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Will Smith has a reading foundation and visits public schools. Just so you know the guy who hit that game winning homer has done good things for the LAUSD

Congratulations to the nice man on all my bottles of green tea (and his friends)

America maintained hold of the World Series Championship because we attracted the skilled and willing from abroad.

Dodgers players this year were born in Japan, the Dominican Republic, Venezuala, Cuba, and South Korea, as well as in the US (including Puerto Rico).

Let's keep America attractive.

I picked a hell of a time to get into baseball LOL

And if you have extra HSA or FSA funds to use before 12/31, this is a great way to spend them down

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

MIT basically confirmed it rots your brain

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(around the Spotify logo) GET ICE OUT OF SPOTIFY ICE DOESN’T NEED A PLAYLIST. IT NEEDS ACCOUNTABILITY. • Cancel your Spotify Premium subscription until Spotify removes all ICE ads • Demand Spotify immediately terminate all ICE and DHS advertising contracts. • Urge artists and podcasters to speak out.

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE.

A platform built to connect creators and listeners is helping an authoritarian regime build up its secret police force.

But we’re not going to idly accept that. We’re going to make Spotify listen: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify

Looking for feedback on "How to Strike" a guide for everybody :)

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you have friends struggling through the shutdown, consider inviting them over for a family dinner this week. Make too much. Insist they take leftovers home. Some folks can't say they need help out loud but will appreciate the kindness.

We Have to Move "There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."

tell you what, it's a fucking terrible time to have even one molecule of human empathy. I have moments where I think that.

And then I read something like this, by the great @mskellymhayes.bsky.social (GET HER EXCELLENT NEW BOOK) and I know I need to move organizingmythoughts.org/we-have-to-m...

a blender 3d render of a viewmaster-style scene with kermit and robin the frogs looking at a real frog.

ok ok last muppet render for now 🐸

A lot of people are pretty freaked out by the current political state of affairs and carrying on because they don't know what else to do, except out one foot in front of the other.

And I think a lot of Very Online folks mistake that for "normie" indifference

I think its genuinely a virtue to accept that you could be wrong about anything and kill the part of yourself that needs to always be seen as correct and smarter than others on any given topic

Thousands of people gathered in Chicago's Grant Park for No Kings

Watch Live: #NoKings Chicago in Grant Park www.fox32chicago.com/news/no-king...

My Usual Setup | 例牌動作 Lai6 paai2 dung6 zok3

Let's talk about art, tech, and the genocide in Congo. As someone who works in Animation and Publishing, tech is something that's always changing and esp in the fast world of animation, "the latest tech" is something that is often encouraged.

Del Toro: "They said, ‘What is your stance about AI?’ And I answered the email saying, ‘I’d rather die.”" 👑

See also: "Why isn't anyone DOING ANYTHING"

Translation: "I'm not doing anything"

People are doing things. They are doing a LOT. It's up to you to plug in and participate.

God you’re so right

It’s how he stays both warm and stylish

Show me how you draw armor! ⚔️ 🛡️

What i wouldn’t give for this power

What an excellent sketch—seeing it on my feed made me follow you

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

22 Panels That Always Work, a guide to creating interesting panels and compositions in your comics, by Wally Wood

Letter from Larry Hama acknowledging the provenance of the "22 panels"

From the permanent collection of @cartoonart.bsky.social, on the occasion of Wally Wood's birthday, here's 22 Panels That Always Work!! This guide was assembled by none other than Larry Hama, who worked as Wood's assistant in the early '70s.

I ate a mango on the verge of over-ripening (its skin was hella wrinkled) and while it was juicy, it wasn’t sweet at all. What a sad mango :(((

Love this story—your dad’s a real one!! 💯

Happy birthday!!
Going to jot these titles down to read next, they look fascinating!

Illustration of a massively pissed off bald eagle ripping apart a golden crown with its talons, the words NO KINGS in bold font is over its wings

I stayed up late illustrating something for no real reason. I definitely didn't give out a google drive link with a high res version of it among friends and family for printing purposes.

digital painting of an Asian woman with dark curly hair and enormous faux black wings who's holding a sword and sitting against a red backdrop in a white gown with flowers

digital painting of a woman with coiffed blonde hair curling around her shoulders looking off to the distance in profile; done in loose gestural strokes against a green background.

digital painting of four women with dark hair in various styled white dresses, looking off into the distance. it's dark at night and they're in front of a large building.

digital painting of a woman with very bright red hair in waves around her face, wearing a voluminous fur coat and leaning forward with her hand to her face. pearls drip around her neck and hands. she's seated on a fancy stool and there's a column behind her and also movement to suggest other people.

it's my birthday today! 🌹 I'd be grateful if you shared my art as a gift to me 🫶

Screenshot of the TrueRef Gesture Tool.

Remember, the TrueRef timed gesture tool is 100% free!
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