as i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.
I could sub this in with countless moments from Andor or Mandalorian or the action scenes from Acolyte, but gotta give Skeleton Crew some love too! This one got a belly laugh out of me despite seeing it coming. The Kathleen Kennedy era made me into a Star Wars fan.
I loved @alexandermfreed.bsky.social’s latest Star Wars novel (“The Mask of Fear”) and it’s really stuck with me, so I just had to write about it. TLDR: if you liked Andor, you’ll definitely like this book! It’s more of *that* kind of Star Wars. polhem.us/posts/book-r...
There you go.
A real plan for those who want someone to #DoSomething
WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
Know a young progressive candidate running for state or local office in 2026? @runforsomething.net is accepting endorsement applications. The full process & criteria is online here. Share this far & wide! runforsomething.net/run/candidat...
A large Snorlax sleeps happily in the forest while three baby Munchlax sit on her belly and hang off her paw. A backpack hangs from a nearby branch, with food spilling out. Two of the Munchlax are snacking on an apple and a donut.
I’ve been sitting on the sketch for this for four years but I FINALLY turned it into a painting last night! #art #pokemon
Saw an interesting piece of advice recently: ask the AI search engines for an answer in a field in which you are very knowledgeable.
The results will make it clear just how much they get wrong, and how brazen they are about it.
Now, apply that to every subject in which you are NOT an expert.
Great, now it’s in my head and I have to listen to Lincoln for the millionth time. Thanks a lot
Was going to joke that this made me feel old, but Plastic Beach was literally 15 years ago and in my head that’s still a recent album so joke’s on me
He’s so good at this.
Just finished reading Timothy Zahn's novel "Thrawn". My first Star Wars book ever, and I really enjoyed it! Felt like a nice companion to some of the better Star Wars shows of late, particularly Andor (with lots of thematic parallels) and Ahsoka (given the title character is actually in that one).
Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
18F did things like making online government forms (like filing your taxes or submitting VA claims) easier to fill out, create text message notification systems for govt agencies, and streamlining internal data sharing. They were literally making govt more efficient & user-friendly. This sucks.
Your regular reminder that the more often you own your mistakes, the easier it gets.
It is like any muscle-- work it more and it gets stronger.
All people mess up, and sometimes we do so publicly.
It's not the end of the world to acknowledge that we missed the mark; it's how we clean up.
@nickperon.bsky.social This whole thread is legendary 👏
If you see this, post a Spider-Man.
Thanks so much for sharing. While not at all the same situation, emotionally it resonates with my own experience coming out from working on the 2016 Dem campaign. I don’t know if I’ll ever find another team so deeply committed to a shared mission and supporting each other. Always admired 18F a ton.
Shout-out to @danslott.bsky.social and @panelsyndicate.bsky.social for the beautiful issue of Amazing Spider-Man that inspired this post! (ASM 801)
In my latest blog post, I unpack the Jewish value at the heart of Spider-Man and what it can teach us about activism and justice in the present moment: “Whoever saves a single life is considered to have saved the whole world.”
Comic strip-style dialogue between Spiegelman and Sacco; one panel: I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language.
"I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language."
By Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Joe Sacco
www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...
How cool would it have been if it was, like, Spider-Byte or literally anyone else who was actually in the movie? 😭 (I’m sure no one is more disappointed about it than the folks at Insomniac, though.)
Untold Tales of Spider-Man #7 by @kurtbusiek.bsky.social has a fun callback to this when Peter uses “Palmer” as a fake name at the eye doctor 😁
33% of registered voters in the country voted for this clown.
The rest of us need to do something.
It's all hands on deck.
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No one voted for Elon Musk.
An unelected billionaire is trying to raid the Treasury Department and take money from the American people.
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@atproto.com’s PDS repo is so underrated. A generic, authenticated, fully CRUD-capable API for whatever data I want to throw at it? Hosted on my behalf for free with zero setup required? It’s the stuff of dreams for folks who just want to build fun little web apps that actually do things.
