"The unions of hollywood are on strike to prevent the corporations they work for from replacing all the artists with an algorithm that churns out procedurally-generated crap" sounds like an excellent setup for a cyberpunk dystopia novel. Unfortunately however, that is this week right now

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just saw a chart with the gender options "male" "female" and "part-time/other" and i think i get what they were going for but i'm obsessed with the concept of part-time gender. clocking into my shift at the gender factory and brother i am not getting paid a living wage

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the worst is wanting to create and create and create but being trapped in a body that is so so so so tired

So I went to the museum today…

it's not just Ayda on her own and everything she represents, the behaviors and qualities that tons of autistic people can see themselves into, it's the way people treat her too. She never masks and people communicate with her exactly the way she is. Fig says she loves explaining things to her and loves the way Ayda dissects them, she says it makes her think about everything more deeply and that she likes that about Ayda. Adaine loves having someone who's as intellectually driven as her, is extremely patient with her from the get go and always trying to be kind to her, creates a spell for her to help her!!! with her struggles as an autistic young woman!!! to aid her in situations where she might feel too confused!!! (and we know that one of Ayda's deepest struggles is when she doesn't understand things!!!) literally disability aid in a specially crafted wizard spell 😭

and then there's everyone else being a sweetheart to her, Gorgug always trusts her authority and her judgement and on her behalf (though without her knowing or asking for it) asks Aguefort to stop the silence between them because Ayda doesn't want that anymore, Riz says her formal way of speaking and interacting with others is way better than whatever shit they're doing, Kristen is so warm with her and psyched about sharing an identity with her (which is something that matters so damn much to Kristen), Fabian has the least interactions with her and is still really excited about her dating Fig and when he gets misunderstood by Ayda does explain himself more clearly. Not to mention Fig's three parents and her stepdad all take to Ayda, actively include her and praise her, and Jawbone gives her this incredible gift of learning that there's nothing wrong with her.

like Ayda is not only cool as fuck but extremely valued by the people she meets who love her not in spite of her autistic traits but because of them, because they bring a rationality and a depth to their lives they didn't quite have before, and because they enjoy helping her in moments when she needs more support than her neurotypical peers. like we love Ayda but every bit as much as that, Brennan loves Ayda and Emily loves Ayda and all the intrepid heroes love her too and it matters so much to me that he chose to write an autistic character who is extremely loved and understood and supported, and the whole cast went along with that and loved her.

More pretty stained glass windows

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.

forever fascinated by the many machinations of brennan's mind

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starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is

There’s a pack of high schoolers going on a supervised trip outside and one of them yelled “OI MISTA YOU ME DAD” and I heard his beleaguered teacher respond “just because someone is wearing tweed doesn’t mean they’re British, we’ve talked about this”

11. A ladybug is too small to operate a forklift.

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