I thought we were turning a corner. It felt like the beginning of abundance.
These last few years, it’s been hard not to notice how queer women’s stories have once again begun to recede.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/let-the-lesbians-stay-4c5f9d1ee127?sk=23b1bf804921125473349a2764982ccb

#LGBTQ #WLW #Lesbian #Bisexual #Representation #QueerWomen

Let the Lesbians Stay

It’s time to champion queer women’s stories like Hayley Kiyoko’s Girls Like Girls

Medium

NEW BIML Bibliography entry

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03335

Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-play Reasoning with Zero Data

Zhao, Andrew, et al (china)

Learning from (a sufficiently formal, but still open) environment. This approach will be limited to formal domains. Constraints allow us to ignore fundamental aspects of Turing completeness. The authors need to study some more computer science.

#LLM #Representation #AI-Philosophy

https://berryvilleiml.com/bibliography/

NEW BIML Bibliography entry

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01193

Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Generation

Zhang, Ruixiang, et al (Apple)

This is a concise and simple paper exploring the tradeoff between precision and exploration. The domain probably matters more than the authors let on...think of crystals versus liquid... Coding is a syntactically driven domain.

#LLM #Coding #Representation

https://berryvilleiml.com/bibliography/

My favorite LGBTQ+ character is Katie from the film "The Mitchells vs. the Machines". I relate to Katie because I feel a bit quirky, eccentric, and creative, though socially awkward. I’m interested in and obsessed with cinema and filmmaking. While she started creating cinema at an early age, I didn’t start animating until 2021.

Theme: Your first LGBTQ+ OC or favorite character

#Katie #TheMitchellsVsTheMachines #LGBTQ #animation #filmmaking #cinema #creative #quirky #eccentric #sociallyawkward #fanart #animator #2021 #indie #representation #fanart

Betches Signs With CAA for Podcasts and Creator Representation

The brand is home to the podcasts 'U Up?,' 'Mention It All' and 'Style Therapy.'

The Hollywood Reporter
Rachell “Valkyrae” Hofstetter Signs With CAA (Exclusive)

The Twitch and YouTube streamer co-owns a gaming organization and lifestyle brand.

The Hollywood Reporter

Pride is half over and I feel like I haven't done much with it

I've been representing queer people at work, and I've had quite a few customers tell me they really appreciated seeing an openly queer person working in such a public job in a rural small town

I even found out there's a girl in town who had known she was trans for years but didn't come out until she saw me living openly

but like, I want to spend time with other queer folks

I want to gather together and celebrate queerness, and our resilience in the face of fascist genocide

I want to feel surrounded by my community, not just be an ambassador for it

#pride #pridemonth #pride2026 #thoughts #representation #queer #lgbtqia #lgbt #trans #nonbinary #transfem #enby #social

The Rules & Elections Committee wants to postpone consideration of expanding the size of the LA City Council, but forwarded other recommendations to the full council. Seriously, can we even call this "reform"? https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-06-16/panel-balks-at-plans-to-expand-la-city-council-to-25-members #LACity #elections #reform #representation #LACityCouncil #LANews
Panel balks at plans to expand L.A. City Council to 25 members

A committee says a council expansion plan needs more study. The full council will meet Wednesday to determine which charter reform measures should go on the Nov. 3 ballot.

Los Angeles Times
A Black trans woman walked off with a Tony this week and said the truest thing anybody said all week: take up space.
She cut roughly 500 looks for Cats: The Jellicle Ball — five hundred separate acts of here I am — and turned a costume shop into a monument. First out trans person to ever hold the statue.
Taking up space is not a metaphor when your existence is the thing they're trying to legislate down to nothing. It's a body in a room built to keep it out, refusing to fold smaller.
#LGBTQ #Trans #TransRights #Pride #PrideMonth #Tonys #Theatre #QueerJoy #Representation #LoveIsLove #News #Photography #QueerArt #Resistence

https://twp.ai/4hsWeZ
‘Felt That: Boxing’ Game Maker Signs With CAA (Exclusive)

Sans Strings Studio will be represented for gaming, TV, film and licensing as the development venture leans into original IP and real-time transmedia worlds for a global audience.

The Hollywood Reporter