Finally finished my 2d project !!! This is my first animation class so I'm very proud of this 😭💖 hope yall like it too ! You can find more if my projects in insta @artbynikara !
Police officers could solve real problems. They could be out there feeding hot soup to the unhoused, making sure that hazardous garbage is kept away from daycares, or doing something about all these birds that keep shitting on my car. Instead of those productive things, Officer Bringdown is here, on the side of the road, spending my tax money to hand me a ticket for more of my money.
Or at least he would be, if he could figure out how to work his dorky little ticket printer. You see, I have an ace up my sleeve. Not only is my car old, and difficult to place, but I’ve made certain modifications to the vehicle that render its legal state “complicated.” My shark of an attorney, Max, brags about the bear trap of intermingled kit-car laws and year-of-manufacture exclusions that have led to this vehicle being one hundred percent approved-of by the government, in any condition I dictate, whether they meant to or not.
“Uhh, how do you spell ‘Duesenberg’ again?” the cop asks, betraying his lack of education in the classics. I spell it out for him, and explain again that the replica registration exception of December 1986 means that a 1921 Model J does not need to have operational turn signals or a functional speedometer.
“How is this a replica of a 1921 car? It says Plymouth on the hood.” he asks me suspiciously, behind mirrored aviator shades. I am familiar with this shift in conversation. I see now that he has fallen into the first legal pit without complaint. I was hoping for a more worthy opponent.
“Officer, has the state rendered upon you an encyclopedic knowledge and unimpeachable legal authority of what a 1921 Duesenberg Model J consists and does not consist of?” I ask him, reading off a sheet that has been provided by my attorney, who would really rather that I shut the fuck up entirely, but who I know secretly thrills at the chance to end another state trooper’s career in the court of law in which he is akin to a walking god. Dude has groupies.
The cop demurs, tries to change the subject, save some face. “What’s that smell?” he asks.
“Hydrazine.”
My absolute hottest take is that, from a culturally relative perspective, no food is bad. None of it. It's an expression of culture, art, history, ecology, material conditions, subjective taste. It's all inedible pap to somebody and the taste of childhood for someone else. Americans be eating cheesed burger. Pea wet is as good as gravy in Wigan. The French eat snails and the Inuit eat seal, the Germans eat sauerkraut and the Russians drink kvass, the Inca ate cavy and the Romans ate flamingo. People around the world have been eagerly awaiting their serving of simple bread or thin porridge or fermented milk product or pickled whatever-the-fuck since we learned to cook food over fire. We all love the slop we grew up eating. Food is a reflection of millennia of culture and loving human artistic expression. Attempting to extrapolate largely harmless online food banter into actual serious comparative rankings or half-baked critical analyses of cultures based on how much you subjectively don't like what they eat is a miserable way to live. Live a little. Peace and love on the only planet with food.
This is a post of critical support for bland English cuisine and unhinged Brazilian pizzas and everything else I don't understand. Turning food, something literally every person on earth enjoys, into a moral or cultural judgement is, well, if it's not full-blown reactionary and parochial... then it's at least kind of nasty, huh?
think about the money that went into serving me every single one of these ads. all for nothing. love wins
you guys should be including things like 'you can turn off reblogs' and 'heres how the desktop themes work' and 'heres common xkit addons that will be super useful' on your new user guides instead of just saying 'reblog everything you see or youre a hater'
you can use new xkit to do things like
- remove ads
- download audio files & add a volume slider
- set custom tags for types of posts (text posts, videos, etc)
- set custom tags for queued posts! i've noticed that's fallen out of fashion in the past couple of years and i don't know if people just aren't aware they can do that anymore
- blacklist & whitelist keywords with a lot more flexibility than the website's system allows for
- block posts from your dashboard forever
and more (that i haven't used before so i can't vouch for their functionality)
also things like
- its acceptable to change your url often. make a sideblog with your old url if you want to go back to it though
- sideblogs! they exist! you can post things to them but likes, replies, and follows only come from your main blog. people can't find your sideblog from your main blog unless you link it directly
- there's keyboard shortcuts that will save your hand from endless scrolling. j to jump to the next post, k to jump to the previous post, etc
- you can change the color palette of the dashboard. personally mine is eternally set on low-contrast classic because the default hurts my eyes
- you can add image descriptions (like twitter). it's also appreciated if you add image descriptions as text underneath the image instead
- submissions, asks, and direct messages are different things. submissions are entire posts that you send to someone for them to choose to post on their own blog. asks are messages that people can reply to in post format (either privately or publicly, so if you want them to respond privately you may want to mention that). direct messages are only private
- you can turn off the ability for people to see that you're online (privacy -> let others see you're online)
- you can turn anonymous asks off and control the kinds of things people can submit to you (blog -> blog settings)
Important correction! You want XKit Rewritten not New XKit. I know the names are confusing, but New Xkit is no longer maintained and many of the features are now incompatible with the site.
The whole Reddit thing is an especially striking example of corporate brain rot because, like, they managed to build their entire business model on the back of exploiting vast quantities of unpaid volunteer labour, and successfully convinced the entire Internet that this is a normal state of affairs. How do you fuck that up? How do you convince yourself that instituting a de facto demand for your very nearly 100% volunteer workforce to pay you for the ability to use the tools that are required to do their job is anything other than cutting your own throat?
Like, do they just not grasp the fundamentals of their own business model? Do they not realise that they're a for-profit business in the unimaginably envious position of employing a largely volunteer workforce? That's the only place I can imagine the idea coming from of going to people who doing the work of employees for free and saying "actually, you should pay us for the privilege of working for us".
Jller by Benjamin Maus and Prokop Bartonicek - a kinetic artwork that sorts thousands of random river stones by age
they made an autistic robot
MUG CHECK! ☕
if you have any mugs or dirty dishes in your room, eat them!!
eat your ceramics and glassware
Added Generation Alpha because maybe there are some 13 year olds on this site and added Silent Generation because maybe there are some 80 year olds on here too
WHERE ARE THE 80 YEAR OLDS
Color & mood exploration paintings I did for Spider HQ!
I only did paint and color for these - design and layout of this space is the vision of the incredible Patrick O'Keefe and all the spiders are character designs by the amazing Kris Anka!
