A. E. Daly
@aedaly.bsky.social
Writer of children's & YA fiction. Comics, cameras, SF & retro nerd.
Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awards, Mslexia longlist, Kelpies Prize shortlist, Bath Children's Novel Award winner for Dreamdogs.
Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awards, Mslexia longlist, Kelpies Prize shortlist, Bath Children's Novel Award winner for Dreamdogs.
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If there's anything I hope young creatives take from David Lynch, it's to reject the modern IP-driven impulse to explicitly explain and cleanly categorize the logic behind every single event and decision inside and outside of a story at least some of the time.
January 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
If there's anything I hope young creatives take from David Lynch, it's to reject the modern IP-driven impulse to explicitly explain and cleanly categorize the logic behind every single event and decision inside and outside of a story at least some of the time.
Well, damn. RIP to a master storyteller and wise worldbuilder of the weird.
January 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Well, damn. RIP to a master storyteller and wise worldbuilder of the weird.
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In mourning for David Lynch.
Never forget. In sequel season of Twin Peaks he plays an FBI boss who says to agents who disapprove of trans agent Denise
'Fix your hearts or die'
Never forget. In sequel season of Twin Peaks he plays an FBI boss who says to agents who disapprove of trans agent Denise
'Fix your hearts or die'
January 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
In mourning for David Lynch.
Never forget. In sequel season of Twin Peaks he plays an FBI boss who says to agents who disapprove of trans agent Denise
'Fix your hearts or die'
Never forget. In sequel season of Twin Peaks he plays an FBI boss who says to agents who disapprove of trans agent Denise
'Fix your hearts or die'
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The only Thanksgiving tradition I have is posting this. It's never felt more apt.
William S. Burroughs Reads His "Thanksgiving Prayer" in a 1988 Film By Gus Van Sant
www.openculture.com/2019/11/will...
www.openculture.com/2019/11/will...
November 28, 2024 at 2:00 PM
The only Thanksgiving tradition I have is posting this. It's never felt more apt.
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William Daniell, The Bass Rock, 1814
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1125249
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1125249
July 30, 2024 at 2:02 AM
William Daniell, The Bass Rock, 1814
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1125249
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1125249
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Mashup: Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow (1565) versus Rick Guidice's space colony painting for NASA's Ames Research Center (1975).
It's meant as a satire of some description, which I can't put into words right now because I have a migraine.
It's meant as a satire of some description, which I can't put into words right now because I have a migraine.
August 5, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Mashup: Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow (1565) versus Rick Guidice's space colony painting for NASA's Ames Research Center (1975).
It's meant as a satire of some description, which I can't put into words right now because I have a migraine.
It's meant as a satire of some description, which I can't put into words right now because I have a migraine.
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One of the toughest problems Microsoft has to solve is that Windows has to serve two very different types of users: business users who don't want this at all, and home users who don't want this at all.
May 22, 2024 at 11:08 AM
One of the toughest problems Microsoft has to solve is that Windows has to serve two very different types of users: business users who don't want this at all, and home users who don't want this at all.
This one wins. Genuine lol.
May 22, 2024 at 6:50 PM
This one wins. Genuine lol.
Mood.
I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
May 19, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Mood.
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This really works; delete the gobbledegook after your search term (in my e.g. this is q=recipe+for+bread) and add &udm=14 and all the top tips, AI summaries, 'also searched for' and video (1st image) vanishes. You just get actual search results (2nd image).
May 19, 2024 at 9:30 AM
This really works; delete the gobbledegook after your search term (in my e.g. this is q=recipe+for+bread) and add &udm=14 and all the top tips, AI summaries, 'also searched for' and video (1st image) vanishes. You just get actual search results (2nd image).
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Gas / Essence - 1940 https://www.wikiart.org/fr/edward-hopper/gas #Hopper #Art
May 19, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Gas / Essence - 1940 https://www.wikiart.org/fr/edward-hopper/gas #Hopper #Art
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I was conflicted, but fair play - the matted, bloody audacity of this portrait is mesmerising me. Was he meant to look like the porter of the hell dimensions crossed with an escaped SCP? Who knows, but it's giving absolute Screaming Pope levels of unheimlich and I reluctantly love it.
May 17, 2024 at 7:02 PM
I was conflicted, but fair play - the matted, bloody audacity of this portrait is mesmerising me. Was he meant to look like the porter of the hell dimensions crossed with an escaped SCP? Who knows, but it's giving absolute Screaming Pope levels of unheimlich and I reluctantly love it.
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May 12th 1984 - 40 years ago today, a T-800 Terminator arrived from the future to kill Sarah Connor before she could give birth to the future resistance leader, John Connor. Kyle Reese arrived from the future to stop it.
