Juli McKenna Kearns
@idyllopus.bsky.social
No Ai. Author/artist/playwright (twas)/cinema analyses. Dem Socialist. She/her. Spouse-Martin is a musician/engineer/producer. Child-Aaron is a filmmaker/artist. Atlanta GA. Plutonium-enriched childhood in WA. My website: https://idyllopuspress.com
Televised Dinner Theater of Mortals and Gods Series - Flavian Woman, 2015 Digital painting collage with a photo I took in 2006 of a sculpture of a Flavian woman on loan at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History.
I was unaware that as someone born in America I inherited Athens. So does that mean I’m eligible for Greek citizenship?
Well, I suppose SI is fine for generative AI if it means Stolen Information.
In the movie, when she transforms she has the face of a wasp and the body of a woman, which they inverted for the poster. Czechoslovakia would have been able to handle it, Hollywood not so much.
Worst Movies Ever@worstmovies.bsky.social · 4d agoThe Wasp Woman (1959) TMDB score 43% The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences. #movies #moviesky #badmovies
Televised Dinner Theater of Mortals and Gods Series - Nero, 2015 Digital painting collage with a photo I took in 2006 of Nero sculpture on loan at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. The series of several images was based on my memory of watching a Euripides (probably) play on PBS when I was...
This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.
Atlanta had over 142,000 eviction filings in the past year. More than 10,000 in a single month. Absolutely staggering.
Metro Atlanta leads US in highest eviction rates with over 142,000 filings
Metro Atlanta is leading the nation for the highest eviction rates in the United States, with over 142,000 filings as of June 2026, according to new data by The Eviction Lab, a Princeton University-ba...
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Televised Dinner Theater of Mortals and Gods Series - Janus, 2015 Digital painting collage with a photo I took in 2006 of Janus sculpture on loan at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History.
This is so incredibly painful. azluminaria.org/2026/10/05/f...
Final “grandmother” cottonwood toppled, protesters arrested in Lochiel - AZ Luminaria
Armed Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, aft...
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Ttelevised Dinner Theater of Mortals and Gods Series - Lucius Verus and Window, 2015 This is a digital painting with a photo collaged in that I took in 2006 of a Lucius Verus sculpture on loan at Fernbank from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence. The series of several images was based on...
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Roadside America #3, 2007, redone 2026 Southwest Seekers Series Digital painting 16.6 by 25 inches Model reference: Intergalactic at Deviant Art. Photo reference for background taken by artist/me.
Little America Penguins, 2007 Southwest Seekers Series Digital painting 18.6 by 30 inches Model reference: Akai Hinoiri. Photo reference for background taken by artist/me.
I mean yeah, a decade of no one holding Trump accountable for his much more obvious crimes, combined with both Nazi and Confederate rehabilitation projects on the right, was always going to lead to “actually we’ve never done ANYTHING wrong and you guys owe us apologies for every check on our power”
John Light@johnalight.bsky.social · last wk.The DOJ is reviewing "whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the famed Watergate break-in committed misconduct, according to people familiar with the matter, more than half a century after that scandal led to Nixon’s resignation."
"Super"intelligence warfare run by stupid criminals. What could go wrong? Hegseth announces "Autonomous Warfare Command", "...built to scale autonomous and robotic capabilities across the joint force...drone warfare super-charged by SI-enabled targeting..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZdp...
Secretary Hegseth delivers State of the Force address
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“The primary distinction of the #artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being #alone.” - #JamesBaldwin
The Very Large Array, New Mexico, 2006, processed 2025 The wind was strong and unrelenting. There were hares everywhere. Take a step and a hare went bounding. We hauled ass to try to get there before dusk, which fell quickly, and just made it. #black-and-white-photography
Watched "Backrooms". Modern rubbish (which most of it is) commercial and residential architecture is psychotic and soulless. As is the furniture constructed to fill it. Maybe that's not what the film was supposed to be about but the set design was the strength of the film and wins.
Watching "10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki". I'm talking myself out of spending the few dollars to rent "Cobra Woman". I have watched so many bad films lately, but "Cobra Woman" is such a sequined spectacle of bad. The fact it stars Maria Montez just makes me want to watch "Lola Montez" again.
Prep time before a day of filming "Intravenus". 2025. At the Little 5 Points Community Center. Joshua Haire.
Prep time before a day of filming "Intravenus". 2025. At the Little 5 Points Community Center. With Rachel Walker and Joshua Haire.
Prep time before a day of filming "Intravenus" at the Little Five Community Center. 2025. With (l to r) Chandler Balli, Brice Heller, Aaron, and Rachel Walker.
Prep time before a day of filming "Intravenus". 2025. With Rachel Walker and Joshua Haire.
Blue Sunset at Yellowhorse, 2007 Southwest Seekers Series Digital painting with photo by me as reference for background. Model reference is Phoeebstock at Deviantart. 20 by 30 inches
it seems we're facing the prospect of oligarchs’ robots mass murdering every human being on Earth, not because we don't know how to stop the robots, but simply because our government is too corrupt to even try to stop them
AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest experiments to national security officials. Now lawmakers are scrambling to catc...
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