hey I keep seeing these “2017 Tumblr” compilation posts and it seems like everyone is deliberately leaving out the part where we all thought the author of My Immortal was finally found and that she was a Native American lesbian author who wrote the fanfic as part joke and part desperate attempt to find her long lost brother while she was in high school and that she was going to publish a memoir in 2018 and Buzzfeed covered it and everything but then some people, one who was supposedly her aformentioned brother, on fucking Kiwifarms of all things, started poking holes in her story and then she deleted and dropped off the face of the earth. because it seems like everyone is trying to pretend like it never happened but it happened.
the year is almost over and I’m not letting anyone forget about this.
I thought she disappeared because of getting a lot harassment from kiwi farm fucks after her “brother” started shit
The image above is a comic panel set in ancient Egypt.
Traditionally, ancient Egyptian art featured stylized people standing in profile. Ancient Greek art discovered and then focused on contrapposto, or a pose where, as described in the comic, a person places all their weight on one leg. It is considered an important phase in art history.
In the comic, a bunch of people are looking at one person who is leaning against a pillar. They are saying:
“Wow! Is that Heptup?” “He looks amazing.” “How was Greece, Heptup? You look really relaxed.”
Heptup, the person leaning on the pillar, says, “Yeah. I got into contrapposto over there. It’s where you put all your weight on one leg. I feel really dynamic.”
Two people on Heptup’s other side say:
“I love how his hips and shoulders aren’t parallel. He just looks so… alive.” “And so graceful.”
A final person speaks in two symbols placed vertically, which is a reference to Egyptian hieroglyphics, their writing system. The symbols he is saying are of a donkey, and of a person digging a hole with a shovel. It can be inferred he is saying something akin to “Bullshit.”
The joke scenario in the comic is one where ancient Egyptian people really did all stand rigidly like that, but one of the Egyptian people who traveled to Greece discovered contrapposto and now he leans on stuff and looks really cool. But the last guy isn’t impressed. It’s poking fun at art history.
slight alteration: the last person’s hieroglyphics say asshole (donkey + hole)
“I want to give people social and financial empowerment, so eventually people who want to come out won’t be affected. They will have their own social security system. It won’t make a difference if they are disinherited.”
It is great that he’s doing this, but it’s very disingenuous for a British newspaper to publish this and discuss section 377 as part of the homophobic climate of India without also mentioning that section 377 originates from British colonial rule. To mention this out of context and talk about cultural reasons for homophobia alone, portrays Indian culture as inherently homophobic but doesn’t take accountability for the way which Britain enforced the conditions for that climate to occur.
Neural networks are machine learning algorithms that are very good at solving tough problems – they’re used for language translation, facial recognition, and financial management. I, however, have been training them on silly datasets.
Here are some of my favorite experiments from the last year.
In a possible first for the field of machine learning, a neural network named rescue guinea pigs for the Portland Guinea Pig Rescue and Morris Animal Refuge. Some of the names they used, and some of them they did not.
Popchop Fuzzable Spockers Trickles Farter
Then I mixed the guinea pig names with the names of death metal bands, and got names such as:
Not to be outdone by the guinea pigs, AFK Cat Rescue of Huntsville, Alabama asked me to name some rescue kittens. Some of the names were great, and others not so much:
“I am forced to write to my neighbors about the beast.” Her mother was packing by the black anthill. The sun was probably for his wife. Stop! I caused the Narguuse man who was new on Alabama, the screaming constipated eggs.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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