for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.

Your daily reminder that more people are playing and buying PC games than ever before. This is a growing industry. The only reason the industry is struggling is because the people are the top are vacuuming up all the money made to divert it to AI in an unhinged all-in multi-trillion-dollar gamble.

Something I shared in the Art Tips channel of my Discord server that seemed to resonate with folks. I hate to see people making an active choice to NOT create for fear of being derivative. Ya gotta do it anyway.

Every inch of america is stolen land and red with our blood. Use indigenous people's day to recognize that we're still here. Celebrate and protect the life still here. Speak up for your neighbors. Work on building kinship and relations to work for a better future.

Many Indigenous folk here in the US have been targets by ICE and it's racialized violence. Trump's second term, much like his first, has been defined by attacks on indigenous sovereignty, such as his push for his frivolous and distructive border wall through indigenous land.

i love you, plant grandma

this is community 🪴

I don't think companies realize this yet but going "complete AI game development" isn't giving "the future" it's giving "we're broke." Like y'all just don't want to pay wages.

i cant say what i want to happen to any person or company that knowingly makes artists sign NDAs so they can't use their own work for their portfolios. ITS NOT YOUR WORK CARTOON FUCKWORK. YOU DESERVE NOTHING

Some good news. While the long term survival of the Seychelles giant tortoise is anyone's guess, for now they seem to be doing very well!

I'm still sorting through these but like this thing has folders which contain hundreds of joel valentine's original sound effects for powerpuff girls and this is like fucking christmas for sound effects artists. this is like finding the ark of the covenant

325gb of art and material that artists and animators weren't allowed to use in portfolios to keep themselves fed.

Maybe it has something to do with the press/media breathlessly covering petty crime as a top story instead of things like government corruption and environmental issues which actually matter in our lives. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question

My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

『 Distance, safety, detachment. It had been nurtured since early on, its presence bellowing and gnashing its teeth capriciously without tire; but your volatile wake was never who you are. At one point, it had protected you. Now, it is time to finally connect. 🪐 』 ─ ✧˖°

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.