Work in Progress

I'm just trying to figure this out, y'all. [nearing forty, actually married, quasi-responsible adult. they let me take a baby home from the hospital and I've kept that kid alive for more than half a decade]

[e-102]

javelina want yo doordash bitch

[e-102]

yummyummyummyummyummy yummy for piggy

[ankle-beez]

surprisingly forward-thinking of jim henson and co. to make a female character in the 70's that's allowed to be loud-mouthed and violent and kind of overwhelmingly romantic and even a huge bitch at times and not have a moment where any character asks her to change

[ankle-beez]

going through all the muppet movies in a row made me realize that like. miss piggy was made in the 70's. and it's so rare even today to have a character like her. she's loud, she's selfish, she's funny, she's extremely vain, she's obsessed with romance, she's violent, she's kind of annoying, and there's not a single moment in any of these films where she's asked to tone down any of these personality traits. i am not joking when i say that miss piggy might be one of the best treated female characters ever written

[newsandstuffisee]

[queerquests]

Framing illness as even involving morality seems to me a mistake, because of course cancer does not give a shit whether you are a good person. Biology has no moral compass.

—John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis

[kedreeva]

Looking to rehome peafowl

Not mine! A friend of mine, the guy who took Bumblebee/Felix home last year, is needing a place to rehome his peafowl due to a major life circumstance change incoming. He has one mature pair of blues (Ferdinand and Isabelle), and then Felix and likely one of his two yearling girlfriends (Liberty or Bell). He's located in Wisconsin, but we would both be willing to work on transport to pretty much anywhere in the USA to get them placed.

Ferdinand and Isabella

Felix and his ladies

This isn't necessarily an urgent, immediate need, so if you were to, say, need time to build an enclosure, we can work it out. The birds themselves are free to a good home, with the only stipulations being Ferdinand and Isabella must go and stay together. I will be making sure they end up placed somewhere that's set up for them already, preferably where the pairs can stay together.

If you can take them, please send me a message or an e-mail (longfeatherlane at gmail). If you can't, please pass this on so it might find someone that can.

[passengerpigeons]

do u ever think about corn sweat; and the fact that a large percent of corn grown in Illinois, iowa, etc is grown for ethanol and biofuel; and how solar power would be so many times more effective per acre than this; and how like 90+% of so many rare ecosystems in those states was drained for farm and suburbs (in many cases previously farms).

[passengerpigeons]

AND you could still have native plants around and even under the solar panels.

[passengerpigeons]

When you see what they did to the Midwest you'll want to fucking kill the corn lobbyists with your bare hands

[thanksiloveyou]

2014 average url: tumblring-in-the-tardis

2026 average url: weemp

[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

[wagitfag]

picklesbaseball

[magikonch]

[genderkoolaid]

so the context is that it was "Heated Rivalry theme night" & we also gotta talk about the Fox News article on this. expected amount of homophobia but you just gotta laugh

With families in attendance Tuesday night, the Pickles decided to honor the HBO show by creating a script where a pitcher hits a batter. The batter charged the mound, and with little kids watching, the two men embrace and start kissing. At least one little girl can be seen covering her eyes as the men kiss. Meanwhile, in Philly, sane America was celebrating with a Sandlot tribute and Ray Charles singing "America the Beautiful." The divide between sane America and the demented America that Portland wants to export across this country can't be any clearer. This isn't about two men kissing. This is about taking one of the final wholesome places left for families — the Pickles are holding a Fart Night this Friday night — and turning it into a LIB stunt factory where kids are subjected to the Alphabet Mafia's whims. [...] "Little girl in the background immediately, instinctively, and rightly, covers her eyes. Everyone knows this s–t is wrong but white liberal women keep forcing it into ever(y) facet of our lives. Fatigue," wrote a Twitter user. That was immediately countered by the typical lunatics who want to normalize this spectacle. "You mean like any little kid does when they see two people kissing..? They find all kissing gross. Gtfo here with your bigotry," the lunatic replied.

me personally i think demented america is the only america worth loving, and next the MLB should require every team engage in competitive gay sex bare ass naked on the field in front of thousands. only then will our sick liberal thirst for power be satisfied

apparently the pitcher is gay in real life tho!!! legend shit this must have been so fun for him. also he's hot as fuck. only gay men should be allowed to play baseball actually

"Guess I can check off 'making out on the diamond during a professional baseball game' from my list," the gay pitcher, who goes by J.P. Hardy, wrote to his fans on Instagram Story.

