August || NEW FIRE EMBLEM 🎉

Ugh I’m such a sap, I’m already crying over the new pokemon game. It looks so nice.
No spoilers from me but I am playing it.

smile :) !!!

A collage of movie posters (focus on faces) made by the late incredible Drew Struzan

I can't imagine how many hearts Drew Struzan's art touched. How many creative mind he sparked. How many art careers he kickstarted.

This is the pinnacle of Art, a thing A/I slop will never manage to reach.

Thanks for your legacy, Drew.
May your memory be a blessing and your art be a seedling.

Man, my first college years were filled with studying his work, what a huge loss. Rest in peace, your art touched so many people.

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

taking a Tylenol makes zoroark mega evolve in ZA

Being an artist trying to talk with other artists is just embarrassing. "I like your shapes and colours!" Mortifying playground shit

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Community Allies Show your solidarity by: Support your favorite creators on the platform like normal Send a letter to KSR leadership urging them to meet our demands & end the strike: Creators Show your solidarity by: Continue using the platform like normal When something breaks, complain loudly that it is management's fault for causing the strike Include our logo and strike info on your project Send a letter to KSR leadership urging them to meet our demands & end the strike bit.ly/KSRUletter Donate to our solidarity fund: bit.ly/KSRUdonate Attend a rally or picket either in-person near you (NYC and Seattle) or virtual

‼️🚨KICKSTARTER WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE🚨‼️

As of 8am this morning, the workers of Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 are on strike.

WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A BOYCOTT! Creators and allies, please continue using and supporting the platform.

Found a random cactus on our hike in northern Ohio

A lot of """"creatives"""" have seemingly accepted generative AI as part of art and filmmaking and I'm hear to say you're all big stinky phonies and I hate you

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

"my child could make this"

are they making it though? as in, do you let them? are they allowed to pursue art and the joy it provides? are they creating? its so hard to create nowadays. is your child given the abundance of freedom that creativity offers, or are they stifled by your judgemental mind?

The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions.

But really do not let this moment pass you up, call your reps and beat them over the head with evidence that ID verification will lead to uncontrollable sensitive information leaks and identity theft

Comic with two chickens and an egg One of the two chicken says "it's about to hatch!". The second panel shows an egg with cross hatching.

Comic

a drawing featuring Zagreus from the game Hades being pulled into the river Styx by its bloody hands after a failed escape attempt

| Taken By the Styx |

...realized I never posted this one here, huh. Fixed!
#hadesgame

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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This includes BIRTH CONTROL, by the way. As well as a shitload of mood stabilizers. Do NOT eat "spooky" black foods and snacks. Just don't.

I DID, it was a pretty incredible religious experience dgdjf

Sleep Token time

Once again, this perfect @zeboydgames.bsky.social post comes to mind:

Landed in Chicago to a text from my boss about their position being eliminated.

Keep your thoughts with the museum industry yall, it’s been so rough out here.

Yeah, I’m willing to bet a lot of it is nostalgia goggles too, or with how heavy the fans went into their own adaptations of the characters and forgetting what the characters were actually like…

(All of us from Twitterstuck lmao)

Yeah that’s my big thing!! Like it’s not gonna go over every small detail!!

Someone also mentioned that a good amount of ppl upset about Dave are the ones who were his age or younger when reading the comics and that rly opened my eyes lol. Like yeah, I see why you’d think he was cool.

A lot of people complaining about a lot of (imo) dumb things. There’s some valid criticisms but a lot of it is so mean for no reason lol.

Plus a lot of people who don’t understand content has to be cut for an animated adaption.

Back to muting everything about homestuck. This fandom still sucks lmao.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

This whole section really.

This week has been a series of awful news