Brittany Phoenix Rising @jetblackrising.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Sketches. #animation #character designs 000 0
Brittany Phoenix Rising @jetblackrising.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Some old watercolor at art stuff 001 1
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingCatsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Sony Pictures Animation/Imageworks present "This Is Animation", a free-to-access online course designed to introduce learners of all ages to the art and industry of animated filmmaking. yellowbrick.co/sony variety.com/2025/artisan... 181926740 1.9K
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingSkree Ghoulsen 🎃🦇🌿 @breebird33.bsky.social · 21/05/2025in case folks need reminding: the term "Calarts style" was coined by John K, who has removed himself from the animation industry due to grooming allegations, to criticize cartoon aesthetics of the 2010s so yeah....there's a reason why the term raises a number of red flags 32115673 2.1K
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingSARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 12/05/2025JUST IN: H5N1 Bird Flu Outbreak Confirmed in Miami-Dade, Florida; 280 Birds Affected at Live Bird Sales Market 321395 213
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Paramount, the owner of CBS, has been accused of meddling in reporting being done by 60 Minutes. Why? It needs approval from Trump's FCC to be acquired by Skydance — a media company founded by the son of billionaire Trump-backer Larry Ellison. Always follow the money. 611757481 1.8K
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingPBS News @pbsnews.org · 14/04/2025In 1865, as members of the Ford's Theatre audience cried out that President Abraham Lincoln had been shot, the first doctor to attend Lincoln was a 23-year-old Army captain named Charles A. Leale. Dr. Leale detailed Lincoln’s final hours in a 22-page report. (from 2015)buff.lyApril 14-15, 1865: The tragic final hours of Abraham LincolnThe macabre details of Abraham Lincoln’s final hours were described in a report written by a 23-year-old Army captain named Charles A. Leale, a doctor who was at Ford's Theatre the night the… 411819 118
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingDavid Sirota @davidsirota.com · 06/04/2025Dems coulda taken populism in a constructive direction on trade/oligarchy/corruption. But Obama betrayed his mandate, Dems rejected Bernie populism for Hillary neoliberalism, fueling the Joker version of populism: Trump. Biden populism lite wasn’t enough & now here we are. Lessons should be learned. 1220941 209
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11/03/2025BREAKING: Workers at multiple Starbucks locations are now on strike over the company's refusal to negotiate a fair union contract with @sbworkersunited.org. 81561285 1.6K
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingRori! @roricomics.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Bonus portrait for #internationalwomensday (a day w/roots in the labor movement), a tireless supporter & instigator for women's rights, Kollontai wrote this essay in 1913, for the 1st Day of International Solidarity among the Female Proletariat in the Russian Empire: www.marxists.org/archive/koll... 15523 55
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 07/03/2025We mark the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when civil rights marchers were brutalized in Selma, Alabama, by revisiting our interview with the late civil rights icon John Lewis. www.democracynow.org/2012/12/24/r...democracynow.orgRep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, on the Struggle to Win, and Now Protect, Voting Rights in U.S.As 2013 approaches, marking the 50th anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington, we spend the hour with one of the last surviving speakers from that day: Civil rights icon, now 13-term Georg... 10382106 382
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingMax Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 04/03/2025I'm not sure which of you need to hear this, but: If you push yourself to your limits and burn out for a company, you are trading years of your future productivity for minor gains in the present. Burning out will _fuck you up_, it's like brain fog or depression, and it takes years to recover 13069352027 6.9K
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingJellybox Studio @jellybox.bsky.social · 24/02/2025We made a video essay! If you've ever been curious to learn about how animation gets its funding, then check this out! Here's a preview: IT'S ROUGH OUT HERE Huge thanks to the Lackadaisy team for giving us insight into their production! 💚 youtu.be/-sSa4VEFx6o?...youtu.beThe Secret of Funding Indie Animation (ft. Lackadaisy)YouTube video by Jellybox 131191419 1.2K
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingKelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Just a small reminder that Teddy Roosevelt creating the Federal National Parks was one of the biggest illegal land grabs in history from Natives. Y’all were never supposed to be the ones overseeing them. They were our homes, our food, our life. 213330 133
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingSEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 11/02/2025Farmworkers feed the nation, yet they’re barely paid enough to feed their own families. This is why we fight. 2784182 784
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingAndrew 🐻 @awd.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Here's the official trailer for The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie Out March 14th 2025 472472804 2.5K
