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Crapalachia - Scott McClanahan

A “memoir of a place”, Crapalachia is the semi-unreliable account/ recollection of growing up and coming of age in rural West Virginia. Throughout reading (well, listening to) this, I found myself jumping between sadness and laugh out loud laughter. The characters often feel exaggerated to the point that I feel there’s no chance it’s an accurate recollection, but then there are moments where they’re brought back down to earth instantly grounding them and making sense of some of their eccentricities. To give you a small taste of what’s in store for you if you choose to read this - the antics McClanahan recounts range from helping his uncle pour beer down his feeding tube before listening to his favorite radio preacher, to visiting his Grandma’s pre purchased grave because it’s a “good investment”.

@NO_USER_YET

Dec 1, 2022

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The passenger

kinda all over the place but it had all the staples of a mccarthy novel that i love. the guy writes a simile like nobody else

@grahamhallstuff

Feb 9, 2024

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Horse Crazy by Gary Indiana

Started reading this book 8 months ago and haven’t been able to pick it back up. It made me feel insane about falling in love and the feeling of obsession. Hope to one day finish but it’s really moving. 

@candy

2d ago

Top Recs from @ugliestbinch

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WHY THO?

Why not go through the process of blending those images yourself? Why not use process as an experiment? Why AI? What part are you playing? What makes it yours? I think AI is impersonal. I think it is unethical when it has relied on the theft of actual people’s actual physical (and because of the nature of art, often time emotional) labor. I also think it is unnecessary in creating art. I also think the environmental impacts are atrocious. I also think AI’s biggest supporters are being maliciously ignorant because it’s a fun new toy. Is it ease? Is it efficiency? People talk about accessibility as if children don’t use crayons and stickers! As if graffiti artists don’t use postal labels as sticker, as if sand mandalas don’t exist, as if cardboard and tape aren’t in over abundance.

@ugliestbinch

Apr 15, 2025

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Dear God what have i made

@ugliestbinch

Mar 1, 2025

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Tbh, i mostly hate the re-rec feature

Maybe this isn’t so much a fix for staff, but I feel like the reposting of things has gotten a bit lame. I don’t want the “Everyone” feed to be the same post 20 times with nothing added, especially when the thing being re-rec’d isn’t even a real reccomendation in the first place. I like this app because it is different than Instagram and Twitter and tumblr and the like. I feel like people are trying to interact similarly to those other apps here. I feel like we are all drifting back into creating the same social media AGAIN. My vote would be to remove the feature entirely, but I see how it can be used thoughtfully

@ugliestbinch

Mar 3, 2025