Generative AI and the artist discussion is such a distraction from AIās military and police applications or its role in automating hiring discrimination.
I am fucking loving how shit-scared the UK right-wing is of a man with a bin on his head. Now that Count Binface might actually win the Clacton byelection they're desperately trying to smear him with such gems as:
"He's anti-Brexit!" Good.
"He's anti-Trump!" Good.
"He's anti-establishment!" At this point I think you're just trying to make me like him more.
"His manager once called Farage a horrible cunt!" Well Farage *is* a horrible cunt, what's your point?
"He's making a joke of British politics!" Well that's very appropriate given that current British politics *are* a fucking joke.
"He's a left-wing liberal elitist!" I don't know if you can be all of those things at once, but I do know that Count Binface isn't the one getting millions in donations from cryptocurrency billionaires sooooooo...
fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"
Iām actually kind of glad aspartame is the latest food additive boogeyman for crunchy people, not because I think it is terrible for humanity but because it is a major migraine trigger for me and makes me violently ill. Itās hidden in so many things for no fucking reason, liquid medicine, mints, drinks that arenāt even marked diet. There are so many times Iāve bought something that had sugar in it and looked at the ingredients and realized it also had aspartame in it OR drunk something and gotten sick and realized it was on the ingredient list. Itās my fault for not checking but there are so many other artificial sweeteners that donāt have that controversy behind them and donāt have so many people reporting adverse effects but itās like aspartame manufacturers are pitching their product left and right. Itās kind of nice to see products marked with āNO ASPARTAMEā now.
A trad music session I'm in played an hour long set at the county fair once. There were maybe 15 of us, but most of them were 'heads down' players, focused on their own instrument and not what was going on around them, so no one but me saw the woman with a kangaroo in a sling in the front row.
When we got done I was all "Oh my god, did you see the KANGAROO?" And all these people whom I actually know (not random internet strangers) tried to convince me I had to be wrong and I'd "just seen a dog." Friends, it's BIG BABY KANGAROO LEGS were sticking out the back of the sling. They joked that I was delusional.
Jokes on them. We were all waiting for the shuttle bus back to parking, and who should join us at the bus stop? KANGAROO SLING LADY.
Suck it, haters. Surprise kangaroos happen in real life!
guys. Guys please you're allowed to say big boy words. please we cannot keep just rolling with the sanitization of every space on the internet ok. you're allowed to say suicide. you're allowed to say porn. they're not bad words, they're just words.
also by ''censoring'' the words with silly spellings you're actually making it much harder for people to filter out. please just say Sex you don't have to call it woohoo like it's the fucking sims. i promise the Word Police aren't going to arrest you
"Patty Coggeshallās elaborate, densely filled sampler is thought to have been made at the Bristol, Rhode Island school run by Anne Bowman Usher (1723-1793). This highly respected boarding and day school was active from about 1774 to 1793, attracting students from prosperous Bristol and Providence families. The Met has two of the four samplers attributed to the Usher school--Pattyās dating to ca. 1792 and Peggy Ingrahamās dating to 1790. (MMA 1984.331.12). Characteristic of Usher School samplers, both display the dramatic use of black stitched silk backgrounds; the anomaly in the alphabet of the "V" preceding the "U;" and a vocabulary of distinctive motifs in a central area surrounded by a meandering floral three-sided border. In a cartouche at the bottom both girls stitched their name, birth date, and "Bristol" in black silk.
Pattyās sampler is the most fully realized of the Bristol samplers and her motifs include four animated courting couples as well as Venus and Cupid, and a huntsman. She used a profusion of colorful silk twist, floss, and metal wrapped thread in a variety of stitches to enhance her designs. Rococo stitch, seed stitch, and long-and-short stitches combine to augment the foliage, costumes, and the long-tailed bird flying above Venus.
For the young women born following the American Revolution, marriage was the central defining experience of their lives and the romantic notions expressed in the poetry, music, and literature popular in Federal-era America are seen in Usher school samplers. Pattyās four animated couples are exchanging love tokens, including one gentleman playing a flute, reading sheet music on a stand. Venus, goddess of love, sits in her chariot pulled by two doves and Cupid stands beside her ready to cast his arrow. The exuberance and optimism of the sampler reflects the flourishing prosperity of Bristol at the time when the city was becoming a major hub of New Englandās transatlantic triangle trade.
