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Illustrator. Designer. Liberal Lurker. (She/Her)
Andy Beshear should say he spoke to Mitch for 20 minutes and Mitch told him to appoint someone else. Prove him wrong, Mitch. Prove him wrong.
Musk and his culture war chuds are somehow still crashing out over Nolan's Odyssey instead of moving on to the next outrage, weaving conspiracy theories about no-show ticketholders and churning out their own AI slop scenes based on Homer's epic.
‘The Odyssey’ Is Inspiring Unprecedented Levels of Cope
Elon Musk and the online right convinced themselves that Christopher Nolan’s “woke” epic would go down in flames. Now they’re crashing out.
wired.com
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
animal-photo-references.com
I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”
PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.
mass layoffs at Pixar despite Toy Story 5 about to cross $1 billion at the box office. there is simply no amount of money that will make corporations happy enough to not upend people’s lives.
Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers
Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.
variety.com
Breaks my goddamn heart too because those three are far better than all of the lame-ass sequels they've been up to
Josh Spiegel@mousterpiece.bsky.social · 2w agoI feel like that goose-yelling meme right now, because who “inadvertently trained” audiences by sending Pixar films straight to streaming? Who did that?
Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories
@laperry2.bsky.social · 2w ago
This is a *fantastic* video that explains exactly WTF is going on with Taylor Farms and how tracing works TLDR: - they are responsible - the false positive was only on one of several samples - it’s difficult to test parasites - there may still be other sources - Taylor Farms is being shady AF
THE ODYSSEY's instantly, predictably enormous success is Exhibit #32176 that the right wing's grievance-farming operation is not some great American cultural shift. Most people don't give a shit about their petty crusades.
First posted this 11 months ago. And this probably won't be the last time.
please engage with art for the love of fuck. i’m so fucking sick of gen AI, especially in fandom spaces. you are missing the entire point of fandom and that’s the passion it takes to engage with it.
I'm hopeful people will finally realize that Serkis sucks and has always sucked, whether it is trying to declare the work of animators irrelevant to his performance as Gollum or the fact that he directed a godawful Animal Farm for Angel or this latest embarrassment. Dude's a chuddy dolt.
Bianca Michelle Parker@bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 3w agoFeels bad that a director of a major studio film is perfectly comfortable saying that casting non-white actors is just something you do to look woke and otherwise isn't remotely necessary
In the seventh month of the second year of the second term, the heat will become unbearable, the skies will turn red, and bowels will loosen across the land.
In capitalist America, Taco Bell is our CDC and Waffle House is our weather alert system.
it's funny how for decades the RIAA would carbomb teenagers for downloading one (1) song yet now these dudes are just allowed to do this shit like it's nothing
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3w agoScoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”
Calling the RFK Jr diarrhea strain “MAHA Blast” since it has now evidently infiltrated Taco Bell
WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?
No :[
IGN@ign.com · 3w agoElijah Wood and Ian McKellen will return as Frodo and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum — more than 25 years on from when Fellowship of the Ring released, and now director Andy Serkis has said some level of digital de-aging will be used. https://bit.ly/4fxOKI3
This is pretty well known, but the Australian flag Sam Neill wore on his uniform in Event Horizon was designed at his request to show the Union Jack replaced with the Aboriginal flag, because he hoped in the future this is how it would actually look. A proper fucken ally in every way, this bloke.
Saying honest things about people who died is not "speaking ill of the dead," it's speaking truth of the ill.