The Bluestocking: where conversation should supersede cards

[MyrtleLion]

The Blue Stockings Society was founded by women emphasising education and mutual cooperation. Men could attend as invited guests, but in this Women's Pub, they are only welcome to peer enviously through the windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Stockings_Society

All women welcome!

All tastes catered for.

All food containing calories will not increase waistlines.

All drink containing alcohol will not intoxicate beyond the mildy merry and slightly inhibited stage. Guaranteed no hangovers.

Don't mind the gerbils, hamster, capybaras, quokkas and other assorted rodents. They're all female, all staff and very accommodating...

Blimey you lot don't half talk fast! I can't keep up! I'm exhausted!

<lies back and waits for one gerbil to fan me and another to bring me a restorative G&T>

Oh Britinme, you poor thing. Gerbils to the ready xx

@Chersfrozenface emergency Tunnocks for you. Would you like extra gerbils with those? Although, you're getting them whether you want them or not!

The gerbil top right looks the very opposite of comforting and relaxing! And do I spy a man in the background?!

They don't sell Tunnocks in this benighted country :-(

I for one welcome our gerbil overlords if they're going to bring restorative Tunnocks.

<slurps G&T and enjoys being fanned>

I wonder whether one can get Tunnocks on prescription. They've got a bit expensive in the supermarkets and we get free prescriptions here.

A box of 36 should last 12 days (3 times a day, after meals). Say 3 boxes on a 4-week repeat script.

In the modern vernacular, I'm well jel! My glasses cost over a grand, and most of that is the lenses.

I'm very sorry to hear that life has been so hard on you recently Cher, I'm glad you feel you have a refuge here &

<Goes off to write prescription >

Probably better for your mental wellbeing than some prescriptions!

Glossing over the details...

AI can't distinguish between me l-like people and women-like people.

I've also discovered I only have a limited number of AI images a month via Microsoft Designer, so I've had to create another account. There is another free image generator but it only gives me one image at a time and doesn't save my "creations".

Me too.

It's a new change! I'm back on copilot having spent all my designer credits on opening night!

So it's possible to use Copilot to get unlimited images? I always love what you come up with. Can you share your prompt for your latest image?

Seems to be. Only one image at a time, so I just cut and paste the prompt until it gives me something vaguely resembling what I asked for.

Depict a beetle dressed in scrubs writing a prescription for "Tunnock's - take 1 after each meal"

Did it three times

Me too, Designer snatched away all of my "credits" so I couldn't make any images for the last couple of weeks ... grumpily tried copilot again ... results are a bit meh .. now considering making my own pictures.

Me me me it's all about me.

@MyrtleLion, I was looking for some magazines I could cut up and I found this! I mean it's perfect!

Elisabeth Frink, Lioness. 1967

OMG! It's like a photograph!

<jumps up and down excitedly. a lot.>

Boily boily boily 🪲

<goes off to create stunning beetle art >

This is all my own work obviously. No AI used at all!

🤥

I love that!!

❤️

Beautiful 😍

This is great, I've been in a creative slump for absolutely ages and I have now rediscovered how much I love using a sharp scalpel 😄

I'm impressed with your beetle! I look at magazines and can see nothing in them, and never could make art from them. My brain doesn't seem to work that way (probably why decoupage is beyond me as well)

<goes off to break into Inky's house to steal the priceless work of art sat on her crafting table>

<comes home again>

<picks up box of Tunnocks to leave in beetle art's place>

<goes off to break into Inky's house to steal the priceless work of art sat on her crafting table>

Boily finds herself a bit peckish and can't resist a nibble of the Tunnocks teacake...

Will she ever get to inky's house?