Leah
@leahart.bsky.social
Sitting between a cat & a crow, in adrenaline withdrawal, paintinge visions that float past.
Artist, Semi-Professionally Death Adjacent. Madison WI.
No AI
https://LeahMacLeod.Art
etsy.com/shop/LeahMacLeodFineArt
https://www.leahmacleod.art/link-in-bio/
Artist, Semi-Professionally Death Adjacent. Madison WI.
No AI
https://LeahMacLeod.Art
etsy.com/shop/LeahMacLeodFineArt
https://www.leahmacleod.art/link-in-bio/
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Few things more specifically 2025 and disappointing than seeing a social media post using AI art when you know the person posting has access to actual artists or at least public domain images or even just the camera on their phone to take a picture of something real instead. Slop for the slop feeds
December 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Few things more specifically 2025 and disappointing than seeing a social media post using AI art when you know the person posting has access to actual artists or at least public domain images or even just the camera on their phone to take a picture of something real instead. Slop for the slop feeds
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Hello #medievalsky here's my novella-length look at how peasants facing feudalism organized and fought.
Ambushes, secret societies, communal pacts, innovative weaponry, ingenious battle tactics and a whole heap of dead nobles:
www.patreon.com/posts/pact-a...
Ambushes, secret societies, communal pacts, innovative weaponry, ingenious battle tactics and a whole heap of dead nobles:
www.patreon.com/posts/pact-a...
September 24, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Hello #medievalsky here's my novella-length look at how peasants facing feudalism organized and fought.
Ambushes, secret societies, communal pacts, innovative weaponry, ingenious battle tactics and a whole heap of dead nobles:
www.patreon.com/posts/pact-a...
Ambushes, secret societies, communal pacts, innovative weaponry, ingenious battle tactics and a whole heap of dead nobles:
www.patreon.com/posts/pact-a...
Feel like it's in rather poor taste for arts grants to add the artists who apply to them to their fundraising junk mail lists. That's... a bad look.
Esp right now, the very very few artists who are in the same financial position as donors, already know how to mail you a check.
Esp right now, the very very few artists who are in the same financial position as donors, already know how to mail you a check.
November 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Feel like it's in rather poor taste for arts grants to add the artists who apply to them to their fundraising junk mail lists. That's... a bad look.
Esp right now, the very very few artists who are in the same financial position as donors, already know how to mail you a check.
Esp right now, the very very few artists who are in the same financial position as donors, already know how to mail you a check.
Broke a mason jar over my own hand somehow. Literally no idea even how the physics of that worked- I would think my hand would've moved when it hit enough to not break the jar but here we are. & as prepared as I was to treat a technicolor mess of injuries- not a scratch. Just covered in broken glass
November 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Broke a mason jar over my own hand somehow. Literally no idea even how the physics of that worked- I would think my hand would've moved when it hit enough to not break the jar but here we are. & as prepared as I was to treat a technicolor mess of injuries- not a scratch. Just covered in broken glass
I decided to start making short artist talks and virtual showings of my original paintings. This is the first one focusing on the Penitent series and "Penitent I" in particular. As always, what it means to me, doesn't dictate what the art has to mean to you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQVH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQVH...
"Penitent I" Artist Talk and Virtual Viewing
YouTube video by Leah MacLeod
www.youtube.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I decided to start making short artist talks and virtual showings of my original paintings. This is the first one focusing on the Penitent series and "Penitent I" in particular. As always, what it means to me, doesn't dictate what the art has to mean to you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQVH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQVH...
This weekend Oct 11-12 I will be at MMoCA for their Art Market! I will have a significant number of orig paintings as well as open edition prints.
General public admission is free on both days:
Sat: 10 AM – 4 PM
Sun: 12–4 PM
**227 State St, Madison, Wisconsin**
General public admission is free on both days:
Sat: 10 AM – 4 PM
Sun: 12–4 PM
**227 State St, Madison, Wisconsin**
October 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This weekend Oct 11-12 I will be at MMoCA for their Art Market! I will have a significant number of orig paintings as well as open edition prints.
