christopher linoleum
@scribblechris.bsky.social
i animate from the left, professionally. acab.
i live in vancouver and i'm in a union
i live in vancouver and i'm in a union
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hi! i'm an animation professional who doesn't draw enough outside work. when i do, half the time it's something activisty. sometimes i do fan art, too.
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IT'S A.....HALLOWEEN PARTY!
Join CAG + your industry ghoul-friends for a night of fang-tastic fun @ the ANZA Club Upstairs Hall October 16, 2026 from 8 PM to 1 AM!
Thrills + chills, cash bar, sweet treats, + costume contest!
Space is limited, so don't get ghosted ~ grab your ticket now!
Join CAG + your industry ghoul-friends for a night of fang-tastic fun @ the ANZA Club Upstairs Hall October 16, 2026 from 8 PM to 1 AM!
Thrills + chills, cash bar, sweet treats, + costume contest!
Space is limited, so don't get ghosted ~ grab your ticket now!
September 16, 2026 at 12:42 AM
IT'S A.....HALLOWEEN PARTY!
Join CAG + your industry ghoul-friends for a night of fang-tastic fun @ the ANZA Club Upstairs Hall October 16, 2026 from 8 PM to 1 AM!
Thrills + chills, cash bar, sweet treats, + costume contest!
Space is limited, so don't get ghosted ~ grab your ticket now!
Join CAG + your industry ghoul-friends for a night of fang-tastic fun @ the ANZA Club Upstairs Hall October 16, 2026 from 8 PM to 1 AM!
Thrills + chills, cash bar, sweet treats, + costume contest!
Space is limited, so don't get ghosted ~ grab your ticket now!
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"AI may make your job easier, but that effort has just been shifted onto your users. They are noticing it and they hate it."
I've said this before: if you bracket self-delusion, generative "AI" doesn't save labour, it displaces it onto the people who have to deal with the slop.
I've said this before: if you bracket self-delusion, generative "AI" doesn't save labour, it displaces it onto the people who have to deal with the slop.
In 1999, we surfed the Web. Now we comb through it like a fantasy hero. Which posts are treasure, and which are deadly Mimics? What's real, and what's an impersonator trying to steal my attention?
Worse: reading all this bland AI monoculture text leads to us thinking bland AI monoculture thoughts.
Worse: reading all this bland AI monoculture text leads to us thinking bland AI monoculture thoughts.
AI hypervigilance is now an omnipresent cognitive load for your users
AI may make your job easier, but that effort has just been shifted onto your users. They are noticing it and they hate it.
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September 13, 2026 at 10:03 PM
"AI may make your job easier, but that effort has just been shifted onto your users. They are noticing it and they hate it."
I've said this before: if you bracket self-delusion, generative "AI" doesn't save labour, it displaces it onto the people who have to deal with the slop.
I've said this before: if you bracket self-delusion, generative "AI" doesn't save labour, it displaces it onto the people who have to deal with the slop.
Any time i get kabocha it is exactly this experience
September 13, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Any time i get kabocha it is exactly this experience
I did the same thing with my 5.5 yr old nephew today and he does not have such lofty plans, but it did keep him busy for a little while. I still hope he makes a lot of books, though.
taught 5.5 yr old niece to fold zines & she plans to make "a lot of books" let the revolution begin
September 13, 2026 at 4:57 AM
I did the same thing with my 5.5 yr old nephew today and he does not have such lofty plans, but it did keep him busy for a little while. I still hope he makes a lot of books, though.
Absolutely true, but in a lot of ways all this was already proven in the first few months of covid. We have the means and capability to fix most of the major problems of the world, but nobody in power is willing to do it (and we haven't managed to force them to. Yet.)
September 13, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Absolutely true, but in a lot of ways all this was already proven in the first few months of covid. We have the means and capability to fix most of the major problems of the world, but nobody in power is willing to do it (and we haven't managed to force them to. Yet.)
Toronto is so much more fashionable than Vancouver...
September 11, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Toronto is so much more fashionable than Vancouver...
