Joe Fulgham

Get this: They can (and have!) end the contest abruptly and never pay out at all. Why shouldn't they? They got what they wanted--your labor for free. NEVER do creative contests. I don't care how good the prize is or how nice their fine print seems. makinaro.myportfolio.com/no-spec-work

Same goes for "contests." Much cheaper for a company to pay $1000 to one of a thousand contestants than to pay $5k for one commissioned artist.

Maki Naro - Say No to Spec Workmakinaro.myportfolio.com Spec work is any kind of creative work, either partial or completed, submitted by designers to prospective clients before designers secure both their work and equitable fees. I drew this comic after b...

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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It’s almost like the pundit class wants the wrong things out of this campaign season

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People who say Trump is good for comedy, he called Covid a hoax until all the comedy clubs had to close and all the talk shows and SNL had to be shot in basements and attics. Also a million Americans died which is not good for comedy.

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So in 36 hours we never mention it again, right?

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i don't buy from uline for my shop because of this! if anyone has questions about where i get shipping materials and shop stuff without them im happy to point you toward the best stuff i've found

For anyone curious about Uline, we reported in 2022 on how the boom in online shopping had enriched the company's owners, who have used their wealth to fund far-right causes: www.propublica.org/article/ulin...

That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denialwww.propublica.org A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

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pretty much ever person I’ve ever known or read about who really did make positive change in the world also carried with them a vast sea of doubt, regrets, and pain about the compromises and choices they made to get there. sucks! that’s how it is!

making positive change in this excruciating world pretty much always involves lots of shitty compromises, the kind that keep people up at night forever. this is perhaps the #1 thing I’ve learned from history. it’s our job to get the fuck over this reality and keep fighting for better things.

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The hardest any Marvel comic has ever gone: Micronauts 10

This is your regular "I play Overwatch but to hell with its monetization" post. For a pack of 4 Transformers skins and some other stuff you'll be paying Blizzard the price of a full AAA game. 5900 coins is ~$60! FOR FOUR SKINS

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French people riot and block roads every two weeks because the price of a baguette increased but suddenly they reject fascism and it’s like oh wow this kooky country can’t get anything done!

France: Defeats fascists. NYT:

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Being transphobic is a sign you're an easily-manipulated rube. Of course the amoral "corporate profits above all" party targets transphobes like scammers target people who've already fallen for other scams.

Canada's right-wing populist is aping from all the same transphobic bullshit as the GOP. We're already seeing the effects. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Justin Ling: Queer rights are in danger in Canada. Pierre Poilievre owns some of the blamewww.thestar.com The Conservative leader is playing politics with the lives of trans Canadians, writes Justin Ling.

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I think the @nytimes.com is just too old to be covering politics now. Its ability to handle the rigor and complexity of modern campaigns is obviously not there anymore. Put it out to pasture so younger newspapers can do the job.

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A widely predicted victory for the far right in France has instead turned into a victory for the left *because people turned out in record numbers to vote.* Defeat is not inevitable and more progressive elected officials means more progressive policies.

In France, the left coalition comes in first, Macron second, the far-right third. The best way to defeat fascism is not centrism, it’s a strong left.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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Don't have a polyCLUE when it comes to polyCULEs? @greywhiteart.com opens up about opening up your relationship with polyamory in this comic from the archive! www.ohjoysextoy.com/poly-101-gre... (1/2)

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Peter Sagal

Conservatism requires a lack of empathy, good art requires an excess of it.

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I wanna be critically clear: this whole account's deal is an amazingly beautiful simpsons assassin AU, and has less than 300 followers: unserious website, you know nothing of art

Finally finished this one

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Any gomer can get published in the NY Times as long as they're sufficiently regressive and incompetent. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

Matthew “Choad” Walther gets a free pass at the NY Timesfreethoughtblogs.com Matthew Walther looks worse when he tries to clean himself up. The scrubby mustache, the sweater vest and tweedy suit, the necktie, the sloppy part — I’m no fashion plate myself, but ev…

Happy Changing Dependence from Monarchs to the Wealthy Day, America! (I can see why they mostly just call it "4th of July")

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All US citizens should interrogate the way we are propaganzied to support militarism abroad.

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the consolidated, center-right billionaire owned press continues to shift the editorial overton window rightward and if you can't see it you're either complicit or oblivious

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you expect ME to pay bills? me. a former baby. you sound insane right now.

[rubs hands together in gleeful anticipation]

Sandman Season 2. More casting. Are you excited? I'm excited.

Look, if you don't want to be hunted, simply give away money. This idea is fairer than the world currently is

When I run for president my platform will be simple: hunting any rich person with a net worth of over $100 million is completely legal and if you bag one you get to give all their money to the charity of your choice

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Microsoft's AI boss should go fuck himself. www.theverge.com/2024/6/28/24...

Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open webwww.theverge.com That is not how fair use works.