'Cinema Futura' Movie Theater - Zhongshan, China (2014)

Oh no, I have come to realize a huge mistake I made.

Writing a character who is a basketball player means I keep putting myself in situations where I have to write them playing basketball. I haven't played a sport since I was, like, 12. I'm an otaku (derogatory) but I never read Slam Dunk. I am elbow deep in the Wikipedia article for Basketball as we speak.

Good Climate News

news.yahoo.com

Australia blocks coal mine to protect Great Barrier Reef

It is the first time the government has rejected such a proposal, saying it posed an "unacceptable risk".

WildEarth Guardians

Federal appeals court rejects oil and gas drilling and fracking in northwest New Mexico’s Greater Chaco region

The US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit rejected the Biden administration’s defense of oil and gas fracking in the Greater Chaco region

Canada's National Observer

Milestone agreement to protect vast West Coast marine areas endorsed by First Nations, Ottawa and B.C.

Fifteen First Nations are assuming stewardship of the Great Bear Sea marine protected area network that covers two-thirds of Canada’s West C

Environment + Energy Leader

President Biden Signs Food Donation Improvement Act

The United States discards more food than any other country in the world – nearly 40 million tons every year.

CNBC

Test proves that CO2 sucked from the air can be trapped in concrete

A California startup using rocks to soak up carbon dioxide from the air has teamed up with a Canadian company to mineralize the gas in concr

Few of the artist affected by AI art thievery.

Posts by Jon Lam Art.

i don’t know what else to say except that AI art is no longer simply a source of creativity or a wonder of human creation. it has become actively hostile and destructive toward the very thing it pretends to uplift and celebrate. it is void of any human element, any soul or ounce of emotion or self-expression. continuing to use AI art knowing that it comes from theft and robbing artists of their livelihood is disgusting. we need your support now more than ever. stop giving these thieves your money and admiration.

ALT

don’t forget during the WGA strike that animation is not covered under the WGA deals and as a result animation has gotten the shortest possible end of the stick in under-staffing, under-paying, and generally turning the field into gig employment.

please sign the petition here for Disney to recognize animation production workers as a union and reblog this post!

since I already reblogged about it here's a less informal, more concise way of putting it:

THE INTERNET ARCHIVE IS NOT GOING TO DIE. ONLY CERTAIN BOOKS ARE AT STAKE NOTHING ELSE. DONATE WHAT YOU CAN FOR THEIR COURT COSTS. THEY STILL HAVE AN APPEAL TO GIVE

i want to shake those two little Victorian girl bitchs hands who faked the pictures of themselves playing with fairies and thank them for paving the way.

here's some advice for people new to tumblr i haven't seen around our parts yet... a very, very common current scam on this site to get some money out of folks is as follows:

You receive a message like the below, asking for a signal boost for a donation post pinned on their page; this is almost always for a pet.

You check their page and it all looks legit. They have an icon/pfp, a bunch of reblogs rather than an empty blog, the pinned post has candid cat/dog/etc photos that look convincing, and there's a link to a normal looking gofundme in a lot of cases, with similarly realistic photos. They didn't even ask you to publish the ask specifically, they just want you to consider reblogging.

…but if you scroll down far enough, it turns out there's only like a week worth of random reblogs, no real other posts and no interaction with anyone else on the site. Which isn't in and of itself an issue- everyone joins Tumblr at SOME point- but maybe a red flag?

Inevitably, when you reverse image search the pet photos, they were nabbed off instagram or facebook or twitter or something. It's a scam.

I was getting 2-3 of these a week at one point, and all of them were convincing, probably because I doubt any of them were bots. this is a really common scam but not nearly as easily spotted as obviously automated phishing attempts; don't publish or donate to these. they're hoping your sense of sympathy, generosity and even guilt will override your suspicion at a rando asking you for money. delete 'em.

i just bring this up because i'm seeing a couple people in tf fandom getting these asks and going 'hey, signal boost!!!'' and while it's a very kind impulse... yeah, it's overwhelmingly scams, folks. sorry.

THE INTERNET IS IN DANGER! FIGHT THE KOSA BILL !

PLEASE REBLOG AND SHARE THIS ANYWHERE YOU CAN !!!!!

CONTACT AND INFO MASTERPOST : https://linktr.ee/stopkosa

Read this post as well: https://www.tumblr.com/taikeero-lecoredier/702208764745515008/urgent-congress-trying-to-pass-anti-lgbt-bill Calling, sending emails, and faxing senators are important. I would also encourage anyone to make art or memes against the bill to spread the news further.

A Series of Unfortunate Events is anarchist propaganda because all of the problems are caused by both capitalist bureaucracy and a weird insistence from everybody with power that “the rules,” no matter how silly, must be followed.