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I’m not upset or anything, I can kinda see what you mean! If you’re expecting anything cool on the internet these days to probably be fake, yeah, the colors on the meat do look incongruous.

Let’s take a second here and use this as an educational experience for everyone. Fake animal photos are totally an internet scourge these days. If you don’t trust the OP of a post like this saying it’s not AI, how else could you check and try to find out?

Three things to help you verify not slop:

1. There’s a bunch of other photos in series with this one on my website, which allows you to see context for when and how the photos were taken. There’s also other photos of this animal and this habitat in other lighting and weather conditions. That’s generally more work than people will go to if they just want to create a viral photo, and you can look for internal consistency.

2. AI isn’t good enough yet to replicate specific stripe patterns on individual tigers, they get all wonky. The animal and her location are named in this instance and it’s easy to google to see if everything lines up.

3. You can also check to see if the thing in photos actually happens. The meatball throwing demo is a very, very common occurrence at this facility! It’s a regular activity during talks when tigers are in that habitat (it is a multi-species rotational space). They posted a video on their Facebook fourteen hours ago of their curator getting a direct shot into a different tiger’s mouth.

However I do want to note that I don't think @theswordofdamntheseknees was accusing your work of being AI, and did not mention AI at all - I think it was a joke about how painful it is to step on the sharp plastic corners of a LEGO, made with the understanding that the meatballs are the true version of events.

Someone on Bluesky a couple days ago also assumed the site/my account was either AI or a content scraper so seeing that type of commentary twice in two days was like, ah crap, I have not succeeded at my intended transparency and messaging. I must fix this immediately. And therefore I managed to totally miss the joke.

One of the things about fact-checking as a career is that man, it is waaaay to easy to take things super seriously at all times. I am very deep in a major paid project the last few months and my brain apparently only has one setting right now.

Plus like… okay, those meatballs do really look kinda fake! I could see it being genuinely confusing!

there’s sixteen Colorado counties that their most searched was “wolf furry”, plus thirty-odd counties (not counting either Arapahoe or any of the ones marked here as “Insufficient Data”) which may well have had plenty of searches for “wolf furry”, just fewer than for whatever they’re labeled here

and “skunk furry” searches in Arapahoe County outnumbered “wolf furry” searches in the entire state of Colorado

It’s Rumi who notices that she’s off, and Zoey who seems to pull her favorite sweatshirt out of nowhere, and the idea rattles around in Mira’s head for a while longer—she can accept that she’s hot, she can enjoy the attention, how would she ever be an idol if she didn’t? Just—

She’s never been one to think too much before she speaks, and it’s only after she’s asked if the comparison might make Rumi and Zoey feel less that that she realizes how condescending it came out

But Rumi bursts out laughing and doesn’t seem self-conscious as she says, “Are you kidding? I’m everyone’s type. And Zoey’s gorgeous.”

Zoey turns five shades redder and stumbles something out about how no, she doesn’t mind, and they’re not wrong and now Mira’s feeling less gross and more actually flattered and

It’s not that she doesn’t like fashion, doesn’t take care with her appearance, whatever, but it’s. Different. When suddenly she isn’t just communicating but appealing

The first time she gets that is the first time a makeup artist clicks their tongue at her freckles before covering them up. Her skin isn’t perfect. They’ll fix that.

And suddenly, now, people just… say things. About her. Thousands and thousands of strangers online, accessible at her fingertips. They don’t tend to talk about her body as much as they do Mira and Rumi’s, and she knows she shouldn’t want to be objectified, that that’s disgusting and awful of her, knows that it’s because she’s still underage and they’re trying not to be creepy

That doesn’t stop her brain from rattling around and around and asking how do we fix it

It’s Rumi she asks, awkwardly, for help, because if anyone knows how to be hot it’s Rumi and. Honestly? Because Rumi just tilts her head and gets that agreeably challenged little set to her jaw and says okay, and doesn’t even think to ask why Zoey would want this

Of course, Rumi promptly tells her that the answer is being confident and having fun and drags her off to Mira to figure out what makes Zoey feel like her best self instead of just, like, making her walk in heels for twenty minutes, so…

Slight backfire

“You get used to it” true but misleading because someday your back problems are gonna inexplicably cause stomach problems. And then you get used to the stomach problems but your thumbs start hurting because you had to do so much work on your phone lying in weird positions while waiting for the stomach problems to go away. And there are way more distractions on your phone too so while you always had adhd this just makes it more annoying/prevalent-

But we can't expect them to look exactly like spaces that do require a purchase but without the part where you spend money.

Generally speaking, a space can't be free-as-in-beer AND gatekept.

This is why it is not assimilationist for gay/queer people to want to enshrine marriage rights in their country/region

Similarly, this is why polyamorous people are fighting for the right to have their relationships recognised by their states through marriage and/or similar agreements

Oh, and because on top of those aforementioned financial and medical protections, these laws also help you maintain connection to any kids you have and/or raise together!

Every older queer you know who is in a longterm relationship will have similar stories of how we planned our whole lives to protect what would have been granted nigh automatically if we were heterosexual.

me: yeah i know, they’re all primary colors, it’s perfect

When you go for an MLS (Master’s of Library Science, which is a thing, and which is usually required for “professional-level” library work [which is also a weird and contentious concept that I won’t go into here]), one of the things you study is the organization of information. This deals with how to determine what a book or other material is “about"—a concept we tongue-in-cheek call “aboutness"—and how to convey that to a potential user of the item and make it easy for them to find. Things like keywords and subject headings, do I put this book about how often wild birds attack aerial drones in with books about birds or with books about technology, if its a fictional novel do I put fantasy in it’s own section or mix it in with all of the other fiction, so on and so on.

OP is organizing books by how they would look for them. OP’s partner is thinking in terms of aboutness. This is a system that works for OP because it’s their personal library: they know basically what books they own and they only own books that are relevant to them, and if they know what the book looks like, that can be a quick way to find it.

In a library that assumes the public (or people who do not own that particular collection of books) are using the collection, that doesn’t work. Books are often re-issued in multiple covers, or re-bound in new covers when they get worn out, and if the user doesn’t know what the book looks like or is expecting a different cover, they’re lost. That’s why non-personal libraries used standardized cataloging systems like the Dewey Decimal System or Library of Congress System to organize a book by what it’s “about”, and then put books about the same or similar topics together, marked with labels and signage so a person unfamiliar with the book or collection can find their way to it.

Basically, OP’s system works for their own personal library, because it’s best suited to how the primary user—OP themselves—looks for books. OP’s librarian partner is coming from a background of thinking in terms of a public-facing collection, where aboutness is the key criteria and communicating it to a user unfamiliar with the collection is the priority.