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Wanted to post my gym leader OC, Rylie! She’s a clown who wants nothing but to spread laughter and cheer wherever she goes! She trains Psychic Pokemon and has powers of her own, but mainly uses it for entertainment purposes in her big top performances.

gregpak

Tumblr and so-called "A.I."

Apparently Tumblr is working on a deal to let so-called "A.I." companies scrape the site -- and our posts -- for content to feed their systems. Supposedly we'll be able to opt out, but I haven't been able to find an opt-out button yet in my settings.

First: GROSS.

Second: NO.

Third: It should be OPT-IN, not OPT-OUT. I don't want to spend my time having to track which services I use are going to start this kind of trash policies. I shouldn't have to opt-out - it should be opt-out by default since I didn't approve it when I first signed up.

Third: If anyone finds the opt-out button, please do let me know where it is.

Fourth: GROSS AND NO.

UPDATE: Okay, I found the setting! Go to "Settings," then click on the icon for your blog under "Blogs." Then scroll to "Visibility" and there should be an option to UNCLICK the setting that reads "Prevent third-party sharing."

Still: GROSS and NO.

It’s been rumored on Tumblr for days.

ace-cat-lady

Unclick? I feel so stupid and am looking at all three of the bits in visibility and no longer know if I'm reading them right. Shouldn't it be clicked to prevent sharing? I'm so confused! I hate this so much.

Unclicking and taking headache meds.

gregpak

Sorry, yes, you should CLICK to prevent sharing, sorry!

miitarion

mrsbeef

Canadian union actors have been locked out of commercial work by union-busting agencies for over 500 days.

Because a lot of people don't really understand what is happening here, I'm going to take a moment to talk about what a lockout is.

A lockout is like the opposite of a strike: in a strike, workers withhold their labour until employers agree to their demands for improved conditions, while in a lockout employers essentially starve workers of work-- and by extension, crucially, wages-- to force them into accepting unacceptable conditions.

In the context of a factory, it might look like literally shutting down the factory because the owner can afford to simply eat the short-term loss while they sit and wait for the workers to grow desperate. Or they may bring in what are euphemistically referred to as "replacement workers". You may know them by the more familiar term: scabs. Those who are willing to put up with more for less, and in so doing worsen labour conditions across the whole industry. This is economically advantageous to the employers, and they can just sit there in comfort while they wait for the union and its members to break.

A lockout is a cruel power play in what is already an unequal relationship. It is intentional infliction of desperation and psychological distress.

The Institute of Canadian Agencies' lockout of ACTRA members has been going on for more than 500 days. It has intentionally inflicted more than 500 days of psychological distress and existential threat on thousands of people. And in the midst of this the ICA has done little but employ DARVO strategies (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender), when it has initiated this essentially in protest of not being given the freedom to slash union commercial actors' compensation by 80%. ACTRA has been ready and willing to bargain this whole time, but the ICA insists it's ACTRA holding its own members down.

The ICA's client companies are hugely recognised brands whose CEOs take home untold millions every year in salaries while the average ACTRA commercial actor makes well under 10k a year. Professional actors' work is important and needed-- if it wasn't the agencies wouldn't be bringing in scabs-- and yet they are forced into conditions where they literally cannot live. They cannot afford to put a roof over their heads and food on the table in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis.

PLEASE share this and let union actors know you stand with them. Boycott these companies who hire union-busting agencies. Write to them and let them know why. This fight has been long and demoralising, and folks are exhausted and sad, and given all the attention that has rightly been on the striking WGA and SAG-AFTRA members (with whom ACTRA has been rallying together in solidarity), their Canadian sibling union needs your solidarity and support too.

rariatoo

Hello.

The OC I’m drawing will be serialized as a web comic. It will be serialized from May 25th on the web manga site “Mato Grosso”. We plan to update once every 3 weeks. I will do my best to draw good comics！

https://matogrosso.jp/

rariatoo

I hope the day will come when I can watch it in Japan too…!

midoricorey

Fanart of @rariatoo ‘s character Noss the Nosferatu because my little Noss plush from Makeship arrived this week! She’s so cute. :)

By midoricorey.

kisaragisrktwo

三人「暑い夏が！Tシャツの季節がやってきたぞー！」ってやりたかったのに今年は冷夏らしいっすねぇ・・・発売当時（去年4月）に描いていて放置してたのをようやく完成させました未だ部屋着として大活躍しておりますこのTシャツ皆さんはまだ着ておりますでしょうか

某俳優の悲しいニュースを見ていたら生来ネガティブな自分も引きずられてとてもリュウの誕生日絵をどうにかしようという精神状態に持っていけなかったので描きかけのものに手を加えてたけど（そもそもコスコンのデザインを練っていたから手をつけるのが遅かった）少しだけ気力が回復したからこれから何か一枚絵を描けたらいいな

コスコンはケンで応募したのですがどうかな〜選ばれるといいな〜でも無難すぎたかな・・・

shockdingo

This is amazing!

kisaragisrktwo

三人「暑い夏が！Tシャツの季節がやってきたぞー！」ってやりたかったのに今年は冷夏らしいっすねぇ・・・発売当時（去年4月）に描いていて放置してたのをようやく完成させました未だ部屋着として大活躍しておりますこのTシャツ皆さんはまだ着ておりますでしょうか

某俳優の悲しいニュースを見ていたら生来ネガティブな自分も引きずられてとてもリュウの誕生日絵をどうにかしようという精神状態に持っていけなかったので描きかけのものに手を加えてたけど（そもそもコスコンのデザインを練っていたから手をつけるのが遅かった）少しだけ気力が回復したからこれから何か一枚絵を描けたらいいな

コスコンはケンで応募したのですがどうかな〜選ばれるといいな〜でも無難すぎたかな・・・