Time to go to sleep… night night people!
Also: will grow into it eventually…
Photograph: “Girl With Bicycle”, The Coombe, Dublin, by Evelyn Hofe (1966)
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She is a litle mischief like my mum, who used to pinch her mum’s bicycle when she lived in a village and go for a ride. She also used to escort her big sister to shcool with a big stick to portect her from the boys.
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Was hoping to learn more about who rode alongside you the other day.
You always seem to start a journey though never end with details.
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That won’t cut it fang.
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Who knows, might visit Ausutralia to see the Kangaroos and Frostpackers , but could you keep up with me? But don’t worry sweetie, will be getting a tandem soon.
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Either you’re an idiot who buys premixed, prepackaged fuel or some big orange clown who I did not vote for is F’ing up almost everything he touches. 
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I would need a new back rim and tires. For some odd reason, road bikes don’t seem to mind going airborne but have a hard time with the landing. 
The tires are just old and you can’t get the ones I like anymore.
Oh gawd, I can just imagine the police and news reports of an epic pub brawl. Link our belts together back to back and take on the world! 
Please, you have to rat them out! 
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There is no way I can match those numbers anymore. 
But the max spd explains how I bent the back rim. Too many driveways and not enough bike lanes here. Rural New England is kinda like Europe in some ways. Narrow roads, single lane traffic but with far more Massholes!
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I can turn you to a darker side. 
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Just spending some quiet time at parks.
A view of Çankaya district in the distance from the Castle of Ankara streets.
Happy evenings:
EVE has the most loving people:
I’ve been watching the “Content Machine” channel on YT and they’re covering everything about social issues and life.
EDIT:
By the way, those document drops website I linked in the Astronomy thread I shared are mindblowing.
EDIT2:
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Time to go to sleep… night night lovelies!
Also: he’s coming here…
Photograph: Robert Francis Prevost (left) with his mother Mildred Prevost and brothers John and Louis, outside Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, 1959. Later in life he pursued his career to the top and eventually changed his name for it, to Leo XIV.
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Wow, that was a long post.
Like and subscribe!
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Time to go to sleep… I keep tinkering with generative AI imagery, still using the big storefronts rather than specialized tools, and so far each storefront has a kind of… personality… Copilot (Dall-E) is enthusiastic, often gets it wrong and then never gets it back right… Gemini (Nano banana) is competent but all the faces are ugly… ChatGPT (Dall-E) is a bit of hit and miss… and Meta AI, whatever error diffusion model they use, is downright yucky.
Here’s what I mean, same prompt to each storefront:
Copilot:
(Incarna is supposed to be a doll, not a real size mannequin / person… but here CCP is proud to have killed it?)
Gemini:
Just competent. Could use fine tuning.
ChatGPT:
(Incarna is supposed to be a doll, not a full-size doll / person… and here CCP looks downright mean)
Meta AI:
(That’s the less bad out of 4… I didn’t ask for the old hag scorning poor Incarna… and Meta can’t decide how a gray-haired redhead would look like, but at least all 4 version are doll-sized)
Nobody has really pulled a part with “was pretty but is bad-preserved”, but then it’s just the same basic prompt run through these storefronts, probably would get better with fine tuning but this all started with a fast & cheap image for a post outside of OOPE.
And now I’m off to bed. Night night lovelies!
PS: the prompt, translated from Spanish:
Prompt
“A realistic image, in 16:9 landscape format, depicts a scene reminiscent of Dante’s ninth circle of Hell (the frozen wasteland of traitors). An elderly, disheveled woman, her hair still red but turning gray, a smoker, once beautiful but now poorly preserved for her age, sits in a rickety chair, looking around with a sour expression. She is dressed in rags and wears a faded t-shirt emblazoned with the letters “CCP” in large white letters over what was once black. In front of her, a beautiful, well-dressed doll in futuristic clothing lies on the ground with a sash across her shoulders that reads “Incarna.” The image’s context is that the old woman betrayed Incarna, and now both lie in the frozen hell.”
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If you’re a…
Then you won’t need handcuffs. Just a piece of string to pretend.
At least I’m not one of your sock puppets!
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Time to go to sleep… or try to… night night people!
Also: oh look, more images about dancing…
Photograph: Showgirls at the Copacabana Club, New York 1948 by Stanley Kubrick
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Are those voodoo dolls that you are holding
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At the Copa…Copacabannnnnnnnnnnnaaaaaaaa!
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