The Bluestocking Women's Pub, where brains can exist in a single state

[Magpiecomplex]

Welcome all. The booze here is minimally intoxicating, the food is calorie free and the staff are warm and cuddly. And if the thread title sounds nonsensical, blame the guy Myrtle was listening to this evening!

I'm feeling a bit weird. I'm not sure if that has to do with the fact I've eaten fish for all three meals today or that I've eaten way way waaaay too much ginger cake, but I don't feel quite myself!

A black cat has to have a white hair on it somewhere, otherwise it doesn't get into heaven - or so I was reliably informed by a fabulous lady in her seventies I met a long, long time ago.

Musing on AI producing pix of our overlords pets based on their names. I tried it out with Rosy, who came in various moods but always the same colours:

Suits you!😁

Mine.

Was there an answer to the dpi question?

Please do Brains and Batshit!

Only in the sense that a solution was found but no info on what the solution was.

God! Co Pilot is on a humongous go slow and "sorry I can't generate that image" binge at the moment.

I asked it to turn my fluffy cat into a cartoon.

It looks more like a dog!

I guessed that somebody would have a go!
Thank you Boily, great fun😂
I get the impression though that AI doesn't know who Mozart was, and the Italian language seemed to send it straight to 1950s Italian pop.

Remember Tom Lehrer's 'Clementine' in the style of Mozart?
Herring boxes sensa topses
Sandale per Clementina si
Per Clementina si

One of my students is doing a poster for a conference and we realized that the images he wants to use are too low in dpi for a poster. In the end we changed the design and he is using lots of small images as borders between sections.
We printed them out at the size they'll be on the poster and they are fine, not blurry. I even like the new design better than what was originally planned, and there are a lot of really cool pictures on it now but it doesn't really matter that they are small because people get close enough to posters to see. It looks really good, I wish I could show it.
I feel that this is something that AI would be useful for though. Surely AI could take an image and fill in additional pixels without altering the image. It sounds pretty straight forward to me but I'm not and AI or computer specialist.

No, never! Definitely never been here before!
(holds up flowers with suspiciously large paws)

Hmmmm, there's something familiar about you. Can't quite put my paw on it though!

My internet went down for about 4 hours after I wrote this. I suppose I might as well post it even if my heart rate has returned to normal.

hucking fell lads, I know we love all creatures great and small at the Bluestocking but I would greatly appreciate bright yellow spiders the size of green peas STAYING OUT IN THE GARDEN WHERE THEY BELONG instead of sneaking in on my clothing and clambering over my bosom all unexpected like.

Thanking you for your attention on this matter. It's the mid-west of Ireland not Australia.

History Ireland magazine cover for scale. That's the spider, not a wen on Connolly's face.

Wow, that is quite the spider!

I hope all is well now.

Ah now I see...
not new and definitely NOT forgettable nor forgotten!
hello, FlowerUser, old pal

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I'd quite like to know what sort of spider it is - I met a similar but snow white one yesterday when I went to sniff a pheasant's eye narcissus and nearly inhaled it. I wonder do they change colour according to what they sit on. They really are much bigger than any Irish spider needs to be, and trying to look them up reminds me again that I find pictures of spiders on the pages of books (ditto creepy crawlies generally) much more horrific than the real thing.

That is a seriously impressive bosom spider @DeanElderberry!

eeeeeek! I've never seen a spider like that, nor do I want to😱

Have you IDed it yet Deano?

I once heard a nature writer and broadcaster [Éanna NÍ Lamhna - who is an absolute hoot as well as an expert ] saying that the reason for the alleged increase in the appearance of all these exotic insects in Ireland recently is the Internet.
Somebody sent her a photo of a spider they had seen and said they had identified it as .. something like the Tropical Instant and Painful Death Spider.
It was in fact a common or garden, Irish spider.
So Éanna said that in the past they'd have gone to the local library and looked up The Big Book of Irish Spiders and have seen that it was the Entirely Harmless Irish Spider, but instead of that they go on the internet and terrify themselves by finding all these exotic killer ones instead😂

I hope yours is a harmless local one!

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/spiders/flower-crab-spider
@DeanElderberry. What you said about them changing colour tickled the leetle grey cells. I think this is your arachnid admirer.

Éanna NÍ Lamhna's borderline deranged enthusiasm as she explained 'spiders have their legs on their heads you know' on the radio last week came back to me as I escorted my passenger out into the garden. Luckily I had an empty water glass to hand so could make sure it didn't go on the rampage indoors.

I'm sure it's harmless except for its effect on my NERVES. I nearly inserted an inappropriate apostrophe there, which just goes to show.

That's fascinating thank you Magpie! Interesting enough to temporarily suspend my arachnophobia..

I like this bit:
The male is smaller than the female and, unlike the female, cannot change their colouration.

Do you think there are trans male flower crab spiders who pretend they can change colour, but it's actually felt-tip marker??😏

So Deano, If your visitor changes colour, she is a female

Do you think there are trans male flower crab spiders who pretend they can change colour, but it's actually felt-tip marker??😏

🤣🤣🤣
The mental image of a bunch of male crab spiders getting busy with the marker pens and reassuring each other that they "soooo pass" is quite amusing!

That's the one @Magpiecomplex , thanks.