I like to share contemporary Japanese artists on this feed from time to time. #YukoShimizu lives and works in New York mainly as an illustrator.
UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIAL (no really): I was not a "cruise guy" when I first went on the JoCo Cruise, and now I am, at least for this one. It's an absolutely singular experience, on a ship, that has, wonderfully, become a community of delightful humans on and off the seas. Come sail with us.
[P] (Trying a little updated test of Bluesky reach here) We help run an annual music/comedy/writing/gaming/nerd event cruise. It's really, really fun, there's tons of cool guests (including @tmbg.bsky.social and @scalzi.com, to name just two), and you should totally come. jococruise.com
What is JoCo Cruise?
i’m glad that the The Law has come after eric adams but listen if adams is getting indicted then jared kushner needs to be buried under a jail
Surprise! The House has a new version of KOSA and it still sucks: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
An amended version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) that is being considered this week in the U.S. House is still a dangerous online censorship bill that contains many of the same fundamental
This is really important because KOSA sucks and it has strong bipartisan support, so call your Democratic representatives and tell them that KOSA will be used to block access to essential information about abortion.
Heritage Foundation is pushing to get KOSA approved in the House, and the document they're passing around is pretty revealing. They admit that if Trump wins they can use KOSA to block abortion info: www.techdirt.com/2024/09/16/h...
It’s no secret that Trump-administration-in-waiting at the Heritage Foundation supports KOSA because it thinks it will be useful in achieving some of the most extreme goals of Project 2025, a proje…
Most of my timeline is arguing about supply chain attacks vs. cyber-induced explosions, but I think the most important thing to note here is that this attack is incredibly reckless. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
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Trump needs to be utterly destroyed politically. We need his name to be utterly radioactive and synonymous with corruption and failure.
To be clear: protest voting in primaries is fine, encouraged even! Protest voting in general elections leads to Supreme Court we currently have. V v embarrassing for me to admit I voted for Nader b/c I was an 18 year old idiot. Being vulnerable on here so someone might learn from my mistake!