aphlamingphoenix 2d ago • 100%
By being kept away from interview and TV appearances and such.
aphlamingphoenix 3d ago • 100%
The character Pie'o'pah from Clive Barker's Imajica has a sort of "third" genitalia which can both penetrate and be penetrated. Through the story, the main character is kind of magically seduced by this, initially revolted, but it becomes a point of personal growth which helps unlock his true potential. It's a really cool and weird (and long) story with some pretty ahead-of-its time pontification on trans and non-binary identities.
aphlamingphoenix 4d ago • 100%
Look around to see if I can rummage up the necessary implements to brew a pot of tea.
aphlamingphoenix 5d ago • 100%
That gum I like did come back in style...
aphlamingphoenix 2w ago • 100%
Well, see... The president he supports withholds funding unless the municipalities affected by disasters pass a purity test, so he assumes the president he doesn't support will as well.
aphlamingphoenix 2w ago • 100%
You like em tongue-in-cheek? You might try Chopping Mall (1986). Shopping mall management invests in a killer robot security system. A group of horny teens decides to spend the night there, but a lightning storm takes out the main killer robot controller! It's funny, a little gory, has topless men and women, and it's hilarious. A spook night favorite of mine.
aphlamingphoenix 2w ago • 100%
Grindr... That's that app for finding hot hoagies in my area?
aphlamingphoenix 2w ago • 100%
half the
marinesgeneral population are bi and closeted
aphlamingphoenix 2w ago • 97%
I've had a guy tell me he votes for Trump because he's trying to take a balanced centrist view of things. But dude, if Trump is the center, wtf are your extremes?
aphlamingphoenix 3w ago • 100%
We clench among you...
aphlamingphoenix 3w ago • 100%
Iamblech pentameter
aphlamingphoenix 3w ago • 100%
Isn't the core of jazz improvisation and breaking the "rules" of music? If that's what they're doing, why would we disqualify it as jazz? A lot of folks had this opinion of Miles Davis doing jazz fusion in the 70s on Bitches Brew and Live/Evil with his squeaky, borderline abusive trumpeting, or of Herbie Hancock doing weird space synth stuff on Sextant and funk fusion on Headhunters. I don't see how what you're saying isn't just gatekeeping that's not really in the spirit of jazz.
aphlamingphoenix 3w ago • 100%
Awful take. Last weekend I saw Mike Dillon with Phunkadelick playing with Brian Haas on the Rhodes organ. They played a wild punk-jazz show that is one of the best shows I've ever attended. There was a mosh pit at a jazz concert where a primary instrument was a vibraphone.
In recent years, I've greatly enjoyed things like AKU!'s album Blind Fury (drum/trumpet/baritone sax trio) and Ambrose Akinmusire's Origami Harvest. A lot of modern jazz is blending in electronic influences, like Sungazer. Maybe you don't like these things, but I can't imagine calling jazz dead.
aphlamingphoenix 4w ago • 100%
Or even the corollary, that the Abrahamic religions grant authority to men, so men who feel as though they command no authority flock to the religions to achieve it.
aphlamingphoenix 1mo ago • 100%
You're right, of course, which is dismal, but I guess it will at least be on the record that we knew? That we saw it coming?
aphlamingphoenix 1mo ago • 100%
Sounds illegal. They're not supposed to endorse candidates while not having to pay taxes. IRS should end this church.
aphlamingphoenix 1mo ago • 88%
Why does the tribunally selected autocrat of a foreign nation intent on raping children get to tell me anything about democracy or evil?
aphlamingphoenix 1mo ago • 100%
Modern self flagellation.
aphlamingphoenix 1mo ago • 100%
This is a literary device called a "bookend narrative." If you want more stories like that, there's your search term.
aphlamingphoenix 1mo ago • 100%
Wheel! Of! Fish!
Hey everyone. After inheriting a bunch of old records, I started dipping my toes into this whole vinyl thing and... I think I'm hooked. I'd like to step a bit farther into this, but the deeper I get the more there seems to be to read up on. I'm beginning to get a little paralyzed by it, so I thought I'd ask for some direction from more wizened vinyl-loving elders. I initially had one of those little suitcase players with the garbage tinny speakers. Then I got some self-powered speakers that greatly improved my willingness to use the device. Especially for old records that haven't been particularly well cared for, when I was already accepting some pop and static, that made me start using it more. Then I upgraded the turntable to an Audio-Technica one - one of their entry-level budget-type devices - and that made me go all in. So at this point, I have a collection of over 200 records, new and old, and I almost exclusively listen to them these days when I'm in my office. The stylus that came with the turntable wore out, so I bought a new one, upgrading to a microlinear stylus. Sounds fantastic. But now I want some passive speakers that I can control through my receiver, and I'm finding that to be a more expensive item with a lot of options I don't really know how to parse through. So that's a good place to start. What's a good set of small-ish passive speakers (to fit on or near the shelf I have the turntable on) that a guy can buy on a budget? I have also noticed a lot of static and pop and... "sparkle"? on even brand new records. This I attribute to static electricity. I live in northern Colorado, the air is exceedingly dry here, and I can hardly walk across a room lately without picking up enough static to power my house through the winter. I have some anti-static inner sleeves that are nice, but they don't really get rid of the charge on the records. There seem to be a ton of different products for taking that out, but it's hard to know what the best thing is to buy, and some of it gets quite expensive pretty quick. What else am I missing that will improve my vinyl collecting and playback experience? Best ways to clean old records? Take the warp out? Things I don't even know I need to know yet?
I like the flow state I get into when I'm focusing on small detailed things.
Using a desktop browser, I click "Communities" in the top-left, taking me to https://lemm.ee/communities Now I see a list of communities, and I can filter by those I'm subbed to, those on the local instance, and "all" federated communities. This all works well. However, I would like to sort this list by the number of subscribers. The column header changes the mouse cursor so it looks clickable, but nothing apparently happens. There are no messages in the JavaScript console, and no requests are made to the server. So I dug in a little bit and found that the [ListCommunities API call](https://join-lemmy.org/api/interfaces/ListCommunities.html#sort) supports a "sort" field. However, the valid [`SortType` values](https://join-lemmy.org/api/types/SortType.html) it refers to don't appear to align very well with the fields on the Communities page. I tried a handful of odd sort values in the URL like `?sort=Hot` but they didn't change anything in the results. Is this just a not-yet-implemented feature? If I were to raise an issue against the source code about this, what would be the appropriate codebase to do that in?
