Nolan Tashjian

There in spirit! You don’t mess with my home

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

love this tumblr addition to my post lol

Uma Musume collab when

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

A genuine inspiration for me, through and through.

There’s so much more I’d love to say, but I think this is the best condensed version of it. I’m still so inspired and hope I could tell stories on that level someday.

About 3 more rounds of revisions pending, but I’ll say my top 10 isn’t moving at all, and top 25 is mostly locked in

holy shit that's a good deal

On July 2nd, Paramount agreed to settle a baseless lawsuit brought against 60 Minutes and CBS News by President Trump for $16 million. On July 15, during a regular show of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Colbert went on-air and called the settlement a “big fat bribe” in exchange for a favorable decision on the proposed merger between Paramount and Skydance, a charge currently under investigation in California. Less than 48 hours later, on July 17, Paramount canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, a show currently performing first in its timeslot, giving vague references to the program’s “financial performance” as the only explanation. For ten years, the show has been one of the most successful, beloved and profitable programs on CBS, entertaining an audience of millions on late night television, on streaming services and across social media.

Given Paramount’s recent capitulation to President Trump in the CBS News lawsuit, the Writers Guild of America has significant concerns that The Late Show’s cancelation is a bribe, sacrificing free speech to curry favor with the Trump Administration as the company looks for merger approval. Cancelations are part of the business, but a corporation terminating a show in bad faith due to explicit or implicit political pressure is dangerous and unacceptable in a democratic society. Paramount’s decision comes against a backdrop of relentless attacks on a free press by President Trump, through lawsuits against CBS and ABC, threatened litigation of media organizations with critical coverage and the unconscionable defunding of PBS and NPR.

The Writers Guild of America calls on New York State Attorney General Letitia James, no stranger to prosecuting Trump for illegal business practices, to join California and launch an investigation into potential wrongdoing at Paramount. We call on our elected leaders to hold those responsible to account, to demand answers about why this beloved program was canceled and to assure the public that Colbert and his writers were not censored due to their views or the whims of the President. In the meantime, the Writers Guild of America will support our members at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and across the late-night industry as they speak truth to power and we will explore all potential legal and political avenues to fight for our members in the aftermath of this decision.

The following is a statement from the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) and Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) on Paramount’s Decision to Cancel “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”.

is art i draw

am excited for everyone to play deltarune!!

Remember, anything can feel like a soulless obligation - even things you love - if you don't take breaks, refuel your creativity or do other things. You can't strong-arm creativity or hit your head against a wall hoping inspiration will happen. Stop. Reset. Love yourself. Repeat.

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.

Will we listen to his words today?

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

@MichellCClark: they made healthcare a commodity, education a debt trap, and housing a speculation market-then told you that poverty is a personal failing. they privatized survival and called it freedom.

That last line hits hard

Risk of Rain 2 was one of the most fun games I discovered and dragged all my friends into playing!

Literally, the enemy is capitalism. All of this discourse about being undervalued or burnt out, its all just because of this stupid machine we're in. God forbid we work towards a system where oligarchs dont control all of the money and all media/social media.

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

Screenshot of Mr. Tenna's first line of dialogue in Deltarune Chapter 3. The word "AMAZING" is set in Cast Iron by West Wind Fonts. The type is purple with a rainbow gradient, surrounded by fireworks and confetti.

Screenshot from the end of Mr. Tenna's VHS tape in Deltarune Chapter 3. It reads "Mr. (Ant) TENNA'S TV TME!!!" Fonts used are Dayposter, Airstream, and Ed Roman. "TIME!!!" and the TV logo are custom designs.

I'm so happy to share I contributed some art to Deltarune Chapter 3 in the form of Tenna's word art + the TV Time logo!!

I had SO many type design inspirations, but special shout-outs to Typodermic Fonts, House Industries, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Paper Mario, and Adventureland Resort in Des Moines, IA.

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

Actor John Ross with his puppy

Actor John Ross with his husband Tristan Kern de Gonzalez on Valentines Day 2025

This is why we have... why we need Pride.

You guys have no idea how stoked I am for Deltarune.

Game's already great so far, but man - seeing fanart and hearing fan voices for it is a joy corporations could never replicate.

More media needs to be as WEIRD, especially these days with AI sanitizing and amalgamating everything.

Good. Keep it up...

What kinds of peppers?

Worked on making an intro cutscene for the train boss for today's #NightmareKart dev thread!

The actual cutscene itself is a placeholder, but the actual functionality to load and play it (complete with a cutscene skip) is in, meaning that a proper cutscene can easily be added in later :)

Then stop shoving it in our @sagaftra.org contracts. Actors hate this shit too.

Yup. I continue to say that AI is for those who fetishize THE IDEA and dismiss THE WORK. It's for those people who come up to writers and say, "I got a great idea for a book, I'll give it to you, you write it, and we'll split the profits 50/50," as if the idea is the hardest and most important part.

Fantastic weekend as always at the Bang Zoom Open Auditions at ACEN!

Made sure to thank everyone that had a part in my callback this year!