cybeardjm

cybeardjm, 3 months ago to animals

Is it #Caturday yet?
Yeah, it's on!

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats

cybeardjm, 3 months ago to Dogs

Cyber Paw Patrol in charge!

#Dogs #Doggos #CyberSecurity #Cookies

uichelorraine, 4 months ago to random French

Je suis fière de moi parce que Bibiche est enfin au garage (parfois elle s'appelle Angela, parfois Bibiche, de toutes façons j'appelle ma caisse par un nom, même moi je me juge).
Ca a été difficile parce qu'elle pourrit dans le jardin de mes parents depuis le dernier confinement, que tout le monde me dit que ça coûte plus cher de la faire réparer que prendre un leasing pour une bagnole plus récente, et que je me résous pas à la foutre à la casse parce que c'est insensé pour moi de jeter à la poubelle un truc aussi énorme qu'une voiture au lieu de changer les pièces d'usure. (et aussi parce que Renault Clio rules the game y a pas photo)

cybeardjm, 4 months ago to fediverse French

Mes recommandations de plugins (extensions) WordPress

https://www.didiermary.fr/recommandations-plugins-wordpress-extensions-2024/

J’ai commencé à bloguer en 2008, avec le défunt “KoTonTeeJ, de la musique au fond des oreilles“, puis j’ai géré plein d’autres blogs, personnels, professionnels, pour des clients, des artistes… jusqu’à une trentaine simultanément. Aujourd’hui, je n’en ai plus que 7 en management, dont 2 pour moi, celui-ci et l’African Music Forum [...]

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #WordPress

cybeardjm, 4 months ago to comics French

Idées noires par #Franquin
(tous les dessins sont en noir et blanc dans ce #thread )

1/3

#Comics #BandeDessinée

Le même homme écoute les informations à la radio. Stressé, il est devant son mini-bar et se sert un verre...
Le même homme lit les nouvelles dans le journal, assis dans un fauteuil sous une grande lampe. Il tremble de nervosité et d'angoisse. (il porte des charentaises...)
Terrorisé, il laisse tomber son journal et s'écrit "Ca y est ! On va l'avoir la troisième [guerre mondiale] !

cybeardjm, 4 months ago to guitar

Same...

#Joke #Guitar #Music

cybeardjm, 4 months ago to worldwithoutus

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#AfricanMusic #Africa #Music #Donate

victorgijsbers, 4 months ago to random

Five minutes into recording a video about knowledge in which I was using the example "Lagos is the capital of Nigeria" as something I knew, I suddenly realised that Lagos is not the capital of Nigeria.

Restart.

cybeardjm, 4 months ago to jazz

Somi revisits Pata Pata

https://amf.didiermary.fr/somi-revisits-pata-pata/

This cover of Pata Pata is from Zenzile, The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba, released, at the end of 2022, in which Somi reinterprets 17 songs of Mama Africa with a jazzy approach. At regular intervals, we hear excerpts from an interview with Mama Africa who explains in no uncertain terms what apartheid is. […]

#Diaspora #Jazz #Rwanda #SouthAfrica #Uganda

cybeardjm, 4 months ago to brainfood

The Afrorack

https://amf.didiermary.fr/afrorack-bamanya/

Bamanya is responsible for building Africa’s first DIY modular synthesizer, a huge wall of home-made modules and FX units that he dubbed, fittingly, The Afrorack. His reason for embarking on this difficult project was simple: as he began to investigate the world of modular synthesizers, he realized it would be difficult to acquire the technology […] …

#AfroHouse #Documentary #Uganda

cybeardjm, 4 months ago to solar

A five-year, US-based study found planting native grasses and flowers under solar panels helps insect populations to massively improve – by up to 20 times in the case of native bee populations.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/solar-farms-and-native-grasses-create-pollinator-havens-and-boost-biodiversity-study-funds/

#Insect #SolarPanels #Solar #Ecology

admiralwonderboat, 4 months ago to random

You're not lazy

cybeardjm, 4 months ago to Cats

Meanwhile...

