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@southerndykeramblings
when I say I need a lesbian wild west show in the exact same vein as certain comedies (like ofmd, good omens, wwdits) I am not joking !!
give me silly sapphics being endearingly goofy and gay in an oddly specific sub-genre please I am begging
WEE WOO WEE WOO
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
LUCIUS IS ALIVE
THE BEARD
AND THE WOODEN FINGER
AHHHHHH
loving deeply is a strength. loving deeply is a strength. loving deeply is a strength. don’t hate that about yourself again. don’t hate that about yourself again.
the burned child reaches again and again into the flame so long as it contains the promise of love.
what’s the harm in getting burned again if their scars are thick?
i never thought of myself as a lover
(i love easily and strongly;
i must give to others what i was denied.)
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From Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians, 1979
photos by JEB
From Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians, 1979
photos by JEB
part of why I love stone butch blues is hugely contributed to the fact that the butches experience a full range of emotions. They cry, they blush, they feel weakness so obviously but are so undoubtedly strong. They laugh and are nervous and don't always know what to do, sometimes they do shit wrong, sometimes they're embarrassing. They're warm and sweet and it's incredible because like people get the idea that butch is rigid, just a tough face, only competency, only stoic. When in like real life every butch I love is so fucking silly and open and joking and emotional and this does not at all detract from but in fact instills their strength in my mind. Butches laugh through the hardest shit, offer you their support when they're already limping.
I wish I knew all that when I was younger and trying to be tough about everything because that's all I knew. That's all any of the dykes I knew who were my age knew and we rubbed together like stone on stone, sometimes doing damage when it wasn't necessary. We scraped each other into points but couldn't control where we aimed.
I don't regret a second of it, because they all taught me something and there's always gonna be a piece of me that loves tough love because feelings are complicated that way. But I'm really glad I grew up and realized I don't have to be tough to be strong and I hope others do, too.
Hey, do y’all remember how Tencent said they were developing faceID AI to identify people in riots, and then they suddenly created an AI art generator to turn your selfies into anime?
Do y’all remember that time that someone discovered facial recognition cameras couldn't see through Juggalo makeup, then Facebook had a fun “see what you'd look like with Juggalo makeup” thing, and then facial recognition cameras could suddenly see through Juggalo makeup?
Do y’all remember how, on Twitter, Elon started a tirade against artists who ask for credit when their art is reposted, and he suddenly he created one of the first big art AI programs?
Do y’all remember how AI destroyed the field of translation, despite the inferiority of the machine translations, because people didn’t care about the quality of the translations? They just wanted it done for free?
Do you know how companies will see a lot of money going into a New Tech Thing (like, say, AI art apps) and will jump to try and implement that New Tech Thing into their tech? For example, how it felt like every big company and celebrity had an NFT to sell?
Just wondering.
do you remember the time when people thought it would be the pizza delivery people and factory workers that would be replaced with robots? its becoming far more apparent that they're not going to come for jobs that don't pay, they aren't going to replace what they already have for much cheaper.
they're coming for jobs that require immense skill, like art, like writing. intentionally creating a culture of citizens that feel no need to have a skill. now, don't get me wrong. you don't need to have a skill. its a nice bonus, though, to be praised for the work that started at your brain and ended at your hands
and they're trying to swindle us into making it happen. mass participation in fabricated trends will create data, and that is the exact thing that they are after when they target advertisements and devise algorithms to cater to your interests.
and now, we are seeing images generated from peoples willing participation in these data collecting trends, we are seeing prototype bots that are raking in other peoples writing en masse. we are seeing artificial intelligence getting more and more specific and precise in its goals, especially in security like with the facial recognition bots.
its all for making money, while creating a loophole for not giving money to skilled craftspeople. its about turning skilled professionals into cashiers and fry cooks.
the way I see it, this whole replacement of skill boils down to creating more jobs that pay less. its about creating a culture that makes people lower their expectations. its about making you say, oh, they don't want to commission me. they want artificial intelligence to do it for me. I still need to make money. so I suppose i will find a paying job until someone commissions me.
its an insult, and a scam. I predict that with the coming of AI art, there is going to be a sudden influx of people working minimum wage or unemployed. people that, from a billionaire point of view, do not have to be paid.
call me a boomer, or out of touch, or paranoid, i don't really care. but I will never touch ai art, facial recognition trends, et cetera. we deserve better.
feels right n good that the new year starts on a sunday. this entire year will have a sunday kind of love perhaps.... :0
happy sunday kind of love 2023
i need to know every language immediately
at what point is it going to be socially acceptable to not pretend like the wednesday show is good?
someone should keep a tally of the amount of FERPA violations in the wednesday show
“In the crooks of your body, I find my religion.”
- Sappho
there’s something so special to me about lesbians. lesbians throughout history. working class lesbians. black and indigenous lesbians. jewish lesbians. stone butches and high femmes. i love lesbian history and seeing photos of not just our resistance, but our triumph fills me with a sense of community so strong it makes me want to cry.
