Gabriel Liston

Re-introduction: I am Gabriel Liston, painter. Everything starts in a notebook, as a cartoon. I was the twink in art school carrying the preschooler, a hunting knife, ibuprofen. Now the old man scribbling in a library book. Work for hire, work for sale. Happy to listen. Lastwater.net

This Thursday, October 29, Portland City Councilors @councilorkanal.bsky.social and @counciloravalos.bsky.social are proposing an ordinance to limit the use of chemical weapons, like tear gas, in Portland. Check out this thread to learn more and take action. ⬇️

Proof that everyone has always assumed this is what that is

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

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I intentionally did not reread Wildwood before we go see the film this afternoon. However, the Kid stayed up until 1:30 am doing so, and now she and her ma are loudly discussing all the points. I'm loudly tapping my feet and cranking the Jim Croce

Book folks, Catapult press announced they're going under last night. However, it sounds like their current round of publishing—including my aunt's book—will still go through. Please consider preordering The River Drowns the Able Swimmer wherever you buy fine books today.

Ah! I've got something for this! Here are a few photos my grandfather took of the circus, including one of the train, probably in the early 1950s #believeinfilm

Absolutely champing at this bit

For sale! A beautiful woodcut by Allen William Seaby (1867-1953) from around 1910, depicting a Red Grouse calling across a moor on a cold winter's day. Other copies are held in various museums, including the Ashmolean. Dm to buy or visit my Etsy shop here: etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

Look, no matter how kind your comment on my post, if your MO is shilling picture books made with "the help of ai," You will be blocked.

Today i finished the picture book dummy I've been (joyously) slogging through, AND tonight I almost maybe nearly sorta kinda figured out how to sing Cat Power's Metal Heart.

I'd like to see more cis allies grapple with the crazy making environment trans ppl are living in right now the way that Hauser grapples with that here. There is no one right way to understand this, in part bc there's no one way all trans ppl experience it. But really sitting with it is important.

Appreciate the coverage of my amendments to try to address loopholes in the surveillance pricing policy. People say committee is the place to do rigorous policy work and then try to rush through when convenient.

CFP: History of the Right, 1945-present, with me and @laurenstokes.bsky.social at Northwestern this spring. More here! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Here's a photo of a helicopter landed on Joanne's 227 foot support yacht that follows around her 290 foot main yacht

BFF and I were 12. For two weeks at his Dad's La Jolla beach condo, all we did was boogie board, bird-watch, and consume MTV (Raspberry Beret vid premiered) and Totino's Pizza Rolls. They're my madeleine.

If I am learning this lesson the hard way, over and over, maybe I am not learning anything?

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If I am learning this lesson the hard way, over and over, maybe I am not learning anything?

some of the kids interviewed are confused about what high school sports are for and what a trans girl is. as adults it’s our job to give kids the world they deserve. and all kids deserve to play. www.liberalcurrents.com/do-trans-wom...

New: OutYouth, an LGBTQ+ youth program in Austin, says it's briefly closing for safety reasons because it was mentioned in the fake trans resource guide pamphlets that went out this week across Texas - www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Intense wealth inequality leads to a shortage of necessities and a corresponding glut of luxury goods, simply by existing. Why? Because a few people with lots of money can only buy so many meals. Food is therefore relatively unprofitable, despite being inelastic. The good money is in yacht-building.

Even if you're not an old-timer who was around for this era of computing, you may well enjoy seeing what was involved in getting a _program_ running in that era — or checking out the fully-working version of the game that is embedded in this piece. (There is, of course, a little Prince detour, too.)

I just came back from a talk about this book. It's a genre-breaking braided academic narrative about horrific fires as a result of flamable pjs, the death of the author's daughter, and the meaning of a "life" - which is to say the history of the curriculum vitae. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

diminish an anime Witch Hat Cubicle

You can tell Bluesky is the progressive future because loser conservatives are starting to come here from X and dogpile the political news they are worried about.

I would like to once again cordially tap the sign: please support billionaire free, worker-led and/or independent news how and when you can. Marisa's work here is the kind of reporting we want on the regular, about everything of public concern

I'm surprised it isn't making more waves yet, but as of October 15, all packages to the US from Japan Post have to be processed through an app called Zonos to pay tariffs. This app requires the sender to submit photos of every item, and their AI then calculates the value. Zonos collects the tariff.

Canadians -- please help Kaya with a rent buffer. I've known her for a long time (way too long, like the kind of time we don't admit because then we feel old).

In Carbon County, Utah, data center and nuclear deals were struck with little public input. Now residents, many already living with coal's toll, are organizing for a say over their land, water, and air. www.hcn.org/articles/uta...

I loathe Meta platforms and their random-ass timeline. It’s designed that way to keep people on their apps longer, which, like, yeah I also spend more time on the road when I’m hopelessly lost and can’t find familiar landmarks.

#MedievalSky Does anyone have the latest (Fall 2026) issue of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART): www.wichita.edu/academics/fa...? I'm supposed to have an essay in the issue, but was never sent final copy. I need the page numbers of my essay, if you have it. Many thanks!

Thanks to @averagejenn.bsky.social for the heads-up that @libbyapp.com helps us filter out AI authors, AI artists, AI narrators, AI translators. Make sure you also disable "Deep search only" for ALL search results to be filtered this way.

Big Thief have opened the Big Thief Live Archive, an interactive website that hosts full concert recordings. The news arrives with a live version of “Incomprehensible” from a recent performance in Dublin.

Disrespect for the dead know no ends. Soon after Robin Williams died, Disney made the Genie app. Soon after Stephen Hillenburg died Nickelodeon made a spinoff of SpongeBob. Soon after Queen Elizabeth died the

Hey Portland, I just got followed by a news org called "Portland Focal" and it feels absolutely sus. No bylines. No "About." @jwjpdx.bsky.social it claims you are following it? Double check on that. Gonna block it in a minute

Should I be insulted that Portland, Oregon has not yet made the list? Or does it just mean they're already running a pilot program here?

The family will be pleased to learn I do not have nearly enough garlic for my dinner plans tonight.

I've added some new items to my jewelry shop, available for the next week or so until i close up shop to go back to Japan. Take a look: Shop.MariNaomi.com

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.