Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️

Cool. One of my favourite new(ish) bands.

Morning sun over the sea in Cornwall, UK. Photo taken from a road bridge looking out over the bay from a mile or so inland. Trees lining the roadside are just beginning to show touches of their autumn colours.

Good morning.

おはようございます。

YouTube video by MTHOFFICIAL マキシマム ザ ホルモン 『シミ feat.新しい学校のリーダーズ』(MV Special Ver.) Music Video

If I can't retire soon I'm gonna lose it. 😫

Totally needing the music today.

#music #jrock #jmetal #maximumthehormone #atarashiigakko #atarashiigako

YouTube video by サバシスター サバシスター - ハッピーなんて Music Video

Good morning.

#sabasister #jrock

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Check out @paleneoofficial.bsky.social

A great band blending metal, rock and pop in a way that works. Really good musicians with some really addictive songs.

Vocal: HOHOMI
Guitar: AYARI
Guitar/vocal: REOTO
Bass: YONA
Drums: Support musicians

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX6D...

The law found him guilty 34 times.
Then, instead of enforcing the law with genuine sentencing, they let him walk, dismissed the other charges, let him run for President despite the felony convictions.
He steals the election and we all get to tumble down the rabbit hole of fascism.

WTAF America?

Thanks to manga, I now automatically scan comic panels in the "wrong" order. 🤦‍♂️

Huh? The what?

I hate how things usually have to get worse, and that they cancelled the get better part.

Elon Musk gives away $1m cheques ahead of Wisconsin Supreme Court election The state's attorney general tried to block the giveaway arguing it was an illegal bid to buy votes.

A sewer, not a democracy.

There was a time when the USA at least pretended to be a force for good in the world: now it just leads the decline of civilisation, hand in hand with Russia.

After the cast alloy tailpiece failed on my Eastman mandolin, the company very promptly sent me a replacement part. Now the replacement has also broken (a notoriously common failure) I've resorted to a cheap imported one.

Great mandolins, great customer service, ridiculously shit tailpieces.

YouTube video by Gacharic Spin - Topic マジックアンブレラガール

This song contains one of the most delightfully inappropriate guitar solos ever. (I don't mean the intro: there's an actual solo later.)

Worry less about the jargon. Talk in terms accessible to people who haven't read Marx and Engels: they will be more concerned with the actual point than the semantics.

That point is that capitalism doesn't create anything but poverty/inequality. It steals what actual working people make and need.

I have the impression that there's a hierarchy of "love" terminology. Using anime as a reference (as I'm not academic), we have 好きです (I like you), 大好きです (I *really* like you) and あいしてる (I love you).

This may be completely wrong as usual (there are usually things going on that I haven't grasped).

Workers produce. Capitalism just empowers a tiny subset to control resources and leech the product of work. It is a tool of control and enslavement.

Without capitalism, people can still organise and work for their own mutual benefit.

Capitalism is not the only motivator for work and production.

So far as society is concerned, capitalism and private ownership are inefficient and parasitic. Not all product is put to the uses desired by those who produce.

Economic and political jargon don't change reality.

What is ' "wealth" proper '?
Definition of wealth from Meriam Webster

1: abundance of valuable material possessions or resources
2: abundant supply : PROFUSION
3a: all property that has a money value or an exchangeable value
b: all material objects that have economic utility

The ordinary people of Europe thank you.

Inconveniently, vegetarianism means I have to just use the corpses of the rich as compost to grow vegetables.

In the beginning, I thought I was learning Japanese. 12 months on I sometimes wonder if I was mistaken.

Either that or don't fix heavy dummies to your furniture.

I really only started to remember and recognise Kanji once I concentrated on learning them as I learned new words and sentences.

Drilling individual, out-of-context Kanji with flashcards wasted a lot of my time when done as the primary learning method.

Cards work better for me as self-testing

That seems to me to be uncharacteristically sloppy wording if Marx really said it.

Capitalism doesn't create wealth: the labour of working people creates wealth. Capitalism merely enslaves that labour and steals the wealth.

Let's not give capitalism credit it doesn't deserve.

Did Willie 'Whoopass' Johnson Hit a Klansman? The details behind this image are still a bit unclear.

Love the pic, but we always need to fact-check so we retain the high ground from where we can look down on right-wing bullshit.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/w...

YouTube video by Gacharic Spin Official Gacharic Spin｢MindSet｣

Depression/futility warning:

Probably best not to watch this unless you are very confident in your abilities as a musician.

Ain't that the truth! Better than ever.

Belated happy birthday.

When you reach the age of 64 you realise it was all of them and more.

You also realise that looking back is wasting time that could be more excitingly spent listening to the excellent new music that is always being created.

YouTube video by NEMOPHILA NEMOPHILA / Change the world [Official Live Video]

For anyone who needs something to be cheerful about.

Every constituency in Britain favours trade with EU over US, new poll suggests The poll saw just 21 per cent of people say the US should be the UK’s priority over the EU

No shit, Sherlock 🙄

Wouldn't you rather read fiction?

Scary times.