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headspace-hotelYou can identify a fake redneck by their passionate support of “blue lives matter.” Real rednecks have been in at least one physical fight and/or high-speed chase with police officers and would do it again
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serialreblogger“redneck” is a valid culture, not a euphemism for “bigot”
theskaldspeaksSo this has probably already been said on this post but I dont wanna scroll through 66k notes to find it.
The term Redneck gain prominence with striking coal miners in Appalachia. They wore red bandanas around their necks to express union solidarity.
And they fucking FOUGHT police and Pinkerton strike breaker forces. It was a period called The Coal Wars.
The poor and working classes have a long history of community support and rejecting police authority.
If you’re pro-cop, you’re not a redneck, you’re a bootlicker who based your personality on a played out Jeff Foxworthy caricature. Get bent. Your ancestors are ashamed of you.
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dovewithscalesThe association of the term “redneck” with racism and bigotry is a direct result of government propaganda and covert ops designed to keep white activists and black activists from organizing together.
snazzy-hats-and-adhdAre these “origin of the term” rednecks the same striking coal miners that were the target of the first use of air-to-ground explosives?
Because if so? Yeah, fuck the fakes.
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please look at this picture junji ito drew of his moms crusty white dog
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bonesbuckleupBeen thinking a lot about fiction-writing AI software. Been thinking about how people want to be writers but don't ever put a word down because they're scared of getting it wrong or doing it badly. Been thinking about how using bots to create the parts of a story you struggle with will stop you from learning that skill and will make you a fundamentally worse writer. Been thinking about how some writing communities get mean with new writers on wobbly baby horse writing legs who call unpolished or unpracticed work "cringe" or "bad" or "not worth salvaging" and don't give feedback in good faith. Been thinking about how people aren't allowed to be bad at things anymore. Been thinking A Lot about how writing communities are a large part--not the only part or biggest part, but still--of what's driving these new or wannabe writers to the AI platforms so they can avoid being shamed when they share their work.
Anyway. Be nice to each other. One way to push back against AI fiction and AI stories is to foster kind and encouraging writing communities where we all help each other up vs. tearing someone down so you feel taller. Don't let the bots win.
supergameboytwoYou do like tumpet? 🎺! bwaaa!
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gentlepeoplekids these days don't know about Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men. they'll never understand
faeforgeOh holy shit they found Silphium alive and growing in the wild.
Like now that I am awake I need to reiterate how huge this is. It was presumed harvested to extinction by the Romans. It was a favorite flavoring and according to historians one of the best contraceptives ever known. True or not it would be fantastic to study that but it being extinct made that impossible.
This is such a huge deal! I hope they get it figured how to grow it.