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Really wish more people could see this. AI is not being relentlessly pushed on us just so YOU can be empowered. For now, it's all just a smokescreen so they can cut jobs and give us TRASH in exchange before - God willing - regulations put a stop to this grift

bawwwwww

still a good catch

My fellow Guild members have been working on this as a means to encourage animation development in the heart of the American film industry.
The field has been struggling to maintain and, speaking from experience, part of why is the monetary breaks businesses get elsewhere.

What conservatives can never understand (while still remaining conservatives) is that there is NOTHING weak about being disadvantaged.

In fact, nothing is weaker than having every advantage in the world and still being a chickenshit freak who refuses to stand for anything but his own pitiful ego.

The NYT style guide

"Those who should be protecting me are determined to harm me instead" is not a belief that the mind is well-equipped to absorb, even when it's unmistakably true. In many cases we would sooner attribute the blame to ourselves and endure the harm to preserve the fiction.

According to payment processors, purchasing fictional sexy art is grossly immoral.

Betting on school children getting blown up is fine though.

send sam altman to jail pls

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I continue to believe the main goal of fascism is to bring so much unhappiness to the world that the soulless ruling class feels somewhat happy in comparison. This, as much as anything else they do, must be resisted: through community, not through consumption.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

Bobbi's ready to go to poundtown! I love this horny lil' bobcat so much!! 💚 #Waffl'haus #fanart 🧇☕

Bobbi belongs to @baphypaws.bsky.social

obviously y

It goes by many names, mostly it's called conservatism

Good. 👍

Sedusa

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Twitch is requiring new Affiliates, before their first payment, to give government photo ID and a separate photo to Persona, the same Persona that has connections to government mass surveillance programs. When I asked Twitch support for another option, they said there isn't one. #twitch #persona 1/4

Drawing of a Skullkid-ified Saria from Ocarnia of Time. She stands on a gnarled tree in the middle of a sinister forest. Her bright-green eyes are staring at the viewer direction. She holds in her left hand the fairy ocarina.

-"Are ya lost, kid ?"

#Zelda40th

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology"

No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

The Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition hype inspired me to draw Betilla, so here she is!

that still puts TS5 in 2008 or 2009. And there's no way that LilyPad thing, or really this level of widespread anxiety about childhood screen addiction, exists in 2009

well I was about to say that Andy had believably aged along with the movies so you could believe that TS3 was set in 2010. But honestly Andy in 1995 is eight years old. He should be graduating and going to college in 2005. Bonnie barely ages since then so TS5 should be taking place BEFORE Obama tbh

well I was about to say that Andy had believably aged along with the movies so you could believe that TS3 was set in 2010. But honestly Andy in 1995 is eight years old. He should be graduating and going to college in 2005. Bonnie barely ages since then so TS5 should be taking place BEFORE Obama tbh

Lightyear and Elio give me a bit of a sinking feeling. One so bizarrely high-concept and tonally grim as to be unenjoyable and completely divorced from the nostalgia it's supposedly baiting, and the other a seemingly well-told story with the unmistakable sensation that its heart has been cut out

I still think Pixar represents a high standard but they've existed long enough that they are no longer anywhere near the cutting edge technologically, and even though the back half of their movies vary from OK to excellent, they are increasingly a victim of Disney's creative stranglehold.

YouTube video by Richard Shindell - Topic Confession

I don't think this song should be lost to time. It's one of my favorite singer-songwriters, one of my favorite folk albums, one of my favorite songs period, and if anything it's more relevant than than ever. The agony of modernity, of a life spent avoiding pain.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Y7...

yeah, that is filed under mean unhelpful criticism and I know it hurts, but that’s precisely why it’s not worth losing sleep over.

Being open to real critique is great and all, however, some people are just haters out to ruin your day and are not on your team. I promise you can tell the difference