Ms Collette

Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

I really wanted one but never got it. I dreamed of loading it up with all my favorite classics!

When mom or dad would travel without the family, the rest of us would go through security without a ticket just to accompany them to the gate and stay until the plane took off. It was sweet and it’s sad families can’t do that any more.

The trans colors look great on black!

I’ve so far collected the Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth, Women in Art, and the Science and Nature Coloring Book and I love each of them! Her illustrations are so much fun to explore and are great for any age.

First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.

And trans lives are grounded in reality.

We see y'all. No matter what.

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screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about

An explanation on how to write ALT text with a photo of a capybara as an example. The main points are Indentify who expression description colour interesting features

It's time for the "How to do ALT text" image again.

Writing a perfect ALT text is impossible, but please try 💚!

Visually impairment is a wide spectrum and doesn't keep people from loving the visual arts.

🐡 #art #kleinekunstklasse #artadventcalendar

Haha beat me to it. That sounds heralds the approaching holiday more than anything except for maybe the Flintstones Fruity Pebbles commercials

“Shuttlecraft to Enterprise, Shuttlecraft to Enterprise. Spock here. Happy Holidays. Live Long and Prosper.”

❤️🎄🖖

Following now! Looks fantastic

A lone crab sits atop a clam in an aquarium habitat. A carpet of bright purple sea anemones cover the rocks along the habitat floor.

I dunno if this crab is angry, but the clam might be feeling crabby! 🦀

Bright yellow-green lichen grows on an aged gray fence with narrow vertical slats. Spanish moss is taking hold in some places. Crimson colored fall leaves peek above the fence in the distance.

I love that red! We have some bright green lichens and moss around campus (central coast California)

I’m surprised we didn’t get a themed set timed with the release of Wicked 🙄

An adorable and dignified sparkle!

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I just started with watercolors at the beginning of summer so this thread is really useful. I have a tube of granulated Holbein mineral violet I’ve been having fun with in mixed media, and this gives some ideas

It’s like I’m looking in an ‘eavy Metal feature from the 90s!

A minute of goats!

I really enjoy your ink and acrylic pieces. I get inspiration from them and they all suggest a interesting narrative. Always a joy to see 💛

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

You didn't ask for it, but here you go: q-tip slang

Tippin = using a q-tip
Q'd Up = got a fresh q-tip in your hand
Rippin Tips = opening a new box of q-tips
Dip & Tip = using a q-tip after a shower
Double Tippin = a q-tip in each ear at the same time
Tipped Out = no earwax left

i need cis alíes to understand that things are so much worse and more scrutinized than they were in 2016 or 2014 or 2009 or whenever you fucking thought you were radical for your stance on trans rights.

the state. is trying. to. kill. us.
fuck your nuance for trans sports and just be normal

Website-building resources Tutorials new The Quick ‘n’ Dirty Guide to Making a Website (2022) new Mala's Self-Hosting Guide new A Mini Guide to RSS Feeds (video presentation with the same info) new Music on Neocities: A cheap bastard's guide W3Schools - learn HTML, CSS, and Javascript Resources Bear Blog - small blogging platform Zonelets - small blogging engine (I use this one!) GifCities - Geocities GIF archive Lightbox2 - lightbox script Neocities - web hosting service (what I'm using right now, recommended!) Rarebit - open-source webcomic template Whimsical! - graphics website (cursor credit) new Virtual Observer's comment widget Articles & Arguments Rediscovering the Small Web by Parimal Satyal Plain old webpages still matter by Felix Plesoianu My Website is a Personal Museum by biko Cyber Mauseoleums (Or the Argument Against Deletion) by neonaut new Every site needs a Links Page / Why linking matters by Daniel/Melon

People are sharing a lot of resources on how to make your own website so I've updated the website-building section of my site with a link to some of the best I've found. PLEASE make your own website, it is fun (sometimes)! Fast (sometimes)!! Free (sometimes)!!!

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I’m in these pictures!! Thank you for being a part of such a a great panel 😊

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: the quintessential liberal.

So, I've pointed out many, many times that best practice for alt text on traditional websites doesn't always transfer exactly to social media.

But to the extent it does, we should absolutely be trying to stick to that best practice on social media.

That was the hardest game I had for the GameCube. But so good

“Hold on, hold on… it will come to me”