"Baby Jasper" Quarter Horse gelding (seal brown splash)

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Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo displaying a rare genetic mutation called leucism which creates a stunning blend of yellow, white, and black feathers.

what the fuck is that what the fuck some kind of sparkle parrot wtf he's colored like a goddamn hornet as if being a black cockatoo wasnt metal enough how the shit am i supposed to design anything even an ounce as cool as what australia throws at us on the reg?

happy glorious 25th of may

Hey, a bunch of the Lackadaisy gang will be at MomoCon in Atlanta this coming weekend, May 21st-24th! (I will be there from Friday through Sunday). If you happy to be there too, come by and say hello!

We're coming to MomoCon!

the average person with bad taste can be into some extremely banal garbage but when you get close enough to someone with otherwise good taste that they start a recommendation by going off on a preamble about how they don't necessarily recommend it you know you're seconds away from hearing about some real torturously wretched dogshit

friend from work will have you watch a two hour movie where you can feel every second as it passes by, but enemployed movie mutual will put you on the kind of shit that feels like crawling on cobblestone until emaciated

people are reading this as the latter friend recommending dry, pretentious cinema. that's not the case. not that kind of situation. you're getting no enrichment out of this. I need you to understand they're making you watch Gooby because "it's kinda good"

Me and my friend who has a degree in film watching Waterworld on purpose.

i have a list of favorite freak ass wtf films I love with all my heart

and subject friends to with all the glee of Jigsaw as they suffer my torments

Hey, Last Call won an Ursa Major award for dramatic short work! Thank you!!

All credit really belongs to Willow Wilde and Bryan Teoh for the music, Fable Siegel and the entire team of artists who worked on it, and to Olan Rogers and Glitch Productions, of course!

bless the furries for all your support. ❤️

Hey, a bunch of us from the Lackadaisy team will be at Anime St. Louis next month, April 24th-26th. That includes director Fable Siegel, writer Dave Capdevielle, and me, plus a number of the voice cast! I hear tell of a speakeasy on the premises too.

If you happen to be in town, I hope we'll catch you there!

Anybody who wants to swing by, say hi, maybe get a doodle and recommend a local place to eat, plz do!

Every time I see this quote I realize how poor even very smart people are at looking at the long game and at assessing these things in context.

One of my favourite illustrations of this was in a First Aid class. The instructor was a working paramedic. He asked, “Who here knows the stats on CPR? What percentage of people are saved by CPR outside a hospital?”

I happen to know but I’m trying not to be a TOTAL know it all in this class so I wait. And people guess 50% and he says, “Lower,” and 20% and so forth and eventually I sort of half put up my hand and I guess I had The Face because he eventually looked at me and said, “You know, don’t you.”

“My mom’s a doc,” I said. He gave me a “so say it” gesture and I said, “Four to ten percent depending on your sources.”

Everyone else looked surprised and horrified.

And the paramedic said, “We’re gonna talk a bit about some details of those figures* but first I want to talk about just this: when do you do CPR?”

The class dutifully replies: when someone is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse.

“What do we call someone who is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse?”

The class tries to figure out what the trick question is so I jump over the long pause and say, “A corpse.”

“Right,” says the paramedic. “Someone who isn’t breathing and has no heartbeat is dead. So what I’m telling you is that with this technique you have a 4-10% chance of raising the dead.”

So no, artists did not stop the Vietnam War from happening with the sheer Power of Art. The forces driving that military intervention were huge, had generations of momentum and are actually pretty damn complicated.

But if you think the mass rejection of the war was as meaningless as a soufflé - well.

Try sitting here for ten seconds and imagining where we’d be if the entire intellectual and artistic drive of the culture had been FOR the war. If everyone thought it was a GREAT IDEA.

What the whole world would look like.

Four-to-ten percent means that ninety to ninety-six percent of the time - more than nine times out of ten - CPR will do nothing, but that one time you’ll be in the company of someone worshipped as an incarnate god.

If you think the artists and performers attacking and showing up people like Donald Trump is meaningless try imagining a version of the world wherein they weren’t there.

