Heyy its Jess

[forgofamilyforgofriendsx-blog]

[lipstickndynamite-deactivated20]

One of the best mom moments in TV history. I wish more parents knew how important it is to validate their children’s feelings.

[doctorinternet]

What this is so beautiful

[clareer]

Marge tried real fucking hard sometimes.

[profanities]

Marge tried real fucking hard all the time

[swordarmsaxelegs]

Even Homer had quite a few moments and they usually depicted him as a bad parent.

[whyactlikeahuman]

[safeinpeetasarms]

#i literally crack up everytime #at least ten of the notes are from me

[taraljc]

if I ever don’t reblog Obi-Wan’s complete lack of fucks, assume I have perished and have been et by my cat.

[bamfinacuddlyjumper]

Me: *gets story idea*

Me: This is so obvious and clever it practically writes itself!

*later*

Narrator: It did not write itself.

[elierlick]

Ending the stigma of drug use will save lives.

[betweenparallels]

“Never Use Alone” is a number you can call when you have no choice but to use when you’re alone.

If you call [phone], an operator will answer your call, and ask for your first name, location and whether you have any allergies, or medical conditions. After you’ve given us this information you can go ahead and inject your substance. After you’ve ingested the substance, we will continue communicating with you. If you do not respond after 30-45 seconds, we will notify emergency services of a possible overdose at the location you’ve given us.

We will never shame you, judge you, or preach at you to quit. If you are ready to quit though, we have treatment resources for every state in the US. Regardless if you have insurance, or not. We will do our best to connect you with the help you need. please call. We are on standby.

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This seems like a solid and real thing, I did my best to vet them and found their FB: https://www.facebook.com/Neverusealone/

They also seem to help with getting Narcan.

[official-lucifers-child]

holy shit this can actually save Real Lives like dudes this isn’t a joke and isn’t to be passed off

[ctcsc213]

From the FB page:

We’re starting separate lines for each state in the US. These are the lines we’ve created thus far. Please share this out far and wide, so that it may reach the population of people we’re trying to help.

National line: 1-800-484-3731

Missouri: 1-800-896-8350

Iowa - 1-800-928-5610

Alabama - 1-800-913-3670

California - 1-800-469-4470

Virginia - 1-800-892-0480

Utah - 1-800-918-4805

Massachusetts - 1-800-972-0590

Vermont - 1-800-648-3570

Florida - 1-800-640-8530

Thank you for your support!

[dogberryrowan]

Not to hijack (I’ll be making a separate post shortly EDIT: SEPARATE POST HERE) but I compiled a list of Canadian services to add. Few of these are the same kind of service as Never Use Alone but most provinces and territories have a help line where you can call and explain that you need someone with you.

British Columbia, Canada, just released an app similar to this called Lifeguard.

The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction connects Canadians with provincial or territorial health services here. Each province’s contact information is listed, but please note that they do not provide treatment services, only connection to services.

Alberta Addiction Helpline: [phone]

Manitoba Addiction Helpline: 1-855-662-6605

New Brunswick has individual centre numbers listed here.

Newfoundland and Labrador has centre numbers listed here. You can call 811 for a naloxone kit.

Northwest Territories Help Line: 1-800-661-0844

Nova Scotia Mental Health and Addictions Crisis Line: 1 [phone]

Nunavut Kamatsiaqtut Help Line: 1 [phone]

Ontario ConnexOntario line: 1-866-531-2600

Prince Edward Island Addiction Services: 1-888-299-8399

Québec Drogue Aide et Référence: 1 [phone]

Saskatchewan Healthline: 811

Yukon Mental Wellness and Substance Use Services: no 24hr helpline, access services by calling 867-456-3838

[elierlick]

So many resources and numbers! Thanks, everyone!

[awwww-cute]

Little girl thinks bride is the Princess from her favourite book (Source: http://ift.tt/2s0fF7z)

[accras]

Beautiful story!

[the-mighty-birdy-deactivated202]

;-;

[d-e-l-ete-d-deactivated20181014]

[cosmicwomanist]

The book the little girl is holding.

[klubbhead]

I CRI

[whitepeopletwitter]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[cartofolo]

[despazito]

them fishes be like

[theforce]

y didn’t chris evans win an academy award for pretending like he couldn’t do a push up in the first captain america movie 

[en-futubandera]

[thenatsdorf]

[such-justice-wow]

Awww kitty can ask for kitty cocaine on demand

[c-bassmeow]

The caption slaps harder than the video

[taekenbysurprise]

[rimcg]

This looks like a group of people about to fall into an alternate reality to have some adventures

[mrsreinhart]

I’d watch that

[sharkbait-o-haha]

Jumanji

[cutekittensarefun]

The host at our Airbnb has the most talkative cat.

[unclefather]

That is the host

[aiweirdness]

Once again, a neural net tries to name cats

Last year I trained a neural net to generate new names for kittens, by giving it a list of over 8,000 existing cat names to imitate. Starting from scratch, with zero knowledge of English or any context for the words and letter combinations it was trying out, it tried to predict what letters might be found in cat names, and in which order. Its names ranged from the strange to the completely nonsensical to the highly unfortunate (Retchion, Hurler, and Trickles were some of its suggestions). Without knowledge of English beyond its list of cat names, it didn’t know what letter combinations to avoid.

So I decided to revisit the cat-naming problem, this time using a neural net that had a lot more context. GPT-2, trained by OpenAI on a huge chunk of the internet, knows which words and letter combinations tend to be used together on the English-language internet. It also has (mostly) figured out which words and letter combinations to avoid, at least in some contexts (though it does tend to suddenly switch contexts, and then, yikes).

