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@RickiTarr A. Music. Playing it with other people, going to see it, immersing myself in it to the exclusion of almost everything else. It's still one of the biggest parts of my life but when I was young I played for many hours most nights of the week and went to shows all the time. Haven't played with anyone in decades, or been to a show in longer than I can remember. B. Feeling zero need to prove myself to anyone. These two things are in tension.

@astro_jcm@mastodon.online that right hand turn screams jumpscare ambush

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party tell that to Toronto traffic tomorrow afternoon

@Galley@mastodon.online didn't Ike famously make a big deal announcement about D-Day on June 5, 1944? /s

@stux@mstdn.social Your reaction would probably read as madness to whoever made the sign. Guessing based on extensive walking in American cities. @stephanie@ottawa.place

@TimWardCam@c.im @stux@mstdn.social @stephanie@ottawa.place I know this situation well. "You're........... WALKING?!?!? Did you wreck your car?"

@stux@mstdn.social Yes, the list of "shoulds" around walkability and public transportation on this side of the Atlantic is lamentably long. @stephanie@ottawa.place

@user21t@mastodon.bsd.cafe @kagan@wandering.shop Entering Canada and living and working in Canada are two different things. If you want to relocate, there will be paperwork.

@aegir@toot.wales it doesn't seem like he has the numbers. Either he's aiming for a top job in the next government (would be a bit odd as he's just given one up), or this is all a terribly inept strategy.

@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social @edgeofeurope@mastodon.social @iju@mastodon.social Oh, but Nolan has a "theory" that they used blackened bronze to get a cool Batman look. Such commitment to historical accuracy 😐

@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange @feld@friedcheese.us I'm impressed with that ratio.

@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com My 3w Blackstar Fly does the job for me. Surprisingly good sound for a little plastic box, has an aux in and there's an optional expansion cabinet that I also like. I've heard good things about the Roland Cube line but don't have any direct experience with them.

@tend2wobble@toad.social another one?

@HalfHeartedFanatic@mas.to it's so you don't mix up your guitar straps and your mandolin straps, obvs

@telmii_poo@jorts.horse I have nothing but questions

@cstross@wandering.shop If these folks were spawned by the FBI I admit I'll be impressed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizians

@hex if you can find it, The Outcasts (1982) has some of that paganism holdover business in it. Suspiria has witches all over it. Er, Witchfinder General? The Devil Rides Out? Blood on Satan's Claw?

@hex oooh, yes, absolute classic of the genre!

@Lana@beige.party @BubblegumYeti@mastodon.social Weird they didn't interpret the mark to be blue eyes, blonde hair, or freckles, but I guess that's why my career in Biblical hermeneutics never took off.

@selzero I mean, he IS very obviously a Time Lord

@cybervegan @jpaskaruk I think a big part of what's working with these guys for so many people is that they're smuggling a lot of difficult stuff in underneath some very understandable elements, and have gotten the balance just right. A lot of it is down to the drummer, who is super solid and really makes it move. I suspect some of the undetected references are punk and postpunk. I'm thinking Au Pairs, Gang of Four, Wire, maybe even a bit of Killing Joke? Dancey, but sonically aggressive.

@bimmer "if you're not living in a vibe built dwelling you're going to be left behind"

@reece bonne chance!

@Lana good to know I would have been hopelessly retrograde even in the 18th century ("what, you folks don't dig some William Byrd?"). 😅 Thanks for the additional details, I appreciate your expertise!

@davidaugust something tells me nothing is going viral in Iran considering the internet blackout but this definitely the most hilarious unintended side effect of making powerful video generation software broadly available at very low cost.

@Lana My understanding is that he was basically seen as an old fuddy duddy doing Baroque stuff well past the time that was cool and was only put back atop the leaderboard when later composers (particularly no. 2 and 3 on that leaderboard) were like "um, he's actually a genius, you guys". Certainly a powerful reminder in any case that "cool and popular" and "good" are far from synonymous.

@Lana "That old Bach? Ugh, can't we get anyone young and cool?"

@cargot_robbie @ned TorStar is thankfully not captured or complicit, but I don't know how wide a reach they have. Do people outside of southern Ontario pay attention to the Star? (genuine question, I'm in TO so obviously it's locally relevant but I don't know if it's national media)

@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @susankayequinn@wandering.shop Pulling data from the US, UK, and Mexico seems like an odd approach.

@colossal [Ranni intensifies]

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange "wHy doN't YoU waNt tO prOtEct kiDs?!?!??!"

@czarbucks@vmst.io @amydiehl@mstdn.social My guess is "immediately".

@jpaskaruk @ScottStarkey And the freaking Saguenay, of all places. It's like Voivod all over again, but the internet has taken over distribution of the weirdness.

@Owlor @rek A subproblem of the "General Ignorance of Anachronistic Grammar and Vocabulary Problem", methinks.

@HI_Greens@mastodon.scot too late now, I guess 🤷‍♂️

@c_9@mstdn.ca to Ford Nation, this is good news, as drivers are no longer inconvenienced with having to slightly reduce their speed. Proof that the cameras were just getting in the way of efficiency.

@sean baffling in retrospect that I was educated from K to undergraduate with zero recourse to Google products (admittedly because Google didn't exist yet, but still)

@gbargoud@masto.nyc @futurebird@sauropods.win Santa needs to bring this kid a book on Anatolian history, otherwise no notes.

@johnefrancis@cosocial.ca @BlakeHamiltonCA@mstdn.ca I don't think logic is these folks' strong suit.

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange For daily life, 5e Prestidigitation seems like it would be extremely helpful.

@hgrsd This is also the plot of pretty much every Dhar Mann video. Dhar Mann's YouTube channel has 27,000,000 subscribers. We apparently love watching struggling people being forced to prove their worth in order to be treated as human beings.

@mediaevalfishsandwich@zeroes.ca @hgrsd@hachyderm.io Ah yes, I forgot the OTHER, more literal, way to show you have worth in the DharMannosphere.

@Pinchy63@ottawa.place @c_9@mstdn.ca Oh right, forgot about that one.

@wordshaper @SwiftOnSecurity Misspelled "illusion".

@tompearce49@mastodon.scot @HarriettMB@toot.wales @Nonilex@masto.ai Never mind the philosophers, they are simply good at what they do and he is a buffoon. They know this and he doesn't. He's completely outmatched.

@straphanger@urbanists.social Fans of 19th century #literature will remember this sort of thing as a central plot point in Trollope's "The Way We Live Now".

@ScottStarkey The point is ultimately the same, though - giving people time and materials to explore their creativity eventually produces massive returns. But the problem is also the same - there's a certain kind of person who just looks at anything like this and only sees all the people who are benefitting, who are not creating an individually huge ROI, and who (crucially) are not them. For this person, everything is zero sum, so such "freeloading" must be ended in the name of "fairness".

@hex Argento does have that effect on some people 😂

@quinn tech giants have lobbying budgets; kids don't