I’ve said it for a while, the only credibility AI has as a service is the collateral and monetary belief we’re all willing to give it. We haven’t been giving it, and it needs that, so people who HAVE invested decide to sell it as the the Thing Most Necessary because they kinda have to

Sailor Moon S1E21, very possibly the only episode of Sailor Moon I'd ever seen in full until my adulthood... or at least, the only one I know for sure I'd seen. Anyway, many of us have experienced this one before. Less than 5 minutes in, so far this is a real love letter to animation as a craft

I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens

In this age of interweb decay, it's amusing to me that I still periodically find the osteoptimistic warrior and skeleptical friend doing the rounds. The uncertain power of bones must resonate with people.

this game is so bleak, dude. i'm still real engaged but it's a real shit of a world, even when you try to help people half the time things go badly and they end up dead in an alley anyhow. I remember thinking similarly about the Edgerunners anime, but... well, it captures the tone of the game

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

Most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as: “One day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it.”

Had an urge to watch some Lower Decks last night so I cracked my blu-ray set and I gotta say, there is a noticeable difference in quality between the discs and watching it on streaming! Everything is crisper in ways that I didn't expect to notice. Anyway, buy your favourite shows on physical media!

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"

i've spoken elsewhere about how i never really watched this show when i was a kid because it was a "girl's show" (though i didn't even watch dragonball that much) and i'm super annoyed, i feel like i would've been a more rounded person earlier in life.

Started playing Absolum tonight in online co-op with a pal, it's cool as hell! Classic beat-em-up with roguelike features and some extremely charming cartoon art! (Just note that if you want to play with someone else you'll have to do the tutorial first on your own)

"Haunted" #IceOut #IceOutComics

the Barbara Kruger mural the chase is happening in front of reads: "WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?"

Capitalism is so ✨️dynamic✨️ that if you tell investors half the global economy will be wiped out in 50 years, they make plans to extract as much value until right before it happens, and to make sure their half isn't the one that gets wiped out.

facebook reminded me of this video from nine years ago, featuring Yvette Felarca firmly and articulately defending mass militancy (in this case, the context is deplatforming milo yiannopoulos) and all i can think is how frustrating it is that these arguments weren't heeded at the time

Sunny days

maintenance mode

Called and spoke with Adobe customer support and the guy told me Adobe is discontinuing Animate because apparently the company can't think of any new features to add to the program and they feel it's gotten stale. So they're just GETTING RID OF IT???

Just had the very strong urge to see this scene in a Japanese dub. I bet it would be very funny

I AM FURIOUS. Adobe Animate remains an industry standard for TV animation. Star Trek: Lower Decks was made in Animate. Haunted Hotel was made in Animate. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was made in Animate. And because you can't buy a permanent licence anymore, it'll just be gone.

still playing Cyberpunk 2077 and am in Dogtown now, laughing constantly at how much the story so far is just Escape from New York

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

seen this one making the rounds again

there is a process in knife making that requires you to "peen" your "tang"

You ever think about how funny it is that there is a kind of hammer called "ball peen"

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

I've been slowly watching through the OG sailor moon for the first time (I've only ever seen a couple episodes in full) and the animation on the spotlight in the eyecatch is SO appealing. It's so snappy but the cushions and arcs are perfect so it still feels very natural

Reprint of a little-known artbook by the late Shichiro Kobayashi, explaining his expertise/techniques in animation backgrounds. Coming next month (originally published in 1986). Pre-orders >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...

it's also not just about replacing color with screentones or gray--it's about EVERY choice you make, from thumbs to inks, even balloon placement. i often use color as a way to create contrast, and without it, i'd have to find other ways to create that contrast. look at the difference here!

Do you live in Canada and work in animation, vfx, or games? Come on out to this webinar and learn about what a union is and how it can improve your working conditions! Tomorrow at 7pm!

Me after encountering any presence of Generative AI in anything

A general strike in Minneapolis. Student walkouts across the country. Demonstrations break out everywhere, organized by prisoners, workers, and youth - are all picking up speed. Masses of people are working together to organize mutual aid + community solidarity on a growing scale. A thread.

i made this meme 9 years ago

WATCH THIS MOVIE PLEASE! A real surprise favourite from last year - so funny, so fun to watch, what a great flick. It's not as simple as "you can just make a movie" because Julian Glander is extremely talented, but.. if you want to, you can just make a movie. And this one might inspire you to do it!

Wonder how people in mt pleasant would feel to know that a company working in their neighbourhood is working with ICE to deport and detain and abuse and kill

"What should I be if not-a-cyberpunk," well, you have to confront your actual, contemporary, existent cultural problems and make up something modern *Find some interested friends, that's helpful

Little people huh?

does anyone if there's a way to prevent youtube from giving me -terrible- automatically-generated english dub over the original? i know i can switch back to it manually, but i sure would love to hear the original audio by default. anyway watch Mamoru Oshii's Red Spectacles (1987), now in 4k

does anyone if there's a way to prevent youtube from giving me -terrible- automatically-generated english dub over the original? i know i can switch back to it manually, but i sure would love to hear the original audio by default. anyway watch Mamoru Oshii's Red Spectacles (1987), now in 4k

oh, it's me

i really appreciate this "yes, and" of the big Davos speech everyone's talking about. ily Canadian Dimension <3

It’s quite something to be Palestinian and watch the surprised Pikachu faces of western leaders at how the “international rules based order” is gone. You did nothing to stop its destruction. You only care now because it affects you.

This is a great tactic, and it is incredibly fucked up that we have to witness new anti-gestapo tactics being developed in real time. Get those pigs outta there.

Following the vandalism of at least 11 government vehicles or rentals driven by federal law enforcement at a hotel in Eagan, Minnesota last night, it's safe to say—you don't want to stay at a hotel that hosts ICE, or even park your vehicle there. You don't want to host them at your hotel, either.

We should █████ and then ███████ until ██████████

NVidia chief creep says resistance and scorn for AI have done a lot of harm. Good. Nice confirmation it's working. Keep it up. Although the main thing is this stuff is harmful crap so the mind and body tend to revolt against it automatically.