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Discussion on Organizing Against Surveillance in the US South

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/08/09/discussion-on-organizing-against-surveillance-in-the-us-south/

"Fuck 'em, we didn't want their votes anyway."

https://piefed.social/c/politicalmemes/p/1651904/fuck-em-we-didn-t-want-their-votes-anyway

"Fuck 'em, we didn't want their votes anyway."

https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1651902/fuck-em-we-didn-t-want-their-votes-anyway

"Fuck 'em, we didn't want their votes anyway."

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1651899/fuck-em-we-didn-t-want-their-votes-anyway

Southern Unionist hours o7

https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1636368/southern-unionist-hours-o7

Oh, Eli... if only you knew...

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1475658/oh-eli-if-only-you-knew

Southerners Against Surveillance Systems and Infrastructure (with Ed)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/11/02/southerners-against-surveillance-systems-infrastructure-with-ed/

One hot night in May, the Texas House of Representatives debated Bill 1106, which said denying a child's gender or sexual orientation is not abuse or neglect. Seven blocks away, Brigitte Bandit, a local activist and drag queen performed to a standing-room-only crowd at Oilcan Harry's, one of Austin's longtime gay bars. She was performing her weekly show, LegiSLAYtion and Liberation, where she broke down the LGBTQ+ news of the week. @Eater takes a look at gay bars throughout the U.S. South — in Birmingham, Alabama, Fort Worth, Texas, and Durham, North Carolina, about how they're resisting. At the end of that night Bill 1106 passed, but Bandit was not defeated. “We’re in this together,” she said. “There’s people who love and support you, despite the headlines, or who’s across the street.”

https://flip.it/BoIE-9

#USPolitics #Pride #LGBTQRights #USSouth #Texas #Alabama #NorthCarolina #TrumpAdministration #Protest

Basic US history reminder: Keep in mind that slavery in the US slave states was not something just on plantations. Human enslavement was central to the economic & political system.
Pretty much every structure in the US South from European Colonial times through the US Civil War was built with slave labor.

#USHistory #Slavery #Plantation #USSouth

This year, between injuries, flares and Hail of Unusual Size, I am way behind on gardening. And by way behind, I mean, I’ve watered and waved at the beds. And yet, they love me and have started blooming, and so instead of something cynical or political, I give you Bloomscrolling. Look at these wild beauties. 🥰

#bloomscroling #flowers #spring #USsouth #prairie

»#Pornhub Is Now #Blocked In Almost All of the #USSouth: As of today, three more states join the list of 17 that can't access Pornhub because of #ageverification laws.« https://www.404media.co/pornhub-is-now-blocked-in-almost-all-of-the-u-s-south/?eicker.news #tech #media

Two new stories out today in B-Cubed Press Anthology Southern Truths. You want the inside on US South--terrific stories in this anthology. Mine are "In The Darkness Defending the Wall" and "Healthcare Bitch Is For Da People."

#USSouth
#Florida
#alabama
#HealthCare
#hurricane
#WritersOfMastodon
#AuthorsOfMastodon
#AmWriting
#AmWritingFiction
#AmWritingDystopia
#AmWritingScienceFiction
#AmWritingSciFi
#SuperHero

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DL1NKXNW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3NAYOVY9D9UZV&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Qn63b7Deo7zFwxddX0xeQg3O_b8R_TChQcWdIF0CVrLiqeN_vjHMPhBCRP6IO90FcXzs5rSirOySrJf1ZjpTT39vhuWIwiiMGyz12jN34u1rdSDVXUwCA1C1XqnSaILjXldEeCXU8MmVgdeNRpCW7g.heTw_RS3IH30pRcU8Cg51s9ngNi9Pmijc8BwqCNDBlk&dib_tag=se&keywords=southern+truths&qid=1729975903&s=digital-text&sprefix=southern+truths%2Cdigital-text%2C185&sr=1-1&fbclid=IwY2xjawGKXJJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHa5ptsdtO22N0lEXepyoPgKWadwTervqyJ3DVRZaUCvBe8Bwxbx7Jm_mVA_aem_q5cl772GlUeGLeh7TOw_ew

