Ray Bernoff
@rmhbernoff.bsky.social
Pleased to report that I continue to be a big fat disabled trans man. I make stuff.
Worcester, MA
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Worcester, MA
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Community Trash #22 (FUCK), 2025
Mixed media art waste (laser cut wood, silk flowers, polyfill, miniature supplies) on reclaimed plywood
You could say I really gave a fuck with this one.
Last chance to catch this and/or many other trash paintings at Hunchback Gallery's Off the Wall show thru Dec 27!
Mixed media art waste (laser cut wood, silk flowers, polyfill, miniature supplies) on reclaimed plywood
You could say I really gave a fuck with this one.
Last chance to catch this and/or many other trash paintings at Hunchback Gallery's Off the Wall show thru Dec 27!
December 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Community Trash #22 (FUCK), 2025
Mixed media art waste (laser cut wood, silk flowers, polyfill, miniature supplies) on reclaimed plywood
You could say I really gave a fuck with this one.
Last chance to catch this and/or many other trash paintings at Hunchback Gallery's Off the Wall show thru Dec 27!
Mixed media art waste (laser cut wood, silk flowers, polyfill, miniature supplies) on reclaimed plywood
You could say I really gave a fuck with this one.
Last chance to catch this and/or many other trash paintings at Hunchback Gallery's Off the Wall show thru Dec 27!
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The most wonderful time of the year.
December 24, 2023 at 6:57 PM
The most wonderful time of the year.
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Everything about AI is the worst thing about AI, but the worst thing for me is its tone of chipper flattery ("You're right!"), a tone that people apparently love to hear directed at them. I feel like a mutant because every time people talk like that to me I start looking for the hidden knife.
The frequency with which this is happening is so bleak and depressing. Knowing a book has no AI before beginning it, and paying for it, and spending time on it, shouldn’t be a guessing game.
December 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Everything about AI is the worst thing about AI, but the worst thing for me is its tone of chipper flattery ("You're right!"), a tone that people apparently love to hear directed at them. I feel like a mutant because every time people talk like that to me I start looking for the hidden knife.
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YES IT IS ONLY 3:15PM AND THE SUN IS IN FACT SETTING BUT HAVE YOU HEARD IT'S THE SOLSTICE TOMORROW THE PAIN IS ON ITS WAY OUT FELLAS
December 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
YES IT IS ONLY 3:15PM AND THE SUN IS IN FACT SETTING BUT HAVE YOU HEARD IT'S THE SOLSTICE TOMORROW THE PAIN IS ON ITS WAY OUT FELLAS
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I once got a compliment on my dress from another woman and my response was simply, “Thanks. It has pockets!” and she said, “Isn’t it sad how little it takes to please us?” and that comment has lived rent fucking free in my head ever since.
December 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I once got a compliment on my dress from another woman and my response was simply, “Thanks. It has pockets!” and she said, “Isn’t it sad how little it takes to please us?” and that comment has lived rent fucking free in my head ever since.
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Oh right, I deleted my old posts but comics should live forever. Here's one about having a cat
December 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Oh right, I deleted my old posts but comics should live forever. Here's one about having a cat
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Amazing details! This Japanese articulated dragon figurine is made of rusetted iron. Crafted in the late 1800s. Part of the Worcester Art Museum exhibit of Higgins Arms and Armor! #art #dragon #sculpture
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Amazing details! This Japanese articulated dragon figurine is made of rusetted iron. Crafted in the late 1800s. Part of the Worcester Art Museum exhibit of Higgins Arms and Armor! #art #dragon #sculpture
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This is so fucking metal
December 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This is so fucking metal
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Very unexpectedly sold a copy of my zine today so might as well plug it now that I'm actually unemployed!
All Jack & Al comics in one place 👀
All Jack & Al comics in one place 👀
High Spirits vol. 0 by Cryo
A Prohibition Era Comedy with a Dash of Romance
cryo-draws.itch.io
December 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Very unexpectedly sold a copy of my zine today so might as well plug it now that I'm actually unemployed!
All Jack & Al comics in one place 👀
All Jack & Al comics in one place 👀
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I heard there was a secret meat
With paprika, and spicy heat
But you don't really care for sausage
Nduja
...sorry, I can delete this. I've just seen a few posts in this format and I wanted in.
With paprika, and spicy heat
But you don't really care for sausage
Nduja
...sorry, I can delete this. I've just seen a few posts in this format and I wanted in.
December 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I heard there was a secret meat
With paprika, and spicy heat
But you don't really care for sausage
Nduja
...sorry, I can delete this. I've just seen a few posts in this format and I wanted in.
With paprika, and spicy heat
But you don't really care for sausage
Nduja
...sorry, I can delete this. I've just seen a few posts in this format and I wanted in.
