Amazon is 291 billion dollars in the hole. Google 262. Microsoft 235. Facebook 227. the four biggest tech companies on earth are a trillion dollars underwater and you, you personally, have the ability to make it worse for them isaiprofitable.com

youtu.be/rx4Og00K_40?... Derp, forgot to post it earlier. Please watch, its pretty good.

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BC Forest Discovery Centre poster.

As with most fascist projects step 1 is to convince us that this is inevitable, step 2 is convince us that it was always this way.

Share and make the call.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

A thing that ticked me off crossed my TikTok. I'm a bit mad because WTF algo, don't put jackass white conservative dudes on my algo, but also for the ignorance on display. It was about the Protect Kids leftists not wanting the 16 and under social media ban. I'm team 'the ban is stupid'.

Anyway. Happy Juneteenth! Me and my friends illustrate and write and we wanna make cool shit together, but that requires money for us to live. You can support Black artists today by contributing to our group's collective survival fund here: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...

The dirty little secret of this industry is that there ARE studios that do royalties. They just call it profit share and 1) they take it away if you leave 2) only a certain upper echelon of the studio gets it (no contractors, for example)

Everybody! What's a great way you can celebrate Juneteenth? How about with some contemporary Black southern gothic literature? Written by none other than yours truly. Grab my book. It's on backorder here at my local Black bookshop Sankofa but you can still support!

The CBC has the opportunity to do something unprecedented. They can sign a 20-year broadcast deal with the Professional Women's Hockey League, so that an ENTIRE GENERATION can grow up with: 1) the national past-time 2) a league that is EVERYTHING the NHL is not: inclusive, anti-rape, progressive

Fuck this fucking whack ass garbage publisher

The distinct lack of rainbow capitalism this year really shows how much the sentiment behind pride was taken for granted. Yes, none of these companies with rainbows logos were our friends, but maybe we spent too much time policing how support is expressed and not enough time fighting oppression.

For a few years, I lightly defended Rainbow Capitalism - you are worth advertising to. That's something. I'm not saying it's a great-feeling something, but it means something when, not many years prior, your money was treated as tainted. (Contd)

Donations, and prize previews, are live for Desert Bus Express 2026! We'll be starting in one week, at 4pm on June 20th. Come join us then and support Qmunity! desertbus.org/express2026/...

Both Republicans and Democrats spent years falling over themselves to gift this world-ending power to a violently deranged, sieg-heiling Nazi

Are any of those jobs going to compensate me for a lifetime of stolen work? Just asking. #cdnpoli

Except the creators whose work is stolen and the people who lose their jobs to AI and the people who have to live near data centers and the people whose energy and water bills go up because of data centers and the people who suffer because the AI injected into everything does sloppy work and and and

Happy Pride! Remember why we have it.

If you really want to send Mark Carney a message about this AI policy (and the data centers that come with it), write or phone your MP. Carney does not care about being ratioed on social media. He does care about direct feedback from constituents. www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Damn. RIP to a real one.

Marjane Satrapi, whose acclaimed graphic novel and animated adaptation 'Persepolis' brought the realities of revolution, exile, and identity to audiences around the world, has died at 56. www.cartoonbrew.com/rip/marjane-satrapi-persepolis-creator-co-director-dies-at-56-262120.html

Something I appreciate about Marjane Satrapi is that she didn’t let them pigeonhole her into a career of nothing but autobio comics. She did so many things that were like “Really??? The Persepolis artist???” She directed a a serial killer horror comedy starring Ryan Reynolds!

I love her work, and it remains one of the top graphic novels I recommend to people to show them that 'comics' are more than DC or Marvel. Rest in Power. Rest in Peace. May her spirit guide the future into understanding.

Happy Pride Month! For the record, I'm queer, I use They/Them, She/Her, and Fae/Faem pronouns.

WE'RE BACK BABY! So excited for year 2!!

Hello game enthusiasts! ProtoCON BC is a prototype game convention where people playtest their up-and-coming games. Go to www.protoconbc.ca for tickets and more information about ProtoCON BC. The two games displayed are Stiletto by Crooked Codex Games and Canadian Wilds by Firestarter Games.

the video games we love to play wouldn't be possible without the contributions of queer, trans, and non-binary voices. happy pride🫡

The application to be a vendor at the Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged in December is now live! www.newmillindustries.com/ignm-app

A national postal service is "a logistics and communications network that reaches nearly every household in the country." That network carries the burden of legal notices, federal communications (e.g. tax information, Social Security checks), and deliveries by every company that isn't the 'Zon.

Playing video games does not correspond to an increase in exclusionary or prejudiced beliefs Players tend to hold more inclusive cultural values than the general American public Hostile online environments driven by specific community dynamics rather than attitudes among players

happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves

AI is not and cannot be a true intelligence because it has no intention, it has no motivation. It is a machine that doesn't work particularly well. Always remember that.

Just stop already, no one wants this slop. Art by @dynamoe.bsky.social #vtuber #vsky

"whatever, everyone already uses it anyway so it's fine" is just not really the message a sorry person promotes. I'm frustrated by how everyone just gave him the benefit of the doubt. I'm not feeling very forgiving when this is the messaging. I don't think I'm being unreasonable either

SOS COMMISSIONS: Send $5 my way, I'll paint your pet or an animal of your choosing badly - like, in 5 strokes. Watercolor paintings, fully handpainted and post them in a thread here. Let's do this!!

I’m not putting anyone on blast, but gang, we absolutely cannot be pitching creative people ideas! Especially ones you want them to make!! The math is simple: even IF they were planning a similar thing, you publicly pitching it renders it 100% unusable to them over litigation liability.

I do not believe there is a way to be vocally anti AI and still support/play/promote this company’s titles.

I know the world is burning but I remember once someone said "in glad you spoke up and asked for the help you needed", so here goes a thread. I could use some help getting out of a debt spiral where I'm surviving off of payday loans. Any little bit helps. #MutualAid ko-fi.com/theleonamapl...

so Horses was a problem, but Valve I guess is fine with this racist crap that flagrantly violates at least two of its content guidelines and has 300+ reviews that all almost certainly violate those guidelines too kotaku.com/racist-plant...

Libraries provide services to be used, so borrowing an e-book is just as important as borrowing a paper book off the shelves

If you’re in the Vancouver area- I just found out that there’s a protest happening tomorrow to speak against the data centre potentially being built

One of the ways to really tell how healthy an industry is, is by hearing what the juniors and students are saying. Really excited we were able to get this wonderful panel of students and recent grads together to speak to their perspectives!

Bambu used code that was meant to be open in such a way that normal corporate capture vectors are illegal, and they tried to close their part anyway, so the test here is, can corporations steal with impunity?

We're excited to be in such fine company!!

Featuring friends of the show (??) @pemetawe.bsky.social @raincity.games @terminalcitycon.ca and @protocon-bc.bsky.social !

I am in community with lots of disabled authors and literally none of us are using GenAI to write books. Avoid the lying plagiarism machine.