I mean considering the FBI Director's already had to walk back one blockbuster claim this month, I don't think it's unwarranted (heh) to maintain a healthy dose of skepticism

Was teaching this in class YESTERDAY actually This is so crucial. Learn how to estimate your balloon sizes in the layout BEFORE you draw your pages for the love of God save yourself this hassle

Amber Isle is currently on sale 🤩- I highly recommend this adorable and cozy shopkeeper game - very cute style, fun characters and an all around lovely vibe! Plus dinosaurs and prehistoric animals abound 🥰

Just saw a bullshit Guardian clickbait article on “10 Endangered Puddings.” As a quick rule of thumb, if you can buy them in any supermarket (like treacle sponge, or bread and butter pudding) or buy them in a tin (rice pudding) then they ain’t fucking endangered.

This oscillates wildly between a milquetoast dig at the masters and disgustingly cynical, depending on how the light falls on it. You can tilt your body and see it shift from one to the other. Sometimes it's a friendly wink and sometimes it just becomes the word "OBEY"

Fuck you, Wes Streeting. Fuck You. And fuck this sham party play-acting at being "Labour". It is nothing but a piss-poor imitation of the hard right Tories & Far Right Reform fuckers. Dignity & Respect? By shunting trans women into "third spaces"? Where the fuck is the dignity & respect there?/1

one thing about all this is how blatant it becomes that the right wingers can threaten to withhold their vote without scolding - it's why the campaign was spending so much time and taking public positions to try to win them over! - but everybody else is expected to just shut up and fall in line

Trump's bullshit about Tylenol forces Canadian health authorities to release a statement about how the use of acetaminophen is ESSENTIAL during some women's pregnancies, because it prevents having to use ACTUALLY HARMFUL more powerful painkillers.

So much this. Every single ad I see on TV trying to promote AI makes me want to physically puke. They're absolutely nausea-inducing.

every ad trying to make AI look helpful or fun just makes me dislike it even more. i just saw an ad where they compared phones without AI to vanilla ice cream cones. dude, i like vanilla ice cream cones way more than my phone

Minstrel shows were *the* most popular form American vaudeville. It existed for so long and was so popular it casts a long shadow. You basically can't study film and theatre in the 20th century without bumping into it. People have no idea just how popular these shows where.

I can talk about this now without repercussions. I cant prove it as I never took pictures and the original stats are edited out but there was a panel in one issue of Archie Knuckles where he calls Julie-Su a “beeyotch” because “he” didnt know it was another word for bitch.

So the BBC are now doing a show about mental health... hosted by Alan Partridge. That leaves me with a really horrible feeling, like it's gonna be the worst kind of punch-down shite that makes vulnerable people into a punchline.

For all you LinkedIn Users The GenAI setting is turn on as default. www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Even though it's probably the simplest form of puppetry imaginable, and even though Henson is sitting right there and you can see him operating Rowlf and speaking his lines, this still looks like magic to me.

Hi there, I’ve just signed the petition below calling for the boycotting of Eurovision unless Israel is banned. Will you add your name too and then share it far and wide? 38d.gs/qh_c

Well, doh. STOP BUYING NVIDIA GPU's FOR THIS! That corporation basically robbed you of money by getting you lot out there to buy lots of graphic cards that can't do much at all. And they're laughing at you, I'd sue to get money back really.

Heck, this isn't limited to just animators, it goes for all artists! Of course try your best, but it's also important to finish and move on from a piece, art literally isn't meant to be perfect, and aiming for perfection is admirable but ultimately an impossible goal that will drive you insane.

Or if they choose to become an "Ex-Pat" (hate that term) in Spain, they live in a gated, English only enclave, never learn Spanish, and complain that the locals "shun" them....

I know its a creaky old observation but the people who trot out the "they don't integrate" line are always absolutely the same people who go to Spain and never go further than the nearest English-Style Pub.

“They come over here and don’t even try to assimilate!!!!” It’s not true obviously but I wouldn’t really fancy assimilating with the sort of people who are given so much credence by the media and the government.

Happy 26th to Spaced! I loved it so much I wrote my dissertation on it in 2006. Title was: Why do sitcom-based films fail so often and this be linked to the many ways intertextuality can be defined? Replies off coz men still exist on the internet.

