Crab Wells
@crabofdoom.bsky.social
🦀 🔞 comic & smut artist / fanficcer / swear a lot / news reblogs / FFVII & XV fan / thrifter / he / they / trans masc / pagan / anti-fascist
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Government, taxes, & regulation are good actually
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Government, taxes, & regulation are good actually
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Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware
Tesla engineer was concerned about known thermal runaway problems in the batteries, elon and his head of security concoted a mass shooter threat pretending to be him, leaked it to the press and got a bolo issued to tried to get him swatted, Elon then stiffed his head of security
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware
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damn. That woulda been a good pitch last week
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
damn. That woulda been a good pitch last week
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Happy 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald everybody
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Happy 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald everybody
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I designed a horseshoe crab sweater and published it on Ravelry on National horseshoe crab day! If you ever thought to yourself “man, I really want a hand knit sweater with horseshoe crabs on it” boy do I have great news for ya
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
June 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I designed a horseshoe crab sweater and published it on Ravelry on National horseshoe crab day! If you ever thought to yourself “man, I really want a hand knit sweater with horseshoe crabs on it” boy do I have great news for ya
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it!
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
King County Elections
Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.
info.kingcounty.gov
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it!
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
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Man responsible for uninsuring 15 million Americans lays out a plan to uninsure up to 24.3 million more.
I wrote here about Trump’s limited understanding of health insurance and how relying on direct payments to people for payment toward health care costs is a terrible idea. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Man responsible for uninsuring 15 million Americans lays out a plan to uninsure up to 24.3 million more.
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It seems crucial (and long overdue) that our national political discourse has finally shifted from an obsession with "the economy" to what actually matters: whether people can afford the basic things they need to live.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
It seems crucial (and long overdue) that our national political discourse has finally shifted from an obsession with "the economy" to what actually matters: whether people can afford the basic things they need to live.
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Meanwhile, people unconstitutionally seized or brutalized by ICE agents can’t sue them because there’s no private right of action for them to do that.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Meanwhile, people unconstitutionally seized or brutalized by ICE agents can’t sue them because there’s no private right of action for them to do that.
If you see this, post your bird art 🐦
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
If you see this, post your bird art 🐦
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New article our on TrueRef! 🤍
Understanding AI: Facts, Myths & Protecting Your Work by @torrent-empress.bsky.social
Covering what AI really is, what it's costing us as a society and how you can protect yourself.
Read: trueref.io/blogs/news/w...
Understanding AI: Facts, Myths & Protecting Your Work by @torrent-empress.bsky.social
Covering what AI really is, what it's costing us as a society and how you can protect yourself.
Read: trueref.io/blogs/news/w...
Understanding AI: Facts, Myths & Protecting your Work
As the world at large continues to talk about “AI”, creatives from all fields are left scrambling to save their work from companies using it to build data training sets to compete with them. In this a...
trueref.io
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
New article our on TrueRef! 🤍
Understanding AI: Facts, Myths & Protecting Your Work by @torrent-empress.bsky.social
Covering what AI really is, what it's costing us as a society and how you can protect yourself.
Read: trueref.io/blogs/news/w...
Understanding AI: Facts, Myths & Protecting Your Work by @torrent-empress.bsky.social
Covering what AI really is, what it's costing us as a society and how you can protect yourself.
Read: trueref.io/blogs/news/w...
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My latest at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: I talked to @oglaf.bsky.social! Not the character, but rather, the people who create it.
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
My latest at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: I talked to @oglaf.bsky.social! Not the character, but rather, the people who create it.
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
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It can be deeply terrifying to realize you're surrounded by tens of millions of people who want to destroy everything you love, but there are also tens of millions of people who want to fight them! They have a political party that you should want to be a part of!
I think one aspect of this is some people are basically unable to psychologically process the reality that way too many republicans exist in raw numbers in this country.
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
It can be deeply terrifying to realize you're surrounded by tens of millions of people who want to destroy everything you love, but there are also tens of millions of people who want to fight them! They have a political party that you should want to be a part of!
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This is another ¶ that could blow up later.
The stated purpose of this prosecution is to assume due process doesn't exist.
The stated purpose of this prosecution is to assume due process doesn't exist.
![The government’s only other argument against dismissal with prejudice depends on
upending one of the most basic and fundamental premises of our criminal justice system: the
presumption of innocence. The government asserts (ECF No. 138 at 42) that dismissal with
prejudice would “thwart[] the public’s interest in the enforcement of its criminal law” because it
would allow Mr. Comey “to escape accountability for lying to and obstructing Congress.” But
the assumption that Mr. Comey must be guilty—before any public airing or testing of its
evidence—disregards bedrock principles underlying our system of justice. The government’s
unfounded assumptions of guilt cannot excuse its egregious constitutional violations.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreidami7adtw4qw72bhbq3zlejpolb7fxxue3idfbmli6xcxtpst4py@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This is another ¶ that could blow up later.
The stated purpose of this prosecution is to assume due process doesn't exist.
The stated purpose of this prosecution is to assume due process doesn't exist.
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More fun with Trumpy numbers.
He's floated sending $2,000 checks to every household, "except rich ones," whatever that means, financed by tariff revenues.
