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[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fucking hell "Jim Crow Creek", yeah nah that was certainly in need of changing.

Also in my search to find out why the fuck it was called this name, in Australia, I found a pretty sick 2019 paper by a professor that basically gives backstory to this entire event.

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