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Cyrus

@Cyrus@zirk.us

Jazz drummer, professional dog trainer (R+, CPDT-KA, FDM), anarchist, enby, old, working against the systems of whiteness and colonialism.
https://justmytoots.com/@cyrus@zirk.us Image alt: both my avi and my header are cute dog pics.

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alex, to random
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splat earth theory

Cyrus,
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@jepyang @alex @infernusgoatus When I was a kid I couldn’t make sense of the literal imagery there so to me it looked like a character, a person sort of. The can is a head, the pour is the neck and collar, the planet the body.

dansup, to Pixelfed
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Pixelfed Groups will support private or local-only groups!

In addition, we will offer many features and settings to make managing your group, moderators and users more effective and easier!

Pixelfed Groups settings

Cyrus,
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@dansup @pixelfed Cool! To the best of your knowledge, is this the closest fedi equivalent to FB groups?

iraantlers, (edited ) to random
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döner kebab

Cyrus,
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@iraantlers Böner kebab

Cyrus,
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@iraantlers Your Hönör kebab

vernissage, to random
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As you may already heard Vernissage will became independent platform (backend and web). One of the Fediverse 🌎 part like Mastodon, Writefreely, Pixelfed and others.

For this reason I would like to change current Vernissage for Pixelfed client name. Something that you will like and connect with Pixelfed 😉.

On this occasion, please send me your suggestions on what the new Vernissage for Pixelfed could be called. This is an app created with ❤️, for you, and you can create a part of it.

Cyrus,
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@vernissage Pixie, PixieFedi

constantorbit, to jazz
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Did not know Jo Jones before tonight. Really loving this album.

https://album.link/q2bz3ss2cdqw2

(thanks for introducing me!)

Cyrus,
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@constantorbit Papa Jo is one of my inspirations, his flair, class, and creativity were at the top of the heap. Since you’ll probably encounter it, there’s often mixups with Philly Joe Jones, who was also a legendary drummer—but Papa Jo is my man.

fatsam, to random
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This is nice.

Cyrus,
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@Lokjo @fatsam This reply sounds kinda suspicious. Are you sure that’s what you wanted to say?

Cyrus,
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@Lokjo @fatsam Maybe just a subtle language issue. In English the idea of “both sides” is used by fascists to make it sound like they have the same moral standing as the people they oppress. I just had a reaction to the phrase “whichever side you’re on”.

Cyrus, to random
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This honker was out honking its little lungs out and I thought @loren and some other bird people would enjoy it:

A small song bird sitting on a fence post near some dense foliage. It opens its beak wide for each utterance.

Cyrus, to animals
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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.

etherdiver, to random
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Bye bye person who keeps reposting Israeli propaganda and justifications for genocide into my TL.

Especially since I don't think I ever saw them once post sometime interesting or worthwhile about anything else.

Cyrus,
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@etherdiver There are lots of people where that’s their entire personality.

mrcompletely, to random
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So, I'm a state of deep and increasing skepticism about the Threads integration, but I'm leaving the channel open for awhile to make a slow and considered decision about the impact. So far I have a lot of ambiguous thoughts but this post is about the reappearance via threads of the toxic Twitter behavior known as the "quote tweet dunk" and especially the QTD RT, where someone flexes their own QTD on some mook via a boost/RT. It's shitty and I'm blocking the people who do it.

Cyrus,
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@mrcompletely Yeah I did a lot of that on Twitter, and I think one of the things different here is we can’t dunk on a famous jerk and be part of a crowd of tens of thousands also dunking on (and punching up at) that jerk, which the jerk might actually perceive. Here the famous jerk won’t perceive anything, maybe at most a further impulse to stay on threads or whatever. While the rest of us get the jerk’s message boosted into our feeds.

skinnylatte, (edited ) to food
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Trader Joe's sources for inspiration for new food trends from POC makers and then launches their own products with other people

(Unless they go into business with a large company, like the ones that make their gimbap, I suppose)

Also why I am so weird about their 'ethnic foods'

(Also they are bad on labor practices)

https://tastecooking.com/we-need-to-talk-about-trader-joes/

#Food #TraderJoes

Cyrus,
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@skinnylatte I’ve worked for several manufacturers that supplied TJ. TJ tells the struggling business “we will buy 100 pallets of your product.” Small bus owner sees $$ to get out of crippling debt, and their ears fuzz out the next bit: “You label it with TJ branding, we pay 65% your regular wholesale.” To fill the order, maker has to rent bigger facility, buy new equipment on credit, hire more staff. When TJ is bored and doesn’t reorder, maker is left holding the bag. Exploitative.

