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 Posted: Wed May 07, 2025 4:49 pm
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2025 7:06 pm
Haha I love that image. Looks so evil lol
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2025 6:38 pm
Blind Blindness Haha I love that image. Looks so evil lol  Roy the rooster brings me great joy.
Just another artist I discovered from a random search that makes really cute GIFs, but now I'm absolutely in love with their work, haha~
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2025 12:09 pm
xp heart Queen Spazzy Blind Blindness Haha I love that image. Looks so evil lol Roy the rooster brings me great joy.
Just another artist I discovered from a random search that makes really cute GIFs, but now I'm absolutely in love with their work, haha~
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2025 5:26 pm
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Posted: Sun May 11, 2025 1:18 am
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2025 4:57 am
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2025 10:27 am
Me, frantically reteaching myself to knit.
I made sort of gag gift thing for my beau to take to work, an orange crocheted square so when the coworkers get whiny, my beau can offer them "some cheese to go with that whine." It turned out to be a hit with everyone, including my beau's boss, who asked if I'd be willing to make a bunch of cotton dishcloths for her like some she already has. What was sent with my beau as an example for me is knitted, so I figured I should break out my knitting needles. I haven't knitted in a LONG time, though, so I had to dig out my books for a refresher course.
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2025 11:42 am
Queen Spazzy Me, frantically reteaching myself to knit.
I made sort of gag gift thing for my beau to take to work, an orange crocheted square so when the coworkers get whiny, my beau can offer them "some cheese to go with that whine." It turned out to be a hit with everyone, including my beau's boss, who asked if I'd be willing to make a bunch of cotton dishcloths for her like some she already has. What was sent with my beau as an example for me is knitted, so I figured I should break out my knitting needles. I haven't knitted in a LONG time, though, so I had to dig out my books for a refresher course. Way to get back in the game! Don't worry, I've never knitted lol
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2025 2:16 am
Aye the AI/AGI stuff is getting insanely used lately, I'm glad when Super Bowl LIX commercials were using them the advertisement would say it was AI created at least. But it sucks when you see some ads that don't/wont say they're AI/AGI and you can just realize they were created by a machine and not a person. I've enjoyed using my school's franken-built computers they sold to people in my past. I just wish they didn't stop letting teenagers franken-build computers by the time I was of age to join the program finally. (Course my high school was crud like that for even programs that you think should have never been shut down got discontinued.)
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2025 7:35 am
I'm more like this today (like Noface, that is, the one in the back).
Knitting really isn't that hard once you have the motions locked in muscle memory. I think casting on (make the initial row of stitches) is the most intimidating part, everything past that uses the same motions, even the more "complex" techniques that give you fancy patterns and designs. Of course, I know I'm at a bit of an advantage since I have such an easy time "seeing" and recognizing the repeated patterns and motions in crafts.
Honestly, my biggest problem when I very first learned years ago was that I can't grasp knitting in the usual style people use in the States, which is known as English knitting. I struggled for over a day trying to make the "normal" way work and was on the verge of throwing things when I flipped ahead in the booklet I was learning from and found a different style of knitting, which is called Continental knitting. The only real difference between the two is which hand holds the working yarn (held in the right hand for English, left for Continental), but it's a world of difference for me.
I do need to make some more "finger guards" for myself, though; I've bruised my fingers on my knitting needles already, and I've hardly spent an hour using them so far.
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2025 7:53 am
Mm, I didn't even know they were using AI for ads, I don't watch much telly, and what I DO watch is usually streamed ad-free, and on the web I use an ad-blocker because I value my privacy. Makes me pretty upset knowing companies are doing that, actually, even if it doesn't surprise me.
Most of the stuff I encounter is "shared" stuff on Facebook that my mom or in-laws see and send to me. Images of handcrafted things, like knit or crochet items, are especially likely to have been machine-generated. My father-in-law has been the latest "victim" of AGI; he found a video/collection of images on Facebook of hooded capes shaped like dragons for cats and asked if I might be able to make them. It was REALLY obvious that the images were fake because the eyes of the cats weren't in colors that occur in nature. I still agreed to try, but I left him under no illusions that what I made would look like the pictures. I have the base cape about one-third done, but it'll have to take the back burner for a bit while I work on the two dozen-ish dish cloths my beau's boss commissioned from me. cat_sweatdrop
Ohhh, I would have been SO pissed if a program like the franken-building one had been cut just before I could get into it! Schools get rid of the strangest things. Of course, no sports team is ever in danger of being on the chopping block. cat_stare Only arts and special interest programs like robotics or technology ever seem to get cut, makes me so angry.
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2025 6:49 pm
I use an ad blocker on pc cause yeah ads get nasty especially with YouTube, but due to life cases we got things with ads cause not spending the extra money for a bit to block ads due to getting repairs done for our home life. Other than that I have elder family whom refuse to fully transition into streaming services entirely, so with the super bowl we were there at their place watching regular TV. Ads aren't always horrible but damn does the world love to shove ads so far into you you're exploding out advertisements just to stay alive. cat_xp Honestly I was always upset they canceled anything not sports related. Got to love school; Advertise as fair to all students, but proceed to love the jocks most of all in reality. cat_stare
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2025 1:33 pm
Oof, yeah, YouTube is especially bad. Like, Google apparently has exactly zero interest in policing their own ad network with some of the gross and outright wrong content that appears in the ads shown on their services. (I only know this because my beau is weirdly set on using the YouTube app or the Chrome browser for viewing YouTube on his phone so I have to hear the ads when he's at home or at night when he leaves some playlist or long video playing after he falls asleep, even though I know he has mobile Firefox and an ad blocker that works on YouTube on his device, because I installed them myself.)
I'm not nearly as fussed about regular television ads, though. Even the ones that play on Hulu aren't that bad (though I desperately wish my beau would opt out of ad personalization and reset his advertising ID), being mostly for local businesses. And at least on regular TV ad slots always run a predictable amount of time, so you can get up and get a snack or do something else for a few minutes to avoid them. Ads on YouTube (where I am of the opinion an ad should NEVER play in the middle of a MUSIC VIDEO, no matter if the song is ten minutes long) and ad-supported streaming services are rarely so... structured and polite, which is the thing that really bugs me, second only to ads containing questionable material or information.
Sigh, yeah, as if drama programs aren't JUST as empowering (or whatever shite they like to say scholastic sports impart to kids) or have just as much profit potential. Or art, or science or math teams, or...
I was lucky in that even though the school from which I graduated was tiny, they never cut any of the non-sports programs. The only thing I know they had to cut from the curriculum, before I even went there, was French, and that's because the person who taught it retired and there just wasn't anyone to fill the vacated position (because, again, tiny school, in a tiny place in rural nowhere). They kept on the drama department after the teacher in charge of it retired because someone already on staff stepped up to take over it. They've even added some interesting stuff since my beau and I graduated. (In part thanks my beau's mother advocating for them and helping set them up, which is how we know about any of this stuff in the first place.) It's unfortunate most educators just don't care the same way I remember my teachers caring.
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2025 12:54 pm
How my beau imagines me knitting.
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