The Bluestocking - where women are women, and small furry animals are gerbils, quokkas, capybaras, or a red panda called Rosy

[MarieDeGournay]

Welcome all to the Bluestocking Pub, a haven safe from harsh reality [mostly] full of good company, and excellent food and drink served by the most efficient team of gerbils in the hospitality industry.

Cheese mellows you out, I think Louise is ok... The picture is apparently you. Not sure how AI knows what a female Dean Elderberry looks like.

tsk.

SHORT hair

GLASSES

the wasp-whacking one had me too thin and unable to see anything because no specs, but otherwise not too far off the mark.

Any better, @DeanElderberry?

If that's what you look like, Deano, you look like you sprang fully formed from the head of JKR😃

Definite Harriet Potter vibes!

Myrtle's deletion at 13:34 is a nice little reminder that we are being watched....

No idea what you said, Myrt. Either it was gone before I tried to read it, or it said something unexceptional.

Wasn't me that reported Myrtle.
A big rat did it and ran away.

Still a bit on the thin side but the cheese should soon put an end to that.

can you even remember what it was,@MyrtleLion?

Thought I'd do a jolly little picture of you Deano, having a drink with Android at the Bluestocking. Men with beards kept being added to the images and I asked for them to be taken out. I asked for all the customers represented to be women and females. Last time this happened, and copilot kept sticking men with beards in, eventually it managed to show me all women customers, but not today.

Just had a massive argument discussion with copilot about this. Copilot claims that it must be inclusive:
"My guidelines are designed to ensure inclusivity, which is why I can’t create an image that exclusively features women".

I am hopping mad. The sexist and stereotypical images it produces when you ask for women, almost always young white women with norks akimbo, pouty bums, simpering smiles and so forth, are in no way "inclusive".

G r r r

Anyway it did manage to make two passable pictures after a long tussle (I asked it to show a pub where there were no other customers at all and no bar staff except for gerbils).

Lovely dog

lovely whatever that animal is

lovely us

but grrrrrrr to 'inclusivity'

Passive-aggressive garden design - love it! You should set up as a consultant. Wind chimes & bamboo next to the fence a speciality.😁

I asked it for short hair & sensible shoes.😂

I'm trying to be careful in case it gets removed again.

I mentioned that someone was saying the NHS should no longer be free on a WhatsApp group I'm on for women who believe in biological sex. I said that I didn't want party politics to intrude and we should limit discussion about the NHS to talking about women's rights and treatment for people who think they are not their biological sex. But I also mentioned the poster in my group wanted people to exercise their democratic rights in favour of a party that has a charismatic leader and wants to be mainstream.

I didn't think what I said was controversial and I was just after support after a horrible conversation on WhatsApp.

I reckon it was a picture of Myrtle's next job after piano tuner. She's had an interesting life, so I hear.

Oops, cross-posted.

My neighbour is VERY keen on bonfires. My passive aggressive garden design plans include a whole percussion section of wind chimes out there. Can't do bamboo as there's an alleyway between us.

How do I ask MN site people what I said wrong?

Best not to query or argue, from what I've read. But I might be wrong.

They may have emailed you?

No, nothing.

I'd take the path of least resistance.

Myrtle, you know we're all here for you, sweetheart. Relaaax. Everything's fine.

Now, which one of us has been moonlighting as a chocolate designer for Waitrose? These are so Bluestocking...

Aww thank you!

My presentation is too wordy so I'm trying to find images so I can show headlines and pretty pictures to the panel. Fussing a lot about lining bits up. And then thinking I should probably turn the text version into a pdf to print out and give them, because they might not catch everything and should I write an implementation timeline of my ideas - and AI has invented a lot of crap on the timeline when I asked it for help.

OMG, you're gonna need someone smarter & more experienced than me to help you with that!

I can give you a slightly metallic shoulder massage, but that's my limit.