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ickplant @lemmy.world

23h ago

Happy Stomp

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Stomp: "I'll have a rum . . . . And coke."
Bartender: "why the pause?"
Stomp: "Dunno, I've always had them."
- big pause or it doesn't make sense
  
  Massive paws would also work if you really exaggerate it. 😉
- Genius

Seems like CatGPT still has trouble drawing paws.
- It’s a Highlander cat. Natural bobbed tail, curled ears, and polydactyl claws.
- There are actual cats that look like this, so probably it's real. It certainly doesn't seem AI generated to me.
  GPTs also don't make images. That's not what Transformers do, and GPT means Generative Pre-trained Transformer. It's diffusion models and variational autoencoders that make images.
  
  It certainly doesn't seem AI generated to me.
  Whatever the case, this picture’s obviously over-digitized.

I'm gonna need another photo before I believe this is real... and I just want another.

Sounds like they need to adopt a different GF
- Right?! I’d go it alone with Stomp by my side.

are we sure this is a cat and not a young lynx?
- It’s a Highlander cat. Natural bobbed tail, curled ears, and polydactyl claws.
  
  Those are very rare. In fact, I'm pretty sure there can be only one.
  
  seems plausible
- At least it's not a young mountain lion...

I am imagining the cat making exaggerated cartoon footstep sounds as it walks
- Coconut halves
- https://youtu.be/xs6kuiZNvlo

I’d adopt this freak show in a second and give him the best home

Just imagine the amount of biscuits Stomp could make. Absolute perfection
- I'm proud of y'all for not replying "absolute purrfection"

We can't see your cat's tail from this one picture. Is it short? Those feet and short tail may make Stomp a Pixie-Bob breed .
- Its a highland lynx, which are generally bred to have manx tail.
  Fun fact: because of the manx tail, it has a high chance of being incontinent.
  
  Yay
  
  Since they’re from the Isle of Man, wouldn’t they be out continent?

I got my long haired Highlander from a gal at work whose daughter was allergic. Best cat I’ve ever had.

Hot damn! Those paws are comically big. It's like if a cartoon cat with big feet came to life but kept the disproportionate paws. Awesome!

why did you name him stomp
- Definitely looks more like a Pippin to me...
  
  He's obviously a Proudfoot.

You know what they say about cats with big peets.
They need big cuddles. I'm glad he's got an accomodating home.

That is a lynx.

Call me crazy but I love it. Makes him even more cute!

Stomp summoned this book from the depths of my memory. Big things in store for those big paws!
- I had that book as a kid and I'd completely forgotten about it until now!
- "An 'I can read' book" yeah why else would you have it then, smartass
  /s just in case

If this is actually your cat, you might get him checked for acromegaly.
- Looks like polydactyly to me, which is not uncommon in cats.
- Not my kitty, but good to know!
  
  Fun fact: Ernest Hemingway used to collect polydactyl cats and now, because of him, there is a abnormally sizable population of polydactyl cats on Key West, FL.

It's not a pathological defect though? I mean does he have health problems because of his paws?
- Polydatctyly (extra toes) is not all that uncommon in cats. As far as I know it doesn't lead to any notable negative outcomes. We had a poly cat (named Poly because that's what the shelter called her) who lived a long and healthy life. Earnest Hemmingway famously kept and bred polydactyl cats at his home in Key West, and if you go visit the staff there still take care of their descendants.
  Here's our Poly:
  
  I saw the Polys at Hemingway House, they all look very normal in comparison to Stomp's big feet.
  Almost all of them were taking naps in plants and under benches

I love him

Ground pounders up and around.

I bet that adorable dude can move.

I wanna see the boot not too big for the gd feet!

I love stomp

I hope he doesn’t grow into those feet.

That cat clearly belongs to Jeff Dabe.

What an Oblivion mountain lion actually looked like

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills with all of these comments talking about this as if it's a real photo and not AI slop looks like complete shit. Are the comments AI generated spam too? Are they just stupid? Am I AI generated spam?
- I don't think this is AI generated spam. There is apparently a real breed of cat that looks like this. I think you need to be less paranoid, this is lemmy.
  
  Yup no money no karma.
  No point in farming nothing.
- This photo has been around for a few years. It's not AI.
  Also my bobtail buddy
- Worse than being AI, this is a newish designer breed called a highland lynx, and the polydactyl, curled ear tips, and manx tail are traits they are breeding for.
  Unfortunately, its not very ethical to breed for these traits, especially the manx tail, which can cause cats to be born incontinent.
- I'd like to believe it's not AI:
- Polydactyly is not uncommon in feral cats, but I have no information about the provenience of the photo.
  I am not AI spam. I am sometimes stupid.
- I looked into it a little using TinEye and the image predates generative AI images of this quality. I actually think it's a photoshopped normal cat; possibly as part of that weird trend of making some small detail of a normal photo look freakish.

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