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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 5h

#aiart prompt 1036: Deep within cemetery drear, shambling remains of those held dear rise anew from dark entombed sleep to grace the quick with horrors deep; shiver on this untoward sight before quickly taking to flight.

These generated by Dall-E 3. Characteristic of it being given something poetic, each image has mangled, faux-text captions.

Against a red sky, a robed figure with spread wings stalks a graveyard. Skeletons lie exposed amongst crooked graves, while birds circle overhead.

Caption: “DEEP WITHIN CEMETEERY DREAR, SHIE CRABIES HOLD DEAR,
REAMING RE/AIDS TO RRAN ANEW FROM THOSE HETBEDT SLEEP,
Thee
SHAMBERE ON THIS UNTOOOD WITH HE DRRAKE I'Deep & THE HEORE SAMERS SHIRER ON A FRIGKT BEFORE QUICKLY TAKING TO FLIGHT.”

Black and white. A skeleton with hair and glowing eyes, sporting an open jacket, faces the camera; winged creatures soar against a full moon. Skulls rest atop graves.

Caption: “DE WIHIN OF CMMETERY DRAR,
SHAMIBLING REINS RAINS OF THOSE HALL DILED 6 SLEEP RISE TO GRACE ANEW DEX TO GRACE THE DARK ENTOMBED WITH IORRORS DEEP;
SHIVER ON THIS QRICK - BEFORE TAKING TO FFLIGHT”

Numerous skeletons rise from the earth, cloaked in fog. The central skeleton wears a tattered garment, and has a glowing heart within its exposed rib cage. Bat-like creatures fly above in front of the moon. Quite a large implied cemetery.

Caption: “Deep within Cemetery Drear
Shambling remaing renains of thom those hded deid, riee bareadk enttonband with sleep: hirrors hd horrors deep:
Shiber on this ununa sight before quicly taking to Flight”

A dark cyan/blue maelstrom circles a full moon. Silhouetted: a spectral form in tattered robes hovering amongst the graves. Skulls with glowing red eyes cover the ground, screaming. The towers of a building, possibly an ornate mausoleum, can be seen in the background; winged things fly in front of the moon.

Caption: “Deep within-chamlig remins of the shine anew from those hold dear, grace this untwordenberd sleep beore queiekly- taking to flight”

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · Oct 15

#aiart prompt 621: equal parts day and night, presage nigh winter’s might; afore then russet glory, time for a spooky story; autumn holds the north in its grasp, forget summer’s oppressive clasp.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

Did anybody think to ask those nimbyists how many streaming services they subscribe to or what their average network speeds are?

bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

Real Tiger Beat vibes wafting off this.

bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

gpt-4o, characteristically dark, vaguely paint-like, and minimalist in its interpretation.

The environment is mostly absent in darkness; the dragon barely lit from above. It somewhat resembles a velociraptor from the Jurassic Park films, albeit one with a large, glowing red eye, backwards swept spikes upon its head, and a exoskeletal body.

Somewhat sinister.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

#aiart prompt 1035: Gigeresque biohorror dragon

#DragonTuesday

These four generated by Dall-E 3.

Each presents a serpentine creature, vaguely bio-mechanical, each with a bone-like exoskeleton.

The first is many limbed: at least 3 forearms are easily discernible near what would presumably be its chest. Attached to its back, opposite the limbs, a number (at least 5) tentacular appendages.

The overall impression is spiky: whether the exoskeletal body frequently being pointy bone, or a head wreathed in spikes.

A glowing red eye stares out of the head.

The dragon is in a chamber that looks vaguely mechanical.

Another spiky headed dragon with a glowing eye. Unlike the first, its exoskeleton appears somewhat weblike.

Odd swirls and orbs fill the background of the shot.

Despite being a mechanical environment, the chamber of this dragon feels organic; it also seemingly fuses into the dragon’s neck and arms. The neck is lined by weakly glowing, yellowish lights, which also cluster elsewhere in the environment.

The room here appears ribbed in tubular growths; irregular pipework, perhaps.

The dragon, mostly along its body, is marked with numerous glowing lights. Many of these cluster on its head, giving the appearance of many glowing eyes.

