Bluestocking: Do androids dream of electric hair?

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Previously on 'The Bluestocking':
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5198256-autumn-leaves-crackling-fires-quokkas-and-puffins-at-the-bluestocking?page=40&reply=139728736

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I love the cat pictures, @Boiledbeetle - I might print one out and do some colouring - it’s supposed to be relaxing, isn’t it?

It is!

These are next level colouring in!! I asked for the word "TERF" and this is what I got!

I've been trying to get the AI to make some images of scenes taking place inside the bluestocking pub - there have been a couple of people who have said they don't understand what's going on (not that anyone truly understands of course) but I thought one or two pictures might make things clearer. But I hadn't bargained for the AI having a bad evening. First of all I asked for a man carrying a toucan into the bar and being laughed at by all the women. AI kept adding men, and then started making hybrids and very odd animals, and the toucan got bigger and bigger.

Then I decided to give up with the toucan and just try a scene in the bluestocking, but the AI can't cope with too many things, so you can't get puffin, magpie, gerbils, women android all in the same picture. So I thought a cosy scene around the fire would be good, but then it kept dressing everybody in tarty party type clothes and there was Boobage. So I tried to eliminate the stereotypical images it kept producing, but there were still problems like people sitting practically in the fire.

Eventually I got it to add a boiled beetle and some serving gerbils. But by that time, I'd really given up.... Boobage ... pin-up man ... fire hazards .... aargh

I love (most of) these pics.

It is now much clearer what goes on in the Bluestocking pub most times. (I guess the boobagey ones invade every now and then?)

I like the TERF fairies too 😄 🧚

AI is wickedly tricky. It doesn't want to produce images of women if it can squeeze a man or two in. If it does produce images of women, they are often stereotypical types, either the curvaceous and alluring sex bomb or the frumpy hausfrau in a shapeless skirt. Feminists (as discussed on a previous thread) have no sense of humour, and/or beards. Yet sometimes, the AI can surprise you and do something rather beautiful. It's very random, but you really don't know what you're gonna get.

Well i helped load up the snowball bus and it pissed off without me!!!

So i had to hitch hike my way here.

Firstly i got a lift from a milk wagon at 10 miles per hour, walked for a while, sat on a bench puffed out, stole an electric skateboard, that did not go too well. Pulled myself out of a ditch, stuck my thumb out got a lift from a pervert, so jumped out of his SUV in motion. Slept the night in a barn with rats. Then got a ride on a donkey, called a horse with no name.

AKA Fred. (He is outside BTW)

So hello everybody, ten snowballs and a gin and tonic pleeeese

Good to see you again, Banned.

Hi Banned! Great to see you. I think your order may have been slightly muddled, but most of it's here.

I hope you like peas with your snowballs, and loads of orangey fruit in your gin shudder

@ifIwerenotanandroid @inkymoose made me larf Love you lots

Exciting!

There's something distinctly Stepford about the first picture. It's quite unnerving.

Oooh is Fred the Horse a permanent fixture now?
Are we running some sort of weird farm?

Even in its earliest incarnations (before AI images!), the Bluestocking had a goat, and then various other animals in a paddock (outside!) plus pub dogs.

Why did someone leave a horse's head in that chair?

Who decided lighting a blazing fire under a table was a good idea? (I give it about 40 seconds before it turns into one of those fire safety horror sequences)

Human legs and feet are still an insurmountable challenge

otoh, pin up man has a Daniel Dae Kim look that I find rather pleasing, do you think he's a regular at the Staunch Ally? . . .

I can't wait to see him! I had a ginger tom cat when I was growing up and he was the sweetest, most gentle boy. Lived until he was almost 19 and I cried like a baby on the vets shoulders when we had to take him to get PTS. He was riddled with cancer. He hated other cats though. That was his only fault; so would always get into fights. But with people, no, he was a big softie.

Ps I love the colouring in AI pictures! Spectacular

All the thread cats are gorgeous.

Well, I tried to take a picture of him last night, but he wasn't having it. So here's an older one of him. Like Pensieve's ginger tom, he's fierce with other cats but he has a soft centre (which he shows when HE wants to). He's also the most persistent blighter I've ever known. He doesn't give up & never gives in. He's great.

Hear hear, and I'm not a cat person or even a pet animal person, but I think black cats with their jewel-like green eyes are one of the loveliest and most elegant animals in Nature, so it's lovely that so many of you have them. Or possibly they have you?
But of course, everybody's cat is lovely [quick Father Ted they-all-have-lovely-bottoms correction there!] regardless of their ..breed? is that what you call different colours of cats?

Does anybody else remember the parody of Bowie's 'Ground control to Major Tom' that started 'Birth control to ginger tom'

😻 not a fan of the camera then!

My other cat, who sits beautifully outside and lots of random people no doubt have beautiful photos of him, seems to read my thoughts and before I've even picked up the phone has usually walked off. If I'm lucky enough to get to the camera app without him moving then in the moment of taking the photo he manages to ensure I either get the back of his head, his arsehole or just the end of his tail as he runs out of shot!

All the thread's cats look like they're DSHs (domestic short hair). The colours aren't different breeds. There are breeds like Siamese, Burmese, Turkish Van (who like swimming IIRC), etc.

I googled the song & apparently this is it😂:

Birth control to ginger tom
Birth control to ginger tom
take your kit-e-cat and put your collar on
Birth control to ginger tom
commencing countdown ether on
checking scalpel and may god's luck be with you...

This is birth control to ginger tom
you've really pushed your luck
and your owner wants to fix you good and tight
so we hope you had a real good time last night
This is ginger tom to birth control
i'm feeling very scared
and my plums have both retracted up my ring
and I wonder what i'll sound like when I si-i-i-ing!

"Birth control to Ginger Tom,
Something's missing. Something's gone....
Birth control to Ginger Tom,
Birth control to Ginger Tom,
Your miaow is higher since you've had it done.

This is Ginger Tom to Birth Control:
I'm feeling very frail,
And there's something gone from underneath my tail,
And I'm walking in a most peculiar way.

Here am I sitting in a dustbin,
Miaowing at the moon.
There's nothing we can do
Since you've been doctored too. "

Birth control to ginger tom
the doors left open and the bugger's gone!
can you hear me ginger tom? can you hear me ginger tom?
can you....