Rob Lindsay

If someone films themselves crying while reading Bunny Vs Monkey I’m going to assume they’ve been kidnapped.

Freelance Researchers: Safe Adoption of AI — Careful Industries We are looking for freelance researchers to conduct literature searches on the impacts of AI on worker safety, infrastructural safety, and environmental safety.

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At @carefultrouble.bsky.social we're looking for freelance researchers to deliver a literature search on the impacts of AI adoption, looking at worker safety, infrastructure resilience, and environmental safety

www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

This whole section really.

Pass this on to every teenager you know.

IYKYK

Next Gen Film Commission - Scottish Ballet Information on how to apply to join Scottish Ballet as Company Manager

Film Commissioning Opportunity from the always-fab Scottish Ballet:

scottishballet.co.uk/about-us/mee...

"But anytime I ask it about a topic I don't really know anything about, it teaches me so much. It's actually just the topics that I do know things about, that it tends to be wrong on..."

What a mystery, really.

Spotted that the new OK Go video was made by Will Anderson. His 'Have Heart' was screened in Brum ahead of the British Animation Awards a few years back (he won!) and it made a room full of folk collectively "aw": www.itsnicethat.com/articles/wil... (embedded video at the bottom of this article)

We've gathered links to free wellbeing initiatives, affordable counselling services, helpful video resources, and organisations offering various support options, including peer-to-peer schemes, all specifically for arts freelancers.

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"If you die in the game, you die in real life" is actually true for an awful lot of things, like snooker and backgammon

How Lofi Girl Became a Chill Beats Empire How the iconic looping video of a studying anime girl and stream of chill music became a big business.

thrilled to have @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social back on 404 Media www.404media.co/how-lofi-gir...

Mamoon As part of Blue Zoo's long-running animated short films programme, a brief was sent out to everyone in the studio to pitch an idea to tell an emotional, human…

Just been reminded of this *stunning* piece of animation from Blue Zoo, which first crossed my radar at one of the British Animation Awards Public Choice screenings which the @overlapsocial.com team ran a few years back. Fantastic use of projectors and polystyrene: vimeo.com/289059542

Supercool are my go-to for actionable web sustainability tips and I can't recommend this webinar enough:

Timeline cleanse

Thinking outside the box is part of the joy of creating a digital project but what if something unexpected pops up 👀? Join our brilliant speakers Harmeet Chagger-Khan, @psiconlab.bsky.social & @louiseorwin.bsky.social to learn how to face challenges head on.
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A 14 panel comic, a top tier of five panels shows a drawing of me, and in each of the subsequent panels the drawing of me gets simpler and simpler, with a cartoony drawing, a crude cartoon, then a stick man, then a smily face then a simple blob. Each time I'm saying "Hi" Tier two, panel one, the smiley face is sad and saying "PJ! I can't draw!" "How can I make comics" Panel 2, me as a simple cartoon "Oh that's ok, comics work..." panel 3, me as a very crudely drawn figiure my head tilted at a funny angle and Im saying "No matter your skill level" Panel 4 more simplistic drawing of me holding a ruler "As long as you can (sorta) draw a straight line " "(I use a ruler)" Panel 5 even more simple drawing "And a bubble" next (final) tier Panel 1 A simple circle with two dots for eyes and a small line for a mouth and a balloon coming from his mouth saying "People can be quite forgiving about the artwork" Panel 2 the round simple face meets a spikey simple face, spikey says "I'm not - I like GOOD artwork" me - "Oh" Panel 3 me (still a smiley face, but straight line mouth ) I have two stick arms raised up with little stick fingers and I'm saying "...Sorry..." Spike says "Bah" Panel 4 (last panel) Me, slightly better drawn (but only just) "OK - not everyone is quite forgiving about art" "BUT I AM" "Good luck!"

A comic about making comics (the alt text took longer to write than the comic did to draw * I drew this a few years ago)

Honestly I can’t see it OH GOOD LORD

You're seeing gorgeous collections, plus guest authors' new projects, and both are glorious gateways into new areas of reading. Love it.

Massively recommend the book extravaganza in Bearwood this Monday - full of stalls curated by folk who genuinely love different genres

Useful for documentary film makers too

- YouTube Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Watch the video

Overlap's always enormously recommended - the nights are lively, fun and welcoming (I've never been an animator, just an appreciator) and they always showcase brilliant stuff that you often can't find online.

Overlap Show & Tell - Aug 28th 7pm A night for animators & animation lovers to show work, share ideas and hang out.

Holy Moly I've just noticed that CARTOON SALOON are appearing at the Overlap Animation night on the 28th in Digbeth! www.overlapsocial.com/event-detail...

As others have pointed out, the trick to a successful career as a published writer.

1. Be famous
2. Ideally, be good at writing

(This now also scales for podcasting, too.)

Impossible to know the details from a story like this, but - assuming it's broadly true - anyone who thinks LinkedIn is a 100% factual record of someone's career needs some worldly wisdom and/or media-literacy training, pronto. That's before we even get to the privacy stuff.

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation. After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Solution is simple: Switch off the planet burning plagiarism machine that drives people insane and tells them to eat glue, instead reinvest in Flash and bring back little tie-in educational games for kiddies on the CBeebies website etc