Corroded Bisexual

[noseysilverfox]

June 2026

[folklorespring]

Woman's World – Canadian magazine created by Ukrainian Women’s Organization of Canada.

[subsequentibis]

catching up on how the clacton by-election is shaping up and this sequence had me rolling

[purusims]

☀️🌊🍦🧸⛱️

[firagasoap]

Broccoli Knuckle Duster by David Delahunty

[ma-gpie]

[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

[catsofyore]

Safety first. Photo from my collection, no date.

[nessa007]

[halfeatenmoon]

the question is not whether I would survive in the Odd Squad universe, it's how much I would thrive as a prime-number-themed villain

[vitariesocks]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

[vitariesocks]

2 pics. no caption

[houseofcatwic]

"Bask in the sun" by Ricky Wei

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

[myfairynuffstuff]

Erika Toliusis (b.1969) - Pacific Angel. 2022. Oil with palette knife on canvas.

[sunshinetheinspiration]

@teaboot

[teaboot]

Painted with a FUCKING PALETTE KNIFE?

[jadeseadragon]

Khatija Possum Nampijinpa:

Seven Sisters on Great Grandmothers Country, acrylic on linen. (top)

Seven Sisters on Grandmother's Country, acrylic on linen. (bottom)

[gacougnol]

Francesca Woodman (American, 1958–1981)

Self-portrait with cat, New York, 1980

[huariqueje]

Sundance - Antonia Tyz Peeples

American , b. 1957 -

Oil on canvas. , 12 x 16 in.

[aromanticduck]

Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you

[juststarsandthemoon]

Free service with no ads: Okay so these guys are stealing my data

[mistakenot4892]

They're all stealing your data.

[alexseanchai]

I saw today's lj_2008 post announcing the return of Basic accounts with great interest, because the large print giveth and the small print t

Yesterday, we discussed part one of <a href="http://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/234496.html">Why Monetizing Social Media Through Advertising

Friday we did part one of <a href="http://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/234496.html">Why Monetizing Social Media Through Advertising Is Doomed

this essay series is old enough to register to vote in the United States, and its author is the same Denise of Dreamwidth who keeps writing new explanations of why KOSA-type regulation of the data thieves will fuck over anybody on the internet who wants to refrain from collecting personal information—for reasons including but not limited to how hackers can't steal and governments can't subpoena data that didn't get collected to begin with—because every time Netchoice sues another government over another KOSA-type law, it is a slightly different law that needs a slightly different explanation of why it is unenforceable for several different pragmatic reasons in addition to being unconstitutional in several different ways

Dreamwidth is still ad-free and venture-capital-free and refusing to do business in jurisdictions that would require it to collect more personal data than it collects now, and therefore Dreamwidth is proof that internet business models do not need and should not have any of ads, venture capital, and data theft; this has been true long enough that my own Dreamwidth account is almost old enough to vote

the thing that keeps other people in the industry boggling at Dreamwidth, in a lot of the same ways and for a lot of the same reasons that people in the industry boggle at AO3, is that the income stream is all users of the service, because the service itself (and the Dreamwidth features that are available to all users but have higher limits for paid users) is valuable enough to enough people that part of what paid users are paying for is specifically to keep the service itself free for everyone else

[cherryjams]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

[bladespark]

My mother used to make computer cores as a "work from home" side business. As a child I got spending money via un-winding the ones that failed testing so that the magnetic center could be re-used. I got between $0.05 and $0.25 per core depending. Mom got more for the finished ones, of course, though I don't know how much. Her sister was an expert, and did the more complicated kind, some of which ended up in satellites and/or were used by NASA!

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.