Kalkiedoodles

@kalkie.bsky.social

LA Filipino Storyboard and Comic Artist. Loves to draw, eat and sleep. RTs a lot that make me glad, sad and mad. There's some drawings in here at times. website: readykaydraw.com webcomic: https://tapas.io/series/Quix-de-Tellou-Necromancer/info

I know everything feels terrible and doomy but I've been working on surveillance issues for most of my adult life and I have never seen so much energy, momentum, and concrete VICTORIES happening as what we are seeing right now on Flock cameras and facial recognition in venues. Keep. Going.

Happy Thai Mother's Day everyone! Some announcements here! 📣 The Art & Architecture zine has completely sold out at both Anitime Store and Li-Zenn publishing! This book will not be reprinted in the foreseeable future, but you can still get the e-version of the zine through my Gumroad link!

Cover of a Silk Road-inspired Art and Architecture design zine

WALL-E: Yup, still the best. It takes real genius (and guts) to make a movie this sappy and yet also so bleak about humanity's potential to destroy itself. More emotional than TOY STORY 3. More trenchant (and a whole lot less smug about it) than IDIOCRACY. And it owns those HELLO, DOLLY! songs now.

EVE and WALL-E in the 2008 masterpiece "Wall-E."

Good to remember that you can’t pirate it either. I remember in the early seasons of Thrones seeing HBO use the piracy numbers to boost their claim that it was the biggest show on tv, something they’ll do again if it helps. Watch something for adults instead.

Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com · 11h ago

The push for Harry Potter the TV show is going to be completely enormous—they're debuting it on fucking Christmas—and it is the responsibility of TV critics to contextualize this as rewarding the world's most transphobic billionaire (which is saying something) in everything we write about it.

Ketchup Entertainment screened #CoyoteVsACME for the family of Chuck Jones. His daughter Linda: “Chuck said that he did not believe Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote could sustain a feature-length film. I think this movie proves him wrong.”

Looney Tunes Legend Chuck Jones’ Family Reacts to ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ | Exclusive

Coyote vs. Acme, the film that Warner Bros. didn't want you to see, will finally be out later this month and Chuck Jones' family has seen it.

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Met this little guy at the British Museum today. He was made in approximately 1200, in the ancient Iranian city of Kashan. He’s about the size of a small domestic cat and I love him.

Life-size pottery cat, crouching in loaf position, against a black background in a display cabinet. He is white, and decorated with vaguely floral spots and stripes in gold lustre. His ears are rather small and his head very round. He looks mildly startled.

The push for Harry Potter the TV show is going to be completely enormous—they're debuting it on fucking Christmas—and it is the responsibility of TV critics to contextualize this as rewarding the world's most transphobic billionaire (which is saying something) in everything we write about it.

so I watched the latest Starkid musical, Cinderella's Castle!! had to draw a ton of fanart for it because it had this major 90s-animated-fantasy-movie-don-bluth-nightmare-fuel vibe which I had to do my best to capture you can watch it this halloween week btw!! 🎃

illustrations from the Starkid musical stageplay, Cinderella's Castle. Ella, the titular character, a young black girl with a shabby green and beige dress, caked in ash and dirt. She sings like a disney princess, of course illustrations from the Starkid musical stageplay, Cinderella's Castle. Ella's friends, a walking, talking toad knight in shining copper armour, made from the pots and pans she was told to cook him in, and his little squire- a tiny house mouse with a scrap of red fabric as a capeillustrations from the Starkid musical stageplay, Cinderella's Castle. Ella's evil stepmother, a troll that wears the cobbled-together stolen skins of fair maidens to look like one, has a full figured purple outfit and a bright red "bob" haircut with a white streak, garrish makeup and red painted "claws". Ella holds a mirror up while she admires her true reflection, that of a gross troll monster.illustrations from the Starkid musical stageplay, Cinderella's Castle. The charismatic tricky narrator of the story, a wandering bard character somewhere between Peter Pan and Jareth from the Labyrinth, with wild hair and a chizeled jaw and an extremely open shirt lol

Shame. I really liked his work. I don't begrudge people who must put bread on a table in a land of few choices, I can give grace But rich people, who have a plethora of choices, and make THIS CHOICE Nah. Fuck off.

Sam Adams@samadams.bsky.social · 10h ago

Worth reiterating every time that this is not some cancel-culture purity test: JK Rowling has pledged more than a billion dollars of her Harry Potter money towards bankrolling anti-trans lawsuits. This finances that.

Goodbye, Lara really earning its classic fairy tale chops by underpinning the whimsy and magical fantasy with aching tragedy and loss this week. Both are enhanced by the other, made sweeter and more painful all at once. Good show full of surprises big and small each week.

Wearing a mask like an N95 is a fantastic investment in your long term health. Covid is still here. It’s still killing and disabling. It’s still re-activating other viruses that can lead to disability and chronic illness. Masking is community care. It’s resistance.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 7d ago

A new study shows that among people hospitalized with COVID19, other viruses such as EBV, HSV1, and CMV may be reactivated. This effect isn’t limited to those who are immunocompromised, either. So if you’re wondering why I’m still masking indoors in public, have a read.

If you’re tempted by the “AI summaries are just modern CliffsNotes” argument, please remember that CliffsNotes were written and edited by people who got paid to be accurate, not built on stolen data and extruded through a LLM that doesn’t know what truth is.

The immediate question that comes to mind while watching that is "Why did you make a humanoid robot to slowly & carefully pull a cart when you can just automate the cart?" It's the same problem with having a humanoid robot to wash your dishes for you. We already invented a machine that does that.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 14h ago

Automakers have used robots for decades. But now most major companies are betting that humanoids — human-shaped robots — will usher in a new wave of automation and help them compete against their Chinese rivals. nyti.ms/4wjmJJp