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I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money.

Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.

This movie is a recession indicator

two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field . ALT: two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field .

"Bluesky is dying"

Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.

Another paleo art today sorry

opening 10 slots for comms again! hit me up if youd like to nab one! ill delete this post once all slots are filled, so if you still see this post than there are still slots untaken!

Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public. The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events. Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts. At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI

threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical. This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech. While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.

Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:

Many companies are going to go out of business and the larger companies are going to lose BILLIONS when this AI bubble bursts.

The good news is that this bubble is going to devastate tech bros and billionaires and not lower income people for once.

A large, gray theropod known as Spinosaurus posing triumphantly, patterned with a red fade on its large back sail and fish-like tail. The tail resembles an arapaima, and its face is decorated with 4 cat fish whiskers.

Art fight attack of Sp00kEH0urs' fish-inspired spinosaurus, their name is lliad :)

See Sp00kEH0urs' characters and profile here: artfight.net/~Sp00kEH0urs
#oc #artfight

Three panels featuring an adult rat with a toddler age mouse on his lap. They are looking at a photo album together. Dialogue: Baby mouse: Papa you used to have red hair!? Rat: Well, my hair doesn't grow in that color naturally. I used a special paint called hair dye to color it red. Baby mouse: why? Rat: I didn't want people to make fun of me for having blue hair.

Two panels of a young mouse sitting on an adult rat's lap. Dialogue: Baby mouse: So why's your hair gray now? Rat: I dyed it gray so I could look cute like you. Baby mouse: Dads can't be cute! Rat: Really? Aw.

Hair to dye for

walking into a boardroom full of guys in suits, strolling up to the dry erase board and writing ALIEN SEANCE in big letters. I make the S a $. Everyone cheers.

A Rose O'Neill pen and ink drawing, featuring a giant humanoid embracing a smaller one. It is captioned "Man and the Earth."

A Rose O'Neill pen and ink drawing, featuring a giant female satyr embracing a small human male. She appears to be nuzzling him.

A Rose O'Neill pen and ink drawing, featuring a giant female humanoid nuzzling a tiny male humanoid. It is titled "Besieging the lips of the Earth."

This is your occasional reminder that Rose O'Neill, creator of the Kewpies, first published female cartoonist in the United States, and among the first cartoonists to build a merchandising empire on their work, turned out some absolutely baller, romantic-feeling size-difference monster art.

A toy version of a horse skull

the same horse skull from behind, but with a long neck extending out

Something is coming...very soon... @youtooz.bsky.social

My new conspiracy theory is that The New 52 happened because the Green Lantern movie flopped, some WB executive became aware of the comic book line because of it, and was like "Why are we paying for all this useless garbage if it's not making us any money, turn it around in 2 months or you're fired"

Valve breaking silence on this is huge, they really dont do this. Companies, at this scale, dont -do this-.

Visa, mastercard, stripe and paypal are feeling the pressure. They are making mistakes under pressure.

Keep it up

This doesn’t mean to stop calling by the way. The execs in those meetings are shifting the levers back ever so slightly so they can see where it is we’ll stop calling.

Don’t stop calling.

Any other brushes/packs you'd recommend folks try out, by chance?

It is with pleasure and fanfare I can show off the freshly arrived comps for “a star called the sun”- as usual, tiger printing has done marvellously, and the book is looking fabulous! I can’t wait for you all to get your paws on it (once it makes the long cross-oceanic journey - preorders still open

Wasn't expecting this level of feedback lol.
glad you all like the shark

Hey, everyone. I'm opening commissions once again.
Here's the link if you are interested.
forms.gle/pkWcuQTqaMG5...
Thanks!✨

shark can't catch a break

put the roar in roaring knight!

birdbrain

i feel like im getting a lot of credit for this teto design. i didnt make it! its her design from the incredible birdbrain music video. watch it. its so good.

Oh huh, I never knew he worked or did concept art for Steven Universe, but that now makes SO much sense

The same as the above picture but I added some movie poster bells and whistles. It's now "ERNEST GOES TO HELL" and it's got a quote from Roger Ebert who calls it "RELENTLESS!"

should probably do the trope listing thing but idk how about this: It's kinda like like Alan Moore wrote a loose SPLATTERHOUSE adaptation, if Alan Moore was an anxious early transition transfemme and was grieving the end of civilisation as we know it.
Im allowed compare myself to alan moore its okay

There should be a “real or fake?” Game for panels like this one.