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Programmer. Nerd. Introvert. Probable dumbass.

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#aiart prompt 1074: Bronzepunk dragon with ethereal rainbow wings against an autumnal sky.

#DragonTuesday
These four generated by Dall-E 3. Generally speaking: a mechanical dragon in bronze metal, with colorful wings, flying against a sunset. Each image’s background features the sun in orange, in a pale yellow sky with rosy clouds. In this first image, the dragon is flying from the right toward the left. Its massive wings, connected just behind its forelimbs, look like etched stained glass with bronzed frames. The wing “hand”—where the ribbed “fingers” of the wing meet the wing arm—is massive, mechanical, but delicious with filigree. The dragon has some interesting etchings on some of its mechanical parts, such as a round disc plate covering the connection point for its forelimb. This dragon appears to be rearing up, readying for flight; it appears to be some distance from an old world city near a river, such as London. Its wings look like rainbow feathers mounted along its wing arms. Unlike the rest of this set, this dragon is facing right, flying from the left. It has glowing cyan eyes. Its wings are evocative of feathers, albeit inset between numerous delicate bronze ribs branching off from the wing arms. There is some indication that the tail might have a finned crest of the wing material. Somewhat bat-like wings on this dragon, inasmuch as they appear slightly webbed and have an inset curve between the fingers. Unlike a bat, but like some of the other dragons in this set, the fingers branch off regularly from the wing arms, rather than from a hand. Its tail is fully visible, and ends in a spiny or feathery ball at its tip. Possibly an offensive weapon?
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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#aiart prompt 1073: Stranger in a strange land. Wide shot, some distance from the subject. Bizarre; alien; unreal.
These four generated by Dall-E 3. They each, generally, depict a silhouetted person standing amidst a surreal, alien landscape. The first image has pinks, yellows, and blues; large, fan-like coral structures tower on the horizon against a cloudy sky. More coral towers, with closer mega-mushrooms. The foreground contains some intriguing looping plants. The stranger is standing on one of many globular structures, evocative of a brain’s folded membranes. The sky is dominated by a planet and several moons. More coral growths, and perhaps some cabbage-like plants in the foreground. Spiral clouds in the distance.
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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#aiart prompt 666: on cream cardstock, in black and red ink: a gothic interpretation of “The Devil” major arcana; there should be text for both the card name, and its arcana number “XV”.
November 18, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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#aiart prompt 665: lost in the deep, dark, dense forest, abstractly.
November 17, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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I’m looking through the table of contents for Anna Karenina, as much of the part I’m currently reading involves a wedding.

Apparently, an upcoming chapter has a title? No other chapter has a title.

DEATH seems somewhat concerning as a chapter name.
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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#aiart prompt 1072: A brightly lit court: a knight wearing extremely shiny, chrome, plate armor, stands watch with a laser pike; he has shoulder length hair and a handlebar mustache. In mid-century, slightly desaturated technicolor; low depth of field.
These four generated by Dall-E 3. Generally, they struggle to realize the sci-fi aspect of the prompt, though fail rather admirably; otherwise, reasonable interpretations of the setting and subject. The first knight holds what looks like an ornate zweihander: chrome pommel, a red laser blade; a hand grip in chrome, and a main blade in cyan. Silly and impractical, but fun. The character somewhat resembles 90s era Cary Elwes. This knight stands in front of two groups of seated, tuxedoed men. The device he wields seems to have a secondary shaft separated from the main grip shaft. The secondary shaft appears to end in a mace head that might have some laser emitting potential. This fellow also has a rather massive chain-mail neck guard above the plate armor. Shiny reflections! The two previous knights’ “laser pikes” didn’t really cast light; the device this fellow wields, however, reflects off his immaculate chrome armor. It’s more of a laser sword, though. He seems to be holding a helmet in his left hand, nestled in the crook of his elbow; he holds the weapon in his right, across his chest. He gazes at the camera, challenging, as though wanting you to acknowledge how badass he thinks he is. The “court” here has a massive, vibrant red carpet, which contrasts with the weapon color. Another sword-like weapon, with a cyan blade. There is some reflection in the armor, but less than the third image. Like the third, this knight appears to be challenging the camera. He’s standing in front of a raised dais, in front of the steps leading up to it. More medieval court vibes than the previous images.
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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#aiart prompt 664: green and gold
November 17, 2024 at 4:24 AM
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#aiart prompt 663: a closeup of a bowl of heaped kibble, floor level; the whiskers and lower jaw of a cat can just be seen near the bowl. High contrast, low saturation, close depth of field.
November 16, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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#aiart prompt 1071: Night, a mid-level balcony in the projects; wires and cables crisscross the air between buildings; neon and holographic signs advertise useless schlock. Heavy snow falls, muting and dimming perspective. A stray sits, contemplating the view.

