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Paul Constant

@paulconstant.com

Seattle-based writer of journalism, criticism, progressive economics and politics pieces, and comic books. Snelson, my comic with Fred Harper was a New York Public Library Best Adult Comic selection for 2022. Email: thisispaulconstant at gmail dot com.

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Ramon Bub Esquivel@bub1974.bsky.social · 10h ago

Emil Wilson is a brilliant writer and artist. Saw a preview of his autobiographical graphic novel and it blew me away. Never read or seen anything like it. Will be at Elliott Bay Book Company on Thursday evening 📚

Paul Constant@paulconstant.com · 11h ago

Seattle, please join me at 7 pm tomorrow night at Elliott Bay Book Company. I'll be interviewing graphic memoirist Emil Wilson about his mind-boggling debut, The Nightingales. It's a beautiful, moving comic that features a pair of talking Pomeranians, among other things. Free! Come on by.

Paul Constant@paulconstant.com · 11h ago

Seattle, please join me at 7 pm tomorrow night at Elliott Bay Book Company. I'll be interviewing graphic memoirist Emil Wilson about his mind-boggling debut, The Nightingales. It's a beautiful, moving comic that features a pair of talking Pomeranians, among other things. Free! Come on by.

Emil Wilson w/ Paul Constant | Elliott Bay Book Company

Full-service, general bookstore operating since 1973. Frequent author events, cafe, over 150,000 titles

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Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2d ago

Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Paul Constant@paulconstant.com · 2d ago

Pretty bold of KEXP to segue directly from the Gin Blossoms' "Hey Jealousy" into an ad bragging that KEXP plays music "you'll never hear anywhere else." Respectfully, "Hey Jealousy" is about one decade away from being played on a loop in every single retirement home in this godforsaken country.

Paul Constant@paulconstant.com · 2d ago

Can someone please explain why Coors Light is absolutely everywhere this summer? It's been over two decades since I last cracked a Coors Light, but as I recall it tasted like if LaCroix made a donkey piss flavor, only slightly less bubbly.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

The Campaign to Force Genital Exams on Girl Athletes Soon Washington State could require sex-verification tests for those playing sports in schools. Portrait of Andrea González-Ramírez By Andrea González-Ramírez, a senior writer for The Cut who covers systems of power. Those physicals, Maria explains, are usually perfunctory: “Like, Are you walking normally? Are you lightheaded? I have never had to take any clothes off. I’ve never felt uncomfortable or violated.” If IL26-638 were to pass and Maria were still in school, she says she would likely drop out of her team. (We’re withholding Maria’s real name to protect her privacy.) “I honestly don’t know if I would be able to do these tests,” she adds. “It would also make me question, If I do it, are all my teammates going to too? Or would I just play with the three or four girls who are willing to or have access to do it?”
Paul Constant@paulconstant.com · 7d ago

He’s a historically unpopular president who can’t stay awake for 20 consecutive minutes. He’s losing his juice with his own party and he’s a joke to everyone else. The media still treats him like a frightening genius because it’s in their best interests to prop him up. But this is embarrassing.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7d ago

What a horribly bad framing. The president can’t get his own party to vote for his own nominee that they confirmed for the next-rung-lower role just last year! That’s not a “threat,” you incompetent people.

Thu Jul 30 12:01 NBC NEWS Breaking news now Trump threatens to pull Todd Blanche's attorney general nomination until after two GOP holdouts leave office next year
Paul Constant@paulconstant.com · last wk.

Are we still bombing boats in the Caribbean and the media has just gotten bored of covering the attacks? Or did the Trump administration just get bored of bombing boats in the Caribbean?

Paul Constant@paulconstant.com · 2w ago

Yesterday I was taking my greyhounds out for their morning perambulation. A guy whizzed by on a bike and as he passed he said, “It’s nice that you’re taking your deer out for a walk.”

Oberon, an elderly red greyhound, is looking at me and smiling. Wallace, a red blind senior greyhound, is looking toward me with concern. It’s sunny on the trail and grass is high, giving the scene a pastoral look.