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix Risinghey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 12/02/2025At some point we have to realize that the Democrats are not coming to save us. Their goal is not Justice. It’s maintenance. This is why they treat protest with more hostility than the things we’re protesting. 14816 48
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingDavid Sirota @davidsirota.com · 09/02/2025Everything happening in American politics and government right now is the result of a secret 50-year plan. Learn about it — and pass it on. MasterPlanPodcast.combuff.lyMaster Plan | Listen NowMaster Plan, a podcast by The Lever, reveals the gripping inside story of how extremists and tycoons orchestrated a system of legalized corruption in America. 16020 60
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingDavid Sirota @davidsirota.com · 08/02/2025It’s easy for you to sit there and laugh like the Joker or tell yourself that Musk’s rampage won’t affect you. But it’s not funny — and you’re probably not gonna like it when the mass chaos hits you and your family in the wallet.levernews.comElon Musk’s Hostile TakeoverElon Musk and his allies have been sowing chaos in the civil service and hijacking government infrastructure. Journalist Nathan Tankus explains why. 612829 128
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingBoston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Black anti-fascists argued the Atlantic world’s history of racial violence belied the novelty of intra-European fascism. Speaking at the Second International Writers Congress in 1937, Langston Hughes declared: “We Negroes in America do not have to be told what fascism is in action. We know.”bostonreview.netThe Long Shadow of Racial Fascism - Boston ReviewA debate is roiling about the aptness of comparing Trump to European fascists. But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism. 220079 200
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix Risinghey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 05/02/2025The left you speak of were trying to get Dems to stop funding genocide for 18 months & were told to kick rocks. What pisses me off about takes like this, aside from the revisionist history, is that it doesn’t care about Palestinians at all. It only cares about being right. 3199 19
Brittany Phoenix Rising @jetblackrising.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Finally have time to use procreate. Honestly I miss doing this. Currently in a Florence + the machine music mood. #procreate #digitalart 140 4
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingFreddy Brewster @freddy-brewster.bsky.social · 30/01/2025🚨MAJOR NEWS🚨 Lawmakers were warned of the potential danger of expanding flights at the Reagan Airport, but expanded them anyway to make themselves more comfortable. www.levernews.com/before-d-c-a...levernews.comBefore D.C. Airport Collision, Lawmakers Brushed Off Warnings And Boosted FlightsDespite midflight near-misses and dire pleas, airline-bankrolled lawmakers recently expanded flight traffic at Washington’s busy airport. 28333 83
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/01/2025We did not have a FAA administrator to respond to the tragic crash last night in DC. Why? Because Elon Musk pushed the head appointed under Biden to resign after he fined SpaceX for failing to follow safety license requirements. www.theverge.com/news/603113/...theverge.comThe FAA is facing a major crisis without a leader because Elon Musk pushed him outFAA chief Michael Whitaker resigned earlier this month after facing criticism from Musk. 24684043231 8.4K
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix Risingcapt-concerned.bsky.social @capt-concerned.bsky.social · 28/01/2025This woman deserves a raise... and all our praise. "You better run, b*tches!" Source: BG On the Scene (youtube) 211136 111
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix Risinghey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 28/01/2025One more time…if every vote cast in a swing state for Jill Stein, Cornel West, and Claudia de La Cruz went to Kamala Harris, she still would have lost by more than 650,000 votes. Leftists aren’t your problem. They’re your neighbors. Now that that’s clear, let’s get focused. Please. 0153 15
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 28/01/2025"where are all the protests?" read our series showing the legacy of both the Trump and Biden admins—from BLM in the 2010s, to Standing Rock, to George Floyd, to the Palestine encampments—as protest suppression and criminalization. politicians want to call blocking traffic and masking "terrorism."teenvogue.comWelcome to the United States of SuppressionOur new series documents the recent crackdown on dissent and protests in the U.S. 4427971111 2.8K
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/01/2025I don't trust any leader who isn't standing up for immigrants and trans people right now. 111249285 1.2K
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 28/01/2025BREAKING: Philadelphia workers have won the first Whole Foods union under Amazon with UFCW. Since Amazon bought the chain, workers have lost benefits and felt the squeeze. Now they're fighting back against the multi-trillion dollar giant and hoping this win will be the first of many. 429275435314 27.5K
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingAdam @katoncomics.com · 26/01/2025The rise of indie is caused by the unhealthy practices with in the creative industries. Not adapting remote options, needing to have unrealistic years of experience, and massive layoffs and outsourcing, ect. The grip that LA has needs to loosen, I think we're entering a new era. 0536 53
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingJason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I honestly love this idea. Smothering out Twitter’s reach has already been noticeable by me. Doing it through controllable smaller community bans like Reddit/Discord bans does have some influence. Corporations only care about their $ and if twitter becomes even more useless to them, it’s impactful. 0196 19
