This is not a rant about what used to be Twitter. This is simply a modest announcement that I’ve spun up an Instagram (and Threads) account for this holiday season (the Orange Season). The current data suggests that I’ll be visiting my “X” account rarely– but that’s not an indictment, it’s just capitalism. I’m moving my “attention currency” to a different market.

Announcements are coming, along with more messing around with AIs. Personally, I can’t give a machine a letter, let alone a paragraph, in one of my stories– but playing with the visual tools has been interesting. This blog’s feature image was generated from Adobe’s tool. Results are not good, and I don’t even like the image much… but it was fun to make. Here’s what the tool made before I made it “blog-ready”:

For better or worse, it saved a lot of time– time I wouldn’t have spent otherwise. What I will continue to spend time on will be shared regularly in my social channels, usually old sketches and updates on forthcoming material. Sorry I sucked so bad at email. See you in the habit stream.