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Dermot O Connor
@animatewithdermot.bsky.social
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Animator & Designer. Irish, living in windswept Roscommon/Mayo.
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It took me as long to knock this old Soviet poster into use as it took them to write that prompt. They've finally (after months of begging) begun to use ALT text. On to the next front comrades, I guess, months of begging them to not use AI and to give work to working artists. JFC, I give up.
Graphic that says: YOUR PARTY COUNTY DURHAM LAUNCH
November 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Took me 10 minutes to repurpose this old Soviet poster, looks so much better than this AI eyesore. Please stop using a machine that kills artist's jobs, we're working class too. Have some Socialist Realism use as you need.
Graphic that says: YOUR PARTY COUNTY DURHAM LAUNCH
November 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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a computer progress bar is at 60% complete. on the left, in black, the part that is done, is a black city skyline. On the right, in green, are the shrinking forests. Beneath the bar is the word "LOADING".
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Hey Michael, fellah called Sassoon wrote a poem about you. Amazing thing, he wrote it YEARS before you were born!
Base Details Siegfried Sassoon From: Counter-Attack (1918) If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line to death. You'd see me with my puffy petulant face, Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel, Reading the Roll of Honour. "Poor young chap," I'd say -- "I used to know his father well; Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap." And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die -- in bed.
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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ipsos mori poll showing the relative popularity of uk pms since blair, starmer is the lowest, even lower than Truss, who appears as a thin vertical light blue line above Sunak's name. Starmer is lower than her.
October 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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ipsos mori opinion poll from the spectator showing UK PM popularity from Blair onwards. Starmer is at the far right (in more ways than one) with a line that is a vertical drop, almost as steep and even lower than that of Liz Truss (the thin cyan line over Sunak's name, there isn't room for her name on the chart, but she's there).
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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A poem for you, Wes.

"Smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by..."

Sassoon had Streeting's number.
SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES By Siegfried Sassoon I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And whistled early with the lark. In winter trenches, cowed and glum, With crumps and lice and lack of rum, He put a bullet through his brain. No one spoke of him again. You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you’ll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.
October 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Up yours, Mark. I've got my settlement!
My paypal payment from the Facebook Class action suit. $38.36 (more than I expected!)
October 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Your dad & comrades would have appreciated this Huxley quote (good luck finding it online - only source was a post I made on a forum years ago). As true in the 30s as it is today.
The Prospects of Fascism in England by Aldous Huxley (March 1934) At the time of the coal strike of 1921 I was living in a boarding-house in North London. My fellow-boarders were salaried small-burgesses, white-collar workers, earning, I suppose, from four to six or seven pounds a week. Politics were discussed across the supper table, and discussed, while the strike was in progress, with a rancour that astonished me. They all hated the miners, passionately, as though they had received some personal injury at their hands. I have never forgotten those conversations; for they first revealed to me a fact which the history of these last thirteen years and my own personal experiences during that time have often corroborated – the fact that the current of class hatred runs more strongly downwards from small-bourgeoisie to proletariat than from proletariat upwards. The reasons for this state of affairs are fairly clear. Economically, the small-bourgeoisie has been and is still being progressively proletariatised. It is becoming, more and more completely, a class of wage-slaves, no better paid, so far as its lower sections are concerned, then the manual workers on the plane below. And yet, in spite of this economic levelling down, the tradition of class superiority persists. Membership of the bourgeoisie is regarded as a most valuable privilege and the loss of this privilege by degradation to the ranks of the proletariat seems the worst of disasters… …Fear begets hate, and looking down from the precarious verge of his precipice, he passionately loathes the creatures in the pit below. Hence those conversations across the supper table in my boarding-house, and hence, in country after country, the rise of Fascism, which is, among other things, the embodiment and effective social organisation of the downward current of small-bourgeois class-hatred.
October 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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the man in a hotdog suit says "we're all tring to find the guy who did this". Over his face is the GUARDIAN logo.
