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Diane Arbus by Allan Arbus, 1949

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donna summer summer

ava-deb

AVADEB + their second honeymoon trip to Paris

drpepperwhoree

remember that pride is still a protest

whirling-ghost

[ID: "a world without trans people has never existed and never will" written in silver on a black background and surrounded by stars. end ID]

knownforms

And this would be a grim, gray, awful world without trans people.

maryoliveoil

Today I learned that the creator of “Widow’s Bay” was The Babadook meme girl

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Sueellen Ross (American b.1941), Moving Day, 2024, Oil on canvas

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Hexagon Quilt

jstor

Happy Pride Month! 🌈

This year’s LGBTQIA+ Pride Month roundup from JSTOR Daily brings together stories on queer history, literature, activism, archives, community care, and the people who built spaces where LGBTQ+ communities could thrive.

You’ll also find links to free scholarly research throughout, making it easy to keep exploring.

See the full roundup.

Image: Covers for several alternative gay and lesbian feminist publications via JSTOR's Reveal Digital Independent Voices Collection.

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“We Are Lady Parts” is an anarchic and irreverent music comedy following a Muslim female punk band – called Lady Parts – who are on a mission to find a lead guitarist and maybe, just maybe, get a proper gig.

Sign me tf up!!!

ava-deb

HACKS (2021—2026) S05E09, "The Garden"

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@jorality

jorality

We know who has all the brain cells

arsnof

It makes the dream work

naamahdarling

Being smart enough to know when to consult and listen to someone more knowledgeable is in fact quite smart! Many humans cannot manage this!

alessandriana

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is upda

Stolen from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

mikkeneko

Here's a link to the EFF page that contains this information:

The ad identifier - aka “IDFA” on iOS, or “AAID” on Android - is the key that enables most third-party tracking on mobile devices. Disabling

On Android

With the release of Android 12, Google began allowing users to delete their ad ID permanently. On devices that have this feature enabled, you can open the Settings app and navigate to Privacy > Ads. Tap “Delete advertising ID,” then tap it again on the next page to confirm. This will prevent any app on your phone from accessing it in the future.

On iOS

To see which apps you have previously granted access to, go to Settings > Privacy > Tracking. You can set the “Allow apps to Request to Track” switch to the “off” position (the slider is to the left and the background is gray). This will prevent apps from asking to track in the future. If you have granted apps permission to track you in the past, this will prompt you to ask those apps to stop tracking as well. You also have the option to grant or revoke tracking access on a per-app basis.

Apple has its own targeted advertising system, separate from the third-party tracking it enables with IDFA. To disable it, navigate to Settings > Privacy > Apple Advertising. Set the “Personalized Ads” switch to the “off” position to disable Apple’s ad targeting.

#abolish ICE #abolish DHS #fuck ice #fuck trump

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.