Claire Keane
we're not kids anymore.
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Misplaced Lens Cap
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It’s that time of year to say no to the Salvation Army.
Never forget they let a Trans woman die instead of helping her.
Never forget they have tossed entire families on the street for having an LGBT child.
Never forget they tell non Christian families that unless they convert they will not help them.
Never forget that the Salvation Army is bigoted and hateful, many of the bell ringers routinely heckle and harass LGBT couples.
Annual reblog.
Kinda surprised how many different animals can be black and tan
Flawless St. Patrick's Day post
QUEEN OF ENGLAND DIED LETS GOOO
These Bionicles Do Not Exist
Made with Looking Glass AI. I showed it a bunch of headshots of Bionicle characters wearing various Kanohi—these were the results that I liked and kept
Looking Glass AI v1.4 (and creator’s twitter and tumblr)
Albums of all 83 input images: [1], [2], [3]
Album with all outputs as individual 512x512 pixel images
Information about generating these / rambling commentary below the fold:
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This is all so fucking cool
Some of these are like genuinely jaw-droppingly cool i cannot believe it
These Bionicles Do Not Exist
Made with Looking Glass AI. I showed it a bunch of headshots of Bionicle characters wearing various Kanohi—these were the results that I liked and kept
Looking Glass AI v1.4 (and creator’s twitter and tumblr)
Albums of all 83 input images: [1], [2], [3]
Album with all outputs as individual 512x512 pixel images
Information about generating these / rambling commentary below the fold:
Keep reading
This is all so fucking cool
This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8
I hate that my aesthetic sense agrees with this but everything you just said was correct
I went back to dig up this post because I was thinking about poetry.
This is one of those non-poem things that are among my favorite poems.
As the OP stated, the use of alliterative consonants is aesthetically just great, especially the placement of the strongest use at the end: “fuck him on the floor.” The use of “chintz” is indeed great word choice.
Because I’m insane, decided to scan the poem:
Not only is the second sentence, indeed, perfect iambic pentameter, the entire poem is perfectly metered, though the first sentence has four iambs rather than five.
There are further things I love about this poem, though: I like the casual connotations of “keep it real” juxtaposed with “chintz.” It causes me to interpret the “chintz” more strongly as meaning something fake, a facade. There is also of course the coarseness of “fuck,” which is a contrast with “chintz” but a different kind of contrast, gutsy and carnal where “chintz” is flimsy and inanimate.
And then there is the storytelling: there is SO MUCH storytelling in just these two lines. To break it down: The speaker is having sex with a married man, in the house he shares with his wife, which is “filled with chintz”—something that here connotes fakeness, in contrast with “keep it real.”
The illicit encounter in the poem takes place within a house filled with facade, the flimsy construction of the wife’s marriage and domestic sphere, but the encounter itself is a taste of something “real.” That’s a story, and it’s just two lines.
This is EIGHTEEN SYLLABLES, y’all. The amount of meaning condensed into these eighteen syllables is stunning, and it is so elegantly done.
From a technical standpoint (and ive taken 300- and 400-level poetry classes so I can say this) this is damn near flawless as a poem.
Kept thinking about this ever since I saw it and had to do something
there's art now
world heritage post
ok so i see jeff kinney is still making diary of a wimpy kid books. so i have to ask. has greg heffley had any kind of character development or is he still a total sociopath
honestly the majority of his issues can be chalked up to the point where he legit has no proper friends to hang out with. at school he's pretty much a nobody (other than his "best friend" rowley, who he always takes advantage of and is generally a total asshole towards), and even when his mom tries to set up playdates, they never go well. an example of this would be that one time susan organised a playdate with a son of her old college/highschool friend, but the son was a SENIOR, and they didn't click at all.
susan herself is pretty flawed, relying on family matters magazines ("family froli", mentioned in "the long haul") to raise her awkward teenage sons, and playing blatant favoritism towards manny. Greg's dad has out-dated values and seems kind of distant from his sons?? in the sense that he really tries to drill in a sense of masculinity, sending them off to boyscouts, or hardscrabble farm. man's got some unprocessed emotions and he takes out his anger on his sons.
there's one notable scene in the most recent book "the deep end", where greg ends up on a caravan site and finally befriends a group of boys his age, and he mentions something about "this is how it feels to actually have friends". and that really felt like?? emotional?? Greg's clearly inherited his father's trait of not properly internalising his emotions, especially his awkward teenage feelings, and kind of turns out to be a total douchebag in the process. maybe im rambling idk but it feels like greg just needs a stronger sense of community around him, because he views the world in such a specific way that nobody else can understand. boy needs some therapy and some real friends, else he's gonna take a dark turn in life and become some kinda incel lmao
that but also he broke rowley’s arm and told rowley it was his own fault
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the amount of people reblogging this without an id...