7sleepersmusic, to KISS
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Not surprised to learn that are selling their souls to a capitalist overlord. A bit surprised to learn that the capitalist overlord is from 🤑 💰 🤣 https://apnews.com/article/kiss-sells-catalog-brand-name-ip-pophouse-061d34ce4e92efffc25f35c62670a4f2

Cyrus,
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@7sleepersmusic @mrcompletely I know you said “not surprised” but I mean Gene Simmons has been an ultra capitalist from the beginning. He has made it clear his entire career was about making as much money as possible, nothing more.

skinnylatte, to random
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startup dudes are so strange about making up words when perfectly normal words already exist.

‘I am a fractional CFO’

‘You mean you’re a part time accountant’

Literally saw someone post ‘Yes! Google finally gets fractional!’ And it was a link to a part time job at Google

Cyrus,
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@skinnylatte @elliots A “fractional CFO” is not an accountant, it’s a temp job in the C suite, often part time. Some small companies have nobody effective in the leadership roles but they can’t afford the full time salaries of those roles. It can honestly be called temp work, gig work, but that doesn’t sound fancy enough for these executive types.

seachanger, to random
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so I found that my payment processor stripe allows ACH bank transfers with one click but my website company Squarespace will not allow them to be shown, in case you were wondering what website company not to use for your biz

Cyrus,
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@seachanger Idk if you read this one yet:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/28/concentrated-benefits/

Cyrus, to random
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tailor holding a measuring tape and a leather punch

“For whom, the belt holes?”

Cyrus, to random
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The best part is when the three bodies jump up, and the one dude looks at the camera and says “that’s a problem!”

Cyrus, to random
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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!

A large tree reaching to the sky, completely covered in twisty whorls of moss
Moss drapes thickly and luxuriously from a branch
A closeup of a thick forest of little tree like shapes of vivid moss growing on a fallen branch

AskPippa, to Dogs
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It turns out most dogs don't actually like being locked up in a cage each day as many North American owners do. But they can be trained to pretend to like it.
We had many when I was growing up. Nobody crated their dogs then. And, the dogs did not look for a den-like place to sleep, which I think speaks volumes to what their 'nature' is when it comes to the ideas of dens. Dens are mostly for small pups in the wild, until they are old enough to not need that extra protection from predators. And when they are crated, they can't do their job of going to the window to check out a potential threat -- which must be really frustrating.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/should-you-crate-your-dog-it-s-complicated

Cyrus,
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@AskPippa Crates are a form of management that is valuable to us humans, but we absolutely have to give the dog something to enrich and entertain them throughout the day. Most of the “bad behaviors” people call me (a trainer) about are caused by the dog being frustrated and bored out of its mind.

Cyrus,
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@AskPippa I agree with you. Sometimes management (maybe a spare room instead of a crate) is necessary to keep the dog from damaging the apartment or eating things… but people often get a dog without any plan or idea how the dog will live while they’re away all day at work. It’s sad.

Cyrus, to random
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Gettin real mossy up in this binch

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    Cyrus,
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    @mrcompletely @etherdiver @rowjimmy @flockofnazguls Woot woot yolo so why waste it on bad media

    etherdiver, to random
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    Hecklers suck but throwing a fit about it and walking off? That sucks even more.

    Not surprised to find out John Cougar Mellencamp is a big baby, tho.

    (Should be noted that the hecklers were just shouting at him to play music instead of telling rambling stories 😅 ... Can't blame people who paid $100+ a ticket to hear music wanting to, you know, hear music and not the wandering good-ol'-days recollections of a boomer.)

    https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2024/03/legendary-classic-rock-singer-heckled-on-stage-exits-early.html

    Cyrus,
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    @etherdiver @pomCountyIrregs About 4-5 years ago I went to see Ry Cooder, it was billed as a retrospective of music from across his career, with a full band. He spent at least a third of the time telling tales of his life on tour around the world; I would have been fine with that, except the majority of his stories were extremely misogynistic. The audience didn’t laugh or clap at any of it, so the whole thing was a painful boomer cringe.

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    “Well, we won’t see him again.”
    “I’m sure you’re right.”

    The writing in the show “the Gentlemen” is so basic and cheap and low effort, I’m embarrassed.

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