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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

America used to aspire to something better. We understood that justice wasn't supposed to be a spectacle, and that cruelty wasn't a virtue. Now we're entertaining the idea of broadcasting an execution as public entertainment. We should be better than this.

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can we please have Zoran being Mayor of the whole U.S?

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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine @beautifulbizarre.net · 16/07/2026

Make sure this is on your radar! ‘The Portrait Show 14: Masquerade is on view at Modern Eden Gallery through July 26th! www.moderneden.com/collections/... Steven E. Hughes Oracle Acrylic 12 x 10 in.

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Reid Southen @rahll.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

🔥 Warner Bros is suing Midjourney!🔥 They've cited mine and Gary's work like in the other suit, including that I was banned for criticizing the company. This now means Midjourney is being sued by Warner Bros, Disney, Universal, and the class action from artists. Let's gooo! 🔥

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Hireillo - Hire an Illustrator @hireillo.com · 07/08/2025

If you missed it, this week's cracking featured artists are @zoeranucci.bsky.social, Ian Ball and @primaryhughes.bsky.social ❤️

A collage featuring a cartoon snake and butterfly, a painted portrait of a man with a mustachio (Bill Murray), and a colourful cartoon character holding sneakers.

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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

No driers or mediums involved. I use mostly Williamsburg oil colors. They’re pretty traditional choices. I like a warm and a cool of most colors.

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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 145) 8”x 6” oil on board. Serenaded by some frogs for a few hours this afternoon. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainters #puremichigan #presqueislepark #marquettemichigan

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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 144) 8”x 6” oil on board. The wind blowing off the lake was making the trees creak. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainters #puremichigan #presqueislepark #marquettemichigan

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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 143) 6”x 6” oil on board. Trying a different palette, heavy on the quinacridone magenta today. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainters #puremichigan #presqueislepark #marquettemichigan #lakesuperiorart

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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 142) 6”x 6” oil on board. After being absolutely frigid last time, today was in the 70s and finally felt like summer. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainters #puremichigan #presqueislepark #marquettemichigan #lakesuperiorart

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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 133) 8”x 6” oil on board. Got this one to a decent finish in about 2 hours before the rain put a stop to it. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter #landscapepainting #lakesuperior #puremichigan #presqueislepark #edgeprogear #travelmarquette

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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

First plain air painting of the year. Presque Isle, 2025. (Day 131) 5”x 7” oil on board. #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter

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American Illustration @amillus.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

American Illustration 43 Winner @primaryhughes.bsky.social @primaryhughes I explore the liminal space between clarity and intrigue beckoning viewers to enter into a narrative unfolding. #visualartist #professor #nmuillustration

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

1/4 Well look at that. Open Ai and Google outright reject “Opt-Out” models, hell they even reject basic transparency requirements. AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.

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AI giants reject government’s approach to solving copyright row

OpenAI and Google have objected to Labour’s proposed opt-out model and pushed for broader exemptions to let AI software use copyrighted material free

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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Lovely. Are you going to have any new drawings available soon?

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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Ultra matte medium by liquitex works great. Look up CF Payne’s work. That’s where I first saw it.

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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Colored pencil first (in this case), then acrylic and matte med (translucent), then colored pencil again. Paint should be dry. If you want to sort of blend/melt the pencils into the paint layer,I would use an oil wash over the acrylic.

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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Something I did at work this week.

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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

If you see this, quote post your green art 💚💚💚

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Company Travel Lemming submitted this letter and it’s fire! 🔥 This is the exact stance all companies and orgs that do not Google and Open Ai to take and use their creations to for free, should take!

Re: National Science Foundation's Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (Al) Action Plan
"Google's illegal conduct has created an economic goliath, one that wreaks havoc over the marketplace to ensure that—no matter what occurs—Google always wins."
-United States Department of Justice (US v Google, Case 1:20-cv-03010-APM,
ECF 1184)
Travel Lemming is an American small business under threat of censorship by, and theft from, Big Tech companies like Google and OpenAl.
Travel Lemming urges the administration to reject the proposals of those companies for a reverse wealth transfer from millions of American creators and rightsholders to these two abusive corporations.
Instead, the administration should create an Al Action Plan that protects smaller creators and publishers, maintains copyright protections, facilitates a robust and competitive licensing marketplace, and requires transparency and disclosure of all Al-generated content.
1) Any Al Action Plan Must Not Undercut Copyright's Incentive to Create
Fundamentally, generative Al is an extractive technology. It works like a compression algorithm: reducing its training material to weights and biases that are then "uncompressed" when prompted for an output.
The key point is that generative Al can only ever be as good as the material that it was trained on. LLMs cannot experience the world, therefore they are limited by their training material. LLMs require new, fresh human-created material in order to function.
If America is to remain competitive in the Al age, we must make sure that the incentive to create is not eroded. That is unfortunately exactly what the proposals by OpenAl and Google would do:

