Cheryl Lynn Eaton

It's honestly crazy seeing pro-AI people keep talking about artist like elite gatekeepers when virtually every artist I'm aware of is, at base, struggling to get by.

It's not like it's just people starting out either, the amount of veteran talents who've had to set up GoFundMes is staggering.

remember that time Howard Dean made a weird noise and it ended his political career
can we get that but for nazi tattoos and transphobia

How do you tell a band of maniacs with enough money to have anyone they dislike quietly killed that they are making idiotic demands that will destroy an industry?

Truly feels like if you are in any sort of creative field, your life is hell right now.

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Billionaires Ruining Everything #9673: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiTw...

“It was devastating to learn, right from the start, that women were open targets for disrespect and harassment –– even at a world-renowned workplace in the most liberal-leaning city in the country. I was likewise told to steer clear of a particularly chauvinistic male lead in my department.”

Some parents would like to see their kids' and their kids' families' identities reflected in age-appropriate films, but I guess those parents can eat rocks.

A lot of macho men are not going to like that comparison either--but it fits. There are technical moves the require precision and athletic skill. You tell a story with your body. You wear a flamboyant costume. It requires at least one partner. It is what it is.

Wrestling is akin to ice dancing. And since we have ice dancing at the Olympics...

It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience. W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS Atlanta, December, 1934

I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.

Like, why do you feel compelled to try and adjust their online tenor when they didn’t @ you? Are you a cop? Because you are one, in your spirit. Stop that.

My uncle-est take is you should let marginalized people, folks with more skin in the game than you, have their crashouts in peace.

And I swear to you the Venn diagram of people who don't want gay characters in kids' shows and people who demand that antiblack cartoons from the past remain uncensored and free of warning labels is a single circle.

I hate that entire groups are being prevented from existing in mainstream art because of roughly 200 shrill lunatics who can't be normal about anything.

Erika Kirk Faces Backlash Over Alleged 'Inappropriate' Texts With A 15-Year-Old: 'Absolutely Vile' Purported Texts Between Erika Kirk And A 15-Year-Old Go Viral Sparking Backlash And 'Grooming' Allegations

I almost feel bad for them. Melania is a suspected sex worker so she can't be a conservative figurehead for demure, submissive femininity. And now folks are looking at Erika Kirk funny too. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Conservative women want a Charlotte York so bad. Meanwhile, Charlotte York: www.instagram.com/p/DVTpGWIkXl...

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The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

I will NEVER vote for a candidate who I suspect is racist in the Democratic primary. And I am not an out-of-the-ordinary voter. So the Newsom stans should probably start making other arrangements.

Y'all just want to annoy trans people because there is no way you can tell me trans voters aren't pragmatic. They put the bar in hell for you and you can't clear it? This far ahead of the election? With Walz and Pritzker? Not to mention the possibility of an underdog candidate like Mamdani or Obama?

Is he running as a DEMOCRAT? Yes? Then he can't do **** without black people. Because we're the ones that vote for Democrats. Overwhelmingly. Every single time. The rest of you are fair-weather friends. And Newsom sitting down with Kirk and Bannon told us everything we need to know about him.

I don't even know why this is an ongoing argument on BlueSky because unless the Space Traders come pick up every black person in America before we can vote, he is not winning that nomination.

The comics industry would be so much better right now if Spurgeon were still here.

@comicsreporter: i will save this comics industry to the ground

Man, you would have loved to hate BlueSky so much.

I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.

Dave Sim’s Mary Worth is just nothing but Wilbur strips.

Meanwhile, I am over here sobbing in relief. I did not think I was gonna make it!

It's just the "blatant photo op scavenging" cherry on the "platforming white supremacists" sundae.

Gavin Newsom acting at Jesse's funeral like Jaheim did at Whitney's should tell every black voter everything they need to know.

The thread this is attached to demonstrates what my dad calls the “Black aide” problem, which is: Does this non-Black politician enter Black-majority spaces on their own terms or with their one (always one!) Black aide as a buffer/interpreter? Most politicians are the latter kind.