I love seeing fursuits on BlueSky in the morning. I love how each one is an expression of the wearers identity. I love the bright colours and distinctive features. I love that luxuriously fuzzy, soft, and warm look. I love seeing folk wear fursuits. I love wearing fursuits. I love fursuits.

I REALLY REALLY hate putting this up again, but frick me, my disability came in about $500 less than I was expecting and may not have enough to cover the rental contract nor movers (and living until return to work) so if.. ya know, you can help ;w; gawd I hate this so much paypal.me/firefrost

"You should start streaming" "You should start doing short vids to get more people in your stuff" "You should post and comment more to help your name spread" How about I just post my stuff and just live my damn life? I hate this reinforcement of making every waking moment into a hustle.

Great read.

I see that both Trump and Weird Al are still around so it turns out neither the Good Christian Rapture nor the Evil Christian Rapture happened

Lookit this amazing Krampus by @chalkrub.bsky.social! So grumpy and filthy. Krampus, I mean. And that’s his *after* coffee face. I could use y’all’s help with something. I didn’t do any Letters to Krampus vids last season partly because I was out of good punchlines. Two things that’d help…

The Trump Administration Wants Pregnant Women to Suffer open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

Oh yeah do not resub lol.

Time to retire my old Shadow print and break out this new one for upcoming conventions!

I'm getting fed up of people trying to market autism as a "superpower" (seriously, I heard someone say this on the regional news earlier). It's not; if I could go through a day without second-guessing myself and my brain not being receptive to things, I'd gladly do it.

"The lead singer of GWAR has a PhD" is right up there with "Dolph Lundgren is a chemical engineer" in trivia facts that delight me

For the record: I’m glad Kimmel was reinstated on principle. But Disney still proactively capitulated to an authoritarian regime. They MIGHT have gotten a bit of grace, if they hadn’t spent the past two decades squandering goodwill and proving themselves to be just a shallow corporate entity. 👎

This has been my last day before my antidepressant dose is lowered. I'll be feeling all wobbly for several weeks, I imagine. :(

This year I have drawn the comics for the daily @eurofurence.org . You can download the newspapers here: archive.eurofurence.org/29/ #Furry #FurryArt #EF29 #Artwork

Bacially almost all the major black and white characters were born out of homages to minstrelsy. I talk about this in my Character Design classes actually

Growing up catholic. Consider myself atheist. Questioning ect. Seeing people from Europe with ✝️ In their profile: yeah okay. Seeing Americans with ✝️ in their profile: 🚩 I always knew it was crazy cult levels there but this week has been NUTS.

Tylenol was always one of those American things you didn't know what it was. Like Twinkies and Pottery Barn and Ted Koppel and whatever the hell a caucus is.

Sadly there will be no rapture, going over the scriptures it turns out there was a typo. Apparently it should read “Everyone is getting ruptured.” But only in the sense of our confidence and trust in political institutions. So as prophecies go it was pretty on the money.

I really wish that good looking people could stop, look in a mirror for two seconds, and FUCKING REALIZE that their mug and body *ARE* a major reason why they get things easily. The false modesty coming from them is EXHAUSTING. Like bitch, you're hot and people respond to this.

The rapture isn't coming. At least, not like this. The crows know.

35 years ago this ad helped change Nintendo's fate in Europe. The Master System had been kicking the NES' ass for years, but this superb value bundle featuring a game based on the most popular characters of the era became a HUGE Xmas seller and turned things around for Nintendo.

If you had brought your baby to a clinic for their first exam and RFK and Trump walked into the room, you would fight three grizzly bears to get your baby out of that clinic.

Weasel framing of the day. Rather than stating the plain truth that RFK and Trump are dangerous loons who have each presided over heath disasters, this instead positions these unqualified fools as certain and scientists as uncertain, and validates the canard that autism is a disease to prevent.

Bwahaha, this is gold. I've seen Gwar rip apart Bush, Queen Elizabeth the 2nd and many other world leaders. It's just part of their act. But Libs of TikTok and MAGA are giant snowflakes who will get offended at anything.

People only believe statistics about crime when they are shown/claimed to have gone up. The media has created an atmosphere of fear about how "crime ridden" society is. I'll say this: I feel a hell of a lot safer out and about now than I did in the early 1990s.

imagine trying to cancel GWAR they've been doing this for 40 years and are fucking legends

2am, time to RAPTOR POST she's finally here, you are DOOMED 🪡 : @komickrazi.bsky.social