It’s been ten minutes since last time, you know what that means: Val is asking for money again.

I’m saving for a car.

Trying to scare people. But it won't work. No one looks scared to me anymore. And it's power in numbers. All the TV hits in the world won't change the fact that when Americans see the sheer number of people out there, absolutely no one will believe anything these guys say.

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

remember to keep your october spooky lovelies

As much as folks might not want to believe it, artists who sell their work cannot survive exclusively on platforms that cater to primarily other artists. The Circulating The Same Five Dollars™️ model can't feed us or pay bills for long. We need places where we can be seen and discovered.

Hey all, I’m going to be starting another leg of travel in November and I want to get a head start on saving for that—and ofc can always use help with rent in the meantime.

Feel free to hit me up by DM about video editing jobs/commissions of all kinds—or you can just send money. Either, or.

People saying the fascism we’re seeing is unprecedented, unimaginable etc miss the larger point.

We‘re not experiencing anything new. We‘re experiencing an *expansion* of existing realities targeting Black people especially. Until we get that, we’ll miss how to fight US fascism at its core.

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honestly it makes sense that one of the most evil game companies is getting bought by oil barons and the evil landlord responsible for the deaths of countless americans

He may play a CREEP but Mark Duplass is a stand-up guy, as Duplass Brothers Productions is teaming up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Fund for trans filmmakers.

HEHE this is the best compliment ive received in ages

replacing doomscrolling with star trek marathon was a damn good decision, i highly recommend ^^

been raptured for 90 mins now. lines are insane. VERY disorganized. scalpers by east entrance

In our fictional dystopia for NIN’s “Year Zero,” Hollywood had been destroyed and rebuilt in Florida where it was strictly regulated by the state & overseen by Evangelical groups, so news was state propaganda and entertainment was sanitized pro-Christian content approved by the US Bureau of Morality

I do feel like part of the hatred extended toward Bluesky is a function of preferring to think that the alarm about the state of the country that’s common here is misguided or exaggerated. Dismissing the site as liberal doomers allows you to dismiss those concerns, too.

One last thing.

He said if his ten-year-old daughter got pregnant, he would force her to carry the fetus to term.

I do not feel grief for that family. I feel relief for them. May his children grow up in a more loving world than the one their father wanted.

It's just a sports ban.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.

what’s this..? O_O

youtu.be/H3AozHl0Yio

when the AI hedge fund money gets to these filmmakers, they all start using the same non-specific jargon. say "developing tools" one more goddamn time james. WHAT tools??

maybe the best tool for VFX artists to develop is a union 😇

such a great way of putting it !!

we grow stronger 💪