(*if you’re curious: those stats count EVERY reported case of CPR, while the effectiveness of it is extremely time-related. With those who have had continuous CPR from the SECOND they went down, the number is actually above 80%. It drops hugely every 30 seconds from then on. When you count ALL cases you count cases where the person has already been down several minutes but a bystander still starts CPR, which affects the stats)

That Vonnegut quote brings this particular moment to mind:

Yes, it’s just a pie. Yes, the pie itself doesn’t do much direct damage in the grand scheme of things. But the pie is resistance, and resistance inspires resistance. Resistance inspires survival. Throwing pies sometimes starts a movement. Throwing pies sometimes saves lives.

And of course, we haven’t spoken about the inherent morality of throwing pies at oppressors in a world where oppressors have outlawed pie throwing. At the very least, pie throwing is a reminder to the oppressors that no matter how much money they have, no matter how much power they have, there are still some people, some moments they can’t control.

I’d rather go out throwing pies than just rolling over and accepting that pie throwing isn’t going to solve anything. Yeah, the pie throwing doesn’t immediately solve the problem, but it doesn’t have to because it’s just a starting point. So throw the damn pie.

So throw the damn pie

Speaking of the effects of pie throwing and art in opposition of oppression, and “resistance inspires resistance”:

Imagine sitting in a packed auditorium and some asshole is up front is spouting bullshit about minorites. Like saying they’re filthy and deserve a violent death etc. And there are lots of people nodding along and even cheering and applauding

But no one is saying or doing anything to disagree, so you think that you’re the only one who opposes the speaker. And you don’t want to say anything because you don’t want their ire or violence to be aimed at you

So you go through the entire speech, and possibly your entire life, thinking you’re alone

BUT if just one person has the courage to speak up, to throw a pie, to project art on the screen behind the speaker, then that single act of resistance will inspire others to do the same. It could even inspire you to stand up. Or if you’re the first, then you can inspire others

Small acts can snowball into an avalanche

Reblogging this in 2025 because of all the “Yeah the No Kings protests were cool but they didn’t doooo anything” crap I’ve been seeing lately.

The No Kings protests absolutely did do something. Just tune into your local city council meeting the next week and see public forum. Chances are there’s a public official advocating resistance of all and any federal orders, or a local housing/immigration activist saying it helped them and then pointing that energy in the direction of more.

3.75% of the entire country was in the streets on Saturday. Might not sound like a lot, but those are the kind of numbers that signal a toppling government or a revolution.

If nothing else it proves to wannabe authoritarians that they can sure fucking try, but they can’t kill us all.

wait let me just add about Vietnam:

every single outspoken anti-war protestor did do something. Muhammad Ali famously refused to join the war, which in turn inspired people to draft dodge, or help others draft dodge. Every person dodging the draft is one less person shooting at someone during a war, and one less person likely to die.

also, that pie in Anita Bryant’s face? did literally destroy her career as a raving bigot, she lost so much face nobody really took her seriously after that - and she’s not the only one

this is why we still want to see an entire stadium of people show up for a trump rally and then just point at him and laugh derisively

Folks like us creatives arent just anti AI because of how it would undermine us. We're also deeply committed to our craft's advancement, and a theft machine is not a storyteller.

Networks would LOVE if the only option for audiences was generic slop because generic slop is easy to produce, AI or no. Theyve been cutting creatives out of the process bit by bit to undermine our right to our own work and maximize the share of the budget that stays in company's pockets rather than being used by the workers in the company for things other than stock buybacks.

Creatives love tech. We're often at the bleeding edge of new software and techniques that help the craft. So if we're rejecting genAI, it's because it's a tool that opens us up to liabilities and eliminates imagination while being vastly subpar to the tech we already have. (and thats without all the other issues, personally I dont want to feed an anti-social propaganda machine built and used by the worst people on the planet just to save five minutes of "effort")

The Luddites weren't wrong. Look at the state of mass produced textiles and the garbage quality PLUS intense human rights violations they come with. We could ALL have better, even for less, but billionaires dont want craftsfolk to have an equal share of the profit pie.

You all deserve better than slop.

This Friday some of the crew and I will be live on the Lackadaisy Discord to chat, answer questions, and do a little group Drawpile drawing! Everyone's welcome to come and hang out!

Friday, January 23rd Starts at 8pm ET / 5pm PT on the Lackacord Server

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