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they want this administration to give them a corporate handout by changing copyright law to allow them to freely train on material that they did not create.
Why should Big Tech companies be allowed to steal from millions of American creators? Being a creator is one of the most coveted careers by Generation Z. Yet, that career path will be totally closed off if Google and OpenAl get their way.
It is essential to freedom that these large corporations not be permitted to steal content from creators and publishers like us.
2) Google Is Already Using Al to Censor the Web and Control the Flow of Information to the American Public
Google and OpenAl are not companies that can be trusted by America. We can attest to that from personal experience.
Google in particular wants to use Al to pivot from being a search engine to being an "answer engine." They trained their Al on publishers, and now Google's goal with Al is to become the singular publisher of all information on the Internet.
For example, at Google I/O 2024, the company announced that in the future "Google will do the Googling for you."
Google's plan is clear: Google wants to control the Internet ecosystem. In this future,
"Google.com" will become the Internet, a single mega-website that users never need to leave.
Users will be steered towards publishers and information that Google approves.
Google is also currently in the process of erasing human creators - like our website - from the open web. For instance, on September 14, 2023, Google changed its publisher guidelines to remove its previous instruction that content should be "created by humans, for humans." That very same day, Google released the first of several algorithm updates that erased many small publishers (including us) from Google search results.
3) Generative Al Output is Not Fair Use When it Competes With the Original Creator

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When an Al output competes with the material it is trained on, it is not fair use.' Yet, Google and OpenAl continue to push generative Al as a tool that competes with those of us who created the original data.
Virtually every Al product demonstration by these companies includes an "Al travel planner" use case (example). These use cases fundamentally seek to replace American travel publishers like us, the same publishers whose content was used to train these systems.
If Google is allowed to train on our data without our consent or compensation, publishers like us could be put out of business.
4) Even Google Has Admitted that Creators Should Get Paid When Their Data is Used by Al Models
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told the New York Times DealBook Summit that: "There will be a marketplace in the future, I think. There will be creators who create for Al models and get paid for it. I really think that's part of the future and people will figure it out."
Google has even done Al licensing deals with some entities, like paying $60 million per year in licensing fees to Reddit.
But now Google asks this administration to pull up the ladder for small rightsholders, publishers, and creators.
This administration should not sanction Google's effort to steal from small publishers. It should not allow Google to build a centralized Internet where only a few voices, selected by Google, can be heard.
5) The Administration's Al Action Plan Should Focus on Transparency for Users, and Control and Compensation for Creators

First, the government should ensure that publishers and creators have effective consent mechanisms so that we can decide when and where our content is used by Al systems.
Right now, Google presents publishers with a Hobson's choice: either block your content from appearing in Google search results (effectively erasing your business from the Internet), or let Google's Al products use your content to inform their outputs (and compete against you).

Tech companies should be forced to give granular control to rightsholders, so that we can choose when, where, and how our content is used.
Furthermore, any Al Action Plan must encourage a robust licensing marketplace, so that the incentive to create is preserved.
Google and OpenAl are spending billions of dollars (perhaps trillions) on datacenters for compute. They are literally building nuclear reactors to power their generative Al businesses.
These companies should be required to at least equally invest in the humans that create the data that power these models.
In their comments on the Al Action Plan, both Google and OpenAl admit that training data has immense economic value. This administration should ensure that the value generated by that data accrues to the creators of that data.
Lastly, transparency is an important value that should be advanced by any Al Action Plan.
Right now, much of the Al content on the Internet is not labeled as such. Many users consume content without even knowing it is Al generated.
The Al Action Plan should include provisions to require disclosure that content is created with Al, so as to prevent deception of American consumers and voters.
In summary, the administration's Al Action Plan should advance the interests of regular Americans over the interests of a few giant California corporations. Google and OpenAl in particular cannot be trusted, and the government's plan should seek to devolve power from these entities - not concentrate it further in their (untrustworthy) hands.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on these important issues.
About Travel Lemming: Travel Lemming is an American online travel guide that creates travel guides by humans, for humans. Travel Lemming publishes highly useful and information-packed articles. Our team consists of dozens of local and expert travelers with deep familiarity with each destination.

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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Quick sale of some plein air oil paintings. $100 each shipped in US. Approx 5x7 inches. #pleinairpainter #pleinair #landscapepainting

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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Quick sale of some plein air oil paintings. $100 each shipped in US. Approx 5x7 inches. #pleinairpainter #pleinair #landscapepainting

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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Drawer of figure drawings. They really start to pile up after a while.

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Ellen Weinstein @ellenweinstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Zelensky is a Hero. From the archives for R&P anthology.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"Aside from it being bigoted and unconstitutional, it’s ludicrous to think that laws need to be created to help protect the language of Shakespeare." ––Joey Lucas, The West Wing

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Primary Hughes @primaryhughes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Remember in The West Wing, Joey Lucas says the Repubs won't put English as the national language on the table—they would never risk losing Latino voters.

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