General reminder to check your moderation settings so you can see posts (if you want to see them!) from artists that might do everything from simple nudity to more explicit stuff. Bsky has a tendency to mislabel things under these mods that don't belong, so you might be missing out on posts

bsky too quiet? missing comments? not seeing posts from spicy artists? check your moderation settings and your bsky filters if you haven't configured these before, many of these will be set to hide as defaults

we were just talking about the knockon effects of DOGE cuts, including all the lost progress on the screwworm problem. boingboing.net/2025/05/15/f...

NO AI! Everything is drawn, painted, or sculpted my by own 2 nasty little hands.

Small WIP part of a large commission

I ❤️ MAKING A BIG NASTY MESS

i saw this like an hour ago and am still laughing at this dramaticass little snake lil guy really went 'aaah i've been murdered!' tongue all flopping out of its mouth n shit like 'goodbye cruel world!' lmao

Odai and Sahar still need care; Odai's road to recovery is ongoing and on top of medicine, he needs treatment, food, rest. Please support their family as you can. www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-aid...

I'll say what Bluesky fails to address in v1.122 They've rolled out a new "adult content" tag applied on an entire account, hiding all their posts from users, including text posts, even if they may be SFW This update, while well-intentioned, defeats the whole purpose of the content filters system

🧍I guess I'm not surprised this is where bluesky would eventually end up, it's happens to all centralized social media eventually

Gavin Newsom is not coming to save you. He has never been coming to save you. He has never even cared about saving you. The only thing Gavin Newsom has ever cared about is Gavin Newsom.

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

The book is here its here more information on my instagram!!

A lot of white people learned about the Tuskegee experiment during the pandemic and believe that is the reason Black people don't trust the medical establishment. This is not true. Black people don't trust the medical establishment because the Tuskegee experiment is not an outlier.

NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

⚠️ IMPORTANT ⚠️ A massive data centre, BIGGER than the village they want to build it next to, has been proposed in Fife. If you're in the area PLEASE file an objection to it, the damage it will do is unbearable to think about. aprs.scot/auchtertool-... 👇 More resources below👇

So… there are of copies of CS6/pre-Bridge if you want off this mess, but can’t give up photoshop. Other than smart objects, nothing of worth has been since imo. Don’t worry, Adobe makes their money off evaluation now, not their consumers. They’ll be fine. If you were worried.

I sincerely beseech you to read this. It is terrifying and important. Repost it, get the word out. Tag media like @npr.org & @nytimes.com @wsj.com and whoever because this is absolutely something that needs to be investigated & reported on ASAP The headline isn't the half of it. READ IT ⬇️⬇️⬇️

‘Amphibia’ creator Matt Braly speaks out against the use of AI in animation: “If you need to partner with AI to get a greenlight on your project, it ain’t worth it.”

Please watch and support the release of Mexico's first stop motion film so that you can both prove that your love for animation as an art form is true and stick it to the industry's equivalent of Benedict Arnold.

Animation by @VenturiaStudios* #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

Real good bit about the slippery slope of genAI use. A battle we're already fighting, especially against the C-suite.

The Forbidden Lamp CarmesJocelin

Yall are not hearing me. Last week the Mutual Aid app I created saved 3 Black Women including a disabled Black Woman from eviction, paid their overdue bills, cleared their rent. If you’re reading his, a follow is all we ask, so we can become big enough to do this for more people per day.

Every time someone big in the animation scene does something the rest of us can't forgive, there's always a bunch of people who leap to their defense and out themselves alongside them. Be prepared for some of your other heroes to join them. I can't really look past plagiarism, so goodbye to them 🤷

Don't hate-watch these - a view is a view for streaming platforms. Ignore them, let them rot away with low engagement. It's one of the earlier tests to prove that people (hopefully) just do not want AI-generated animated shows. Shame on The Book of Life's creator for selling out too, what a blow.

it's destroying communities. not in the abstract "it's bad for the environment" sense, in the literally observable immediate sense. usage of it is tantamount to violence against your own neighbors, and it should be treated as the antisocial behavior that it actually is

actually i kinda *do* think using genAI should be such a social faux pas that the user is marked as a pariah and no longer feels welcome in the community. "AI is bad" is no longer an abstract (it never was), my city has been under a boil water advisory for a week because of AI data centers

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

Life's too short and has no inherent meaning, you may as well be happy in the meantime

GEO Group also owns and runs mental hospitals. You can imagine what chambers of horrors those are.

The Delaney ICE Prison that's in the news this week is owned and run by a for-profit prison corp, the GEO Group. GEO Group was founded by George Zoley, a greek immigrant who grew up in Akron, OH. He went to the high school next to mine. Our arch-rivals in fact. Rubbing elbows with fascists.

lol “Hey everybody, I talked to the creator of the entire universe, and it turns out he’s both exactly the same as me, AND says I rule, you suck, and have to do what I say forever, OK?“

Okay guys im in a bit of a situation. Im overdraft by $15, I have an EXTREMELY important doc appt tomorrow that is a $80 ride due to location, xrays i need rides to [$60], bills [$350], & pulmonalogist appt [$50]. My patreon only pays out roughly $75 nowadays so im very much in a bind and need help

Thief: The Black Parade poster by blasko_art

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

Outliving an evil wizard would have been great for anyone other than an animated skeleton. Now they're stuck on a quest with a judgmental talking sword to find a decent wizard who can break the spell binding them to this mortal coil. Read more about it here: www.bonedustpress.com/blog/cover-r...htt

A sneak peek at some of the art Marie Enger has been working on for this book!

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I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Dark Horse Workers United . Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/da...

This is amazing. Tortoises are restoring a swath of African desert to its former fertility. indiandefencereview.com/african-spur...

finding alternative to Uline shipping products

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Crossing state borders for HRT. Insurance denials. Missed surgeries. U.S. Catholic bishops imposed a ban on all trans healthcare throughout the church's massive networks. That's left working class trans people struggling even more. Our latest, by @davidforbes.bsky.social are some of their stories:

I mean, he believes it cuz it's true. If they were telling the truth, the story wouldn't keep changing. First, it was gonna make 5 blockbusters a day, 10 bestsellers a week, GTA V with a team of 10 in 6 months. Then, cure cancer. The, replace doctors, therapists, college. They're bullshitting.

And all the genAI companies KNOW this. They hired experts, and the experts have told them LLMs will ALWAYS "lie," because they don't understand truth, because they don't understand anything, because they don't think. And like Stockton Rush, the companies that hired the experts then ignore them.

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.