Between 1789 and 1793, one-third of Rhode Islandās merchant ships sailed from Bristol. The retail stores that lined the main streets, and the commercial waterfront warehouses were filled with goods coming from England, Europe, China, India, South America and the Caribbean. The Bristol economy was driven by the slave trade, involving local merchants, bankers, financiers, boat builders, ship captains and sailors, tradesmen and craftsmen, as well as rum distillers. It was common for well-to-do Rhode Island families to have enslaved servants. Patty grew up in a household with an enslaved woman named Menea and Anne Usherās husband, Hezekiah Usher, owned an enslaved man named York, who lived in the house shared with students. Amongst the Usher Schoolās rules of behavior that were handed out to the students was the dictum: "You are to speak to the servant with mildness & if you have a request to make let it be withāwill you be so kind as to do this or that."
Patty Coggeshall was the daughter of William Coggeshall (1719-1796) and his second wife, Margaret Munroe (1744-1809). Although both the Coggeshall and Munroe families were among of the earliest English settlers in Rhode Island, Pattyās fatherās occupation remains unknown. Her father died in 1796, followed a year later by Pattyās own death at age seventeen. The preservation of Pattyās sampler by generations of her family is a tribute to the importance needlework held as a document of her education and as a symbol of the familyās status within the community."
I encourage everyone to click through to read a very thoughtful caption about the background of this sampler and the historical context of Bristol, Rhode Island where it was made. To me this is an excellent example of how to discuss the craftsmanship of a beautiful object without ignoring the transatlantic slave trade that made it possible.
About ten years ago I decided that the next step I needed to take in my life was to accept and explore what it meant to be a failure and to have failed. This infuriated almost everybody in my life and clearly terrified a lot of people. People do not want you to accept failure. They dont want you to like... Sit with and think about it and pick it up and turn it arpund in your hands and really examine it. They want you to keep throwing yourself against the impossible walls until your body explodes! They do not want you to say "alright then, I've failed. What does that mean for me? Im still here. What does the life of someone who has failed look like?"
This makes people very angry and panicky.
My mental health improved in ways it had not in the previous DECADE once I stopped. And. Sat. With failure. And thought about what my failure ... Was. And looked at the structures that produced it and examined them critically.
It is so taboo to fail and admit it openly and talk about it. It is so taboo to talk about or think about failure in an accepting way rather than hiding it shamefully until you experience a degree of success in some area which allows you to present the past failure as "a stepping stone" to your current situation. Fuck that. We are put in positions of guaranteed failure by society every day and then punished and shamed for it. Lets fucking talk about failure
I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of "people also watched" and "for you" into the results. That's not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.
They also refuse to actually show the parameters you searched for. If you sort by āupload date,ā the first few videos might be more recent ones by upload date, but anything past that youāll find a video that was uploaded five years ago, then five months ago, then three years ago, etc, whichāNO! Thatās NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!! PUT THEM IN ORDER!!!
Also sometimes the āpeople also watchedā bullcrap will not only be entirely unrelated, it will also be videos with violent, sometimes outright triggering thumbnails. Iāve gotten some AWFUL unrelated video thumbnails just when searching for video game music videos.
just once I want to see a good post critiquing makeup culture that doesnāt turn out to be made by some janky radfem blog
oh hey!! Iām not a janky radfem I can do it myself!
makeup culture is wack and normalizes a ludicrously high bar as the bare minimum women can do. I saw a ālazy"makeup tutorial the other day that listed 22 separate goddamn products. youāre supposed to buy and know how to use 22 different things on your face just for the privilege of being considered lazy and thatās uuuuuuh whatās the word? bullshit.
Really, five products could work, even 3. Just frame the face, eyes, lips, and youāre done.
0 products also works great
because Iām gonna be real here, the idea that 22 products is a minimum sucks but itās really upsetting that any amount of makeup is the bare minimum at all
I would really just suggest some powder foundation, concealer, mascara and lipgloss/lipstick, or tbh just mascara works too, but thatās up to you
Iām sorry if I didnāt express this clearly enough in the original post but Iām not really looking for more concise makeup regiments. my intention was to point out how itās Bad that makeup is considered a bare minimum at all, regardless of individual feelings on the matter
no face should be ārequiredā to have āa minimumā of makeup. makeup has no health benefits and does nothing but fill the pockets of companies that prey on women and our insecurities.
makeup should not be seen as hygiene because it isnt. get that shit out of your head.
this post: makeup culture is ridiculous and 22 products should not be considered a minimum requirement for someones face. no one should have to do that
the notes: so likeā¦ā¦. what youre saying isā¦ā¦. we need to make the minimum about 5 or 6 insteadā¦ i gotcha
Really the only makeup you need is eyeliner but thatās just my personal opinion
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