Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

There's so much good stuff in here, thanks @lataco.bsky.social for the brilliant discussion!

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This was somehow a flash in the pan headline in all the chaos last week, but throwing out there that at this rate this would be in the vicinity of 50k people vanishing from the face of the earth over the remainder of the term. And this is before they use that newly allocated $75B to fully scale up.

Hi! We're an association of almost 2,000 cartoonists from across the globe. We've been trying to get in contact with you about your upcoming policy changes for some time now! Please get back to us via email or let us know who else we could talk to in a timely manner.

Over 20 years, Peter Thiel quietly turned his Roth IRA into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank. Using stock deals unavailable to most people, the billionaire took a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall. (Published 2021)

Everyone post a Batman!

putting everything else aside...less than 10 years after *9/11* people were like "oh fuck, we really got stupid with all those crying eagles, random memorials & shit, huh?" and that was actually a tragedy, like thousands of people died. This shit feels like massive overreach.

#SaveSpeech I'm going to be updating this infographic as soon as i can, but in the meantime, please add the following issues to your list of issues to call about. These all suck! demand action from your legislators! www.congress.gov/members/find... www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

Remember these people when local voting is still possible, but today call them so they can at least get their weird ass bubble of views punctured. They either know what they’re doing or don’t, and I dunno, why would I want a politician with either reason? Ridiculous www.govtrack.us/congress/vot...

Still mad at Ayn Rand for promising us all the libertarian assholes would disappear into a gulch.

Finally came up with my GenX complaint: the internet was better when it was stuff like Usenet and webrings and weird archives. Literally add accessibility and bring those back, nuke everything else. LOL

Much of my first thoughts when it comes to "over 30" life advice or complaints quickly reduce down to: resist total capitalism, neoliberalism, & surveillance state, & that's really no fun for a post, even if it's at the heart of advice like "post less" "clothes suck now" "don't monetize everything."

Have a hobby that is just yours, you NEVER take money for it, or try to otherwise monetize it through social media, etc. If it involve producing a product, you don't take commissions, only give gifts. Having an outlet like this is a getaway; it'll help your mental health, imagination & creativity.

If you can't see your friends, talk to them on the phone. not zoom, not facetime, not text, phone. There is an intimacy & ease there, once you get used to it, that is unlike video (exhausting) or text (lacking nuance). And you will feel like you're from the 80s with a cord wrapped around you :)

One of the best ways to fight fascism is by feeding people.

Listen more than you speak.

ftr this isn't the first time bluesky has done stupid as fuck shit. I was here in the trenches in 2023 watching them pull dumb moves and get yelled down by everyone to back down, successfully. the people running this place are not on your side but they are hilariously easy to bully. go hard.

this is a multigenerational complaint but WHOSE idea was it to make car headlights out of high-Kelvin LEDs?? Didn't anyone realize that blue-tinted light fucks up your night vision? There should be illegal bulb temperatures for vehicle headlights. Hmmph!

well i don't know what to do with myself so here's a sexy painting

In case you wonder which platforms are here to help creators thrive and which are here to tell us to eat shit, here’s the breakdown of likes for crab, 15 hours after posting. Follower count in () for more useful comparison. TikTok(2k): 139 Instagram (22k): 719 Tumblr (13k): 12k Bsky (52k): 22k

The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

If you can't see your friends, talk to them on the phone. not zoom, not facetime, not text, phone. There is an intimacy & ease there, once you get used to it, that is unlike video (exhausting) or text (lacking nuance). And you will feel like you're from the 80s with a cord wrapped around you :)

Uit de VS National Holocaust Memorial

I hate telling this story, but when tear gas is in the news... telling always feels importantm Tear gas is an abortifacient. When I was tear gassed, we were trying for a baby. The following day, I bled in a way I never have before. Like no period of my life before or since. Horror movie stuff.

*David Attenborough voice* This once-thriving reply thread has been laid bare by an invasive species of libscold. But lurking in the shadows is a remarkable creature; a perfect predator that continuously adapts to stay one step ahead, ensuring that prey walk right into their trap; again, and again.

the issue (not the only issue) with these kind of guidelines is that it also prevents fictional depictions of abusive relationships. am I gonna get banned for this because she's a teenager?? I was very careful to make it not too explicit. to make it really fucking uncomfortable. but I don't know

Bullshit. It was suspended due to FCC and affiliate pressure and trying to shift to blame to talent is morally indefensible. Repeating the lie uncritically is journalistic malpractice.

Nepal's interim Prime Minister was elected via Discord, this is really interesting, especially how much protesters seemed to adapt in real time: www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

After clearing the road some, agents are slowly backing into the facility. No idea how many protesters were grabbed; it's too dark to see well out here and the gas clouds didn't help.

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I know we all hate to log into LinkedIn, but you might wanna do to opt out of this 😘

And if a double-decker bus crashes into us gotta know if you have peen-i or you will surely die

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's problem.

PSA for Riot Fest attendees! 📣 📣 If you bought tickets from Costco, you do not have actual tickets yet! You must redeem them before the fest and have digital tickets on your phone. It’s taking several hours for tickets to arrive & folks are gathered outside the gates. This is not a ticket!

Are you excited for SLICE 2025? We're back at The Sheldon on October 18 for our third annual FREE indie-print showcase, featuring over 100 writers, artists, poets, and printmakers from St. Louis and beyond! youtu.be/CQgjm_H9zMY 🎥 by Jorge Delgado featuring scenes from SLICE 2024

Thanks everyone! The signed book purchases, subscriptions, and purchases of the Hader interview have really helped. I did one with Joel McHale too, would you all like to see that?

feel like pure shit just want him back

Two incarcerated writers with first-hand experience of solitary confinement just wrote a book about what they went through. We asked you to submit questions you have about solitary, for these writers to answer you from prison. Here's the resulting article. It's powerful, and I hope you read it.

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Donate to my campaign to make Laura Loomer’s day worse: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-bluesky

Exactly, this is why I complain regularly that just showing the hypocrisy & shaking your head as if they're just ignorant isn't enough, they don't care abt being hypocrites because they don't believe everyone should be bound by the same rules, they think they're above the law; we need to say this:

New: We've gotten a statement from the National Lawyers Guild of Chicago, re: the status of those arrested (at least 3) while protesting outside the ICE detention/processing faciliy in Broadview, IL. Statement reflects situation as of 1 p.m.

STUFF IS BEING MADE, GOOD STUFF, THE ESTABLISHMENT WILL NOT FEED IT TO YOU! even if the larger cultural trends means the NOISE of sequel/reboots/etc is loud, you have the power to go "enh, i don't need to watch the new disney fare."

We've only received single-digit event proposals so far! 😢 Did you attend any of our incredible online panels this past year? Those came from folks submitting their panel ideas! Event proposals are open to the public. You do NOT have to be a @cartoonist.coop member to pitch us a NIF event!!¹

Fuck. Fuck. FUUUUCK. Our car just got repossessed (literally just now at 11:30 at night), and I don’t have the money to get it out. FUCK. If you can help, please please help. PayPal.me/MaeGodHaveMercy Cash.app/$MaeGodHaveMercy Venmo.com/u/MaeGodHaveMercy