Louisa
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Louisa
@ludicrouslouisa.bsky.social
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Printmaker, painter, number 1 fan of galliformes. Australian living in Finland.
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It's funny seeing the scandal of Albo wearing a Joy Division shirt because the truly outrageous band shirt to wear here in Finland is a Coldplay Music of the Spheres shirt, because it indicates that you had a spare 400 euros you could just blow on a concert. (Yes that is how much the tickets cost.)
And that's just a question about klarna! That's not asking chatgpt about your health or anything really serious. Cripes!
In my case I had a customer asking me if my workplace had klarna. I told them it did not, called the customer service team to make sure. They showed me something they'd googled. I had to tell them it was the AI summary that said we had Klarna, and therefore it wasn't necessarily accurate.
I am truly staggered by people who ask ChatGPT for the answer to something factual. Getting it to generate a silly poem or a meal plan is stupid enough, but just thinking that it'll give you actual facts as an answer to a question is downright dangerous (plus easy-to-access information exists!)
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
I literally said to my wife earlier (paraphrased) "You know that Ali Hazelwood book "Mate"? I know it's like mate as in mating, but as an Australian I just keep thinking of "maaaaaaate."
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Absolutely bonkers that the 1931 Frankenstein movie credits "the novel by Mrs. Percy B. Shelley." Sure, Mary wrote the book, but why not put her husband's name there instead
I am crusty enough to use CDs that I get from the thrift store and the library as my primary means of listening to music. I recommend it!
Which is funny because whenever I see pugs I think "ah yes, the dog that was so overly bred that it can't function properly as an animal anymore."
in my opinion though, AQOTWF is definitely queer coded in parts. The book, I mean.
wait, there was a sequel to AQOTWF!?!?!?! The main character died!
I mean it's my Finnish wife's favourite place so if that's the recommendation you need, there you go
I had to go to Sweden and actually see an Eurasian magpie go "kekekekeke" (weak call in comparison to the unrelated Australian magpie, which has like, 20 complex songs), before I could say "ok I've figured out what bird is in all your British crime dramas."
OTOH eurasian magpie calls are very common as background noise in most outdoor scenes in the UK and northern Europe, and they actually *are* accurate, but my parents kept asking me "what's that bird that goes kekekekeke" and I was like "can't google a bird call"
Kookaburra calls in scenes not set in Australia absolutely send me, as an Australian. They don't do it much anymore; I think it's more of a 20th century thing - maybe they realised that Australians could also watch movies, and by the time the internet was invented, that we wouldn't shut up about it
Whenever someone asks for recommendations for older queer media, two things happen. I get super excited wanting to recommend all the fabulous queer things I've seen that I love, and then, I proceed to forget about half of them. I should have a master list somewhere for this purpose.
You might be interested in the TV shows The Newsreader, and Halt and Catch Fire. Both are about queer men in the 80s. For earlier settings, Desert Hearts is a wonderful queer lady film set in the 50s. Benediction is about Siegfried Sassoon, who was a queer poet in WW1. And Portrait of a Lady on Fire
For books - Maurice, and The Group! Both super great, both pretty positive about queerness. For movies/TV - Something for the Boys might not fall into your definition of vintage as it's from 1981 but it's well worth a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDyo...
Something For the Boys - House on the Hill 1981
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I also love Victim (1961) but it's less universally positive I suppose. Still a brilliant movie.
My off-the-top-of-my-head recommendations as a fan of queer media: Maurice - book (written 1912 or so, published later), The Group - book (1963), Victim (1961), Something For The Boys (1981), My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Coming Out (1989, east German!), Beautiful Thing (1996)
This is LGBTQ+ History Month, and I urge my followers who are LGBTQ+ (or just curious) to dive into one thing--a movie, novel, TV show--from your childhood or before. Look at an older gay work as something other than a relic or an error. You'll be rewarded. Your world, your SELF, will get bigger. >
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This is such a great idea -- you should make it a goal for LGBTQ+ History Month to experience a some great vintage queer media. I'm piggybacking off Mark's tweet with a similar offer: Tell me what kind of thing you like, and I'll give you a recommendation!
This is LGBTQ+ History Month, and I urge my followers who are LGBTQ+ (or just curious) to dive into one thing--a movie, novel, TV show--from your childhood or before. Look at an older gay work as something other than a relic or an error. You'll be rewarded. Your world, your SELF, will get bigger. >
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I’m gonna say something controversial: I actually don’t think chickpea anxiety is real
Notable bits of advice include saying that being gay is actually fine and people can't typically change it, and also while repeatedly x-raying your testicles technically *is* an effective form of contraception because it makes you infertile, it's not recommended.