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The B-52’s, 1980. wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/706559100…

The B-52’s, 1980. wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/706559100…

The #Parkchester_Station on the No. 6 line and the #Cross_Bronx_Expressway, #the_Bronx. dduane.tumblr.com/post/706559191…

The Secret of My Success (1965), artwork by Frank Frazetta gameraboy2.tumblr.com/post/706559859…

Zorro and the Ghost adventurelandia.tumblr.com/post/706557207…

“Secrete a colored fluid when molested” gameraboy2.tumblr.com/post/706556305…

Ida Lupino for Lux Toilet Soap, 1942 gameraboy2.tumblr.com/post/706552661…

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

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*The Once and Future Sex* is @GoingMedieval's new history of gender and sex in the medieval age, describing the weird and horny ways of medieval Europeans, which are far gnarlier and more complicated than the story we get from "traditionalists."

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