#Caturday
These four images generated by Dall-E 3. They generally show an air gap between tall buildings in a dense urban environment, decked with bright neon signs. Snowy. Each has a cat sitting on a balcony. In this one, the balcony is on the lower right, the cat sitting on the balustrade. Similar to the first. The balcony is closer, and appears larger, though we do not see any of the unit to which it is attached. This puts the cat, slightly larger, slightly right of center. Further away from the balcony, but more directly above it. The cat is more silhouette in this image, backlit by the bright air between the buildings. The cat is sitting on the balcony, itself, here, rather than on the balustrade. Further back from the edge, too. The image appears to be taken from another balcony overlooking the scene.
November 16, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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“Take my things,’ said Karenin; and somewhat relieved by the news that there was still some hope of her dying, he entered the ante-room.”

Anna Karenina, P4.C17

Things aren’t going especially well in the Karenin household.
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Real weird how folk self-censor vulgarity. We f***ing know what words you’re using.

Especially bizarre when folk do the same with brand names. How can anyone decipher Amaz*n. There’s literally nobody at that corp looking for that level of misdirection.
November 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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#aiart prompt 662: red, grey, black; on cream; a small number of flat colored circles and semi-circles.
November 16, 2024 at 5:23 AM
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#aiart prompt 661: rubik’s hypercube
November 15, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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The whingey AI-denialist luddites are out in force, today.
November 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Current version of the Bluesky iOS app on iPad has an annoying bug wrt blocks: the “Account Blocked” toast doesn’t ever go away. It just stays up there, top of the screen, until the app is relaunched.
November 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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I hate not having a modern computer. I watched a video of someone playing The Farmer Was Replaced, badly, and now really want to play it. And I don’t even like Python.
November 15, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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#aiart prompt 1070: Dark gray, black deep brown, a hint of dull crimson: shapes emerge, segueing from the darkness.
These four generated by Dall-E 3. They are all rather abstract, showing circular/oval overlapping objects disappearing into the surrounding dark in the colors described in the prompt. This has a bit more curvature, and is a bit brighter. A sort of abstract, layered swoosh. Almost an abstract representation of flame, surrounded by smoke. Nice layered dimensionality. Darker curves and loops.
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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#aiart prompt 660: in space no one can hear you sequel.
November 15, 2024 at 3:29 AM
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#aiart prompt 659: in watercolor, the forest during heavy rain. Conifers and autumnally tinged maples. Leaf strewn underbrush.
November 14, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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#aiart prompt 658: a lava lamp, abstractly.
November 14, 2024 at 3:50 AM
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#aiart prompt 657: a liquid chartreuse haze; inky, black, vertical striations, thick and irregular, blurred and indistinct, obscure.
November 13, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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“But hardly had he settled down when a moth flew across the table. The lawyer, with a rapidity one could not have expected of him, separated his hands, caught the moth, and resumed his former position.”

P4.C5

Is Karenin’s lawyer named Renfield, by any chance?
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Kinda wild that the traitorous 8 caved and yet the news cycle is completely consumed not with their craven capitulation but with the Epstein scandal.

I’d attribute this to some 4-d chess on the dems part if they didn’t have a history of the worst political instincts ever.
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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#aiart prompt 1069: Heavy on the bass and reverb; synths for days! Sing the wire electric.
These four generated by Dall-E 3. They generally depict a live stage performance of one or more rock musicians in fanciful settings. In the first, a slightly demonic figure kneels, head thrown back, absolutely shredding an electric guitar. The stage he’s on is littered with effects pedals, synthesizer equipment, speakers, and other such devices, connected by a web of cables. The background shows a massive fantastical tower during a thunderstorm. Close up of a mail guitarist with long hair singing into a microphone, near a synth. His attire looks as though it were out of Horizon: Zero Dawn: full of feathers and turquoise tribal weaves. Inexplicably, a shoal of fish fly through the air on the left. A long haired guitarist jamming while sort of mantling over some stage hardware. He appears to be wearing tight fitting pants and a t-shirt. The background, amidst numerous flashes of electricity, shows an alien landscape with spherical growths and spires. A large sphere—perhaps a moon?—hangs in the sky on the upper right. About five musicians on raised platforms extending out into the audience, staggered into the distance; the background musicians are playing guitars, while the foreground artist is on a keyboard. The stage nearby has numerous synths and audio equipment. The sky is split: on the left, a bright orb of yellowish light; on the right: a psychedelic series of fanciful spirals.
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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#aiart prompt 657: DATELINE ATLANTIS: the merfolk march mercilessly! Will our battered defenders of the Piscine homeland fend off the invaders? Watch this space!
November 12, 2024 at 9:17 PM