crimson-sunsett

sonlosgatosespaciales

amazable01

qyriad

Screenshot of the post at https://mastodon.acc.umu.se/@pettter/111249022267794376. Full text follows: It's funny: Both Bandcamp and Patreon had the easiest and most straightforwardly long-term profitable business models imaginable: Sit between indie creatives and their fans, provide some basic services for mediation (comment sections, media posts, semi-global payment) and take enough of a cut of any payments to cover the costs and then some. But because that business model wouldn't scale forever, they are instead being gutted, because ever _increasing_ growth is the only model capital accepts

phatfred

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

― Edward Abbey

Source: mastodon.acc.umu.se

thelooniemoonie

byronicjamie

^this

moonliithe

While I was rereading the latest BNHA chapter and doing some higher quality staring at AFO’s eerily familiar childish mug at this point, I became possessed by the spirit of loose connections and obsessive pattern recognition. For that reason alone, you may all have this now:

Visual Influences and its Narrative Cousins

(This first part is not to be taken too seriously as I was being insanely pessimistic and contrarian on purpose, these were originally all WhatsApp ramblings)

Bonus:

dadstielkline

hongism

atzupdates

[230929] HONGJOONG for Balmain at Paris Fashion Week with Lena Mahfouf

durnesque-esque

sagwgastrikeupdates

a tweet from Rich Greenfield that says "WGA was so focused on marginal wins that could have been accomplished in a few weeks if negotiating that they missed the dramatic correction coming to entertainment business H/T @MattBelloni @PuckNews for flaging this tweet"

a tweet from Ellen Stutzman responding to the tweet from Rich Greenfield that says "Sorry, wrong. Companies refused to negotiate for 102 days, WGA was ready to make this deal from day 1. Industry correction been in the news, not result of strike. We negotiate to ensure writers have good jobs and share in value regardless of industry size."

they’re already trying to change the narrative of the strike.

fans4wga

Keep an eye out for this kind of anti-union narrative spin in the coming days, especially when it's sourced from Matt Belloni and similar (Belloni is an entertainment reporter who wrote a lot of anti-WGA, pro-AMPTP garbage during the strike!) Ellen Stutzman is chief negotiator for the WGA and knows what she's talking about.

ohihopeicanchangethislater

Thanks for the heads up on Matt Belloni, I completely missed that. I listened to one episode of his podcast because Mike Schur was on talking about the strike. Now I know now to listen to anymore episodes, not like I was going to anyway.

fans4wga

You're welcome—it's especially frustrating because Puck does some otherwise good reporting on the entertainment industry! (Just so it's not just coming from me, here's WGA member Liz Alper on Belloni, and other WGA members on Twitter were talking about unfollowing Puck/Belloni during the WGA strike.)