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Accompagno una persona ad una visita “legale” per la conferma di una invalidità (come se da un anno con l’altro l’invalidità possa miracolosamente sparire, ma non è di questo che voglio parlare).
Io non posso entrare, vado in un bar ad aspettare. Devo andare in bagno e chiedo il classico caffè.
Ci sono molti libri usati nel locale e la proprietaria mi spiega che sono in vendita a 2,50 euro per un’associazione che sostiene un canile per cani “anziani”.
Noto subito che è una persona “speciale”.
Mentre curioso tra i libri, entra una donna con un bambino, ordina anche lei un caffè e chiede subito del bagno.
La proprietaria subito le dice: “Guardi signora che non è necessario che lei prenda il caffè, può usare il bagno ugualmente”. E lo dice con una gentilezza che si capisce che viene dal cuore.
Ecco.
Se siete di Milano, andateci.
È in via Numa Pompilio 14.
Tra l’altro il bar è molto bello, di fronte ad un parchetto.
Se avete libri usati portateli lì, a loro servono.
Questo me lo segno
Questo lo rebloggo volentieri
Per i milanesi, che io sono fuori zona parecchio :-)
Warning: the first photo of the five below shows a dead body. If you do not want to see it, either scroll past it quickly or skip this post.
On April 8, 1947, investigators finally found the body of Langley Collyer in his house on Fifth Avenue and 128th St. in Harlem. He had lived there for decades with his brother Homer, whose body had been found some two weeks earlier. Homer had apparently died of starvation. Because the ground floor was completely filled with 50 tons of debris, policemen had to enter through the upper floors. It took them several days to clear the ground floor.
The four-story building was crammed to the rafters with sewing machines, the body of a Model T, weapons, baby carriages, busts, mangled Christmas trees, thousands of books, 14 pianos, an organ, newspapers packed in boxes, and other items. The total came to 120 tons.
The brothers had lived there since 1909, when Homer, a lawyer, was 28. After the death of their mother 20 years later, they lived there alone. They were notorious for their extreme thrift—Homer walked to work on paper-thin soles to save money for the subway, they canceled their phone service in 1917 and, after disputes with utility companies in 1927, they went without water or electricity.
Some time in the early 1930s, they stopped working and became recluses. Langley left the house only at night, leading neighbors to call him "Ghost." Homer went blind and also suffered from severe rheumatism. The two became paranoid, convinced that thieves were out to get them, and installed traps all over the house. It is thought that Langley fell into one of his own traps.
Because the brothers had no heirs, their property passed to the state. The city had the brownstone demolished.
Over the years the Collyer story has inspired films, plays, and books. There have been off-Broadway stage productions such as Mark Saltzman's Clutter and Richard Greenberg's The Dazzle, a nonfiction book, Ghosty Men, by journalist Franz Lidz, Richard Finkelstein's series of drawings of the Collyer house, a Glasgow musical called "Tunnel Visions," which set the brothers' story to a music and light show, and, in 2009, the novel Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow.
All photos from the AP via Der Spiegel. Anthony Camerano took all but the top, which was taken by Jacob Harris, and the bottom, which was the work of Harry Harris.
I do still and will always love that nearly all of the nude sketches and watercolors in museums done by Sargent where gifted to those institutions after his death by his sisters who discovered these piles of beautiful drawings and were like “oh John the world was just not ready for you were they?” But they knew someday that would change so they scattered them into some of the most prominent museum collections in the United States at the time so that someday people would know who their brother really was: a fag who did what he had to to make a living so he could spend the rest of his time making the most beautiful drawings of naked men like ever.
Part of why these drawings ended up where they did was because in 1925 when Sargent died, his sisters went through his studio and sold a lot of the finished works that remained (there was almost certainly exceptional demand for his work at this late stage, and post several enormous and very public commissions, he likely would have made efforts to sell what works he had that were unrelated to those projects.) In going through the studio, they also found all these drawings and watercolors of the male nude. Emily Sargent was an accomplished painter in her own right and would have certainly know the value those sketches had for her brother and how important this part of his studio had been to him. Some of the recurring figures would have been men Sargent’s sisters may have known, as they were long time “companions” of the artist. And in 1925, these drawings of nudes would have been unsaleable. The male nude, regardless of how academic the drawing or painting, was regarded as pornographic and lewd (Thomas Eakins was dismissed from his job at PAFA in 1886 for having a male model remove his loin cloth in a figure drawing class where female students were present) and so Sargent’s sisters did the next best thing and left them to museums to safeguard, knowing that their brother had always been a draftsman and a student of the male form from his earliest beginnings and hopefully to some extent, knew that those sketches were really where their brother had lived the best parts of his life as a man and an artist.
