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Arotrios

@Arotrios@kbin.social

For Amusement Purposes Only.

Changeling poet, musician and writer, born on the 13th floor. Left of counter-clockwise and right of the white rabbit, all twilight and sunrises, forever the inside outsider.

Seeks out and follows creative and brilliant minds. And crows. Occasional shadow librarian.

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I've said it before, I'll say it again, Kbin is the Jamaica of the Fediverse, a land of special people where champions grow.

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Spoiler alert - Karlach's kink is Ray of Frost, leaving at least one gnome mage with slightly singed lips and stars in his eyes.

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This article stinks of an agenda. The author goes out of their way not to mention the term Fediverse (pluriverse? wtf is that?), and they clearly haven't done their due diligence on Activity Pub. Either they skimped on the research or this article was heavily edited afterwards to remove any concept of the Fediverse being a viable alternative to centralized platforms. Doesn't surprise me coming from Business Insider.

That being said, the overall dynamic the article speaks to is valid, as is the discussion it engenders, so have an upvote despite my gripes with the writing.

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Cymbals are reversed through most of the intro. Sounds to me like they used the low E on the rhythm guitar (single string note) tuned down to D or E flat and then used knob tuning to bring it up into the full E for that first note. Distortion on the guitar is heavy with weight in the low and mid frequencies.

It doesn't sound like a bass to me (sound would be rounder with more depth from the thicker strings) - that's the sound of a long neck guitar, possibly an Ibanez RG series. The low end on them sounds quite close to a light bass.

Star Trek - The Original Series - 1966 Complete (archive.org)

I looked across the room, and there was Dr. Martin Luther King walking towards me with this big grin on his face. He reached out to me and said, 'Yes, Ms. Nichols, I am your greatest fan.' He said that Star Trek was the only show that he, and his wife Coretta, would allow their three little children to stay up and watch. [She...

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Happy Birthday! I didn't get you anything, but the internet archive did:

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Now that's just wrong. Fungoidaphobia and the resulting discrimination against hybrid lifeforms is a real problem, even in today's enlightened Federation, and you should have never suffered empty birthdays as a result.

Family over fungus, I always say. But family is where you find it, and seeing as I just happened to be passing through Orion space on my way here, here's a keg of Klingon blood wine and a barrel of Andorian ale for the party, that is if you don't mind a bit of pirate contraband to liven things up a bit...

Event - Robots, UFOs, and A.I. Converge at the 2023 Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival with 130 Films Online and In Theaters - 10/9/23 to 10/15/23 (brooklynscififilmfest.com)

The Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival returns for 2023 with 135 films selected for screening October 9 through the 15th. SciFi fans from around the world are welcomed to join this one-of-a-kind event as all films will be made available online for streaming and rating through Brooklyn SciFi's Netflix style festival platform....

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Some of my favs in this category:

  • They Live
  • District 9
  • Alien Nation
  • Robocop
  • Alphaville (have to hat tip @livus for introducing me to that one)
  • Enemy Mine - this one might not exactly qualify, as it starts as high action scifi on an alien planet, but it transitions into a very different kind of story by the end. Dennis Quaid's best performance too, imho, and Lou Gosset Jr is exceptional in one of the weirdest roles of his career.
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Exactly this. The powers that caused the crisis want you to give up. They want you to think its hopeless and inevitable, because if it isn't, revolution is the only option in the face of their obstruction. And not a small revolution either - it will be one that is simultaneously political, economic, and cultural.

And such a revolution is inevitable - the question is whether or not it will be one of positive change, or one that arises from the world's collapse into chaos and fire.

The powers behind the crisis intentionally manufacture and market despair to keep you from uniting with others to fight against the slow heat death of the world. Don't buy into it.

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    @aetataureate Han soliloquy - Never tell me the Odds.

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    @PugJesus weren''t you looking for a spot to perform baptisms?

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    Kevin McCarthy and the GOP right now

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    Well, borked picture posting on kbin wouldn't load the picture properly and now it won't let me delete the thread, so here it is until I can manage to get this post to delete.

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    @Teal explained the context quite well.

    Regarding the borking comment, Kbin crashed when I tried to post the image, and it didn't allow me to delete the post, so I added a comment with the image so folks would have some context.

    I just found it funny that it was the top post on /r/all when I happened to breeze by the bad place earlier.

    The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror - 3rd Annual Collection - 1989 - featuring Greg Bear, Joyce Carol Oates, Tanith Lee, Bruce Sterling, Jane Yolen and Emma Bull (pdfhost.io)

    In the depths of the mutant rain forest where the water falls each afternoon in a light filtered to vermilion, a feline stone idol stands against the opaque foliage....

    The Year's Best Science Fiction - Third Annual Collection - 1986 - featuring Orson Scott Card, William Gibson, George RR Martin, Frederick Pohl, Bruce Sterling and Robert Silverberg (pdfhost.io)

    At dawn he arose and stepped out onto the patio for his first look at Alexandria, the one city he had not yet seen. That year the five cities were Chang-an, Asgard, New Chicago, Timbuctoo, Alexandria: the usual mix of eras, cultures, realities. He and Gioia, making the long flight from Asgard in the distant north the night...

    Blood and Thunder: The Sound of Alberts (David Field, Angus Young, Brian Johnson) (www.youtube.com)

    This two-part documentary looks back to the '60s and '70s and charts how Australia got its own rock 'n' roll sound thanks to the life-long bond between music company Albert Productions and The Youngs. Blood and Thunder The Sound of Alberts is a tale of two families and the music they made. The Alberts - an elegant, well-to-do...

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    Power is a helluva drug.

    Attorney General Garland says in interview he'd resign if Biden asked him to take action on Trump (apnews.com)

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland said in an interview that aired Sunday that he would resign if asked by President Joe Biden to take action against Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. But he doesn’t think he’ll be put in that position....

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    If the man would rather resign than do his job, he shouldn't have his job.

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    what if we kissed in the haunted liminal arctic town i just dreamed about where everyone leaves during winter so it's completely dark and empty for 6 months so the town is left to the bioluminescent ghost deer, and also it's facing the effects of rapid climate change so it floods and also mysterious blocks of rosin have been washing in, along with a recently unfrozen high school friend of mine, but it's ok that it floods because the ghost deer are light enough to skip around on the water surface

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    @momo ...sounds like a kiss electromagnetic, wrapped in the spark of the arctic, a mystery in those months of endless night, as the dark gives way to light...

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