mdmrn

mdmrn, 1 day ago to random

Me having a busy Thursday yesterday and realizing this morning that I totally spaced on @neurothing's triumphant return to Thursday Five List

:MaguChan:

mdmrn, 23 hours ago to newmusic

Hanabie is coming at us with a brand new single today.

Check out Girl's Talk on your favorite steaming platform https://songwhip.com/hanabie/girls-talk

Music video drops 10 PM EDT tonight...may have to try to stay awake to check it out.

Maybe...

#Hanabie #NewMusic #JPop #RockMusic #Metal #GirlsTalk #JMetal #NewMusic

mdmrn, 23 hours ago to music

Apparently, Jukebox Friday Night has a theme of "Mothers."

Normally, I'd be literal with a theme like that and go with a song that talks about Moms. But, my Mom is a Spring-nut (her words) and loves Bruce Springsteen, so I have to just...pick a song that reminds me of my Mom, at least to start.

Here's Thunder Road by the Boss https://songwhip.com/bruce-springsteen/thunder-road

#JukeboxFridayNight #Mothers #Music #BruceSpringsteen #SpringNut #MothersDay

mdmrn, 2 days ago to internet

Every time I see a big mass of letters from someone on social media with "Three Words Are You..." fill in the blank, I always purposely find the least helpful words I can find and post them.

I'm doing my part.

#Silly #SocialMedia

mdmrn, 4 days ago to music

Tune Tuesday's theme is "My Generation Music" aka music from around when you were born, so, let's tell a story cause...why not.

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The year is 1983. Return of the Jedi and Monty Python's the Meaning of Life were in theaters.

In upstate NYS, that summer my parents gave birth to their first born, me - an aggressively geeky and white baby boy coming out looking like some kind of plucked chicken.

On that day, the Number 1 song in America was Flashdance: What a Feeling by Irene Cara. https://songwhip.com/irene-cara/flashdancewhat-a-feeling

What a song. What a year.

Host: @Kitty
Theme: @The_KamikaZEN

#TuneTuesday #MyGenerationMusic #Music #Flashdance #IreneCara

mdmrn, 5 days ago to internet

I had an ICQ account back in the late 90s, but haven't been involved in it in a long time. Wondering if it's worth making a new ICQ account.

...Or if the old account even exists anymore...

#ICQ #SocialMedia #OnlineChat

mdmrn, 6 days ago to manga

Me picking up another volume of Your Lie in April to re-read: Oh, I'm going to cry, aren't I?

#YourLieInApril #Manga

mdmrn, 7 days ago to Parenting

Good morning and Happy Saturday! May the Fourth be With You this Star Wars Day.

Also, today my oldest turns 15 years old. 15 years ago, my wife was on her fourth week of hospitalized bed rest and I was training the person who would fill in for me on paternity leave. I got the call and rushed to the hospital. 10 weeks early, my oldest was born via an emergent C-section.

15 years later, here I am with this snarky, smart, creative, and empathetic kid. And I'm about to take them and 4 of their friends to the zoo.

Here's hoping the weather holds up okay!

#Parenting #StarWarsDay #GoodMorning #MorningMoments #Birthday #Saturday

mdmrn, 9 days ago to Pixelfed

Okay, so another set of stats now that April is over.

As I've said before, I am posting concurrently to Pixefed and Instagram to see what the differences are.

Let's break it down by month first. Here are average likes by month for the year to date:
January - Insta 20 / Pixelfed 8
February - Insta 21 / Pixelfed 8
March - Insta 27 / Pixelfed 11
April - Insta 26 / Pixelfed 9

Year to date, we're averaging 23.7 likes per post on Insta and 9.1 likes per post on Pixelfed.

But, this is a thread, so let's go deeper.

#Pixelfed #SocialMedia #Instagram #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Meta

mdmrn, 10 days ago to music

Since @loewe's Music Women Wednesday falls on #InternationlWorkersDay, I also want to post up a workers' song.

Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 https://songwhip.com/dolly-parton/9-to-5

And the recent Pitbull collab, Powerful Women: https://songwhip.com/pitbull/powerful-women

Lyrics:
9 to 5 / For service and devotion
You would think that I / Would deserve a fat promotion
Want to move ahead / But the boss won't seem to let me
I swear sometimes that man is / Out to get me

They let you dream / Just a watch 'em shatter
You're just a step on the boss man's ladder / But you got dreams he'll never take away

#Music #MusicWomenWednesday #DollyParton #IWD2024 #MayDay #WorkersDay #Pitbull

mdmrn, 10 days ago to music

Since posting up my Goldfinger album cover re-creation earlier this week for Music Monday, I've had them on the brain.

So, for VGM Wednesday, I'm going to post their one song that is so intrinsically tied to video games it instantly makes you think of them.

Here's Goldfinger's "Superman," which many folks first heard in Tony Hawk Pro-Skater https://songwhip.com/goldfinger/superman

#Music #VGMWednesday #VideoGameMusic #SkaPunk #Ska #Punk #Goldfinger #TonyHawkProSkater #RetroGaming #VideoGames

mdmrn, 10 days ago to random

Good morning and Happy Wednesday / May / International Workers' Day.

The United States is one of the only countries in the world to not acknowledge International Workers' Day / Labor Day on May Day / May 1st. The active denial of comradery by the US of American laborers with our international allies is definitely purposeful. Even as the date was selected based on a historic strike in the US.

We should acknowledge the struggle of the labor movement and workers across the globe.

Have a wonderful Wednesday / International Workers' Day.

#IWD2024 #Wednesday #MayDay #InternationaLWorkersDay #WorkersDay #MorningMoments #IWD #GoodMorning

mdmrn, 10 days ago to music

This week for @Kitty's Tune Tuesday, @Nicolaa suggested a theme of "Star, Moon, Sun." Looking to the heavens. Let's do one of each!

Star: David Bowie - Starman https://songwhip.com/david-bowie/starman

Moon: Ernie (voiced byJim Henson) - I Don't Want to Live on the Moon https://songwhip.com/ernie/i-dont-want-to-live-on-the-moon

Sun: Dreamcatcher - Red Sun https://songwhip.com/dreamcatcher/red-sun

#Music #TuneTuesday #StarMoonSun #Dreamcatcher #KPop #SesameStreet #Ernie #JimHenson #DavidBowie #Starman

mdmrn, 11 days ago to Parenting

Good morning and happy Tuesday!

I have half day at work, followed by a Dr appointment. This evening then my 12 year old is being inducted into the Junior National Honor Society, which is awesome! After that (or during it, kind of), my youngest two have softball practice. And I've turned into an assistant coach (long-ish story). So, I'll be heading over to that afterwards.

So yea...it's going to be a busy one!

Hope you have a good one.

#Today #GoodMorning #Tuesday #Parenting #MorningMoments

mdmrn, 14 days ago to music

I found out today that Jelly Roll and T-Pain covered the Toby Keith classic "Should've Been a Cowboy" and I don't know if I'll be the same. https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0D2PFHFNW

Sadly, it's an Amazon Music exclusive, so no other options on how to stream it.

#Music #JellyRoll #TPain #Country #TobyKeith #Cover #CoverSong

mdmrn, 16 days ago to FF

Since it's my Mastoversary - I'm going to do a midweek follow list of some of my earliest Fediverse mutuals.

@gnitro @jcrabapple @cliffwade @Haste @negativeprimes @mofumofu

You should check them all out!!

#Follow #Mastoversary #FF #MidweekFollow #Boost

mdmrn, 16 days ago to Pixelfed

So, I have talked about how I've been doing a side-by-side comparison of stats for Instagram and Pixelfed by posting the same photos on both accounts.

Well, my pics tend to fall into certain well defined categories. So, I have been sorting the photos into the following and comparing average number of likes: Cats, Food, Flowers, Manga, and Selfies.

Based on these broad categories, I noticed a few hings. More info in the following toots.

