friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.

"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

In the wake of the Disney shit on this day, I just want to encourage people to not give up. We haven't lost yet. Keep creating and being stubborn. Even if you have to change career paths to make ends meet, please keep creating. It is our only resistance.

Have I mentioned that I'm freaking *stoked* to be a part of this project? [Yes, I have, but I'm mentioning it again. 😜] I can't *wait* to see the finished product someday. Wonderful script, art, and music by @projectstardog.bsky.social 💜, and good voice work by my fellow VAs! 🌌🚀❤️ Long live Laika ❤️🚀🌌

[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy

Felt like this was worth sharing, if only to spread a little awareness. Palestine isn't the only place going through US-complicit genocide right now, and we should make more room for Sudan in our calls for global justice. All eyes can be on both Gaza and Darfur at once 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 youtu.be/iMVGVJFyggY?...

Tried a more casual drawing meant to be an OBS stream icon. Laika always did fancy herself a reader 📚

For the (very belated) 2 year anniversary of this project, I've got a behind the scenes video up! If you ever wanted a closer look at just how insane I truly am, look no further 🥴 youtu.be/gjqnNyVdJAA?...

I probably sound like a broken record, but I cannot wait for this AI bubble to burst, I want to see the architects of this tech to be taken for every penny by those whose artwork they stole for training data, and I want those tools to cease function and be confined to the same memory hole as NFTs.

Just found out Life After People got a new season this year, and for a minute, I got so excited that I thought I was about to achieve Buddhist nervana. That show was an ALL-TIME favorite as a kid. ...but then I found out it's almost nothing but AI slop. Like, 90% of every FRAME of it is AI. fuck.

i feel so bad for artists who now have to deal with accusations that their work is ai Its so demeaning to the life of work they put into their art, and it must suck to have to argue that your work is in fact your own. If you can draw, that's really cool, I think you are great.

Thank you so much for 100 followers! 🥳

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

you can win without billionaires supporting you you can win without party leadership endorsing you you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

we needed all of this. it’s why i rail on doomers and tell them doing that shit is literal voter suppression. defeatism begets defeatism. momentum fucking matters to keep people engaged.

68 years ago today, the real Laika took her first and last trip to the stars. May she rest in peace. Today also marks the 2 year anniversary of this project's launch, and so much has happened since then that it's hard to even process.

Made this Halloween-themed stream overlay yesterday. It's a little unpolished, but I'm happy with it for now 🎃🕷🌕

The turnout for #NoKings in Wilkes-Barre was even bigger than I imagined, easily 4 or 5 times bigger than the last protest I went to here. Cheers to everyone who stood against fascism today

First Brian Wilson, then Ozzy, now this. RIP. 2025 is taking away too many load-bearing names in my music library man 😭

Check out @projectstardog.bsky.social 's account for more info on this AWESOME #animation, in which I proudly play the main character (Laika): #ProjectStarDog 's "Empty Pages." It'll be in development for quite a while yet, but I'm so excited about it. The script, art, & music are all grade-A! 😊🐶🚀🌌✨️

When we live through difficult times it can be easy to succumb to despair, to see nothing but darkness on the horizon. But one day, in happier times, songs will be sung of those who persevered. Strive to be sung about as one who brought hope, as one who carried light over that horizon.

So this won't be for another few scenes from now, but this flashback scene is going to be something ELSE when it's ready

That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.

We should be clear-eyed about the challenge we face. They're not winning. They're losing harder every day. The danger is how much damage they can do while they fail. This is not a nation descending into Nazidom, this is a half-staffed executive branch descending into its own little Aryan Jonestown

"Bluesky is boring." Social media *should* be boring. Being algorithm and dopamine poisoned is bad, actually. When your feed dries up for the day, that's your cue to go do something else until new stuff shows up later.

Mission control: laika what do you have Laika: *has an RTG in her mouth* Mission control:WHATS IN YOUR MOUTH. DROP IT. NO DROP IT

Got a new poster ready! I'm proud of how this turned out, and if the real film gets made someday, I hope this gets to go along with it

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

Goodnight bsky have a space dog.

Rewatched Balto for the first time in a while last night, and the Heritage of the Wolf scene made me weep like few things in this world ever have. Absolute 10/10 sequence, wouldn't change a single pencil stroke of it. I aspire to capture even 10% of this energy in my work youtu.be/ucfHDO4k9gM?...

🚀Role announcement!🌕 Super happy to share with you that I'm the voice of Oleg in this wonderful piece called @projectstardog.bsky.social following the story of Laika, the real first dog to go into space! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TJ9...

Now that every scene from the anniversary reel has been updated and fine tuned, it'll be all new material from here on out. It's taken me a long time to get to this point, but soon you'll finally start to get new scenes as they come. Stay tuned!

The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery. Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.

"If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously."

Don’t forget even when things seem really really stupid, we still have to try~

"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."

the message of pro-AI/ads for AI comes down to a simple and very dangerous "do not use your brain, use our product to do your thinking for you" and thats bad enough with a product that doesnt work and just spews out bullshit, whats worse is when they replace it with a propaganda machine

OFFICIAL PROJECT THREAD Every new scene that gets made will be added here until the end. Stay tuned for updates as they come! Scene 1: A New Age (1/2)

Took me a hot minute, but I finally have some new material to share soon! First I'll be posting updated, standalone versions of the 6 1/2 scenes already shown in anniversary reel. The editing will be fine tuned, the sound design will be more detailed, and the music should be MUCH better.

My brain feels absolutely fried right now. Streamed work on the project for 9 hours yesterday, and then 9 1/2 hours today. So naturally that means I'll likely do it again tomorrow 🥴

today is the trans day of visibility and now is a good time to remember that trans people built this place into what it is I would not have made this my new internet home if I had not met so many kind, wonderful trans people here and made friends with them let them live their damn lives in peace

In memory of Laika, who watches over us from the stars. 💙 On November 3, 1957, Laika was sent to space via Sputnik II, making her the first living being in low orbit. Today, I can finally share this official art for the upcoming science card game, Seeker Chronicles:

There is no reason to treat human beings like this. We don’t have the chaos of war or natural disaster or some other excuse. It is cruelty for no other reason than for a few monsters to feel powerful. Shame on everyone who touches this.

A bit late to the party on this, but I am SO glad Bluesky's video length limit got boosted. Now I might be able to post new scenes straight onto here in 2 or 3 parts, like I used to on Twitter 👍

Hey y'all, I set up a Picarto page for the project! I want to start streaming some of my progress on this thing, and whenever I do, I'll post about it here to let anyone know. If you're interested, give it a follow: picarto.tv/ProjectStarDog

Laika the space dog 💫🐕 #laika #tattoo

If one guy holds most of the tech people rely on, it is a vulnerability, but also it's one guy: as a global population we should be able to easily just take it from him, so it seems to me the real vulnerability is an internalized belief that private ownership is more sacrosanct than human thriving.

Didn't think it was possible to lose the Cold War a full 3 decades after it ended, yet here we are

Just set up a bulletin board to visually represent the project's progress. Each sticky note marks a scene I still have to make, and whenever one gets done, its note gets removed. Once the board is clear, the whole storyboard reel will be finished.

SCENE PREVIEW #1: On October 4th, 1957, history was made with the launch of Sputnik, the world's first man (or in this case, mammal) made satellite. The space race had begun. But on the downside, this would mark the beginning of the end for a certain civilian in Moscow who cheered it on...