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Life’s been good lately. Not everything’s perfect - far from it.
But I like how things are going right now. There’s progress and can’t expect much more than that.
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I decided to give an admittedly somewhat rushed effort at properly mixing the first song I ever wrote.
It's like a suite with 3 movements. I rewrote the first movement entirely. At first, it sounded a whole lot different, but I revised it because that was really the first full piece I ever wrote, and I thought it could've sounded so much better.
- First Movement: 0:00 - 2:02
- Second Movement: 2:03 - 5:09
- Third Movement: 5:10 - 7:27
Pokemon channel on yt started airing episodes in spanish, tuned in for a bit and it's solid. Even the songs were pretty good though hearing some of the english names of the pokemon said with a bit of an accent is goofy but love it all the same.
Every Islamophobia wave has whites cry about suicide bombing as if it's the worst crime imaginable, exactly what's the difference between suicide bombing a bus and air striking that bus? Assholes watch liveleak footage of western helicopters mowing down rows of civilians and are unphased and make movies glorifying it then they give Muslims the stereotype of being the bombers.
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It's gonna be a long one! When it is done, it might even surpass the track that is currently the longest which is 7:25. Right now, it being around the 5-minute mark gives me 37 minutes of debut album material.
The structure of it right now is:
- 0:00 to 2:12 is the long proggy instrumental intro.
- 2:13 to 2:33 introduces the main theme of the song.
- 2:34 to 2:51 is Verse 1.
- 2:52 to 3:06 is the Chorus.
- 3:07 to 3:22 is the Post-Chorus.
- 3:23 to 3:41 is Verse 2.
- 3:42 to 4:24 is a variation of the Chorus and Post-Chorus.
- 4:25 is 4:57 is the backing track for the guitar solo I'm gonna write later.
I was thinking of having it continue with some sort of bridge that brings back the instrumental intro, like the acoustic lick but in a chuggier fashion. I'm thinking more about how in "...And Justice For All" by Metallica, it starts off with a clean lick and then that same clean lick comes back in a chuggier form later in the song.
After that, one more solo that uses the verse as the backing track instead of the chorus, one more chorus, and then an outro of some sorts.
After this, I plan on writing 2 more tracks and I'll consider the debut album instrumentals written. One of those 2 tracks is gonna be rather short, like 2 and a half minutes.
I like how the overall nature of thsis site is shitposting and struggle sessions while the newsmega has entirely different vibes. Much more serious in comparison.
then there's a little pocket over here where we complain about everywhere else
it was gonna happen eventually with the grow of the site
Latinoamerican tiktok is making fun of the spaniards for their reaction during their big blackout, like they were panic buying essencials, some went to the streets scared that they wont have light again calling it a "historical event" and doomsday posting a lot.
it was really funny, specially since it lasted like 6 hours
So relieved Spaniards destroyed the land of my people, its cultures, and environment only to make infrastructure that doesn't work. Really, I hope it worth the millions of bodies and centuries of oppression 🥰
Marg bar Espanya.
Many people are saying it, folks!
Saw Sinners a couple days ago - great movie. Wasn't expecting it to get so real
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When they talk about that night being the only slice of freedom they could get, and white supremacy tried to destroy it like everything it touches...nearly had me tearing up by the end thinking "it can't be like this forever".
I loved the vampire leader and his attempts to relate the oppression of the Irish to our black protagonists, how they were forced to abandon their culture and language and work for the benefit of a parasite class - literally so he can get in and kill them! It created some real sympathy for a second before reminding "DON'T TRUST WHITEY!". I wasn't expecting this visceral representation of people seeking respite from white supremacy and the realities of "assimilation" in my vampire horror movie.
Oh, and the music was just perfect. The scene of spirits of past and future visiting was beautiful and tragic in the face of what was to come - and melancholy in the context of the society they lived and we continue to live in.
Michael B Jordan was great as the twins, but I loved Wunmi Mosaku. She killed it as Annie. I thought Smoke's last scene was fun but was a bit of a cheesy tonal shift - the violent catharsis after the night of tension was maybe necessary though, and I did get teary at him seeing Annie and holding his baby.
I give it 9/10 pure kino.
Sinners
I loved the "free"folk paying in whatever they can because they themselves aren't paid in real money and community just letting things slide because that's how we survive. Small tidbit but I felt that in my core. I wasn't convinced to NOT be a vampire personally
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Wouldn't mean much if it wasn't tempting right? Feel like they'd be sacrificing their own will for that of the master vampire though - they'd have community but I don't know how much agency & personality they have while he's still around. Seemed like they were free to do as they wished after he exploded though, wouldn't necessarily mind that...
Sinners
My friend bought up the same point so I said simply kill the main one first to liberate the vampires, turn your friends, and then go turnup on the kkk and liberate the country.
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- tho I spose we don't know exactly how these vampires work. Is bloodthirst an addiction? Does a vampire need to convert someone every time they drink blood? Can you be 
vampire? Does being a vampire fuck with your empathy when no master vampire is around? Annie seemed to have a pretty negative view of the whole "vampires fucking with souls" experience and she seemed to know what she was talking about... We want answers!
Truth is that the west an America never cared about queer rights, they made the Arab leaders strip dance for israel, yet they still permit them to kill gay people.
New kittens check
Oh they're so precious, one of my aunt's cats recently had kittens too!
Wow, they're very cute. What are their names?
the white one is florencia and the orange milan (my mom and sister like italy)
Nice, but I would've gone with Fettuccini and Pepperoni.
Pretty wild seeing 
putting "I'm legally here" in their dating profiles.
