CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@evacide On an off-world colony, watching C-beams glitter.

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*How To Read Nancy covers _three panels_ (there are three rocks)

If you ever used or came across the phrase “lorem ipsum,” hold the presses: this 30-minute video from Emily Lin Zhang/Rabbit Hole is worth watching every second of. Original research, primary sources, interviews with several key people. Incredible work. https://youtu.be/kL1PDqzqhM4

Legitimate irs.gov site—jobs.irs.gov.

Never have I screamed aloud YES YES and pumped my fist in agreement more at something @siracusa has written than this https://hypercritical.co/2026/05/29/ev-stupidity-checklist

@briankrebs I was writing a column suggesting people switch to SSDs for Time Machine, then did a quick price check and nearly did a spit take. I should resell all my SSDs from a couple years ago and net a couple grand! (But then I still need SSDs.)

Excellent news: Ward Sutton of “Sickos” fame has come aboard the good ship That One Matt Bors Comics. We’re over 60% to our goal to make this book about memes and whether or not we can change society (somewhat) happen! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/that-one-matt-bors-comic

@pgor I hadn’t listened, but have read a lot about that. Will need to put in my queue!

@707Kat Doesn’t a lot of Germany work this way? Workers councils?

Companies hate unions because they reduce arbitrary actions and executive pay. Many claim unions prevent agility. That is because by approaching unionization with a scorched-earth policy of lies and contempt, companies can’t engage in a mutually beneficial process that would result in less turnover, greater productivity, and less absenteeism.

@adamshostack It is amazing reporters can cite Boeing without examining Boeing’s tax and employment in the state pre and post HQ shift, which was all about a then CEO’s personal interests.

I’m not sure which editor or editors demanded the slant on this article, but a better, more nuanced one would have been why nearly all millionaires and companies aren’t going anywhere.

Millionaires always threaten to leave because of taxes. They rarely do. Companies often threaten too. Some move! But it is often bad for them. Millionaires leaving, because of a change in regressive taxation in place, likely frees up resources for the rest of us.

Amazon is probably at the top of its arc (I think the company will suffer a real decline due to shipping costs and other issues soon), but the cited 2018 threat didn’t matter in the end. They built as much as they could here. They had to expand because they exhausted the local hiring pool.

Boeing still has most of its employment in our region. The work in “right to work” states and outside the US led to disastrous problems coupled with internal culture issues exacerbated by separating HQ from engineering. This cost the company tens of billions so far. It has a poor path back up.

But let me be clear why this is a hatchet job. Starbucks is in a huge decline and has to do something massive. If it truly moves thousands of jobs, it will probably be a disaster for a company that needs to focus on the right stuff, not losing most of its experienced employees who won’t move.

Millionaires and up like living in Seattle and Washington, because the city and state are beautiful and wonderful. Our biggest problem is income inequity and housing, partly because we are nearly most regressively taxed state. The rich know this! Small course corrections don’t take a huge bite.

Starbucks’s former head, Schultz, is a guy with unresolved family dysfunction issues who saw unions as a personal affront to his role as daddy. Boeing left because execs hated being confronted by local politicians over their disastrous union policies. Amazon hates unions period.

Sorry to these two reporters, but this article is clearly something they were given a specific direction to write. You can tell because the body of the story keeps having asides that contradict the entire thesis: answer to headline is NO https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/us/politics/seattle-mayor-tax-the-rich-starbucks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jFA.kD-q.Gb7pC_8u5Zj8&smid=nytcore-ios-share cc @rottenindenmark

I wonder if I could create a book entirely about bird-oriented cartoonists, as a sort of showcase and examination of it. Might want to feature both cartoonist and certain categories of illustrator to compared, contrast, and enjoy.