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// All things Southern Gothic // ♏️☀️ // ♋️🌕 // Little Free Library Steward // ⚔️Go read Baby Suggs’ Sermon in the Clearing.⚔️ Banner: Vonetta McGee & Max Julien in “Thomasine & Bushrod” (1974)

growing in spiritual practices involves a level of curiousity & wonder that most people have forgotten how to tap into. there’s no quick fix or instant result. desperation & misplaced intent will trip you up every time

Black people have to lock in to protect ourselves and communities. What that man did on Jan. 6—and everyday since—was signal a second redemption. The reign of terror wrought on Black people at the turn of the century was devastating. So much so that we don’t even know the half of it.

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 16h ago

Jackson police are investigating the death of an unidentified Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a vacant home in Mississippi’s capital city on Monday night. www.mississippifreepress.org/black-woman-...

Leaflet is the new† Substack‡, you heard it here first folks! ✍️ 🍃 💸 †not just new — better — b/c no platform lock-in, great Bluesky integration…and now, monetization too! ‡actually even bigger than that; not just us but a whole open ecosystem replacing Substack! here if you have any q's!

Piloting paid memberships for the open social web!

Lab Notes 035: building monetization features for Leaflet creators, starting with paid memberships — tell us if you'd like to be the first to try, and what else you need!

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"How did a radio repair man make an instrument so sublime that it makes giants of music weep with reverence? As the Fender Stratocaster turns 70, we explore its extraordinary life." Nile Rodgers, Bonnie Raitt and John Squire on the electric guitar that changed everything:

Nile Rodgers, Bonnie Raitt and John Squire on the Fender Stratocaster

How did a radio repair man make an instrument so sublime that it makes giants of music weep with reverence? As the Fender Stratocaster turns 70, we explore its extraordinary life

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Before ai existed people went to their cousin Ray Ray that can draw and does it for fun sometimes and got him to draw up their concepts for next to nothing now all of a sudden no one remembers life before the slop machines 😭😭😭

Omg their ideas aren’t worth even bothering to task a human artists with that’s why they throw their crappy ideas into ai 😭 I hate when people say this. You can find artists on fiver willing to draft your nonsense memes for less than the price of dinner tonight they just know that their ideas SUCK!

Aluino #ProtectJho@aluino.selfhosted.social · 3d ago

Tired of the “You got money to pay an artist?” response when someone points out an image is ai generated…

Every time I get ready to travel (especially since becoming a mom), I remember how much I love visiting new places but absolutely DESPISE airports. The inconvenience. The germs. The TSA. The general shittiness of the customer service. Goods being 40% more than they are at the store. HATE IT.