Just a reminder that if you aren’t paying people, you aren’t hiring.

You’re asking for volunteers. Hiring implies payment.

The Warsaw Mermaid Legend to Be Reimagined in New 2D Animated Short Film | Tina Nawrocki Interview YouTube video by ScreenAge Wasteland Exclusives

Fun podcast interview with ScreenAge Wasteland about @syrenkafilm.bsky.social ! Check it out if you get the chance! :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6uP...

Dave Marshall in wheelchair and Bledsoe post-op leg braces, March 8th 2026

Dave Marshall in Bledsoe post-op leg braces (full extension, bend limited to 60 degrees), March 7th 2026

X-ray showing fractured tibial plateau, March 5th 2026

Dave Marshall with Cannondale (flat tire) bike on MBTA train

Biking Boston since 1980. Comic artist, designer, developer. On March 5th I hit a pothole in Kenmore Square and fractured both tibial plateaus. Five weeks in rehab. Facing eviction from my home of 17 years.
I don't ask for help easily. I'm asking now.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-dave-...

Sisters of Battle from Warhammer 40K.

Judge Cassandra Anderson from 2000AD.

My favorite character design micro-genre? Science fiction Debbie Harry

Ah, we've entered the veteran animator grifter renaissance period of the "indie animation will save us" timeline even faster than anticipated.

Y'all notice how 2d animation died in 2003 and since then there have been no 2d animated films produced on planet earth since? No TV shows, no films.

They made some documentaries about it, and despite rumors of saving 2d animation, it's been nothing but continuous episodes of Reboot for 30 years.

Ah, we've entered the veteran animator grifter renaissance period of the "indie animation will save us" timeline even faster than anticipated.

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The Free Speech Coalition is serious about starting an adult industry credit union. Part of this is being able to show regulators that enough people would use it, so please fill out this form if you're interested!
(Yes, credit unions can issue credit cards!)
www.freespeechcoalition.com/survey

The Matter With Me YouTube video by MiamiDadePublicLibrary

Delighted to share that my first attempt at color correcting a faded and fragile print from the library's collection is now online for viewing! Far from perfect, but I'm just happy to have been able to help get Rob Williams' The Matter With Me out there in a better quality than previously available.

I can't upload half of my posts, because apparently "failed to load blob"

I would read. I would catch up on films. I would travel with my family. I would do housework. I would exercise daily. It would be easy.

I haven't "had" to create, in that, mystical calling way we like to fantasize about in over a decade. I do it to survive in a real monetary way.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

How Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Could Devastate Endangered Species Along Texas’ Gulf Coast If left intact, the exemption for oil and gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico could forever harm vulnerable species and their habitats.

“The decision … is not going to result in any more oil production; it’s not going to result in lower gas prices. It will result in real harm and the potential extinction of one or more species in the Gulf.”

Laugh hard. Run fast. Be kind.

Introducing Our Lord and Savior, the College’s New Strategic Initiative Higher education faces looming threats from every direction. Dwindling enrollments. The demographic cliff. The enduring myth that professors have t...

"Once the prophecies of the strategic initiative have been brought to fulfillment, budget deficits will shrink, prestige and reputation will grow, that weird smell on the first floor of the student center will dissipate, and you’ll never be frazzled or beleaguered again."

It's good that you can see who liked a stranger's post so when I see someone I never want to see again on my popular with friends feed, I can quickly decide who to unfollow.

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Uber ballot initiative sparks showdown with lawyers, doctors Lawyers and doctors oppose Uber’s proposed ballot initiative, which would cap contingency fees and limit recoveries for medical costs from car crashes.

CALIFORNIA: Those scare ads for legislation limiting medical settlements that quote the LA Times are paid for by Uber because they want to limit how much they can be sued for when they hit you with their cars. calmatters.org/economy/2026...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Nobody 2 is like an Ernest Goes To Film, but not nearly as funny and the acting isn't as good.

Nobody 2 is like an Ernest Goes To Film, but not nearly as funny and the acting isn't as good.

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

Important story from the Times on the rise of AI influencers for Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

"They said they wouldn't pay me and would use AI instead if I didn't give them a lower price"

They're bluffing. They already tried AI and it didn't work so they're contacting you.

No one goes "I'll pay you or do the free one" they just do the free one, see that it's crap, and do the paid one.

ok so streamers only want to pick up successful youtube/tiktok shows now? so you gotta make and pay for the show yourself, distribute it yourself, promote it yourself and ensure it's success yourself. so you rack up a billion views and they pick it up... to do what exactly? you already did it.

Expand your brain. ( My film was programmed as experimental at least twice. )

NEXT SHOW IN 90 MINUTES | An Animated Horror Short YouTube video by SCRIMSHAW

My film is now live. I hope you enjoy it? It is animated and there is some blood. Sorry.
#indieanimationday

The only inconvenience in these technologies is that you can’t use them to try to sell AI, or subscriptions, or upsell them on the newest mode filled to the brim with shit nobody needs.

And the inconvenience isn’t the user’s. That’s why people want it.

"why are they doing this?"
To kill open source ventures like Linux distros because the cost of adhering to this law is too much to expect these projects to pay and maintain, forcing everyone to use windows and train their AI/farm metadata

They'll say it's for protecting kids or something tho

Yesterday, by a vote of 50-49, the Senate used the Congressional Review Act to undo public lands protections for the first time in history, rolling back mining protections in National Forest Land right outside Boundary Waters National Recreation Area. (1/7)