Okay. So here’s the deal. We’re being evicted. It’s been a long time coming, the landlords died and their grandchildren inheirited the house and kind of.. didn’t do much with it. Now they are gutting it and getting rid of it, so we have thirty days.
And I am not in a position to handle this. Please, even just one dollar in support would help. The kickstarter is still running but those funds are untouchable till all kickstarter rewards are sent, and that will be too late to get us moved. I would do a sale but I am just exhausted so I’m down to just.. this.
Please help.
Status update:
We have an official date to be out by, it’s the 28th of February. I’m just waiting for a ride and then I’m going to go look at some places and see what is available to us. We’re considering this a blessing in disguise, I’m not sure how yet, I’ll get back to you guys on the blessing part later. But for now, we’re at the packing the house stage.
The only good thing that came out of this is Neil deGrasse Tyson’s really cute-awful rapping about science. But why are we letting the Holocaust denial, fascism, and antisemitism fly? Why are the only people I see talking about this Jews and Rroma?
Signal boosting the fact this bigoted piece of shit is a holocaust denier so hopefully people who follow my blog will know to avoid him like the plague
There’s only one kind of “person” who denies the Holocaust happened and it’s not the kind of ‘person’ you want to give any of your time or money to
Yikes. This is so not funny anymore. This is wild ugly.
CLUE 1: “Went to Short Dog’s house, They was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2: Ice Cube’s single Today Was A Good Day was released on: Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the SuperSonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release of the single FEBRUARY 23 1993 where the Lakers beat the SuperSonics: Nov 11 1988 114-103 Nov 30 1988 110-106 Apr 4 1989 115-97 Apr 23 1989 121-117 Jan 17 1990 100-90 Feb 28 1990 112-107 Mar 25 1990 116-94 Apr 17 1990 102-101 Jan 18 1991 105-96 Mar 24 1991 113-96 Apr 21 1991 103-100 Jan 20 1992 116-110
CLUE 4: Dates of those Lakers won over SuperSonics where it was a clear day with no Smog: Nov 30 1988 Apr 4 1989 Jan 18 1991 Jan 20 1992
CLUE 5: “Got a beep from Kim, and She can fuck all night” Beepers weren’t adopted by mobile phone companies until the 1990s. Dates left where mobile beepers were available to public: Jan 18 1991 Jan 20 1992
CLUE 6: Ice Cube starred in the film “Boyz in the hood” that released late Summer of 1991, but was being filmed mid-late 1990 early 1991 and Ice Cube was busy on set filming the movie Jan 18 1991, too busy to be lounging around the streets with no plans. Ladies and Gentlemen..
I finally got the balls to do this and post it. So… yeah! Support me and get discounts on commissions, art, patreon only WIPs and sketches, and hi res PNGs of the final art! While the finished work will still be posted publicly for all to see, supporters will get all the nitty gritty that goes into making my work and will get access to any polls I open for fanart pieces 🙂 I included a zip download as a welcome package that contains the hi res file for my Lady Death piece and a few WIPs! Please take a look and spread the word if you can! 😀
I will be working on a new pinup piece for this and will be posting it at the end of the month for download as well 🙂
Publix, the fastest-growing grocery chain in America, isn’t a
corporate giant that exploits workers, but an employee-owned company
that’s more profitable than any of its competitors.
Unlike Walmart’s hourly workers, who just got a raise to $9 and $10 an hour,
Publix workers get a piece of the company after putting in 1,000 hours
and working for the company for over a year. Each employee-owner takes
home an additional 8.5 percent of their take-home pay every year in
stock options. According to Forbes,
58,000 of the company’s 159,000 workers are on track to become owners,
and the company makes sure each potential owner gets a broad sense of
the business by rotating them through its grocery sector, distribution
network, and real estate division.
This year, Publix was ranked as one of FORTUNE’s top 100 companies to work
based on an anonymous employee survey, which asks questions based on
pay and benefits, working conditions, communication with management, and
diversity. Publix is only one of 12 companies to be consistently listed
by employees as a top place to work every year since the list’s
inception in 1998. But Publix isn’t dominant in just the grocery
industry — its pharmacies are also consistently outperforming top
pharmacies. A 2013 Marketforce survey of customers at CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, and Publix rated Publix as providing the most satisfying customer experience.
That high rating by customers is the driving force behind Publix’s
success. CEO Todd Jones — who was a Publix bagger in the late 1960s —
told Forbes the company’s success depends on keeping customers happy. In
2007, Publix ranked first in the same American Consumer Satisfaction Index that ranked Walmart last.
“We believe that there are three ways to differentiate: service,
quality and price,” Jones said. “You’ve got to be good at two of them,
and the best at one. We make service our number one, then quality and
then price.”
To take supply-side economists at their word, a company that puts so
much time and money into customer service, and shares profits so
recklessly with so many workers, would mean they’re going broke, right?
In comparison to the biggest grocery store chains, Publix is the most profitable, posting $27.5 billion in 2012 revenue,
and profit margins of 5.6 percent that same year. When compared to
Walmart’s 3.8 percent margins, along with Kroger, which only made
margins of 1.6 percent, Publix is eating its competition for lunch. Even
though Walmart pulls 16 times more in annual revenue, the
employee-owned chain still has over $100 million more in cash and investments on its balance sheet ($6.8 billion) than Walmart ($6.7 billion).
And despite the company’s altruistic actions toward workers and
customers, it still manages to provide lower prices than Walmart. This
2012 chart shows prices of essential items at Publix and Walmart, and
shows how much Publix shoppers save by not spending their money at
Walmart:
Whether or not Publix will become the premiere grocery chain in America
remains to be seen. But what the company has proven beyond all doubt is
that conventional wisdom degrading employee ownership of a company as
bad for business is just a myth.
The Wal-Mart near us has lower prices than publix by a small margin, but it’s almost negligible even for us (we are very poor) and publix DEFINITELY has better quality and selection.
I’m glad to hear they’re apparently such a good company as well!
Hey guys! Manga studio is on sale again for 15$ until 11/30! 🙂
Any idea how this is different/an improvement over Clip Studio Paint, which was on sale for a similar price recently? Is it still a good investment, or would it be too redundant?
As far as I know, Clip studio paint and manga studio are the same program, just differently named depending on if you’re buying the digital version / physical copy. 🙂
I can’t recommend it enough for people who draw with lineart styles.
