Alex Weston (he / him)
@northbynorthweston
Public Historian and Filmmaker in St. Paul, Minnesota. Occasional lecturer, artist, and writer. Full-time nerd.
It is morning, and again I am the unlucky person Forced against my will to be in it -with apologies to Mary Oliver #nightperson #nightowl #notamorningperson #sleepdeprived
This was 100% written by ChatGPT or some other LLM (Trump’s own syntax is far more disordered). I’m certain he is letting some sycophantic chatbot give him advice on all matters, trapped by his own narcissism. I’d bet a chatbot told him how great of an idea starting a war with Iran would be.
Happy Canada Day!!! #canadaday #july1 #canada #warof1812
🎯🎯🎯 Never thought I’d agree this much about Democratic Party politics with someone whose last name is Biden, but here we are. Every bullet point here is spot on.
Inexplicably, a memory that has not been accessed in thirty years randomly bubbled up from my subconscious, and I found myself in this year of our lord 2026 suddenly thinking, “wait, remember Microsoft Bob?”
My personal favorite: “Lady Gaga Kidnaps Commissioner Gordon.”
I feel like, for those in the US with a modicum of privilege (a slightly larger demographic back then), the 90s was the equivalent of when Wile E. Coyote has run off of a cliff, but hasn’t yet looked down and realized it yet.
I cannot tell you how much my nerd dad heart exploded with joy an pride when I found that my 9 year old had written this (entirely of her own volition just for fun):
#Inktober Day 15. Prompt: ragged #inktober2025 #inktoberday15 #inkdrawing #noai #madebyahuman
#Inktober Prompt #14: trunk Harry Houdini and his wife Bess by the trunk used in their “Metamorphosis” trick, which was the act that first brought attention to a young Houdini in the 1890s. #inktober2025 #inktoberday14 #inkdrawing #noai #madebyahuman
#Inktober Day 8 Prompt: reckless Han Solo at the precise moment he begins to regret charging a group of stormtroopers. #inktoberday8 #inktoberreckless #hansolo #inkdrawing #noai #madebyahuman
#Inktober Day 7 Prompt: Starfish I decided to imagine how a medieval monk illustrating a bestiary might envision a starfish if they had never seen one but only had vague and exaggerated written descriptions. #inktoberday7 #inktoberstarfish #medievalbestiary #inkdrawings #noai #madebyahuman
#Inktober Day 6. Prompt: Pierce A Styracosaurus and a Pachycephalosaurus. The dinosaur nerd in me would like to note that both species are native to North America in the Late Cretaceous. So the scene you see here is 100% scientifically plausible. #inktober2025 #inktoberday6 #dinosaurs
#Inktober Day 5. Prompt: Deer A skeleton of a megaloceras, also known as the “Irish Elk” (a misnomer since it is neither specifically Irish nor is it an elk), an extinct species of deer that used to range across Eurasia. #inktoberday5 #inktoberdeer #inkdrawings #paleoart #noai #maderbyahuman
#Inktober Day 4. (This one took a while, so I’m a couple days behind.) Prompt: Murky #inktoberday4 #inktobermurky #inkdrawings #noai #madebyahuman
#Inktober Day 3. Prompt: Crown (My mind went immediately to Macbeth, though if you want to take this as a more general commentary on the blood-soaked origins of the institution of monarchy, that works too.) #Inktober2025 #inktoberday3 #inktobercrown #macbeth #inkdrawing #madebyahuman #noAI
#Inktober Day 2. Prompt: Weave #inktober2025 #inktoberday2 #inktoberweave #inkdrawings #noai #madebyahuman
#Inktober Day 1. Prompt: Mustache #inktober2025 #inktoberday1 #inktobermustache #agathachristie #poirot #davidsuchet #impressivemoustaches #inkdrawing #madebyahuman