There's also a @GoFundMeUK doing the rounds:

Fundraiser for the businesses that were damaged during Saturday's riot by far-right knuckledraggers in Belfast: https://t.co/xnypK2QB9Z Hate and violence cannot win against the good people of this country.

One of your companies is under an FTC consent decree. Auto safety watchdog NHTSA is investigating another for killing people. And you’re spending your time picking fights online. Fix your companies. Or Congress will.

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🐞 Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project https://t.co/9g4ua0pbdx

I'm bad at art, but luckily DALL·E is here to help! Here's how I collaborated with it to create an acceptable-to-OK splash screen for my squirrel-based survival game This is a Twitter thread summary of my longer blog post: https://t.co/BNJYiE9muM Prompts in image alt text

My conclusions: 1. DALL·E is very impressive. I did not expect to get such a complex and coherent result so easily 2. It still feels very “magic”, however, in a sometimes-frustrating way 3. Some human oversight and curating is absolutely required to get a "perfect" result

It was time to go solo. With some Photoshop cropping, mirroring, recolouring I had my grey squirrel. Content-aware scale came to the rescue to get my desired aspect ratio. And lastly, I summoned as much artistic skill as I possibly could to draw an owl silhouette in the sky. Done

And sadly, with that, my credits were all used up :'-(

More marsupial features creeping in… possibly some koala in these attempts?

OK now I’m getting pretty convinced you don’t know the difference between a squirrel and a fox … or a kangaroo??

Third, I need a grey squirrel! But they seem to be tricky...

Some cleaning gets me to

Now to compose these all together. I placed my squirrel on the left, the fox in the distance, and erased some of the boundary between the two images. *Chef’s kiss* to the rightmost result

I decided to try generating the crafty canine on its own. I erased most of the squirrel but kept as much of the rest of the image as I dared in the hope that the style would remain consistent. And the 2nd one is perfect. Look at those hungry eyes!!

OK now we’re just getting straight-up Cronenberg’d! I began to suspect that DALL·E maybe isn’t great at painting multiple creatures at once, and in fairness, red squirrels and red foxes are similar in many ways. Or perhaps I used too many adjectives. I’m not sure.

Great, now I have *two* squirrels.

What on Earth?! I love the creativity, DALL·E, but no.

Next, I needed to expand out the scene with more of the forest and my fox antagonist. Luckily DALL·E can not only create brand new images, it can also “infill” blank areas of existing ones. Some Photoshop and prep in the DALL·E edit tool to blank out the edges and signature

Third time lucky: the second squirrel in this set is *perfect* and became the base of the splash screen