And with all this said, I do find it sort of useless to just slap “gay” onto John Singer Sargent rather than understanding or appreciating the context surrounding and necessity of repressing his sexual identity to the extent that we don’t have clear language from the man himself on it. What we have are artworks but those aren’t labels or assignments or a fair means to transpose someone’s experience 150 years ago into our own present. And that, as a queer person today, looking at his work and reading about it, you stand to gain so much more by reciting history as it was instead of translating it into a contemporary mold that he would not have understood and in all likelihood, wouldn’t have needed to find joy and pleasure in his daily life because it brings you comfort at the expense of facts which is also the absence of informtation. Like part of why you look at history is not to yank people out of the timeline and slap your personal identification on them - it’s to understand that throughout history, their are people who slipped through cracks and lived in spaces of grayed ambiguity and that was their experience, that they left behind many more questions than answers and your responsibility is to protect and preserve their right to whatever circumstance did not permit a label or a name. The challenge posed to you is to grieve. In this case, the story is not that Sargent was a certifiable homo. That is besides the point. The point is that he drew naked men a lot, everywhere he traveled he drew naked men, that he was adored and supported by many other people who, in their time, were looked at as “other” despite their wealth or education, and that his family knew enough to save the sketches deemed worthless at the time of his death.
UN AIUTO PER UNA PERSONA A ME CARA
Ventenne che sta transizionando FtM (da femmina a maschio) con terapia ormonale ma con un seno troppo abbondante per essere ridotto dal testosterone.
Dove è possibile fare una mastoplastica riduttiva di mascolinizzazione del torace che abbia le seguenti caratteristiche?
Costo non elevato (o gratuità* )
Iter burocratico snellito il più possibile
Lui sicuramente si sta informando in modo autonomo nei vari forum su internet ma io volevo dargli supporto chiedendo alle persone trans di tumblr un aiuto da rigirargli (se non volete esporvi potete scrivere anche sul mio profilo telegram kon_igi ).
E a chi non sa magari chiedo un gentile reblog di condivisione.
Grazie, davvero <3
*Se le mie tasse per il SSN le pago volentieri per curare la gente che corre in autostrada, si sfonda di alcol o fa sport pericolosi, le pago ancora più volentieri per restituire la serenità a una persona con disforia di genere. Punto.
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Can you imagine this happening in a walmart in the US? Yeah, me either…
And the checker is sitting down!
We’re just too acclimated to the inherent CRUELTY of Capitalist America.
I never understood why checkers must stand in USA. Here in Europe (at least, I'm speaking especially of Italy and France) they stay seated and nobody see any problem in that.
So my village has a charity christmas fair on the last sunday before christmas every year. My sister is in charge of organizing prizes for the lottery/tombola, and she always writes to local businesses to donate items, gift cards, whatever. The companies are usually really generous, it's awesome. First prize is s flat screen tv from a electronics dealer.
We have one shop for home decor that's sadly giving up its business, and donated a whole box of glass decorations.
Among them, this glass shrimp. In a fancy jewelry box.
I'm the only one who loves him 🥺❤. My sister wanted to throw it in the bin because 'who would want a glass shrimp'.
So.
Like and Reblog if you'd want to win a glass shrimp in a tombola, i guess? Let's save him from the bin!
I want it! <3
And "tombola" is an Italian word, we use it all the time, it's like our bingo
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WTF are those obelisks on the right?…
Tasty obelisk fries..
“It’s digestible” has got to be the laziest goal I’ve ever seen achieved by a food product.
