COOL SWORDS 2-color screenprinted tee by carey pietsch, printed by raw paw in austin! orders are open from 4/15-5/7! careydraws.com/cool-swords to order!

I'm SO EXCITED to launch my first shirt design: ⚔️COOL SWORDS!⚔️ It's a two-color screenprint on a black short-sleeve tee, sizes S- 4XL, printed by @rawpawatx.bsky.social! Orders open from 4/15-5/7; all shirts will be printed & shipped after orders close. Get one here:
rawpaw.ink/products/coo...

'We Palestinians Are Not Going Away' is a zine made up of first-person accounts of the war / genocide in Gaza, Palestine.

Download it (it's free), print it and distribute it ✨

Available to download from the Little Zine Revolution site: lzr.life/zine/we-pale...

baddiebards (@baddiebards) | Ko-fi, Join our Discord server! ## BaddieBards is an all-black, trans, queer, ass-throwing actual-play podcast. Featured links: Ko-fi, Join our Discord server!, Twitch.

This is your loving reminder that we have a Discord for Black Queer folx!
You can find the link to join in our beacons ✨
beacons.ai/baddiebards

PET COMMISSIONS are back! let me draw your pet!

🐈 $120 USD gets you 4 mini portraits of one pet
🐕 $140 USD for 4 small portraits featuring two pets (examples below for all)

email me at laceybrannen@gmail.com with subject line "pet commission" if you're interested, more details below:

Your ballot or other mail may not get postmarked by USPS the day it's dropped off Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office.

TAX DAY PRO TIP if you're filing by mail: Do not rely on a mailbox or a letter carrier today for filing your return on time.

Go inside a post office and ask for a free manual postmark at the counter.

Otherwise, your tax return may not get an April 15 postmark date and the IRS may apply penalties

Image promoting online workshop by Leslie Levings called Big Stories, Tiny Details: Narrative Sculpture

Registration for my workshop still rolling! pocosinarts.org/product/big-...

little drawing of me excitedly reading a comic and talking about it over voice chat

what comics are eligible; who the feedback session is for. machine-readable text in the form at the link!

what you need for the application. machine-readable text in the form at the link!

Applications are open for (free) individual comic critique/feedback sessions! intended for emerging/ intermediate cartoonists without BFA/MFAs with a comic at least at thumbnail + text stage. apps open 4/10 thru 4/24; notifications go out by 5/1. more info & apply here: forms.gle/7nvvqyECFUks...

Easy thing you can do rn: sign this petition to support the release of a father kidnapped by ICE: actionnetwork.org/petitions/br... He has a hearing in 10 days, they need more signatures by then.

ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AI On the picket line in New York, union leaders said they expect "more concentrated conflicts" over AI in the news industry.

Yesterday, the ProPublica Guild walked off the job in the first strike by a major U.S. newsroom over, at least in part, AI protections.

I spoke with striking journalists and union leaders on the picket line in New York for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/prop...

CAKE would like to thank long-time festival sponsors @busybeaverbuttonco.bsky.social
We ❤️ Busy Beaver!
Check them out for custom buttons, stickers, merch and beyond!

Donate to Help Bring My Father Home from ICE Detention, organized by Jorge V Hi everyone, Thank you for taking the time to read this. On Tuesday, March 31,… Jorge V needs your support for Help Bring My Father Home from ICE Detention

www.gofundme.com/f/27wnkd-hel...

A painting of a Mexican American couple, a woman and a man in their 30s to 50s, in front of a red Chevy. The woman holds a bucket with cleaning supplies hanging off of it, and the man holds a garden hoe in the same way the pitchfork is held in the original 1930 painting American Gothic. They hold themselves with a sense of dignity.

If you've seen this piece before, "The New American Gothic" by Criselda Vasquez,

Then heartbreakingly, I have to inform you that—according to Vasquez's Instagram as of 4/03/26—Vasquez's father has been taken by ICE.

GoFundMe below to help financially support their family.

I had an interaction with a library patron earlier that was actually very similar to this 🤣 but it was not at all judgemental

@djbyrnes1.bsky.social reports from Brighton Park last night, where CPD Superintendent Snelling defended the department's handling of scenes caused by immigration agents.

