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at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress

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Just so you know the guy that gave him the chainsaw is Javier Milei, the argentinian PRESIDENT. You can see him in the background waving like his actually someone but a muppet to the extreme right of Argentina.

Javier's "symbol" is in fact a chainsaw and yes I'm an argentinian woman and I hate him and everything you've said so far pretty much applies to him too except he actually doesn't have any money or status or anything

thinking about when my professor told me how the boards of companies/orgs/etc. will sometimes hire on a CEO/whatever who they know will basically take a chainsaw to existing infrastructure, let them fuck as much shit up as possible, and then promptly fire them as soon as they've accomplished what the board wanted them to do. then they can point the finger at that guy & look like they're the heroes and the problem is resolved because he's gone now. and they still get to keep all the changes they wanted that nobody else did.

anyway I think it's fun and all to watch the two most divorced men on the planet publicly divorce each other. and also. maybe keep that in mind, is all.

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sometimes you just need a little break 😴 [ID in alt]

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To any and all fanfic writers

If I see that your fic was written by Ai

I am 100% not reading your fic

Sorry, not sorry.

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Hey kids, wanna learn what signs of botulism look like?

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Reblog to send your love to the ao3 volunteers who worked their asses off to ensure we can read the queerest, smutiest, LGBTQiest works on the planet.

Donate to them too! They fucking deserve it.

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i don’t make the rules AT ALL, but if you mostly spend time in Gay People Spaces then you know about 28 ppl who look like this 

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“We stood there and watched and saw the flags, and their faces lit up. It needed no explanation. People knew immediately that it was our flag.”

- US Activist Cleve Jones

It’s 45 years today since the rainbow flag was first flown - on 25 June 1978 at San Francisco Pride - as a symbol of gay pride and the queer community!

[Image: two rainbow flags flying on flagpoles above a group of people out on the street at San Francisco pride. The flags have eight coloured stripes, and one has a blue-and-white star pattern in the top left corner.]

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oh I wasn’t aware it was feeding the ai. I’ve inserted hundreds of fics into chatgpt for their continuation or for a different plot within the same context just for fun and out of curiosity… but I’ve never posted any of them…

Indeed, anything that is given to AI it can use later to draw from. That's why it doesn't matter if you post them or not as it has now access to those writers' texts without their permission.

~Mod L

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not just ‘he would not fucking say that’ but ‘he would not, under torture, admit that’

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blood on women is sexy if it’s someone else’s. blood on men is sexy if it’s theirs. hope this helps.

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Harvey’s the cover star of The Advocate’s 2022 People of the Year issue!

“It’s important for all of us to be able to tap into our feminine and masculine self and be comfortable in that space. There is both in each of us, both powerful and beautiful,” Guillén says. “I think when we let go of the fear of being too [much of] one or the other, is when we can breathe and just live.”

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from me to you.......

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who is doing it like him

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these parents are so angry 😭

The film tackles the transition from childhood to womanhood, challenges of mother-daughter relationships and generational trauma all in under two hours. While many praised the project for its normalization of these topics, some parents who watched the film felt that its themes were “too mature” for their children…

Director Domee Shi said she hopes the movie “starts those conversations and that we can eventually just normalize talking about puberty and menstruation and not feel so weird about it.”

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I agree

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