R.I.P. The 2976 American people that lost their lives on 9/11 and R.I.P. the 48,644 Afghan and 1,690,903 Iraqi and 35000 Pakistani people that paid the ultimate price for a crime they did not commit
I love how the canon explictly says Nidhikis volitak is green yet a LOT of people in the fandom (myself included) are just "yup, guy has a silver volitak".
BIONICLE fans when presented with canon Green Volitak Nidhiki:
FKGKGKGG ACCURATE
THIS IS LITERALLY THE FANDOM IN A NUTSHELL
I think we all just agree it would look better that way, you know? He was a Toa Mangai after all, so Nidhiki having green and silver armour like how Lhikan has red and gold just makes sense, keeps the colour scheme consistent within the team.
Thing is, all of the Toa Mangai came from different parts of the Universe, so really, they should all be incoherent
I love bakeries until you check out your one loaf of bread and they say it’ll be seven quintillion five hundred quadrillion three trillion sevenhundred and fifty two billion three hundred million five hundred and thirty seven thousand dollars
gentrification
this is a rlly fun idea!! here you go anon!
world heritage post
Hurricanes and How They Are Pronounced
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases its planned hurricane names years in advance, and includes a pronunciation guide for each name. An excerpt from NOAA's 2026 Atlantic Basin Storm Name Pronunciations:
Arthur AR-thur Bertha BUR-thuh Cristobal krees-TOH-bahl Dolly DAH-lee Edouard eh-DWARD Fay fay
Whenever I see a list like this, I naturally wonder what a neural net might make of it. I'm specifically interested in the larger neural nets I've been using lately, like the GPT-3 variants, which have encountered lots of names during their internet training yet are known to produce absolutely cursed attempts at pronunciation guides.
The largest GPT-3 variant, DaVinci, was pretty good at identifying common names and providing pronunciation guides that are not too far off from how I myself would say them. Although I definitely say this one differently:
Christopher kry-STOP-oh-fuhr
But things did get stranger when I gave GPT-3 dates farther in the future. I know it's not actually predicting that the already tenuous link between spelling and pronunciation in English is going to do some pretty extreme things in the next 50 years, but that's sure what it looks like:
2051 Harry HARR-held Andrew an-DREE-uhn Lisa LISS-uh Mark mark George jar-ZHAY
2070 Wanda way-DAHN-uh Alfred im-THOHN Deirdre ED-reel Jason JAY-dree Marissa mrees-TVR-uhf Sandrina sa-NREE-tuuh Scott steed-rer Scott wess-tra
2071 Arnold ah-NAWR-dell Georgia zheh-DRO-luh Howard huh-WAR-dee Nelson NEH-suh-lihn Serena say-RUH-nuh Victor VIK-suht
I also prompted the smallest GPT-3 variant, Ada, with the list of officially planned NOAA hurricane names and pronunciations. I would definitely need most of these spelled out for me the first time I heard them.
Alan AR-toh-LAY Christine CREE-chuh-NAH Elena anda-DAW Esther ex-THAH-ah Michael MIE-le-no Ginger LEEK-yuh Darrell jlear-DAHR Gregory GREGORY Alex MDL-aye Jess MEY-sern Robert REH-sch-ei Santiago SAN-tih-uh HEAT-TAY Varsity EBAY David EBOY Joe joh-LOHS-dah Wendy lich-WAEH Oliver ORL-arkus John john-FLAN-uh John john-SPLIN-er-ahnt
I was curious, so I appended a few other names to the end of the list of hurricanes so Ada could provide me a pronunciation guide. I guess I'll be introducing myself differently from now on.
Janelle JEE-ree-uhn Shane shaan
Artificial AYR-tah-zhoo Intelligence MIL-teer-uhn
Benedict bon-TEE-ass Cumberbatch cHL-barck-Christ
Bilbo BLA-buh Baggins BAL-gin
Scrooge skhuh-RAK-tur-ee McDuck moos-DUCK
Rumplestiltskin uh-buh-THEEKS
Before I discovered I could get GPT-3 DaVinci to vary its pronunciation guides by simply advancing the date, I experimented with some other prompts. One of the more successful experiments was the one in which I told it that the storms had grown ever more intense, so the names had to grow more epic to match. If you're an AI Weirdness supporter, you can read them as bonus content. Or become a free subscriber to read new AI Weirdness posts in your inbox!
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