“It’s digestible”
“It’s digestible” is pertinent!! Okay, for those of you who haven’t researched Crisco for writing fic about gay sex in the mid-late 60s:
The first-edition of The Joy of Gay Sex, published in 1977, declared, “Vegetable shortening may be the best lubricant, since it is not only greasy but also digestible”[4] Such a statement perhaps gives new meaning to the companies boastful declarations that “Its digestible” and “Crisco has been making life in the kitchen more delicious for years.” Similarly, in the 1978 sex manual The Advocate Guide to Gay Health, Crisco even earned an entry in the book’s index. Discussions of the shortening’s use as an anal lubricant indicate its popularity, with statements such as: “The lubricant, typically the cultic Crisco, must be copious.”[5] In fact, Crisco was so synonomus with gay sex that discos and bars around the world took on the name, such as Crisco Disco in New York City, which was one of the premiere clubs during the 1970s and early 1980s. Other clubs or bathhouses, such as Club Z in Seattle, even featured murals with Crisco. Thus, Crisco was conversely also one of many things that led to the formation of gay identities during the 20th century.
from this essay: http://www.columbia.edu/~sf2220/TT2007/web-content/Pages/drew2.html
The more you know! :D
I have learned a new thing today.
Love this post for so many reasons but most especially because this is from all the way back in 2012 and and yet not a single blog in this thread is deactivated
I enjoy that not only does this have a link to an actual source, but the link still fucking works.
but @rhea314 you didnt include a picture of the crisco disco! AND MY GOD THE DJ BOOTH WAS A GIANT CRISCO CAN!
Go dance and get fisted. Fucking iconic.
Love the gay history, but i just wanna correct that the “it’s digestible” in the gay stuff was a reference to crisco’s tagline it had been using since 1911, the actual meaning of its digestible is because it’s main competition came from “enhanced” lards which were rendered pig fat mixed with non food thickeners that literally did not digest and caused people to basically just shit out pig cream, since crisco was veggie based the body digested it along with the food
And in case you were still wondering, @mudwerks.. Tuna Croquettes
This post is the opposite of net zero information. Not only did I learn several new facts about gay history but also we rounded our way back to the original question of the tag line and the mini obelisks.
It’s a net profit of information. 12/10 post
'The Effect of Fog and Snow Seen through a Ruined Gothic Colonnade'. Louis Daguerre. 1927.
That's not Gothic, it's Romanic. And since Louis Daguerre has died in 1851, it's not 1927 (probably 1827)
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old fashioned breakcore
Gloria Swanson on the set of Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder
me, an Italian, watching this...
you’re hearing it more and more
Spotify Premium ad: “Imagine playing music without interruptions! Infinite skipping! Replay the song you want! And even do it offline? No ads! Whatever songs you want! For a small monthly payme-” Me: *nods, turns off Spotify and turns on my MP3 player and does all the things they offer, but for free and with songs they don’t even have*
For those of you who might not know how to do any of this:
To convert CD audio into mp3s, you just follow the steps here
To play mp3 files, you download an mp3 player like Winamp here and away you go
On mobile? There are plenty of free mp3 players for your phone available, too, so check them out
You don’t need to be tethered to an online streaming service for your music. Be free.
You can also rip audio files from youtube and find files all over the internet. It is far easier to come across great and lesser known music if you dont limit yourself to spotify.
Here’s a tutorial on how to get the music and playlists you like with unlimited listening/downloads. This is a free way to do it that I believe is a balance between cost, time, and pros & cons:
If you have the CDs, it will be easier to rip them. Most music managers include this feature and you will have all the track information loaded into the file. There are also pirate websites where you can download entire albums with their metadata attached, but there could be risks associated (I would worry more about viruses than lawsuits these days, though). Deciding a method for acquiring music is a balance of the required time, the alternative costs, and other pros/cons like supporting the artist or taking the risk of pirating sites.
1. Find the song on Youtube. YT has pretty much every song at this point, usually in comparable quality to what you would get on a streaming service.
This is great if you already listen to music on Youtube, but there might be a better method for going direct from Spotify, though this will work either way. The main downside to this method is that official music (and even lyric) videos sometimes have non-music portions so you might have to listen to the whole thing to be sure. SponsorBlock will highlight non-music sections for most artists, so if you have it installed you can tell at a glance if this is the case.
