famously a guy so anti-worker that he specifically told Bob Iger he would renege the Pixar buyout unless they were guaranteed to be non-union, and co-concocted a wide-ranging wage-fixing conspiracy across multiple studios, so I'm not surprised

Animation Workers Reach $100 Million Settlement With Disney in Wage-Fixing Suit

Animation workers have reached a $100 million settlement with the Walt Disney Company, Pixar, and Lucasfilm in a class action lawsuit.

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Cartoon Brew@cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 2h ago

Pixar co-founder and former Disney Animation president Ed Catmull will judge a new generative AI film competition. The organization is promoting him as “the man who invented 3D graphics” who will judge “the first generation of AI filmmakers.” www.cartoonbrew.com/artificial-i...

Every book needs a champion. When a distributor backs a book, they’re saying good books still matter. Thank you, Central Books, for choosing to back Nature’s Acre. In publishing, human judgement still matters. www.centralbooks.com/nature-s-acr...

Nature's Acre: An Irish Garden Memoir of Making a Place

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Aughinish Alumina: 'A ticking environmental time bomb' Irish Times investigation found: 🛑 Aluminium levels 4,700x safe EU limit 🛑 Arsenic levels 129x EU limit 🛑 Zinc levels 125x safe limit An Taisce calls for a full investigation by Government into plant www.antaisce.org/submission-o...

I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

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moon prism power, make up ! 🌙💗✨

just a reminder the cathaoirleach of the AI committee has stock in a AI-based revenue intelligence company. Naoise insists the stock – whose value is only realisable if the company goes public – is not a conflict of interest for him as a TD forming AI legislation www.ontheditch.com/fianna-fail-...

AI committee FF TD has stock in IDF-vet-founded AI company

It was co-founded by a man who “conducted classified intelligence work” for the Israel Defense Forces.

ontheditch.com

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

“War”. What “war”? It’s a massacre, a genocide, a slaughter of defenceless civilians, including tens of thousands of children & babies, doctors, nurses, teachers, journalists sanitised by “balanced” media reporting of Western media outlets. Was Auschwitz a “war” too? www.rte.ie/news/2026/08...

Mass funeral held in Gaza for family killed during war

In a cleared plot of land between buildings flattened by airstrikes in Gaza City, row upon row of Palestinian flags were laid out neatly over the remains of dozens of people to be buried.

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Amazon Web Services is abandoning its plans to develop data centers on the campus of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, a move that comes after fierce voter pushback against hyperscale data centers in Calvert County’s June primary election. marylandmatters.org/2026/08/04/a...

Amazon abandons plans for a data center at Calvert Cliffs - Maryland Matters

Amazon Web Services is abandoning its plans to develop data centers on the campus of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, a move that comes after fierce voter pushback against hyperscale data cente...

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I’m utterly fascinated by this article and additionally very proud of these workers

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 6d ago

Welcome to the resistance: meet the workers dodging (and sabotaging) their employer's AI mandates: aftermath.site/ai-resistance-...

because this asshole so happens to be jewish, i would like to note that, in judaism, it's ethically and morally forbidden to evade taxes because you are robbing the poor of their share in your wealth that god has generously blessed you with so that you may benefit spiritually from helping them.

'viktor shtrum'@viktorshtrum.bsky.social · yesterday

death penalty

In a cleared plot of land between buildings flattened by airstrikes in Gaza City, row upon row of Palestinian flags were laid out neatly over the remains of dozens of people to be buried

Gazans hold mass funeral for those killed during war

In a cleared plot of land between buildings flattened by airstrikes in Gaza City, row upon row of Palestinian flags were laid out neatly over the remains of dozens of people to be buried.

rte.ie

Finally read "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (because it's August 4th 2026) and then watched the soviet animation adaptation from 1984...and well if I wasn't already feeling Haunted before I sure as fuck am now

The Guga hunt isn’t over just yet! That’s why I walked / ran 16km in laps around the Scottish Parliament. Because only through amending Section 16 will the hunt end forever! It was a slog today and hopefully the last time I have to put on the iconic costume!

Lotte Reiniger's silhouette animation in THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (1926), the earliest surviving full-length animated feature. Her attention to detail was stunning, note the wobble of the chess piece.

The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.

Here's something practical you can do to support kids in Gaza. 🇵🇸🇮🇪

Tony - Pod Guy - Groves@tonygroves.bsky.social · yesterday

We’ve just rented a projector so the kids can watch some films over August and we’re trying to source and buy treats and snacks. Ionad Hind Rajab is about more than education. It’s about getting back a little bit of childhood. 👇

For anyone trying to watch the trailer for An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: click on the link, rather than the 'play' icon on the screen (the latter doesn't seem to work, for some reason!).

Eoghan Daltun 🌍@irishrainforest.bsky.social · yesterday

Our film An Irish Atlantic Rainforest is going down a total bomb with anyone who sees it. It's sold out for a 3rd night running at Bantry Cinemax, and is being brought back to the Irish Film Institute in Dublin for another week from Friday due to popular demand!!! 🥳 🎉 🪅 🎊 vimeo.com/1211649058/7...

This is misleading. If you say the Rhine’ s “water levels drop to lowest level since 1880,” that implies that the river was this dry in 1880. But 1880 is just when we started keeping records! So what you need to say is: the river is at its lowest level since records began.

Once again for those at the back: ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ is about your great aunt Elsie, who liked a long gin with a short tonic at elevenses, and blew your inheritance money betting on the horses. Speaking ill of absolute monsters is a moral obligation, actually.

A reminder: If you absolutely cannot boycott Amazon, don’t. But can you make them NOT your default? If every Amazon customer cut their spending by just 10%, Bezos would burst his facelift sutures. This doesn’t have to be an all or nothing.

I need to see Daniel Hart's inspiration playlist for TVL songs

got some sneak peek photos of my beer can label! 🏳️‍⚧️💙🌸

You know what? I don't care if this or similar acts are part of your 'tradition'. It's obscenely wrong and has to stop, period. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Scottish islanders refused permission to stage annual guga hunt

Each year hundreds of gannet chicks are killed for their meat on the uninhabited Hebridean island of Sula Sgeir.

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Lonesome coo

please support the fundraiser donorbox.org/endthegugahunt

16km walk to end the Guga hunt for good | Protect the Wild (Powered by Donorbox)

HELP US END THE GUGA HUNT FOREVER 16KM TO AMEND SECTION 16 OF THE WILDLIFE AND COUNTRYSIDE ACTFor the first time in history, NatureScot has rejected the licence for the Guga hunt, saving up to 2,000…

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I'm walking 16 kilometres in laps of the Scottish Parliament (dressed as a Gannet) to demand Section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act is amended to finally bring the Guga hunt to an end.

Back on here to thank @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social "It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone. The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

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I think we're generally much too chill about how mainstream and normal this weird, obsessive anti-Irish stuff is in the UK. #speirgorm