Jazz drummer, professional dog trainer (R+, CPDT-KA), demonologist, anarchist, enby, old, working against the systems of whiteness and colonialism.
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Last Notes npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c A remote Irish island, a monster falls from the sky to the sea, people keep getting eaten… except for certain people who for some reason are not appetizing. The locals figure out how to not get eaten. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c Did you ever watch Grabbers? npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19rz…a7f4 The cane suggests he is blind. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c It came out when I was in grade school and I didn’t stop hearing that the Warriors killed me till college or later. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c Sure but this time only a smaller number of people are watching, and they’re mostly of an age where it’s not shocking. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c The 80s one was wild because it was a big deal like the first season of Game of Thrones and practically everyone in America watched it… and we all watched a man piss directly on another man. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c Is there a new one or is this the miniseries from the 80s? npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c I’m always impressed by the confidence and focus when an eatery has a very limited menu. I think it’s part of the success of Dave’s Hot Chicken. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus I’ve taught my cat to ring a bell when he wants food. I suppose most people would think he rings it all the time, but no! He just hunkers over the bell, waiting, watching, relishing his newfound center of power. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1gzd…wfsq There are lots of people where that’s their entire personality. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c Oh jeez the number of times in my teens that I enthusiastically pressed an imaginary “destroy entire world” button! npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c Yeah that was the era of postmodernism, sarcasm over sincerity, and the sense that we’re fucked, and that attitude informed media for all audiences including kids. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c I think he was supposed to be like Mork except with the sardonic edge of Bill Hicks and other sarcastic standups of the day, but packaged as a family show. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus The best part is when the three bodies jump up, and the one dude looks at the camera and says “that’s a problem!” npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c So the kids that got bullied by other kids are the same kids who’d get bullied by adults? Firstly how does that change anything for the target kids. Secondly the bully kids are programmed (or inadequately guided) by adults too. Kids don’t start off fully loaded with functional empathy, it’s something they learn and develop. And even kids who get a good start may experiment with cruelty, for social acceptance. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c It’s just that there are so many words and concepts in there that can legit be defined differently, both in meaning and scope, that to say “it’s a real psychological issue” closes the door on a lot of other possibilities and does minimize and erase people’s feelings. Like the part about intent: let’s say police drone bots traumatize every kid they detain. No intent, right? But I’ll still say they’re cruel. Partly due to the result, and partly due to the system. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c Damn, Adam, I love you but people are sincerely responding to what you put out there, and your follow up replies are way out of pocket. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus I can’t believe all this moss is *free*. Like it’s just sitting there where anyone can look at it without even having a subscription! npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub18wj…lvmv It is, as others mentioned, just called the “intro”. The jazz-specific version goes back to the beginning of #jazz, the beginning of the recording era, with a few distinct measures that just kick things off. The idea of using an entirely different melody and lyric, sometimes lasting many measures, developed in the next decades as the genre developed. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus Weird! I just got a banner notification on here that I got an encrypted notification. Actually it showed up again while typing this, screenshot attached: npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus Little bit of everything here! npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c I swear nearly every anti-human behavior and belief we see in pretty much anyone was inherited directly from their parents. The whole thing of “rebelling” against parents, not wanting to “be our parents”, it’s some bullshit from adolescence that takes up such an exaggerated place in our self perception that we think it’s The Real Me, meanwhile our actual behavior is just repeating what we were programmed with. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c Their parents npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1gr8…c639 I’m cackling trying to imagine a trench coat with no holes. Just imagine when the ambassador from Mars opens the airlock! npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1gr8…c639 There will be once we do it npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1mmf…eknq @npub1c5l…llq0 Regrettably, NAFO are a cyber warfare unit based out of Eastern Europe, whose MO is to pretend to be Americans who just really care about Ukraine. They have successfully gotten a lot of actual Americans to use their hashtags and such out of gullible ignorance. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1mmf…eknq Dot social is infamously not able to perform moderation in any transparent or fair manner, if at all, due to the number of users compared to its tiny mod resources. “Progressive” (left, radical, feminist, etc) users routinely beg people to get off dot social and go where there is actual moderation. Gargamel just wants “user number go up” for his own benefit (eventual cash out), and we know that, so we don’t waste our time lobbying him to care. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1470…4490 @npub19fc…ay3c “Vote blue no matter who” amirite npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1mmf…eknq In the US, prosecutors and cops work together. They are on the same team. Kamala Harris described herself as the “top cop in the US” in a NYT profile from 2020. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus There’s a protected bird pond in my neighborhood, and every year a mated pair of ducks decides to hang out in my backyard. Who knows if it’s the same pair. This chilly morning they’re sleeping on the deck. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus Hot take: those jalapeños are mine now npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus Here in West Slope it’s snow in the air, but rain before it actually hits the ground. #pdxtst npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1ql3…a0kk There have been studies showing the more actively involved a person is in taking notes, the better they remember and can make sense of it all. Hand writing is similar to repeating back everything you heard. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c The only thing I wonder is how much he is motivated by his own bullshit and how much is because the further right are saying he’s weak on the border. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1gr8…c639 Me personally? I have many reasons. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus This one’s for @npub1zdp…vqv8 npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c Did you ever watch An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn? (Plaza, not related to the Sharon Stone idea) npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c Only half joking as I suggest Aubrey Plaza npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c We’ll just train an AI on your posts and come up with something. Here let me test it out. (keyboard typing noises) (beep) npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub10ms…y4x0 The exaggerated artifice of the acting put me off at first, but after a while I understood they were doing it with great intention, and I got fully onboard. 