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Submissions are OPEN until October 1 for our next Word of Mouth Art Show + Social on November 7, 2025 at the Sequential Artist Workshop!

We are looking for COMPLETED work for our LIVE and IN-PERSON comics readings, art presentation, and video show in the SAW Studio!

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As Aveta notes, Bridges is still alive. 71. That’s not even all that old

I’ve been thinking about things like this, not just stuff that happened in my lifetime like Obergefell but all the civil rights advances in the last 60-70 years, and it’s like this is all so *recent*, it feels so precarious

Update: It went pretty well!

No kidding!! ::sweats in Montreal::

Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency.

via Brett Murphy:

The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:

Then she asked me a question I hadn’t considered before. What is the difference between a bias and expertise? In a previous newsroom she worked in, there were a few people who had pilots’ licenses. When a plane crash happened, those people were looked to as experts. Similarly, newsrooms seek to hire people with military experience, seeing that as expertise as opposed to bias. Many news outlets sent reporters to cover Hurricane Maria who were either Puerto Rican or had lived in Puerto Rico. Ho believes she’s a better business reporter because she worked in banking for three and a half years. So why do we consider some lived experiences — being a woman, being a person of color, being queer, having had an abortion — biases, and others expertise? From: https://longreads.com/2018/03/29/is-journalism-a-form-of-activism/

The next time someone calls a reporter "biased" or an activist — especially someone who is a woman, a person of color, LGBTQ+, an immigrant, and/or disabled — ask them to articulate the difference between bias and expertise: longreads.com/2018/03/29/i...

Everyone opining about whether boycotts are ever useful hopefully is checking what they say against “Is this a correct statement about the Montgomery Bus Boycott?”

Agree. He has an audience as well. His countrymen don’t want to see their President groveling before a Putin lackey. Their determination is grounded in their national pride. Zelensky powerfully vindicated that today. To see your President stand up to the two greatest powers in the world? Priceless.

No, but seriously, it is amazing how obvious it all becomes when instead of trying to placate a bully, you confront them instead.

If you're freaked out, say "I'm freaking out." If you're scared, say "I'm scared." But quit with this "We're all doomed" shit. One of these is expressing your feelings and the other is telling everyone we should just give up now and no.

The Levar Burton meme, two panels, the "hold on now" panel reads "my art style is inconsistent" and the second "there we go" panel reads "I am constantly innovating my visual language"

Chase the (good) dopamine - what do you like the most about art? Find ways to make it sparkle for you in practicing. Seek novelty to keep your brain engaged. Keep an eye out for healthy, sustainable ways to do that.

natevince Suggested for you Following 50.4K 1,551 Liked by dianettewells and others natevince Heartbroken and Confused! I was terminated on Valentines Day from my dream job. 48 weeks ago I started my permanent NPS position as Yosemite's new Locksmith. y I apprenticed under the previous locksmith the 4 years before his retirement. He had a wonderful carrier of 23 years with NPS. He said, "This is a good job Nate, the park can't run without a locksmith, do your job well and your'll always have job." Well now 3 weeks short of my probationary period l've been fired. I've had exemplary performance and am essential for park operations. The people that fired me don't know who I am, or what I do. They simply don't understand this park and how big and complex it is.

I need to immediately move out of housing, I have lost my career and I have NO PLAN. This was my dream! All of my eggs were in this basket and I planned to stay till retirement. I had an appointment to meet a realtor today, but canceled, everything has been flipped upside down. I'm scared I?????????????????????!!!!!!??????????????????] I was terminated at 1:15pm 2/14/2025 via email. Yosemite National Park the size of Rhode Island and has more locks than a small city, and without a locksmith I'm deeply concerned for the safety and security of the park and people in it. This is not right! -1 @nytimes @nationalparkservice @yosemitenps @outsidemagazine @nationalparkfoundation @natgeo @sfchronicle @meidastouch @washingtonpost #iwantmyjobback #iloveyosemite #nps #unemployed

The deranged DOGE rats have fired Yosemite National Park’s *locksmith*.

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Great article about the skyways!! Thank you for seeing the benefits of the system.

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I'm starting to think we need to be talking to local and state officials about having emergency foreclosure and eviction moratoriums ready to go.

If (when) they move on the FDIC, I think we are looking at mass bankruptcy and a big residential property land grab by the oligarchs.

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

Some pixel art VFX ✨

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I want to talk about my move from Substack to Ghost for a second, and what it's been like working with a nonprofit tech company that actually lives its values.

Especially if you're a writer still on Subtack, please read. 1/x

First of all, about the org: They are a nonprofit, I just met employee +

Good morning.

This is great visual of what IDC is used for from the Council of Governmental Relations (COGR).

once again, there is no level of appeasement that you can do to assuage these people

no matter how flattering your coverage, they are an existential threat so long as you are not an explicit propaganda outlet

report on them like they’re coming for your business, because they are

I wish Dems + the left would push harder on the VERY LOGIC that undergirds the DOGE project.

*Why* do we need to kill jobs and replace them with shitty automated systems? Why? We *know* why the GOP wants to do it, they oppose 'big government' etc etc—but most Americans are against killing jobs.

'They attack disabled, migrants, travellers, homeless - next they attack you"
Spotted in Liverpool, UK

Ahh unds. Gonna take down my account anyway - they make money if stuff is left up after lockout :/

Just got an email from Society6 saying they're going forward with a curated group of artists and my acct is being closed. Can't help but wonder if it's bec of gov't attacks on DEIA (my stuff is clearly Deaf) -- anyone get this email too?

This is the kind of action we need to make the constitutional crisis visible. Saying no instead of complying makes headlines because it creates conflict—and conflict drives coverage. Even if Musk gets into the classified systems, this pushes his crime spree onto the front pages.

I am begging people who are pushing emigration as a solution to All This to remember that disability is disqualifying for immigration in every single developed country in the world even if it is only unofficially so