Non dominant illustrations

My pain condition makes it difficult to draw or write with my right hand. So now I have been teaching myself to draw and write left-handed :)

[autisticlittleguy]

There was a paper in 2016 exploring how an ML model was differentiating between wolves and dogs with a really high accuracy, they found that for whatever reason the model seemed to *really* like looking at snow in images, as in thats what it pays attention to most.

Then it hit them. *oh.*

*all the images of wolves in our dataset has snow in the background*

*this little shit figured it was easier to just learn how to detect snow than to actually learn the difference between huskies and wolves. because snow = wolf*

Shit like this happens *so often*. People think trainning models is like this exact coding programmer hackerman thing when its more like, coralling a bunch of sentient crabs that can do calculus but like at the end of the day theyre still fucking crabs.

[mosfetransgender-deactivated202]

NEVER LET YOURSELF BE STOPPED BY WHAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE IF YOU STARTED EARLIER!!!!! THE ONLY TIME WE HAVE IS NOW

[enki2]

[victusinveritas]

[modern-politics111]

[daloy-politsey]

[neil-gaiman]

dear Neil

Do you feel weird when a kid is lying in his room watching the last 10 minutes of Go2 episode 6 over and over and crying non-stop?

No. I assume the kid in question must need to feel things.

[neil-gaiman]

Too important to hide in the tags.

[neil-gaiman]

hello neil, my mom and i have loved the show good omens for a few years now, and we recently discovered your tumblr, so we feel we must inform you of something.

when i saw the "do ducks have ears?" bit, i was very happy, but when we saw the second season came with a second mention of ducks, we were both delighted. we named these ducks over a year ago, and in a show full of important representation and themes, it just makes me feel very seen as not only a queer person, but as a person for whom ducks are very important.

these are three of our ducks, hastur, crowley, and aziraphale. we tried to get a picture of them eating peas from a bowl, which they have done, but they were most uncooperative.

here they are actually eating peas.

This was a very necessary post.

[neil-gaiman]

Hello Mr Gaiman,

In episode 3 season 2 of Good Omens, Crowley drinks poison and isn't discorporated. Which had me wondering if it was normal or not. From what I understood, when on Earth, demons and angel can be discorporated by stuff that would kill humans (car accidents, fire, being shot...). Does it apply to intoxication as well, or it takes external damage to be discorporated? If not, then why did Crowley survive? Is it because he was a snake, or because he can eliminate intoxicating subtances from his body (like alcohol, but then again he can still have hangovers so idk) - or am I just wrong to assume that it should have damaged him?

Thank you if you answer (and even if you don't)!

Angelic systems are definitely more robust than human ones, even when inside a human-style body. We've seen Crowley drink quantities of whisky and wine that would kill a human or render one unconscious. He gets drunk, but his system seems to cope.

[alex51324]

Also, the laudanum bottle is marked "poison" as, I'm assuming, a sort of shorthand for viewers who don't know what laudanum is, so that we know that it's something Elspeth can use to kill herself.

What it actually is, is a highly-addictive, easy-to-OD-on, opiate pain medication, tinctured in alcohol. Dangerous* if misused (for instance, by downing a whole bottle), but medicinal at appropriate doses.

So that's why Neil is connecting it to his alcohol tolerance--the amount he took would be a fatal OD for a human, but for Crowley it's merely enough to have him tripping balls.

(*The biggest danger of it, which a doctor-or-surgeon in the 1800's would have been aware of, is that as you become habituated to it, the amount you need to take to feel an effect keeps increasing. But the amount that it takes to kill you stays the same, so in addiction--or poorly-managed chronic pain--eventually those two bars will meet, and the person is in danger of fatal overdose. This is not relevant to the episode, but it's true of most opiates/opioids, and continues to be a problem to this day, so it's a detail worth knowing.)

[lefthandedamateur]

My next attempt with the cloud stencils. You can also see the work of the 'too much' gene here too 😂 #clouds #art #artist #artistsoninstagram #amature #selftaught #selftaughtartist #acrylicpaint #paint #painting #practice #practicemakesprogress #practicemakesbetter #stencilart #stencil #artpaige #apaige https://www.instagram.com/p/CMOL9TQpDFC/?igshid=qo2lnrrz40pq

[lefthandedamateur]

This week we test our geography knowledge and learn which city we should live in. Have an idea for a quiz we should do? Or just want to say hi? Send us a message! #podcast #newpodcast #aussiepodcast #australianpodcast #bfma #brothersfrommilesaway #aussie #australia #brothers #newepisode #new #podcastersofinstagram #podcasting #geography #quiz #quizzes https://www.instagram.com/p/CMGKNvYlsiP/?igshid=eudrxsgj63yl

[lefthandedamateur]

This week we are talking animals, try these quizzes for yourself and listen to our newest episode "Have you seen a yellow-tailed black cockatoo?" Quiz 1 https://www.buzzfeed.com/lemonlover2020/one-of-these-animals-that-was-in-friends-is-your-b4lbuoaw4t Quiz 2 https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/games/personality-quizzes/article/which-shark Quiz 3 https://www.buzzfeed.com/blackzest/choose-between-a-food-and-an-animal-in-this-alphab-dab7mzwsuh Quiz 4 https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/games/personality-quizzes/article/what-dinosaur #podcast #newpodcast #aussiepodcast #australianpodcast #bfma #brothersfrommilesaway #aussie #australia #brothers #newepisode #new https://www.instagram.com/p/CLyBihrlVtC/?igshid=syz07dhh3mjf

[lefthandedamateur]

Exploring Everyday Abstract I was tagged by @melody_mdmay to take the #exploringeverydayabstract challenge I tag @left_handed_amateur 🎨 I want to see what you create 😊 https://www.instagram.com/p/CLqXLxSJxHV/?igshid=1n29gg631i0xk

[lefthandedamateur]

My friend asked me to draw a mummy for her, so here is my attempt. It is supposed to be forced perspective, with arms out the front like a classic mummy, but it looks more like it has squat arms. Well I'm still learning :)

[lefthandedamateur]

This is what happens when I have drawn every scary thing I can think of and just let my brain have at it... More frightening things to come every day for this spookiest of months

[lefthandedamateur]

I found this doll at the markets and I instantly fell in love. Her name is Geraldine, Gerry for short :) She reminds me of Tim Burton's style and I really enjoyed drawing her

[lefthandedamateur]

One time when I was a little girl, I was walking along the road with my mum. I think she said I was 3 or 4 when this happened.

Anyway, we were walking, when suddenly a large, hairy, spider ran across my foot. Now, I have severe arachnophobia, so this was not fun for me.

So, in the infinite wisdom of a scared child, I yanked out of my mum's hand and ran straight out on the road, to get as far away from that hairy bastard as possible. Luckily my mum caught me before a car could.

For reference, I live in Australia and some of our spiders are no joke.