It would cost $265 billion. Tariff revenue since Liberation Day has totaled $151 billion.
Bit of a shortfall.
He's floated sending $2,000 checks to every household, "except rich ones," whatever that means, financed by tariff revenues.
It would cost $265 billion. Tariff revenue since Liberation Day has totaled $151 billion.
Bit of a shortfall.
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
More fun with Trumpy numbers.
He's floated sending $2,000 checks to every household, "except rich ones," whatever that means, financed by tariff revenues.
It would cost $265 billion. Tariff revenue since Liberation Day has totaled $151 billion.
Bit of a shortfall.
He's floated sending $2,000 checks to every household, "except rich ones," whatever that means, financed by tariff revenues.
It would cost $265 billion. Tariff revenue since Liberation Day has totaled $151 billion.
Bit of a shortfall.
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now that the govt shutdown is over, y'all will need to really yell and scream about these bills because many of them are going to be pushed again.
tell your representatives to OPPOSE these shitty policies!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
tell your representatives to OPPOSE these shitty policies!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
now that the govt shutdown is over, y'all will need to really yell and scream about these bills because many of them are going to be pushed again.
tell your representatives to OPPOSE these shitty policies!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
tell your representatives to OPPOSE these shitty policies!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
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Though Trump’s pardons can’t extend to state crimes, I think it’s worth pointing out the message being conveyed:
Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost.
Now he’s pardoning them for it.
bsky.app/profile/anna...
Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost.
Now he’s pardoning them for it.
bsky.app/profile/anna...
News coverage of this has focused on the pardon of those involved in the fake electors plot.
But the pardon also extends to key figures who participated in the unauthorized breach of voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia
My reporting on the breach: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
But the pardon also extends to key figures who participated in the unauthorized breach of voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia
My reporting on the breach: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Though Trump’s pardons can’t extend to state crimes, I think it’s worth pointing out the message being conveyed:
Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost.
Now he’s pardoning them for it.
bsky.app/profile/anna...
Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost.
Now he’s pardoning them for it.
bsky.app/profile/anna...
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One thing people of color and Jewish people have in common … those who hate us. And we won’t answer hate with hate, but we won’t tolerate those who try to dress it’s filth up and cal it clean and sweet-smelling!
1. Tucker Carlson is mainstreaming white supremacy, hosting Nick Fuentes — a white nationalist who praises Hitler — for a fawning 2-hour interview
These companies are sponsoring Carlson's show:
Rocket Money
Eight Sleep
Beam
These companies are sponsoring Carlson's show:
Rocket Money
Eight Sleep
Beam
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
One thing people of color and Jewish people have in common … those who hate us. And we won’t answer hate with hate, but we won’t tolerate those who try to dress it’s filth up and cal it clean and sweet-smelling!
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So @librariesftp.bsky.social is now on Bluesky. Yay!
Also our next Library board cohort is slated to begin in February of 2026. This is a FREE 12-week course. Meetings will be held virtually on Mondays 12 – 1:30 EST / 9 – 10:30 PST.
Apply by 12/18 - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Also our next Library board cohort is slated to begin in February of 2026. This is a FREE 12-week course. Meetings will be held virtually on Mondays 12 – 1:30 EST / 9 – 10:30 PST.
Apply by 12/18 - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
FTP Library Elections & Appointments Training Cohort
Hello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
So @librariesftp.bsky.social is now on Bluesky. Yay!
Also our next Library board cohort is slated to begin in February of 2026. This is a FREE 12-week course. Meetings will be held virtually on Mondays 12 – 1:30 EST / 9 – 10:30 PST.
Apply by 12/18 - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Also our next Library board cohort is slated to begin in February of 2026. This is a FREE 12-week course. Meetings will be held virtually on Mondays 12 – 1:30 EST / 9 – 10:30 PST.
Apply by 12/18 - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
A lot of Establishment Dems hate giving the poor a cent if we can't prove to their satisfaction that we're either suffering enough without that cent or are still making money for someone rich. Bring up aid without mean-testing or work requirements around them & watch them squirm.
Durbin knows this, of course. As do all of the other senators who caved or approved of the caving. bsky.app/profile/fint...
US HOUSE SPEAKER JOHNSON SAID HE WON'T COMMIT TO A VOTE ON ACA SUBSIDIES, I'M TOLD – SEMOFAR REPORTER ON X
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A lot of Establishment Dems hate giving the poor a cent if we can't prove to their satisfaction that we're either suffering enough without that cent or are still making money for someone rich. Bring up aid without mean-testing or work requirements around them & watch them squirm.
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antisemites are the dumbest fucking people alive I'm sorry but it's true, they're fucking idiots. You have to be so incredibly fucking stupid to get taken in by this shit.
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
antisemites are the dumbest fucking people alive I'm sorry but it's true, they're fucking idiots. You have to be so incredibly fucking stupid to get taken in by this shit.
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I don't know when I'll write it up, but among the things Rudy Giuliani got pardoned for is destroying the lives of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I don't know when I'll write it up, but among the things Rudy Giuliani got pardoned for is destroying the lives of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.