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The Bluestocking: the one where AI finally learns what a blackbird is (we hope)

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Magpiecomplex · 31/12/2024 19:15

Welcome all, New Year (nearly), new thread!

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 04/01/2025 11:00

... but then when I asked for handicoid in bluestocking bar eating fries it went quite odd.

The Bluestocking: the one where AI finally learns what a blackbird is (we hope)
The Bluestocking: the one where AI finally learns what a blackbird is (we hope)
The Bluestocking: the one where AI finally learns what a blackbird is (we hope)
The Bluestocking: the one where AI finally learns what a blackbird is (we hope)
The Bluestocking: the one where AI finally learns what a blackbird is (we hope)
Magpiecomplex · 04/01/2025 11:03

ifIwerenotanandroid · 04/01/2025 11:00

... but then when I asked for handicoid in bluestocking bar eating fries it went quite odd.

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 04/01/2025 11:04

DeanElderberry · 04/01/2025 09:25

Okay, we're now being promised not just orange weather but orange 'multi weather' so I'm going to go and panic buy some more STUFF.

I may be some time.

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Be careful out there.

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 04/01/2025 11:06

Magpiecomplex · 04/01/2025 11:03

😳

I know, & they were the most normal of a bad bunch!

DeanElderberry · 04/01/2025 11:22

30 litres of drinking water, four packs of compressed wood logs, cat litter, batteries, paracetamol, cat food, baked beans, yoghurt, ultra processed custard stuff with fake whipped cream, ultra processed chocolate stuff with fake whipped cream, frankfurters, promise bread, Barry's teabags, three gluten-free Christmas pudding the likes of which I searched for without result for the last six weeks (but now know have a very long shelf life), and an avocado for next Friday's breakfast. And a glossy magazine. And some petrol in the car. And some worm pills for the cats.

Shop busy but not insanely so. Yet.

In my own defence, I did a more normal meat and vegetables and fruit and milk shop yesterday, this was for the orange multi-weather emergency.

I have not yet finished the Christmas cheese though I am working on it quite diligently.

Some of those handicoids look as though they might not actually be women.

Magpiecomplex · 04/01/2025 11:29

Dean, I am impressed by your panic buying! That's skills! Although I was expecting you to keep mentioning cat food every other item before I realised the first instance was actually cat litter.

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Magpiecomplex · 04/01/2025 11:31

Gemini wimped out of the handicoid challenge.

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 04/01/2025 11:33

@Magpiecomplex That's Auntie Doreen! waves

ifIwerenotanandroid · 04/01/2025 11:35

@DeanElderberry 'Some of those handicoids look as though they might not actually be women.'

I don't think we're allowed to gatekeep the standards of womanhood these days.

DeanElderberry · 04/01/2025 11:36

The main motivation for the extra shop was in case the Orange Multi-Weather HAZARD Event to give it its full title (I think someone in Met Éireann lost the run of themself) was the memory of the time in the early 80s when we were snowed in without electricity and therefore without water for 8 days. I need to fill the bath with water for flushing and washing, and make sure the kitchen is in a state that I can set up the 2-ring gas cooker.

I'm going to slightly miffed if we don't get the OM-WHE after all this.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 04/01/2025 11:39

Hang on, why d'you need electricity for water?

FuzzyPuffling · 04/01/2025 11:41

I like the fluffy handicoids. Not so much the others....

Blimey, Deano, that's some prep going on there. All over to Deano's....

I'm really rather glad I live round the corner from a big Morrisons. Very handy.

inkymoose · 04/01/2025 11:44

These images are the ones people picture when they imagine us hanging out in the Bluestocking HAHAHA HA HA HA AAAAA AAAA ?!

The Bluestocking: the one where AI finally learns what a blackbird is (we hope)
The Bluestocking: the one where AI finally learns what a blackbird is (we hope)
The Bluestocking: the one where AI finally learns what a blackbird is (we hope)
The Bluestocking: the one where AI finally learns what a blackbird is (we hope)
DeanElderberry · 04/01/2025 11:54

Water lives at the bottom of a deep well and electricity is needed to pump it into the domestic system.

DeanElderberry · 04/01/2025 11:59

That reminds me that if the electrickery doesn't go down I must dye my hair.

