I say we need a general strike because voting in the midterms alone simply won’t be enough to move the needle in a big enough way to keep this from happening again. The Dems are in the pockets of capitalists too, they just seek to maintain the og oppressive status quo over the chaos the GOP seeks

If every person who attended the #NoKings protest signed up for a general strike we would have enough people to make one effective. It only takes %3.5 of the population to be effective, and that equals out to about 11mil, the number of ppl who attended nationwide strikeforourrights.org/the-3-5-rule/

Want to learn more about the General Strike? Here’s our Welcome Packet. We’re so happy you’re here! #USprotests docs.google.com/presentation...

generalstrikeus.com Consider looking into this. If we want the needle to move we need to consider a general strike. Disruption of the status quo, and stopping the shift into a new more oppressive (and fascist) status quo, is one our best peaceful options at resisting.

In the middle of moving and it’s a fun time having to do that as well as a million other necessary adult things that have to get done within the same week 😓

I hate how doing art for myself stresses me the hell out to the point of paralysis at times these days, whereas doing art for work doesn’t at all.

For anyone looking to move away from Google as their default search engine: Here’s a series of pictures showing how/where to change it on Firefox on your phone

I agree that media corps aren’t reliable sources of (mostly)objective news and that independent sources r the way to go: but I wish all the popular independent sources I hear about weren’t all helmed by white men…w/o diverse sources of news we’ll only ever see it from the yt/male bias, uncontested

REMEMBER KIDS when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down. This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless

It’s not hard for me to boycott buying things for a day when I already don’t buy anything most days (other than bills 💀 can I boycott those plz?)

Anyone who has ever worked for any major corporation ever knows how bad they are at running a functional business. If not for all their grifting and theft none of these companies would actually be profitable.

I don’t follow Mark Cuban but for some reason he’s constantly on my feed here. Fuck that guy, he’s just another billionaire narcissist grifter capitalizing on the false image of himself as being ‘the good one(billionaire)’. He’s just another opportunistic liar like all the rest

Glad I got vaccines updated yesterday. Still need to get the terrible Tetanus one updated tho. Not looking forward to that painful exp 😓 hate that one. Glad it’s only needed every 10yrs

I haven’t missed not watching anything on streaming services really, which kinda surprised me? I only have YouTube and AppleTV (bc it came with an IPad purchase), so I get to watch Severance which is the only thing I think I’d be sad to miss out on. But nothing else, kinda been nice

I overwhelmed, here’s my cat

The way the movie ‘the Hunchback of Notre Dame’ would NEVER get made by Disney today (or any other major American animation studio). Kids movies are so same same these days, especially thematically.

Need to practice painting more 🫣 just painted a doodle.

remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it

Cute lil stump pallet cleanser

To the ppl trying to gaslight ppl that the salute muskrat did wasn’t a ‘Nazi salute’ but was just a a ‘Roman salute’…how is that supposed to be better? Where do they think the Nazi salute originally came from? Bc I know and Hint: it starts with an R and ends with -Oman salute(AKA the fascist salute)

I hope more people realize that when you’re facing fascism there is absolutely NO POINT in appealing to a fascist’s, or someone who bought into fascism wholesale’s, morality. They only respond to power and it’s why any resistance against them, no matter how peaceful, is perceived by them as violence

January 30, 2024: I posted the longer version of this video on TikTok. It was instantly banned—I should have known then. 🧵

We as Americans have all been victims of Narcisstic abuse tactics our whole lives. The US governement (both parties) employ textbook DARVO tactics at every turn when confronted with a call out of their misdeeds and abuse against the public.

Obvious statement is obvious, but what‘s happening with TikTok is total social manipulation. It’s going to encourage hundreds of thousands to be thankful to Trump, which is absolute BS considering he wanted to ban the app in the first place. Call. It. Out.

Respectfully & from the bottom of my heart, if you think anything in the world could justify this, you’re a monster or an idiot or some impressive combination of both.