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingInequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 22/01/2025The combined wealth of the world's billionaires grew by $2 trillion in 2024 — nearly three times faster than it did in 2023. That's $5.7 billion PER DAY. Once again: It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of extreme wealth concentration to continue.commondreams.org'A New Aristocracy': Billionaire Wealth Surged by $2 Trillion Last Year | Common DreamsAn Oxfam report published Monday shows that the combined wealth of the world's billionaires surged three times faster in 2024 than the previous year. 22882284 882
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingNina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Hard truth for the Democratic Party: everything & everyone who led to this, from party leadership, the major consultants, the strategy, to the platform must all go. There must be a total rebuild of the party, starting with funding, then policy. This is a failure. 531097224 1.1K
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix Risinghey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Biden didn’t fight for the little guy, and I criticized him. I was one of many that warned a decade ago that Trump wouldn’t fight for the little guy. And I criticized him. This is politics, not sports. I don’t have to root for a team. If you’re not doing your job, you can get this smoke. Period. 0163 16
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix Risinghey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Donald Trump is getting off scot free for the same reason that eight of the first ten presidents were able to be slaveowners without consequence. America rewards monsters because it was built by monsters rewritten in history books as heroes. Trump is not the exception. He’s the rule. 06511 65
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix Risinghey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 09/01/2025It’s disingenuous to say tragedy isn’t the right time to be political when everything is political. Greed has destroyed things to such extent that even the natural disasters are man made. People are running for their lives because someone wanted to make money so bad, even earth was expendable. 04212 42
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix Risinghey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 07/01/2025My point is simple. The government has failed to meet the basic standards of governance, irrespective of party affiliation. It effectively functions as an opponent to the people it is supposed to serve. We’ve got to be able to say that plainly. None of them get to be sanctimonious today. 0152 15
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix Risinghey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 07/01/2025We spent YEARS talking about the harm Republicans will do if the Dems don’t act & were ignored. This was entirely preventable. If you don’t want to call your leaders on their bullshit, you are not interested in honest political discourse. And that’s fine, but you need to own that. 1324 32
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix Risinghey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 07/01/2025“But what about the Republicans?” What about them? This isn’t a sporting event. I’m not Team Donkey or Team Elephant. If you’re being harmful, you’re getting called out. You’re not exempt because you think bringing a noose to the Capitol is bad. Take your ass to Crumbl if you want a cookie. 1101 10
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix Risinghey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 07/01/2025We said it two years ago. Not being Trump is not enough. You have to have a line somewhere. We’ve got record homelessness on your watch as snow starts to fall, plus high food & job insecurity, but y’all wanna act like the righteous ones in the room? Your constituents can’t afford to exist, y’all. 1122 12
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix Risinghey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 07/01/2025The Dems lost a winnable election because they ran a candidate their voters didn’t want, didn’t replace him until they absolutely had to, gave his replacement no time to campaign & refused to condemn genocide, but now they wanna take a victory lap for not storming the capitol? What are we doing? 45712 57
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingAnimation Workers Ignited @aworkersignited.bsky.social · 12/12/2024THIS is the type of energy we love to see! 117154 171
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingAnimation Workers Ignited @aworkersignited.bsky.social · 09/12/2024🗳️Voting Opens this week - How are YOU voting? Reply to this post! This is a big decision - your vote will impact the future of The Animation Guild! ✊ 8321173 321
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingThe Animation Guild // #WeAre839 @animationguild.bsky.social · 05/12/2024With the support of editor & artist union kin, a majority of production workers on King of the Hill delivered a petition to their Line Producer demanding additional progress on their top priorities. Let's show them more TAG support as they go into negotiations today! #ProductionStrong 012827 128
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2024From the United Auto Workers: "The Democratic Party must allow a Palestinian American speaker to be heard from the DNC stage tonight." 212043584 2K
Reposted by Brittany Phoenix RisingPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2024A statement from Muslim Women For Harris/Walz: 431585579 1.6K