#Pixelfed #Instagram #SocialMedia #Cats #Fediverse #Manga #Flowers #Bloomscrolling #Food #Selfie

mdmrn, 17 days ago to mastodon

Good morning and Happy Wednesday!

Today is my official "Mastoversary." Now this account I made in November 2022, but my first Mastodon account as made today two years ago on Dot Social.

In these two years, my social media experience has been better. I've had more direct conversations with folks about so many things. Learned about more new music. Kept connected about politics, without as much of the...wild anger, bitterness, and screaming angrily into the void.

I am glad to be here with y'all.

Here's to the Fediverse.

#GoodMorning #Mastoversary #Mastodon #MorningMoments #Fediverse #Wednesday

mdmrn, 16 days ago to music

It's @loewe's Music Women Wednesday and I haven't posted anything yet. For shame.

Here's Kesha's "Godzilla," a track written by her Mom. https://songwhip.com/kesha/godzilla

#Music #MusicWomenWednesday #Kesha #Godzilla #Silly

mdmrn, 17 days ago to music

This week for @Kitty's Tune Tuesday @derthomas gave us a theme of "The Opener." We remember the first acts / songs we saw live.

Apart from kid's stuff, like Sesame Street Live, the first concert I went to was in 1994 for Billy Joel's River of Dreams tour. My parent's took me and all of my siblings (at the time).

I distinctly remember two things: the song "River of Dreams" and my brother sleeping through the entire concert. That's about it. https://songwhip.com/billy-joel/the-river-of-dreams

To be fair, that was 30 years ago...

EDIT: Added one more memory.

#Music #TuneTuesday #BillyJoel #TheOpener #RiverOfDreams

mdmrn, 19 days ago to music

The other day I was singing along to the Gorillaz song "Clint Eastwood" and Little MDMRN (14) said that I ruined the song. The real conversation:
Little MDMRN: Ugh, you know all the words? You're ruining Gorillaz
Me: I'm ruining Gorillaz?
LM: Yes.
Me: I'm ruining a song from a band that came out my senior year of High School?
LM: Yes.
Me: Proceeds to sing more and louder

#Music #Gorillaz #Parenting #Silly

mdmrn, 21 days ago to firefox

I found it. It's official.

The most important Firefox Add-On of all time.

Return YouTube Dislike https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/return-youtube-dislikes/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=collection

It adds back on the YouTube dislike numbers so you can see them when you check out a video.

Perfection.

#Firefox #YouTube #BrowserAddOns #Silly #Browser #InternetBrowser #ReturnYouTubeDislike

mdmrn, 21 days ago to Podcast

Friend: Do you listen to (NAME) podcast?
Me: No, I...
Friend: Oh, you may like it (proceeds to describe podcast)
Me: Uhm, I don't listen to podcasts. Podcasts are basically talk radio for Millennials and I can't get into talk radio.
Friend: Oh
Me: :akkoShrug: You do you, tho.

#Podcast #Podcasts #TalkRadio #Opinion

mdmrn, 22 days ago to Anime

The Yuri on Ice Movie has officially been canceled. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-04-18/yuri-on-ice-ice-adolescence-film-canceled/.209997

This following the last chapter of Two On Ice this past week. It's been a rough week for fans of figure skating anime / manga.

#FigureSkating #Anime #Manga #AnimeNews #YuriOnIce #YuriOnIceMovie

mdmrn, 22 days ago to AnimalCrossing

This past week's Music Monday Animal Crossing post was based on a suggestion from MDMRN Twin 2 after re-watching the IVE music video.

This week, the MDMRN Twins have suggested individually for me to remake in Animal Crossing either YooA's "Rooftop" (Twin 2) or Handsome Dancer's "Coincidance" (Twin 1).

Some form of remake of either COULD be doable in Animal Crossing, but we'll see. I'll have to think about those two options...or other things that pop into my head.

#ACNH #AnimalCrossing #VideoGames #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch #MusicMonday #Music #YooA #KPop #HandsomeDancer #Comedy