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"I have never before seen a land speed record made while back-peddling"

(This is about Weird Tales deciding NOT to publish excerpts of the monumentally racist "Save The White People" book. It's sad they've decided to memory-hole the original announcement, and comments, and the ringing endorsement they received from Stormfront, though.)

EDIT: Oh hai, screenshots of at least the comment thread.

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Date: 2012-08-20 11:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ursulav.livejournal.com
Screenshot of the comment thread is an unreadably small graphic, I fear...

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Date: 2012-08-20 11:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
Oh wow, Photobucket compressed that.... poorly.

One second.
Edited Date: 2012-08-20 11:29 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2012-08-20 11:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
Okay, fixed. Despite being under my max file size, it went too far vertically so they "helpfully" provided me with a "web-friendly" version. Normally they only do that if the image is more than 2MB.
Edited Date: 2012-08-20 11:42 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2012-08-20 11:48 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2012-08-21 02:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lafinjack.livejournal.com
I've wondered about that, why do you host MP3s on your webspace but images on (normally) Photobucket?

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Date: 2012-08-21 02:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
The short version is "TOS on the webspace is not friendly to image-only hosting for a remote site, with my kind of bandwidth" combined with "I've had the photobucket and my photobucket-ish workflow for waaaaaaaay longer"

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Date: 2012-08-21 03:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lafinjack.livejournal.com
Huh. Well my webspace is so friendly (Dreamhost), so if you'd be willing I can lend you some to try out.

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Date: 2012-08-22 12:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
Dreamhost couldn't handle my traffic, back in The Day. These days, sure, but I'm working with what I've got.

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Date: 2012-08-21 12:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com
Most striking feature of the comment thread (to me): The extremely high density of "all righty, then, I'll find somewhere else to submit my work."

If readers had threatened to boycott, it would have been maybe not the land-speed record for backpedaling, but when so many comments are along the lines of "no more stories for you!"...

(And I am proud of each and every author who made such a comment.)

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Date: 2012-08-21 09:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamshade.livejournal.com
I smell an entry for cuddlycthulu's Your Book Is Why Daddy Drinks podcast.
Edited Date: 2012-08-21 09:08 am (UTC)

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Date: 2012-08-21 11:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jaundicedaye.livejournal.com
August Derleth isn't turning in his grave, he's climbing out of it and looking for an ax.

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Date: 2012-08-22 03:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torrain.livejournal.com
...that mental image is a lovely one, thank you. XD

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