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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 4h
I think every trans person on this website should drop everything and read this immediately. Some of the worst social media backlash I've had lately has come from trans people who are mad at me for telling trans people not to panic over the current political situation.
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Olraca @olraca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If only there was some undeveloped land in North Seattle located near mass transit that could support building affordable housing. Anyway vote for Nilu Jenks.
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kyslytsya is correct - the current UN structure makes it incapable of credibly enforcing international law
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Security Council Vetoes Must be Reformed to Maintain the UN's Capacity and Legitimacy
The UN has long been held up as a model of international idealism⁠—supporters see it as a possibility to create a better world, while even detractors tend to characterize it as if anything too idealis...
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:
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I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see
'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.
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Old Sam @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.
From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 20/09/2026
Every day, my administration works to make Seattle more affordable for people like Sam by fighting for better renter protections, fairer grocery pricing, expanded transit access, and more. You shouldn't have to work every day of your life to survive. You deserve bread—and you deserve roses, too.
“For Ballard man, Seattle on $25 per hour means extra gig and no days off.”
Originally from San Antonio, Sam Stallcup works seven days a week, but he has little left over after paying for housing and other necessities.
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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One of the greatest political cartoons ever drawn is 87 years old today. Rendezvous, by David Low.
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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Artist, editor, and publisher Carmine Infantino. #BatmanDay
A black and white photo of him holding a cigar and laughing.Batman #183. The famous cover by Infantino shows Robin answering the Bat-Line & telling Batman they need to go, but Batman just wants to stay in and watch himself in tv.
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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think it’s a great idea actually.
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Alex @alexh666.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Given the $175,000,000 projected budget hole left by the previous mayor, this would be quite the achievement.
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Students told us the temptation was greatest when they feared they would miss a deadline,” the report reads. IMO the underlying issue here is the labor practices these students are being fed into as they near adulthood. Learning is not about volume of output, but do these students understand that?
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There are a whole lot of people in comics that see themselves as “outlaw”, free speech, “can’t cancel me” badasses, but don’t have a word of concern to spare about this. They’ll show up for any scumbag sex pest that sniffs around comics but I wonder why they have no bit of camaraderie in this case?
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
her facial expression at 0:57 😂 "i want to note that just while we've been in this meeting a car has driven down Post Alley and is now stuck on the Harbor Steps" 😂😂😂
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jane c. hu @janehu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the triumvirate (2026)
a woman stands with hands on her hips after driving a red SUV up train tracks into Seattle's Mt Baker light rail stationa white sedan drives on Seattle's I-90 pedestrian trail as a woman in a green shirt walks in front of ita black SUV stopped after driving down a flight of stairs at Seattle's Post Alley
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 15/09/2026
Use the link below to tell your senator to cosponsor Chris Van Hollen's very important resolution on documenting Israeli abuses of Palestinian rights
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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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columbo screenshots @columboscreens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

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The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
very strong theory. it's giving "don't get rid of the guns, just build bulletproof schools."
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Shout out to everyone who said it was just a temporary distraction and not a central organizing principle of modern fascism.
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Elon Musk’s PAC makes transgender people its multi-million-dollar midterm target
America PAC is attacking Democrats in four competitive Senate races as the trillionaire prepares to spend at least $100 million helping Republicans.
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 30/08/2026
This 1933 cartoon by Winsor McCay shouldn't still be so current. www.newspapers.com/article/the-...
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Kyrie Page @kyriepage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
YOU KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS
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James everything is analog @analogist.net · 05/09/2026
But since this election is in the oft-politically neglected District 5, you might not have been paying attention. This changes now! The lefty candidate here is Nilu Jenks (@niluj.bsky.social, @neighborsfornilu.bsky.social), who's been endorsed by every grassroots org, labor union, and Dem chapter.
Endorsements for Nilu from OneAmerica Votes, Sage Leaders, Tech4Housing, Tech4Taxes, Transit Riders Union, Washington for Peace and Justice, Washington Bus, Working Families Party, King County Democrats, 32nd Dems, 36th Dems, 46th Dems, College Dems, Stonewall Dems, Young DemsEndorsements for Nilu from Urbanist, Seattle Gay News, Stranger, PROTEC17, SEIU775, SEIU925, UFCW3000, Progressive Voters Guide
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James everything is analog @analogist.net · 05/09/2026
Seattle city council's District 5 has been held by pro-business backed candidates for a long time. Debora Juarez has held this seat on-and-off for nearly a decade. Cathy Moore won the seat in 2024, but resigned 18 months later. There is a special election *right now* to fill the seat until 2028.
Seattle Dept of Neighborhoods map for D5: Bitter Lake, Haller Lake, Pinehurst, Lake City, Broadview, Blue Ridge, Crown Hill, Greenwood, Licton Springs, Northgate, Maple Leaf, WedgwoodJulie Kang, Nilu Jenks
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The primary impact of AI is to enable fraud on a massive scale. apnews.com/article/scam...
apnews.com
Scams in the US are at a record high. Yet most victims get no help and some end up losing even more
Virtually every American has been targeted by scammers in some way, exclusive new polling data shows.
