This is how you bring people back to malls

playing this new game called indeed.com and it fucking sucks

So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

AI art bros are big mad about it.

Seeing as Twitter is gonna legally steal your work now, please use glaze to protect what you make.

im having a moment

im turning rbs off of this in 24hrs you have my express permission to repost this image as much as you desire idc.

I don’t know who wrote this or why, but this writing is just *chef’s kiss*

**Editing to add: I now know that this was said by Lindy West in her book The Witches are Coming. Good to know! 

This is gold!!!

“toot the bad cone” will never not be funny to me

“you are a lawyer and he is a hamster” is one of the funniest statements ive ever had the pleasure of reading

We stan!!!!

chaotic good

There’s a happy ending to, because the robbery was unsuccessful, the couple ended up getting the money Eden needed from a movie inspired by em! Also John only had to serve part of his sentence. Check out their wedding photos btw they’re beautiful.

reblogging because I’ve seen this post a thousand times and I’ve never seen the happy ending!! 

Everyone go watch Dog Day Afternoon please please please it’s the movie mentioned in this thread it’s Sidney Lumet’s best imo and Al Pacino plays John and he is heartbreakingly good in it.

One of the most important things I have learned today..

artist tips

don’t save as jpeg

as a former yearbook editor and designer, let me explain this further

if youre only planning on posting your art online, them please save it as .png ;this is also better for transparencies as well

BUT

please, if youre planning of printing your art, NEVER use png. it makes the quality of the image pretty shitty. use jpeg or pdf instead. and always set your work at 300dpi to get a better printing quality - this means, the images are crisper and sharper and theres no slight blurriness. i had a talk with my friend who is currently taking design, and pdf is much better to use when youre working with a bigger publishing company because it still has the layers intact, but if youre only planning on printing your stuff at staples or at some small publishing store, the jpeg is the way to go.

this has been a public service announcement

Want a good picture to save as? PNG

Want a good printed picture? JPEG

my point exactly

Captions on the tik tok: Welcome back to "self made is a toxic myth".

At just 14 years old, Taylor Swift moved to Nashville, and quickly signed with Sony Music and Big Machine Records. She then released her self titled debut album which quickly went platinum in 2006. Since then, Swift has had nothing but smash hit after smash hit. Including making history this year as the first artist to dominate the entire Top 10 on the billboard Hot 100 with Anti Hero. Wow, that's amazing! But I guess this goes to show that as long as you're talented and work hard and follow your dreams, eventually-

Yeah, what that narrative leaves out is that Taylor Swift was born rich. Taylor Swift's father is Scott Swift, former stockbroker for Merrill Lynch. Her mother is Andrea Gardiner, a former mutual funds executive. Swift grew up on an 11 acre Christmas tree farm.

Okay, so what, she grew up wealthy. Does that mean she didn't work hard? No, that's not what it means? Well, does that mean she's not talented? Nope, that's not what it means.

What it means is that when she was 9, she was regularly flying to New York for acting and singing lesson. What it means is that when she was 13, she was working with a talent manager who helped her secure a development deal with RCA. What it means is that when she was 14, her family had the resources to relocate to Nashville, so she could work on music full time. What it means is that every day after school, Taylor is working with experienced hit songwriters. What it means is that when a DreamWorks A and R executive wanted to start his own record label, called Big Machine Records, Taylor's father brought 3 percent worth of stock in the company, for somewhere between 120 K and 300 K, incentivizing him to push her album.

The reason this series exists is to remind my fellow indie artists to take it easy on ourselves, when you feel like you're not progressing in your career fast enough, even though you're talented and hard working too. Because talent and hard work are not enough. You've just been programmed to think that they are, by an endless parade of folks who conveniently downplay how big a role their various privileges played in their success.

After all, it's a lot easier to be an Anti Hero in a lavender haze, when you own the lavenders.