[ms-demeanor]

To have a computer reliably recognize a picture of a red-winged blackbird the computer must first imagine the universe.

[ms-demeanor]

I am having complicated and frustrating thoughts on AI again (as always).

[ms-demeanor]

I don't know if I've expressed this but part of the thing that has been making me bugfuck insane about discussions around AI image generation is knowing people who have worked with computer vision for decades.

[ms-demeanor]

I should fire up my 2005 macbook with CS2 installed on it and edit a photo entirely with "AI tools."

[ms-demeanor]

This is a 1980 computer science master's thesis by Ellen Hildreth on computer image recognition and creation. (Link downloads PDF)

The paper demonstrates the development, training, and testing of the Marr-Hildreth algorithm for edge detection in digital images.

[ms-demeanor]

Every time I'm gearing up for a good academic rant on this subject I further entrench my hatred of copyright.

[ms-demeanor]

Look. I understand that people are concerned about training models. I really do get that, that people have intense feelings about their photos or drawings or image being used to train AI. I even kind of get wanting to weaponize copyright against that because you don't know what else to do with those feelings.

I am currently building a multi-decade chain of papers on computer vision and image generation to have this discussion, and I would like to do so in a moderately calm manner.

Unfortunately if I want to cite a journal article from 1983 in a tumblr post, the copyright holders of this article about image restoration and pixel randomization want $248 per section of excerpted text (<500 words).

So the calm has now gone away.

[imgdist0000]

drawing people i see in the city (59/?)

[hellyeahscarleteen]

At Scarleteen, we don’t treat abortion like something that needs to be whispered about or wrapped in shame.

Everyone deserves accurate, compassionate, nonjudgemental information about their own bodies, their options, and their care. 

That means being direct about what abortion is, why people need it, and why access to safe abortions is important and matters in our world. Being honest about abortion isn’t optional for us. It’s part of providing real sex education and real support to folks, especially for folks who may not have another trusted place to turn to. 

Too often, abortion care information is censored, stigmatized, or intentionally hard to find. That leaves people with no useful information about how to access care, what their options are, how to stay safe or what to do if they live somewhere abortion is restricted, criminalized, or illegal.

As a whole, we’ve been fed the idea that abortion isn’t something we’re supposed to talk about honestly and openly. That silence leaves people isolated. It makes it harder to ask questions, hard to support friends or loved ones, and harder to recognize abortion as a common part of healthcare and life. 

Today we’re offering some of our resources on why we need abortion and abortion access, how to support someone having an abortion, how to protect your privacy and prioritize safety, and what each of us can do to help destigmatize abortion and support everyone’s right to it:

How to Access a Safe, Self-Managed Medical Abortion

A Guide to Accessing Abortion Care – Even When It Looks Hard

Abortion and Digital Privacy: How To Protect Ourselves

How to Support a Friend Through an Abortion

[agentduckorico]

You know, I really hate jokes about "how fast Demi Lovato dropped they/them pronouns" because like. A) they didn't. Demi has they/she listed on her social media pages. They still use they/them, and B) the reason they added she/her back and the reason you think Demi "dropped they/them" is because people are transphobic and exorsexist and never used their pronouns in the first place! It's literally because people were exorsexist to them.

[red-garden]

“Do dishes” and “take out trash” both require the use of a spell slot, vs “use phone” is a cantrip, and brother, I am a level one wizard

[orcboxer]

got a crick in my neck and a frog in my throat and a chip on my shoulder and a stick up my ass and now you're gonna stand there puttin words in my mouth? haven't I been through enough?

[dick-hardboiled]

There is absolutely a platonic explanation for that

[dick-hardboiled]

But I will also entertain the non platonic for my own edification do u understand

[goldensunset]

[thememedaddy]