Lucky Bastrd

I'm Ryan and I'm a graphic designer. I post some of my own work here, including photos, and I post tech stuff. Enjoy.

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I have plans to create many more AI images from Pixu.AI. Photo credit: Pixu.AI

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Tonight's sunset, Topeka, KS. Photo by Ryan Purcell (me), licensed drone pilot.

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x Just yesterday, Palestinian civilians in Jerusalem were celebrating Israa and Miraaj when they were attacked by the Israeli forces. 31 Palestinians were injured and 20 were arrested, most of which are under the age of 15. A special-needs 11 years old girl was shot in the face and had her jaw broken, a typical terrorist for the zionist regime.

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It is everyone's responsibility in times like this, when international support is given to Ukraine and rightfully so, to remember others who are identically oppressed yet completely cast into a "controversial conflict" light. If a Ukrainian bombs himself to defend his country New York Post calls him a hero, yet if any other person of colour in a third world country does this the international community doesn't even blink, claiming they don't know enough information to support anyone. For god's sake, when footballers raise the Ukranian flag in a match it's a heroic move but when others raise the palestinian flag they are fined for promoting terrorism. This is not a post to undermine the situation in Ukraine or to question the righteousness to resist invaders, on the contrary. It's a call for anyone reading this to be critical of how each injustice is represented and how right and wrong are manipulated by people in charge for their own good.

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Sunset view of my back yard/neighbor's yard.

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“The conservative elites who view their supporters as easily manipulated rubes know exactly what they’re doing. It’s the same formula, applied again and again. Keeping the machine running means outrage, anger, distrust, fear and conspiracy thinking, all wrapped up in a spinning turbine of hysteria where emotion is turned into action. The action might be small-dollar donations, or it might be tuning in to Fox News and Newsmax and OAN night after night, and at the right times it means turning out to vote. But the fuel of the machine doesn’t really matter; it’s whatever will get people worked up today, even if it might get them killed tomorrow. The vaccines are a perfect example. Does anyone doubt that if Trump was still president, the conservative media would be promoting covid vaccination as his personal triumph and encouraging it so normal life could resume as quickly as possible? Of course they would. Today, on the other hand, there remains a political incentive to discourage vaccination: Fewer vaccinations extends the pandemic, which means more misery, more death, a constrained economy, and an increase in the feeling that things just aren’t going well in America, which in turn makes it more likely that Republicans will win at the polls in 2022 and 2024. But that may not be the main goal of those discouraging vaccination. They just want to keep the machine running, and if the fact that there’s a Democratic president means vaccines can be divisive enough, they become a terrific vehicle for outrage.”

— What the ‘Freedom Phone’ and the right’s anti-vax campaign have in common

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Coronavirus Insights

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Art by GuangYuan YU

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Burlington, KS murals and signs

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#pizza and a #bear (at 16th Street Mall) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzUqE1iH1xd/?igshid=1bzipak1ome4r

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#railroadcrossing #windturbines #colorado (at Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzUoMtNHhxP/?igshid=zriwybgldmcs

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at Colorado https://www.instagram.com/p/BzUZ5avHEH-/?igshid=8md02pmq7qoz

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More #clouds from this weekend (at Topeka, Kansas) https://www.instagram.com/p/By1Sm4lA6fg/?igshid=x63ich86xg9h

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Nice clouds last night #clouds (at Topeka, Kansas) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByyVN2_HEGu/?igshid=1c5oes8saia61

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Budweiser and the capitol #budweiserclydesdales #clydesdale (at Topeka, Kansas) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwaCy74lCPO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1e4z6fhfdg7u7