It isn't very polite to call us lunics. Otoh, I think it will take more than straitjackets to sort us out if we're growing extra arms.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 04/01/2025 12:05

I was snowed in on my own, when we had the Beast from the East - dh was down in London, and couldn't get back - Glasgow airport was shut and there were no trains up here either. I actually quite enjoyed it - it was very peaceful - but it would have been a lot less fun if the electricity and interwebs had gone down!

As it was, I had plenty of food - although if it had gone on much longer, meals would have become random selections of stuff from the freezer. The main problem was keeping a path clear from the back door to the lawn, so the dogs and the cat could get out and do their business. We've got two steps down from the back door, then two up from the patio to the lawn, which makes a lovely, deep area for snow to gather in. The dogs could probably have got through it, but the cat would have vanished without trace, so I kept going out and shovelling a path - and then the wind would blow and/or it would snow again, and fill up all my hard work!

To be honest, I don't actually know if the cat went out at all, for 4+ days - there were no paw prints or signs of him having been onto the lawn (where I cleared a patch of grass for him) - and no signs of accidents round the house either. Maybe he just kept his paws firmly crossed?

Dh finally got home on the Saturday - still no trains or planes to Glasgow, so he got the train to Carlisle and paid a local taxi firm an arm and a leg to get driven the rest of the way.

Magpiecomplex · 04/01/2025 12:05

The hairdresser gerbils have been getting a bit carried away, I see. And I'm sure they are already rushing to produce a new line of customisable straitjackets for any chosen number of limbs.

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FuzzyPuffling · 04/01/2025 12:06

What's that hairy dog-looking thing in the first picture?

ifIwerenotanandroid · 04/01/2025 12:07

I hadn't noticed that! I was so taken with the hats.

Twitter just showed me twelfth night/galette des rois. DH was on a business trip to France once when a galettes des rois was produced at a restaurant & he became the king when he found a little ceramic polar bear in his slice. We've still got it somewhere.

WhiteHairedMyrtle · 04/01/2025 12:36

I asked AI to produce a picture of the women of the Bluestocking women's pub eating galettes des rois with a female android finding a polar bear and crowned queen of the pub. Include a beetle, a Moose, a white haired lady, a hedgehog, a magpie and a blackbird.

These are the result.🤔

The Bluestocking: the one where AI finally learns what a blackbird is (we hope)
The Bluestocking: the one where AI finally learns what a blackbird is (we hope)
The Bluestocking: the one where AI finally learns what a blackbird is (we hope)
The Bluestocking: the one where AI finally learns what a blackbird is (we hope)
FuzzyPuffling · 04/01/2025 13:19

Well, it's all rather marvellous!

DeanElderberry · 04/01/2025 14:58

Very nice to see the white haired ladies have been doing the hair dye thing.

ErrolTheDragon · 04/01/2025 15:05

Our forecast has turned from sleet to proper snow. So I'm glad we got up early, spent a pleasant (if chilly) morning at Dunham Massey before taking dd to the station in Warrington, rather than waiting for tomorrow - we were going to have to drive her at least as far as Wigan anyway to avoid having a replacement bus at both ends of her journey rather than just one. (I feel that at some point when the engineering work is finally done down there the train should be called the Royston replacement bus replacement)

MarieDeGournay · 04/01/2025 15:37

inkymoose · 04/01/2025 01:02

AI it is very disagreeable and uncooperative when it comes to representing everybody. However, it will represent people and creatures nobody asked for, with verve and gusto, really.

Going back to the monochrome menagerie - I liked the 'Hot Chocolate Vole Face' [bottom left corner]. A pleasant alternative to 'Resting Bitch Face', eh?

Snowmageddon hasn't hit the East coast of Ireland yet, and we may escape the worst because we are near the sea....well, being a coast we would be near the sea,wouldn't we?🙄Littorally😄

I'm not not as prepped as Deano - but then, who is?? very impressive prepping there, Deano! but meh, it'll be grand..

Stay safe, Stockingers.

FuzzyPuffling · 04/01/2025 16:26

Girlcat has just come in and jumped on me...all wet, but not snowing. We have the log burner bumbling away which is cosy.

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