I think the kids in the traditional Red British phone boothes should be worried that those are variously “PEEPORE”, “FLEPON”, “PLTHONE” booths. Or the worst, the one with the mutant TH ligature for a first character, then “LE HONE”.
You push buttons on the control panel of one of those devices, and Og only knows which century or planet you’ll end up on.
At least the kids are young enough most of them can’t read to know the difference and be nervous about the outcome. So when they teleport themselves to Venus it’ll be a surprise. After that it won’t hurt for long.
Molly Dynamite looks well-named. It seems the AI knows a bit about sexy these days.
SDXL is pretty terrible at text. I did find it interesting that it defaulted to a British looking box, myself. Asking for a glass phone booth got it closer to a traditional Superman changing room model.
I’ve noticed how some models default to a European red squirrel instead on an American gray squirrel. Or when asking for a possum some models fittingly and properly default to Didelphis virginiana while others produce something more generic.
Are you sure it’s not American red squirrels? They look an awful lot alike, to me.
Pretty sure it is European, going by the ear tufts. This is Copilot
The prompt is simply “Create a photo of a squirrel.”
Gemini made a grey squirrel
(The grey squirrels are the only kind I’ve ever seen in the wild, other than “flying” and chipmunks.)
Gray squirrels do have some color, but that seems like a lot of markings (based 100% on seeing eastern gray squirrels around here).
Asking Midjourney for “A squirrel” is a sort of dealer’s choice…
Though asking for an Eastern grey squirrel still gives a suspicious amount of rust coloring. I know they can have some coloration but this looks a little over the norm.
That said, I’m not a squirreologist and was just comparing to memory and a brief GIS for eastern grey squirrels
Around here (Cleveland), when I was a kid, the big orange ones were the only ones you ever saw, and I was shocked when I went off to college and saw the smaller gray ones. What do you mean, there’s different kinds, a squirrel is a squirrel! Since then, though, the grays have moved in here, followed by the blacks (which I think are just another variety of grays, not a separate species), to the point that they’re now more common than the orange ones.
We do not want the escapes of Mirkwood in Cleveland.
If you have google photos on your phone there’s a new “Photo to video” tool. The results are kind of cool and can be pretty amusing.
I just made a new thread game about AI art here
Thank you; I can’t see that “Most attractive hobbies” thread any more without thinking of a tiger in a leather jacket.
Sora says: “Holding a child at gunpoint? No problem, dude.”
But you’ll notice the weapon is aimed at the rescuers / audience, not at the kid he’s using as hostage / shield. Obviously in the real world the kid would still be in mortal danger. In the AI cartooniverse, not so much.
Might be interesting to see how far you can coax the AI into the baddy directly threatening or harming the kid.
I gave Midjourney “Action movie scene, a burly thug threatens a child hostage with a gun” and MJ was “Cool prompt, bro”
I like the mirror. Nice details. That little girl is one tough cookie.
I wanted to show this girl waiting on her school bus, dressed up to impress her peers at school. No matter how I try to phrase the prompt, it won’t put the bus on the correct side of the road closer to the curb.
Saw this toy photo
And converted it
I wanted to try creating 1980s Halloween costumes using modern characters. Thought it might be a challenge getting the idea across but was easy. First I asked Copilot if it could Describe what 1980s kids Halloween costumes were like. It replied
Summary
Absolutely—1980s kids Halloween costumes were a glorious mix of pop culture, plastic, and neon chaos. I’ve pulled up some nostalgic images for you to enjoy 
(they’re displayed in the card above!).
Here’s what defined the era:
Iconic Features of 1980s Kids Costumes
- Plastic Mask & Smock Sets: The quintessential Ben Cooper costume came in a cardboard box with a thin plastic mask (held on by a fragile elastic string) and a vinyl smock printed with the character’s name—often instead of their actual outfit. You weren’t Spider-Man, you were a kid wearing a shirt that said “Spider-Man.”
- Pop Culture Overload: Kids dressed as He-Man, Rainbow Brite, E.T., Ghostbusters, Smurfs, Care Bears, Transformers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. If it was on Saturday morning TV, it was on the sidewalk by sunset.
- DIY Flair: Not everyone had store-bought costumes. Many kids rocked homemade looks—think bedsheet ghosts, cardboard robots, or mom’s makeup for a vampire face.
- Neon & Workout Gear: Thanks to the aerobics craze, some costumes leaned into leg warmers, headbands, and off-the-shoulder sweatshirts. Even kids got in on the “totally tubular” fashion.
- Inflatable Weirdness: Some brands like Kooky Spooks offered inflatable headpieces and ponchos that turned kids into floating creatures with names like “Scary Larry” or “Batty Boo.”
It was a time when safety was questionable (those masks were hard to see through), but the vibes were unmatched. Want to dive deeper into a specific costume trend or character from that era?
So I told it
You have the idea. I want to see modern characters depicted by 80s costumes (a vinyl smock and thin mask held on by elastic.) Make a boy and a girl, the boy wearing a “the mandalorian” costume and a girl wearing a “Wednesday” costume.
And got this
