I found a new pink tank top at the thrift store, and it's covered in strawberries!
It's like it was made for me...and it was $3.
I found a new pink tank top at the thrift store, and it's covered in strawberries!
It's like it was made for me...and it was $3.
And people say Mastodon is hard 😋
Gorgeous antique 8-Lever "Mastodon" steel padlock, picked in ~7 seconds, using homemade tools fashioned out of recycled bike spokes.
This is the second of two beautiful antique locks my partner gave me as a present.
The reason this opened so quickly is because several of the levers are rusted in place, and I bypassed the remaining ones and pushed the locking pawls out of the way directly.
Antique 4-Lever steel padlock, picked in ~10 seconds, using homemade tools fashioned out of recycled bike spokes.
This is one of two beautiful antique locks my partner gave me as a present.
And people say Mastodon is hard 😋
Gorgeous antique 8-Lever "Mastodon" steel padlock, picked in ~7 seconds, using homemade tools fashioned out of recycled bike spokes.
This is the second of two beautiful antique locks my partner gave me as a present.
The reason this opened so quickly is because several of the levers are rusted in place, and I bypassed the remaining ones and pushed the locking pawls out of the way directly.
Antique 4-Lever steel padlock, picked in ~10 seconds, using homemade tools fashioned out of recycled bike spokes.
This is one of two beautiful antique locks my partner gave me as a present.
Felt cute today—even though I had to donate a pair of jeans to the clothing swap because my butt it too big¹ for them now.
¹On the bright side, last night my girlfriend said² rappers should write songs about my butt.
²I cannot lie, technically *I* said it, but she agreed.
Felt cute today—even though I had to donate a pair of jeans to the clothing swap because my butt it too big¹ for them now.
¹On the bright side, last night my girlfriend said² rappers should write songs about my butt.
²I cannot lie, technically *I* said it, but she agreed.
The amazing @AstraCeleste asked me earlier today if I had a fursona, and I was like nah, but if I did it would probably be Bunny-Alice 😂
So she drew this adorable Bunny-Alice for me (with realistically thicc thighs even), based on these two reference photos.
Pretty sunset at the beach yesterday. My partner and I were there hunting love locks, but ended up enjoying a nice walk, an excited crow bathing in the creek, and a lovely muted sunset.
We also saw some orcas, but they were a ways out, so I didn't get any good photos.
Pretty sunset at the beach yesterday. My partner and I were there hunting love locks, but ended up enjoying a nice walk, an excited crow bathing in the creek, and a lovely muted sunset.
We also saw some orcas, but they were a ways out, so I didn't get any good photos.
I was having breakfast a few minutes ago and spotted this beautiful squirrel-dog in my yard.
I was having breakfast a few minutes ago and spotted this beautiful squirrel-dog in my yard.
I was at a surplus shop and found this tiny No.7 4-pin laminated Master lock 🥹
It took roughly as much time to pick it as it did to open the cardboard box.
So I've been fucking around, testing Google's purity filters some more—seeing what it rejects, what it accepts, and what changes it makes without instruction.
In every case, if I give it a photo with much skin showing, it rejects it.
If I give it a photo with underwear or lingerie showing, it tends to cover me up more (i.e. it zips up jeans, buttons up shirts, makes fishnets opaque, etc).
It almost always makes me look less like a tomboy. Often enlarging breasts (even while hiding them away).
This time it accepted four photos (out of well over a dozen submitted), from three different photoshoots—two with face covered and two with face showing (which is the closest I've done to a face reveal now, I guess 😋). *more details in alt-text.
Conclusion: Google has baked a technology into its default Android photo gallery that (surprise) reinforces unrealistic ideals of beauty while simultaneously treating feminine bodies as inherently sexual and in need of censoring.
Follow-up: I'd like to see folx with other body types, gender presentations, and styles, test the edges of what Google Photos "Remix" and "AI Enhance" features will accept, and what un-requested changes it makes to those images. Does it censor topless men? Does it lean into racist stereotypes? Does it make thinner femme folx more curvy? Does it make curvier folx thinner?
If this tech is going to be crammed into everything, where kids, friends, and corporations are going to be using it, we should understand the potential psychological effects and built-in biases we're likely to encounter with increasing frequency.
