I thought about why I’ve been pushing back on stolen midterm fears. What’s the harm of worry, even if it doesn’t materialize? It’s this. The regime has less capacity than it’d like, and tries to make up the difference with bluster. If people act as if it’s true, that grants the regime more power.

Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.

> @thedailybeast.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-...

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

We should legalize cafes in residential areas in the US, especially in coastal areas with a large amount of WFH. They're low-intensity businesses that can be run out of houses and they wouldn't be crowding out non-food retail from commercial areas. darrellowens.substack.com/p/legalize-c...

Big top & another Bigtop #tadc #bigtopburger

fewer movies about big city girls falling in love with goat harvesting, more movies about rural small town hunks coming to the big city and realizing it's fucking great.

-human tries to use art to perfectly communicate something they see or feel -they fail -in failing, their fingerprints get all over the art -other humans see the fingerprints and find them beautiful, learn something unexpected about the human that created the art which is beautiful

Assuming something approaching our current constitutional legal regime exists in 2029, one of the first orders of business for the Dem trifecta should be amending the NLRA to categorically exclude police unions

oop- I just let them know how I feel.

LOS ANGELES: ICE is prowling Silverlake & the hills

Incredible animation storyboard artist starter pack!! (im in this one 😅)

Good list

Kittens and Coffee 🐱☕️🤎 #animation

Every artist, get more self indulgent NOW! Draw your ships kissing, draw your blorbos, draw that idea you’ve been putting off (you’re good enough to do it!!!), redraw that old art, draw yourself wearing a cool outfit, draw a better world- just draw!!!

As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.

Might be time lads

Think I might make an art only alt.

I love LA and I Love NYC too.

first mayor I am fucking certain has played Magic The Gathering

So stoked to Announce ANATOMIC: A Figure Drawing Show at Heavy Manners Library opening This Thursday, Nov 6th! Curated and organized my friend @gracepoole.bsky.social and Myself! Come see 16 artists Figure drawing practice in person including @richiepope.bsky.social and many more!

Blind Alley No. 386

Definitely seeing this on the big screen.

back to basics! #sonicthehedgehog #animation

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

That Box We Sit On (2025 Reprint) A metal box sits embedded in a field. It’s the everyday hangout spot for two kids after school, but why? 2018 Ignatz Award Winner for Outstanding Artist Get a copy at @lightboxexpo.com this weekend.

The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater

WE ARE COMING, FATHER ABRAHAM, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE, FROM MISSISSIPPI'S WINDING STREAM AND FROM NEW ENGLAND'S SHORE. WE DARE NOT LOOK BEHIND US BUT STEADFASTLY BEFORE. WE ARE COMING, FATHER ABRAHAM, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE!

Ok- one king.

Took my camera to #nokings at Pasadena City Hall. Here are some of my favorite shots! 1/3

No Kings in Pasadena

Checking in from Pasadena

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

Their project depends on making us all feel alone, isolated and powerless. Taking part in a protest destroys all of those feelings in an instant. Go.

I’m convinced the main reason Miyazaki films have a reputation for being “cozy” in the West is because he actually writes and animates long moments of quiet into his stories, whereas Western animated films are usually a nonstop parade of loud music, sounds, noises and neon colors.

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

A good enough reason to spend lots of time doing art is just that it’s fun to do art

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

When I am like now, where I am like 'damn I cannot draw and all I have ever made looks like a pile of shit' I find comfort in this. Artists are so fucking cursed, man. We're so cursed. 💀

beautiful

DIY > AI

I just wrapped up on some freelance doing revisions for a movie and I’m once again looking for work!!

I pulled the classic "Started Watching Arms Folded From the Doorway Over My Wife's Shoulder and Am Now Fully Invested." dude move.

Some non-AI (to best of my knowledge) chill music channels that I like: • Blue Turtle www.youtube.com/@BlueTurtle • Mykobi www.youtube.com/@Mykobi • Witch Bolt www.youtube.com/@WitchBoltMu... •Ghostchill www.youtube.com/@ghostchill

There’s so much AI slop in lofi/chill genre music on youtube that some channels now put “no AI” in their titles. Which is sad they have to do that but also I’m kind of hopeful that we’ve now come full circle that it’s beneficial to advertise not using AI bc people are actively looking to avoid it.

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Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language. Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.

Some good news today! deadline.com/2025/06/cali...

Ttrpg fans: anyone have experience with hex-crawls? I want to run one, but ive never even played one