working on this

This!!! Danya is correct in the things AND I will say

I am a former user both of Substack and of generative AI (I thought it would be a fun visual thing to supplement a fiction project) and I have abandoned both.

You can abandon shit after learning it sucks. Take the L and take all the W's after.

get outta there already @rickperlstein.bsky.social

pdbowman.studio | 10 apr 2026: defeat as praxis, Pankaj Mishra, Ece Temelkuran, Séamus Malekafzali paul bowman at work and play

maybe a little out of step here with the mood after yesterday’s Hungary result, as things have played out; but in the greater picture, no diminished relevance
pdbowman.studio/briefs/10-ap...

(3) The psychological impact of this for Western citizens is to pull their sense of keeping or losing democracy out of magical thinking and into concrete action. It punctures both magical optimism and magical doomism, and returns citizens to the realities of constructive political conflict.

fascinating, troubling listen

(allow me to say: any image of Carlson ought to be accompanied by the words ‘this scum’ or near text equivalent)

blocking your blockade with a blockade of my own, with recursive blockades of all waterways on earth, as limitless in extension as the beaches themselves, an endless Mandelbrot of self strangulating stupidity, forever or at least as long as we have left

Photo with parking area of county government offices in background, thumb and finger holding an ‘I Voted Today!’ sticker in foreground.

Virginia referendum

@jesselonergan.bsky.social's coming in for Free Comic Book Day 2026 and if you want a copy of his incredible comic Drome, you gotta let us know and preorder a copy! Erik will tell you about it!

We're in solidarity with @propublicaguild.org workers in their fight!

We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today.

Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

A graphic that reads: Source request: What does it look like when we let trans people thrive? When public systems support trans people? When health care is free and accessible, and spaces are affirming? What are the solutions for making trans lives better? What could trans utopia look like? I am looking for specific stories of trans people from all walks of life across Canada who’ve been given space to not only survive, but thrive. People who are interested in speaking about how certain policies, systems, or resources have made their lives easier and better as trans people. Is this you or someone you know? Pop me an email at: mel.woods@xtramagazine.com

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I'm working on a large print feature for later this year that asks a big question:

What does it look like when we let trans people thrive?

I'm looking to talk to a few everyday trans people from across Canada about what that idea means to them.

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Kindah Ibrahim on Rebuilding Syria’s Agriculture Sector Learning from how communities adapted during the conflict could help make the nation more resilient to climate change.

Agricultural economist and researcher Kindah Ibrahim has some ideas about how to start building a climate-resilient agriculture sector in Syria. One solution: Learning from the nation’s women and how they’ve kept certain agricultural practices alive amid the devastating conflict.

No matter where I go, whether it’s grocery workers, farm workers, or factory workers, we are all facing the problem of consolidated power and wealth.

That’s where unions have something to offer.

Ravenous Is a New Worker-Owned Food Culture Media Company For too long, food media has felt toothless. Help us take a bite out of it.

We are Ravenous — food media with teeth. Ravenous is worker-owned food and culture media company founded by @francesdoingthings.bsky.social, @aemccarthy.bsky.social, @jayasaxena.com, @shokdiesel.bsky.social, and
@thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social.

How disgusting that we all have to pay the price for the US citizenry’s complacency and total political incompetence

Graphic reads, "Big Media and the Rise of Authoritarianism: How We Fight Back", Monday, April 27 on Zoom, 7pm ET / 4pm PT, Register: bit.ly/FightBigMedia" - the text is surrounded by greyed out images of different media instruments e.g. a video camera, a digital camera, a radio, a laptop, a magazine; an image of the Monopoly Man is crossed out by a strikethrough circle [image by Rjcastillo on Wikimedia Commons]; cosponsors' logos line the bottom of the graphic

Media monopolies pose a potent threat to media workers and to U.S. democracy overall. Join us on Monday, April 27 at 7pm ET / 4pm PT for a panel discussion on the dangers of media consolidation, how we got here, and what we can do about it. Register: bit.ly/FightBigMedia

A Letter From My Friend, the Editor John Loeppky on the importance of indie media and knowing when to pick a fight.

John Loeppky @jloeppky.com is a disabled freelance journalist, editor, and creator. Usually, he edits my newsletter. Earlier this year, he wrote an issue. Read his take on the importance of indie media 👇

‘Islamophobia is not just a quirk of the right. We have to acknowledge that it’s sewn into the fabric of the contemporary West itself ….’

Unpack This For Me: LGBTQ+ Media Landscape YouTube video by The Gaily Show

appreciating @thegailyshow.org’s Dana Piccoli conversation (two weeks ago, but i just got to it) with highlights from ‘The Map of Us’ — particularly the emphasis on its positive, practical shared-resources thrust
youtube.com/live/newnVU7...

Ecosystem collapse a security threat, so where is the ocean? - Oceanographic A stark new report has finally identified ecosystem collapse as a national and international security threat, yet omits role of ocean.

Was talking to a guy who started scuba diving in the 1970s and still dives regularly. I asked him what were some of the biggest changes he has seen. I expected something about dive computers & other new tech. His reply: There is so much less life now 🙁
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/ecosyst...

Dr. Asfia Qaadir tells listeners that hospitals have a dark past — silencing employees who speak out against human rights abuses is just the latest chapter. For more on how health care workers have come under attack in the United States, check out my reporting.

Poem for NO KINGS DAY:

This kingdom needs no king.
Its laws are inscribed in the palm
of the hand that holds a soup pot.
Ideology dissolves into a tear.
The revolution is to breathe.
The radical act is to be present.
Nourish the earth with your secret joy.
Be an anarchist for love.

-Alfred Lamotte

yes it’s silly

yes it’s good folks came out

imagine there’s no Hegseth …

and for the world as your work speaks of it

am very grateful for you no matter what

A view of people gathered at a No Kings protest demonstration on a sunny weekend afternoon, mostly turned away from camera toward someone speaking from a centrally-positioned presenter platform, in Winchester, Virginia’s brick-paved “old town” pedestrian street area.

#NoKings Winchester VA