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Excerpt from Wikipedia reads: "Fight against merchandising his characters For years, Watterson battled against pressure from publishers to merchandise his work, something that he felt would cheapen his comic through compromising the act of creation or reading.[21][22] He refused to merchandise his creations on the grounds that displaying Calvin and Hobbes images on commercially sold mugs, stickers, and T-shirts would devalue the characters and their personalities. Watterson said that Universal kept putting pressure on him and that he had signed his contract without fully perusing it because, as a new artist, he was happy just to find a syndicate willing to give him a chance (two other syndicates had previously turned him down). He added that the contract was so one-sided that, if Universal really wanted to, they could license his characters against his will, and could even fire him and continue Calvin and Hobbes with a new artist. Watterson's position eventually won out, and he was able to renegotiate his contract so that he would receive all rights to his work. Later he said that the licensing fight exhausted him and contributed to the need for a nine-month sabbatical in 1991.[23]"

Bill Watterson is my favorite cartoonist. I adored the relationship btw Calvin and Hobbes as a child. But as I've gotten older, these strips feel even more tender and insightful. My respect for him grew when I learned of his stance against merchandising. Such principles are almost unheard of today.

I do not want your AI slop
I do not want it in my mop
I do not want it in my house
I do not want it in my mouse
I do not like brain-rotting AI spam
I do not want it, Sam Alt-man

I once took care of an elderly engineer who had taught himself the Akkadian language as a hobby, and we bonded over our Ea-Nasir, and I kinda fangirled about the fact that he could actually read nearly 4000 year old tablets…

Had to explain Ea-Nasir to my therapist

I am tired of switching to new things because old things are owned by fools and ruffians

No AI

I hate CEOs. Why do they get millions to have awful ideas?!

Stop bothering us with AI! WE DO NOT WANT IT!

I DO NOT WANT AI!!!

Hello!

It will be a while before i get disability

…looking at ~$300 short on rent for next month, assuming no groceries are bought until then 😬 Anything can help.

Total will be updated in handle.

cash.app/$TippyBerkman

venmo.com/u/AntifaSher...

Fun fact: trans people of all genders fucking rule

Not me

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Maybe goofy ass men

Black Trans
Is Starve to
death

I know I'm probably built different, but if there are people "taking advantage" of social safety nets - oh well.

Motherfuckers worried that someone MIGHT be getting a few hundred dollars a month to spend on food but have no problem with rich people avoiding taxes.

Fuck you.

Nice!

Great Blue Heron in a cypress tree...
Fall in Florida
#photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #thelittlethings

i genuinely don't know how anyone who lived in new york city under cuomo as governor would consider voting for him, tbh. man was a nightmare, treated nyc like garbage bc he was corrupt and petty and mad at deblasio, like!!!!!

I'd burn my script. Unless he gets 🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾

NOOO YOU TAKE THAT BACK
Shawshank and it's all Jared Leto Joker. Take that.

Jared Leto is like if a human person were AI slop

Uggghhhhhh!

Taps the sign

It was the worst of times, it was the least normal and most cringe of times

Some.lib on here said expecting accurate news takes away newcaster's first amendment rights