I wrote a story of two doctors to illustrate what it really means to meet MAGA defectors where they are.
We live in a sick nation, so we should pursue a culture of healing. And every movement toward health begins with a confrontation. www.the-reframe.com/a-confrontat...
Well, as it's #PortfolioDay, it's a good day to say I am currently looking for work. Get in touch if you are looking for art for your game, book, #ttrpg, #card game etc.
that's Beri big
and Beri cute
Thanks to his stunning defeat in the March primary, this will be Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger’s 16th and final go-round running the General Assembly’s upper house. ncnewsline.com/2026/04/21/s... (Commentary) #ncpol
The social media pivot from chronological timelines to popular-first was done at least partly to throttle real time organizing
Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime.
Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction.
And then there's this...
Note for the uninformed: Kathleen Stock is an outspoken, fanatical transphobe.
A better headline might have been "bully calls on bullying victim to put past bullying behind them (and bend over)".
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
Another game jam done- this one's about making tea for a little forest fairy. Link to play in the replies!
And just to be clear this is what Trump was saying when he was racking up police endorsements www.politico.com/news/2024/09...
The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.
FINALLY
and now it is time. time for Spherical Dodecahedron to crawl from beneath the granite slabs of rationality and howl a challenge to Global Tetrahedron. a challenge devoid of planning, empty of forethought, utterly absent of kindness or malice. an object at rest cannot be stopped, and neither can we
Things I keep saying that no one likes.
Notice the overarching trend of the personalization of politics (& straight graft). These people aren't negotiating anything on behalf of populations whom they ostensibly represent; those populations don't even factor to them. It's all a system of favors b/t businessmen who see financial opportunity
i don't want,
to put an elf on the shelf,
but when i think about you,
i can't help myself.
This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself!
And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.
Yeah, I’m back. 😉
Helen also goes on to talk about the importance of intersectionality and building alliances, as the far right is significantly more fragmented than us.
Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.
my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Every time a Democrat mentions how to talk to "ordinary people" they mean "how I was told to talk by a handful of weirdo consultants in DC with gross fixations on throwing certain groups under the bus and who would not last a day in an ordinary job interacting with ordinary people."
2 notes on the NYT's S.Ct. scoop:
- Roberts' parroting of industry's hair-on-fire claim of "irreparable harm" from environmental regulation. This is what industry ALWAYS claims. It's BS.
- The absence of discussion of the ACTUAL harm the regulation sought to diminish.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
it recontextualizes it a bit for me.
from "that's too bad, poor guy" to "oh well, anyone want a slice of pizza?"
Some very intense neuro-breakbeat thing
Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
OOP
New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly
Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way
h4x! Budgie is a CoH character with separate fingers! immersion ruined!
(very nice picture though)
