M.A.D.

We have SIX DAYS to get this out of the Washington State Senate. NEXT TUESDAY is the legislative deadline to get bills out their house of origin.

If it doesn't pass by then, it likely dies till 2027.

Since farmworkers were written out of labor laws in 1937, we have to win at the state level.

A multicolored quilt made of of scraps with the words WE KNOW WHAT WE SAW staggered down it with a large beautiful eye centered between the words. The eye has a rainbow camera aperture as the iris. It is quilted densely.

Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

Age verification policies are going to turn me into the fucking Joker

yall need to just parent your own fucking kids and stop making the internet a fucking bar where we all need to get carded, who keeps said card indefinitely.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month Age verification for all.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

A rack of TTRPG zones. A sign that reads Local Author points to copies Soft Focuses.

If you're in the Seattle area you should swing by @chanceencounter.games. It's an amazing shop run by some great people. Also, you can pick up a physical copy of Soft Focuses if you're looking to...

As dawn breaks, a magazine appears in the wizard's mailbox.

Photo of a moose in a field of snow. Text: The moose saw its shadow today so 6 more months of winter for Alaska

#AlaskaSky
#GroundhogDay

It’s the 1990s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see at Ruby Ridge and Waco reflect entrenched practices of law enforcement.

It’s the 2000s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see under the PATRIOT ACT reflect entrenched practices of American law enforcement.

It’s 2025. Guess the fuck what.

A black denim hat with water soluble cross stitch canvas basted to the front with red thread. A blue frog and purple snail are partially stitched onto the hat following the canvas's grid. Some desk clutter, including a jam jar full of thread scraps, is visible in the background.

One of the WIPs on my desk is… an experiment. Your snail & frog pattern felt right for trying this out. 🐌 I really hope this water soluble canvas dissolves properly.

I’m usually so bad at taking my own advice, but I’m gonna hang onto this one because I still feel this way. Art by itself won’t save us by itself, but community can. And I think it will.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Tear. That. Shit. Out.

Stickerapp, stickerninja, diecutstickers, stickerrobot, bumperactive, literally any other sticker website is better than Stickermule. Hell, printing them yourself on plain paper, cutting them out with dull scissors, and applying glue stick to the back by hand is better than Stickermule.

Thanks to everyone who contributed, I was able to make a large partial payment on this bill yesterday - help me close out this goal by contributing to my ko-fi or purchasing something from my Etsy shop:
Alaskanime.etsy.com

Watch out for the ONE question where they try to trick you by putting "I want AI" as the bottom option where EVERY other question has "I don't want AI" at the bottom!

Just filled this out and I suggest you do the same.

I've also updated my goal Ko-Fi - this takes precedent above all other bills and needs right now

ko-fi.com/alaskanime/g...

It’s exhausting and disheartening and brutally sad, not least of all because fundamentally, it could be a different way. We could build it a different way. But a lot of people who say they’d like that to be true are, themselves, too afraid to believe it’s possible.

I wonder who built them that fear

And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people

really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

Cross stitch of the horse head emoji combined with the eyes emoji. It's in a simple black frame with a white mat on a wood-grain tabletop. The horse is stitched in shades of brown with a charcoal mane and cartoonishly large eyes on fabric dyed in shades of pink, purple, and blue. The horse is facing to the left and its eyes are looking down and to the left. It looks as though it's seen something it can't unsee.

Requested by crlegge.bsky.social and to be placed in an unusual location. Behold, a mood.

Pattern by @badstitch.bsky.social.

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

Together!

Happy New Year.

We go again.

A photo of a cross-stitched mage against a golden moon on faintly sparkly fabric dyed in shades of blue-grey. The mage has white hair and a beard and is wearing purple robes with red and gold details, as well as a pointy hat. A crystal ball in his left hand steams like a mug of tea and a tome is open on a lectern at his left side. A dark grey embroidery hoop holds the fabric taut and the areas where skin-toned thread should go have not been stitched.

Those ducklings are so cute!

I'm almost ready to do the backstitching on this fella

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

linocut print of a version of the “Season’s Greason’s,” meme. In blue is the abominable snowman-like gorilla creature, and trees. In red is the monkey-like creature, and the text, “Season’s Greason’s,” in an arch above. Subtl watermarks read, “PandaKong.”

Hello! ‘Tis the Season! It’s not optional.
Designed after the meme and Dougal Dixon’s Tundra-Dweller.
#artOnBluesky

yellow poster with drawings of the sailor moons. text says: TRANS PEOPLE EXISTING DOES LITERALLY NOTHING NEGATIVE TO YOUR LIVES, YOU CRYBABY WIMPS YOUR LIFE IS GETTING HARDER AND COSTLIER BECAUSE OF THE OLIGARGS, NOT TRANS PEOPLE

reminder:

There is a prison of judgment and success-chasing most artists get heaved into at an early age and can take a lifetime to get free from. You gotta understand that the process—not the product!—is the thing.

Others are entertained as a byproduct of you attending to rituals you construct for yourself.

Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.

It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.