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For $5/month or $60/yr you get access to PBS Passport and the entire Masterpiece library plus Great Performances, etc. Defunded but not defeated. www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

Thiiis is really sick. Lord's work right here.

This is my exact brand of brilliantly executed, super layered, galaxy brain dumb shit.

Watch the cool stuff I made at EVO this weekend

I'm so sorry for your loss, Jeremy. 🫂

Anthropomorphic dip-pen and inkwell stand infront of a table stacked with books. Pen holds a sign with '18+' drawn on the center, with a heart around it. Inkwell is holding a paper colored rainbow with 'LGBTQA' upon it. Inkwell is holding a hand up in a 'stop' motion. Behind the table is the vague sense of a crowd also holding signs. Above image it reads: "CARTOONISTS Against Adult Content CENSORSHIP"

The Cartoonist Co-op stands against the censorship and pay discrimination of 18+, erotic, and NSFW artists.

Check the link below for our official statement, ways to take action, and resources.
cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...

Art by @greedygulo.bsky.social

Fuck, man.

This is something myself and a few friends of mine have been working on for a bit: MOTION in MASS.

A brand new community for MA-based motion designers, animators, film, sound, VO artists, and more!

Check out our Bluesky and click the link in the bio to join our Discord!

bsky.app/profile/moti...

Call call call. Visa is literally begging us to stop calling and send emails. Calls cost them way more money and they can't use key words to filter them out

keeping money in a paypal account is an exceedingly reckless thing to do. only do this if you don’t care about losing that money

Alternative Mastercard numbers are as follows:
Mastercard (Aus): 1800-120-113
Mastercard (US): 1-800-307-7309
Mastercard (UK): 0800-96-4767

Maybe we could find out.

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Ozzy

Morning repost to spread the word.

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We*. Dun goofed.

He got a few organizers from AniMAtic Boston in the community!

This is something myself and a few friends of mine have been working on for a bit: MOTION in MASS.

A brand new community for MA-based motion designers, animators, film, sound, VO artists, and more!

Check out our Bluesky and click the link in the bio to join our Discord!

bsky.app/profile/moti...

With the awful news from the last couple hours, this post from the political optimism subreddit helped to break through a bit of the despair fog. Repubs know this is political suicide, ICE's support is crumbling despite the budget increase, and there's a myriad of ways to fight back. Keep strong.

I once met a man named Jacob. He was in his seventies, a small man, stooped and bent, who looked much older than he was. He was kind and gracious, and was used to people being put off by his posture and size. His story of how he ended up like that is informative. 1/

Call script here if you need:
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a screen from newgrounds. the text is as follows: How to Detect AI on the Newgrounds Audio Portal By Quest and ADR3-N The Rise of Generative AI  As generative AI (GenAI) tools have become more accessible, Newgrounds has received an alarming amount of AI-generated audio content. This “music” lacks the spirit and creativity of genuine, human effort and degrades the quality of the Audio Portal with cookie-cutter tracks that essentially sound the same. Furthermore, GenAI songs represent a certain amount of legal risk to our site, as AI models are trained on copyrighted material without consent.

newgrounds to their credit has banned all genAI stuff, and they have a good article up on how to hear (or otherwise detect) genAI music, worth reading!: www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-in...

very fond of this extremely succinct and dry but lethal description of genAI music 🔥

A cartoon by Wren McDonald. Protesters unite, forming the leg & body of a giant bringing its boot down upon red-handed riot cops.

Art by Wren McDonald.

an email from me to the toonboom sales team, it reads: Hello Toonboom sales team, I'm hoping to get clarity and air out concerns I have regarding the planned removal of the perpetual license. I am Eden Timm, a perpetual license owner, and I paid the very high upfront cost of a perpetual license, and opted to pay yearly on top of that, for the customer support for continual upgrades. With the planned removal of the perpetual license, will I be left in the lurch, having to shell out thousands of dollars a year moving forwards? It's frustrating to be a loyal customer, to make the choice to spend a steep price with the guarantee I could get upgrades moving forwards as long as I paid EXTRA for your other services. Hearing now that this system is being removed only a few years after I opted in is frankly infuriating and deceptive. And beyond that, subscription costs are going up as well, which additionally sours any loyalty I had for your software. So my question is - as a perpetual license owner who made the decision to dump a huge sum of money on your product ALONG WITH paying yearly for customer service, instead of going with a subscription, am I screwed here? What was the point of paying those premium prices if I don't get premium service? Why were perpetual license holders not informed of this change? What options are there moving forward to make it worth it to continue to pay for your services? Looking forward to your response. Eden Timm

re: the toonboom perpetual license debacle - you can air out your grievances in the discord, but it will do much better to email toonboom directly - sales@toonboom.com. Discord is hard to track, emails in inboxes is clear and direct.

My doctor changed my diagnosis to "Endocrine Disorder" in November without me asking--because he saw the writing on the wall.

Ask your doctors to do the same--Just to protect your access to life-saving medication.

LET'S GOOOOO

Six fingered hand pierced by a pencil. Text says “Support human artists. No AI”

Another #artwork I didn’t post here yet. I’m sure it’s pretty self explanatory.

#supporthumanartists #NoAI