Its neck is rather nicely bulky: the anterior exoskeleton appears rib-like, while the posterior flares out in triangular spikes, diminishing in size from a large backward swept crest at the head to a small set of needles at its shoulders.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · Oct 14

#aiart prompt 620: the skeleton was huge: easily the size of a high rise; its eyes glowed with red flame; eldritch energy swirled about it, crackling the air. It was rampaging across the city, spreading terror and panic in its wake.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

Auto-carrot did a number on that last image’s alt-text. It should start “gpt-4o’s…”

bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 1d

“Remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that; ‘Have you paid your dues, Jack?’ ‘Yes sir, the check is in the mail.’”

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 2d

for-4o’s interpretation: more of a very blurry, slightly blue-toned black and white security camera photo. The creature is human-like, though with pale skin and black eyes. Ghostly, perhaps. Their torso is barely visible, fading into the background.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 2d

#aiart prompt 1034: A pale face, long, devoid of features, gaunt, alien and amorphous; very blurry and fuzzy; cool lighting; high contrast.

These four created by Dall-E 3. They follow a general basic portrait interpretation of the prompt: subject against a gradient background.

In the first: a humanoid subject with large gray eyes and pitted white skin. Somewhat sinister, due to the eyes.

Even more human looking than the first, though much blurrier. Many details, such as the eyes and mouth, are lost to both shadow and blur. The skin here looks waterlogged, the way one’s fingers look after a bath.

Almost skeletal, covered in a veil perhaps. Three-quarters view, looking toward the right. Much of the head is in shadow, though the face is lit. It’s unclear whether the fibrous layer covering it is hair or ornamental. Deep furrows run along the skull from the temple to the crown. The eyes are large, black, socket-like. While the creature has dark lips, the overall impression is exoskeletal.

More of a traditional Gray, though with odd things happening around its neck in the blurred background. Either implied long hair, or thicker neck vertebrae dorsally.

Very narrow mouth descending from very wide and high cheekbones; the eyes large black sockets. Very blurry.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · Oct 13

#aiart prompt 619: wearing a toothful, squeaksome grin, the lantern of Jack sat, alight, near the ivied gate. Its mien most sinister; its light an orange glow in the dark night.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, approaching Floridian standards of jurisprudence, then.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 2d

Modern ebooks are an infinitely better reading experience than paper ever was.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, hey night time temps in the mid-40s. And, apparently, 39°F in a couple of nights. Well.

bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 3d

Trump’s talking about his forever home?

a man in a white shirt stands in front of a crowd wearing a pink hat with the letter b on it

Alt: An old man stands in front of a crowd, sarcastically saying “well… we’re waiting”. From Caddyshack.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 3d

These four by Dall-E 3. By contrast with gpt, they feature a subject whose face is wrapped around with the satin cloth, somewhat reminiscent of mummification.

In this first image, the subject’s mouth, lips black, is exposed (perhaps; the chin appears wrapped as well). Against a dark yellow background.

Similar to the first, the subject’s mouth is implied, either from being firmly pressed into the material, or by being cleverly wrapped. (Obviously, as generated, “or because slop”.)

Against a steel-gray background.

The cloth here is arranged such that gaping, black socketed eye-holes are exposed. The mouth is implied, but suggestive of being formed of cloth.

Much darker and in shadow. Less definition on the face. The subject sort of melts into the black background.

bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 3d

#aiart prompt 1033: Unsettling portrait: a head wrapped in yellow satin, a face completely lost to impenetrable shadow.

Via gpt-4o.

A portrait against a black background; the subject’s head is wrapped in a sort of yellow satin shawl, leaving their face exposed.

Except, where their face should be is naught but darkness.

gpt’s literalness actually better captured what I was attempting to describe in the prompt, hence it being featured.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · Oct 12

#aiart prompt 618:

ere the haunted, sallowed night close thine eyen to thine plight, mark the wispish misty town whereat converging upon the down, all manner of spectral form celebrate their undying norm; sleep ye this witching hour, when clamors this event most dour?

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 3d

Oh My God! They married Kenny!

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 4d

Just finished rewatching a movie where a van falls off a bridge for, like, a half hour.

bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 4d

Obviously skill issue on my part: just use other feeds! Save, most other feeds lack the broad, network-wide firehose quality that makes social media interesting. Being siloed in a complete epistemic closure isn’t enlightening nor culturally broadening.

bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 4d

If jay really wanted to improve this place, they need to replace Discover with something less brain dead, or remove it entirely.

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bowers@ @srewob.bsky.social · 4d

I’m an atheist, so what do I see: nothing but religionists complaining about those darn, rascally, uppity atheists.

I like AI, so what do I see: tons of folk having a moral panic and Luddite-mongering.

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