2026-10-20T11:51:38Z https://njump.me Renato Ramonda https://njump.me/npub1gn70xq730heywwfc0s5ameky43cuy3zzxd9lxk9jkvq8hdhaytpqvr894l https://cdn.fosstodon.org/accounts/avatars/000/269/013/original/54280f2a359450bf.jpg https://cdn.fosstodon.org/accounts/avatars/000/269/013/original/54280f2a359450bf.jpg https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2qj6etjs0veqc63h575c9areee0pyxgxzgw599jzngrkru2rv9qqzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy7ad5cr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxe470t6pk7hlflu7m3p9xgs8nzp3dgzk8ap5ta3q7kvxkyc4q2cq93lh0h'>nevent1q…lh0h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>look, an ancient artisan needed a pot or vase and said &#34;eh, good enough, whatever&#34;<br/><br/>It&#39;s something I can respect. Nobody (almost nobody, I guess) worries about the judgment of people 1000 years in the future 😁 2026-10-26T18:19:21Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs90u7m6sw56hsmy7uy0k8mfw9s9dpsxc7nul9zrmahmwc8rwk6fpszypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy86yh83 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0rxlqvnjr7qhr0tg9z4pr7rzuud3cxysaz0s57efsstvdy68pt7gyjcyr5'>nevent1q…cyr5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>for most things, you don&#39;t. <br/><br/>Company policy also makes it impossible to just keep emails, they get auto-deleted after like... one year, or two. The only way is to save/archive emails, and... I suppose screenshot the cat, if really needed.<br/><br/>Information that is useful and needs to be kept shouldn&#39;t really stay in emails anyway. 2026-08-31T10:01:43Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0pt2yv9z9mpaehupmey3fgdc5fsu8zfwuqdj67t5a77vm56na8eczypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy6448q3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvg3d34qfya4gfa0dud3cflxpqvdm6xu2vm2qgpfr92m23knhlrzqu6g9pz'>nevent1q…g9pz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>since the advent of officially sanctioned work chat apps, my work email has become &#34;where I receive meeting invitations... And spam&#34;<br/><br/>Occasionally I do get a real email (often a group thing with multiple forwards). I think work email is officially dead. 2026-08-31T07:46:03Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvvamzesztvatdz9ujq5ms39gau942afnsez89nky7nh8f2llq73gzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyrn7f4w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgyrkt7l8922tm0yt6p6p36vwnd4l7fepwjkzcqpxx2tusnsrh2csza6qkn'>nevent1q…6qkn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I have that exact reaction to gossip about Italian &#34;celebs&#34; (I AM Italian) because they&#39;re only &#34;famous&#34; if you watch trash TV or (sometimes) soccer (or both), and I don&#39;t do either.<br/><br/>TV is a closed ecosystem with basically no external interactions, those people have no other footprint on the world. 2026-08-26T06:20:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsggeu3d5k2kvtu7kden0xzaj3j2xpa6v8akvrax6h5sxrjtj22feczypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyr0r2wm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvxke9pphu38zwr92x6mm6dl9w7ys3f7slqk4vmrhmgvz0666h8gc7dgphk'>nevent1q…gphk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>some have been groomed since childhood, many actually hate or resent that position but have been put in a position that practically (and financially, and socially, and psychologically) makes it almost impossible for them to leave. 2026-08-16T12:21:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9zazdhgeymxteqegv609mmud7e2u5kf5s5a3aam884hq96upgyhczypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vynjpyfz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs898l9m2uy0942s6dam3uuqjma338nncx3ms6rkanne6n4xhmkvsgxerwyg'>nevent1q…rwyg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The Attack of the 50ft Wotan 2026-06-25T18:24:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9lj6rdys5shc85dzjhw8ucc4e2z9je8uusw8jj5ahfq09jauttmqzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy5rdmvd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs08q48eyqgupz6zgdet2puhnuw8zhcj22acd30td9rumt9asc9wuqngtcew'>nevent1q…tcew</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>also Italian &#34;Canìcola&#34;, though in Italy it&#39;s a bit old-fashioned... But (probably due to the French influence) not in Swiss Italian! It&#39;s still used regularly in official weather alerts by the Swiss institutions and news. 2026-06-22T08:34:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdfmeg9kgkmdytzxwvcdrjds27sdvsafaezpuwvzcuvhf2vexx04qzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vywe7kml In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsta3du3hdn6w4u2v6yldswwt8s9hp2rceqv0rq0gjuc8e5vnhpnngkss7d6'>nevent1q…s7d6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the &#34;AI&#34; companies LOVE to blur the line. <br/><br/>When Mozilla started pushing ai down the users throats, they deliberately lumped translation with chatbots and summarizers to be able to say &#34;see? You don&#39;t REALLY hate AI, you use it!