i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

I understand the instinct to donate to orgs that are helping trans folks flee red states but let's not forget about the orgs that are still fighting for trans folks in red states.

"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

My life as an artist blossomed after 30. And as a person socialized as a woman. People want you young and stupid, but you are better as you live a life. 30+ is great. Take care of yourself. Get there.

So if you (like me) are incredibly sad / mad / furious about Kansas stripping trans people of rights with no notice, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Where are my horror audiobook narrators?? Might have a thing for you!

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Considering how most people react to a harmless but sizable brown house spider...

"KPop Demon Hunters" is joining the Criterion Collection. Long live physical editions 📀 variety.com/2026/film/ne...

You aren't ready for the music transition in Georgia's Mortal Kombat skating routine at the Olympics

To paraphrase a friend: stay on the path, make good things. Indie has always flourished in the face of AAA distraction. Times are bad, but let others deskill, pivot to nonsense or chase impossible outcomes. People really like playing videogames. Suits forget that every 6 months or so.

I'm high. Here's a centaur ghost.

We are in an industry where studios are much less likely to consider remote talent now that we are "post covid". Come learn the direct thoughts from a guy who gets a say on whether or not your space works for my clients, AND how to make that space better!

I’ve been thinking back to this photo I took in 2020 of a sign that Tatsuro Matsuda put up in his shop the day after Pearl Harbor. Today is the anniversary of Executive Order 9066, and I hate that this history I worked to preserve is happening again. We cannot let it continue. Fuck ICE.

This is why I think we need to let go the ‘no kings’ stuff and start talking oligarchy. We have to recognize this is not about one singular garbage ass man, but about an entire class of people that can start/stop wars based on their own economic interests.

Executives pressuring teams to build live service games, getting cold feet, and then shutting them down is becoming a distressing trend. Easily avoidable, but increasingly common. Pour one out for one of the best studios to ever do it -- a colossal waste from Sony.

Jane Baer has died at 91. A titan, she worked on 'Sleeping Beauty,' co-founded Baer Animation, supervised 'Roger Rabbit,' and advocated for her fellow artists. Few careers trace the evolution of late-20th-century American animation as completely. www.cartoonbrew.com/rip/jane-bae...

Excited to announce that you'll be able to hear me as the voice of the Gun AI in @citeogpodcasts.bsky.social's upcoming #audiodrama Witchpunk! Citeog make truly wonderful audio drama, so this promises to be something special - I can't wait!

If you need me, I will be over here withering on the vine.

I don't know the official rules, but I'm pretty sure he won. It is all right there on camera.

this tiger toy is a big dill

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

AI filmmaking is completely unserious. You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.

This is my midlife crisis

Do I buy the Bunnicula crop top as an early birthday present? Dealing with the hard decisions this morning.

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I spent the weekend with lumber and power tools.

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

@rob-sheridan.com just posted this amazing live video of Gary Numan with NIN and it’s really great. I really like how Trent just becomes a band member backing him up on synth and tambourine! youtu.be/3nzi5HgzLKk?...

Literal end of an era.

A weapon made solely to deny families closure, to inflict psychic damage on entire societies. People planned and built this. They sold it to their superiors. They manufactured it. They loaded it on planes and drones and dropped it on human beings.

man about to invent the greatest science fiction movie ever made "i knew i wanted to do a scary movie on a spaceship with a small number of astronauts" this is how artists actually talk

Every time a new Star Wars is announced—this post flashes in my mind half a dozen times.

the primary reason rightwingers will never control culture is because everything they do is hinged upon it being a reaction to the broader culture. the TPUSA half time event would not exist without it being a representation of their grievences

This sentiment applies to music too.👀

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

the idea that making art is embarrassing if you don't do it well enough to make a career out of it is an objectively harmful and toxic brainworm.

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

‘Transformative’ HIV PrEP shot slowly overcomes cost hurdles thehill.com/policy/healt...

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

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