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Martyn Warren (he/him)

@martynwarren.bsky.social

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Professional UX Design Lead, unprofessional insect illustrator, nature-lover and wannabe DJ (AuDHD). He/Him. www.martynwarren.com

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · Apr 9

Hey #portfolioday, I draw these little weirdos. For fun (apparently).

A selection of the bugs I've drawn, including a crimson winged grasshopper, blue weevil, green sawtooth stag beetle, yellow man-faced shield bug, orange stag beetle, a small shiny blue leaf beetle, a large cecropia moth, a big green leaf insect an earwig with spread wings, a red shield bug and much more.

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 21h

(BTW having just remembered that this is the Internet, I should stress that this is gallows humour, rather than a genuine defense of her appalling behaviour).

Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 21h

In fairness, the article says the snails are an indicator of clean water, so their days are surely numbered already.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

I'd actually forgotten how extraordinary it is that when I won the leadership - I wasn't interviewed as it was too close to our party conference interviewed.

And then refused a second time!

Part of the antidote to all of this is creating our own media platforms.

Hey @boldpolitics.bsky.social 👋🏼

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 2d

Crosseyed might help, tbh.

Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, I'd assumed the gigantic black hole was the visual metaphor of the plot. A massive, gaping hole.

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 2d

Please help combat BBC news blackout of Green Party!
@zackpolanski.bsky.social was the only party leader not interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their party conference.
So please RT his cracking conference speech..

Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 4d

Whatever your party politics, @zackpolanski.bsky.social leaders speech deserves to be heard..

www.youtube.com/live/TZx9Vng...

Leader's Speech - Zack Polanski at Green Party Conference 2025

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

www.youtube.com

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 2d

Man I wish I was smart enough to understand Interstellar. If the future 5th-dimensional humans are smart enough to create a 3-dimensional representation of his fucken bookshelf so he could drop some books, why couldn't they conjure up a less ambiguous way of communicating with the past?

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 3d

Full title should be 'Police given new powers to crack down on repeat protests unless they're a bunch of racist morons draped in Union Jacks singing Tommy Tommy Tommy Tommy Robinson'.

Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 8d

FFS, just noticed my phone had corrected 'unenviable' to 'undeniable', rendering my post unnecessarily confusing.

Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 8d

My chief complaint is not that it failed to answer a niche question, but that it confidently lied in a way that most people wouldn't interrogate. To me, a perfectly acceptable answer would have been "Sorry, I couldn't find any reviews".

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 8d

Haha!

Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 8d

THIS. Fucken THIS.

Techically, self-descruction is not inevitable because we have the capability to cease harmful behaviours.

But, because we have tribalism human brains, it absolutely is inevitable.

Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 13d

The obvious answer? Slash emissions, cut plastics, protect ecosystems. But here’s the real catch: we won’t. Human “success” has always meant grabbing more resources than others, not restraint. Autocrats rise, nations hoard, populations grow.
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Earth at night from space, glowing with city lights. The illuminated patterns show the global spread of human activity and resource consumption.

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 13d

56 million years ago, Earth had a carbon surge called the PETM. It drove 5–8 °C of warming, acidified oceans, wiped out marine life, and took 200,000 years to recover. Today we’re dumping CO₂ 10× faster. The planet will recover again—but humanity won’t.
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A line graph of atmospheric CO2 over 45 million years. Levels trend downward and remain below 300 ppm, until the far right edge where a near-vertical spike shows today’s level above 420 ppm, far higher and rising faster than any past fluctuation.

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah, and the big problem is that it's incredibly stupid whilst giving the illusion of being intelligent, confident and 'alive'. Which means huge swathes of the population will just believe everything it 'says'.

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 8d

Deal.

Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 8d

Sigh - the more I probe it, the more fallable it becomes. It's nothing more than a fancy word generator, but the wider public don't have the skills to interrogate it properly. And its appearance of intelligence makes its utterances al the more dangerous.

Another screenshot where it explains that it has no intelligence or morals, it just shows words that look like conversations.

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 8d

I grilled it some more and it admitted the quotes, which it had claimed were 'actual quotes from reviews' were fabricated.

This bullshit machine is soon going to be where everyone gets their information from, and the reason so many people will lose their jobs.

It's infuriating.

Another screenshot where Chat GPT admits the reviews were not verbatim, and were 'crafted examples'.

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 8d

I then asked for links so I could read the full reviews - and it declined to give me any.

Another screenshot showing that the quotes Chat GPT had previously shown me were, in fact, completely fabricated.

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 8d

Folks, I'm in the undeniable position of having to learn more about how I can incorporate AI and LLMs into my daily workload (for my real job, not my drawings), so I gave Chat GPT a very simple task of finding reviews of my book. It started off promisingly:

A screenshot from Chat GPT listing a number of positive quotes from reviews of my book. The quotes are presented authentically with attribution from various sources.

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 9d

Incredible...

Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 9d

so here it is folks, with one day to spare the complete #SciArt collage of critters for #invertober2024 by @fossilforager.bsky.social

and now I have a fresh clean slate to start the 2025 list! which hopefully is done before September 2026...

a collage of 31 invertebrates in a 7x5 grid, with a list of their latin names in the middle. there are lanternbugs, butterflies, cephalopods, jellyfish, flies, spiders, wasps, flatworms, ants, chnidarians, beetles, crabs, bees, snails, isopods, sea slugs, sponges, sea cucumbers, and bottom right occupying two spaces a horseshoe crab with a long tail.
the text (white on black) in the middle:
Invertober 2025

1 | Fulgora laternaria
2 | Siproeta stelenes
3 | Sepia officinalis
4 | Cotylorhiza tuberculata
5 | Bombylius major
6 | Brachypelma smithi
7 | Chrysis ignita
8 | Bipalium choristosperma
9 | Nothomyrmecia sp.
10 | Radianthus magnifica
11 | Goliathus goliatus
12 | Macrocheira kaempferi
13 | Bombus pratorum
14 | Monadenia infumata
15 | Argema mittrei
16 | Armadillidium gestroi
17 | Lampyris noctiluca
18 | Chromodoris annae
19 | Aplysina fistularis
20 | Coccinella trifasciata
21 | Histioteuthis heteropsis
22 | Neotibicen linnei
23 | Eristalis flavipes
24 | Hierodula membranacea
25 | Tachypleus gigas
26 | Chicobolus spinigerus
27 | Kiwa hirsuta
28 | Synchlora aerata
29 | Phidippus audax
30 | Parastichopus johnsoni
31 | Gecarcinus quadratus

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 10d

Not your fault at all - I can see how it can be interpreted that way.

Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah, I think some people are misinterpreting my post. Here in the UK, a lot of the idiot population have been hoodwinked into believing that trans folk and migrants are ruining the country. My point is that neither group is a genuine threat - they're simply a diversion.

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 10d

Folks, I'm watching Malcolm X, Denzel just asked someone "how tall are you?" and THIS is what the subtitles thought he said...

A screenshot of the film with the caption reading, 'Mmm, hot toilet".

Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 10d

E.g. chatted with a customer who said they'd planted some bedstraw in their garden and managed to attract both hummingbird and elephant hawkmoths - so I'm now going to try the same.

Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 10d

Let me clarify - I'm taking aim at those who have been fooled into arguing *against* trans folk and migrants.