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
this is excellent
stigmatizing Rowling’s weaponization of childhood not only requires personal withdrawal for most people, it necessitates something much more difficult: being a giant fucking killjoy. You should tell people discussing the show that you’re not watching it, and why, and you should let yourself openly cringe at your sister-in-law’s Harry Potter tote bag, and you should bring up unprompted that the onslaught of legislation against trans people makes you sad and angry, presuming it does, and you should do this because, not despite, the fact that it will make you look annoying as hell and may make everyone present uncomfortable. (You probably won’t even get the kudos of looking like a cool ally, because you’re still ultimately talking about Harry Potter. Sorry about that.)
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The arguments against impeaching Trump next year are all bad and spurious, but they're even weaker as applied to all the other impeachable members of the Cabinet, etc. And impeaching Hegseth for literal murder should be top of the list.
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 02/09/2026
WELL WELL WELL WHO'S THE BIGGER YOUTUBER NOW
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mcc @dryad.technology · 01/09/2026
This is the single biggest physics discovery of my entire lifetime. Or something's wrong with one of the cables. One of the two
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 30,1956
P1- SLUGGO IS LOOKING OUT OF THE WINDOW ON A RAINY DAY 
SLUGGO: A RAINY DAY AND NOTHING LEFT TO READ
P2- SLUGGO LOOKS OVER AT THE NEWSPAPER LAYING ON THE CHAIR 
SLUGGO: I FINISHED ALL THE COMIC STRIPS IN THE PAPER 
P3- SLUGGO TEARS PANEL THREE DOWN THE MIDDLE TO LOOK AT THE BACK OF THE NEWSPAPER PAGE
SLUGGO: MAYBE THERE'S ANOTHER
COMIC STRIP BACK OF THESE PANELS
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 31/08/2026
Here is what the Israeli-occupied West Bank, not including a detailed look at occupied East Jerusalem, actually looks like in 2026. The International Court of Justice ruled in July 2024 that Israel’s nearly 60-year military occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza was illegal.
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James everything is analog @analogist.net · 31/08/2026
The Japanese-concentration-camp-advocating Freeman family to this day continues to apply political pressure to force entities, like Bellevue College, to take down history and art criticizing their family www.cascadepbs.org/culture/2020... Also they are big donors to Brian Heywood’s hate campaign!
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Bellevue’s anti-Japanese history ‘censored’ at city-run arts festival, artists say
Six months before the Bellevue College controversy, artists claim, mentions of the Freeman family were a no-go.
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A new essay for all my trans siblings and our allies. "As the UK enters a new era of state-mandated segregation, I find myself asking: was it all worth it?"
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What we have won
It was the largest trans protest in British history. We travelled from across the country to central London. We were joined by allies, especially cis gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer people who re…
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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Today is the birthday of Joan Bacchus Maynard (Aug. 29, 1928−Jan. 22, 2006). She was an artist, author, community organizer & preservationist. She was also a writer & penciller for the Golden Legacy comic book series that showcased important figures in Black history.
A color photo of her.Four issues form Golden Legacy covering Harriet Tubman, the Amistad Mutiny, Matthew Henson, and Alexander Dumas.
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IDW Publishing @idwpublishing.com · 28/08/2026
A truck carrying our comics was in an accident. No one was hurt, but the comics. 🌲 1 📚 0 Bad news: These titles will not arrive for OSD: #EventHorizonInferno 5, #SonicxGodzilla 2, #StarTrek60th Anniversary, & #TMNTJourneys 13. Good news: They're in stores 9/9. Thanks for your patience.
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A quick edit of tonight's beautiful lunar #eclipse.
A close-up photo of the full Moon during a 96% lunar eclipse. The top of the Moon is bright white, but most of the rest is orange to red in color.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 27/08/2026
This is insane.
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Police Are Putting Up Fake 3D-Printed Flock Cameras and Swooping In to Arrest People Who Vandalize Them
a man was charged with three felonies after he cut down a 3D-printed "decoy" Flock camera, which was set up by police.
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HYEROPHANT ⚙️ prepress mines 📚🔨 @explodinghye.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
our president’s ego and hatred for our neighbors shitting the bed so hard while his ghoulishly sycophantic administration allows this to continue means that you, my fellow americans, will be unable to wipe these literal shit stains clean for a long, long time in ways you would’ve never imagined
Person holding a Costco Kirkland signature toilet paper bundle from a guardian article screenshot. The article is “Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada”
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The groyper kids posting this stuff are the up and coming generation of Republican staffers and candidates
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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 26/08/2026
Washington state has filed a new lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service to block the Trump administration’s attempts to make sweeping changes to mail voting ahead of the general election in November.
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Washington Attorney General Nick Brown announces new lawsuit to protect mail-in voting
Washington state has filed a new lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service to block the Trump administration’s attempts to make sweeping changes to mail voting ahead of the general election in November.
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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Company that union busts and fires its employees and then justifies it by spreading rumors they were leaking stuff are now insisting you have to sympathize with them because it’s heartbreaking what these leakers are doing to their employees.
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
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Out of Context Simpsons Couch Gags @ooccouchgags.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP Dolly Parton
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