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[padfootastic]

drunk and dropped my phone my 3x so far. wish me luck i’m not gods strongest soldier

[eggwishing]

sans looking at ice or something

[bowenoke]

had a realization getting dressed today. up til this moment i have kind of figured the gender nonconformity was assumed to be part of the butch thing by most of my coworkers. despite

new coworker staring extremely unsubtly as i wrote down my pronouns for a meeting (sorry tumblr, im any/all irl and sometimes that means saying she/her so i have somewhere to pee)

someone on my direct team sending one of the few trans guys i work with to come into my office for some papers and coincidentally he also spent 2 hours telling me about how rewarding it's been to come out + how great our coworkers are about creating a hostile environment for anyone who misgenders him even accidentally

multiple people telling me unprompted about the one gender neutral bathroom in the entire building (the entire reason i have not been coming out, its very far away)

the same coworker from the pronouns asking me directly if i was transgender last week

like im not really sure how i thought i was flying under the radar until this moment. like in context being asked if i was transgender felt like the natural progression of a conversation but now it seems more like one of those "not everyone wants to be a boy/girl/neither." like "if your coworkers are directly asking you if you're transgender you're probably not being very subtle about it."

anyways changed my pronouns on slack today :) now i'll have to walk across the building to the bathroom :')

[thefallenangel2008]

Here's Candy's design for the Relativity Falls AU! I'm planning to draw some human designs of her along with some info!😉 For now take this.🤲

[lord-squiggletits]

Most confusing thing to me in the world about TF: One discourse/analyses/fandom takes is people saying that it's a bad thing that Orion hijacked the Iacon 5000 with Megatron and broke protocol to go looking for what happened to the Primes. Like y'all isn't this fandom constantly screaming about the demonization of revolutionaries and how good it is to rebel against authority? Or are people so conditioned to blaming Optimus for everything and framing Megatron as a victim that they just automatically repeated it in TF: One even if it's inconsistent with their previous analyses of all continuities?

Like... Orion jumping the gun on all of his plans and dragging Dee into them is "bad" in the sense that it causes tension in their relationship and pushed Dee further onto his radical path partially because he wanted to strike his own path and stop following Orion through everything. It's not bad that Orion wanted to challenge social norms by showing that people without cogs can be just as competent/talented as people with cogs?? It's not bad that Orion wanted to search for the truth about what happened to the Primes instead of just blindly trusting Sentinel???? When Dee got mad at Orion and ranted about how "you just HAD to break protocol" you weren't meant to go "wow he's so right, Orion is so bad for wanting to break social norms even if it gets him into trouble" you were meant to go "wow Dee is having a mental breakdown about being lied to and lashing out at the only person he currently has the power to lash out at." What are we doing here.

[cupophrogs]

Take your time. But can we have more of rich and Charles angst or fluff. Maybe both. These two are just so adorable. This makes my heart melt

“Waste of Time”

He may not have been old enough to remember, but if Drew got anything form Rich, it was his astounding lack of self-preservation.

Clear ver.

Fic I got the idea from!

[marsreds]

the live action atla making me want to go back and expand on all the half-formed ideas i had back in the day and also clear out my inbox...

yes, this is mostly about azula and zuko and the incredible, but only implied arc that's in there

[arthrobug]

Found some practice sketches I did bout a month ago of me reteaching myself how to draw best boy Bullfrog,,, again lol

A different theme I did with these though is that if he was injured I would fix em up (The right column is the main product of this 👍)

[silusvesuius]

this tree from my new drawing looking goated afffffff 👑👑

[pastafossa]

Thanks to EVERYONE'S recommendations on my post about How Do I Get A Knitting Circle To Adopt Me - A Woodcarver - Into Their Group, I have discovered:

My local library has a knitting/crochet club that welcomes other crafts, too! I will be attending that tomorrow, so maybe they'll adopt me!

There's a local woodcarving group that has monthly meetups! Granted it meets at a senior center and membership is encouraged which I can't do obviously but I'm going to see if that's like, a hard line or not

There are a couple small, independent craft stores that might have leads on more groups, I'll be trying to hit those up in the next few weeks and see if they have any leads!

My witchy shop used to have crafting meetups, I saw it on old FB events! That will be starting back up again soon, so I can hit that up too!