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Here are the two immortal milo manara head public domain erotic adventures, funnier here on Bluesky for almost no context
December 29, 2023 at 6:56 AM
Here are the two immortal milo manara head public domain erotic adventures, funnier here on Bluesky for almost no context
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Great thread by Prof. Bender on AI doomerism, especially worth reading since our "AI Minister" is now engaging in this whole conversation too.
#Cdnpoli #Canada #NoAI
#Cdnpoli #Canada #NoAI
AI Doomerism has been in the news lately, especially with the loud, viral resignation of Jacob Coxon from Anthropic.
Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't seen any statements from CEOs and other execs who are more on the AI Booster side of the ledger.
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Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't seen any statements from CEOs and other execs who are more on the AI Booster side of the ledger.
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September 11, 2026 at 3:44 AM
is this anything
September 11, 2026 at 2:21 AM
is this anything
In Toronto for less time (and later) than in previous years but I was still able to make my annual pilgrimage to my favourite bubble tea shop in north york: "DONT YELL AT ME"
They were out of what was needed for the Tiramisu tea I like to get, so I got an Osmanthus Tea Latte. (Delicious!)
They were out of what was needed for the Tiramisu tea I like to get, so I got an Osmanthus Tea Latte. (Delicious!)
September 10, 2026 at 9:01 PM
In Toronto for less time (and later) than in previous years but I was still able to make my annual pilgrimage to my favourite bubble tea shop in north york: "DONT YELL AT ME"
They were out of what was needed for the Tiramisu tea I like to get, so I got an Osmanthus Tea Latte. (Delicious!)
They were out of what was needed for the Tiramisu tea I like to get, so I got an Osmanthus Tea Latte. (Delicious!)
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September 10, 2026 at 1:13 AM
IT'S THE SHOW IT'S HAUNTED HOTEL! SEASON 2 WILL BE OUT OCTOBER 9TH! I was an animation supervisor on it!! This season is great, I promise!
(After cackling multiple times in the first minutes of the first episode animatic, I messaged a friend on the team with a classic "we are so back")
(After cackling multiple times in the first minutes of the first episode animatic, I messaged a friend on the team with a classic "we are so back")
Haunted Hotel: Season 2 | Official Teaser | Netflix
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September 10, 2026 at 12:17 AM
IT'S THE SHOW IT'S HAUNTED HOTEL! SEASON 2 WILL BE OUT OCTOBER 9TH! I was an animation supervisor on it!! This season is great, I promise!
(After cackling multiple times in the first minutes of the first episode animatic, I messaged a friend on the team with a classic "we are so back")
(After cackling multiple times in the first minutes of the first episode animatic, I messaged a friend on the team with a classic "we are so back")
I knew to expect Heinlein and Niven on the bad side, but lots of giants on the good one: Asimov, Bradbury, Lieber, not to mention the obvious ones like LeGuin, Delany, Ellison, PKD, Roddenberry
Here's a cheat sheet for whenever you read an old sci-fi author
September 9, 2026 at 7:27 PM
I knew to expect Heinlein and Niven on the bad side, but lots of giants on the good one: Asimov, Bradbury, Lieber, not to mention the obvious ones like LeGuin, Delany, Ellison, PKD, Roddenberry
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BREAKING: Blizzard union workers have ratified a historic contract that has secured guardrails around AI usage, layoff protections, remote/hybrid work benefits, and much more.
Blizzard union workers ratify contract covering 1,900 employees
Union members have secured guardrails around generative AI usage, layoff protections, remote and hybrid work benefits, and more.
www.gamedeveloper.com
September 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
BREAKING: Blizzard union workers have ratified a historic contract that has secured guardrails around AI usage, layoff protections, remote/hybrid work benefits, and much more.
