Jay Hasrajani

I think the heron being an elegant and chaotic character is a perfect image/metaphor for this movie!

Coming soon: Clara & the Below - episode 1 From "Amphibia" creator Matt Braly - an animated gothic horror spin on the Nutcracker full of wintery chills and somber vibes.

This will be an 100% independent production that relies on crowdfunding for its budget. Please give us a follow at our pre-launch page here to receive updates leading to our March 13th launch: www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

I can't believe we're gonna get to buy our Halloween costumes at the damn Kennedy Center.

Huge! Well deserved! The Vibe Check team is amazing! Congrats to everyone.

Writing Advice:

Manslaughter Your Darlings

Get the story to work unintentionally and completely by accident

@jhasrajani.bsky.social “Wouldn’t that be Manslaughter In The First Degree Your Darlings?”

ME: “….shut up”

ON ARRAKIS, PUTTING ON A STILLSUIT FOR THE FIRST TIME:

“Do you have Sparkling?”

Super tedious exercise! Looking great though!

WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

These are great!!

Special thanks:

@doodley.org for this amazing editing!

@thedragoeffect.bsky.social and @jhasrajani.bsky.social for inspiring this video!

@kaitsnod.bsky.social for helping us with guild wage questions!

Go check out @lackadaisyshow.bsky.social!!!

Aphelion is a really fun side-project. I find it extremely helpful to stay creative during these really stressful times in animation. Also…it’s fun stretching those animation muscles once in a while.

OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property. The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost. OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.

I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.

www.ft.com/content/a0df...

Aphelion!

FILE UNDER: Cork & Cobbler

Enter Cobbler. It's a dirty job but somebody's gotta do it. That somebody is usually Cobbler. But that won't stop him from complaining about it. (1/3)

It's less than two weeks until Christmas, or twelve Honda Days, depending on what you observe.

Luigi Mangione Is Not the Issue Here Instead of worshiping him or stuffing him into an ideological box, let's focus on fixing the inhumane society that shaped him.

Really good from @therafischwartz.bsky.social about pushing past the Luigi Mangione sleuthing frenzy to get to the real issue: that our healthcare system is so fucked up, and we hate it so much, that we've turned him into a hero. www.discourseblog.com/p/luigi-mang...

FILE UNDER: Cork & Cobbler

Meet Cork. He claims his full name is Corklin Excelsior "of the Southton Excelsiors". Surely, you've heard of the Excelsior Family. The incredibly rich, stuck-up, and posh and, most importantly, HUMAN family. (1/3)

DC Metal Force | Let the Games Begin! FULL EPISODE 1 | @dckids YouTube video by DC Kids

Episode 1 of DC METAL FORCE is HERE!

The Justice League and the Legion of Doom are teleported across the galaxy and forced to do battle by the cosmic being known only as Technis with the fate of the entire universe at stake!

New episodes premiere on YouTube every day for the next week!

@thedragoeffect.bsky.social and I are starting The Golden Jackal with “Cork and Cobbler!” I detective story set in a fantasy world.

With this illustration, I thought it would be fun to just do something simple: A game of cards, that hints at everyone’s personality.

More to come…Stay tuned!

Coffee Commissary has no right to have the amazing food it does…But…I’m here for it.

OPTIMUS PRIME: Autobots! Transform and roll out!

PESSIMUS PRIME: Autobots! Transforming is meaningless! We can never change who we truly are!

So good!

So good!

Blasphemy! Down with Ska!

Starting a cool thing with @thedragoeffect.bsky.social !
Follow along to see some cool stuff!

Answer For It live trivia show happening November 10. Streaming tickets available now.

New ANSWER FOR IT! this Sun Nov 10. Get your ticket to stream it at DynastyTypewriter.com

Might work in a story involving this tokusatsu-inspired character…

New profile picture!