#kaepernicking

[readyforevolution]

[porterdavis]

[theconcealedweapon]

When Colin Kaepernick kneeled, many people wanted him banned from the league.

They insisted that free speech doesn't apply when you're at work and representing the team or the league.

But now, many of those same people are insisting that what happened here is a violation of free speech.

They flip-flop their support of free speech when it's convenient. They support free speech only when it benefits them. I'm not surprised at all.

[worldwide-blackfolk]

[sadyetpredictable]

[ridenwithbiden]

[didalexiabreakupwitholgaisback]

gracias, cariño! muy interesante este video...y lo compartiré con todos aquí.

(blocking the url so tiktok doesn't dox you!)

source: paulthechicken13 on tiktok

hi anon! yes, i do think there is a big segment of footballers and athletes from other sports who are frankly afraid to take a stance on certain issues because of potential backlash against them. not just on this issue of palestine, but it applies to many issues.

and the reverse situation is true. there are many athletes who promote brands and companies that are involved in very unethical dealings. or they take a stance when an issue personally affects them, etc.

ultimately, we are all human beings. no one is perfect, and people will make mistakes. which is why i take a position on my blog that no player or team is above criticism. and it's important to point out how people and players can improve (and yes, that also includes alexia!) again, it's not about hating on a player but rather what santa tikas pointed out as constructive vs. destructive criticism🙏

and it's why i have the world of respect for people like colin kaepernick (sacrificed his entire career for kneeling at american football games to protest racial injustice), megan rapinoe (received intense backlash and was cut from the national team for a period of time for supporting blm), lewis hamilton (spoke up for blm despite the f1's governing body forbidding political statements) and more, who face real stakes to make a difference.

[sinnamonscouture]

Colin Kaepernick Covers GQ Germany

[michaelpaul7]

[deepdreamnights]

From this post, a conversation between Mrs. Nice and Dr. Underfang, about how there's more than one way to make a comic.

While the linked post goes into the process in much more detail, the short version is that making a comic with AI involves all the steps of making a photocomic or a Wondermark-esq collage comic.

Here, each panel is a combination of one or more gens through direct compositing and inpainting ('gumby Underfang' is a basic crop-job but the others are multi-image composites, inpainted edits, or both), with graphic design and non-AI composited elements. `

I like to use AI art to achieve forms of 'fauxstalgia', weaving concepts into the aesthetics of artifacts of the past. I consider myself a nostalgia artist (not a nostalgic artist, tho I can sometimes be that), but you can get as experimental with it as you want.

And people are already doing it, they just don't call them comics.

Those sequences of AI-generated photos that tell a horror story that pop up on Tumblr? Those are comics.

We are very much in the "plastic wrap and lens flare" phase of AI art, where the newest and (often literally) shiniest effects take center stage because like an early 2000s kid with a cracked copy of photoshop, it's the new toy.

(I have a feeling Colin Kaepernick is going to give us, at most, a few adventures of a D-rate Borgorroth of Coolswordoorroth before absconding with the bag.)

Feel free to reblog with folks that are doing innovative stuff.

I will start by recommending @reachartwork, where you're going to find all kinds of interesting new stuff, and a fun illustrated prose super-verse under the CHUM title.

[readyforevolution]

[porterdavis]

Hypocrisy much?

[mysharona1987]

[akonoadham]

Two 49er NFL players.

Two political statements.

Black Lives Matter v. MAGA.

Only one is allowed by the NFL.

[mikedawwwson]

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