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Good News/Bad News/Good News?

Hi everyone-

It’s been a minute, eh? Simple fact is that I had a bit of a social media overload: too much screen time, not enough real life time. So I’ve only really been using Facebook and very occasionally Twitter for the past six months or so. Plus, it took a surprisingly long amount of time to find, edit, and post good Chairs, and life got pretty crazy there for awhile. But I’ve gotten things a bit more organized, so...

Good news: I miss The Chairs and am bringing them back!

Bad news: Not on tumblr...

Good news: ...but on Instagram!

I’ve started using insta on a daily basis for my vintage clothing sales, and it dawned on me today how easy it would be to switch over to a BCSIC account when I made my daily clothes post and post a Chair.

I will still keep this account active, but probably won’t do much more than lurk for news and occasionally say hi. I love you guys, but like I said- too many social media accounts isn’t healthy for me.

The Insta account name is Benedict.C.Sits.In.Chairs (because BenedictCumberbatchSitsInChairs is 31 letters and the limit is 30- aaarrrgh!).  I hope to see you there!

Love, love, love, love-

Maria (aka BCSIC)

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Popping in for a moment just to say HOLY SHIT INFINITY WAR

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Happy New Year, tumblrers.  I know I’ve been quiet, but I’m still here ;)

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GreaserBatch Sits On Stools

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Reappeared for the Harvey commentary, not leaving disappointed ;)

(Life has been coocoocrazypants, guys. I’m still here in a lurking capacity!)

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The Greatest Chair Gifs of All

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“I think the truth is that if you really care about the quality of somebody’s life as much as you care about the quality of your own, you have it made." 

~ Edith Windsor (1929 - 2017)

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BAHAHAHAHA!

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Jazz Hands Chair!

His huge hands are the best! .. v

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STUCK IN MY HEAD

And I’m okay with that

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Benedict getting distracted during the interview

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Lots of new Chairs coming out of TIFF!!

Benedict and Nicholas at the press conference

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Scared for Florida.  A lot of folks here might be too young to remember Andrew, the one they’re comparing Irma to.  I had family in FL when Andrew hit, and it was like a literal nightmare.  I know it’s stupid to say this since you already know but I feel like I need to: if you can get out, GET. OUT.  If you can’t, seek help and safe shelter where you can.  Check in when you can and let us know you’re okay <3

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Hey... hey guys... Guess what... 

I don’t  have cancer. 

So I’m drunk.  Because the past two weeks?  Tests and waiting?  Worst of my life. 

Celebrate being healthy.  Celebrate life.  Celebrate love. Celebrate YOU. 

Because you are wonderful.

<3

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I DEFINITELY have a serious case of Sleepys.

A neural network invents diseases you don’t want to get

Science fiction writers and producers of TV medical dramas: have you ever needed to invent a serious-sounding disease whose symptoms, progression, and cure you can utterly control? Artificial intelligence can help!

Blog reader Kate very kindly compiled a list of 3,765 common names for conditions from this site, and I gave them to an open-source machine learning algorithm called a recursive neural network, which learns to imitate its training data. Given enough examples of real-world diseases, a neural network should be able to invent enough plausible-sounding syndromes to satisfy any hypochondriac.

Early on in the training, the neural network was producing what were identifiably diseases, but probably wouldn’t fly in a medical drama. “I’m so sorry. You have… poison poison tishues.”

Much Esophageal Eneetems Vomania Poisonicteria Disease Eleumathromass Sexurasoma Ear Allergic Antibody Insect Sculs Poison Poison Tishues Complex Disease

As the training got going, the neural network began to learn to replicate more of the real diseases - lots of ventricular syndromes, for example. But the made-up diseases still weren’t too convincing, and maybe even didn’t sound like diseases at all. (Except for RIP Syndrome. I’d take that one seriously)

Seal Breath Tossy Blanter Cancer of Cancer Bull Cancer Spisease Lentford Foot Machosaver RIP Syndrome

The neural network eventually progressed to a stage where it was producing diseases of a few basic varieties :

First kind of disease: This isn’t really a disease. The neural network has just kind of named a body part, or a couple of really generic disease-y words. Pro writer tip: don’t use these in your medical drama.

Fevers Heading Disorder Rashimia Causes Wound Eye Cysts of the Biles Swollen Inflammation Ear Strained Lesions  Sleepys Lower Right Abdomen  Degeneration Disease Cancer of the Diabetes

Second kind of disease: This disease doesn’t exist, and sounds reasonably convincing to me, though it would probably have a different effect on someone with actual medical training.

Esophagia Pancreation  Vertical Hemoglobin Fever  Facial Agoricosis Verticular Pasocapheration Syndrome Agpentive Colon  Strecting Dissection of the Breath  Bacterial Fradular Syndrome Milk Tomosis Lemopherapathy  Osteomaroxism Lower Veminary Hypertension Deficiency Palencervictivitis Asthodepic Fever Hurtical Electrochondropathy  Loss Of Consufficiency Parpoxitis Metatoglasty Fumple Chronosis Omblex's  Hemopheritis  Mardial Denection Pemphadema Joint Pseudomalabia Gumpetic Surpical Escesion Pholocromagea  Helritis and Flatelet’s Ear Asteophyterediomentricular Aneurysm 

Third kind of disease: Sounds both highly implausible but also pretty darn serious. I’d definitely get that looked at.

Ear Poop  Orgly Disease Cussitis Occult Finger Fallblading Ankle Bladders Fungle Pain Cold Gloating Twengies Leukopenia Loon Eye Catdullitis Black Bote Headache Excessive Woot Sweating Teenagerna Vain Syndrome  Defentious Disorders Punglnormning Cell Conduction Hammon Expressive Foot Liver Bits Clob Sweating,Sweating,Excessive  Balloblammus  Metal Ringworm  Eye Stools Hoot Injury  Hoin and Sponster Teenager’s Diarey  Eat Cancer Cancer of the Cancer Horse Stools Cold Glock Allergy Herpangitis Flautomen Teenagees Testicle Behavior  Spleen Sink Eye Stots Floot Assection Wamble Submoration  Super Syndrome Low Life Fish Poisoning Stumm Complication Cat Heat Ovarian Pancreas 8 Poop Cancer Of Hydrogen Bingplarin Disease Stress Firgers Causes of the ladder Exposure Hop D Treat Decease

Diseases of the fourth kind: These are the, um, reproductive-related diseases. And those that contain unprintable four-letter words. They usually sound ludicrous, and entirely uncomfortable, all at the same time. And I really don’t want to print them here. However! If you are in possession of a sense of humor and an email address, you can let me know here and I’ll send them to you.