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Leo Prints

@leoprints.bsky.social

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Artist and general print making obsessive living in Belfast. There is a soft spot in my heart for meat wagons. https://leoboyd.com/

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Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · Apr 22

I have a website and webshop where I sell all kinds of paintings and silk screen prints and some digital prints.
I also blog on there a bit which is probably the most fun part of having my own website.
Have a read over here:
www.leoboyd.com/read-all-abo...

drawing of an old television with buttons and knobs and inside the television there is a newsreader with a monitor for a head with horns coming out of the monitor.

Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 8h

What the actual fucking fuck.

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Bryan Ward @bryaneward.bsky.social · 1d

Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 20h

ha ha ha I forgot about this one!

Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 20h

Pumpkin head seems like a right charmer.

Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 1d

Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 1d

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYEAH!
I had an idea for the civilisation that you would be covering next but now I can't remember.
Getting older is great! :)

Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 1d

Yes indeed. (also had to look up pleonasm)

Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 1d

I'd me a much better vegetarian if i never went to Spain.

Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 1d

I forgot to add the pictures :)

Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 1d

I had a heart warming day in Bangor by the Sea yesterday doing paste ups with a ton of lovely people for Bingham Lane Festival which is on all weekend.
Get down to Bangor and check out the new paste up wall by Seacourt.

#pasteups #streetart

Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 1d

Live like your phone/tablet/computer are haunted.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
• Contains: Bad Boys (The...

Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 2d

I have been away on multiple jollies where I have been trying not to make any art but now I am back in the studio and Bob Rossing up the place.

#art #painting #bobross

Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 2d

This is a great idea. We are our own personal large language models.

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 3d

I know he was once considered a real threat but Jordan Peterson's King Lear story arc where he gets visibly frailer with every public appearance while his daughter very obviously slowly poisons him is kind of iconic...

Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 3d

Yup, they are fucking mental and should be nowhere near pedestrians.

Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 4d

I am so confused by this. I mean I kind of get it and I think I get it and then I just don't get it. And that just continues forever :)

Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 4d

To understand it, we must consider the right’s hatred of working people, its (more than) mutual embrace of the tech industry and, primarily, its profound rejection of Enlightenment humanism.
newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

newsocialist.org.uk

Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 4d

Jura sic?
Maybe?
I dunno.

Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 5d

I thought we were going to Mars?

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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · 5d

"the human centipede of content" is a killer description.

Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 5d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 5d

the wise admins of bluesky have decided that creating a moderation list of AI slop posters is a no no

Hi there,
Your Bluesky account
(@carrion.bsky.social) has created a list called "Al Slop Posters" that may violate our Community Guidelines. We've temporarily hidden this list from other users because it contains one or more of these issues.
- Harmful language such as insults or slurs
- Unverified claims
- Appears intended to shame or abuse users

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 6d

This Anthropic settlement case…fellow authors, are any of you feeling rage? I have 12 books listed and money (I don’t CARE how many thousands, even millions) is NOT adequate compensation. What was stolen & used without my permission is priceless! Where is the option to scrub my work from AI?!

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2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 9d

Dave Gibbons

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 10d

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
— Jane Goodall

#RIPJaneGoodall

Photo of a woman wearing jeans riding a bicycle.