Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 21hSeries ased on my memory of watching a Euripides (probably) play on PBS when I was a young teen, on spare sets, which greatly impressed me, the distancing effect created by the distorted quality of the video on television. The feeling had was of watching an ancient transmission of an event. 010
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 21hTelevised 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. 140
Reposted by Juli McKenna KearnsSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I was unaware that as someone born in America I inherited Athens. So does that mean I’m eligible for Greek citizenship? 791046137
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Well, I suppose SI is fine for generative AI if it means Stolen Information. 020
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026In 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. 030
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026...a young teen, on spare sets, which greatly impressed me, the distancing effect created by the distorted quality of the video on television., which gave the feeling of watching an ancient transmission of an event which the television had picked up. 020
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Televised 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... 130
Reposted by Juli McKenna KearnsKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026This 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. 25952423
Reposted by Juli McKenna KearnsBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Atlanta had over 142,000 eviction filings in the past year. More than 10,000 in a single month. Absolutely staggering.wabe.orgMetro Atlanta leads US in highest eviction rates with over 142,000 filingsMetro 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... 57343
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Clearly have the wealth to not worry about their hose tearing. 000
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A series of several images based on my memory of watching a Euripides (probably) play on PBS when I was a young teen, on spare sets, which greatly impressed me, the distancing effect created by the distorted quality of the video on television, the feeling was of an ancient transmission of an event. 021
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Televised 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. 131
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is so incredibly painful. azluminaria.org/2026/10/05/f...azluminaria.orgFinal “grandmother” cottonwood toppled, protesters arrested in Lochiel - AZ LuminariaArmed 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... 000
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026...my memory of watching a Euripides play on PBS when I was a young teen, on spare sets, which greatly impressed me, the distancing effect created by the distorted quality of the video on television., which gave the feeling of the television receiving an ancient transmission of an event. 010
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Ttelevised 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... 130
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I was 5 and it was Jim Danforth's stop-motion dragon in the 1962 "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm". I knew that dragon was Hollywood but up on the Seattle big screen in all its CINERAMA glory I was awed. I wasn't terrified but I was frightened and I was more awed than frightened. 010
Reposted by Juli McKenna KearnsMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We murdered four more people in a boat today 12524931067
Reposted by Juli McKenna KearnsDustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 260185174894
Reposted by Juli McKenna KearnsParkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is insane. 1763639904
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Roadside 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. 060
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The acting. The acting was great. Stellar, deep performances, gut-wrenching. It took me a few years before I'd watch it because I was expecting TV-movie schlock. 120
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Little 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. 030
Reposted by Juli McKenna KearnsClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I 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” 3442140
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hegseth quotes more scripture. Through the (American) patriots it was "the lord" who fought against the red coats. "The lord" who fought the communists. "The lord" who fought the Islamists. The Ivy League schools don't get it--but "they're jealous". So, fuck separation of church and state. 010
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hegseth's going all the way here. "Putting on the full armor of god..." he says. Because the real "battle is spiritual. God is good, evil is not." And the military must "understand the difference". Hegseth adds, "The lord is on my side." Sigh. 110
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Each school will be distinguished as a Designated Military College. Producing patriots and officers. But the most essential component? (Here it comes.) Faith. Religious community. Sacred duty to god. Secular humanism is on its way out. A new Office of Religious Affairs. Psalm 32:12 quoted. 110
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Not just any cadet will do (tainted by woke universities), so they're partnering with Louisiana State University, Liberty University (y'know Jerry Falwell's), Tuskegee U, MSU and Hillsdale College (private conservative Baptist) for supply via the brand new program, America's Corps of Cadets. 110
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026To lead our nation into the future of warfare, our nation's "best minds...Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich" heading Project Meridian. Those are the best mind-lights. Huh. Hegseth says there will be no creative restrictions or limitations. Huh. He adds they will be "ruthless..." (Vomit) 110
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"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...youtube.comSecretary Hegseth delivers State of the Force addressYouTube video by ABC News 120
Reposted by Juli McKenna Kearnswileyquixote25.bsky.social @wileyquixote25.bsky.social · 01/10/2026JFC....newrepublic.comHegseth Announces Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich Will Help Lead MilitaryPete Hegseth revealed that the men will help direct a project to determine the future of the military. 121
Reposted by Juli McKenna KearnsDon Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“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 063
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Damn, that’s effective. Been years since I watched it. 010
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The 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 030
Reposted by Juli McKenna KearnsKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Special Counsel Jack Smith in his Opening Remarks: 302171815437
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Watched "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. 010
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Watching "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. 050
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Prep time before a day of filming "Intravenus". 2025. At the Little 5 Points Community Center. Joshua Haire. 050
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Prep time before a day of filming "Intravenus". 2025. At the Little 5 Points Community Center. With Rachel Walker and Joshua Haire. 030
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Prep 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. 040
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Prep time before a day of filming "Intravenus". 2025. With Rachel Walker and Joshua Haire. 040
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Blue 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 021
Reposted by Juli McKenna KearnsDavid Sirota @davidsirota.com · 29/09/2026it 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 themlevernews.comAI 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... 39236
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Continuing with my "Southwest Seekers" series from 2007. Roadside America #2, 2007 Southwest Seekers Series Digital painting 15.9 by 24 inches Model reference: Intergalactic at Deviant Art. Photo reference for background taken by me. 020
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026An Optigan commercial. Comments at Youtube inform Devo sampled the Optigan's banjo disk for "it's a beautiful world". www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY4h...youtube.comOptigan TV CommercialYouTube video by Jared Rainer 010
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Trying to comprehend the Optigan! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg1D...youtube.comOptigan: This 1970s Toy Organ Plays Optical Film Discs!YouTube video by Vintage Keys Studio 000
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026After watching, I also appreciated the availability of a photo-book by the director on the making of the film, because it established the boundaries of the film--the director's or the subject's. 010
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Good film. Deals with mortality and preservation of one's work. 110
Juli McKenna Kearns @idyllopus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A documentary on David Rumsey and his map collection. He's a person for whom maps are as poems. He had the money to follow this passion and has made his map collection available for all to view. I know I've benefited by their availability many times. www.davidrumsey.com/about/a-stra...davidrumsey.com David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | A Stranger Quest Film 152