>> As a teenager, Gerry Conway loved telling stories and reading comics, some of them written by [the young] Jim Shooter, who was around his age. “If he can do it, I can do it,” Mr. Conway recalled thinking. from the @georgegustines.bsky.social obit, at @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/a...

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Time for all the Tony Benn fans to break out their red ties and suspenders youtu.be/4h9qv1HQ4w8?...

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Happy International Worker's Day everyone. Let's all smash the machinery hurtful to commonality together.

Now, between clashes with the stormtroopers of the Trump regime, is a good time to put the pieces in place to be ready for the next round. This guide equips street medics and health professionals to respond to some of the common injuries inflicted by police violence. crimethinc.com/TreatingPoli...

Check out the episode we did about unions & labor in DS9

Everyone’s doing it! (well, at least 99%). A supermajority of New Yorkers. Even the Pope! Supporting taxing-the-rich. (1/2)

Its the unwelcome return of Friday Afternoon Hate Echo! We haven't had any of these for a while due to sheer unadulterated laziness when it comes to ordering new enclosures. Get this orange one here: circuitbenders.etsy.com/listing/1173...

“We live in capitalism. It’s power seems inescapable. But then, so did the divine right of kings.” youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk?...

I ended my class by playing Ursula Le Guin’s speech about the importance of art in showing people alternatives to capitalism.

Happy May Day! www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

Today is my last class and I am not sure what to tell my animation students. Maybe I should just read marx for 3 hours.

On the plus side, nothing will radicalize a populace quite like getting their means of subsistence taken away.

Sci Fi Writer: In the future computers are going to be able to facilitate universal health care and a basic income so that people are able to live a dignified life. Capitalism: AI is going to take your art job and tell you to kill yourself.

YOU ARE A TRUE WARRIOR. I AM PROUD OF YOU.

Everything by Ink & Dagger just got re-released and is on bandcamp so if you like vampire themed Philly hardcore punk from the late 90s come on down @bandcamp.com! 🧛 #BandcampFriday

The data center rebellion is just the start, or it should be. Rather than impeding AI governance, this is where good, truly democratic AI governance begins. A look at who's fighting data centers, why, and how a working class resistance can lay the groundwork for a better AI politics:

I AM SO GLAD I ASKED

make your art gross and sexy and dark and disturbing and indulgent make your art weirder NOW!!!!

my latest for @theverge.com is about something i’ve been hearing constantly: Gen Z hates ”AI”, and many young people are deeply resentful of the jobs, schools, and institutions that are now pressuring or forcing them to use it.

the key takeaway here, i think, is that even tho Gen Z uses chatbots heavily, it‘s *not* hypocritical that they also fear / hate AI. that’s because they are facing *material conditions* that compel or even force them to use these tools just to keep their heads above water, and many are just fed up.

I know it ain't all roses, but the CCP is kicking the shit out of us on this one.

I just wrote a @socialists.nyc letter: Tell your Council Member: Uphold Mayor Mamdani's 175B Veto, Protect the Right to Protest, and Support Real Safety!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tonight—April 30, 2026—is #Walpurgis Night (or Walpurgisnacht), the traditional "Night of the Witches." ​While historically a night of superstition, today it is a massive cultural celebration across Europe, particularly in Germany and Scandinavia. 🧵 1/

Hasbro have apparently hired a notorious union-busting firm in response to the Magic the Gathering Arena teams attempt at unionisation - Reddit mods have deleted the post If you haven't please sign the unions petition actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcl...

Tune into my Patreon page this evening at 9:30 EST and watch me draw this kinda stuff for about an hour (but ya gotta subscribe at the higher tier first!).

'Costume designer Eiko Ishioka holding a mask she created for Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, circa 1992.'

Do you know of any directly worker owned cooperative animation studios? I’d love to talk shop with them if you do!

I have a difficult time comprehending “a billion” dollars. Even with 1 million dollars I could pay my rent for around 33 years. With 1 billion I could pay my rent for 33,333 years. Having ONE THOUSAND MILLION of anything is so beyond the scope of comprehension for most of us it is hard to get mad.

I think about this all the time www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/tom-...

If they exploded into rings like Sonic the Hedgehog there would be a thousand Luigis.

The squeeze is on. Freelancers; 500 today is worth 380 in 2018 bones. Billionaires hoarding money takes it out of circulation and makes your dollar worth less. Yet somehow landlords and grocery stores are able to charge more. Have your wages gone up to match inflation? Have your rates?

NEW: After 404 Media reported that the FBI accessed Signal messages on an iPhone due to an iOS notification data storage issue, Apple has fixed the bug. Our latest: www.404media.co/apple-fixes-...

Did a quick, scribbly "Little" warm-up for today: King Little from Fleischer's "Gulliver's Travels". Was studying some of the better-animated scenes in it last night, and while the movie on the whole is a mixed bag, it has it's charming moments.

Ever wonder what a Dr. Suess live action movie would look like? WONDER NO MORE!

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 29,1943

The Palestinian Authority held the first municipal-level elections in years in occupied territory and in response the Israeli army kidnapped one of the victors and held him hostage and released him only on the condition that he step down from his seat.

I’m tired of the “creator economy,” the auteur theory and all that BS. I want to see groups of animators working together as though they were bands. I have a crackpot idea on how to build this. Collaborating is my favorite way to make music and animation too. I need to form a power trio.

True story, years ago when Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams first came out went to an early screening & afterwards asked him ‘what are we making now that will endure like cave paintings’ and he said ‘nothing’. Then he said ‘but you’re a very silly boy to be worried about 20k years from now’

frodo: the burden of The Ring is so heavy, sam. and it plays tricks on me. it twists things until they’re unrecognizable, makes me see things that aren’t there sam (pokémon voice): samwise gamgee

My problem is I don’t gave any get rich quick schemes. All my schemes are either “maintain current standard of living” schemes or “this thing is a purely community based anticapitalist project and it would be really fun if we did it” schemes.

What if independent animation distribution was run the same as a DIY label? It would take longer to put something out than a band I guess. You could have a few different shorts as a comp/liquid tv thing. Then each band…er project…could release their own vhs/dvd too. Would you be into that?

I like that whenever I get a phonecall from Montreal I know it’s gonna be @toonboom.bsky.social

Democrats and Republicans are not “the same” they are however part of the same class. Progressive legislation threatens their class interests. They aren’t “beholden” to donors; they represent them. When they talk about their “constituents,” they don’t mean you. It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.

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