I’ll do Aziraphale next! Love this series :)
Who wouldn’t fall in love with this 6000 years pure relationship.
listen i love that good omens gave god a female voice and used they/she pronouns don’t get me wrong but that’s been DONE before. you know what they did that hasn’t been done before? they gave us UNSEXY, ROTTING, FEMALE-PRESENTING DEMONS. none of that cw sexualized femme fatale bullshit! positively ODIOUS and FESTERING beelzebub and dagon, weird mutations on their faces and flies circling their heads, sitting around in hell and looking NASTIER than hell. FINALLY SOME GOOD FUСKING CHARACTER DESIGN
#also the female presenting angels!!#like michael and uriel they weren’t sexualized either#no ‘hot chick in a suit’ bullshit #i mean#i still want them to rail me because i’m dyke but what i’m saying is#the way they presented themselves was neither heteronormative NOR appealing to the straight male gaze#which is SUCH a breath of fresh air on television these days#basically demons were like “what’s your gender” “trash” while angels were like “what’s your gender” “capitalism”#and that was very sexy of neilman #very sexy indeed
@two-nipples-maybe-more these tags are BRILLIANT don’t hide them!!
the two genders of trash and capitalism I’m dying
Q1: There are so many fans of the book, was there a little bit of pressure bringing this to life?
Q2: There are a lot of Queen songs in this. Have the songs been in repeat in your head?
THESE TWO ARE TOO ADORABLE FOR ME TO HANDLE
Once again, a neural net tries to name cats
Last year I trained a neural net to generate new names for kittens, by giving it a list of over 8,000 existing cat names to imitate. Starting from scratch, with zero knowledge of English or any context for the words and letter combinations it was trying out, it tried to predict what letters might be found in cat names, and in which order. Its names ranged from the strange to the completely nonsensical to the highly unfortunate (Retchion, Hurler, and Trickles were some of its suggestions). Without knowledge of English beyond its list of cat names, it didn’t know what letter combinations to avoid.
So I decided to revisit the cat-naming problem, this time using a neural net that had a lot more context. GPT-2, trained by OpenAI on a huge chunk of the internet, knows which words and letter combinations tend to be used together on the English-language internet. It also has (mostly) figured out which words and letter combinations to avoid, at least in some contexts (though it does tend to suddenly switch contexts, and then, yikes).
When I trained GPT-2 on the list of cat names using Max Woolf’s colab notebook, it still retained a lot of what it had learned from the rest of the internet. Gone were the strange names like “Tilly-Mapper” and “Balllucidoux” - it had a bunch of real words it could use instead. Here are some of the names it came up with - and the Morris Animal Refuge (who you may remember from that time they used neural net names for their guinea pigs) has given some of these names to some highly adoptable kittens.
First, neural net can do fancy:
Taffeta
Pompompur
Monocle
Tom Glitter
Notion
Tinnitus
Cheesemonger
M. Tinklesby Linklater Soap
It can also do the opposite of fancy:
Scat Cat Butthole
Gangrene
Moisture
Grotesque
Petard
Oilbag
Buttwig
The Cream
Meatbag
Dr Fart
Fudge Putty
Scumbag
Constipation
BUTT
And it can also do names ranging from tough to downright sinister:
Miss Vulgar
Lillith The Vamp
Elle Fury
Deadbolt
Romeo of Darkness
Starmaker
Fist
Warning Signs
Bibles Smoked
The Firestarter
Higher Rune
Scarlet Be Thy Coat
Kill All Humans
Bones Of The Master
Mr. Sinister
Evil Whispers
Spawn
Serendipitous Kill
Stranglehold
(Starmaker and Sparky Buttons are from a litter that had upper respiratory infections that damaged their eyes, but even though their world is kinda cloudy, they love to play and cuddle.)
I’m a particular fan of the Very Weird cat names:
Honeystring
Dr Leg
Tom Noodle
Pinball Scene
Peanutbutterjiggles
You’re Telling A Lie
Beep Boop
Thoughts
Bobble Bun
Atmosphere
You Name It
Whiskeridoo
Sparky Buttons
Seemingly
This Guy
Various Authors
Chicken Whiskey
Fish Especially
Thelonious Monsieur
Ringo Shuffles
Sweet Cakes
EXTAs (Eye Stalks)
Checker Spin Donut Quin
Two Patz Grandpa
He Glad
Funky Moe
Fluttering Feelers
Accepted A Tribute
Chewie Bean
PLEASE
Gregory Chimney
Notable PRODUCT LEGEND Weird Science Platinum
Not Suitable For Character the Enforcer
Did I mention these cats are adoptable? If you live near Philadelphia, you live near these kitties!
Bonus content: yet more cat names!
I’m gonna say it I think deep sea animals are beautiful and incredible and very neat and I know that’s not an unpopular thought like many many people agree but I don’t at all hold the sentiment that they are terrifying and grotesque and anything else like that.
The popular jokes like “we need to leave whatever is in the ocean down there I’ll take my chances in space” are funny I love those jokes but truly
When I see a photo of one of the more supposedly horrifying fish from the deep I am mystified I am filled with wonder and even adoration an that’s all
idk they are just truly amazing.
They go down…..so deep…..they just live down there…with all of their teeth. They don’t have a care for or a thought for us or anything else up here. They’re just down there glowing and swimming and eating.
Amazing.
They’re not scary they’re just so vastly different and their existences are so vastly different from anything we can comprehend. I can’t fathom what life would be like down there.
I love them. They are animals, same as anything else. Not scary. Just incredible.
So my introduction to Deep-Sea creatures was different than most people’s in that my grandparents lived right near the Monterey Bay Aquarium and I have many fond memories of going there with them right as the MBARI deep-sea rover program was getting underway.
For a while there, they were discovering a dozen new species per dive, and couldn’t tell people fast, loud or lovingly enough. There were even live veiwings of the MBARI feed visible at the aquarium, along with monthly recaps of everything they’d seen in the previously unexplored Monterey canyon. You pretty much had to make a blood sacrifice to the dark gods to get tickets, but I remember sitting in a completely packed auditorium as someone with more than one doctorate burst onto the stage to thunderous applause and shrieks of delight as though he was there to sing the national anthem at the superbowl instead of about to show us 40 new invertebretes.
So where I think a lot of people were first exposed to things like Anglerfish and marine worms via “ooh look how creepy these things are!” my first exposure to them was watching a marine biologist literally jumping up and down on stage with excitement , voice full of love and delight as he showed us, seen for the first time on camera and not dead in a net, this lovely creature:
The video we saw was silent, in which the Medusa slowly turned toward then away from the camera, elegantly corkscrewing up through the slow updraft current. She was magnificent, graceful and absolutely wondrous.
“Isn’t she the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen?” he asked, tears in his eyes.
And to thirteen-year-old-me? Yes, yes she was. She still is.
She’s from a very, very different world than here, and her kind are probably unfathomably ancient, and to be able to catch even the briefest of glimpses into a life so completely different than ours is such, such a privlege.
David Tennant Doesn’t Know About Sexting | The Graham Norton Show
This simultaneously:
1. destroyed me
2. made me realize that David Tennant is Mr. Snip’s age, and Mr. Snip knows nothing about technology, and I am incredibly curious.
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