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It's literally science: Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure This study came out last year and proves that luck (such as wealth) is an outsized contributor to success. That doesn't mean that hard work doesn't ever pay off! But a lot of times those big names are hiding the real secret: Mommy and Daddy's money. Not hitting "the big time" does not mean you aren't good! It means you are competing against people who already had a leg up and are pretending that they started at the same level.

mutuals do this

I am dead serious: If you are a Walmart employee, at any level and in any store — like if you are a high school kid with a part time job stocking shelves — message me any question you have about unions. Like ask me “What’s a union” if you want. I will explain it to you. I am a grievance chair for a white collar union whose workplace only unionized within the last five years and whose management fought as every step of the way, but in the end we fucking won. It can be done, and I can tell you how.

Rb to kill wal mart

Unionizing is our wet dream I promise you.

I like how it’s described as a union could “cripple American Capitalism” when more precisely it’s just that a union would be so powerful as to force WalMart (or any other company) to pay their workers like human beings. That’s not going to break Walmart. They’ll barely notice.

They’ve successfully convinced us that the unions are the greedy monsters. For so many years, the companies have painted unions as “we want you to pay janitors three million dollars a year and if you don’t we’ll set your stores on fire”. 

But it’s more like “We want you to take an almost imperceptible fraction of your bountiful profits and use it to make your employees’ live marginally better, and maybe give them medical benefits, y’know, so they don’t die”.

Big companies did not stop hiring ten year olds to work in coal mines because they just woke up one day and said “my god, we’re monsters”. They did it because their workers stood together and said “really, enough of this crap”.

Companies are not going to give people raises unless it’s economically necessary that they do so. Anything they can do to lower their expenses, and raise their profits, they are going to do. And no one person can stop them.

But thousands of people, millions of people? Better chances.

To anyone that wants to claim it wouldn’t work:

Just another reminder that Walmart Germany was a spectacular fail because of ver.di (which is a national service trade union that has it’s control over almost all trade and service companies in Germany) among other things.

Like, ver.di essentially came up to the CEO of Walmart Germany and was like “Hi, welcome, we wish you the best and that we can work together well :)” and the dude was like “hahaha no” and tried to pull the american concept here so ver.di pulled out a list of all the breaches of german law that Walmart was doing (underpaying workers, trying to avoid paying health care by using part-timers, trying to be open for more than 80 hours per week, firing people on short notice without warning or exit payments, etc) and long story short, they got some massive hefty fines for it. They also set up a list of demands for the workers and organized national strikes to push them through, making the employees of 85 hypermarkets neatly stand in front of the store doors with signs, whistles and chants (and certainly not the “Wallmart! Wallmart!” chant). In the end, that plus other things caused them to bail after 9 years with a gigantic loss (almost a billion just from sales) from one of the best retail markets in the world.

So all those issues like “no healthcare” or “work full-time and need food stamps” or “work on sundays and holidays” and shit? Unions are there to set their foot down against that for you. They are there to keep you safe from the corps wrath while fighting for your rights.

Cause if you, an individual, complain, they just fire you and laugh about it. A union is a collection of hundreds up to MILLIONS of people, supported by lawyers, going against employers for you.

In Denmark, due to union negotiations & refusal to work for slave wages, the McDonald’s basic pay comes out to about $20 US / Hour. The big mac there costs about 60 cents more.

Actually crippling capitalism is good and cool anyway

Reminder than Walmart won’t even be paying time and a half during thanksgiving and Black Friday to their employees. They only give them a DISCOUNT On two specific days. Shit pay and their only “perk” is to give the money back to Walmart by shopping there.

Fuck Walmart. Unionize. Burn the waltons down.

hello i would like nintendo to return us the round Bean

Round is beautiful.

speaking as a professional archivist, everyone should leave lizzo the fuck alone bc:

in conclusion, the "controversy" is just people being racist byeeeee

Lizzo fucks severely and she's a great flautist fuck yeah

The Library of Congress archivists also fuck severely and would not let a celebrity damage an object for a publicity stunt you absolute buffoons. It was obviously handled appropriately

So I actually live in the DC area and in the Before Times™ I got to go to a small concert that was being put on ✨for free✨ by the Library of Congress. It was a classical music concert featuring some top hits from German and Italian composers. My friends and I lowered the average age of the audience by about 30 years just by stepping in the room, but I digress. Classical music isn’t always my jam but I love hearing strings live, it just hits different. The orchestra was quite small (14 people if memory serves?) and a broad mix of ages, and while I’m guessing like 70% of players were white, for a small chamber orchestra in what I understand is a very white field (please do correct me if I’m wrong) there were more non-white musicians than I would have guessed, but then again, I’m an outsider to the world of classical music.

