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John T. Hill
@awesometania.bsky.social
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40+ year old professional animator and assistant professor. linktr.ee/awesometania Paint the turtle.
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John T. Hill @awesometania.bsky.social · Nov 20
30 second teaser trailer for my new film.
youtu.be/T41K8Zs9qLQ?...
#animation #horror #indieanimation #indiehorror
Next Show in 90 Minutes (30 sec Trailer - 4K)
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John T. Hill @awesometania.bsky.social · 19h
Two of four (just got another email this morning) awards Next Show got this weekend.

#indiefilm #indieanimation #animation #indiehorror #horror
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John T. Hill @awesometania.bsky.social · 19h
Two of four (just got another email this morning) awards Next Show got this weekend.

#indiefilm #indieanimation #animation #indiehorror #horror
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John T. Hill @awesometania.bsky.social · 22h
Still opportunities to catch my film this month!
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John T. Hill @awesometania.bsky.social · 1d
One of three awards my film won this weekend.
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One of three awards my film won this weekend.
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John T. Hill @awesometania.bsky.social · 3d
Big night for "Next Show" won two awards in Austin and one in Brooklyn!
The custom VHS (working with copies of the shorts!) trophies for Best Animated Short and the Audience Award from The Austin Horror Film Fest. Close up of the Best Animated Short award trophy from the Austin Horror Film Fest. Close up detail of the Audience Award trophy from the Austin Horror Film Fest. Screen shot of the announcement of the Best Animated Short Film from the Brooklyn Sci-Fi Film Festival.
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Cartoonist Cooperative @cartoonist.coop · 1d
The 2024 numbers are crunched, data visualised, and insights SHARED!

Here's the findings of the 2024 Comics Worker Survey!

Anyone can read these findings on income, rates, royalties and more--online or as a PDF.
The Cartoonist Cooperative
Making comics better for everyone!
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John T. Hill @awesometania.bsky.social · 3d
Big night for "Next Show" won two awards in Austin and one in Brooklyn!
The custom VHS (working with copies of the shorts!) trophies for Best Animated Short and the Audience Award from The Austin Horror Film Fest. Close up of the Best Animated Short award trophy from the Austin Horror Film Fest. Close up detail of the Audience Award trophy from the Austin Horror Film Fest. Screen shot of the announcement of the Best Animated Short Film from the Brooklyn Sci-Fi Film Festival.
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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 9d
The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d
AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.
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John T. Hill @awesometania.bsky.social · 6d
Where?
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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 6d
absolutely beautiful, clearly influenced by the french comic series The Ogre Gods but nonetheless amazing

goeblins always kills it because their teams are made of students who specialize in like color direction or rough animation or final lineart etc instead of doing a whole thing themselves
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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 6d
Holy shit this Gobelins student film is absolutely incredible. Real Vampire Hunter D vibes

m.youtube.com/watch?v=O515...
NICCOLO - Animation Short Film 2025 - GOBELINS
YouTube video by GOBELINS Paris
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d
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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.
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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 6d
"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."
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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 6d
Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”
An Interview With the Portland Chicken
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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 6d
It was an all american everyone, we didn't even lock our boys, everybody knew door
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 8d
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 8d
Spending a career watching centuries-old fields of study shrivel & die, cactus-like, being told there is no water by deans on lily pads in the middle of the lake.

Do not recommend.
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Mike, Débrouillard @grizzledyoungvet.bsky.social · 9d
Which one is it, Jay?
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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 9d
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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John T. Hill @awesometania.bsky.social · 10d
I'm actually okay with more platforms dying. I'm actually okay with all of us having no place online. Forced outside. Filling the streets. Listless. Bored. Dejected. Angry.

I think that'd be nice. I love that for us. Let them take all hope.
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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 10d
"The AI can make sexy Tony the tiger! Not sure you could-"

Who do you think I am? :>
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 10d
The Great Barrington Dec. aka the “let covid rip” policy, legitimated the death of over a million Americans, is disabling of tens of millions more, & failed to achieve its own instrumental goal, ending the pandemic. It did succeed hwvr in gutting public health & eroding public trust in science
Five years ago today, we authored the Great Barrington Declaration, arguing for focused protection instead of lockdowns. A wholehearted thank you to the almost one million co-signers. We were proven right.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 10d
I need people to understand very much that other than inventing a vaccine (limited but still incredibly good!) we failed as GLOBE on every possible public health metric with Covid and if another concurrent pandemic started today, we’d be in worse shape than in 2020.
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John T. Hill @awesometania.bsky.social · 10d
Email right before the festival deadline with a fee waiver based on my film's reputation was nice.

Not responding to the email that I had already submitted months ago at full price, and was happy to do so, wasn't insulting.

Getting rejected from the festival wasn't insulting.

The combo, tho.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 11d
A bill empowering Congress to censor information about its members online has passed the Senate.

But it's not too late to stop it.

Use our new action center tool to tell the House not to sacrifice transparency for a false sense of security.
Protect Journalism Online
Efforts to undermine First Amendment rights on the internet and to censor online content are a fundamental threat to the free press.
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