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Meet my Rusty's Bootleggers! WIP, waiting on paint at the moment.

First up, we have Billy-Bob, in the Rum-Runner. He's mounted a big ol' 50 caliber to his roof for when he falls behind. He's completely redone the engine, added some big bull-bars to keep things off his front, and his back is loaded with Moonshine and tools. He's armoured up his driver-side too, just in case one of his competitors gets any ideas.

Next up, Kletus in Ol' Bessie, the super-tractor. Bessie belonged to his pappy, and his pappy did his own work on her. When Kletus inherited her, He decided to do everything he could to make her a true machine. Her engine has been completely stripped out, replaced with the biggest, meanest engine Kletus could get. He then spent even more time tuning it to perfection. He replaced her front wheels with some all-terrain treads. While they marginally slow her down, it makes it much easier for Kletus to slip away from undesirable tails. After all, she can drive where others can't! Lastly, she's got two heavy machine guns to fight off the cops. Bessie is Kletus special lady - nobody else is even allowed to touch her.

Lastly, Moe is in his fast, light, and powerful buggy - The Dust Devil. She's fast and lightweight. While he can't pull Haulage like Billy-Bob or Kletus, Moe is talented at escaping and running messages. He can find the best route through anything, get there faster than anyone, and lead the way for the other booze runners. Moe runs forward, carving out a path for the rest of his gang to follow.

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"Anarchist" but gets triggered when people voluntarily don't wear bicycle helmets.

Me when I know what anarchy is

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But, who entertains you?

im bored help me

bOIOIOIOING!

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web 2.0 companies that try to frame people using adblockers as greedy freedloaders always conveniently turn their heads when those same “greedy freeloaders” tell them that advertisers are paying to put malicious and predatory ads on their playforms and adblock users are, by in large, using adblockers to protect themselves

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I strongly believe in data preservation. Lost media is a crisis and we need to work to prevent it.

A recent example is Nintendo taking down the 3DS store and other stores. A host of games were digital only on those stores, and there's a chance we've lost them because nobody can get them anymore. Maybe it's a small game that got no attention, or a bad one. It doesn't matter. It may very well be gone.

We need to make an effort to preserve media. Games, videos, music, comics, whatever. I encourage people to save things they feel valuable, because with the current nature of the internet and its corporationization, we never know what might dissappear.

digital piracy is the most important invention of the internet era im not exaggerating. people copying media and giving it to eachother has kept so much information and art around even before the internet was a thing, but the difficulty inherent in physical production & distribution of those copies limited access. torrenting shifts this process into pure data flow, making it easier to acquire things and also allowing pirates to distribute at a massive scale without the need for their own infrastructure. piracy allows the internet to function as a worldwide library that anyone can contribute to and always has a copy of whatever it is you want. anyone with a computer and an internet connection has access to an incredible wealth of media representing human knowledge and experiences from so many different people, places, and times right at their fingertips all because of piracy

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This is an excellent perspective. I've never considered that aspect of it.

Many people think the problem with cultural appropriation is inauthenticity (vague, nebulous) rather than marginalized people functionally getting robbed

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Mount Macedon Hiking Guide

A comic by Mia Nie. Made or the Emerging Writers' Festival.

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To a homophobe, even the most chaste kiss on the cheek between gay people is exactly as disgusting and degenerate as a hardcore BDSM orgy hosted in the town square, so you may as well ally with the BDSM orgy enthusiasts to throw bricks at the cops who are going to try and arrest all of you together anyway.

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Jokes aside, I've apparently been on Tumblr for 9 years and never actually used it? How.

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How do tumblr work

New to Tumblr posting. How do I tumbl.

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