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not as good as I once was, but sometimes as good once as I ever was đź“Ť central Appalachia, because I'm too stubborn to leave matriarch, [redacted]
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I knew this already, but it 🤯 every time I read it—talk about history being written by the victors. It’s like getting ConAgra to write Nebraska public school history textbooks.

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Keeney goes so hard: “The executives of the major fossil fuel companies place their trust and faith in wealth. It is their god. We wanted to show them that their god was not all-powerful.”

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I am not employed year round, so I’m used to tightening the belt, but we may be making our own meals and fun in a whole new way this summer.

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I’m so old I remember when OJ was served at school lunches in tiny metal cans and it generally tasted like battery acid because we hadn’t yet nailed down the current tech for preservation. It was a chore to get that Vit C in.

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Absolutely devastated someone by saying that I thought we had different values.

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Cracked open my copy of Keeney’s The Road to Blair Mountain and I am wondering why I waited so long to read it!!

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Just had someone tell me that they trusted me in a professional capacity because I spoke on my life experiences as an Appalachian in a podcast, and my grinchy heart grew at least one size.

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Felt very annoyed by this ringing in my ears, and then I realized that I had overdone it today and I'm just that fucking tired, because it stops when I lie down and close my eyes. Oops.

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This is the only content i wanna see

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I know people like to complain about their children’s behavior, but when I see a perfectly behaved under five, my skin crawls. I know too much about the disciplinary process needed to make that happen.

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Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

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I know everyone is all “ChatGPT kills rainforests” and maybe it does, but you know what it does for certain? Hurts my children’s lungs. See, it’s cheaper to make electricity when 1) you don’t have to haul coal very far, and 2) state capture means environmental regs are tissue paper thin

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Has been a day. A week. We had a little extra cash and OH and I could not remember the last time we’d gone out for dinner, so we loaded up the children and went. It was lovely, and I’m glad we did it.

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Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:

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I know you wanna argue, but: block 'em! I know you got the fire in your gut: block 'em! I know our intentions are great and some of us were real good at debate but my mentions are a take-free state block 'em

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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“Author chooses not to use archive warnings” Ok, fine. Write a slash fic and in no way tag that one of them dies at the end? Not even a “sad ending” tag? Fuck that. Not gonna read anything else by them.

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I never thought about “Roseanne” like this!

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Without downloading any pics, where are you mentally?

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Appalachian life: our new car’s safety features keep yanking control away when we’re driving on our local two-lane, single-lane, & even our driveway, presumably because the continuous curves aren’t an “allowed” driving pattern. Disabling an individual feature isn’t possible, so we’re doing without.

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This is fascinating to me, because in my last novel length fic, I of course put Appalachians in it, though I didn’t name them as such. One of my readers assumed I was talking about Afghanis, and I had to explain that no, the USA has its own history of hill folk.

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Thinkinge chatgpt ys answeringe back ys a kynde of acute pareidolia.

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