&#34;<br/><br/>And yes, they are similar technologies (and machine translation sucks A LOT, just like chatbots and other generators), but they are clearly not the same thing.<br/>The &#34;translate this page&#34; function will not groom me for psychosis and suicide. 2026-06-18T19:30:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstf8d8nhpup6j77mh5u6wjn6wqfktu3rz6r2fe3cfa2p40dk8zrtgzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy0fp6ak In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgp22e68zj8x3hqr8e4x6aha7cm3xhckqqv7pp5zz54e6ljwetsuggsjg86'>nevent1q…jg86</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>then again... The Nazis found a way to be racist towards Slavic and Rus people, who arguably looked way more &#34;Aryan&#34; than most Germans (surely more than Adolf and most of his top gang). 2026-06-07T09:44:26Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgp22e68zj8x3hqr8e4x6aha7cm3xhckqqv7pp5zz54e6ljwetsugzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyu87wl5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz0ukq807r4hd33rjctkuch9csr0rukmw50m52ud5w0k8r27tq7gcy3lyse'>nevent1q…lyse</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the open and nasty and virulent racism towards people that looked basically the same as them was (still is) puzzling... Maybe it&#39;s my western eye but Koreans often don&#39;t look that much different.<br/><br/>A legendary wrestler in 70s Japan hid his mixed Japanese/Korean origins until his death (only came out in a posthumous autobiography).<br/><br/>I mean, they were (some still are) racist towards Japanese minorities like the Hokkaido Ainu.<br/><br/>Men find the darnedest things to be bastards about. 2026-06-07T09:42:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8y007hr7dcc34u4tvtuyg2kqr3wjgfjzyrx4vfcy86rqe2fm2zfczypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy77vkj5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs93h9s6gydwjl392n524grvyy2w7uqac07plyrssv8xmjekvjvfjqgrlmkz'>nevent1q…lmkz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yeah that needs some more setup <br/><br/>these days I use neovim with a setup that means I very rarely use my (licensed!) PyCharm. 2026-05-20T19:10:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxnh8cght6na5y7r4q0vsfx0qus93hgw8sys43d5qphvgg7f3npfqzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyy8ytre In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8hr7u8mf67d5l39zfenxgcvkgwwavd3an462yermf5mj0xg3ehvqd94zmu'>nevent1q…4zmu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>an editor that warns about stuff and lints and formats your code helps a lot 2026-05-20T17:48:43Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9n3xt95q22q6adsdqwcq0rezlcnl3q46xzel55v0vjnqwagpn7uqzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy8kjh6l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdq6wqvv0p7ank6t09gcasjzk9kk09cu7jv9p5hrn0txny87aswwgqw59q0'>nevent1q…59q0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m not sure &#34;appealing to women&#34; *actually* interests incels. To buy into that cult you have to absolutely hate women, they seem to actually revel in their misery and hate &#34;chads/alphas&#34; with envyous passion 2026-05-12T11:38:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvfk00yf6mz3dr6szp00eeqt9gs6rfy2w77l2rc027g6ymyhpz82gzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vygq3kch In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspvezsjtpgfy6sa6sfk5l2hhfns4c99ftcpqrp5apwmatma0t7crsrfsw0y'>nevent1q…sw0y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>hi! Having done some semi-pro translation work in the past... Is there an easy way to see the English original in context?<br/><br/>Sometimes the assumptions about sentence structure and such can cause misunderstandings (or hilarious errors) in different languages.<br/><br/>I can offer Italian, btw, if it&#39;s not too big of a file.