). This...ain't it.

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Jewish dads reading this and nodding smugly

Preparing to do the button band on the cardigan I’m knitting and realizing I need to decide on boy-side or girl-side buttons and reflecting once again on how ridiculous gender is

Go Jays!?

What better time to purchase Woodworking, the critically acclaimed novel by Emily St. James, than RIGHT NOW??!

Show me your receipt, and I will tell you my favorite episode of the TV show of your choice, favorite film by the director of your choice, etc.

bookshop.org/p/books/wood...

We should all be happy for any progress toward a cessation of hostilities in Gaza and especially for the release of the surviving hostages. That said: editors and writers need to be clear a temporary ceasefire is not a "peace" deal. What we're talking about is phase one of a multiphase plan.

This is not a photo of protestors in Portland “ICE fishing”, as clever as that sounds.

I can’t find the photographer so far, but it’s been online since at least 2013, and those are Toronto cycling cops, not American ICE agents.

Note the uniforms, shorts, bikes, and lack of masks.

happy lesbian day everyone. please play our game to support me (a lesbian) and the understudy (a moth) (but in a lesbian way)