General public admission is free on both days:
Sat: 10 AM – 4 PM
Sun: 12–4 PM
**227 State St, Madison, Wisconsin**
General public admission is free on both days:
Sat: 10 AM – 4 PM
Sun: 12–4 PM
**227 State St, Madison, Wisconsin**
Penitent IV 9x12" oil on board.
This is the final (for now) painting in a series of work honoring and mourning endangered or threatened species.
This is not art of a specific saint, but represents humans who are being forced to watch the destruction and desecration occurring around them.
This is the final (for now) painting in a series of work honoring and mourning endangered or threatened species.
This is not art of a specific saint, but represents humans who are being forced to watch the destruction and desecration occurring around them.
September 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Penitent IV 9x12" oil on board.
This is the final (for now) painting in a series of work honoring and mourning endangered or threatened species.
This is not art of a specific saint, but represents humans who are being forced to watch the destruction and desecration occurring around them.
This is the final (for now) painting in a series of work honoring and mourning endangered or threatened species.
This is not art of a specific saint, but represents humans who are being forced to watch the destruction and desecration occurring around them.
Penitent III 9x12" oil on board.
This painting is part of a series of work honoring and mourning endangered or threatened species.
This is not art of a specific saint, but represents humans who are being forced to watch the destruction and desecration occurring around them.
This painting is part of a series of work honoring and mourning endangered or threatened species.
This is not art of a specific saint, but represents humans who are being forced to watch the destruction and desecration occurring around them.
September 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Penitent III 9x12" oil on board.
This painting is part of a series of work honoring and mourning endangered or threatened species.
This is not art of a specific saint, but represents humans who are being forced to watch the destruction and desecration occurring around them.
This painting is part of a series of work honoring and mourning endangered or threatened species.
This is not art of a specific saint, but represents humans who are being forced to watch the destruction and desecration occurring around them.
Human artists, use one piece to convince people to follow you
September 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Human artists, use one piece to convince people to follow you
Someone told me last week that I could use AI to send email newsletters. But why? If a newsletter or email is worth someone's time to read, then it is worth the time & attention it takes *me* to write it. If it's not worth my time to write, then it's not worth reading, & it's disrespectful to send.
September 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Someone told me last week that I could use AI to send email newsletters. But why? If a newsletter or email is worth someone's time to read, then it is worth the time & attention it takes *me* to write it. If it's not worth my time to write, then it's not worth reading, & it's disrespectful to send.
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So if I'm reading this right, the value proposition of AI is that it doesn't work and doesn't make money, but it can kill you now and kill you later.
Where’s a Moral Panic When You Need One? - Truthdig
Sold as The Answer to Everything, AI has become a factory of custom manias, faux-companionship and typo-free teenage suicide notes.
www.truthdig.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
So if I'm reading this right, the value proposition of AI is that it doesn't work and doesn't make money, but it can kill you now and kill you later.
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Still remember one study where they had "AI" look at photos to diagnose cancer and it had like a 98% or 99% accuracy...
...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.
...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.
Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Still remember one study where they had "AI" look at photos to diagnose cancer and it had like a 98% or 99% accuracy...
...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.
...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.
Oh yeah- I hear a certain con is pushing a non-compete clause on vendors. And, while venues, galleries, publishers and conventions are very important partners in making a living off of art, it's important to read agreements & make decisions that protect your interests.
August 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Oh yeah- I hear a certain con is pushing a non-compete clause on vendors. And, while venues, galleries, publishers and conventions are very important partners in making a living off of art, it's important to read agreements & make decisions that protect your interests.
Spent an hour gently washing the leaf fungus off my cherry tree, one leaf at a time. Bc apparently I didn't so much change my lifestyle as deorbit it. Just ablating danger & excitement off my life like it's the discount heat shield on a boeing capsule lol
here's hoping lil tree friend makes it tho
here's hoping lil tree friend makes it tho
August 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Spent an hour gently washing the leaf fungus off my cherry tree, one leaf at a time. Bc apparently I didn't so much change my lifestyle as deorbit it. Just ablating danger & excitement off my life like it's the discount heat shield on a boeing capsule lol
here's hoping lil tree friend makes it tho
here's hoping lil tree friend makes it tho
New art: A smaller oil painting on panel "Sigil of the Heron" 6x8".
