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So you have probably noticed I don't just slap any ole thing up in the forum. I recently searched for my name +journalist, and there I was splashed at the top of the Google results for my writing on aalbc. Although I have my own website, when Muckrack, the journalism aggregation website, found me -Mel Hopkins's Profile | Medium, Substack, Ebony Journalist | Muck Rack, again, it was all my popular comments from AALBC. When I write book reviews on AALBC, they become AALBC famous on the net. I've been thinking about writing excerpts from the time I flew the friendly skies - and if I were most folks, I'd probably post on Patreon and Substack - but I'm not, I'm going to post about my crazy escapades on AALBC and maybe Patreon too - but I betcha the most views will come from AALBC. Thank you, @Troy In short, Claude AI had a lot to say about AALBC. But here's a snippet: "In other words, AALBC's forum is functioning as a consensus-building document for who you are as a writer and thinker — and AI search is now reading that document alongside Google." Aside: @Pioneer1 and @ProfD y'all were genius to remain anonymous 💓1 point
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I had not considered there may be gender component to doing this. I’ve known so many women, over so many years that post so much personal information on social, that I have long since given up even commenting about the activity to them. That behavior will not change anytime soon, as social media creates all types of incentives for people to share as much as possible about themselves. It’s one of the reasons I deleted my original Facebook account. But going back to the point of this conversation 🙂 I’ve considered the fact that something that I, or someone else, has written here could be taken out of context and come back to bite me in the real worl. I’m not anonymous, because it takes some effort to do it, and I’m too lazy to maintain anonymity. @Mel Hopkins I might stop short of the word “love.” but if you consider the fact that AALBC.com is almost 30 years old with the boatload of content and there’s increasingly less competition from other website, AALBC really should rank high in search be referenced by aggregators. But I still feel that Google search has done more harm to the web than it has to benefit it. I think AI will do even more harm so much more that it poses and existential threat to the WWW we know today. I’m not confident what we get in return will be better than what we have today.1 point
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Well sista @Mel Hopkins ...you must be a better writer or more substantive than myself. I just sit in this proverbial AALBC armchair giving my opinions about everything. 🤣😎1 point
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1 pointURL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Juneteenth-personification-2026-1346832054 IMAGE CONTENT Juneteenth Personification Growing up I saw many personifications various European or African or Asian or American countries or particular peoples, like religious groups or speakers of a particular language. But I wanted to make my own personification of Juneteenth. SYMBOLISM The light in the night sky is not from a star but the planet Venus, the brightest night light in the sky, guiding the way, a symbol of Nature's protection or guidance. Juneteenth has a smiling face, happy to help her people and see them grow. Silver hair representing her elder nature. Slavery isn't bound to one moment in time, it is a timeless aspect of life. Sequentially, Juneteenth, representing the end of enslavement of Blacks to Whites isn't about one particular time. A yellow shirt representing the brightness of the soul of being free. The hands reflect the connection to the Sun, that touch all life. The bowl represents an eternal bucket full of hope, hope being invisible. Gold as the color of timeless. The symbol on it is a family: man, woman, child, fetus. Her sash is of two hands handshaking, representing Black unity Her dress represents the sea of journeys, where Black people, through all their names have found themselves oppressed, or enslaved, which supports Juneteenth with strength. Black in anglophone, Kalo in Indian subcontinent, Noir in francophone, Sakai in Southeast Asia, Preto in lusophone[Portuguese speaking] , negro in hispanosphere, abo in australia[ a slur for aborigines of australia], zwalt for dutch speaking world, abeed for Islamic speaking world. Her right hand is holding all the forebears, leading away from the bloody lands of the oppressors. The eternity symbol on the left foot of the oppressed represents the inclusion of all. The blood from the right foot of the oppressed represents all their blood which covers all the lands of oppression. The mountains in the background represent the oppressive lands of the non blacks: the Christian symbol representing all Christian countries, the White Skull representing white plus non Black lands in any continent where Blacks are oppressed, the Phrygian cap represents all European countries, the Crescent Moon represents all muslim countries. She stands on the new land, wherever it may be, leading the Blacks out of those lands. Her left hand is releasing hope to the future, invisible yet as potent as one's imagination plus will can make it. FABLE COLLECTIONS Literature Collections https://www.kobo.com/ebook/sunset-children-stories https://www.kobo.com/ebook/looking-west-and-west https://www.kobo.com/ebook/poetry-or-more-1 https://www.kobo.com/ebook/concrete-fables Audiobook series https://www.kobo.com/series/richard-murray-tip-jar-audios https://www.kobo.com/series/poetry-or-more COMMISSION tip jar https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 coloring pages https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Single-Coloring-Page-1732448 GALLERIES Ink Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/47013691/comic-coloring-pages Colormeclub Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/100584681/colormeclub-challenge-examples in @color-me-club Juneteenth 2026 Colormeclub #BlackHistory3378 hours ago #BlackHistory337 is about the time between Black in @CRLiterature Juneteenth 2026 CRLiterature #BlackHistory3378 hours ago #BlackHistory337 is about the time between Black #juneteenth #blackhistory337 #black337 #jamesweldonjohnson #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #personification1 point