He also got the law wrong, and reprimanded the crowd for not being respectful enough:

🚨 THIS FORM WILL BE CLOSING SOON 🚨

full transparency, y'all. if we can't get enough volunteers, we *will not* be able to put on this event.
We would really appreciate the ttrpg community's hand in making this event a reality 🧡💜

so, if you've been wanting to apply, NOW IS THE TIME ⏰

Cover reveal! [cover of QUEER AND HOW WE GOT HERE: A PERSONAL HISTORY by Hazel Newlevant. Cover illustration: a white transmasculine person with pink hair and a pink shirt holds up a portrait, in the center of a wall of portraits of various queer activists from the 1900s to the 90s. In the foreground, two tabby cats look up at the wall.] Coming May 2026

So… preorders are open for my upcoming graphic novel, QUEER AND HOW WE GOT HERE. It’s a memoir comic about gender and relationships, AND it’s a history comic about the activists who created the context for my life!

Preorder for 20% off with code NOVL20: www.thenovl.com/landing-page...

Join me April 10th at 2pm ET for this year's ACRL New York spring library advocacy event! I'll be talking about what work teaches us about organizing for the world we want.

Registration is free and open to all!

acrlny.org/event-6588328

A great opportunity for #MLIS students or any library worker who doesn't have institutional support to attend ALA Annual in Chicago. 📚 A 3-hour volunteer shift gets you free access to the conference!!

Supporting Library Workers Who Have Lost Their Jobs - ACRLog If you haven't had the experience of losing your job suddenly, of being laid off or fired, it might be difficult to imagine what it's like. The person who has lost their job is probably going through ...

New from me on ACRLog, Supporting Library Workers Who Have Lost Their Jobs. If you don't know what to say or do when your coworker or colleague gets laid off or fired, here's a list of action items. 📚 acrlog.org/2026/03/21/s...

Garfield as a collection jar

The CAKE Art Auction is tonight!
7p @ Revolution Brewing (3340 N Kedzie). This auction is one of the best ways to contribute to CAKE & ensure this local nonprofit continues to put on a yearly comics show that’s free to the public and has one of the lowest table fees (considering our size & 2 days) ✨

The Hectic Love Lives of the Mythical Medusa, a vampire, a werewolf, a demon, a faerie and a mermaid walk into a bar...wait...that’s not the start of a joke! This queer bunch is actually part of awesome tales about their chaotic love live...

3 days to go and we need to at least double our funding to make it?

Do miracles exists? I guess we’ll find out!

Check out our queer monster romance anthology with queer creative teams & spread the word if you can’t back it?

🙏💖 We won’t go down without a fight

🐍 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

Help Majd Relocate & Survive Post-Ceasefire Hello everyone,

Help Majd Relocate & Survive Post-Ceasefire. His sister also just fell and now has a broken leg. Please also help Majd’s family seek medial immediate care as she’s experiencing so much pain.

chuffed.org/project/1220...

Votes recorded on hr 7661 in House Committee for Education and Workforce Development’s markup.

HR 7551, the National book ban bill, has passed the markup and is being recommended to the House with amendment. Here’s who voted how.

This isn’t over. CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS NOW.

A mockup of the JANUARY postcard book, although the actual print copies are upgraded to be even fancier than this.

It is unorthodox, but I've released the digital files for JANUARY for free on itch.io before our Kickstarter has even ended! That's for two reasons - the game is done, AND I think you'll see the value of this as a beautiful, tactile and physical object.

itch link here:
sawdustbear.itch.io/january

Tatiana Maslany should still be getting awards for her performances in this show 😤

PET COMMISSIONS are back! let me draw your pet!

🐈 $120 USD gets you 4 mini portraits of one pet
🐕 $140 USD for 4 small portraits featuring two pets (examples below for all)

email me at laceybrannen@gmail.com with subject line "pet commission" if you're interested, more details below:

I'm running this for my D&D for Teens program rn! Idk why but I ended up making her sound kind Bostonian?? Not... birdlike, lol. It just kinda happened. The teens did not comment.

CPD Failed to Document 267K Traffic Stops in 2025, 27% More Than Previous Year: Data Officers made an average of 732 traffic stops every day for an entire year that were not documented as required by CPD policy and state law, according to data from the city’s Office of Emergency Manag...

NEW: CPD officers made 267,240 undocumented traffic stops in 2025, an increase of nearly 27% as compared with the number of traffic stops officers made in 2024 but did not properly document for state officials, according to records obtained by me and @jaredrutecki.bsky.social for @wttw.bsky.social.

Hiiii are you or a friend crowdfunding for top surgery expenses? Share your crowdfund with me! It's my birthday next week and I got the phrase "36 no tits" stuck in my head when I was awaiting surgery, so now that 36 no tits is arriving I want to share surgery links at my party, for folks to donate.