One characteristic that sums up people from New Orleans, according to its residents? Generosity. There's even a word for it: Lagniappe (pronounced "LAN-yap"), which is from Cajun-French and means "something extra." Here's a story from Southern Living that explains how lagniappe is fundamental to the city. "As new people are sewn into the quilt of New Orleans — like the immigrants from Latin America who have helped pull the city back together since 2006 — the most generous and hospitable traditions of New Orleans are passed on to a new generation," writes Joshua Carlucci. "And they stayed. And thank God they did. So the tapestry of Creole culture continues to evolve as well," restaurateur Frank Brigtsen told him. “I think there's a love that's inherent in Creole culture.”

https://flip.it/U8LdI8

#Hospitality #Louisiana #NewOrleans #USSouth #Culture #Words #Etymology #Travel

In the South, sea level rise accelerates at some of the most extreme rates on Earth The surge is startling scientists, amplifying impacts such as hurricane storm surges.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/in-the-south-sea-level-rise-accelerates-at-some-of-the-most-extreme-rates-on-earth/

#ClimateChange #Florida #USSouth

📷 ‘It had a complex history’: secrets of my grandparents’ cotton farm – in pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/21/rotan-switch-lisa-mccord-photography

#photo #photography #ussouth #inequality #black

🪧 The UAW Is Gearing Up for Two Union Elections in the South

https://jacobin.com/2024/04/uaw-mercedes-volkswagen-alabama-tennessee-union-election/

#labor #unions #organizing #uaw #ussouth #usa

We need to confront our national dark side (free link)
#Politics #Racism #USSouth #CivilStrife #DeepSouth
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/opinion/tennessee-house-nashville-shooting.html?unlocked_article_code=QCQv8QDAFVN1lp9h_J5ajy9sy5jGgfhwoHWG-fgY52hCe_vLtllkKBEsEqTTdCJS1UsSWuPvu4wBhbJtsVYtLuPP7LYQ2Rqmf_-tSiz6LdG_2OPZM2oiyiKYcvURyknNEYdiUX_T2362kvBs2jkdz-eoxzZqQxZpMW8UVqfW7AWCR_JZFSJdB6S6RJk7RZ-iowuTjZRRovarns2G-SiYMEpxQ2VEde77WwsTQNVYQ0p65d4B4nVBMtEXftYL9KzvPwGAUv9mTwJCNMTZnCSGrJ-gcW5BJmVYEP9m_MT7U-mjT0d1N0k76Ol3byXyxm2FkIBIZmEs0a0ItSfXWeb5aZasB7T0s2oDGvt9Og&smid=url-share

A writer friend today talked about some cool names in her family tree, and some were very unexpected names! I have some interesting names in my southern family tree. A friend of mine grew up with a boy named Real Kill. Do any of your family or friends have unusual or unexpected names?

#WritingCommunity #USSouth #FamilyNames #FamilyHistory #CoolNames #Mastowriters #FamilyTree #WritersOfMastodon #WritersOnMastodon

At least 7 dead as severe winds, tornadoes, hammer U.S. South

#extremeweather #tornadoes #USSouth

just.news
just the news you need, in seconds

https://just.news/preview/nSwcWIo0

I say it all the time!!

#USSouth #Southern #Contractions #Yall #Georgia #Colloquialisms

This is me: “conservative optics and southern spaces and all manner of iconic Americana, for good or ill.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/herschel-walker-georgia-black-americans/672373/

#Americana #conservative #AmericanSouth #Iconic #USSouth #southernstudies #politics #GASen #tragedy #BlackLivesMatter

It is so cool to see my book available for pre-order in one of my favorite local bookstores, the Haunted Book Shop in Mobile, Alabama!

#historons #CarnivalInAlabama #Carnival #bookstodons #AfricanAlericanHistory #USSouth #LGBTHistory

https://www.thehauntedbookshopmobile.com/product/machado-isabel-carnival-in-alabama-marked-bodies-and-invented-traditions-in-mobile/23990?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=false&category_id=39

Re-posting so I can pin it here in the new profile. 🥳
My first book "Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile" is available for pre-order in the US:
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Carnival-in-Alabama
and Canada:
https://www.ubcpress.ca/carnival-in-alabama

#histodons
#CarnivalInAlabama
#Carnival
#USSouth
#USHistory
#BlackHistory
#Alabama
#QueerHistory
#InventedTraditions
#CelebrationStudies