I haven't played a Zelda game since Windwaker (which I liked, I'm just not a console guy) so I don't really have a horse in the race, but if we're going maximalist 3D tech I'd love to see something more like this that takes advantage of higher-poly but has starker more dramatic colour
Since Zelda is trending, a friendly reminder how CRAZY good Katsuya Terada is. (1/3)
September 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I haven't played a Zelda game since Windwaker (which I liked, I'm just not a console guy) so I don't really have a horse in the race, but if we're going maximalist 3D tech I'd love to see something more like this that takes advantage of higher-poly but has starker more dramatic colour
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I do not believe that these guys are about to summon a world-ending superconsciousness from Nvidia graphics cards. But they either believe they can or want me to believe they believe they can. So I think "fuck them" is the only rational response
September 9, 2026 at 5:23 AM
I do not believe that these guys are about to summon a world-ending superconsciousness from Nvidia graphics cards. But they either believe they can or want me to believe they believe they can. So I think "fuck them" is the only rational response
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I don't want to be nostalgic anymore. I'm tired of being catered to. I don't want to forever hear the same artistic voices I heard in my youth, now amplified, slowed and reverbed for dramatic effect. I want new worlds. I want new stories. I want new voices. Please!
September 8, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I don't want to be nostalgic anymore. I'm tired of being catered to. I don't want to forever hear the same artistic voices I heard in my youth, now amplified, slowed and reverbed for dramatic effect. I want new worlds. I want new stories. I want new voices. Please!
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This is true to some extent but you have to account for the third arm of the AfD: liberal democracy's own cops and that points to the inherent fascist nature of policing itself and how policing necessarily produces cadres of fascists as a condition of its existence
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
It may seem odd that the AfD has both former Stasi officers and ex(?)neo-Nazis in its ranks of elected officials, but what brings these people together is their hatred of the liberal democratic constitutional and social order that came out of 1989.
Auf X hat jemand mal geschaut, was da so für Leute als AfD-Abgeordnete in den neuen Landtag von Sachsen-Anhalt einziehen werden. Hier eine kleine Auswahl:
September 8, 2026 at 7:59 AM
This is true to some extent but you have to account for the third arm of the AfD: liberal democracy's own cops and that points to the inherent fascist nature of policing itself and how policing necessarily produces cadres of fascists as a condition of its existence
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
September 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
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AI stans keep comparing AI to cars and I think the comparison is revealing in ways they very much don't intend
A technology with broadly negative impacts on society we were forced to restructure our lives around due to enormous corporate lobbying? One we are struggling to eliminate today?
A technology with broadly negative impacts on society we were forced to restructure our lives around due to enormous corporate lobbying? One we are struggling to eliminate today?
September 6, 2026 at 9:49 PM
AI stans keep comparing AI to cars and I think the comparison is revealing in ways they very much don't intend
A technology with broadly negative impacts on society we were forced to restructure our lives around due to enormous corporate lobbying? One we are struggling to eliminate today?
A technology with broadly negative impacts on society we were forced to restructure our lives around due to enormous corporate lobbying? One we are struggling to eliminate today?
Gave into the temptation of the crowd and went to emeri matcha bar on main street, there is always a giant line.
Got the classic matcha latte (very tasty) and their only baked good, "salt bread" which is nicely buttery, a little crispy on the outside and very soft on the inside - also very good.
Got the classic matcha latte (very tasty) and their only baked good, "salt bread" which is nicely buttery, a little crispy on the outside and very soft on the inside - also very good.
September 6, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Gave into the temptation of the crowd and went to emeri matcha bar on main street, there is always a giant line.
Got the classic matcha latte (very tasty) and their only baked good, "salt bread" which is nicely buttery, a little crispy on the outside and very soft on the inside - also very good.
Got the classic matcha latte (very tasty) and their only baked good, "salt bread" which is nicely buttery, a little crispy on the outside and very soft on the inside - also very good.
Amanda keeps me active by inviting me to go hiking
Thanks to my buddy @scribblechris.bsky.social for driving us and the good company! And also for putting up with me inventing a stupid song the whole time we were hiking
September 6, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Amanda keeps me active by inviting me to go hiking
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Clyde Caldwell, Sympathy for the Devil
October 21, 2023 at 2:39 PM
Clyde Caldwell, Sympathy for the Devil
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September 5, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Building proof that I am a hot girl (in a "damn bitch, you live like this?" kind of way)
hot girls hate cable management
September 5, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Building proof that I am a hot girl (in a "damn bitch, you live like this?" kind of way)