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Hi Bsky! I'm Alan, and I do a bunch of different stuff. I'm a digital artist that co-creates @kamikazecomic.bsky.social , a backyard tinkerer, and seasonal lobster-boat goon. I also run Comics.Town on the Mastodon Fediverse, a home for indie comic creators! #introduction

It really is too bad that more high-profile Dems didn't come to Elissa Slotkin's defense last week. A huge amount rids on whether the narrative we propound about the election is 1) Dems won to hold Trump accountable or 2) Dems won because prices are too high. 🧵 www.offmessage.net/p/wheres-the...

Maryland looks to boost clean energy with $200M grants

This is important because it is a widespread myth which does not seem to be grounded in empirical evidence.

And here we are.

While the election result in #Brazil is obviously good news, we should remember that countless American wannabe-fascists poured $billions into achieving the opposite result and now have nothing to show for it, so it's not just good news, but also objectively hilarious.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Same vibes

ive talked on how i wont engage with writers who use ai, i wont eat at a restaurant with an ai menu, i wont have anything to do with it. but what this post illustrates is regardless of how OTHERS react, ultimately the worst part about using ai is that you are punishing YOURSELF and dont even know it

Just as fossil fuel companies and their cronies sow doubt about scientific knowledge on climate change in order to prevent the development of non-fossil fuel resources, they’re doing the same thing now to climate attribution science to avoid accountability for climate damage. Pay attention!

if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

To folks who follow me on Bluesky & appreciate the journalism I do. Can you please read the EPA story and post on social media platforms if you are so moved. This kind of work is important. But it only matters if people read it and engage with it. Here's the link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

I would like to submit we moved too fast, and broke the wrong things.

I'll take "Products That Would Make Bank at Furry Conventions" for $500, Alex.

Every so often, I let my sense of self preservation flail in the wind and fantasize about making a business out of building retro/classic styled EVs.

This is exactly why I made a Next Fest list that hides every demo whose developer declared AI. 2,545 of them gone, 4,557 left. It can't catch the ones that lie, but it clears a lot of the pile playfeed.games/nextfest

Thinking about this some more. One interesting consequence of the more universal ownership limit is that it would functionally kill corporate subsidiaries.

Not gonna lie, I'm starting to think we should treat such blatant disregard for nature just as harshly as we have once treated war crimes.

I usually check out as many games as possible in Next Fest, but the tidal wave of AI trash has beaten me Non-AI indie devs please post your games below and I'll check em out instead Also @steampowered.com PLEASE add an option to filter out AI games in searches. It's killing discoverability #gaming

I'd like to propose a certain kind of wealth tax: Every year, the 50 wealthiest individuals are subjected to a 50% wealth tax. If they lack asset liquidity to pay promptly, *all* their assets are siezed until an appropriate amount of wealth can be unwound. Treat evading this tax as treason.

In the 1960s public schools had special classrooms for the “educable mentally handicapped.” Most of those kids had lead poisoning. Lead paint was banned in U.S. in 1978. Leaded gasoline was banned in 1996. Kids’ blood levels dropped by 95%. Bans work. We should ban shit again.

Once upon a time, Americans took pride that people would leave other countries and come to the USA because it was so much better

The relevant section from the report wedocs.unep.org/rest/api/cor...

By my napkin math, total Bell Labs research expenditures from 1930-1980 were on the order of $50 billion in 2026 dollars. AI companies have spent ~$1 trillion so far: The equivalent of ~20 Bell Labs histories. In its history, Bell Labs researchers discovered the transistor, the solar cell, the laser

Kudos to NBC New York for saying it without equivocation: "The US is to blame for the world falling behind in the fight against climate change."

The fetishisation of "debate" as some sort of grand public good that everyone should do is so thoughtless and jarring to me because the more you actually do it the more it becomes apparent that genuinely constructive debate is actually a pretty niche thing.

More than 800 former EPA staff have come out against BAAJA. They are worried that, as written, the bill could "significantly limit EPA’s ability to issue regulations necessary to protect the public from air pollution."

Guys it’s 2026 can we please stop falling for his BS.

We have to think about collapsing Trump poll numbers and Rs turning on him the same way we'd think about finally being able to corner a rabid raccoon in your garage. Good news: he's out of options. Bad news: he's a rabid raccoon.

I interviewed investigative journalist @michaelblanding.bsky.social for Truthout about his new book, The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby—a fascinating account of the billionaire couple behind the craft-store empire and their role in funding white Christian nationalism.

1. The ratepayer protection provisions re: data centers in BAAJA are good but they are not an "aggressive accountability" measure. 2. BAAJA contains an array of concessions to radically accelerate the buildout of natural gas infrastructure that will power data centers.

Wish I had thought of this

Carving a pentagram into the DiGiorno pizza to summon directly from the innermost circle of Pizza Hell

there’s no middle ground position on this. either musk is forcibly rooted out of government infrastructure or every war proceeds at the whims and dictates of a generational buffoon

No transformative change is possible if we don't root out corruption. If flagrantly corrupt acts aren't punished now, it just keeps getting worse. Every Democrat in Washington—left, center, whatever—needs to focus their energy for the next two years on exposing and punishing corruption.

Need a spreadsheet that tracks culture war issues with one or two experts or examples.

"Some say the [oil and gas] industry should clean up its own mess" Some do say. I am one of the some that do. The industry is sticking the public with the bill to clean up the mess they made.

never been a better time to be a vegetarian