So I’m still all flu-ed up, but I thought I would share one amazing internet thingy that’s cheered me up a bit: It’s called edges2cats, and it transforms your drawings of cats into photorealistic-looking cats.
Well, that’s what it does if your drawings are actually in the shape of a real cat. If you doodle something that’s only vaguely catlike you get a vaguely catlike creature that is equal parts adorable and terrifying.
So naturally I’ve been making a lot of these sort-of cats.
If you check out the hashtag #edges2cats on Twitter you can find some even more horrific-yet-endearing results.
i animated a cat (badly) and shoved it into https://t.co/uCxi8jlKy8 to make it even more catty#pix2pix #edge2cats #NeuralNetworks #cat pic.twitter.com/MPoMNWaCBF
— 🐱ri-Warui (@oleivarrudi) February 22, 2017
WHO'S THAT POKEMON
It's
Oh dear GOD #edges2cats pic.twitter.com/ZlXtunWyum— [email protected] (@BlurTheFur) February 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/DaggestNabbits/status/834265904280170496
https://twitter.com/noronorii/status/834484336812556295
Jon
Why Jon?
Why do you flinch, Jon?#edges2cats pic.twitter.com/g806KoyZZl— Lucie Ebrey (@LucieEbrey) February 22, 2017
Other versions of the applet make building facades, purses and shoes, if you’re into that.
Post your own here!
H/T — Skiriki. Thanks!
@Dormousing_it
That’s mostly all they ever do. Bamboo hasn’t got much in the way pf calories, and it takes a lot of it to keep something that size going.
I just received an email with this subject line:
Why Hillary Clinton Is Attacking the Bible (Disgusting)
These days even spam is trying to incite someone–anyone–to harm Hillary.
That’s unpleasant.
I too had an unsettling dream last night. I dreamt that the skin on my face lost its elasticity and was just drooping off my face, particularly around the jaw and nose. I looked in the mirror and was unrecognizable. It was gross, like a latex mask that had been half melted. :/
@Jules
My nightmare was that after meeting someone who I really liked, I ended up saying so much mra MGTOW shit, she wanted nothing to do with me.
@Jules:
You didn’t stare into the Ark of the Covenant, did you?
The best part is that when I got from work, the headline on CNN was about Trump wanting to build up our nuclear arsenal. Yikes.
The Trump administration blocked a bunch of media outlets such as CNN, NYT and BBC from a press conference and allowed right wing outlets like Breitbart and Washington Times.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/us/politics/white-house-sean-spicer-briefing.html?_r=1&referer=http://www.shakesville.com/?m=1
I hope they’re happy they enabled Trump’s candidacy with their toothless coverage. I can only hope this backfires on Trump and causes the media to be less afraid to go after him.
Re: Pandas in zoos
“Ate shoots and left”
My city is actually running a special program to encourage healthy habits and to offer preventative healthcare for aging men. Men turning 40 are invited to a free health check, free as in no co-pay for your public health insurance cover.
This program is not really trying to target #allmen but a distinct minority who have really messed up life habits and start dying from cardiovascular disease in their 40s and 50s. Unfortunately those seen less likely to respond to such invitation than the average guy.
Listen, all I’m saying is over the 30 some-odd years and billions and BILLIONS of dollars spent on pandas to keep their useless asses from going extinct, at least 100 species of animals have gone extinct, animals that are actually crucial to the environment and shit.
There’s estimation that 10,000 species of animals go extinct a year.
Now tell me, do you think I give two shits about pandas who do nothing NOTHING for the environment when all that money could have been put forth to save animals that matter? And will actually fucking BREED?
Pandas are just fucking bear shaped cash cows for zoos.
And fuck anyone who’s favorite animal is a panda, especially if they donated to charities to save them. Fuck them so hard.</em
China can fucking turn all its pandas into fur coats and eat my ass out..
EDIT: The only things pandas did right was give us Kung Fu Panda.
Well my husband hates hippos, something to do with the way they projectile poo. Your reasons for hating pandas seem more reasonable.
