Ladies and Ladies: The Bluestocking is open: again

[DeanElderberry]

Newly renovated, beautifully appointed. Food and Beverages, excellent (if sometimes unexpected service), delightful clientele, special accommodation for invalids, pedants, readers and normal people.

Ceol agus Craic

Entertainment!

! Gerbils beautiful gerbils!

❤🐀🎧🐀🎺🐁🎷🐖 ❤

all furry!

! ❤AI and Scientists❤

less furry !

All women welcome

well behaved male visitors from the Staunch Ally are welcome in the stableyard but not across the threshold of the main building

ooops. posted too soon

there ye go

My part in the family zombie action plan has always been bait. I can't run or walk fast enough to get away from the zombies, so they can eat my brains whilst the rest of the family escape.

Actually - my biggest fear about becoming a zombie is all the walking! 😂

@MyrtleLion - sorry to hear about the hurty paw - I hope it isn't too uncomfortable.

I am very much like you, about going places and doing things - I tend to like the thought of them, but when it comes to leaving the house and actually going, I have to be winkled out of my safe spot and made to go. I know that I usually enjoy things when I get there, and I feel really stupid for being so reluctant to make the effort to go to more things, but that doesn't really help. Plus I really like my house - it has my comfy sofa and all my nice things in it.

I do like my house! And I feel I've been confined to it for 8-9 months. I'm sure it will get better and I'm looking for a new job that gets ne out of the house more.

I think I'm a bit rattled because I keep hurting my paws and I feel noone takes it seriously.

And I'm at the dentist because my last treatment left me with a hurty tooth but I also didn't like the man who did it, so I'm seeing a different man today. Though my usual dentist is a woman.

So I feel in probably making a fuss. Which I hate doing.

For accuracy if anyone is bothered, it's my left back paw that's hurty.

You aren't making a fuss, @MyrtleLion - you are advocating clearly for yourself, and you absolutely deserve to do that!

Thank you, Woley.

It's been a difficult 2024 and I had to make a huge fuss for a long time so I'd really just like some things to go my way now.

I've tried telling AI but the more specific I became the more bandaged and legs it gave you x

Perhaps AI thinks a lioness is a mummy lion?

The inherent bias of AI is to produce male everything. If you ask for a woman or say NO MEN or WOMEN ONLY PLEASE you'll quite often get someone with a beard, several old men, or a clutch of young, nubile, simpering, norky, cutesy, barely-dressed, stereotypically "sexy" female temptresses. Ask for a feminist woman and they are quite often depicted as old, unsmiling, humourless women with beards. It wears you down! Maybe that's the idea? Silly little women need to know their place and stop trying to use AI for their own ends. <sigh>

That's not funny but I'm expressing a sarcastic laugh, because that's always the way.

Tooth is sensitive so I've been prescribed a toothpaste to put on it and it should settle down.

CF tried to charge me for the visit but I refused because it was to rectify a previous issue.

Interestingly, Gemini seems to know what a female lion looks like. I asked for a female lion, not a female mountain lion.

Although the concepts of left and back are apparently tricky.

No hurtypaw lions from me, but today's photo from the Puffling Vault of Cuteness is a rather fetching mouse.

I love the elephant! I shall insist on travelling everywhere like this.

On another note it turns out that someone I particularly dislike and who has a great dislike of me will be at this evening's event.

I'm minded not to go, but the network is an invite-only club so it's possible/likely she'll be at future events.

I'm not sure whether to go or not. There will be 50-60 people there.

Desperate to know who the author is. Pretty please?

I can't say because then you'll know what the event is and if anyone saw the guest list, that would be outing.

OK. Fair.enough.

It should be possible for you and the person who dislike each other to avoid each other in that number I'd have thought , @MyrtleLion .

Channel your inward elephant-riding lioness!

I 💖the Puffling Vault of Cuteness! I'd like to live there please.. maybe there's a job going as Janitor or Guard or something?

Until I discovered the Bluestocking, I didn't know I was such a sucker for cute furry animals - I know, intellectually, that they are just animals who happen to look appealing to humans, but it is frighteningly easy for me to think that quokkas really are kind and caring, and this little mouse with its sweeeeet little hands evolved purely to make me go awwwwwwww.

Thank heavens all this is happening under a pseudonym, I'd never live it down IRL

Now, I did have to have words with Gemini about its first attempt at drawing @inkymoose, because she did have antlers. However, I got a prompt apology and agreement that of course female moose don't have antlers, and this was the second attempt! I'm quietly impressed.

Of course you can have a job. All the cute things need stroking and playing with. None of them work. We might get an influx of gerbils soon!

What an excellent advert! @FuzzyPuffling, relative of yours?

Daddy, my daddy!!!!
( Channels the Railway Children).

but it is frighteningly easy for me to think that quokkas really are kind and caring

They're right up there with coots

I'm glad I'm not a quokka. Mating one day after giving birth?!