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Oh yeah, this is definitely better than Twitter. They/Them

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JoCat is slow at making videos@jocat.net · last mo.

Shout-out to Travis Knight, who's father is the CEO of Nike (yes THAT Nike, the shoe brand) using his immense inherited wealth to fund stop motion animation at a financial loss purely for the love of the art. Laika Studios my beloved <3

A compilation image of Laika movies: Coraline, Paranorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link, and Wildwood
Jamie Smart@jamiesmart.bsky.social · last mo.

Getting a bit tired of very rich actors and directors saying ‘AI is here we have to learn how to use it’ instead of ‘I am wealthy enough to dedicate myself only to projects which employ talented human beings because anything else is an existential threat to human storytelling’

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP.

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David Barnett@davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you got AI to write your book you didn’t write your book. Stephen King wrote your book. Octavia Butler wrote your book. Jilly Cooper wrote your book. Dav Pilkey wrote your book. Lisa Jewell wrote your book. I wrote your book. Every author whose work has been digitised wrote your book. You did not

David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 5mo ago

No, it’s not ‘normal’ for humans to be in competition all the time. It’s not normal to work for most of your waking hours of the day. It’s not normal to be stressed 24/7. Stop taking a few hundred years of capitalism and pretending that’s just how being human is. It’s not.