October 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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a tyrant on the throne. Courtier says "I too was alarmed when he took over, but I think events will inevitably push him back into the political mainstream".
October 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Capitalism is an economic system that must expand at ~3% a year min, compounded. Meaning it must double in size every ~25 years or go bust.
If you (or anyone) thinks that that is sustainable, or can be fixed with recycling plastic bags, or solar, or EVs, then I have some VERY bad news for you.
A computer loading bar. The right side is green nature, the progress side is a city in black outline. The captions says "Loading, Please Wait".
September 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Great meme, however as we've been finding out since 2008, they ARE running out, and have decided that the solution is to come for poor people. Let's see how that works out for them.
top: thatcher saying "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money". bottom: spiv millionaire reclining in chair fanning a wad of money, saying "Unlike capitalism where you never run out".
July 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Eeee bloody hell even the comic has gone woke! Eeeeeee bloody woke superman!!!!!! current bloody day eeeeeee aaaargh oh wait this is from 1951 never mind
A superman comic from 1951 in which superman chides a man for jumping to racist conclusions about the suspect of a crime. The white lad is the criminal. Superman gives a stern lecture about not judging people based on skin colour. Dean Cain is vewwwy vewwwy sad.
July 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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I knew I was right to save this meme.
Jordan Peterson at McDonalds. The cashier asks him if he wants fries. He demands a definition of Fries. They're potatoes. JP: So, Vodka is fries? I'll have vodka with my big mac. JP Fans: This man is an intellectual powerhouse.
July 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Breakfast: the most important meal of the day.
bottle of vodka and a glass of orange juice.
July 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Jesus, that wasn't fun. Here it is. The original was by an artist called Dan Bailey, it's his "super guy" character. An image search will bring up the articles.
The orange order's "diamond dan" character, with the plagiarised original by artist Dan Bailey on the right.
July 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Cross-posting from Jack's. I was close to the end of my wick, but reading this is a last straw. I'm just doing text thumbs from now on, with an FAI icon. Feel free to use/mod, no more time wasting for me on the game any more (only getting 2-800 views a vid anyway).
angryanimator.com/pic/no_ai.psd
A "No AI" logo, with the text describing the content of the video on the right.
June 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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JFC, reading this and Caelan's repost is a last straw for me. I'm totally done and depressed seeing my career (animation) wrecked by this. Anyway, from now on I'm not arsing myself with thumbs, and will use this template. Feel free to use/mod as needed.
angryanimator.com/pic/no_ai.psd
a "no ai" image on the left, with the right half consisting of a text description of the video.
June 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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top image: thatcher: "the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money". bottom image: rich prick with a fan of 100 dollar bills: "Unlike capitalism, where you NEVER run out!"
May 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Here's how his story would have actually worked out.
Comic panel of a ww1 soldier holding a bag. His officer gives him grief, accusing him of stealing supplies. "What's in the bag, soldier?" he replies, "My mate, sir. My mate Ginger." This is from a British comic. Maybe if kids had comics like this instead of fucking superman or fucking batman they might have a bit more fucking cop-on as adults.
May 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Ah yes, Belfast in the 70s and 80s.
A british solders uses two toddlers as cover while stationed in Northern Ireland.
May 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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the 'wall of fame' image in Dublin of Bono in a messianic pose. A true artist has graffitied "BONO IS A POX" in the middle of it.
May 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Yeah, he might not have been paying attention. Angolan proverb: "He who throws the stone forgets. He who is hit remembers forever".
Northern Ireland, early 80s. A British soldier, rifle aimed off camera, crouches behind two toddlers for cover.
April 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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My favourite Maggon image:
Thatcher says "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money". In the bottom image a spiv is sitting back in his chair, a big shit-eating smirk on his face as he fans an array of 100 dollar bills. The bottom caption says "Unlike capitalism, where you never run out!"
April 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM