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we have financialized the entire process of existing and convinced people to call the result Freedom, incredible stuff
you guys happen to notice how everything is finance and landlords now and many things are both
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
October 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
we have financialized the entire process of existing and convinced people to call the result Freedom, incredible stuff
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okay here we go DRAW A BIRD CHALLENGE y'all! right now, with your own hands, no fukken "A.i." it's fine if it's bad! bad is good because you did it on your own and had fun and learned something and made something literally only you could have!
#DrawABird
#DrawABird
Bird
August 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
okay here we go DRAW A BIRD CHALLENGE y'all! right now, with your own hands, no fukken "A.i." it's fine if it's bad! bad is good because you did it on your own and had fun and learned something and made something literally only you could have!
#DrawABird
#DrawABird
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You can still see all the resources and do all the exercises. Someone collected them all at www.comicsschool.org
#ComicsSchool Resources
www.comicsschool.org
August 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
You can still see all the resources and do all the exercises. Someone collected them all at www.comicsschool.org
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Reminding myself of this today.
Let's do this.
Let's do this.
The longer I work in monthly comics (19 years now!), the clearer it becomes that a huge key to writing on deadline is just MAKING CHOICES. I can spent hours/days/months mulling over possibilities in a story. But to get it done, I have to just PICK SOMETHING and give it a shot and see if it works.
August 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reminding myself of this today.
Let's do this.
Let's do this.
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Teaching our kids to bypass the most nourishing, challenging, resilience-building part of the creative process is not going to work out well for any of us.
Consumer facing "A.i." is about triggering the excretion of a mediocre product. It's a rejection of PROCESS. Life itself is process, not fucking product. Push "A.i." on kids and you rob them of the joyful experience of life itself. I am not exaggerating.
August 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Teaching our kids to bypass the most nourishing, challenging, resilience-building part of the creative process is not going to work out well for any of us.
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All true, plus you can keep drawing badly, it's okay, it adds character!!!!
Also, no one starts off knowing how to draw well.
YOU HAVE TO DRAW BADLY FIRST TO GET BETTER.
You have to draw daily, badly, before you ever get better.
And its fun, sometimes, and painful, sometimes.
Why are we teaching our students that none of this matters because "the machine will do it"
YOU HAVE TO DRAW BADLY FIRST TO GET BETTER.
You have to draw daily, badly, before you ever get better.
And its fun, sometimes, and painful, sometimes.
Why are we teaching our students that none of this matters because "the machine will do it"
"A.i." doesn't empower anyone. It strips them of belief in themselves and the power of their own minds and hands and abilities and stories.
EVERY KID CAN DRAW. EVERY KID CAN TELL STORIES AND MAKE COMICS.
Fuck "A.i." for telling kids lies and making them less-than.
EVERY KID CAN DRAW. EVERY KID CAN TELL STORIES AND MAKE COMICS.
Fuck "A.i." for telling kids lies and making them less-than.
August 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
All true, plus you can keep drawing badly, it's okay, it adds character!!!!
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Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
Kids today are learning that the fastest and easiest way to make money—the key value that has been modeled to them in America society—is to scam others, cheat your way through, and attract negative attention online that can be monetized. My endless sympathy to parents
August 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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I acknowledge “AI tools are like calculators, automatic transmissions, and GPS, and people will eventually adapt without major cognitive issues” arguments - but I disagree.
These tools are so much more broad in scope and also, I believe, more dangerous to cognitive function when over-relied upon.
These tools are so much more broad in scope and also, I believe, more dangerous to cognitive function when over-relied upon.
I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
July 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I acknowledge “AI tools are like calculators, automatic transmissions, and GPS, and people will eventually adapt without major cognitive issues” arguments - but I disagree.
These tools are so much more broad in scope and also, I believe, more dangerous to cognitive function when over-relied upon.
These tools are so much more broad in scope and also, I believe, more dangerous to cognitive function when over-relied upon.
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Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist
October 18, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist
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The basic fallacy in chasing votes by being "tough on immigration" is that the modal American's position on the issue is "Deport the Bad ones and keep the Good ones," and they alone know who is which, and that simply does not translate into workable policy. So this kind of gestapo stuff (1/2)
June 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The basic fallacy in chasing votes by being "tough on immigration" is that the modal American's position on the issue is "Deport the Bad ones and keep the Good ones," and they alone know who is which, and that simply does not translate into workable policy. So this kind of gestapo stuff (1/2)
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ethical gooning dates back to the Ming dynasty
July 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
ethical gooning dates back to the Ming dynasty
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Because they have not studied or worked in authoritarian bureaucracy, most liberal reporters and pundits are significantly underplaying the catastrophic consequences of 100,000s more ICE agents and private contractors. Their failure to explain these provisions of the new budget is inexcusable.
July 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Because they have not studied or worked in authoritarian bureaucracy, most liberal reporters and pundits are significantly underplaying the catastrophic consequences of 100,000s more ICE agents and private contractors. Their failure to explain these provisions of the new budget is inexcusable.
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Holy cow. A $35 copay for every dialysis treatment???
“New Copays: A $35-per-treatment copay for dialysis and CKD patients above the poverty line could cost dialysis patients over $5,000 annually.”
“New Copays: A $35-per-treatment copay for dialysis and CKD patients above the poverty line could cost dialysis patients over $5,000 annually.”
The so-called ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ that passed the Senate today is a giant leap backward for people living with kidney disease. NKF urges Congress to reject these harmful provisions. www.kidney.org/press-room/b...
Big Beautiful Bill is Downright Ugly for Kidney Patients
Tune in for the latest research and perspectives on kidney health from NKF.
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July 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Holy cow. A $35 copay for every dialysis treatment???
“New Copays: A $35-per-treatment copay for dialysis and CKD patients above the poverty line could cost dialysis patients over $5,000 annually.”
“New Copays: A $35-per-treatment copay for dialysis and CKD patients above the poverty line could cost dialysis patients over $5,000 annually.”
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taking this moment, between the terrible supreme court opinions, the concentration camps, and the bill in the senate, to go on tour of cable news to trash the dem nominee for mayor of nyc, and to do it while lying about him and peddling in obvious islamophobic rhetoric…it’s truly black pilling
June 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
taking this moment, between the terrible supreme court opinions, the concentration camps, and the bill in the senate, to go on tour of cable news to trash the dem nominee for mayor of nyc, and to do it while lying about him and peddling in obvious islamophobic rhetoric…it’s truly black pilling
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they’re not gonna build the camps and then leave them empty. they’ve already telegraphed using the insurrection and the military to round people up. and it won’t just be immigrants, documented or otherwise. the EO on birthright is just the first step on the road to stripping people of citizenship
June 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
they’re not gonna build the camps and then leave them empty. they’ve already telegraphed using the insurrection and the military to round people up. and it won’t just be immigrants, documented or otherwise. the EO on birthright is just the first step on the road to stripping people of citizenship
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to make a finer point: if the issue of nationwide injunctions reached the Court maybe half a dozen times in a few years, and they let them stand every time but one, is the rule *really* that nationwide injunctions are disfavored?
law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called yesterday's decision about nationwide injunctions "an existential threat to the rule of law."
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
June 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
to make a finer point: if the issue of nationwide injunctions reached the Court maybe half a dozen times in a few years, and they let them stand every time but one, is the rule *really* that nationwide injunctions are disfavored?
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Sure, a class action could be filed but in the intervening months while the class is certified, the government could refuse tax return filings, social security survivors benefits etc.
In effect, any meaningful check on the government is gone.
In effect, any meaningful check on the government is gone.
June 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Sure, a class action could be filed but in the intervening months while the class is certified, the government could refuse tax return filings, social security survivors benefits etc.
In effect, any meaningful check on the government is gone.
In effect, any meaningful check on the government is gone.
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Really a sad way to go through life www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...
June 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Really a sad way to go through life www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...
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Jackson: "Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more."
June 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Jackson: "Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more."
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We (the internet) already have @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social at home so you don't really need me to repeat this, but a society where people in positions of power can say things like this without suffering any consequences is circling the drain.
June 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We (the internet) already have @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social at home so you don't really need me to repeat this, but a society where people in positions of power can say things like this without suffering any consequences is circling the drain.
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Qobuz pays better than Apple and Tidal! I do most of my streaming there, and I buy a record on Bandcamp when I like something recent :-)
June 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Qobuz pays better than Apple and Tidal! I do most of my streaming there, and I buy a record on Bandcamp when I like something recent :-)
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There was another Supreme Court ruling this week that quietly further crippled the already mostly crippled FCC so it can't police robocalls under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).
You know, real blue collar, populist stuff!
via (@dougdawsonccg.bsky.social):
You know, real blue collar, populist stuff!
via (@dougdawsonccg.bsky.social):
Another Significant Supreme Court Ruling
The Supreme Court came down with another decision last week that is going to further hobble administrative agencies like the FCC. The case is McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Co…
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June 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
There was another Supreme Court ruling this week that quietly further crippled the already mostly crippled FCC so it can't police robocalls under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).
You know, real blue collar, populist stuff!
via (@dougdawsonccg.bsky.social):
You know, real blue collar, populist stuff!
via (@dougdawsonccg.bsky.social):
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As someone who works in consumer product safety … this is true. It’s not hitting my industry yet but even just the ax in industrial pollution and water standards will make it impossible to enforce chemical safety for my categories, much less anything else
the press isn't telling the public that federal corporate oversight no longer functions, so most of the public is walking around not really prepared for the concussive, systemic failures that are coming for systems they routinely take for granted
June 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
As someone who works in consumer product safety … this is true. It’s not hitting my industry yet but even just the ax in industrial pollution and water standards will make it impossible to enforce chemical safety for my categories, much less anything else
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"Find your political home" remains, for me at least, the single best guiding star in times of crisis and chaos.
Individuals can doomscroll and post and have big feelings; groups can take meaningful action. Maybe it's an activist org, union, student group, career, collective/crew, etc (1/3)
Individuals can doomscroll and post and have big feelings; groups can take meaningful action. Maybe it's an activist org, union, student group, career, collective/crew, etc (1/3)
June 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"Find your political home" remains, for me at least, the single best guiding star in times of crisis and chaos.
Individuals can doomscroll and post and have big feelings; groups can take meaningful action. Maybe it's an activist org, union, student group, career, collective/crew, etc (1/3)
Individuals can doomscroll and post and have big feelings; groups can take meaningful action. Maybe it's an activist org, union, student group, career, collective/crew, etc (1/3)
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if you're feeling isolated and helpless today i recommend eating a big, heavy lunch. you'll still feel isolated and helpless but the sleepiness will at least override the panic center of your brain
June 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
if you're feeling isolated and helpless today i recommend eating a big, heavy lunch. you'll still feel isolated and helpless but the sleepiness will at least override the panic center of your brain