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!
Well drat. Another protest was slated for today, but in the days leading up to it, I couldn’t seem to find any information about it on the internet, and nor did the recipient of the email I sent to the address on the flyer advertising it confirm whether it was cancelled or not. I turned up at the time and place cited on said flyer anyway… but, sure enough, nobody else was there, and nor did anybody else come while I wait half-an-hour. So, I went to the movies instead.
Ah well; what more can you do but turn up and hope for the best? I’ll have to wait until March for the Women’s Day protests now.
@Jack:
God damn that’s some eloquent anger you’ve got there. I can’t help but approve. It may surprise you to hear that I’ve heard a number of biologists say exactly the same thing. The term I’ve heard them use is “charismatic megafauna”; that is, “cute big animals”, the implication being that too many people only give a damn about the extinction of things that fall into that category.
@misophistry:
Skinned? I suppose you could see them that way. I saw them more as diffracted.
(I haven’t seen you around before. Are you new? If so, welcome!)
@WWTH:
Thanks for linking that. It seems that Trump’s people are doubling down hard on being anti-press. This can’t end well for them.
So full disclosure; I am TS and a Left-wing voter. I have to admit if I met another TS person who voted Tory I would think they were a smidge deluded. But it’s been much less of a political issue over here than in the USofA. I think you would have to be really really extremely into guns and FREEEEDOM!!!(lol) to ignore the Republican’s vocal opposition to LGBT rights.
@handsome jack; he has actually advocated for the extinction of the hippo. I think he was drunk.
I would like to type a little about my experience being TS. It never gets discussed anymore in real life as I pass very well and would like to keep it that way. I work in customer service and I wonder how many hundreds of my customers would hate me if they knew. I feel vulnerable to exposure at all times in public and try and conform to feminine stereotypes these days as camouflage. I take the path of least resistance through life because I fear that to succeed is to stand out. After fighting for years to get hormones, the operation and my birth certificate I feel worn out and ready to just give in. The bastards have ground me down!
What I’m saying is that I’ve given in to sexism in order to avoid transphobia and its making me hella sad. I love being female and in fact some of the stereotypes are positive things like empathy, consideration and a caring nature which I’m happy try and emulate. It is when people expect me to be dumb, uninformed and docile that I have le probleme. The prettier I get the more this happens it would seem.
Its very tempting to just delete all of this and go back to lurking. But sod it. Just press the button.
Yep I’m new EJ, only been lurking for a week. I thought wehuntedthemammoth was just another MRA website until I looked it up! Thankyou for the welcome.
@Aunt Podger
Question: Why would I bring up Mt. Rushmore in a conversation about animals? That makes no sense.
And here are some articles to explain things a little bit better on why pandas suck and should die the fuck out already so we can actually put money into more important things.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130827-giant-panda-national-zoo-baby-breeding-animals-science/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/13/edinburgh-zoo-pandas-tian-tian-china-pandanomics-birth-cub
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/12-are-efforts-to-save-the-panda-a-giant-waste-of-money
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-08-27/why-i-hate-pandas-and-you-should-too
@Misophistry
Hi again. I’m also transfemme, and wow do I hear you. Lots p sympathy m and *hugs* on offer.
Thanks Dalillama its good to know I’m not alone. Well I’d better go to work now and deal with my demons. Thankfully many of my regular customers are just lovely friendly people so that helps. I should probably try not to care what people think so much, but there is a fine line between not being anxious and going out with all ones clothes on inside out…
Overly-belated but very best birthday wishes to Falconer and Brony. (and general good wishes to alla youse)
@misophistry
Transfemme here as well. Nice to meet you! I think Canada is doing a half-decent job, but we obviously have a long way to go.* Next to nothing here is covered (unless you’re trans-male then you get both bottom and top surgery if you need it, if you’re transfemme everything except bottom surgery is considered cosmetic). Um..sorry for the rant.
*
http://www.metronews.ca/news/halifax/2017/02/23/trans-woman-halifax-asks-prejudice-involved-no-work.html
@Sinkable John
”Transgender republicans” makes about as much sense as ”Chickens for Colonel Sanders”.
*snort*
*cleans tea off the monitor*
Sinkable John said
The part of me that tries to be non-cynical wants to give DeVos a tiny benefit of the doubt for trying to be an advocate for trans students.
The cynical part of me suspects that is was more likely a cynical move on her part to garner a modicum of support by pretending to resist Lord Dampnuts and his minion Sessions for a hot second.
Famous football-playing rapist Jameis Winston tells elementary school girls to be “silent”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/23/1636970/-Famous-football-playing-rapist-Jameis-Winston-tells-elementary-school-girls-to-be-silent
http://events.tbo.com/sports/jones-jameis-winstons-pep-talk-to-kids-sends-wrong-message-wvideo/2314204
*Speechless*
I want to know why on earth an elementary school thought it would be a good idea to bring Winston in as a speaker in the first place.
The famous speaker my school had was arctic/antarctic explorer Ann Bancroft
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Bancroft
She brought some sled dogs with her too.
Much more inspirational and she didn’t put any of the students down.
Entirely unrelated to anything: I’ve just started Fallout 4, and two hours in, I’m almost done
copying my face from the mirror, because every RPG character I’ve ever made has been a self-insertcreating my character!First of all, the Viscaria above was me, despite the randomized gravatar. Edit: and apparently I still have the randomized gravatar. Hmm. Ah well, moving on.
