Statement from @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social Huge news!! Belfast City Council have gifted us the actual city hall for use as Artist studios and creative work spaces! This building is big enough to house every creative industries, grass roots and social enterprise organisation in the city.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 01,1946

I wanted to create an April Fools but the idea didn't present itself to me. I do have this instead though. The other day I was looking for the 'If You See AI, You Block AI' poster that I have made but I was being lazy so I googled my name followed by the word AI and this is the hilarious result.

I was charged with writing a Woke 2 manifesto. this isn’t quite that. aftermath.site/woke-2-woken...

1990.

Wahoooo!

Spring Time Melts the Ice! No Kings #nokings #ice

Landmark decision with potentially huge impact on social media companies (and - ideally - their users’ (mental) health and wellbeing): “Tech giants Meta and YouTube were found to be liable for designing their platforms to be addictive, which harmed a 20-year-old's mental health.”

Countries banning all teenagers from social media because "their brains aren't developed enough to handle it", meanwhile nobody's talking about the percentage of retirement-aged adults who have irreversibly cooked their fucking brains on Facebook since 2020.

Street signs and street art and street art street signs! Yes you read that right! I have uploaded some of my latest street signs and street art and street sign street art to the street art page on my website and it is here! www.leoboyd.com/category/str... #streetart #streetsigns #belfast #ireland

I made this screen print to highlight the absurdities of war quite a few years ago now. It is based upon this old comic advert for a polaris nuclear sub. Anyway war is horrible and absurd and humans can be real weirdos. #war #screenprint #art #printmaking

Yes but what about the tweet I saw from someone who didn't look up every single word in the dictionary first

Another one from the archive. Fly my Pretty. This piece is a silk screen mash up of al kinds of crazy with shellac and then over painting and fuck knows what else. Fly My Pretty is a play on the myth of Prometheus and the demi god has created a weapon of war that will eventually consume him. #art

@Josh Burnside from @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social in Belfast has made this new song and its bloody good I have it on repeat in my head :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Y9...

Well this is a banger www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHf2...

Going through the art archive last week and there are some genuinely bonkers art works that I would have a hard time recreating now. No idea how I did this first one. Maybe silk screen with painting and then did I ride over it on my bike? #art #printmaking #screenprint

Gang. GANG. Here's that Ghanian bootleg Cheers artwork you were looking for.

Well this is VERY good Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy for the DFA) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XpM...

Vanderhorst had been under the influence of MDMA and three litres of vodka she had consumed on the night of the offence www.bbc.com/news/article...

WOIMSDAY

More screen prints from the archives. I found part of an edition of this rather nice/strange piece that I made probably around 9 years ago. The Machine is about a speculative holy machine built to run every part of society. www.leoboyd.com/product/the-... #art #printmaking #screenprinting

I made this print after a long period of research into old letter forms. I found a whole edition of these screen prints after moving studio and going through the piles I work in my hoarded archive. www.leoboyd.com/product/k-ho... #art #screenprint #printmaking

Over 40k people die a year due to cars in the US and that isn't even factoring in environmental damages. Instead of acknowledging the harm that cars cause to the populace cyclists continue to get demonized by people who can't even conceive of an infrastructure not centered around cars.

The UK has fallen from 1st to 22nd within Europe, on LGBTQ-focused protective legislature. It's narrowly ahead of Albania - a Muslim country - and dead last in western Europe. This is owing to a surge in anti-LGBTQ sentiment that needs FAR more attention than you or your party have given it.

Wild to think that Mosley's grandson is the UK head of Palantir, and got the job in part precisely BECAUSE of that lineage. bsky.app/profile/iain...

Why, after years of scrutiny, isn’t there any evidence that large numbers of children were given irreversible treatments without assessment? “The journals are corrupt! And the doctors are corrupt! And the debate was suppressed! And the data is coming out any time now!” Like listen to yourselves

Living the dream!

And back in Belfast to Sailortown and the American Bar for a wee bit of fluid - 0.0 of course 😀 (have we brought you here yet, @sorchainenil.bsky.social ?? @leoprints.bsky.social did the exterior decor

Away from Omelas Public Footpath. This sign is rather niche but when I had the idea I had to make it. if you haven't read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K Leguin you really should because it is very good.

Jumping on the Dune bandwagon with this old Dune meme.

This is an amazing read.

tapping the sign again

Morning! I am going to be in Belfast City hospital screen printing this design onto tote bags for the hospital workers. I am sure if you are not a worker you could blag one though :) Happy St Patrick's Day one and all.

Hello, Gaius Cassius Longinus here. I have a favor to ask you. Julius Caesar has DECLARED himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE! I need you to send a denarius to Save The Republic PAC RIGHT NOW so we can stop Caesar from making himself a king.

I would say that in retrospect Microsoft's Clippy wasn't so bad. He gave some pretty great tips on how to write a memo. He didn't destroy the environment by consuming more energy than most countries. He didn't help bomb any countries. All in all, C- to B+ range, realistically.

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

Happy Mother's day to all the mothers out there! Photo taken at @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social group exhibition 'Mother' that opened for international Women's Day in 2024.

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Peace Wall paste up photos where you can get more of an idea of the scale of these very weird architectural scars that cut through parts of this city. #streetart #belfast

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

"Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated." The Rat, Günter Grass

Save Botanic Meadow This place is going to get levelled and turned int sports pitches or something which isn't great. I get that humans need sports but also wild life needs somewhere to hang out too. www.change.org/p/save-botan...

Peace Wall Paste Up Last week when the sun was out we went up to the 'peace wall' between the Falls and the Shankill and pasted this pretty massive paste up. A couple of days later I went back and finished it off with a bit of a doodle skyline. #streetart #ireland #pasteup

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

Poster promoting an anti-car demonstration in New York City, 1972

Much of being in the studio is moving stuff from place to place and doing admin whilst trying to figure out what music to listen to. Today has been a lot of that but this little bit of admin really looks very nice :)

"There's a genocide happening in this island because it is being taken over by dffiferent people that are not indigenous to this land" "I would love to know where you are planning to go when they really turn on us. Because it has happened before + will happen again" Thomas Corbett-Dillon, GB News

Ha this is very silly. New developments on the mean streets of Belfast. #art #streetart #stickers #stickerart

What if women would be allowed to smoke in public? Imagine the horror! Well this artist did. Art review: ‘For the benefit of those ladies who ask the right to smoke in public’, by Harry Grant Dart (1908). fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/03/08/a... Or here: fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/art-review...