<br/>Native speaker, fluent in English, have worked on Eng-&gt;Ita translations in the past. 2026-03-23T16:08:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8qxxxpdc9lm4gjsdslwevdps84zyswupnfhnyf3kvhtyhmg6a9eszypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy0mf8mf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9g9ggreahkqh7j3falsr35kf6qr48ztyc6za75jsv7yj8uvmyvscejwyhg'>nevent1q…wyhg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>who did that? I&#39;m curious 2026-03-05T06:30:43Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspzd0at3j63jthsgf24s0swhq7ftz7h47ydee4qje58fd02acf6cszypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyz677s4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2jk6say6agzryhsphkwd8qnle23rsz54uane4cna4mutts8tnn2gprx8mj'>nevent1q…x8mj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>same... Ignorance truly is bliss sometimes 2026-03-03T18:54:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0nll0dl09nk23zn3kl03ag0w6u0p7vn9al7sphuslv2v2l26t7rgzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vydg0rqd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv88x5yxwta7vezwfunkzhepdcaxhrv9yp077wkn96ekn8xwrqeqg9f4rvt'>nevent1q…4rvt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>YouTube stopped working for me if I was logged in and using uBlock... So now I use a container tab where I&#39;m never logged in, joke&#39;s on them.<br/><br/>Recommendations suck anyway, just in a different way. YouBlock to ban channels helps. 2026-01-23T23:49:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxwx3uap9he4dcupfsjrkky8wgur7d366s8tdt70dnl0j8za8t9yszypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy2k936k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr6ns4x4ery7qtq4sdg7pu7ze4ga89x6sv5n37msksn64czdvvtxc0mk7w6'>nevent1q…k7w6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>which book, BTW? I think I read all the novels (some quite recently) 2026-01-08T18:48:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr6ns4x4ery7qtq4sdg7pu7ze4ga89x6sv5n37msksn64czdvvtxczypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyzx35l3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsysaann98razn97l3cuwpztf494vsvhywvy9fwqsq7zgmqv7q86ucs74mfr'>nevent1q…4mfr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I find his writing rewards careful reading... But of course it&#39;s not exactly the most &#34;relaxing&#34; read. 2026-01-08T18:47:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsysaann98razn97l3cuwpztf494vsvhywvy9fwqsq7zgmqv7q86uczypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyu0z982 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf0z90p6xaggmjscz4j8f6ujmqwursa63u0g7ruedqemujtpye27g42puec'>nevent1q…puec</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>one of the things I appreciate greatly about Gibson is how he does that, boosting the sense that these people are &#34;real&#34; (the characters have no reason to explain or elaborate on things that are obvious to them), but he also drops *juust enough* hints that time and again I go &#34;ooh, that&#39;s what he meant!&#34; And lo, 2 pages later he actually explains/confirms it. 2026-01-08T18:46:18Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2fvkw0m97zrj5ewp060ly4eamz9g5c6c4tas8jv0uwmkdv0tpylqzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyyhzpz4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxptn76wuwy3m7fd5hms3kvkretmvwnvmalpj3ky5wryj8asl3uls76qrdg'>nevent1q…qrdg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>...it&#39;s astounding<br/><br/>(Time is... Fleeting) 2025-12-28T09:30:50Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs03ujeh99de2kudmtfqj0v6vs8kj7ndtqt8v2qddg02p8tg7mt60czypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vya9exzl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqn5djw5x3y577sq9pq3m4dlvyhs3u668p4am6zzasunkw3z5tnug2xya7r'>nevent1q…ya7r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>look at you boasting about pics of your coq online... 2025-11-20T20:41:25Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqkfe4q2ymwvu3dwxwu7s0ldxms2fnh3l59axt0wftlxqwfhvxpgqzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy4860xt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfpagu0ajcqn52fqpjecu0ljc9fc65r4r67lzmmpkjk3uj2hcgxsswvgxrg'>nevent1q…gxrg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(nobody ever accused Italian fascists of being smart) 2025-10-29T19:57:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfpagu0ajcqn52fqpjecu0ljc9fc65r4r67lzmmpkjk3uj2hcgxsszypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyr8r9ud In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdrdandqycu7xucmp6nn48907nxl8gxf5h3l7wuwksl8vfts2gldqk82wve'>nevent1q…2wve</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Italian fascists have been organizing &#34;camp hobbit&#34; gatherings for the last 50+ years 2025-10-29T18:55:08Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqtsmqm2plynsc5h6uftc7wx4ktnu45asm6u88grg8ud65sftgvrczypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy6du52j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyejlpc6ug78dnl34r0ckd9qzrsjf44pgshdyxavyh936gs0nsm5s3scy97'>nevent1q…cy97</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>entirely guesswork on my part but... I&#39;d wager less than 20% saw much actual play.