R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City
@rkignazio.bsky.social
U.S. writer & artist based in Toronto. My ancient adventure comic ENOCH: THE FIRST CITY is free on Webtoon, Tapas and Global Comix: https://linktr.ee/rkignazio
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Here's how I used Clip Studio Paint to create a big fantasy splash page looking down into the canyon city in my ancient adventure comic, Enoch: The First City.
Read it free on @globalcomix.com , @tapasapp.bsky.social and Webtoon Canvas!
linktr.ee/rkignazio
#process #digitalpainting
Read it free on @globalcomix.com , @tapasapp.bsky.social and Webtoon Canvas!
linktr.ee/rkignazio
#process #digitalpainting
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August 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time
March 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time
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I don’t know why this incenses me as much as it does, but it does:
we very likely have a thousand plus Mozarts *right now*. But they make non-Western art in economically destitute conditions so they have to do other work to pay bills; if you cared, UBI’d be more important to you than going to space
we very likely have a thousand plus Mozarts *right now*. But they make non-Western art in economically destitute conditions so they have to do other work to pay bills; if you cared, UBI’d be more important to you than going to space
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’
“I think in a lot of these endeavors we're very like-minded,” Bezos said of himself and Musk regarding getting humans into space.
finance.yahoo.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I don’t know why this incenses me as much as it does, but it does:
we very likely have a thousand plus Mozarts *right now*. But they make non-Western art in economically destitute conditions so they have to do other work to pay bills; if you cared, UBI’d be more important to you than going to space
we very likely have a thousand plus Mozarts *right now*. But they make non-Western art in economically destitute conditions so they have to do other work to pay bills; if you cared, UBI’d be more important to you than going to space
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Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
August 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
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"They called the police for help, but local law enforcement turned them over to ICE."
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-de...
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-de...
The People Being Arrested By ICE That No One’s Talking About
The Trump administration’s deportation machine is detaining immigrant women at record numbers — and they've become invisible targets.
www.huffpost.com
July 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"They called the police for help, but local law enforcement turned them over to ICE."
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-de...
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-de...
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“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
The Politics of Humiliation
The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.
www.liberalcurrents.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
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I think innocent children dying in natural disasters is a lot worse than publicly criticizing government officials in charge of preventing innocent children from dying in natural disasters for failing to save innocent children from natural disasters.
Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.
Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.
July 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I think innocent children dying in natural disasters is a lot worse than publicly criticizing government officials in charge of preventing innocent children from dying in natural disasters for failing to save innocent children from natural disasters.
Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.
Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.
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What if your fridge was something you needed a password for? What if conflicting diet blogs got to pick what’s in there? What if a software update caused your fridge to stop working? The future is bright!
July 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
What if your fridge was something you needed a password for? What if conflicting diet blogs got to pick what’s in there? What if a software update caused your fridge to stop working? The future is bright!
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A 1940s Superman radio serial exposed true secrets of the KKK.
1950s posters showed him calling bigoted bullying "un-American."
He's always been this way.
It's in the essence of the character: He is both rural and urban, both an orphan and a beloved son, both alien and American, all at once.
1950s posters showed him calling bigoted bullying "un-American."
He's always been this way.
It's in the essence of the character: He is both rural and urban, both an orphan and a beloved son, both alien and American, all at once.
Why MAGA Hates Superman
He stands for truth, justice, and an American way that Trump is tearing down
www.arcdigital.media
July 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A 1940s Superman radio serial exposed true secrets of the KKK.
1950s posters showed him calling bigoted bullying "un-American."
He's always been this way.
It's in the essence of the character: He is both rural and urban, both an orphan and a beloved son, both alien and American, all at once.
1950s posters showed him calling bigoted bullying "un-American."
He's always been this way.
It's in the essence of the character: He is both rural and urban, both an orphan and a beloved son, both alien and American, all at once.
Hey #portfolioday, I write and illustrate the epic adventure comic Enoch: The First City, about a thief in an ancient kingdom taking revenge on the rich and powerful.
It's free to read here: linktr.ee/rkignazio
It's free to read here: linktr.ee/rkignazio
July 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Hey #portfolioday, I write and illustrate the epic adventure comic Enoch: The First City, about a thief in an ancient kingdom taking revenge on the rich and powerful.
It's free to read here: linktr.ee/rkignazio
It's free to read here: linktr.ee/rkignazio
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I hate when Superman goes woke and political, like in the sixth panel on the first page of Action Comics #1
July 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I hate when Superman goes woke and political, like in the sixth panel on the first page of Action Comics #1
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Newsletter: It's time for a radical new approach to tech CEOs: mocking them, because they talk like idiots and provide little value to society outside of their dedication to shareholder value. They sound stupid, they do nothing, and it's time to fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...
www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...
Make Fun Of Them
Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak?
I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?
Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long p...
www.wheresyoured.at
June 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Newsletter: It's time for a radical new approach to tech CEOs: mocking them, because they talk like idiots and provide little value to society outside of their dedication to shareholder value. They sound stupid, they do nothing, and it's time to fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...
www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...
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In a less imperfect world, Musk and Trump would be forever cast as killers of children, and this would be front-page news for months and the subject of Sunday sermons in every church.
NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”
The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.
Don’t ever forget.
In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal
The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In a less imperfect world, Musk and Trump would be forever cast as killers of children, and this would be front-page news for months and the subject of Sunday sermons in every church.
I remember when I showed my mom "Casablanca," she knew it was some old romance film, but not that it was about two people giving up everything they want most in life in order to defeat the Nazis.
June 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I remember when I showed my mom "Casablanca," she knew it was some old romance film, but not that it was about two people giving up everything they want most in life in order to defeat the Nazis.
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the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled
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Imagine if you were so bad at your job that you completely messed up 79% of the time. But instead of being sacked, your company sacks everyone else, and the government changes the law to give you everyone else’s money.
“On one test, the hallucination rates of newer A.I. systems were as high as 79 percent.”
Well, that’s… useless.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
Well, that’s… useless.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
www.nytimes.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Imagine if you were so bad at your job that you completely messed up 79% of the time. But instead of being sacked, your company sacks everyone else, and the government changes the law to give you everyone else’s money.
Beyond the theft, beyond the fraud, I worry that AI in storytelling will make us worse as people. Because since the dawn of time, human beings have sat around campfires telling each other stories as a way to share our values with each other. 🧵
June 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Beyond the theft, beyond the fraud, I worry that AI in storytelling will make us worse as people. Because since the dawn of time, human beings have sat around campfires telling each other stories as a way to share our values with each other. 🧵
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If humans have a hard time distinguishing between A.I. and human, that doesn’t make A.I. better or acceptable. You can be a really great liar; you’re still a *liar.* Your expertise at lying doesn’t make what you’re saying true.
A Turing Test in March using GPT-4.5: "Participants incorrectly identified the left image (Witness A) as human with 87% certainty, saying ‘A had human vibes. B had human imitation vibes.’ A was actually AI-generated; B was human" www.bondcap.com/reports/tai
June 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
If humans have a hard time distinguishing between A.I. and human, that doesn’t make A.I. better or acceptable. You can be a really great liar; you’re still a *liar.* Your expertise at lying doesn’t make what you’re saying true.
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wow -- @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com chokes up while talking about how the Trump administration is killing kids who relied on USAID to get life-saving medicine
June 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
wow -- @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com chokes up while talking about how the Trump administration is killing kids who relied on USAID to get life-saving medicine
All I wanted was a recap of Andor Season 1. I didn't expect it to make me want to cry and then storm the Bastille.
Seriously, the end of this thing goes so much harder than it had to.
youtu.be/VOfBli5P7fs?...
Seriously, the end of this thing goes so much harder than it had to.
youtu.be/VOfBli5P7fs?...
Andor | Season 1 Recap | Streaming on Disney+ and Hulu
YouTube video by Star Wars
youtu.be
May 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
All I wanted was a recap of Andor Season 1. I didn't expect it to make me want to cry and then storm the Bastille.
Seriously, the end of this thing goes so much harder than it had to.
youtu.be/VOfBli5P7fs?...
Seriously, the end of this thing goes so much harder than it had to.
youtu.be/VOfBli5P7fs?...
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"This is like Gestapo-type of stuff, and it just blows my mind that there's a certain, certain ugly segment of the American pop population that's enjoying watching these families getting ripped out of their homes and, and you somehow think that America's gonna be better if this is done." - Bill Burr
May 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"This is like Gestapo-type of stuff, and it just blows my mind that there's a certain, certain ugly segment of the American pop population that's enjoying watching these families getting ripped out of their homes and, and you somehow think that America's gonna be better if this is done." - Bill Burr
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very frustrated by the way the press would rather focus on an imaginary horse race than the real stakes of the moment youtube.com/shorts/_DfOF...
politics is not a game, folks
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtube.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
very frustrated by the way the press would rather focus on an imaginary horse race than the real stakes of the moment youtube.com/shorts/_DfOF...
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Parents: just imagine your own daughter being attacked by a group of police for the “crime” of trying to protect her family from being kidnapped
🚨 Disturbing footage shows the brutal arrest of a terrified 16-year-old girl—sobbing, screaming as “ICE agents” abducted her mom without a warrant or ID. At least 4 grown men slammed her face into the pavement.
This is child abuse.
This is state terror.
Worcester police are complicit.
This is child abuse.
This is state terror.
Worcester police are complicit.
May 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Parents: just imagine your own daughter being attacked by a group of police for the “crime” of trying to protect her family from being kidnapped