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All of this is fucked up but this is fucked up
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
December 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
All of this is fucked up but this is fucked up
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Have they tried ringing up all the people they fired and replaced with ChatGPT?
Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Have they tried ringing up all the people they fired and replaced with ChatGPT?
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For decades, Penguin Random House has proven that you can just zoom in on a royalty free image, add a black banner along the bottom, and then place the title on the banner in a bold white font, and people will not only find them beautiful but buy them!
Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
December 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
For decades, Penguin Random House has proven that you can just zoom in on a royalty free image, add a black banner along the bottom, and then place the title on the banner in a bold white font, and people will not only find them beautiful but buy them!
Community Trash #21, 2025
Mixed media art waste (paper towel, wood, metal) on poplar
This one uses clay tools from a stranger on Buy Nothing, popsicle sticks and scrap from Technocopia members, and paper towel from my oil painter friend Sophie Pearson. Catch it at Hunchback Gallery through Dec 27!
Mixed media art waste (paper towel, wood, metal) on poplar
This one uses clay tools from a stranger on Buy Nothing, popsicle sticks and scrap from Technocopia members, and paper towel from my oil painter friend Sophie Pearson. Catch it at Hunchback Gallery through Dec 27!
December 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Community Trash #21, 2025
Mixed media art waste (paper towel, wood, metal) on poplar
This one uses clay tools from a stranger on Buy Nothing, popsicle sticks and scrap from Technocopia members, and paper towel from my oil painter friend Sophie Pearson. Catch it at Hunchback Gallery through Dec 27!
Mixed media art waste (paper towel, wood, metal) on poplar
This one uses clay tools from a stranger on Buy Nothing, popsicle sticks and scrap from Technocopia members, and paper towel from my oil painter friend Sophie Pearson. Catch it at Hunchback Gallery through Dec 27!
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Two men about to have a very normal day
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Two men about to have a very normal day
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One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”
December 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
Community Trash #20, 2025
Mixed media art waste (acrylic, tongue depressors, paper towel) on reclaimed plywood
The tongue depressors and acrylic pouring overpour are both from Diamond Hearts Art Studio (diamondheartsartstudio.com), where I had my solo wall at the beginning of the year!
Mixed media art waste (acrylic, tongue depressors, paper towel) on reclaimed plywood
The tongue depressors and acrylic pouring overpour are both from Diamond Hearts Art Studio (diamondheartsartstudio.com), where I had my solo wall at the beginning of the year!
December 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Community Trash #20, 2025
Mixed media art waste (acrylic, tongue depressors, paper towel) on reclaimed plywood
The tongue depressors and acrylic pouring overpour are both from Diamond Hearts Art Studio (diamondheartsartstudio.com), where I had my solo wall at the beginning of the year!
Mixed media art waste (acrylic, tongue depressors, paper towel) on reclaimed plywood
The tongue depressors and acrylic pouring overpour are both from Diamond Hearts Art Studio (diamondheartsartstudio.com), where I had my solo wall at the beginning of the year!
Movie you've watched more than six times (gif version). no LOTR, Star Wars, Marvel, Disney
December 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Movie you've watched more than six times (gif version). no LOTR, Star Wars, Marvel, Disney
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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I wrote about how wealth isn’t just “more time to write,” but resource-having in a way most of us can’t even imagine
lillyluwrites.substack.com/p/wealth-acc...
lillyluwrites.substack.com/p/wealth-acc...
Wealth, Access, and Writing
or, we need to talk about socioeconomic privilege
lillyluwrites.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I wrote about how wealth isn’t just “more time to write,” but resource-having in a way most of us can’t even imagine
lillyluwrites.substack.com/p/wealth-acc...
lillyluwrites.substack.com/p/wealth-acc...
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I think the bigger problem will be when it's inevitably revealed that there's no machine learning analyzing these images, but instead contractors in India given 2.3 seconds to score a photo of a toilet bowl against a copy of the Bristol stool chart hanging in their cubicle.
NEW: Your "end-to-end encrypted" poop pictures taken by this $599 (+ subscription) smart toilet camera are actually not end-to-end encrypted.
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techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
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techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted | TechCrunch
Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers' data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.
techcrunch.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I think the bigger problem will be when it's inevitably revealed that there's no machine learning analyzing these images, but instead contractors in India given 2.3 seconds to score a photo of a toilet bowl against a copy of the Bristol stool chart hanging in their cubicle.
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We came home from a long road trip to find that my brother put up Christmas decorations in our yard. Wishing you a joyful and meaningful Leon 🙏🏻✨
December 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
We came home from a long road trip to find that my brother put up Christmas decorations in our yard. Wishing you a joyful and meaningful Leon 🙏🏻✨