<br/> (and I&#39;m being generous) 2025-10-16T07:28:21Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrks7ev0j9atypcz69hpzcppa7gd0ck7sc6ym2clex582vqarmysczypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyql6u9z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsygsp43t2x5nuyxqxl66gxlvh0a5ph0pvk0ry696q6mwlk0cctzagqga9gj'>nevent1q…a9gj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>foreign books translated in the 50s are often pretty terrible (and the reason translations are redone periodically) <br/><br/>And then, yeah, there&#39;s &#34;fascist era speech&#34; for us, which has specific recognizable idiosyncrasies and *will* convey a specific &#34;tone and color&#34; (used all the time in historic dramas and even comedy). 2025-10-11T12:49:30Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsygsp43t2x5nuyxqxl66gxlvh0a5ph0pvk0ry696q6mwlk0cctzagzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy724lvr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrwc7ya8tuq8ak9yhrj9j9uq7dlr0a89v3hm5tfrjqd5nxqvrlmgczmge6v'>nevent1q…ge6v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>sounds like an uncontroversial take to me, at least for the languages I know. Both Italian and English changed so much in the last 100 years that what was formally correct back then (and IS still technical correct) is often so old fashioned to be *practically* incorrect in current speech.<br/><br/>Some Italian books from the early 1900s are positively unreadable. Understandable, yes (mostly), but unpleasant and unusual. If you talk like that you WILL be perceived as &#34;playing a character&#34;. 2025-10-11T12:44:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrlh9jl6lwqz3ahulp0yr8h9xs4lp5yhdw808f6zvqx84qeh9kz5czypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyxrvmvm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr2n00ndsulw85g73r3qgyrv0vya0qakwxjdvdad569mdeve740msemvhhv'>nevent1q…vhhv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>to avoid it getting reused. But I have not used it in years. 2025-07-09T20:30:50Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs06dn63664e2ssadd49vdfle85lvevslr5kdfshhhe44zrgz7lhgszypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy5lp740 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg4ylgj6kxhw07w0j0lcnd57c4vyk26yqkwpakh4twerkzsyeagng0kpkwq'>nevent1q…pkwq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>nazi Germany had the first (color, too) TV broadcasts, I assume that was the specific reason... But of course it&#39;s also for Plot and Message reasons, it&#39;s a novel after all. 2025-07-04T19:31:58Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2zcmuassmaudt4045ez50w5yppjetx30qldtjrydspfemp0ctc5czypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyf78aku In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs95qhc6ru6p7q9n70wqw77xpvac2mhalszvwgqpgtkpcmlp79rufgazdjwj'>nevent1q…djwj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>isn&#39;t &#34;the yellow wallpaper&#34; the same as &#34;the wallpaper that is yellow&#34;?<br/><br/>Maybe I have a native language bias 2025-04-08T11:52:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqw6rczpchyvm8hmckduq262wwrls08ysr43grhawx2s6ts0kvfeczypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyyn096h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs20dq56rlk5egw7829yych636lqj9kjmqllh64l6yqgavwj7wt3wq87gh9c'>nevent1q…gh9c</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I noticed after tooting that you were referring specifically to the Fall of Gondolin. I haven&#39;t read much at all outside the three main books (and the Silmarillion only in translation... For now at least) 2025-04-05T17:29:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrwq85zmwjhf675n0eafcrylkstdsv0mk297z7racu56av8rd6r7qzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyywjk75 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp0em5tcn9gfzcfcr2dtqkc03x4rshknapqsdhe8j84ltp5z4l2ss6n3fc5'>nevent1q…3fc5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>several of the names (especially Dwarven, IIRC) are taken directly, not even referenced obliquely, right? 2025-04-05T17:25:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs972esjrkg2x5gxud7uykuf4lu36f6ajlpsg47ptfaczjphx6lafczypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy6zz5tl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstf4uz70atkcju0z0k5wr0x70ftgcnt4v6wmqrend7rrk3calcfsqynd4y8'>nevent1q…d4y8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>learning what was happening roughly concurrently in other parts of the world is (IME) one of the missing links in how history is taught (or was, for my old ass).