And here's a tentative one - there were so many others like me who expressed the same sadness of not being able to find a little crafting group where we could all work on our respective crafts and just have fun with crafty friends and learn neat things. So I'm talking to a friend about how complicated it would be to set up a discord server for us, because gd it, I know we all live far apart but if there's a way for all of us to do a craft night together once a month or whatever and become crafty friends, we should be able to do it, along with showing off our interesting things we make in between! So put a pin in this one, since I've only ever used discord, not really run one, but if I can make it work, I'm going to try when I have some time.

[impostorsshow]

Yeah so uh.

It's a Sam and max blog once more, rejoice, and its solely because my partner expressed [minor] interest in it and Sam and max is about as strong as FNaF is for how little I need to get pushed directly back into a hyperfixation about it

[annoyangle]

ADORABLE

PINE TREE TELLING HIMSELF THAT IF HE CAN'T HAVE TALL REDHEADS HE'S GOING TO REBOUND TO SHORT GREEN CIRCLES IS HONESTLY ONE OF THE MOST HILARIOUS THINGS TO COME OUT OF THAT ENTIRE ACCURSED FAMILY IT'S JUST OBJECTIVELY FUNNY. ALSO, LIKE ALL CIRCLES, GREEN M&M IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED!! SHE TRIED TO STEAL MY PROPRIETARY MASCARA FOR HERSELF, AND ALSO KEPT WANTING MORE SHOES! "BUT MY SHOES ARE THE ONLY WAY I CAN EXPRESS MY PERSONALITY!" SHE SAID, WHILE TRYING TO ARGUE THAT MY HAT AND BOW TIE WERE THE SAME THING AND THAT I SHOULD "UNDERSTAND" SINCE WE WERE BOTH SHAPES! HA! IT'S NOT THE SAME THING AT ALL!!

[foccaccia]

does anyone have recommendations for fictional media that has like. actual lesbians in it. not like supergirl Two White Skinny Girls, One Blonde and One Brunette Kiss media, or "its implied lesbianism!!!" but just regular fucking lesbians

[yangscowlick]

Taiyang winning the idgaf war even MORE than we thought.

[janokenmun]

i keep seeing a post with this image, and like

the math doesn't work out for this? Like at all?

tl;dr; using ai image generation MIGHT be cheaper than prison slave labor, if you're making over a thousand queries to it per hour for each person replaced. stuff like chatgpt is even cheaper

the paper Power Hungry Processing: Watts Driving the Cost of AI Deployment? goes into the energy cost of AI. it mentions that out of the machine learning models they studied, image generators were by far the most energy-intensive, with an average energy consumption of 2.907 kWh per 1,000 queries. that sounds like a lot! but how much does that cost?

according to the US' Energy Information Administration, the average cost of electricity varies by sector. let's go with the commercial one for this. on average, electricity costs about 0.132$ per kWh for them. which means that 1,000 queries of ai image generation would cost a grand total of about 38 cents on average. 0.38$. and that's just focusing on the most energy-heavy machine learning model type; text generators, like chatgpt, cost less than a cent per 1,000 queries on average

(as for the prison slave labor comparison, Prison Policy Initiative mentions that, for commercial labor in the US, the average minimum is 0.14$/hour and average maximum is 0.63$ per hour. state-owned businesses pay more)

there's one question left; what about *training* the models? that one's harder for me to find data on. i did find sources mentioning that gpt-3 took about 1,287,000 kWh of energy to train, which would cost about 170,000$ using the previous metric. that's *actually* a lot! but it's also worth remembering that once it's trained, you can just copy it and distribute it like that. so at that point, it depends on total usage. considering gpt-3 has been used in multiple other things such as github copilot and ai dungeon, it seems likely that it's been queried a lot, resulting in its cost-per-query from training to be pretty low (but i can't find solid statistics on this; if any y'all have some lmk!)

so basically ai image generation might be cheaper than prison slave labor if you're doing thousands of prompts an hour, and it's definitely cheaper than paying an actual artist. which is why businesses are using it to replace actual artists. text generators like chatgpt are even cheaper than that.

this, of course, does not take into account *quality* of the output; it's valid to argue that despite ai image gen being thousands of times cheaper than artists, it shouldn't be used anyway because it Sucks. nor does it take into account any ethical issues which i won't go into here.

[moondogmatinees]

just saw the biggest sp*der (afraid to type the word in fear of manifesting another sighting) ever in the kitchen and i didn’t Get Him so now he’s just down there. waiting