eggie

happy birthday to sparkle!

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.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

A conifer forest. Rays of sunlight are shining through the trees and diffused by mist

I went outside today

Hades 2 is coming out soon and I'm so excited 💚
I did this illustration for @ameliatyler.bsky.social, thank you so much for reaching out!

#hades2 I #hecate

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Artists Against Generative Al 15 AGAINST Andrew Unferdorfer • 14h • G A Redditor caught this. Looks like a possible instance where a translation bot fabricated pro-Al misinformation and that got picked up and amplified as real news. The misinformation states that ChatGPT was used by the creators of KPop Demon Hunters to help them write the song "Soda Pop". Problem is, when somebody went back to the original source in Korean, IT DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT USING AI OR CHATGPT! The article was translated with Al, and it looks like the Al itself made up this complete lie, and the truly terrifying thing is how nobody questioned it until this one person went digging for the truth. We launched the OpenAl Korea office yesterday! Fav moment from the launch celebration was hearing singer/songwriter Vince share that ChatGPT helped him write "Soda Pop" from KPop Demon Hunters! It apparently gave him ideas to make it sound "more bubbly" OpenAl 코리아 Tweet's now deleted, but here's a bit further down the web of this: The original article this was sourced from, from Korea JoongAng Daily, says this: "Prior to the unofficial event, producer Vince also spoke with Business Director Oliver Jay at OpenAl's official launch event. Vince stated, "We sometimes use ChatGPT to generate inspiration when producing K-pop," and also mentioned that Al technology is already being utilized in K-pop." The thing is, that's only in the English translation. The Korean article it's translated from doesn't mention KPop Demon Hunters using Al at all. So, how did it get there? Well, the English article, as confirmed by a note at the bottom, was translated using generative Al. So, since different language versions of the article contradict themselves, there's a nonzero chance that this entire debacle is an Al hallucination ITSELF, spawned from an Al translation

Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2

wait does bsky not have locked accounts??

actually no i decided not to make it bc the amount of hoops i would have to guide you through to see my perspective would make the exercise worthless and distasteful for all of us

please forgive me as i am about to make the most privileged complaint u have ever seen

have you considered the possibility that your character might be an idiot

i don't dislike teenagers but sometimes i wish i couldn't hear the conversations that groups of teenagers have in public

Ursula Le Guin

my poor tea leaves are crying for mercy i think i've steeped them five times today

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

put a toddler in every scene for the purpose of asking "but why" whenever you need to organically bring up world building details

Photo of square orange tiles, set into the ground, across one of which several cats footprints are clearly visible.

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall.

It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

His shadow is a woman. Very nonbinary of you Taemin. 👏

listen i might throw up. emotional regulation found defenestrated im so excited

Damn Kim JongDae! 🔥

Arcadia | On Ver.

첸 (CHEN)
'Arcadia - The 5th Mini Album'
2025.09.29 6PM (KST)

#첸 #CHEN #Arcadia #EXO #kpop

Clip Studio Paint canvas with a red line art of three dog heads, each with many eyes, on solid black background

Cerberus 🩸

occasionally i think about how part of the reason i enrolled in a biology degree was because of bugs. and then i didn't even do the entomology elective

rlyehtaxidermist on tumblr: "immortality sucks because all your friends die" all your friends die anyway. those we do not mourn are those who mourn us. "immortality sucks because you forget who you are" we always forget who we are. do you remember who you were at four years of age? who you were at fourteen? "who i am" is a shadow cast on the wall. "immortality sucks because" skill issue. skill issue. skill issue. give me your liver

Buc-ee's Pieta: a dude doing a dead jesus in the arms of a bronze beaver in New Braunfels, TX/

lokaror on tumblr: "also if gnomes were all sitting around a small tree stump using it as a table and someone used the word "misnomer" one of them would speak up and go "HEEHEE. MISS GNOMER IS WHAT I CALL THE MISSUS" they'd all laugh so hard they fall off the mushrooms they are sitting on and spill the berry juice everywhere"

the only thing that matters is how easily your novel could be adapted into a musical

A scarf and a jean leg that have been melded together in unholy denim matrimony

Which kpop idol will wear the jarf first

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Anne Carson

much like a broken clock is right twice a day, only two of the words you just wrote are in the right places