The Christmas Tom🇵🇸 🇺🇦🏳️⚧️
@tomtificate.bsky.social
Writer and ex-podcaster specializing in anime, comics and film; currently in education for the money, such as it is. Barnacle on the hull of the publishing industry (proofing, editing, etc.). He/him/bi. ADHD. Banner art from MAWS
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This kind of thing absolutely kills most of the book sales that one might have from someone browsing the site. Every book now has to contend with the glut of AI slop and rip-offs that drown it.
On this page you'll find nine clearly AI James Gandolfini biographies that were published after mine.
It's absolute madness and authors have no power. Don't buy books from Amazon. Buy them from @mzspress.bsky.social or @bookshop.org or your local bookstore or even fucking B&N but not goddamn Amazon
It's absolute madness and authors have no power. Don't buy books from Amazon. Buy them from @mzspress.bsky.social or @bookshop.org or your local bookstore or even fucking B&N but not goddamn Amazon
December 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This kind of thing absolutely kills most of the book sales that one might have from someone browsing the site. Every book now has to contend with the glut of AI slop and rip-offs that drown it.
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Re-upping for the end of the week. Did you know I'm authorized to live and work in three different anglophone countries? That's *three nations* that have a chance to hire me and win this prize.
Hey, so, I've been fired. Now that I'm unemployed like the other half of Bluesky, if anyone knows of work for a writer, reporter, or nonprofit grants manager, I'd be much obliged. You all know where to find me.
December 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Re-upping for the end of the week. Did you know I'm authorized to live and work in three different anglophone countries? That's *three nations* that have a chance to hire me and win this prize.
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Pick it up here! It's the story of the creation of Pokemania, filled with new interviews with the former staff of 4Kids and Nintendo of America. What it doesn't include? RFK Jr. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/danie...
Monster Kids
The definitive, behind-the-scenes look at why Pokémon's evolution from a single Japanese video game to global powerhouse captured the world's attention, and...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Pick it up here! It's the story of the creation of Pokemania, filled with new interviews with the former staff of 4Kids and Nintendo of America. What it doesn't include? RFK Jr. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/danie...
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Excited to say that the book I wrote about Pikachu outsold the memoir about the lady who RFK Jr wanted to impregnate
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Excited to say that the book I wrote about Pikachu outsold the memoir about the lady who RFK Jr wanted to impregnate
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I am also well aware of the true dream at the heart of corporate AI investment: no longer having to pay workers for anything and have frequently discussed and advocated against this.
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I am also well aware of the true dream at the heart of corporate AI investment: no longer having to pay workers for anything and have frequently discussed and advocated against this.
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As some have pointed out, it's Disney that's paying OpenAI a billion and not the other way around, but you have to imagine there's bet-hedging here where they've been sold on this being the future and are somehow expecting an even larger return on this investment despite OpenAI's constant losses.
December 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
As some have pointed out, it's Disney that's paying OpenAI a billion and not the other way around, but you have to imagine there's bet-hedging here where they've been sold on this being the future and are somehow expecting an even larger return on this investment despite OpenAI's constant losses.
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Disney always fell back on "preserving the magic" as a defense for heinous acts of copyright striking common people and now they've directly invested in killing that magic faster and more thoroughly than even their worst enemies could have ever dreamt up.
December 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Disney always fell back on "preserving the magic" as a defense for heinous acts of copyright striking common people and now they've directly invested in killing that magic faster and more thoroughly than even their worst enemies could have ever dreamt up.
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One reason Disney is OK with allowing OpenAI to torpedo their brands after decades of cracking down on childrens hospitals for painting comforting characters on the walls or a dad who wanted his son's favorite character Spider-Man etched onto his grave is that grieving families don't have $1 billion
December 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
One reason Disney is OK with allowing OpenAI to torpedo their brands after decades of cracking down on childrens hospitals for painting comforting characters on the walls or a dad who wanted his son's favorite character Spider-Man etched onto his grave is that grieving families don't have $1 billion
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This will backfire horrifically and every decision-maker involved will deserve it.
Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will let the AI platform use its characters to make social-media videos.
Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI, License Characters for Use in ChatGPT, Sora
The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar characters.
on.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This will backfire horrifically and every decision-maker involved will deserve it.
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all i'm saying is that there were better options
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
all i'm saying is that there were better options
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imagine trying to convince me that I should "get used" to AI bc it's "here to stay." honey mitch mcconnell has been my senator since before i was born, do you think i don't know how to lock in and hate for the long haul
December 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
imagine trying to convince me that I should "get used" to AI bc it's "here to stay." honey mitch mcconnell has been my senator since before i was born, do you think i don't know how to lock in and hate for the long haul
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New Big Picture - QUENTIN TARANTINO NEEDS TO SHUT UP ALREADY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwne...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwne...
