Bluestocking - the second leg

[ErrolTheDragon]

The original premises are getting crowded, we need to expand.

Welcome all women, and well behaved animals.

Yes. Hmmmmm ...

Thought I'd try making images of trans women athletes, watched by a beetle. It (the AI programme) wouldn't do that. It made an image of "a trans woman", who looked like an actual woman, dressed like a pared-down model, lilac hair, great teeth, surrounded by cheering, smiling crowds of well-wishers, holding a placard saying LOVE IS OVE (or LOVE in one image). Then I asked for an image of three older trans women at a bus stop. I got some images of either 3 or 4 women, seated, smiling, legs demurely crossed, at bus stops. They have some very nice bus stops in AI world, padded seats and everything in the clean, graffiti-free bus shelter. Underneath the images there were some suggestions: "Make the bus stop sign say Acceptance Avenue" "add a rainbow flag in the background".

It's an education. Luckily I generally have my Critical Thinking hat on. Or is it lucky? Maybe I should go to a different corner. Partake in some redbush tea, listen to the quiet sounds coming through the window. Or join in with some chortling.

"Acceptance Avenue" pfffff

... although actually, AI made a properly grotesque image for Acceptance Avenue

I have passed the wine to you. I can't drink any more.

Cocoa anyone? Are there any Tunnocks left to go with it?

Ooh yes please. I've got snowballs, tea cakes and caramel wafers if anyone wants one

I thought I'd get out of my pj's and put some actual clothes on.

Is it too much?

It's too much isnt it?

I'm going to put my snoopy pj's back on.

I was just looking for something on a different thread and found one of @SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius holiday photos.

How long do you think the contents would last in the pub?

Ooh! Um ... a week?

not sure how many people are in the Bluestocking at the moment ... but if you bring Tunnocks, I suppose they will come ...

Is that a working week or the whole 7 days?

If I ever get stuck on a motorway because a wagon has spilled its load and they need help clearing the carriageway I so hope it's a Tunnock's wagon and not a vegan sausage wagon!

The wine was perfect - as dry as the Gobi Desert and as flinty as a trout stream

wonderful, JanesLittleGirl!
I'm going to make sure that every time the bottle refills, it's a different wine, so I can enjoy more of your oenological analysis😄
Santé!🍷

beautifully crusty with a heavenly body

... but enough about little old me.😂

While taking some time out healthwise, I heard this, about how much power AI uses. I'd never thought of that!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00208g4

Good to know that my sometimes addicted & frantic AI image production is dimming the bulbs in the USA rather than here, but rather worrying overall.

@Boiledbeetle I've been designing a range of chocolate bars to celebrate your recovery. What does everyone think? We've got the luxury dark, milk & golden chocolate natural representation aimed at the John Lewis/National Trust demographic, the cheap milk chocolate version with an inaccurate number of legs, for children (they'll never notice) & the mid-range single watchemacallit - sorry loves, I've dried - anyway, it comes from one place & it shows Boily in her glad rags.

And then for Christmas these will be on the Bluestocking website & available free at the bar: gerbil chocolate coins! Basic & festive/adult versions. There's nothing more festive than a metallic gerbil.

Still working on Marjorie.

(Actually, I'm just triaging images I made over the last couple of weeks. I seem to remember something weirder before the chocolate ones but can't remember what.)

Ideal gift! Chocolate jigsaw (4 pieces). Too easy? Not when combined with @JanesLittleGirl 's wine bottle.

Oh my @ifIwerenotanandroid your skills as a chocolatier (!?) Are amazing. I'm beginning to wish we'd stayed married just so I could lick the bowl!

I think prior to chocolate it was your wedding dress, our honeymoon, the realisation we couldn't live together and subsequent divorce so it was very tomato based works you were producing.

I'm liking the John Lewis bar!!

I'm versatile.

I'm also just down the hall (up the stairs, along the passageway, down again, sharp left & there we are) in the Bluestocking's Chocolate Workshop. Come & lick all the bowls if you wish.

Another festive chocolate coin for the website. Shop early for Christmas!

I'm on my way, just waiting for one of the guide gerbils to bring a map and flashlight

Yeah, I wouldn't trust my directions. I've never known right from left. Well, I know but somehow my mouth says the wrong thing.

"HELLO! ANYONE THERE?"

"ANYONE?"

Where the hell is the chocolate workshop??

Found it!!

I think I'm all chocolated out.