Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).
When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".
When the boat is still being built, your say "it".
When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".
When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".
When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.
If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").
If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")
If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").
If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.
If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.
I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.
its crazy that megan thee stallion is not considered a queer artist by some people. the woman is not shy about the fact that she finds women attractive and likes having sex with them. she references it pretty frequently in her music, she made a whole song about enjoying having threesomes with a woman and a man, she made a Jennifer's Body-themed music video, she had Victoria Monét full riding her thigh on stage at a coachella, and there's literally a video of a lesbian interviewing glorilla at a party & asking who she would date if she was queer and her immediate response is "megan. megan like girls!" and then megan turns around and immediately starts flirting with the interviewer. i don't know what more you want. that woman is Bi Sexual and we should all be thankful every day for that. bi women are still bi when they wanna fuck men too you know. the fucking of men is also done bisexually.
ykw let me put my tags on the post itself too: #also her being so outspokenly kinky is very interesting to me#like she has lyrics poking fun at women who brag about a low body count but are ''still getting fucked [over]''#and reminding them that ''the freak hoes still getting cuffed''#and she is very proudly ''freaky'' and has also connected that to her bisexuality lyrically#thats the thing abt meg. the eroticism in her music isnt just like a stylistic or genre choice#its clear her sexuality is important to her in ways i dont feel like people give her enough credit for?#its not even just that shes attracted to women so shes queer on a technicality#her art is very much queer art on multiple levels#but its Black art so it will never be queer enough for a lot of white queers to take seriously (said as a white queer)#in a world where straight cisgender women are considered queer art icons i THINK we can let meg the bisexual kinkster into our hearts
& also these tags by @milfygerard: #its bc shes a black woman and specifically a rapper so everyones always looking for reasons to treat her like dirt its crazy#also even apart from just liking girls she IS also influenced by queer culture esp ballroom and drag#shes not even woman who happens to be bi like shes clearly inn the community which ppl love to ignore bc they think her dating men gives-#them an excuse to ignore it like fuck you lol <- genuinely unfathomable how people can listen to a song like Body or Her and not realize she's queer.
for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.
here's my super-quick, easy-to-digest summary that i use when i can't spend more than like 15 seconds on it but need someone to know the basic distinctions:
generative AI - bad evil AI. chatbots, LLMs, image generators, etc. this the one that steals shit.
analytical AI - helpful medical AI. this the one that helps detect cancer early.
game "AI" - fake AI. 100% human created and dictated. this the one that determines game mob behavior n stuff.
losing the battle with my own self-control so will briefly comment and say that categorizing certain types of ai as straightforwardly good and other types as "bad evil," even for the sake of summary, doesn't really hold water. just to give two counterexamples to the distinctions drawn above, large language models ("evil") are being used by human rights groups to parse huge datasets about police abuse while analytical ai ("helpful") is also the kind of ai that animates facial recognition software and the increasingly ubiquitous searchable license plate databases that police are using to stalk people. the goodness or badness of a given ai tool has less to do with its type and more to do with things like scale and scope, transparency, ownership, and contextual application.
to be clear you SHOULD buy that cast iron pan and you SHOULD buy that knife set and you SHOULD buy that fancy rice cooker and you SHOULD buy that novelty mug. high quality kitchenware is always worth it you’re literally gonna be using that almost every day
the other day a friend of a friend referred to "busting out of your abdomen like the alien from the Predator films" and I was completely caught off guard. like I guess that's - that's not wrong. the alien was. okay she was in the Predator films. well some of them. but like. she had her own. she's the alien from the Alien films. like. they have her name on them. he's not "King Kong from the Godzilla films"
Choosing a character in a sexyman-style poll when you are familiar with both options: obviously you are the intended audience of the op, the intention of the poll was to judge based on the audience’s familiarity with both characters
Choosing a character in a sexyman-style poll because they’re the only one you know: obviously biased
Choosing a character in a sexyman-style poll because they’re the only one you don’t know: arguably also biased but in a different and funnier way
Choosing a character in a sexyman-style poll when you don’t know any of them: The Truely Just and Honorable Way to Select, Entirely On Vibes