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styofa doing anything
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Product Placement
Peter Solarz
Not today Justin
Game of Thrones Daily
d e v o n
todays bird
roma★
i don't do bad sauce passes
titsay
taylor price
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trying on a metaphor
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Misplaced Lens Cap
blake kathryn
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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@a-short-handled-hoe
on this day one year ago someone sewed a fried egg to a tshirt
on this day two years ago someone sewed a fried egg to a shirt
on this day three years ago someone sewed a fried egg to a shirt
on this day four years ago someone sewed a fried egg to a shirt
on this day five years ago someone sewed a fried egg to a shirt
On this day six years ago someone sewed a fried egg to a shirt.
Oh hey I haven’t yelled about voting in a while
Reposting this because some of y’all need a reminding.
I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.
The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”
1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.
Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.
It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.
dude had guts, someone needs to update his Wikipedia page
Why is conservative logic pretty much “you can live on a minimum wage if you cut out LIVING”??
im gonna build a decoy sephora and whenever someone walks in all the doors and windows lock and they have to listen to my hour long crash course on spotting fraudulent “skincare”
ok heres a SNEAK PREVIEW of my crash course consisting of the most common kinds of bullshit i see people falling for
-gold and pearl do NOTHING for your skin. they just sit on top being useless and at most provide some cosmetic shimmer. a product with gold/pearl has a higher price for no reason. not only that but companies Know these ingredients are useless so if a company is purposefully misleading the public with bogus advertising that means that everything else about their product should also be regarded with suspicion
-dont take the marketing teams word for what an ingredient does!! example: ive seen companies add extracts from “desert plants” to moisturizers and claim that since desert plants dont dry out, theyll keep ur skin from drying out too. this doesnt make any sense if u think about it for more than 10 seconds, but it sure makes for a pretty ad!
-topical collagen is useless! collagen isnt absorbed through the skin, its an enormous molecule, it just sits on ur face doing nothing. like gold and pearl, its a useless ingredient that serves only to hike prices up
-beware of vague promises! if something says it will “rejuvenate” or “revitalize” or “wake up” your skin its bullshit. those words dont mean anything! some decent products may use those words in marketing, but if a product exclusively uses vague terms, or provides “data” like “80% of women saw more invigorated skin” thats a warning sign for bullshittery
-check the ingredients list. a product may prominently advertise that it includes [CURRENT FAD INGREDIENT] but where is the ingredient? once you get near the end of the ingredients list, the quantities of those components are so miniscule that the feature ingredient probably wont provide any benefits at all
-get some ph strips and test ur products. average healthy skin ph is around 4-5 (slightly acidic) and maintaining that ph is important for everything from protection against infection to maintaining moisture. most of ur products should be neutral (7) or slightly acidic. chemical exfoliants might have ph as low as 3. chemical exfoliants have different optimal phs so do some research on yours.
-for the love of god PLEASE dont use scratchy physical exfoliators !!!!! if you want physical exfoliation use something gentle like a konjac sponge. i also had a scrub that used rounded grains of rice as the exfoliating element and that worked well. dont scrub your face super hard and try not to exfoliate every day. be nice to your skin please !!!
thats all for now stop by your local strange, slightly unnerving, brand-new sephora for more info
Apparently, the right to own a gun is more important than the right to own my own god damn internal organs.
The first step towards fascism is disarmament.
Which seems more like facism- regulating gun ownership, or stripping people of the right to their OWN BODIES?
Just so as everyone knows, what @lord-deplorable up there is referencing is a myth about the rise of Nazi Germany and the Third Reich that claims the fascists used gun regulation to disarm the German populace as they took power. This is commonly used to argue that any attempt to pass gun control in the US is a fascist action and therefore must be opposed.
Oh, and it’s also complete bullshit. As in “fully debunked” bullshit that has no basis in fact.
The Nazis actually loosed gun regulations from where they were at previously, making it easier for people to acquire firearms. Prior to the Nazis, gun control in Germany was strict and they made it less so.
There’s an entire wikipedia page on the argument that goes into detail on the source of the myth as well as the way that it’s been refuted. (source)
I’m not sure there’s any lesson to take from this beyond…fact-check bullshit claims and check whether or not the person making them has any credibility, because @lord-deplorable’s front page certainly makes it sound like they have absolutely no credibility.
The first step towards fascism is disarmament making sure the right people all have guns.
That last bit. I’ve always felt you could break the gun lobby by actively going out an signing up brown people. All the sudden they’d be like “whoa, whoa, whoa, this is not what I meant at ALL.”
Did you mean- exactly what happened when the Black Panthers started arming themselves?
me reading dorian gray: that’s wilde
#be still my bi heart
@ellipsical-elle
Oh dear heavens, that color on her.
I think I just swallowed my tongue.
That color IS divine on her, tbh. Just sayin’.
facts are jameela jamil and lizzo are doing some of the most important and groundbreaking work in terms of challenging body norms and disordered eating - work that is WELL overdue in that industry - and regardless of ur opinion on them personally, regardless of the fact that yes they r still part of the inherently flawed capitalist institution of celebrity, regardless of missteps they might make along the way (bc they are human and also under way more scrutiny bc they’re both women of colour), what they are doing will, with no exaggeration, save lives
no one:
me: diana prince and etta candy fell in love and lived a life together tho
wow … she said/did that
“It’s not our job to shape them into the people we think they should be,” says Fox. “It’s our job to receive, with grace, the lessons they bring us.“
wow queen
Power move.
one of the most aesthetically beautiful displays of protest i’ve seen
Loving to look at black women isn't the same as loving black women.
Serge N. Kozintsev, Morning Tea
I know this is meant to be a skull but two ladies drinking some tasty tea with one naked and sitting basically on top of the other who is wearing a pretty dress is definitely some lesbian art right there