@Jesalin
This makes me so angry. Both the boys and the girls are taking in messages that will turn into beliefs and attitudes later in life. They are so vulnerable. Why they would bring that man in to talk to them…
@misophistry
This is so shitty, I’m sorry. I hope that we can make this a space where you feel free to share your opinions as loudly and boldly as you want.
@Hambeast
1)She wasn’t, and won’t. 2)Nobody in the current administration is ever worth the benefit of the doubt, or ever will be.
@Dalil
Yeah there is no way that Devos or any of GOP cronies are going to vote against him. They already shown loyalty to party over country with how much they don’t want to investigate Trump.
A quote from CPAC
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/02/5_highlights_from_betsy_devos.html
Translation “I will continue to dismantle public education for the benefits of a handful of rich assholes and will not make any concrete form of dissent against Dampnut.”
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/25/politics/donald-trump-cabinet-vacancies/
There are still 2000 vacancies in the Trump administration. This surely won’t cause any trouble for anyone in the near future. /s
I give DeVos zero props for backing down to Trump. Whatever she may or may not thinking of trans civil rights, the safety of children was worth less to her than the ability to further enrich herself by dismantling the public school system. She’s shown us her priorities, and her top one is more money in her own already-overstuffed bank account. Trans children fall somewhere below. She deserves no credit from anyone for that.
Re : transgender republicans
Meh, I can actually live with that. Sure it makes no real sense to me, but then a lot of people tend to affiliate with parties that don’t represent them, or even oppress them. Maybe they really believe in most of the bullshit but wanna change the transphobia part “from the inside”, or maybe it’s complete denial, or maybe they’re in for the republican welfare machine the same way some people seem to side with progressives for the cookies. In that last case, they’re smarter than the brogressives – crank welfare is actually a thing, unlike the cookies.
Plus the way the Trump machine works, if you believe what the guy says, then you believe that he’s taken YOU as his priority, in making your life better, because he understands you better than anyone else. Isn’t that what he keeps saying ? He’s lied about his intent regarding every minority, said he was the least racist/sexist/homophobic/whatnot person ever, shit like that.
I mean, shit, “blue-collar billionaire” anyone ? People who believe that will believe anything, I suppose.
That said, and though I dunno exactly where to draw the line, I’m pretty sure it’s way before wherever the fuck we are right now with trans people saying, with a straight face, that the rethugs want to protect and uphold their rights.
@misophistry
Hi and welcome !
Thanks for sharing that with us. I don’t think you “gave in”, for what it’s worth. I think it’s a survival choice, meaning no choice at all, and that no one can hold it against you. I’m pretty sure no one here will, at the very least.
@Hambeast
That’s not quite the same story, though I completely agree that DeVos never genuinely gave a shit about trans people and never will. It was definitely the kind of move you suspect.
@SFHC
HOW DO YOU DO IT !?
Even in two hours I can’t ever get something even remotely resembling my face in any game, and I’ve tried, and tried, and tried. Some of my attempts don’t even look human. My Skyrim character looks like a bearded falmer :'(
Dalilama and Sinkable John – I probably should have added that the cynical part of me won that debate even before I posted it. I guess I’m still desperately searching for some inkling of hope that we’re all not completely fucked.
ETA: I was responding to this small paragraph in the linked article:
Also, what PoM said.
I just got back from the dispensary where I got some CBD oil for my poor Catbeast. The appetite stimulant isn’t working anymore and, worse, it made him hyper. Poor thing can’t sleep now.
I am so grateful to live in CA right now. If I couldn’t go to the dispensary, I’d be waiting two days for shipment.
To transgender repubs (really, to any non-white-male-Christian-rich repub)
Did you REALLY think the Cheeto bandido was gonna HELP YOU?!?!?!?
If you did, consider yourself fortunate if someone hasn’t talked you into buying beachfront property in Arizona
Whoops. Sorry about the broken link. This one should work.
ETA: Yep this one works
@Hambeast
But deep down you know that you won’t find that inkling on the right :p
By the way I don’t think it was necessary to clarify that, I kinda just assumed from the start that your cynical side won there. To be fair when DeVos did it I felt the same, and for a tiny fraction of a second, a tiny fraction of me actually held hope. Then I remembered who she is.
For what it’s worth, I think there’s hope already. It’s marching in the streets and protesting in airports. It’s organizing all over the place and garnering global support, and from here it looks good. Shit, to be honest, America’s never looked this good to me. Sure, it’s never looked this bad either, but yet somehow it does both at the same time, so go figure.
But then again, today I got my hands on some good weed for once, and I’m smoking it right now, so that might just make me overly optimistic.
Re: Pandas’ environmental usefulness
By which is meant usefulness in maintaining an environment that benefits us, correct?
Re: Trans Trumpist Troglodytes
I have the same message for them as I do for every deplorable:
http://i.imgur.com/do9RLzO.gif
We tried to tell y’all. You gon find out. No Sympathy
Re: DeVos
There is no fight between fascists, period. All fall in line eventually
Some news (sorry if already mentioned elsewhere):
Tom Perez is now DNC chair, Ellison is deputy (thus keeps his seat). I wanted Ellison in the role, but Perez is solid. And he’s brown. That’s important. Brocialists lost their shit, ofc. Trump and Wikileaks immediately started fanning the flames, cos Bernbots are easy lays for this kinda thing. Blergh!