Just Personal

I am catholic and I love cats...Thus Cat-a-holic. Follow for random: Cats, Catholicism, Musings, and much, much more!

[cat-a-holic]

In the words of @lululeninn "CHARGE!!! TAKE NO PRISONERS!!!"

[jessebloom]

this almost makes me want to go back to law school

[starrynet]

fifa kills whales 💔

[lostlegendaerie]

He's suing them over it for $25M.

Wyland has said any financial recovery from the suit would support public art, ocean conservation, and environmental education through his foundation.

"This should have been an opportunity to show the world that global sports, public art, and environmental stewardship can stand together," he said. "Instead, a landmark was painted over. We want to do our part to make sure that what happened here does not become the standard for how public art is treated in cities across America."

[stealingpotatoes]

sorry my cat DOES have to hear how cute he is all the time no matter what he's doing, it's the law

[wolfkat]

Grey on February 2nd, 2023, at 1:17pm

[skelyslime-k]

It night time I didn’t turn off my lights and cat eeps apon me

[aboutoriginality]

[notaplaceofhonour]

[sequestering]

Sucker: my year as a degenerate gambler by McKay Coppins (The Atlantic)

[ffcrazy15]

If you don't gamble, don't fucking start. Do not download these apps. No, not even once. Treat them like fucking meth. They are a drug and the luckiest survivors are the ones who never start.

[avantegarda]

tolkien fans be like: I read all of jirt's notes scribbled on the back of a napkin in 1935 so I can properly write fanfic about rich assholes screaming at each other during a family reunion

[permanenteclipse]

Fictional country: average fantasy

Fictional small town in the middle of nowhere in real country: par for the course in any genre

Fictional major city in real country: standard fair, but it's usually clearly based on a real city

Fictional suburb of real major city in real country: strange but I can see the application

Real major city in fictional country: Chicago can be anywhere you dream of

[snototter]

A trio of klipspringers (Oreotragus oreotragus) keep watch in Kruger National Park, South Africa

Leon Molenaar

[mortalityplays]

something you learn fast and necessarily when you get into the habit of writing is that you are riddled with blind assumptions, prejudices, unpractised rhetoric and all kinds of unchallenged cicada shell thoughts that were left stuck to your mode of being when bad ideas fled you. most people get to move through the world behind a kind of modesty veil that divides their internal thoughts from their external observations, but you have to take that off when you write. you have to suddenly present the whole world to itself nakedly, without the kindness of someone who can stop you mid-sentence and say "hold on, I know you, you can't possibly mean that". people are often scared to show their work to an editor in case the editor points out what they look like without their modesty veil, but god, christ, hell and heaven, you have to be more afraid of what the whole world of strangers will see if you don't let someone pick the cicada shells off you first.

[mortalityplays]

op is wordy, bloated, stylistically self-conscious. suggest condensing: "an editor is a guy who eats bugs"

[cowpokeredeemed]

Forming a kingpin/henchman relationship with God

• On it, Boss

• Whatever you say, Boss

• That’s why you’re the Boss, Boss

• Don’t worry Boss; I’ll handle it.

• You want I should take care of this guy, Boss?

[catholicapothecary]

Thanks for da prayer answer, Boss. You really take care a me.

[columboscreens]

[cremsie]

Please be critical of what videos you see now. Even cute animal ones. Does the animal move kind of weirdly? Is the fur a little too smooth looking? Do all of the non dog animals make actions eerily similar to how a dog would do a trick, because that's what AI has the most visual training on replicating? Its movements a bit too quick and perfectly timed? Watch out. They're infecting collections of animal videos everywhere.

It is legitimately sickening.

[cremsie]

An example of what kind of a thing you need to look out for. This is not how a possum plays dead. This is how a DOG plays dead to make you laugh and get a treat. Because when you tell an AI to have it play dead its got thousands of dog trick videos to reference and very few possum ones in contrast. So its going to look like a dog. When a possum plays dead it actually looks.. yknow. Dead. It goes utterly limp and most of the time in my experience their mouth is open somewhat. They go utterly still, don't move at all. Even if you pick em up and nudge em around a bit they’ll usually be stiff as a board. There's videos you can find of people interacting with real possums when they’re playing dead and its incredibly different from the dog drop and roll we see here. It also almost immediately stops playing dead to wander away. Something a real possum most certainly wouldn't do. AI slop thrives off using these lower quality cam video styles to trick you. I've seen countless 'Security camera' footage of AI bullshit now and its got its tells but if you're not looking you can easily be deceived. Watch out. Do your part. Call it out. Make them ashamed. Pollution on the internet like this shouldnt be tolerated. Especially when its actively trying to lie to you. None of these have ever been labelled as AI because they're actively trying to sneak into your life.

[beardedmrbean]

[roguespeedster]

say what you will about the 90s but there were so so many women on TV with beautiful curly hair. we used to be a proper society