New Big Picture - QUENTIN TARANTINO NEEDS TO SHUT UP
YouTube video by moviebob
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
New Big Picture - QUENTIN TARANTINO NEEDS TO SHUT UP ALREADY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwne...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwne...
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this person should be on a ban list. it's outrageous to let a known and prolific harasser into a ticketed industry event
LOL hey everyone in the industry who is at the Game Awards, the guy who has made countless videos harassing you is there!
December 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
this person should be on a ban list. it's outrageous to let a known and prolific harasser into a ticketed industry event
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Representing oligarchs as working class heroes is a new low…even for us.
December 12, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Representing oligarchs as working class heroes is a new low…even for us.
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ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
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I hate the online reaction cycle that praises a piece of art a lot and uses it as an example of what’s good about the medium but then the moment it gets awards or enough acclaim or fandom, suddenly we have to talk about how it’s actually not really that good and it’s overrated and always sucked
December 12, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I hate the online reaction cycle that praises a piece of art a lot and uses it as an example of what’s good about the medium but then the moment it gets awards or enough acclaim or fandom, suddenly we have to talk about how it’s actually not really that good and it’s overrated and always sucked
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If you had come to me twenty years ago and said “in 2025 Russell Brand will be a far-right pundit spreading antisemitic conspiracies and accused of multiple rapes” I would have said “seems entirely plausible, how about those future cars, are they cool?”
December 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If you had come to me twenty years ago and said “in 2025 Russell Brand will be a far-right pundit spreading antisemitic conspiracies and accused of multiple rapes” I would have said “seems entirely plausible, how about those future cars, are they cool?”
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I think if they really dump AI content onto Disney+ they'll find out real quick that NOBODY wants to see that shit. But it's so symbolic of the state of things that the name that once meant the very peak of hand drawn animation is now in league with the stock market scam anti-human garbage machine.
December 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I think if they really dump AI content onto Disney+ they'll find out real quick that NOBODY wants to see that shit. But it's so symbolic of the state of things that the name that once meant the very peak of hand drawn animation is now in league with the stock market scam anti-human garbage machine.
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Companies including OpenAI have stolen vast libraries of works owned by the studios and created by WGA members to train their artificial intelligence systems. We have repeatedly called on studios to take legal action and defend the intellectual property we help create. variety.com/2025/digital...
Disney’s OpenAI Deal ‘Appears to Sanction’ AI Company’s ‘Theft of Our Work,’ WGA Says
The Writers Guild of America said that Disney's huge licensing deal with OpenAI appears to "sanction" the AI company's "theft of our work."
variety.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Companies including OpenAI have stolen vast libraries of works owned by the studios and created by WGA members to train their artificial intelligence systems. We have repeatedly called on studios to take legal action and defend the intellectual property we help create. variety.com/2025/digital...
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Paramount already has Landman. They can’t buy WB and get Aquaman too. That’s clearly unconstitutional.
December 12, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Paramount already has Landman. They can’t buy WB and get Aquaman too. That’s clearly unconstitutional.
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“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally transform legislative power.”
Downballot Democrats are gearing up for “2010 in reverse."
Downballot Democrats are gearing up for “2010 in reverse."
Downballot Democrats are gearing up for “2010 in reverse”
The DLCC plans to spend $50 million targeting races in 27 states.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally transform legislative power.”
Downballot Democrats are gearing up for “2010 in reverse."
Downballot Democrats are gearing up for “2010 in reverse."
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We really need to double down on outwardly stating our work does not contain AI.
We're seeing it in movie credits and books, we have to start putting it on things we make and pressuring others to label their work as human made, and normalize that as much as we can, I think.
stuff like this maybe
We're seeing it in movie credits and books, we have to start putting it on things we make and pressuring others to label their work as human made, and normalize that as much as we can, I think.
stuff like this maybe
Anti-A.I. stamps!
For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital!
You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)
For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital!
You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)
December 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
We really need to double down on outwardly stating our work does not contain AI.
We're seeing it in movie credits and books, we have to start putting it on things we make and pressuring others to label their work as human made, and normalize that as much as we can, I think.
stuff like this maybe
We're seeing it in movie credits and books, we have to start putting it on things we make and pressuring others to label their work as human made, and normalize that as much as we can, I think.
stuff like this maybe
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It's that time of year again
December 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It's that time of year again
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i stand by this statement every year
December 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
i stand by this statement every year