Aesop: I TOLD YOU

Please come basement. Books for sale in basement.

If you’re at #eccc please don’t forget to come to the Basement! A lot of people seem to think there’s only Funko pops and long box comics and blind boxes, but they moved a bunch of indie artists down here too! Don’t miss out!!

Wow! So excited to know about this!

Colbert says CBS spiked planned James Talarico interview amid FCC pressure “Let’s just call this what it is,” Colbert said. “Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV.”

If you thought Disney and ABC were shitty, check out what’s happening with Stephen Colbert and his interview with James Talarico right now.

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Name an old-school skill you like having. Mine is touch typing.

An imagine explaining that OpenAI is Trump's largest donor

One more reason my soul shrivels up every time I hear someone say "I just used chatgpt to ____"

I am maneuvering with difficulty.

What To Do If You Get Pepper Sprayed YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken

Dr Glaucomflecken, an actual ophthalmologist, with helpful instructions for dealing with pepper spray to the face.
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The number of people who casually throw around that unions are striking tomorrow is a level of annoying I didn’t know I had.

Comment that says “These two posts showed up one after the other in my feed” followed by photos of two Bluesky posts next to each other. One reads Keeping it real: The initial joy and relief of The News will quickly be followed by worry about what Comes Next. The next one reads Heads up. When he dies and we’re all celebrating and crying and some scold does the “hang on we still have work to do” notes app post, that’s an automatic lifetime block. Let us have an hour of joy you flagellating fucks.

Today I learned that Boise, Idaho was named by French fur trappers. Boisé is French for “wooded”. We, of course, have wrecked the pronunciation, but it’s interesting!

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

Here's a real test for those of you who still treat SDCC like it's important. Are you willing to lower your standards enough to look the other way at this just so you can show up at the publicity trough this summer?

Hollanov would both love the Finch app, but for different reasons. Shane would use it seriously, to keep track of goals and stay on task. Ilya just wants to collect cute little outfits for his birb.

Council Workers’ Union Complaint Alleges Loretta Smith Fired Staffer in Retaliation for Union Organizing A new union representing Portland City Council aides and operations staff filed an unfair labor practice (ULP) complaint against the city for alleged anti-union conduct from Councilor Loretta Smith’s ...

NEW: Portland Councilor Loretta Smith allegedly fired a staffer for union organizing. An unfair labor practice complaint, filed today, claims Smith showed increasingly hostile behavior to the worker following the union announcement, culminating in his termination last week.

There is nothing about this that surprises me.

Because of course she is.

What do you plan on doing about racist and homophobic city councilors?

@councilorzimmerman.bsky.social:

In light of the vile comments revealed by the Mercury's reporting today, do you wish to address your racist rant at @councilorkanal.bsky.social at Monday's meeting of last week?

Comic artist LeBeau Underwood’s daughter has been missing in Chicago since yesterday morning. Please share in the hopes we can bring the family a happy conclusion to this.

Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47 Official White House Rapid Response account. Supporting @POTUS 's America First agenda and holding the Fake News accountable. MAGA! 60 Following 1.3M Followers Post See new posts Conversation Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47 NEW: @USDA is suspending all federal funding to the State of Minnesota — effective immediately.

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

Portland Police Press conference on the shooting of 2 Portlanders:

-DHS said the victims had been involved with a shooting. Nope!

-But they were def part of Tren de Aragua

-actually no

-But TdA is real and active in Portland

-We can't name single crime TdA has been involved with in this city

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, could you please establish an official NYC Mayor account on Bluesky and post everything your office is currently posting on X over here?

And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site?

No money for Musk, ever, please.

Timeline cleanse question:

If you could keep one thing all year round that normally only shows up at the holidays, what would it be?

Me? I’d keep cheese selections in cute bags boxes.

You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

I had to read this twice and I hate it. Happy New Year!