ANYWAY the real magic of the evening was after they’d finished their main programming, one of the violinists stepped forward to thank everyone for coming and give a quick plug for how to support similar programming at the Library. He lauded the Library’s interest in music and thanked them for a private tour through their musical instrument collections earlier that day.

And then he dropped the absolute bombshell that this entire evening, we’d actually been listening to not one, but three Stradivariuses—a violin, a viola, and a cello, I think, which the Library had loaned to them for the performance.

THREE. OF 14 MUSICIANS ON STAGE THREE OF THEM WERE PLAYING STRADIVARIUSES. AT A FREE CONCERT. This violinist was holding one of them as he told us. When I tell you this geriatric audience fucking GASPED. He went on to play a solo to the most silent audience I’d ever heard. He got a standing ovation, and they all got a standing ovations for the next two pieces they played, because even though we’d been listening to them all night, knowing the history of the instruments made the experience much more special. As a side note, only one of the Stradivariuses was played by a white musician.

I know something as unusual as a crystal flute owned by the author of our constitution probably registers differently than a Stradivarius in the world of music, and I realize the audiences at a Lizzo concert and a small chamber orchestra concert are comically different. I’m just trying to highlight the fact that the LoC loans out their extremely valuable instruments with at least passing regularity, so this was absolutely not a stunt. These things were meant to be played, after all, and played by true masters. Lizzo is (aside from being the creator of some absolute bangers) an insanely talented flautist, classically trained. These musicians I got to see were insanely talented at their respective instruments. I never heard a single peep of complaint from the almost 100% white boomer audience. Some of them were crying just to see and hear such special instruments live, something I assume many of them had never thought they would get to do—I know didn’t!

People who are upset about Lizzo’s performance don’t give a shit about music or that flute. They’re racist gatekeepers of both history and of music. You only just now learned that James Madison had a crystal flute, and you’re upset you got to hear such a unique treasure played by a master???? That the Library of Congress is sharing, after 200 years, a small piece of our nation’s history that can bring people both joy and the chance to be included in an unexpected new bit of history?

If you get mad about that, you’re the asshole. You don’t care about history or about music, you’re just a racist asshole. Instruments are meant to be played. Music was meant to be shared. That Lizzo has the talent to play a crystal flute (like okay I played flute in middle/high school, how heavy and slippery must that thing be???) and a platform large enough to share that experience with viewers worldwide is the best debut that an obscure bit of history could hope for.

P.S. If you haven't already seen any of her playing yet here's a vid

I love you ocs who don’t reach broad popularity in fandom I love you self-inserts who get dismissed as mary sues I love you ocs who are so overpowered they break the rules of their setting I love you ocs with no accompanying art I love you ocs with no accompanying fic I love you flat-out unpopular ocs I love you creators who pour your hearts into building a character from scratch

i’m team “not all transformative works are fanfiction, fanfiction is a specific modern phenomenon founded on a specific relationship between reader and text that doesn’t require historical proofs to be a legitimate form” up until people start being snotty and obnoxious about it and then i am there going “hamlet is gesta danorum fanfiction”

oh there’s my team

fanfiction requires copyright laws and a community who deliberately bends them, unless it’s arthuriana and the 27 super speshul best knights who are all the king’s nephews, or i’m talking to the comicbro who worships frank miller

(tags via @nonasuch ) why stop there when you can whip out dante’s self-insert OC fic, just for sheer pettiness

This is erasing Alexander the Great’s “who tops between Achilles and Patroclus” discourse with his boyfriend.

Swellow is that really necessary

That bird is gay. The DRAMA.

Also

Drama queens

Okay but