Surprisingly I actually slept pretty well last night…but only because I finally got a new bed yesterday and replaced the shitty $150 one I bought from IKEA 10yrs ago

A German citizen on Tiktok warns US users about the similarities between Hitler’s rise to power & Trump’s collision with Tiktok, goes viral, then when her prophecy comes true, the video is removed for community guidelines violation. Draw your own conclusions. I grabbed a screen recording. 👇👇

TikTok going live in time for Donald Trump's inauguration is no coincidence. He only does things for himself and he was terrified that his inauguration would go unnoticed for a large number of people on the Internet. He is *obsessed* with "ratings."

TikTok literally just proved that they didn’t have to go dark last night. Donald Trump isn’t President yet. Legally, nothing has changed. TikTok is using Joe Biden’s non-enforcement promise while thanking Donald Trump instead.

want to be excruciatingly clear about this: TikTok didn't have to go dark last night and it didn't have to turn back on this morning. both of those were voluntary moves that the law does not directly touch.

Trump set the TikTok ban in motion Congress passed legislation Biden signs legislation SCOTUS upholds ban Biden says his administration wouldn’t enforce the law, leaving room for TikTok to stay open TikTok shuts down anyway Trump tweets TikTok pretends Trump saved it 🙄

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I can’t delete my Twitter account bc I got logged out of everything ages ago and bc I can’t remember my password, and they won’t let me get in without a code I don’t have access to either, when I emailed support about it they were like ‘whelp, sucks to be you huh?’

What the actual fuck is this statement.

Corps and politicians have always been fucking, but they made their sick narcissistic relationship official with citizens united, and we’ve always just been the abused children that are to be seen but not heard or else they’ll beat the fucking shit out of you.

They’re sending a message loud and clear: mass deportations to begin in a blue city, in a blue state. The Trump administration plans an immigration raid in Chicago, Tuesday morning, and will run all week. Between 100 and 200 ICE agents are set to flood the city to carry out the crackdown.

Like I only watched videos occasionally on TikTok, but it was roughly 7 MILLION Americans primary source of income and just like that in a matter of days, all 3 branches of government, democrat AND republican, decide to rip that source of income away from them.

This TikTok ban should concern everyone, and even if they backtrack on it: the fact it went dark AT ALL is a threat. They’re just saying anything that you think is yours is actually theirs and they can take it from you whenever they want. (They being R’s+D’s and their oligarch overlords)

This is a perfect sentence: "All we’ve gotten in the past decade is example after example of how little these people know about anything other than making apps that destroy something you previously loved, by hollowing it out into a subscription service that no longer works and everyone hates."

Wild summary of the TikTok timeline. 👇👇👇 It's wild just how incompetent our political leaders are at politics, and all focused on supporting Empire at all costs.

HISTORY IS EVERYTHING Everyone needs to see this! Trump’s mass deportation, mirrors Operation Wetback: 🔘 Mass deport undocumented immigrants & anyone who “might” be 🔘 Trigger a labor shortage, restart legal immigration 🔘 Claim victory on the border, GOP wins more elections We’re being played!

Seeing Amazon have a medical care tab makes my skin want to crawl off my body.

I also still like these frogs. I did these pre-Amphibia even being announced and was asked a lot if ‘I created Amphibia’ bc of these. (Just to be clear in case it isn’t: I did not have anything to do with early Amphibia or its development, these frogs are entirely unrelated)

A lot of the design/development stuff on my website is pretty old (like mostly pre-2018) most of my dev work since has been locked under strict NDA so it still remains old unfortunately. But I still like some of the stuff I did on there. Like these guys

A bunch of board samples from recently released shows are now available to view w/o needing a password on my website if anyone is interested: www.roxanncole.com

Many who work in animation live in L.A. No doubt a great # of people who follow me are also fans of it. Here is a shared list of industry workers/friends affected by the fires, people who worked on some of your favourite shows and films, people who make things you love. airtable.com/appugwkqKAVG...

With how some of these other states are responding with so much vitriol and joy in response to Californians suffering from this disaster has me wishing we could just emancipate ourselves from the US. CA is what it feels like to be scape goated child of a narcissistic family dynamic.

If you’re looking for a place to rent in the wake of these fires and you see the rent prices now skyrocketing: if raised by more than 10% that would be considered price gouging in the wake of a disaster and is absolutely illegal. Report them to the attorney generals office oag.ca.gov/consumers/pr...