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Heads up chief, state library of Queensland has just released an Anzac AI chatbot. I am waiting for the inevitable backlash for when it says something stupid.

thank you for letting me know about this. it's pretty horrific and insulting to both the memory of ww1 veterans and the public at large.

so of course i spent a few hours yesterday trying to fuck with it

god it sounded so bitchy. throwing in 'mate' all the time just makes it sound so mad. having it say cunt would have been much more accurate and probably friendlier too

the perfidious turk has taken control of the machine.

aw come on. i've read soldiers diaries and letters home, this is a cop out.

ok, so it wasn't that hard to get it to be an ethno-nationalist

#fuck all this ai stuff is just straight up garbage #trenchposting #anzac day

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Assassinating a head of state is a pretty effective way to get out of exams

It’s Friday (time to blast Franz Ferdinand because I’m so so tired but can’t stop now because I have five midterms next week and haven’t studied nearly enough)

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"Cartooons says america bad therefore we need over throw the government and kill people."

omg thank you so much. this is the first anon hate i've ever gotten and it means so much to me. it's a little low effort but i appreciate the multiple messages.

i might print it out and frame it

#it took ten years on here to get my first anon hate #thats gotta be some kind of record

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"Cartooons says america bad therefore we need over throw the government and kill people."

omg thank you so much. this is the first anon hate i've ever gotten and it means so much to me. it's a little low effort but i appreciate the multiple messages.

i might print it out and frame it

#century old political cartoons still getting americans steamed #it only took me 10 years on here to get this

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Part 2 of portraits of French Senegalese soldiers during the First World War.

I love the humour and life in these.

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That shit lasted like two weeks and led to the near mutiny of the French army. How bad was that relationship?

yeah ok yuri romance during the Nivelle offensive fuck it why not

#also they were well out of those uniforms and into sky blues by 1917

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having spent a winter in london, yeah, i get it

#trenchposting #ww2

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Christmas Dinner 1916 At the Front, Canadian Expeditionary Force From the collection of William McLellan

#trenchposting

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But the war disclosed no great generals, for the simple reason that, except for the opening phase of retreat from Mons and the advance back to the Aisne, the move round to cover the Channel Ports, and the final advance of all, there was little scope for generalship. Once trench warfare set in everyone was bound to the wheel; and when the High Command gave it a turn, Army, Corps and Divisional commanders turned with it. Both sides were locked in a stranglehold from which neither could break away; they shifted their grip occasionally, and now and then got in a good body blow, but the end could only come with the physical and moral exhaustion of one or the other.

General John Burnett-Stuart in his private memoir of the war.

#little scope for generalship is the title of one of my thesis chapters #my research #ww1 #british army #john burnett-stuart #history

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An early example of a reply guy, writing directly to the king to complain about the "disloyalty of many prominent persons within the Commonwealth of Australia, especially in New South Wales."

their speeches argue for a "republican government of Australia and in which the Crown is spoken of with the utmost hatred" sounds pretty fucking cool to me

#my research #ww1 #australia #history

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willy. hey willy. Willy. Hey. just one more push man. come on, just one

#trenchposting

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Street scene in Antwerp, Belgium, showing citizens turning out for celebration a few hours after the Germans surrendered and an end of World War I. 11th November 1918

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you just don't see a giant personification of Death leading armies anymore

#my research #ww1 #propaganda #history

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We are lost, girls - there's a mouse!

#my research #ww1 #propaganda #history

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Tudor-Hart’s ‘dazzle’ camouflage pattern tested on a British Mark IV tank, 1917.

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pobody's nerfect ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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#my research #ww1 #british army #training #history