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▲ 2.3k r/90sdesign+1 crossposts

The year was 1992. Haircut was by my parents who kept “trying to even it out” until I was left with this. Sweater was my mom’s. I didn’t know how to smile for pictures then, and still don’t.

u/Alt_when_Im_not_ok — 11 hours ago
▲ 102 r/MaleHistoryPics+1 crossposts

King Ludwig II of Bavaria and actor Josef Kainz, 1881

Ludwig was almost certainly gay, with Josef Kainz being a reported love interest of his. However, the relationship did not last long.

This picture was taken at the end of a trip to Switzerland, by which point the two had already essentially "broken up." Still, the original photo was considered too intimate. If you look closely, you can see that originally Kainz had his hand on Ludwig's back. It was retouched to remove this almost immediately in order not to cause scandal.

Next time someone tells you male affection in victorian photos don't connote romance, ask them why a hand on the back would've then been so scandalous that it had to be removed

u/Alt_when_Im_not_ok — 7 days ago
▲ 95 r/MaleHistoryPics

Wrestlers in Eakins’s studio - 1899

Thomas Eakins (American, 1844-1916)
Wrestlers in Eakins’s studio
1899
Platinum print on paper
3 5/8 x 6 in. (9.0 x 15.2cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Public domain

 

On May 22, 1899, Eakins had two wrestlers pose in his 4th-floor studio at 1729 Mount Vernon Street, Philadelphia. Three days earlier, he had written to his friend, sportswriter Clarence Cranmer: “I am going to start the wrestling picture on Monday at half past two. I wish you could find it convenient to be at the studio and help us with advice as to positions and so forth.” The artist’s protégé Samuel Murray may have been present; he modelled a small sculpture of the wrestlers that is also dated 1899. Eakins painted the works from the live models and from a nearly identical photograph, that may have been taken that day. The photograph shows the wrestler on top holding the other in a half nelson and crotch hold.

https://artblart.com/2015/07/14/photographs-thomas-eakins-photography/

u/Alt_when_Im_not_ok — 9 days ago
▲ 2 r/AcerNitro

welp my Acer Nitro 5 AN515-44 decided to join the club apparently

built date is June 2020, bought Mar 2021

Power button just makes the fans spin. louder than I've ever heard them.

No ACER screen nor any other sign of life on the screen (including no output over hdmi, though the extrernal monitor knows when its been turned on).

Did the power cycle/drain stuff. The symptoms are like a corrupted BIOS but I can't get it to reset, including physical removal of CMOS battery. I'm thinking the cmos battery might just be dead? Weird to see that this apparently has happened in the middle of a model wide catastrophe.

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u/Alt_when_Im_not_ok — 12 days ago
▲ 29 r/bladerunner

"I'm getting cabin fever."

Never picked up on that before. That's damn advertising! Of course Dijis would be programmed to "want" the consumer to buy them all the fancy upgrades.

The first time I watched 2049 I was sucked in to how real Joi felt. But the more I've watched it, the more I've realized that like AI companions of today, she's designed to respond to and affirm what her user wants, and in doing so spur on more engagement/purchases. Kind of insidious.

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u/Alt_when_Im_not_ok — 14 days ago
▲ 5 r/PeriodDramas

Mature and very well researched piece. Not sensationalistic but also not at all flattering to its subject, so beware for difficult subjects.

Director also made period drama "Burning Secret," which I have yet to see

u/Alt_when_Im_not_ok — 14 days ago
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I am writing to request r/CovertIncest

This is a mental health community focusing on identifying and healing from covert incest and/or emotional incest ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_incest ). It is not a fetish or kink subreddit. I chose the NSFW tag as it literally is not a topic appropriate for "workplace" discussion, but I do not mean that it is in any way an eroticized subreddit. Rather it is for victims working through a difficult past.

As I will repeat when I get the follow up e-mail, I wish to moderate this sub because it has helped me and I know it has helped others provide a safe place to discuss difficult topics, but over the past few months has begun to be infiltrated with inappropriate comments and posts that the mods have not responded to. A week ago I asked to be made a mod and five days ago I asked if the sub was still being moderated.

I don't plan on making any changes to the policies of the sub, only to enforce them at the level that they were being enforced when I first found the sub. I want the place to be a safe place for people to share and ask questions without fear that someone will fetishize their trauma. I do plan on also occasionally posting helpful articles on the topic.

I'll go ahead and add the links now to the messages I have sent

https://www.reddit.com/c/chatIQfvUuSK/s/PG6r5PmZ4T

https://www.reddit.com/c/chatSeFVlKyt/s/93D0604nza

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u/Alt_when_Im_not_ok — 19 days ago