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I've been thinking about how this has already played out in games - there was a massive push to convince the industry and world that there was this huge audience of angry reactionary gamers who weren't getting what they demanded. And it turned out there weren't that many and they don't buy games

i refuse to be a doomer but JESUS CHRIST THIS SHIT SUCKS. Can something bad happen to BAD PEOPLE for once????

Old pic but I've been sick for a WEEK and I am OVER IT!!!!

We're losing Myrient to a severe lack of funds and AI making storage too expensive 😭

Please.

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

working on painting some fabric scraps as patches to sell ☺️🫶 #art #upcycled

Man I just want to go into the animation industry, LETS GO INDIE LETS MAKE THOSE BILLIONAIRES MAD

an important thing to keep in mind regarding all this depressing media consolidation and push for independent journalism: the money and the audience are not the same it is hard to siphon wealth away from the powerful but it is much easier to take away their audience

Corporations will not save us. They never were going to. We are on our own and therein lies an opportunity for us. Make something. Make yourself proud first. And then invite your friends or people you trust and trust you. Hollywood's time is over. We have only ourselves to depend on and entertain.

"Go Indie" is not a great solution to all this fascist shit goin onbecayse indie quite Famously *doesnt pay a living wage or health insurance* But making something for yourself, building a community and not in hopes itll appear on Cartoon Network... that means something much more.

this bill is legitimately a three-alarm fire. if they manage to define trans existence as explicit then there is nothing stopping them from genocide. i need every single cis person talking about this, calling their reps, getting out in the streets.

Hey so it's time to start financially supporting independent media production otherwise there will basically be no more professional media production and what little that IS produced will be controlled by quisling goblins who protect pedophiles and blame trans people

Sucks about Paramount being allowed to buy Warner Bros. The studio was always a favorite of mine. But Im going to keep making my shit 🤷🏿 Grieve, rage, feel your feelings. And dust yourselves off and make some weird, personal, sad and angry art. And then cancel yiur Paramount and HBO subscriptions.

Paramount getting control of WB is a further descent into fascism. This isn’t about theatrical releases or physical media. This is about MAGA further controlling the news and Trump wedging his way into Hollywood influence. This is disastrous in ways that will be far-reaching.

So nothing is ever getting better in our lifetime huh? Its all about planting as many seeds for the future as we can.

the effect we've seen on Twitter is what's gonna happen in the larger media ecosystem, i think even if people know it's toxic or full of lies, they'll marinate in it. the "normal" overton window will shift, if for no other reason than saner voices will be increasingly absent and marginalized

GOOD NEWS! A UNIVERSAL sarbecovirus vaccine candidate has OFFICIALLY started clinical trials. GBP511 is the FIRST vaccine to reach human testing that is intended to protect against MULTIPLE strains of SARS-CoV-2 as well as other related coronaviruses with the potential to spark dangerous outbreaks.

In a sane world both Netflix and Paramount would be blocked from this deal. But holy shit, we desperately need antitrust to make a huge come back if this goes through! The consolidation of media to then turn into an authoritarian monopoly is just utterly devastating.

Hey pirates you should maybe go archive as much Cartoon Network stuff as possible now.

I wish I lived in a country that had antitrust laws, because apparently we don't have any 🫠

When Ds are back in charge, they have to change everything. No moderate half-measures. Just relentless razing of the corrupt institutions that enriched the worst people in the world and propped up fascism. A few suggestions...

i have to believe that, at the end of the day, craft will save us. That our attention-spans can and will make time for it, both to slow down and make the thing you're proud of and for the person who encounters it and stops to soak it in. It's the only thing they can't take from us.

Incredibly frustrating that our country explains away why it cant find the money to feed and house the homeless or give YOU an extra few hundred dollars in your pocket but the incompetent, desparate and divorced dad's signing up as ICE agents suddenly have billions of dollars at their disposal.

@discord.com I unsubscribed indefinitely from Nitro following Discord's announcement about implementing age verification following the orders of CEO Humam Sakhnini and Discord shareholders. The UK breach makes Discords claims laughable.

2025 horror antagonists: bob garbinger (the toxic avenger) i wanted to draw his mutant design but i couldn’t find a good enough screenshot or pic so here’s basic kevin bacon with bunny slippers

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug - A BUSY, BUSY ICE ENFORCEMENT OPERATION with apologies to Richard Scarry - Brought to you by the rough and ready Inner Hive, including long-time member Brady Marsh and new member SquirrelSaver7. ( bit.ly/theInnerHive ) - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

yogurt is growing up!!

@samlakewrites.bsky.social @remedygames.com When does the Epic exclusivity deal end for Alan Wake 2? I'm wondering when we can expect it on GOG and/or Steam.

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

A close friend who lives in Minneapolis took this photo. This is America now. Armed gangs of masked terrorists with the world's most advanced surveillance machine, randomly abducting and brutalizing whoever they want.

There's something about veteran artists and illustrators that think "oh gee, isn't AI neat?" that's really getting on my nerves-- this willful ignorance that they feel they're entitled to have because of their seniority, etc.

Catching up with what James Gurney, the Dinotopia artist, is up to these days. Pathetic.

It's particularly galling to call for ICE to wear body cams when Renee Good's murder literally recorded the whole thing on his phone. He was so confident in his impunity as part of that organization that he recorded and allowed for the release of footage of him shooting a woman at point blank.

Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas are standing up to corporate greed and Starbucks’ unfair labor practices and demanding the fair contract they deserve. No contract? NO COFFEE!

I’m so irritated that the black women who were in some role at Lucasfilm seem to have all left. And I’m not irritated at them for leaving (unless they were forced out), I’m irritated that the environment wasn’t conducive to them staying.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

And finished. On to the next. #kpopdemonhunters #rumi #golden #huntrx #thisiswhatitsoundslike #fanart

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

Still you

Fuck Off. Have you been to the louvre. It's nuts. Maybe it's 3 PM and these people are just tired and need a moment to catch up on texts while they rest. Maybe they're looking at maps or translated information. This is stinky doodoo "makes ya think" shit.

donald trump is a fascistic leader who has surrounded himself with people who are explicitely pro-fascistic that want to end democracy as we know it and punish anyone who dissents. pretending otherwise leads me to believe you agree with them doing this

silent hill f all endings get!! that is, a good video game. I'm actually quite impressed that it managed to make the endeavour of replaying the game 4 goddamn times to see all the endings and acquire all the context a genuinely worthwhile endeavour.

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.

Wink if you’re an 11the Street Kid. #Peacemaker Finale this Thursday on HBO Max.