<br/><br/>Some assumptions about how ancient some things are, are... Sneaky: I was taken aback learning how basically all we know abt Norse mythology is from like... The 4-500s, hundreds of years after the spread of Christianity.<br/><br/>Reading the myths they sound... Well, super ancient. And their roots are, for sure, but heavily filtered 2025-01-02T16:05:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszrc7mmj5tue9fcgymxhprw5yp2szwccgezl027tjdlaftpp6267czypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyynmkha In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgevtyrntzrnpk09smmhn72wpkd65ftdcpsc7x7sfe6xgu4fmddggtt8p43'>nevent1q…8p43</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>except most artists are not paid a penny by Spotify at all, yeah I suppose (I personally hate radio as much as Spotify, although for slightly different reasons) 2024-12-24T10:07:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgkaa6t5znnel3azl6306ee4790caxqhedvsusl9awsq9h0a290hczypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy3frsrl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw29mt8pn2safuda4ajlkjf2mpwyshtqtppt3q82jr57temsr8txqaqpaha'>nevent1q…paha</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>users at the free tier can&#39;t really create playlists of only songs they chose and IIRC can only skip a limited number of times (per day?). <br/><br/>I also know most Spotify users I talked to say they like that &#34;the algorithm&#34; inserts stuff they didn&#39;t choose in the mix (for &#34;discovering new music&#34;). <br/><br/>The article about the fake artists noted they were most likely to be inserted in genres used as &#34;background&#34; while doing something else. 2024-12-24T08:34:32Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2hj399jzrahhtr3xtkhce5uljgdksepxd5pqa4rgt8uwytuxx7pgzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy9j22n2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2n2kfalxcst0sxn40pkug4mc2nqmetd9mp6tj54a4emkywdlm3csxxu5pj'>nevent1q…u5pj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I read only Name of the Rose and Foucault, and I liked them, but never had the drive to seek more 2024-12-13T21:38:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyxffcxu7mqf432ww79gn3tpu43z5u48eg92xs6tf5z9qlyw2r2hgzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vytuk09p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyfayxak8v8whk0pahrqgr00dady627e90ggzh8cvhwv8fu2j0d6sf5k9uu'>nevent1q…k9uu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>in The Name of the Rose there&#39;s a famous scene where young novice monk Adso is in awe because of the Benedictine abbey collection of relics, and his older and wise mentor (who has more experience of the world), William of Baskerville, tells him that he&#39;s seen so many shards of the Wood from the True Cross that if you put all of them together you could make a whole boat. 2024-12-13T21:29:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsd74nwp46k92qlxtsas3uudkkkvn20nnyzxlasaf3sp50yqed9f5qzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyxhp2m5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswmux7udwhsdfw2hxldkdnlyyemnw2tffyvz9mls53jtztsh30uds6pmu4j'>nevent1q…mu4j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh yeah!<br/><br/>In Italy (especially in the South) there&#39;s Assunta, Addolorata, and even Catena and Incatenata (Chain/Chained), all attributes/variants of Mary.<br/><br/>They&#39;re old fashioned, but still in use (Catena is rare though and bad enough that women with that name often go by Cate/Caterina/Rina/Nina) 2024-12-13T20:30:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyfzlp0chszp7vk7hwmnlxt003y6z22aln5sflc5wd3cx3pz98kfgzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy3px5gy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2vs6krhkxc7jspy7hwpgls0skykmrzxxvyh3207csvn7vksjf7qs9ez4r0'>nevent1q…z4r0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh yeah, many, many &#34;special edition&#34; Marys in Italy!<br/><br/>Chained Mary, Sorrowful Mary, the Holy Heart of Mary, the Assumption of Mary, Black Mary, etc <br/><br/>Plus all the female saints (Chiara, Lucia, Barbara, Brigida, SO MANY others).<br/><br/>It&#39;s pretty clear to me that an exclusively male-coded religion simply wouldn&#39;t have done it for those ancient Mediterranean people (Spain and Latin America are just as Mary centric). 