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David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 13h

Pay attention to the real world in general. It will help you notice when things are off.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 14h

Christ in a bucket.

Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 15h

Compare:

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social yesterday.

New York Times headline, today.

NY Times Pitchbot
‪@nytpitchbot.bsky.social‬

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.
October 10, 2025

Photo of the paper edition of the New York Times. Headline says "Comparative Calm or 'Hellscape'? In Portland, Depends on the Narrator."

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David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 20h

Illustration No. 8 for Strange Aeons 2 -

(No preliminary sketch for this one. The original sketch scans were on one an older computer. I’d been pulling the jpegs from my saved email correspondence with the editor of the book but I had no luck finding this piece’s sketch.)
#cthulhu #art #horror

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David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 1d

Process!

Annie Stegg Gerard @anniestegg.bsky.social · 1d

Blocking in each of the little woodland critters one by one for the new Moonlit March painting. Here’s a tiny sneak peek of what’s to come! 🌙✨

#MoonlitMarch #WIP #AnimalArt #FantasyArt #WoodlandCreatures #OpossumArt #FantasyPainter #InTheStudio #OilPainting

David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 1d

Primary all the bastards.

Steve Ahlquist @steveahlquist.bsky.social · 1d

RI Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse joined 24 other Senate Democrats in voting for the National Defense Authorization Act with “anti-trans culture-war riders, an anti-DEI clause, and no limits on the domestic deployment of U.S. troops.”

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David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 1d

You're doing god's work. Bless you.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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The Art of Sean Andrew Murray @seanandrewmurray.bsky.social · 1d

The Inspector

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David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 1d

Illustration No. 7 for Strange Aeons 2 -

CHILDREN OF A STARRY HEAVEN—is set in ancient Greece, the birthplace of many great philosophers and thinkers. Unfortunately some great minds dwell on things man was not meant to know.
#callofcthulhu #eldritchhorror #rpgillustration #art #hplovecraft #greece

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David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 2d

I'm going to expect any of their new projects to be shit. Even if they don't use AI. That they are considering it indicates that they've given up thinking creatively.

Meredith McClaren at ROMICS Oct '25 @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 2d

It definitely bothers me that some previously very bright minds in cinema have decided to embrace the LEAST CREATIVE OPTION AVAILABLE going forward.

But I'm absolutely going to resent them for trying to sell me on the idea that this is the most innovative way forward.

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David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 2d

Dan Pirarro, creator of Bizarro is making a graphic novel - peyotecowboy.net

HOME - PEYOTE COWBOY

Somewhere in the Old West, a cowboy and his son stumble into a world they don't understand… Introducing PEYOTE COWBOY a graphic novel by Diego Piraro creator of Bizarro.

peyotecowboy.net

David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 2d

Illustration No. 6 for Strange Aeons 2 -

THE IRON-BANDED BOX—set in feudal Japan, it is an example of what would of happened if Akira Kurosawa directed an adaptation of a H.P. Lovecraft story. Beautiful, strange, messy, and with swords!
#yokai #callofcthulhu #rpg #illustration #horror #skulls

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David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 3d

Evidence that nothing Shapiro does is worthwhile.

ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 3d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Djamila Knopf @Polaris #196 @djamilaknopf.bsky.social · 3d

I painted a cat in a drawer. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

a painting of a white cat lying in a drawer full of cutlery and miscellaneous items

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David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 3d

Kollwitz was a god.

The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 3d

A few of the seven etchings that comprise Käthe Kollwitz's Peasants’ War series (ca. 1901–1908) about the innate dignity, courage, and strength of the poor. More in our latest post here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kollwitz-peasants-war/

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Derek Laufman @laufman.bsky.social · 3d

More 2019 Inktober pieces. #inktober

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David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 3d

Kill! Kill! Kill!

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 3d

Have a seat.

Zdzisław Beksiński @zbeksinski.bsky.social · 3d

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdislav-beksinski/untitled-92

David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 3d

Illustration No. 5 for Strange Aeons 2 -

THE IRON-BANDED BOX—set in feudal Japan, it is an example of what would of happened if Akira Kurosawa directed an adaptation of a H.P. Lovecraft story. Beautiful, strange, messy, and with swords!
#yokai #illustration #callofcthulhu #horror #rpg #folkhorror

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David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 4d

"the Human Centipede of content". Perfect description.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 5d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 4d

Illustration No. 4 for Strange Aeons 2 -

A HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL—set in the American Civil War. This scenario chronicles the horrors of war where brother fights brother…and then everyone fights a cosmic horror beyond description.
#callofcthulhu #illustration #sketch #cosmichorror #cthulhumythos

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David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 5d

Seinfeld. Any "reality" television.

David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 5d

Illustration No. 3 for Strange Aeons 2 -

CURSED BE THE CITY -
Neanderthals versus Tsathoggua. More accurate than cavemen vs. Cthulhu but requiring more twisting of the tongue.
#art #cthulhu #tsathoggua #hplovecraft #horror #mammoth #neanderthal #rpgillustration

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David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 5d

Seconded!

Dave Holmes @daveholmes88.bsky.social · 6d

Finally got around to finishing Black Cloak by @kellythompson.bsky.social and @iniquitousfish.bsky.social. Oh man, I love this series. A great story brought to life in a really fun, colorful magical world. If you like Fantasy and noir, you'll love this series.

David Lee Ingersoll @skook.bsky.social · 5d

This gives me ideas. Thanks old friend!

Matt Timson @matttimson.bsky.social · 7d

Ah, yes - it’s our old friend, procrastination…

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