Punk-Ass Book Jockey

A chrestomathy is a collection of literary passages. This is a collection of a greater variety of things.

[amyjacob]

thank you b99 for providing us with a new gay panic reaction gif starring this bicon

[notxstandingxalone]

if you really wanna stick it to straight people edit the tri-colored sign behind her into a bisexual pride sign

[amyjacob]

here you go

[floencepugh]

Will she braid your hair?

Will she eat your heart?

[aishwaryaaraiii]

Zendaya as Joan of Arc for Met Gala 2018  (Famous for leading France in its victory against Britian and was honored as a saint)

[possumsblossom]

[trevorr-belmont]

a small and yelling friend

[ryankpott]

“Are you disappointed that it’s me?”

“No.”

[dragonsareawesome123]

Yes, Miscast uploaded it! James is so good!

[ciceronian]

Nothing but respect for MY president

[flospughsadadad-deactivated2021]

[flawlessbeautyqueens]

Jameela Jamil photographed by Ezra Bartlett

[eyres]

Love, Simon (2018) dir. Greg Berlanti

[boseman-chadwick]

Keiynan Lonsdale

photographed by Bridger Scott for Kode Magazine November 2017

[maiashibutanis]

🥉

[julianemoore]

Rita Moreno announcing Chilean movie “A Fantastic Woman” as the winner for Best Foreign Language Film and Oscar Isaac announcing “Coco” as the winner for Best Animated Feature Film.

[mcavoy]

If I told you about her, the princess without voice, what would I say?

The Shape of Water dir. Guillermo del Toro 

[playbill]

First Look at Raúl Esparza, Ramin Karimloo, Ruthie Ann Miles, and Karen Olivo in Chess at the Kennedy Center

[aiweirdness]

Candy Heart messages written by a neural network

Around Valentine’s Day in the US and UK, these things called candy hearts (or conversation hearts or sweethearts) appear: small and sugary, bearing a simple, short Valentine’s message. There are only room for a few characters, so they read something like “LOVE YOU” or “CALL ME” or “BE MINE”.

I collected all the genuine heart messages I could find, and then gave them to a learning algorithm called a neural network. Given a set of data, a neural network will learn the patterns that let it imitate the original data - although its imitation is sometimes imperfect. The candy heart messages it produced… well, you be the judge.

The neural net did produce some that would pass for - and arguably improve upon - the standard messages.

DEAR ME MY MY LOVE BOT CUTE KISS MY BEAR LOVE BUN

Others were in the same spirit, but perhaps not quite as effective.

YOU A LOVE AM GOOD YOU ARE BABE ME MY <3 YOU ARE IT HEART ME SWEET PEAR COOL CUD FANCY MY HERO

Others were, um, strange. I don’t know what they mean, but some of them might work on me.

ALL HOVER OOG LOVE TEAM BEAR TIME HUG PIN A FACE YOU’RE ME SWOOL MAT BOG LOVE I HONKER HOW COT BEAR WIG FANG BE A GOOL TWEET UP BAT WIRLY OOT I WANDER TIME STAR

These will probably not be one of the standard messages anytime soon.

STANK LOVE SWEAT POO LOVE 2000 HOGSYEA HOLE HOW U HOT YOU ARE BOA CHERT FACE LICK SWEAT PEAR LOO GIN YOU A GOO LOOK BIG YOU ARE BAG U HACK

There was yet another category of message, a category you might be able to predict given the prevalence of four-letter words in the original dataset. The neural network thought of some nice new four-letter words to use. Unfortunately, some of those words already had other meanings. Let’s just say that the overall effect was surprisingly suggestive. Fill out the form here and I’ll send them to you.

Also, if you need more love help from the neural network, check out the pick up lines it wrote.

Heart pictures made using https://cryptogram.com/hearts/

[rhydenx]

This is the only Valentine I’m making this year.