I remember pre-BLM when White women used to have in their profiles "I'm not racist but I don't date Blacks or Mexicans, sorry, it's just cultural differences" then years later see the same profile floating around post-BLM and it was missing the disclaimer. Haha
Like Paul Mooney said, I like my crackers a little salty. I prefer they just announce it, not that I'm interested in dating anyone White anyway.
Then they never question why they have these """"preferences."""" They'll say the same weasel shit about trans people, too. I do not understand how a person can reject entire groups like that.
I don't mean to hornypost, but Tyra Banks, Hunter Schafer, Salma Hayek, Ana de Armas, Halle Berry, and Pam Grier are all hot. How the hell do you match with people like that and be all "Sorry not into ______" as though they're beneath you? You're on a fucking app you should consider yourself lucky to match with anyone lmao.
[CW: Me rambling about this disingenuous 'it's not bigotry—it's just a preference' shit—talking about queerphobia/biphobia/racism]
On this note, somewhere else online, I was recently seeing wild amounts of discourse about whether or not it's biphobic for a lesbian to refuse to date a bisexual woman on the basis of her sexuality.
You had so many people myopically spewing out, "it CAN'T BE BiphObIC BEcauSE IT's JUST a prEfereNCE!"
And I don't understand how someone can be so narrow-minded when it comes to understanding that a statement like "Bisexual people are more likely to be cheaters" doesn't magically become not biphobic just because you put a "I don't want to date a bisexual person because..." in front of it. How does that logically even add up in their minds? The fact that they can so unabashedly and with so much conviction state these really emotionally charged takes about this subject just speaks on the oblivious nature of bigotry. It's never about what's true—it's always about vibes.
Bigotry always manifests as a "preference," but people just act like, for some reason, the nature of these bigoted preferences becomes not bigoted when it's in the context of dating. An employer saying, "I only want to hire whites because they're the smartest and most hard-working race" has a "preference" for white workers, and many people would think it's ridiculous to say "This employer can't be racist because it's just a preference!"
And this goes both ways. Not only does this logic excuse bigoted EXCLUSIONARY dating preferences, but it also gives things like FETISHISM a pass. One thing I'm tired of is people acting like racial fetishism is not a form of racism. It is. Racial fetishism is rooted in harmful generalizations. There's no denying that. People really think that just because a form of racism is "benevolent," then that makes it not racism. This being false is one of the easiest things to understand about racism, but cracKKKers continue to get away with it because your average cracKKKer does not actually give a damn about unlearning white supremacy. So long as a form of racism is socially acceptable and easy for them to get away with, cracKKKers don't tend to care about it. Anti-racism and statements against white supremacy serve as a virtue signaling game for them.
Am I glad you mentioned employment because that is precisely where my mind went as well.
More to that HR at that medical receptionist job giving me a hard time at my current job, apparently one of the decision makers that interviewed me thought it'd be precious to write a bad review (and I know it was her due to the content of the review), The patronizing horseshit to my face wasn't bad enough, the review was so bad management at my job posted in the breakroom by where you clock in. I knew this retail hell job was on limited time but yikes, so whenever someone naively asks what's the worst that can happen when you apply to a job well there's no limit to the badness that can happen.
To make matters worse management thinks I'm not concerned about it and made comments about it to other workers, I may have anxiety especial the social kind, but I'm good at dissociating and looking stoic. I always wondered what my constant dissociating looked like to others, guess at least I learned it looks like 'calm', great to know. Just because I'm not bawling doesn't mean I don't feel anything, my other jobs you have a show of emotion or disability and its firing time. I think its like that with all jobs tbh.
Atp they must want you to dance for peanuts and put on a show for them, because i don’t get in what world you being externally calm and collected is a bad thing.
Me neither, when I overheard that I was like 'wut'. I'm supposed to dance and sob for an abusive minimum wage part time job.
Apparently they done fucked so badly when corporate visited today they took the review of shame with them. I still don't know how long this job will last, but at least I know for certain I don't need to worry about any 2weeks nonsense, I'll just ghost if a miracle happenss and I find something else. Wish I took a picture of that review to build a case against the medical hr for being unforgivable assholes. I never thought corporate would side against them.
and where did that bring you? Back to me
Funny you say that cuz on Lemmygrad they're having a "Wretched of the Earth" reading session.
Labor cannot emancipate itself in the white skin when in the black it is branded.
What up homies
I'm hoping to get a job offer today... maybe I'm being too hopeful
Annnnnd of course they never called me even though they said they would. I shot a follow-up email. Maybe that's futile, but meh.
Other thread closed, but I was gonna ask if your local org has paid positions like canvassing? (I'm guessing you already looked into that). Or you could do wrecker shit in the local Democrat organization lmao.
The other was if there's a temp agency where you're at. They're always looking for people to put on your payroll and you will get a lot of work just by not being a fuckup. A lot of the places I temp'd wanted to hire me after working for a week or more until I made the mistake of telling them I was going back to school in the fall.
For comparison, I got called into one job at 10 AM after not getting the usual 6 AM call to assign work because the other temp didn't show up. Makes you look good for doing nothing when your colleagues are doing stuff like that.
I actually worked with some lib org that does canvassing but work was incredibly limited, and they continued to misgender even though they claimed trans acceptance. I got hired by one temp-to-hire position but they forgot to tell me that I need a driver's license to work with them and had to stop the onboarding in the middle of it... was really pissed.
Ugh I'm sorry to hear that. Of course libs are worse than useless. The temp agency I was at only required proof of address. Pedestrians and cyclists were welcomed because it was the start of the recession and the agency wasn't going to leave money on the table turning away workers.
I really fucking hate our infrastructure in the US, especially as having a disability. You can't go anywhere and everything is poorly laid out.