2024-12-13T20:12:03Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsda5fj2980hq5u4tjz6yxn2kas2cvj85rwyxcpsesszyhzhtgfqtczypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyh43pxc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqslqw3gdd4u88xax3wvx5ks70605qlzapq2zez3uys7lrexszx2q4cdn98'>nevent1q…dn98</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I bet!<br/><br/>The actual practice of folk religion in Italy never really distanced itself from many old rituals (especially in rural areas, and honestly until 1900, even 1950, most of Italy was rural.<br/><br/>Even in my mom&#39;s generation, the authority of priests in small villages had to negotiate with associations (brotherhoods and sisterhoods) of locals, especially elders. <br/><br/>For example, in my native village the local patron (Annunciation of Mary) was traditionally on Jul 2.<br/><br/>1/2 2024-12-13T19:59:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvcngd2992ql0x0kvh0dgdnw4ta3m6spezjlhph5xw5l07ceql5fszypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyvnyj4q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvvv7s6mtu5rhyz7tfnd7cm9qregq3cn2j969hkw52axtkvxue4qqt0he04'>nevent1q…he04</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>happy St. Lucia! (I was just looking at the silver statue of the saint in Siracusa today)<br/><br/>Back when Christians started spreading, they probably *very briefly* tried to tell people they should stop their worship of many goddesses and quickly pivoted to &#34;female saints&#34; and uh... 50 different &#34;variants&#34; of the Holy Mary?<br/><br/>Honestly, in Italian traditional faith (which is what most people practiced anyway, regardless of what the canon said) Mary is probably more important than Jesus. 2024-12-13T17:41:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspjt5mdr3emck4xdupej9g28h0y2ck0jrw5zcpf7wx64jlghyjzqqzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyv23y5m In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyrsja2hzsdxlxvm8my5s8p2n06s9fhhuavqhwgykk4a6va5zqn3qy95wav'>nevent1q…5wav</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>amusingly enough, due to the mentioned lack of press... it&#39;s very likely that unless someone follows a genre actively it&#39;s very hard to even know they exist (never heard of Black Rainbows for example).<br/><br/>I mean, the &#34;dwarven themed&#34; epic metal band Wind Rose is like... from Rome (so are Nanowar of Steel). 2024-12-10T15:45:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqrs5f4u42sfkykwnzvcnsqjl439f5dsyl99exlkkhy2rp8vpl6tszypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vynv56pg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrlcseqr44hr077cgcfdkuca0ujpqfexsnsr9asc5asr8yp6kc08cd9hq2s'>nevent1q…hq2s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>if you go looking, there is *other* Italian music, it&#39;s just that it&#39;s stuff that is completely outside of what is considered &#34;mainstream&#34; and passes on the radio and such. <br/><br/>There&#39;s a good amount of Italian metal, for example. 2024-12-10T14:55:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrv2yd8tcxat50ez5rkrh8tfeyvrvchmu38ddtm7ltxzzrjq43d9gzypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyr37u6l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvn9thu2xgtrhpzkshsyagkqt0u063rul7qtxgnms08xqgv7ykpgg62hvkv'>nevent1q…hvkv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>you just described 95% of Italian songs of what is generally called &#34;Canzone Italiana&#34; as a genre, which is also pretty much what &#34;Italian pop&#34; is.<br/><br/>Just dreadful slop. 2024-12-10T14:16:17Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsry0k6lkzj6etsjgypejtmy4hkh3l00pwe7yr8rlzwh5tufgmuqeszypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vyfh8ns0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq4ajcvu7f5v9nmek67yysrsmveyhv5nw9z2wvdn5me0lq60dkr8gzp0y84'>nevent1q…0y84</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>is this... Agrigento? <br/>Doesn&#39;t look like Selinunte.<br/><br/>Plenty of amazing Magna Greece and Phoenician archeological sites and objects to see in Sicily (the Museum in Palermo has several of the items removed from the sites for preservation, btw). 2024-12-01T15:55:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsz6ap98kqf4d0sc3ytxlwjkaf79768ftdgl0faytfk43mrwczamkszypz0eucr697ly3ee8p7znh0xcjk8rsjygge5hu6ck2esq7akl53vy8u9r3f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrh5x8la7mkejmkxdsa56z4evc7qvr69gjl6xwd6wy3k4fs72k8vcdtd2eq'>nevent1q…d2eq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>better than &#34;DnD sanitation&#34; I spotted in Monza!<br/> <img src="https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/029/815/966/340/872/original/751eb977b10090bf.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-08-26T18:48:41Z