2. Download the audio from YT. There are many ways to download YT videos completely for free. It’s probably against the YT terms of service, but you’re not going to get sued.
I like y2mate for downloading YT videos (or their audio in mp3s) because it’s a simple, ad-free website. You just paste in the URL for the video you want to download. Sometimes it’s laggy and you have to come back later, but usually after a few moments the video loads, you select your download quality (the highest), and then save it. For easy file management, download everything in folders for the Artist, and then sub folders for the Album, and name the MP3 file the “song name”.mp3.
3. Upload to your music player/manager of choice. The file will currently be lacking metadata (Artist, Album, track number, etc) and will be added to the library as a song with its title set as the file name minus its .mp3 extension. Various music players/managers have different ways to add metadata (usually accessed by right-clicking the song) with varying ease.
iTunes is free and and logical if you have an iPhone, but limited in its capabilities. I do all my management/listening in MusicBee (free for Windows) because of its playlist and management features, as well as having a very customizable interface. You can set it to scan the folders you download music to so it will automatically load things into your library, or do so manually. Once loaded into MusicBee, you can batch edit an entire album’s metadata at once easily with Auto-Tagging. Auto-Tag can fetch the details from the internet and fill in artist, tracks, album artwork, etc and save that information to the mp3 file. You can edit this manually if needed too. Drag and drop the edited songs to any other player you may want to add them to so it can find the files.
4. Now you can use the player of your choice to listen endlessly, form playlists, etc. Some free music managers also have music discovery/recommendation features for expanding your collection.
MusicBee allows you to create playlists with folders, subfolders, and dynamic features. You can export these playlists for cross-platform play on other computers with MusicBee installed. I think the playlist features on MusicBee are better than what is on streaming services. You can create an auto-playlist of your recently-added music so you can easily find the ones that are new and might need need editing, adding to other playlists, etc. I have custom tags for music by LGBT artists, sapphic love songs, and more. I also drag-and-drop these playlists directly into iTunes so I have them on my phone too (you can do this to make a new playlist or just edit/add songs to a current one).
There are many music managers/players, including cross-platform ones with streaming, though they usually have fees for that feature. Because you aren’t streaming the music and rather storing it, you’ll need space on each device you want to play the music on, but memory is cheap these days.
You can buy a 2TB external harddrive for less than Spotify or Youtube Premium costs for six months, so having to store the songs isn’t much of a downside. Plus, the song will never “leave the service”, you can listen to it offline, etc.
I do encourage people to pay for art, especially from small, independent artists. You have to pay for art if you want to keep it alive, but there is debate over if streaming services are really “paying the artist”. Alternatives include buying and ripping CDs, purchasing merch or tour tickets (where artists make a lot of their money), etc to support them with something other than streaming views.
ID. a tweet from Don Hughes @/getfiscal dated Feb 18 21. it reads, “Started imagining paying for Spotify for the next thirty or so years and got a bit dizzy, cancelled a bunch of subscriptions, installed Linux on my computer and then pulled out my old CDs to rip. Going caveman.” End ID.
Seconding MusicBee! Also, you can use a library subscription to access Freegal, which allows (depending on your library system) up to five free downloads a week. Completely free, actually legal, yours to keep, no DRM or any crap like that.
For indie producers, always check if they have something like Bandcamp! Bandcamp lets you download as well, and has significantly higher royalties going to the actual artists (Spotify pays them… very little).
Jsyk, winamp rips cds natively. You can set whatever bitrate you like. Been doing *that* since last century.
It’s that time again:
A curated list of awesome warez and piracy links. Contribute to Igglybuff/awesome-piracy development by creating an account on GitHub.
Here to add, for mobile users: if you aren’t savvy/still like the setup of Spotify but don’t want to pay for it, uninstall it + remove all files of it on your phone
https://apkmody.io/apps/spotify-music-premium-apk/download/0
bimbo is one of the cutest italian words it's heartbreaking what english has done to it
fr you are all so ugly for this💔
hate to repost but the bde that is sheerly radiating out of this picture is just too much
Albany Ledger, Missouri, June 17, 1898