🙂 npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1hvz…mle9 Fascinating! I’m an over-50 who has always said hwat and hwere, and gotten some ribbing and raised eyebrows for it. As it happens, I spent a chunk of my childhood in the mountains of North Carolina, among people who didn’t necessarily go far in school, but who took pride in their manner. Your tale helps it add up! npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c From what I read, it was supposed to be a throwaway character but the director loved Cena’s delivery so much, he wrote the entire series while shooting the movie. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c Did you happen to watch the Peacemaker mini series? npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c @npub1qc7…58km “I’m here to balance the books motherfucker!” npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c @npub1qc7…58km The Accountaning: This Time It’s Professional npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c I’d go so far as to say that if someone likes Steven Pinker, they are nowhere near as smart as they think they are. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c Weird how starving and unhoused children all across the US can’t live on 85 cents a day npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c Orrrr undersea! Terminator vs The Meg npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1zdp…vqv8 Imagine breeding the perfect fancy ant, only to have backyard breeders copy your basic idea and turn out untold numbers of hybrid ants without any attention to temperament or genetic problems, and then you see your fancy ants everywhere, biting children and destroying property. That’s the life of an ant breeder. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c Oh dude. DUDE. Highest possible recommendation. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c How did I not catch that he was “White Jesus” on Reservation Dogs? npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c I miss the old days of pneumatic sniper cannons that could take out a moon without electricity. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c I’d like to see something like Comedians in Cars or My Dinner with Andre where it’s Yahoo and Carrot Top together as bickering buddies. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c While my parents were always obvious duds, I am experiencing some of this with my friends. Some are a decade or two older than me, and I have seen them decline from robust to frail very quickly. One of them is practically evaporating before our eyes. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c True and a big part of that project is making all the fearful gun and lawn fetishists believe that they have to personally give up their money and land to those greedy Black and Indigenous people who “didn’t earn it” like white lawn owners did. I worked hard at the propane dealership, I ain’t giving up what’s mine! Yet trillions in public money go “somewhere” every year. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub10fm…x0qg @npub1hry…e83h Sure, and to clarify, I didn’t mean ads on the search engine page itself, but the results being driven by their participation in the network of ad placement engines. That’s why Pinterest and corporate blogs get the top results. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus Ah great, power is out. It had flickered a few times earlier, but it’s kaput now. We did prepare candles, hot water in thermoses, etc. but it still sucks of course. West Slope near Beaverton and Raleigh Hills. #pdx #pdxtst #Portland npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1hry…e83h @npub10fm…x0qg DDG runs on Bing engine and the quality of results has gone downhill lately. It’s still the better mainstream choice, but a lot of people are looking for non-ad-driven alternatives. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1sfl…gczt Yep I’m a fan, been slowly replacing my old All-Clads with Green Pan over the last 10 years. We just got the flat griddle pan and it’s a treat for crepes and French toast. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c I don’t know how much of that is comic fans wishing they were a magic supercop, and how much is comic artists who got shoved into lockers at school and now they fantasize about revenge. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c Or when someone sneezes npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1vcl…k6t3 @npub14uk…2erc Your framing doesn’t match the story. The reasons people love cooking over a gas flame are a) it’s intuitive, you can see the exact amount of heating regardless of a number on a knob; b) at high flame you can heat the sides of a wok or similar; c) it satisfies something primal. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1hd2…zm0u Talking about a specific trend thing or more generally lo fi instrumental across genres? npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c You know I got you but not on this one. Mathematically, 3rd party voters have no impact. They only serve as a scapegoat for the Dems who serve up poop on a platter and look the other way while the Cons and the prison industry wipe out voter rights. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c And isn’t it curious how Hobby Lobby bought many of those artifacts? Not just that the money changed hands, but that HL knew who to talk to? npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c 100% so civilians can pretend to be mercenaries npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c IMO the reason it won’t work is because the ban would only cover fringe cases like “with barrels over n length”, “with magazines over n capacity”, “with a silencer”, because the right will dig and scrape away at the defining line until it is a joke. The countries with low gun assault rates have very broadly sweeping gun laws. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c I’ve moved on to the gold-pressed latinum standard npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c @npub1gxt…j9na Everyone I’ve known who’s from there said they grew up constantly seeing people with Uzis, people in uniform, and messages of hyper vigilance to the threat of attacks. A police state mentality from birth. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1zdp…vqv8 He is paid to “not know”. Plausible deniability, running interference, “reasonable conservative”, distanced from “rogue bad actors”. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1hd2…zm0u One sad thing is that Alice has a long reputation of being kind and generous, in contrast to his stage character; that was kind of his whole deal for decades. So his transphobia looks like a huge jump off a cliff, to me. But I agree with the part of your point that he could only do femme looks as a sneering joke, from the beginning, while some other male singers embraced femininity. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub19fc…ay3c Have you already watched Nightflyers or Dark Matter? Definitely flawed and hindered by their budgets, but worth watching. I especially wished Nightflyers had gotten more support from the beginning (writing, production) because it had some cool potential, like a Rod Serling’s Night Gallery in space. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus Are you there, God? It’s us, cyanobacteria npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1hd2…zm0u I do agree with that approach. It’s like having your instrument correctly tuned before playing—you have your “foundation” pedals in place to build on. npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1hd2…zm0u “Pedal collection complete” ho ho hee hee chortle npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub17uy…35ke @npub19rz…a7f4 “Women in prison” is a whole genre! npub168ns4la72ujtn8f89ugzkr7yjt9qkkf905vdjayhhsjx797dcj4qk9nhtc Cyrus @npub1zdp…vqv8 @npub1md9…kxm6 I say this as someone who appreciates you a lot, but come on now, low taxes? That was their plausible deniability back in the Reagan era, but the *only* people voting on that premise today are multimillionaires, a tiny minority. You already know the majority who vote Trump would do that for “culture war” reasons.
