who could say what this "apolitical unseen force" is that rewards individual greed and has an overwhelming disdain for humanity as a collective. as a hammer, I am forced to conclude the problem is nails

Someone on LinkedIn who runs a plant protein business shared this example of Meta For Business generating an AI advert: www.linkedin.com/posts/matthe...

Fuck sake, okay you dumb fuck techbros, let me summarize all of science fiction and cyberpunk with the lessons: > AI is very, very bad. > Giving robots weapons is very, very bad. > Capitalism is very, very bad. > Authoritarianism is very, very bad. > AI girlfriends are... *sigh* just don't.

Morning There are a very limited number of Magic Meat Wagon tees in both small and large sizes. These are hand screen printed by professional garment printers and are not print on demand so when they are gone, they are gone. www.leoboyd.com/product/magi... #belfast #streetart #graffiti #tshirt

Do you like romance and romance comics set in Belfast? If so, you'll love Belfast Love Story! This single page print sums up living in Belfast in one easily digestible Belfast/romance comic mash up! Belfast Love Story is only available from here: www.leoboyd.com/product/belf... #belfast #comic

Another image found in the yahoomail cull. This piece was made for an exhibition I had in London called Welcome to the Simulation. It is kind of wild how much my work has changed since making this and I don't think that I would know how to make this again. #painting #art #printmaking

Looksee! This is Paul Fleming, the general secretary of @equityuk.bsky.social calling for Kier Starmer to resign at their annual conference and he is doing so in front of a massive Equity banner that my partner designed and painted and built. Proud as punch I am :)

I started reading between 2 rivers in the bath this evening and I have to say this book is a banger from the start. I bloody love ancient Mesopotamia and this book takes your hand and leads you strait there. Many massive thanks @moudhy.bsky.social for a wonderful read.

HE WROTE THIS BOOK ABOUT EWOKS

Years ago before podcasts were everywhere I listened to this podcast about bad books and the 2 hosts were talking about wizard art on vans and decided that wizard art on vans was America's true homegrown art form.

Many years ago I did this giant mural in Ballymena. It was a kind of mash up of paste ups and painting and told a story of the Ballymena over the rainbow. I think that was the idea anyway. Image found in recent yahoomail cull. #streetart #pasteup #ireland #dinosaur #godzilla

Breakfast wine. Another find from the yahoomail cull. #art #painting #singularity #ai #robot

Have some of this instead!

Yesterday I deleted 35gb of old emails from my yahoomail because they have introduced a limit on storage and I was waaaaay over. Anyhoo, whilst deleting my entire digital life I managed to save a handful of jpegs and there really were a wonderful array of weird images.

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Do you like romance and romance comics set in Belfast? If so, you'll love Belfast Love Story! This single page print sums up living in Belfast in one easily digestible Belfast/romance comic mash up! Belfast Love Story is only available from here: www.leoboyd.com/product/belf... #belfast #comic

I appreciate this, but I don't think a lack of policy ideas is really the problem. We know how to push back against car-centric development. It's just that most Americans have been marinating in pro-car propaganda their entire lives & cars have made them selfish & sociopathic.

Grrraaagh! Says Godzilla. Aaaaaargh, says Ulster. Do you like Kaiju running amok in the capital Ulster? If so, you'll love For Godzilla and Ulster the motion picture. Buy a print of the poster and save a crazy person :) www.leoboyd.com/product/godz... #godzilla #belfast #ireland #ulster

Last day of the @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social exhibition about workers rights today! We are in the news again and there is a short film where some of our members talk about the plight of art and artists in Belfast. uk.news.yahoo.com/vault-artist... #belfast #art #gentrification #aislop

Help us by Demanding your Print on Demand Merch! We have two new items of merch as Vault fundraisers in our online shop. These are both Vault fundraiser items designed by Vault members Leo Boyd and Rob Hilken www.vaultartiststudios.com/news/demand-... @leoprints.bsky.social @robhilken.bsky.social

Mayday Mayday continues today in the new @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social gallery in Belfast. It is a rather lovely exhibition celebrating workers and workers rights in various different art forms. One of my pieces is this modified street sign. #art #painting #streetart #belfast

I reached the heady heights of 5000 followers on Instagram and to celebrate I made this picture. I am not quite at those heady heights here but I thought 'd share it because its a lovely picture. #art #painting #monalisa #paris

the wisdom of dog

Our studio @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social is opening a galllery in Belfast tomorrow night with an exhibition about workers rights. And we are in the news! www.newsletter.co.uk/your-world/v...

This in Enkidu. She likes to climb in the bath at night time when I am brushing my teeth and afterwards she gets a belly rub. #cat

new Live Laugh Love dropped

On the weekend I completed this Catpocalypse mural for Hit the North street art festival. I enlisted the help of the general public in drawing some of the missiles. #streetart #art #belfast #ireland

I am doing Hit the North street art festival today. This is an old piece and much more ambitious than the piece I'll be doing this year but it looks like the weather is going to be okish and there will be music and people painting the streets and May based joy to be had. #belfast #streetart

I think about this all the time.

My studio group has had to move 2 buildings this year and it has taken a toll on our finances. We are opening a new gallery next week on Dublin Road with a exhibition called Mayday Mayday about workers rights. Anyhoo I made this poster as a fundraiser. www.vaultartiststudios.com/shop/p/poster

I am doing Hit the North this weekend and I still don't know what I am going to draw :) Tonight I'll be down in Bullitt at the HTN street art market and I was commissioned to make this piece as a fundraiser for the HTN which you can only get from Seedheadarts this weekend. #streetart #graffiti

I have designed some new t-shirts for the sunny days ahead and as they are print on demand I don’t have to worry my head about printing them and getting my painted hands all over someone else’s garment! I can leave that bit to the professionals. www.leoboyd.com/product-cate...

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I have a monthly newsletter called It's Not the End of the World Newsletter. I stole the title from the Anthony Burgess book 'The End of the World News' which is a pretty crazy book, part of which is a musical about Trotsky. www.leoboyd.com/not-the-end-...

Sadiq Khan may oppose Scotland Yard using Palantir’s AI systems to process criminal intelligence because of his “concerns about using public money to support firms who act contrary to London’s values”. #R4Today

I have been working on a new colourways for this image for a t-shirt fundraiser for @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social for our first exhibition in the new gallery. I have been scrolling through colours and trying to find something less harsh than my normal black and red and these colours are cute.

One of the greatest headlines ever made

I am starting a PhD and am looking for grassland restoration/rewilding sites in Northern Ireland! Please forward this flier to anyone who might be interested in having their land surveyed for fungi!

The sun is out! This is a photo I took of one of the Belfast peace lines yesterday. These walls are very weird architectural monuments that seem like an alien presence from an Andrei Tarkovsky film.

Don't let them fool you, failure is ALWAYS an option.

This but replace cinema with AI. I was talking to an artist friend yesterday about AI and he said its really good for admin and its much cheaper than paying someone. I did say its almost like you have never heard of enshitification or capitalism before. I don't know if it sunk in though.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

Berlin again. #berlin #kunst #freepalestine

Maybe don't go that way?