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@histoftech mar have you considered getting really into fountain pens

@inquiline i am very excited about this book! and also hearing about your experience working with Chicago!

@spacerog for what it's worth StickerApp is my goto these days, but i reall appreciate the comparison you did!

@saintsoftness oh in my house it would be "you are reading and someone is about to scream"

@FrankPasquale my robot vacuum cant even handle the first floor of my house without wedging itself in a corner and screaming for help

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let's talk about gender on lensa! 

alex and i went over my full image result packs and in addition to the sick burn of "cosmic"+"male"="do not let this close magician near your drink at DNA Lounge (2008)", they also noted that lensa is very fixated on giving me blue eyes (my eyes are green), and including guns in lots of categories like "sci fi" and "anime" and "adventure". also "other" and "male" are allowed to be fat/round, but "female" are really really not.

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let's talk about gender on lensa! 

having given myself both a headache and an accute attack of _the genders_ doing this analysis, i am going to put my phone down now. maybe i will write more about this later if folks are interested?

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let's talk about gender on lensa! 

and just for fun here are what i suspect are the "uniques" for each gender category: "cyber scientist" (other), "rock star" (male), "fairy princess" (female):

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let's talk about gender on lensa! 

here is a comparison of "mystical" for "other" and "male", and then "cosmic" for "male" and "female":

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let's talk about gender on lensa! 

here is a comparison of "light" (which is the painterly genre) between "other" and "female" (it didnt show up for "male"):

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