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In reply to everyone's silent questioning: dug around. There's many way to say "lovers" in russian, and the majority of them are non-ambiguously gendered. The one he used for the title is the ambiguous gender-neutral one. The painter himself was mostly a book illustrator, and most works i could find are either obviously something inline with the government, something more usual, or something more upbeat/fairy-tale-ish for kids books. This one's nothing like most other stuff. I cannot find more info on him, but it may as well not be a cishet couple - however, i think the odds are it is :<

becauseeee

"Quarreled", same guy, seems like the same building - the mirror, walls and staircase are the same. But also it's a typical USSR building staircase copies of which there are thousands. Here it seems that the couple is cishet, but i'm not sure if it's precisely the same couple. The upper figure has blonde hair, while on the "lovers" one they have it potato brown sort of. It likely is just an unintentional miss, like the wrong position of the paper on the door, so i guess it's the same couple, and high chances are that it's cishet. I don't think there were ladies wearing that kind of a hat like the lower figure does, but also i didn't dig deep into USSR lesbianism traditions and tricks. Who knows, maybe the butch ones kinda disguised as men when going to their lover to not raise suspicion of the neighbours and get snitched on for gay eventually? Is possible, but alas, likely not what's here.

“Lovers” by Lev Khailov (1950s)

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I think it's this way for a lot of trans people, but it just occured to me personally that of the reasons i pursue non mainstream knowledge and try doing a lot of stuff myself is because knowledge and craft don't care who's learning or making! Talking to people, organizing stuff, etc etc, even being active online, it's (98% negatively) biased by being transfem at least to some degree. But modular synths don't give a shit who designs or plays them, laws of physics don't care who coaxes them into making funny noises, programming languages don't give a shit what you are, only about what you type out, ya know? I guess if the world was more usual towards me, i would turn out a bit more usual, too, for better or worse.

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New amenpunk album is OUT!

Pulverized amenbreaks, hard hittin' gabber kicks, punkish squarewave riffs and decoracore bounciness, all compressed into the supercharged glitterbomb of my new album! Four brand-new tracks plus remixes for friends and a shimmery-glittery ambient bonus, available today from my bandcamp - go check it out!

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Raising a glass for all of the people who have been waiting since they first read tf2 comic #6 as young boys who can now enjoy the release of comic #7 as beautiful grown women

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a magical sword can only be pulled from its anvil by a maiden of purest heart. a young knight visits the anvil daily to make the attempt, crushed each time he cannot do the deed, yearning for a sign from the universe that he *is* in truth what he yearns to be. for the world to plop the gift of identity into outstretched arms. but of course, it never does. until one day, he has a chance encounter with a nymph of the lake who was once an ordinary squire, and he learns from her that maidenhood will not be given to him, that he must be brave and choose it for himself. and so the knight changes her name and reintroduces herself to the world and employs the greatest miracles of modern science to become the maiden she had always dreamed of being, and this time, when she revists the sword, she only can't pull it because she's kind of an asshole.

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New amenpunk album is OUT!

Pulverized amenbreaks, hard hittin' gabber kicks, punkish squarewave riffs and decoracore bounciness, all compressed into the supercharged glitterbomb of my new album! Four brand-new tracks plus remixes for friends and a shimmery-glittery ambient bonus, available today from my bandcamp - go check it out!

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You know you've fucked up when you go to a doctor and the thing you have wrong with you has been named after an occupation that isn't a thing anymore. Like imagine a doctor looking at you and going "yeah you've got ox-drawn ploughman's disease. We don't even test for that anymore. Yeah the reason you've never heard of it is because the last known case was in 1927 and happened to some guy who was like 98 years old and didn't believe in modern medicine of the time. What the fuck have you been up to."

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there's no way people. chapter 7 is out

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It really does feel that way though

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A dream I had... he didn't know the counterplay

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I love going viral on tumblr.com. It’s like if you stood in a field and said some of the stupidest shit a human being is capable of and then like fifty thousand crows attacked you

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Okay, so, friends. Occasionally I see an American post on here about “guillotine the rich,” and it turns out that “rich” means “anyone making over $50k.”

We need to clear this shit up REAL fast, because otherwise it’s gonna wind up like the French Revolution, where more middle class and poor people were killed for being “class traitors” than actual nobles. (Did you know that France has more nobles today than during the French Revolution? While there were a few showy executions, many nobles did just fine or experienced minor setbacks.)

If someone makes $60,000 a year, they are making about twice as much as a full time worker making minimum wage in California, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, or Washington State.

Brian Thompson, the CEO of United HealthCare who was just assassinated in New York City, earned $10 million a year, which means he earned 333 times minimum wage in those states. Basically, he cleared an annual minimum wage salary in just over a day. And that “rich” person making $60k/year that you want to guillotine? He made their salary in a bit over two days of a year.

So he was rich, right?

Well. Tesla is trying to give Elon Musk a pay package of $101 billion. That is 10,100 times what Brian Thompson earned and 3,366,667 times more than a minimum wage worker. (Tesla hasn’t been successful yet because of a complicated lawsuit from a shareholder, but they’ll get there.) If you are a minimum wage worker, Elon Musk makes more every SECOND than you do in a year. And that “rich” person who you want to guillotine? He makes their salary in about 1.6 seconds. Even when he’s sleeping.

Now, remember. The Muskrat also is the head of SpaceX, the Boring Company, X.ai, and X.com, so this is just ONE pay package for him.

What I’m saying is — you have much more in common when it comes to economic grievances with someone earning $60,000 (or even $200,000) than the ultra wealthy that have real power. They are not the people you should expend your energy on.

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At long last: BancalaWalker Splatoon 3 Band Information Translations

Translation: @3600frames, @rassicas, and myself

Typesetting: @/Octoplus (Bluesky)

Scans: @shellsfm

NOTE: Several characters are referred to with they/them. This is due to how Japanese is written, it's easy for pronouns and gendered terms to be omitted. This does not mean these characters are "canonically nonbinary.” The exceptions to this are Orion and Acht, who both use they/them pronouns in English.

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Fuckin gottem boys

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Two panels for today! The bigger one already has the pcb done, the vco is next. Happy with my recent simpler designs ☆