📽️📅 Terminator (1984)
📽️📅 Terminator (1984)
May 12, 2024 at 1:35 PM
May 12th 1984 - 40 years ago today, a T-800 Terminator arrived from the future to kill Sarah Connor before she could give birth to the future resistance leader, John Connor. Kyle Reese arrived from the future to stop it.
📽️📅 Terminator (1984)
📽️📅 Terminator (1984)
Thrilled to have seen the northern lights for the first time, in (to quote Dorothy) our own back yard. Couldn't see the colours at all with the naked eye, just a wispy purple-grey, but the night setting on my phone camera revealed them. Glorious.
May 11, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Thrilled to have seen the northern lights for the first time, in (to quote Dorothy) our own back yard. Couldn't see the colours at all with the naked eye, just a wispy purple-grey, but the night setting on my phone camera revealed them. Glorious.
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Todd Klein's The Art and History of Lettering Comics is now online...for FREE! Each section is expandable via a link! kleinletters.com/Blog/the-art...
March 5, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Todd Klein's The Art and History of Lettering Comics is now online...for FREE! Each section is expandable via a link! kleinletters.com/Blog/the-art...
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🧵Recently, I set out to create new digital artwork that can't be replicated/imitated by AI. It seems to me that AI's Achilles heel is its failure to deliver true details, or rather that its seemingly complex imagery is actually specious - the illusion of detail; it often doesn't stand up to scrutiny
March 1, 2024 at 9:24 AM
🧵Recently, I set out to create new digital artwork that can't be replicated/imitated by AI. It seems to me that AI's Achilles heel is its failure to deliver true details, or rather that its seemingly complex imagery is actually specious - the illusion of detail; it often doesn't stand up to scrutiny
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I've just learned that legendary cartoonist Ramona Fradon has died at 97. Known for her beautifully polished style that refused to diminish with age, Ramona's tenures on Aquaman, Super Friends, Plastic Man, and Brenda Starr left lasting impressions on multiple generations of fans. 1/2
February 24, 2024 at 9:38 PM
I've just learned that legendary cartoonist Ramona Fradon has died at 97. Known for her beautifully polished style that refused to diminish with age, Ramona's tenures on Aquaman, Super Friends, Plastic Man, and Brenda Starr left lasting impressions on multiple generations of fans. 1/2
Reposting this because I DEFINITELY REACHED THE BIT DEAR GOD *hides under bed*
(with, because T. Kingfisher, a healthy side of I-don't-know-what-I-expected.gif)
(with, because T. Kingfisher, a healthy side of I-don't-know-what-I-expected.gif)
Ah. I've reached the point in the @tkingfisher.bsky.social book where I shout "AUGH, WHY"
(The book is very good and I've read it almost all in one go. Possibly it was a bad choice to do this before bed.)
(The book is very good and I've read it almost all in one go. Possibly it was a bad choice to do this before bed.)
February 18, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Reposting this because I DEFINITELY REACHED THE BIT DEAR GOD *hides under bed*
(with, because T. Kingfisher, a healthy side of I-don't-know-what-I-expected.gif)
(with, because T. Kingfisher, a healthy side of I-don't-know-what-I-expected.gif)
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Excuse me, but yes, I absolutely did originate the phrase of both “Women in Refrigerators” and defined the concept of “fridging.”
I don't think she invented the term, but, yes, the concept and the original post pointing out the unfortunate tendency.
February 18, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Excuse me, but yes, I absolutely did originate the phrase of both “Women in Refrigerators” and defined the concept of “fridging.”
Um. What.
And while we're at it -- did you know that the software that Dave McCarty uses to count the votes is proprietary and he won't show anyone else the code?
Did you know that he can see who voted for what?
It's no wonder that he doesn't want to decouple the Hugos from individual Worldcons.
Did you know that he can see who voted for what?
It's no wonder that he doesn't want to decouple the Hugos from individual Worldcons.
February 16, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Um. What.
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As diaspora, I cannot tell you what it feels like to see my name, work, and politics --
- were noted in a secret dossier
- where my work & sentiments were identified as concerning
- by *Americans*
- and then used to harm a colleague and associate.
You took the thing we fear, and you made it truth.
- were noted in a secret dossier
- where my work & sentiments were identified as concerning
- by *Americans*
- and then used to harm a colleague and associate.
You took the thing we fear, and you made it truth.
February 15, 2024 at 10:54 PM
As diaspora, I cannot tell you what it feels like to see my name, work, and politics --
- were noted in a secret dossier
- where my work & sentiments were identified as concerning
- by *Americans*
- and then used to harm a colleague and associate.
You took the thing we fear, and you made it truth.
- were noted in a secret dossier
- where my work & sentiments were identified as concerning
- by *Americans*
- and then used to harm a colleague and associate.
You took the thing we fear, and you made it truth.