Julian’s Scrawings

@scrawlings.bsky.social

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music, art, writing • science, history, economics • SFF, TTRPGs • software and the human problem of how to make it • pluralism, solidarity, sustainability • on Wurundjeri land • he/him

Suhr Modern in shell pink
Image of AI answer to a question comparing the distance between Sydney and Perth to the distance between Moscow and Lisbon. It's conclusion about straight line flight distances is dramatically and obviously wrong: "The driving distance from Sydney to Perth (approx. 3,930 km) is actually shorter than the drive from Lisbon to Moscow (approx. 4,580 to 4,640 km). However, when comparing straight-line flights, Sydney to Perth (3,290 km) is further than the air distance between Lisbon and Moscow (3,920 km)."
AI photo screen shot from advertising for a music shop. It includes many “almost” guitars with weird headstocks, details that don’t live up,fret inlays in weird locations.
Children’s story illustration of an orange-brown toad and bright green frog, the titular characters of the Frog and Toad story books.
Screen capture of a visualization placing millions of Bluesky users in clusters with a rich organic appearance. One use, known as scrawling is in a sparsely populated corridor between a variety of not obviously related named clusters.
Three siblings with same parents who very different skin and hair colour.
Trade paperback cover of Matt Ridley’s book The Origin of Virtue.
From Facebook by Tony Rush 17 December 2025 at 02:59 “Just so I'm clear on this: the price of computer memory has tripled because a bunch of memory that hasn't yet been manufactured has been pre-ordered so it can be used in GPUs that aren't yet installed in data centers that haven't been built yet in order to supply a demand that doesn't exist so the companies can earn profits that won't happen.”
AI search result text offer two dates for the same event with very specific details, the waffle house brawl, reported in one paragraph as Dec 2022 and in the next paragraph as Sep 2021.
Digital painting in a traditional style, cloudy sky, with sky rendered black, and the landscape a grey river or lake in flat landscape.
Sketch of a woman in loose fitting formal trousers and waistcoat with a roll-sleeved shirt
A selfy of a bearded man in cold weather clothing with a breakwater and lighthouse, and a cold grey view of the Baltic Sea over his shoulder.
Photo of a mountain lake in a forest with snow and dark rock mountains looming behind it all, labelled “Beach Day In Grainau”.
Pen engraved with the text “Equal Work, Equal Pay”.
Pencil drawing on toned paper, a master study copy of a Mucha original. A woman in a dress leans on a monstrous statue head. Leaves are abstractly ornamenting the lower part of the picture and her upper body is asymmetrically framed by circular figures.
Pencil sketches of six varied faces, small and slightly stylised to emphasise expressions and distinguishing features.
Page of various super hero sketches
3 simple pencil sketches of figures in heroic poses.
Sketch of heron with sepia toned lighter lines but with stronger lines turning black.
Two line drawings of you women in fashionable clothes.
Digitally painted landscape, tree topped cliffs, cloudy sky, fairly loose sketchy style.
Photo a YouTube suggested video showing a heavily graffitied toilet stall, the title "Inside an Aboriginal Family House" and indication that the video is 13 years old.
Simple sketch of two girls with long hair in jeans and smiling, one holding the other on her back piggyback style.
Diverse gesture sketches
Sketchbook page with figures in action poses, in blue and red pencil.
Sketchbook page with two figures, drawn in blue pencil is a young man in street clothes, seated, and drawn in red pencil is a young woman adjusting the strap of backpack.
Close of up of a pen lid engraved with the words “Equal work - Equal pay”.
Pencil sketch of an athletic woman in jeans, boots, and a tank top. Posed squatting down with arms resting loosely on thighs, look to the side.
Gestural sketch, with simple minimal line work, of person jumping in the air, knees bent and arms raised as if reaching for a ball while playing sports.
Page with pencil sketch of various wide rectangle stylised cartoon heads with diverse expressions
Digital painting of sunset reflected in a small lake surrounded by trees and tall grass and wildflowers.