Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.
Off the top of my head:
www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email
Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.
It's almost Thanksgiving! Got an ICE member coming for dinner at your house? No you don't! Can't stop them because you're not the one hosting? No problem. You can shun them, mock them, shame them, cough in their food. They get the weird chair. No weird chair? Make a weird chair.
So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate
Mini VHS tape keychains
Pronoun pins shaped like the Nickelodeon splat
Pronoun pins shaped like a D20
A splat shaped orange magnet that reads “90s Kid”
I’ve got an Etsy shop where I sell my 3D printed designs. My VHS bag charms and pronoun pins I’m quite proud of. 😁 jellycubeshop.etsy.com
COWARD
@flophousepodcast.bsky.social Is there any chance that we chronic procrastinators who waited til the 11th hour could still buy a season pass for FlopTV season 2 before the Sat deadline? I'm seeing a "No future event times" message on the link 😬
![The Great Michigan Pizza Funeral was the ceremonial disposal of 29,188 frozen cheese-and-mushroom pizzas in Ossineke, Michigan, on March 5, 1973.[1][2] The manufacturer, Ilario "Mario" Fabbrini,[3] had been ordered to recall the pizzas by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after initial tests suggested the presence of botulism-causing bacteria in a batch of canned mushrooms.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreigjlwsj6lgkpparg5ckmj3e7jxknwinuvarhnj4mbypjbl7x5mqsm)
The Great Michigan Pizza Funeral was the ceremonial disposal of 29,188 frozen cheese-and-mushroom pizzas in Ossineke, Michigan, on March 5, 1973.[1][2] The manufacturer, Ilario "Mario" Fabbrini,[3] had been ordered to recall the pizzas by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after initial tests suggested the presence of botulism-causing bacteria in a batch of canned mushrooms.
Ilario Fabbrini, owner of the frozen pizza manufacturer, watches the pizza burial.
52 years ago today
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
“To Us” a toast to the resilient animation industry.
I was thinking about my friends, colleagues, and union kin, made this in a couple hours to show my appreciation to them. We are Hollywood. Hang in there.
I don’t care if you’re a relative, a fantasy novelist, or an elected official, transphobia is manufactured outrage and transphobe are trash.
None of America’s problems are cause by trans people. None.
But a LOT are caused by bigots.
It is *very* important to understand that Jews were never the only target of the 1930s Nazis and they are not the only targets of today’s Nazis. A Nazi salute is not only antisemitic. It is also racist, ableist, and queerphobic.
TLDR: There is nothing enforceable for the immediate future. It will take months or years to implement this via rulemaking or bureaucratic changes which are then subject to legal challenge. While it's worrying, there's no immediate change yet for most trans people. Do not comply in advance.
Art is what helps us through every other fucking thing.
not Lynch's movie, I know, but god, what a sendoff
That guilt you feel about not being able to support every GoFundMe for folks who are suffering?
That’s actually rage at a corrupt system refusing to support its people - a rage carefully steered away from the system so you struggle with yourself & not with the institutions that deserve it
The Social Network poster with stylized text overlay "I"m Starting To Think David Fincher Went Way Too Easy On This Fucking Dork"
The Social Network (2010)
You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Mister Rogers never misses
WE KNOW HOW IT ENDS. WE’RE ALL READY FOR IT. (pop-tart standing atop toaster slot)
going into 2025 with this energy
Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
TAG ratification: Let’s be extra vigilant of the ever changing landscape. The next 3 years will be very telling. Money will forever be the thing driving everything so it’s important to always be thinking ahead. Now more than ever we need the hearts of poets and the endurance of boxers!
In 2024, several New Hampshire Democrats, afraid that anti-trans attacks would work, voted in favor of a trans surgery ban and bathroom bill.
They lost more seats than most other states. Now the R majority is ramping up targeting us.
Capitulation didn't work.
National Dems, take note.
I want to remind anyone who’s upset about the language of the MOA that our Negotiations team fought tooth and nail for what you see in front of you.
Please direct any anger you may have at the AMPTP. Negotiations are a two way street, and if they don’t budge, we can only do so much.
I've resigned myself to the fact that no matter what I do with the rest of my life, THIS is what I will be remembered for.
#SpongeBob #nosferatu
To clarify, The Animation Guild is NOT on strike! 🚫
These March on the Boss events are ways to show the studios that animation workers are serious about getting a fair contract! 💪
If you’re in TAG, check your email 📧 for upcoming events!
TAG or not, sign the contract to show support! ✊
this def needs to come out. especially now
This is something I know from research most people don't understand--the estrogen I take every morning isn't any different than the estrogen countless cis women take every morning. It's not a radical field of medicine; it's a very common medicine being banned for trans people and trans people only.