#Caturday #Cats #Dogs

redfrog, 4 months ago to random French

How to block AI Crawler Bots using robots.txt file: https://lin0.de/Pqa1kS via @nixcraft
https://www.cyberciti.biz/web-developer/block-openai-bard-bing-ai-crawler-bots-using-robots-txt-file/#more-2121

cybeardjm, 4 months ago to jazz

Jonas Gwangwa – Morwa (live)

https://amf.didiermary.fr/jonas-gwangwa-morwa-live/

Trombonist, composer and cultural activist Jonas Mosa Gwangwa, who was born on 19 October 1937 in Orlando East, Johannesburg, died on 23 January 2021 in Johannesburg aged 83. A mainstream player, producer and composer of SouthAfrican Jazz, Jonas Gwangwa chose to lead the Amandla Cultural Ensemble of the African National Congress (ANC) for 10 years […]

#Apartheid #Jazz #SouthAfrica

cybeardjm, 4 months ago to jazz

Hugh Masekela & The Union of South Africa

https://amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-union-south-africa/

Jonas Gwangwa (1937 – 2021) was a genius trombone player from Soweto, South Africa. That’s him in the middle between 2 other South African geniuses, the late Hugh Masekela on the left, and Caiphus Semenya (born 1939), on the right, for their band Union of South Africa. The album, released in May 1971, […]

#70smusic #HughMasekela #Jazz #SouthAfrica

Great_Albums, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to jazz

Occasionally I like to buy an album knowing nothing about the artist or the music it contains, based maybe on a few hints from an evocative cover image or song list.

This is one of those albums and it's absolutely amazing. If you know anything about it, please chime in.

EDIT: Finding some bios online. AKA: Kofi Ghanaba... Oh! He's in The Rough Guide to Jazz under "Ghanaba."

#GuyWarrenOfGhana #africanjazz #Jazz #JazzMusic #GreatJazzAlbums

cybeardjm, 4 months ago to movies

If you don't know, you don't know...

#Movies

johncarlosbaez, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Camembert is an endangered species! It relies on a mold that had lost the ability to reproduce sexually... and now, thanks to inbreeding, this mold has also lost the ability to reproduce using spores. Roquefort is also in trouble, but for Camembert it's worse:

"The world over, this other symbol of French gastronomy is inoculated exclusively with one single strain of Penicillium camemberti, a white mutant that was selected for Brie cheeses in 1898 and Camemberts in 1902.

The problem is that ever since then the strain has been replicated by vegetative propagation only. Until the 1950s, Camemberts still had grey, green or in some cases orange-tinged moulds on their surface. But the industry was not fond of these colours, considering them unappealing, and staked everything on the albino strain of P. camemberti, which is completely white and moreover has a silky texture. This is how Camembert acquired its now-characteristic pure white rind.

Year after year, generation after generation, the albino strain of P. camemberti, which was already incapable of sexual reproduction, lost its ability to produce asexual spores. As a result it is now very difficult for the entire industry to obtain enough P. camemberti spores to inoculate their production of the famous Norman cheese.

Worse still, while the Roquefort PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) standard retains a degree of microbial biodiversity, the PDO specifications for Camembert require farmers and other producers to use P. camemberti exclusively."

What to do about it? Switch to eating American cheese, or Velveeta? Read on....

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cybeardjm, 4 months ago to Cats

I need one 👇

#Cats #Caturday

cybeardjm, 4 months ago to jazz

The Shaolin Afronauts – Follow The Path

https://amf.didiermary.fr/the-shaolin-afronauts-follow-the-path/

The driving force of The Shaolin Afronauts is Ross McHenry, composer, bandleader, producer and bassist based in Adelaide. 2011’s debut album “Flight Of The Ancients” was a critical and commercial success story. The follow up “Quest Under Capricorn” further cemented the bands reputation for forging their own very particular sound.

#AfroFunk #Ethiojazz #FullAlbum #Jazz

cybeardjm, 4 months ago to Spotify French

Zaïre 74 – the African Artists

https://amf.didiermary.fr/zaire-74-african-artists/

A côté des stars américaines qui ont fait le show à Zaire 74, il y avait aussi de nombreux groupes et artistes africains, dont congolais pour ce grand concert ou festival, aussi connu sous le nom “Soul Power” d’après le documentaire diffusé en 2009. […]

#70smusic #Congo #FrancoLuambo #SoulPower #Spotify

cybeardjm, 4 months ago to random

When there's food for one...

#Caturday

cybeardjm, 4 months ago to photography

The Heavy Metal Subculture of Botswana

https://amf.didiermary.fr/heavy-metal-subculture-botswana/

“There’s a competition between them to see who can look the most brutal,” says South African photographer Franck Marshall, who calls his subjects the renegades– ‘an underground minority rebelling against the status quo, redrawing the borders of both Heavy Metal and orthodox culture in Botswana’. [...]

#altRock #Photography #Botswana #Metal #HardRock #HeavyMetal #Africa

cybeardjm, 4 months ago to HeavyMetal

T-Pain covering Black Sabbath's War Pigs live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhjIs2Htzdc

#HeavyMetal #70sMusic