Occasionally I take little breaks from my bigger, more realist work, to do these. They're rooted in the style of linework found in Pictish carvings, lots of swooshing lines and spirals, but have more detailed/complexity
Occasionally I take little breaks from my bigger, more realist work, to do these. They're rooted in the style of linework found in Pictish carvings, lots of swooshing lines and spirals, but have more detailed/complexity
August 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
New art: A smaller oil painting on panel "Sigil of the Heron" 6x8".
Occasionally I take little breaks from my bigger, more realist work, to do these. They're rooted in the style of linework found in Pictish carvings, lots of swooshing lines and spirals, but have more detailed/complexity
Occasionally I take little breaks from my bigger, more realist work, to do these. They're rooted in the style of linework found in Pictish carvings, lots of swooshing lines and spirals, but have more detailed/complexity
"Penitent II" 9x12 oil painting on board ($450 USD). The second in a series of paintings mourning the effects of climate change and increasing waves of extinctions.
Open edition art prints will be available in the near future.
Open edition art prints will be available in the near future.
August 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"Penitent II" 9x12 oil painting on board ($450 USD). The second in a series of paintings mourning the effects of climate change and increasing waves of extinctions.
Open edition art prints will be available in the near future.
Open edition art prints will be available in the near future.
You can't tap into the energy of cruelty & greed & have your soul, or often even your body survive. The cycles used to last longer between f-ing around & finding out with that sort of thing- but the modern era for all its many many drawbacks has surfaced & democratized the delivery of "finding out"
July 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
You can't tap into the energy of cruelty & greed & have your soul, or often even your body survive. The cycles used to last longer between f-ing around & finding out with that sort of thing- but the modern era for all its many many drawbacks has surfaced & democratized the delivery of "finding out"
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Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
June 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
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"Don't give a narrative to this asshole who will just make up whatever narrative he likes as it suits" is as bad advice for protesters as it is for domestic abuse victims. You can't one-weird-trick dangerous liars into behaving honestly.
June 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"Don't give a narrative to this asshole who will just make up whatever narrative he likes as it suits" is as bad advice for protesters as it is for domestic abuse victims. You can't one-weird-trick dangerous liars into behaving honestly.
So the wordpress plug-in system that my website runs on has basically just self-destructed. I've got it limping along, slowly, and I'm starting to work on a more permanent fix. That'll prob take a bit tho since computers and I seem to have a mutual loathing.
June 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
So the wordpress plug-in system that my website runs on has basically just self-destructed. I've got it limping along, slowly, and I'm starting to work on a more permanent fix. That'll prob take a bit tho since computers and I seem to have a mutual loathing.
New art: "Penitent I" (9x12 Oil paint on board $450). Prints coming soonish.
June 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
New art: "Penitent I" (9x12 Oil paint on board $450). Prints coming soonish.
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i've never gotten into short form video or chatgpt and im so hyped to eventually be one of the last remaining people with attention span and analytical skills, i think it's really going to increase my value to enterprising warlords during the water wars
June 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM
i've never gotten into short form video or chatgpt and im so hyped to eventually be one of the last remaining people with attention span and analytical skills, i think it's really going to increase my value to enterprising warlords during the water wars
Art is valuable bc it creates an environment that is sustaining to live within. To try to justify it with nonsense about "helping student test scores" or "boosts brain health" or other magazine level BS is to miss the basic reality that art filled environments sustain people on the most basic level
May 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Art is valuable bc it creates an environment that is sustaining to live within. To try to justify it with nonsense about "helping student test scores" or "boosts brain health" or other magazine level BS is to miss the basic reality that art filled environments sustain people on the most basic level
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Now with alt text
May 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Now with alt text
Side effect of ai bullshit is to make actual, real, skill & ability far more valuable. And in 2-4 years, if not sooner, there's going to be a trend of ppl trying to pick up real skills to make up for having cheated themselves w/ai.
May 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Side effect of ai bullshit is to make actual, real, skill & ability far more valuable. And in 2-4 years, if not sooner, there's going to be a trend of ppl trying to pick up real skills to make up for having cheated themselves w/ai.