@EJ those abstract cats look a bit skinned!
So huh, apparently, transgender Republicans are pissed at Trump. Seems they feel betrayed because they believed he wouldn’t be an asshole about LGBT rights.
Look, I’m not making this shit up.
That picture’s like watching someone gleefully running off a cliff in slow-motion. #SameTeam, for fucking real ? I mean I’m used to the “strange bedfellows” thing by now, but this has gotta be one of the most extreme cases I’ve seen.
*faceplanet*
If testosterone is the problem, that means it’s literally toxic masculinity.
In my mind I had the Russian example of a cultural artifact: Russian men drink so much it has a significant impact on male life span; women drink much less (though from experience, still drink an awful lot compared to me).
O/T
We have some very good communicators on here. Anyone got a degree in communications, PR or similar and experience of doing communications for an organisation?
There’s a gig going as Head of Communications for the International Commission for Missing Persons at the Hague.
If anyone’s interested let me know and I can furnish you with further details.
(There’s also another job for someone with a medical or forensic background but you need to be able to speak Arabic and Kurdish too)
From Sinkable John’s link:
Average Americans, huh? That’s code for white, right? White and straight and from middle-class or wealthier families?
@Viscaria
Shit, what gave it away ? Was it the “I love capitalism” badge ? Dammit, I knew the badge was too much.
Seems like a perfectly acceptable reason to hate hippos. It’s not like your SO is calling for their extinction.
Cry me a river.
Isn’t that ‘don’t tread on me’ flag a sovereign citizen thing? I’m at work and don’t want to google, but isn’t it something like that?
One headline said ‘don’t tread on me flags might be racist- feds’ but I didn’t want to click it at work.
…I… I feel like such an intellectual failure. I just don’t get panda hate. They’re vegetarians who will maul you if you get into their personal space, and they look at their cellmates, and say, “Um… I’d rather not, thanks.” They like rocking horses and slides and videos of same are fun. I’ve heard eloquent, passionate women from Boulder give weepy speeches as to how they are KILLING THE SOUL OF AMERICA AND HERS TOO, but seriously? As mis-allocated resources go, this is where your ragefroth goes? Where’s the Mount Rushmore hate?
ETA: But have a wonderful year, Falconer!
Also I really hate the part about “we kind of want to keep to ourselves”.
You don’t get to complain about losing rights while at the same time advocating segregation or “don’t ask, don’t tell” – and if that ain’t what it is, well it fucking looks like it.
Especially if your message also includes shit like “transgender, conservative, same team”, aka using your situation as transgender to try and convince other trans people that the fucking right has been on their side all along. That’s fucking gaslighting is what it is and “but I’m trans too !” don’t make it okay, far from it.
Rethugs can fuck off all the way to the bottom of their graves regardless of whether they were assigned the right gender at birth or not. I’ma keep my sympathy for people who didn’t throw the entire world into a fire only to complain afterward because their fancy asses got burned too.
@Rhuu: It is the “Gadsden flag” which originated during the American Revolution. Naturally, therefore, it’s been picked up by Tea Partiers.
Off topic, but 3 Republicans have introduced a bill the terminate the EPA on 12/31/2018.
Link
If your reps are Barry Loudermilk (Florida), Steven Palazzo (Missouri), or Thomas Massie (Kentucky), you might want to call them on Monday. Or leave voicemails, fax, or emails this weekend
The committees involved are: House Agriculture, House Energy and Commerce, House Transportation and Infrastructure, and House Science, Space, and Technology.
The love of pandas got China to protect some forests that would likely otherwise have been ploughed over for development. Pandas got tourists to care, which got national authorities to care (instead of just disappearing local people who cared all along).
It would be great if people cared about slithery things, but that doesn’t seem to work. People care about furry things, and in saving them we save the slithery things too.
Pagan, that link doesn’t work…
So I half-assed a side-profile drawing of trump, and unfortunately the result is too beautiful for the creature it’s based on.
http://i.imgur.com/i8eS9lx.png
I also tried a unicorn
http://i.imgur.com/X0JWKnf.png