Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed. I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

New #blog post. This time I wrote about Whisper of the Heart, my personal favorite Ghibli film and one I wish got more attention. terrahome.ghost.io/whisper-of-t... #anime #ghibli

This town has officially decided to fight against the construction of an AI data center that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away. Amber Fellows, a Ypsilanti Township councilmember, tells us why: Story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/a-small-town...

I'm laying off interest across "nearly all areas" of Square's future output unless they walk-back all the shit their doing in the interest of rolling out massive AI integration.

Someone asked if my pfp was from Paranoia Agent and it is! I drew Maromi a long long time ago and never posted it here so:

women can do anything

They ate and left no crumbs with this album I fear…

Kelly Reichardt’s labors of love: defector.com/kelly-reicha...

Remembering "Sonny Boy" ❤️

Would you believe me if I told you that what anime & manga fans like are drawings

princess jellyfish

Mutt Mag is now digitally available for purchase. 220 pages of comics by your truly! kumerish.itch.io/mutt-mag

what do you mean he has an autographed copy of Bound 😭😭😭😭

Miss Makima

Let’s escalate BDS pressure on Microsoft to end its complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide against Palestinians. Boycott Microsoft’s Xbox now!

I redrew an old Juri Arisugawa sketch from so long ago, for face practice ✋😐🤚

ED1 - Yojōhan Shinwa Taikei/The Tatami Galaxy (2010) Kamisama no Iutoori - Etsuko Yakushimaru #Anime #Animesky #Ending #AnimeEnding #YojouhanShinwaTaikei #TheTatamiGalaxy #TomihikoMorimi #MasaakiYuasa #Madhouse

This hits a lot of the notes I've been shouting from the rooftops: the frictionlessness of both producing and consuming slop, and the value of labor as friction that lets us slow down and think. Rather than "unlocking creativity" it's rendering our collective creativity down into a big vat of slop.

New video is out! Roger Ebert's Relationship to Anime: youtu.be/oMdddKTJnQ8

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

FINALLY

full moon or something close

people made fun of this at the time but she slayed with this tbh

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

リハ…ビリ…

#1000xresist #fanart

terra

Finished Misericorde Vol. 2 🫠… goddamnit

what made the cows laydown

guess who's back for the month alexsiple.bigcartel.com/product/sunr...

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

really is starting to seem like crunchyroll fired the people who made the company work, and now everything is breaking down

LRT The buyout of Funimation by Sony and then Funimation’s buyout of CR are truly some of the worse things that have happened for legal Western accessibility to anime… which is saying a lot!

Crunchyroll has always sucked but choosing to partner with an Israeli company for their subs in 2025 sure is A Choice

だらだらだらごろんごろん

@minovskyarticle.bsky.social Ryuko Kui of Delicious in Dungeon fame drew a special illustration for Final Fantasy Tactics and that feels like the biggest crossover of your interests I’ve seen in ages.

don’t worry everyone, Microsoft and Xbox Game Studios are still very much so on the Palestinian BDS boycott list, so you can continue not giving them your money.

YO NEW FF TACTICS ART BY AKIHIKO YOSHIDA

OP1 - Ping Pong The Animation (2014) Tada Hitori - Bakudan Johnny #Anime #Animesky #Opening #AnimeOpening #PingPong #PingPongTheAnimation #TaiyoMatsumoto #MasaakiYuasa #TatsunokoProduction

OP1 - Samurai Champloo (2004) Battlecry - Nujabes ft. Shing02 #Anime #Animesky #Opening #AnimeOpening #SamuraiChamploo #ShinichiroWatanabe #Manglobe

OP1 - Arakawa Under the Bridge (2010) Venus to Jesus - Etsuko Yakushimaru #Anime #Animesky #Opening #AnimeOpening #ArakawaUnderTheBridge #HikaruNakamura #Shaft

ED1 - Paradise Kiss (2005) Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand #Anime #Animesky #RetroAnime #Ending #AnimeEnding #ParadiseKiss #AiYazawa #Madhouse