Gareth Jones ➡️ TFNation 2026

Correct decisions.

Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.

If you wanna be radicalized against GenAI, try running an online business while these thieving shitbricks try to scrape your site at all hours of the day, creating a looping, endless DDoS.

Fuck generative "AI." It's all slop built on wholesale theft.

Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world."

#AIslop #refuseresist

I'm begging the small local community groups in Ireland to please consider reframing their use of AI design work this way. The amount of drama and theatre groups in my sphere that I see using AI posters now just makes me sad.

Missing Link Nemesis Prime

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Missing Link Nemesis Prime

Damn, just look at that :)

None! None more black!

Missing Link Nemesis Prime

Yyyyyyes 😍💜🖤🩵

YYYYYYES, looks as though it'll be another "I buy more artwork than bots" Minicon for me then 👍😀

A movie poster style image of the Marvel UK Transformers story arc, Time Wars.

It's not quite finalised, but it's almost done - the Time Wars print I'm aiming to have ready for TFN Manchester in a few weeks.

I started this over FOUR YEARS ago, so it's a beautiful monument to the motivational quicksand I've been mired in for most of my forties.

Fuck AI.

ToyPhotoArt after Geoff Senior #Transformers #Hotwheels

(I am a dead man 😜)

Goon! 😂👍

18.00 OPENHEIMMER ALL HOURS It's been a funny old day. I came up with the deadliest know weapon known to all mankind. I said to Granville that "Now I had bbbbbbbebbbbecome ddddddeath". There was an almighty bang and I thought that was the end. Turned out to be that damned till.

This one is blowing up.

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉👍

Being proud of AI art is like being proud of a Google search.

"Optimus Prime! Do you read me? The Decepticons are blitzing Autobot City. We're really taking a pounding!"

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Unflinching refusal to use or allow the use of A.I. in reading & writing should be the uncontroversial, default position of teachers from K-12 to colleges & universities. If our administrators tell us we "have to" we tell them to eff off. We will not kill the planet's water for systemic plagiarism.

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

Guys being Dudes

The Legend of Zelda is 40.
It's probably one of the games that made the biggest impression on me. I got it with the NES two years later. I was nine years old and felt like I was on an unforgettable adventure. In fact, I've never forgotten it. 🙏

And I still have the NES and the game.

A pixelated overhead scene from the video game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past shows the character Link standing outside his house during a rainstorm.

But it's The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1992) that I love the most, because it's just the ideal iteration of the first game, and I was 13 years old, the perfect age.

When you start the game in the rain in an unsettling atmosphere... 😍

‘Andor’ Creator Tony Gilroy Gives the Interview He Couldn’t During Its Release While promoting his cautionary tale about fascism, Disney asked Gilroy to refrain from using the word. Nine months after it aired its finale, the 'Star Wars' series feels scarily prescient.

"You get out your 'Fascism for Dummies' book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used?"

#Andor #StarWars

#JusticeForScrounge 😥

Oooo, look at me, Skybound Prime, look at my special aaaaaaarrrrm