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Toon4Thought

@toon4thought.bsky.social

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A 30-year old guy who talks about cartoons & other stuff of interest, no matter the era. #StandWithAnimation https://linktr.ee/toon4thought

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Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · Jul 21

With the show that has been so pivotal to my online identity being five years old, I figured it'd be fun to analyze how well the show holds & why it struck such a chord. And you may also find some surprise discoveries from what was to come...

Join me as we look back at Glitch Techs, 5 years later.

Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · Jul 20

VIDEO PREMIERE IN 1 HOUR youtu.be/nSI6bXDg3oY

A Look At My Hyperfixation Show Five Years Later (Glitch Techs)

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 1d

Pencil and final animation: Tokyo Godfathers (2003), dir. Satoshi Kon, Madhouse

Animation by Shinji Otsuka

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Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 13h

Cartoon Network shuts down as a channel in the US (still running internationally), with a FAST channel launched to carry a portion of the back catalog. Anything new under their moniker is leased out to streamers, as we saw with Gumball on Hulu.

Adult Swim moves to Discovery Family.

Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 14h

This must've been how it felt during Jack Warner's time as sole CEO.

Incompetent, short-sighted leadership but weirdly high-quality output

Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, it's called 'Collaborations'. Don't know much about it myself but I've certainly seen it around.

Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 1d

I tried watching this with some friends a few weeks back and we were all utterly baffled. Like, this is one of the most incoherent human-made things I've ever seen.

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Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 1d

People were also commenting this on the Dem candidate for governor of my state.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 1d

May California do to him what New York did to Eric Adams.

And for God's sake, keep him out of the 2028 Dem ballet.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 1d

Yeeeeeeeeeep, we're still out here waitin' for them to publicly surface someday, somehow...

Just put them on the damn official CN YouTube at this point. We can't be gatekeeping them to festivals forever...

Andrew 🐻 @awd.bsky.social · 1d

CN greenlit my short "Harmony in Despair" for the CartoonCartoons Project alongside several other shorts in 2021.
I happily wrote/directed/produced the creative venture alongside several amazing talents who made this vision come to life.
The short was completed in April 2022.
One of these days, huh?

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 2d

I'd love to think the AI burst will be the death of this cycle with how wide-encompassing it is. But that is probably asking for too much...

Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 2d

Damn, Rebecca Sugar is back in the animation game with a freaking VENGEANCE. 🙏💜

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

‘Steven Universe’ Creator Rebecca Sugar Set for Animated Feature From Annapurna, Moomins Characters (EXCLUSIVE)

'Steven Universe’ creator Rebecca Sugar to write and direct Moomins animated feature for Annapurna.

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Christopher Graves 👻🎃✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.mov · 2d

Personally, Id sooner leave social media entirely than go back to Twitter.

Bluesky leads treating its userbase with contempt and acting like a bunch of immature, hypocritical brats is one thing. But Im NOT going back to a site that has a meltdown when Black people are drawn as Anime characters.

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Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 2d

Twitter was broken even before Musk. He just made it a thousand times worse.

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Discount Supervillain @discountvillain.bsky.social · 3d

#TheOwlHouse #CamilaNoceda #VeetheBasilisk

Camila Noceda in a pumpkin sweater and Vee the Basilisk in a flannel and lifting a hockey mask off of her face, both walking through the aisles of a grocery store, presumably shopping for candy.

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Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 3d

A friend of mine once said this show feels akin to how South Park must've felt back when it was new, and I'm holding onto hope it'll carry a similar caliber of influence (especially with the ZAM Studios announcement).

Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 3d

Me, all the damn time

Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 3d

me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis

my brain: not u though

me: not me though

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 3d

This website is either over or just beginning

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 3d

They brought the post back lol. Finish the job. Ban Singal. Rescue your platform.

Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 3d

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

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Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 3d

Why does that first one sound weirdly familiar to what ended up in Ruby Gillman?

At least there, I can give it a pass because it's a simpler, sillier story.

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Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 3d

You'd think, statistically, there would be at least one overlap but alas...

Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 4d

One of my favorites so far is "The Meatball of Canyon Valley", where Halmoni invites Jack to the Trot dance because she sympathizes with him being so out of the life he was raised on and seeks to warmly welcome him into their culture and family.

That episode made me love Halmoni.

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Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 4d

I love how many of Jack's stories center on him bonding with his step-family, each member already having gotten a turn.

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