Your ol' pal Les McClaine

@lesmcclaine.com

Everyone's favorite all-American boy Artist of Books of Clash, Old Souls, the Tick, the Middleman, Jonny Crossbones, Highway 13, and I'm sure some other stuff https://lesmcclaine.com https://evilspacerobot.com https://jonnycrossbones.com

Because I haven't been able to draw I've been going back and looking at older art I've made. I really like this little Petrie from Land Before Time I did a few years back.

drawing of Petrie from Land Before Time but as a more anatomically accurate pterosaur.

I 100% have not changed a single goddamn thing about how I write here in the age of "AI." I write how I write. If the "AI" writes anything like how I write, it's because it stole from me. I'm gonna use any punctuation I like, and if it looks "AI"ish to you, you can go fuck yourself.

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...