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November 24, 2025 · 1 min read

AI got befuddled by my Time Travelling Duck prompts

Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager

Apparently, AI got a bit befuddled by the requested edits to my increasingly detailed text prompts, regarding Time Travelling Duck with layers of specific backgrounds, which combined numerous expressionistic brushstroke impressions.

But I’m fine with how it ended up.

Not as colorful as usual, but the muted end result kinda matches the grey overcast sky here this morning.

A more colorful, morning post from earlier this month, for contrast:
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  1. Tom Kirkman

    Thanks Patrick Devine. Other people have suggested I compile some of my images and posts here, into a pdf book.

    But half of the fun here is replying the reader comments, when people who are familiar with my backstory catalogue history, play along with my little created universe of absurd surreal anthropomorphic characters.

    But LinkedIn makes it maddeningly difficult to find and gather this stuff.

  2. Tom Kirkman

    One of the earlier versions.

  3. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Patrick Devine

    I do enjoy randomly throwing a monkey wrench into the feeds of random readers, to give an unexpected break to the frequently unbearable tediousness of super-professional humblebragging posts in this Forum of Totally Serious Professionalness and Right-Thinking Compliance™

    Unfortunately, the new LinkedIn algorithm has cut my reach to many of my connections.

    < shrug shoulders >

  4. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Brad Bertoch

    the super strong coffee was indeed strong, but the overcast grey sky and below freezing temperate outside has apparently clouded my normally bright outlook.

    Was up much later than usual last night with visiting siblings.

    Usually I start my daily musings here around 3 or 4 am, way before the sun rises.

    But this morning I didn't start until the sun was already rising, with a <~bleck~> grey overcastness in the morning sky.

    Oddly enough, the coming day usually seems more adventuress in the wee hours of night / early morning blackness, where I can imagine the possibilities of how the day might unfold.

    Meh, tomorrow is another day, and I'll be up early again tomorrow morning, way before the sun rises.

  5. Tom Kirkman

    Jan van Triest "meaningdull" is either a wonderful typo, or a wonderful new word 😊

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