When I trained GPT-2 on the list of cat names using Max Woolf’s colab notebook, it still retained a lot of what it had learned from the rest of the internet. Gone were the strange names like “Tilly-Mapper” and “Balllucidoux” - it had a bunch of real words it could use instead. Here are some of the names it came up with - and the Morris Animal Refuge (who you may remember from that time they used neural net names for their guinea pigs) has given some of these names to some highly adoptable kittens.

First, neural net can do fancy:

Taffeta Pompompur Monocle Tom Glitter Notion Tinnitus Cheesemonger M. Tinklesby Linklater Soap

It can also do the opposite of fancy:

Scat Cat Butthole Gangrene Moisture Grotesque Petard Oilbag Buttwig The Cream Meatbag Dr Fart Fudge Putty Scumbag Constipation BUTT

And it can also do names ranging from tough to downright sinister:

Miss Vulgar Lillith The Vamp Elle Fury Deadbolt Romeo of Darkness Starmaker Fist Warning Signs Bibles Smoked The Firestarter Higher Rune Scarlet Be Thy Coat Kill All Humans Bones Of The Master Mr. Sinister Evil Whispers Spawn Serendipitous Kill Stranglehold

(Starmaker and Sparky Buttons are from a litter that had upper respiratory infections that damaged their eyes, but even though their world is kinda cloudy, they love to play and cuddle.)

I’m a particular fan of the Very Weird cat names:

Honeystring Dr Leg Tom Noodle Pinball Scene Peanutbutterjiggles You’re Telling A Lie Beep Boop Thoughts Bobble Bun Atmosphere You Name It Whiskeridoo Sparky Buttons

Seemingly This Guy Various Authors Chicken Whiskey Fish Especially Thelonious Monsieur Ringo Shuffles Sweet Cakes EXTAs (Eye Stalks) Checker Spin Donut Quin Two Patz Grandpa He Glad Funky Moe Fluttering Feelers Accepted A Tribute Chewie Bean PLEASE Gregory Chimney Notable PRODUCT LEGEND Weird Science Platinum Not Suitable For Character the Enforcer

Did I mention these cats are adoptable? If you live near Philadelphia, you live near these kitties!

Bonus content: yet more cat names!

[pastrygeckos]

Ok I can’t stop laughing at Scat Cat Butthole

[leafcrunch]

most of these are functionally indistinguishable from what people actually call their cats

[out-there-on-the-maroon]

I’m obsessed. “Scarlet Be Thy Coat” and “Bones Of The Master” are especially fascinating. 

[validwarriorcatsnames]

This blog and all forms of naming warrior cats is hereby replaced with this AI. Clan leaders are obscolete

[inthenameofsephiroth]

[user87262893]

The type of the mother I’m trying to be. Not just encourage bodily autonomy, but reward displays of it, even when it might make someone else in the room uncomfortable.

[swedepea]

I’ve made so many people uncomfortable in supporting my daughter’s personal space. People will try to hug her, she’ll sometimes say “No, thank you” and the adult will look at me to make her do it, but I just say “It’s ok honey, you don’t have to hug anyone you don’t want to.” It makes people irrationally huffy, making me feel even more justified in supporting my daughter’s choices. Creeps.

[misharoux]

I legit had to mom-voice some random woman with a “she said no!” when she tried to force a hug on Madison. (who was not very good at verbalizing to people she didn’t know/trust at the time)

She replied, “I just want a hug, it won’t hurt her.”

Me: She. Said. No.  

There aren’t many things more important than letting my daughter know that I have her back when it comes to something like this. 

[ineeduhnap]

I work with five year olds and I had a very long talk with them about permission and that your body belongs to yourself and no one else. “Even if you want to hug your friend, you need to stop and ask if it’s okay and if they don’t want you to touch them, you should respect that choice and not do it.” they were like “cool” and then every time after that they had no problem asking their friends “can I give you a hug?” Or “can I hold your hand?” Very politely. If their friend said no, they shrugged and went on with their life. They even started asking me if they could hug me or if it was okay to hold my hand when they were sad. And I always ask when they need comfort “do you need or want a hug?” If they say no, I ask “okay, let me know what we can do as a class to help you feel better. Quiet time? Do you want a stuffed animal? Sit on the couch? Do you need some time alone?” They verbalize what they need and they become aware of their own autonomy and their ability and power to say “no.” Just because someone is an adult does NOT give them the right to hug a child who has said “no” or “no thanks.” Teach then that they own their own body, and no one else is in charge of it. Teach them the power of NO.

[lazy-polyglot]

^^^^^this is so important

[publiusmaximum]

Whenever a kid refused to high 5 me for whatever reason, I make a point to say “thank you for stating your boundaries”.

[angiethewitch]

My husbands family get so offended when my stepdaughter doesn’t want a hug. I just tell them “no, she said she doesn’t want one”. They often try to force her to hug them or just grab her. It starts young, and they learn their body isnt their own.

When I first met my stepdaughter, if I asked for a hug, she wouldn’t say no, but she’d go into a protective stance and just wait. She was waiting for me to violate her boundaries. I told her “you don’t have to give me a hug if you don’t want one. You’re allowed to say no”. It took a while, but now she’s happy saying no.

Children have a right to boundaries as much as an adult does. Don’t violate a child’s boundaries.

[strange-lights-and-stardust]

It means a lot to me, for reasons I won’t go into, that you’re teaching your stepdaughter that. We need to teach more kids about this, and for that matter, need to teach adults to respect kids’ boundaries. 

[colehence]

Very important to tech both, children AND adults!

[e-phemeric]

hi there, face here!

[justdailystories]

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