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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot ("Bodhipaksa") wrote:

@jhavok @Gladso @pluralistic I want to see my senators and congressman at a No Kings rally, giving speeches, thanking people for attending, and offering encouragement. But they don't do that. I only hear from them if they want money.

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mattg@recurse.social wrote:

@Wolf @pluralistic NWA in 1989 which is newer but not exactly recent. Lots of songs in hip hop tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF3aPT7C51Y

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D_J_Nathanson@esq.social ("David Nathanson") wrote:

@cryptadamist @Wolf @pluralistic Sharptooth - Fuck You Donald Trump
https://sharptoothmd.bandcamp.com/track/fuck-you-donald-trump-2

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arod@social.coop ("Alex Rodríguez") wrote:

@pluralistic you might enjoy the incredible new history of turn-of-the-century New Orleans, _Brassroots Democracy_ by Ben Barson, which makes a case for how inseparable brass band culture was from the activisms of its time: https://www.weslpress.org/9780819501127/brassroots-democracy/

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arensb ("A Republic, while we kept it") wrote:

@Moosjazz @pluralistic I have a friend who does. It's terribly beat up, and he can't play for shit, but you don't have to be a maestro to drown out fascists.

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cscott@kolektiva.social ("C. Scott Ananian (he/him)") wrote:

@ClariNerd @pluralistic my community funded a local newspaper.

Technically they passed a bylaw that said that local thingies must be published in a local paper, and that guaranteed business was enough to get said local paper off the ground.

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karlauerbach@sfba.social ("Karl Auerbach") wrote:

@pluralistic If you need words (in English) here is a good cover...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYyI4vmds5o

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kitten_tech@fosstodon.org ("Alaric Snell-Pym") wrote:

@graymattergrcltd @lemgandi @paraplegic_racehorse @Moosjazz @pluralistic Many years ago I saw a video of a bagpiper (IIRC in full kilt garb) following a racist streat preacher, drowning their ranting out. The sight of this irritated nazi trying to shout over the pipes, trying to get away, with the piper scurrying after then while still piping away, was hilarious!

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mycotropic@beige.party ("Mycotropic") wrote:

@Moosjazz @pluralistic

I have a baritone horn, no idea how to play it and one key sticks abysmally but, yeah, it makes a heck of a racket!

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hosford42@techhub.social ("Aaron") wrote:

@pluralistic My favorite part: The dipshit proud boys start jamming and clapping for the band, not even realizing they are being publicly pwned. Then, the musicians flip them off right in their faces. LMAO

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hosford42@techhub.social ("Aaron") wrote:

@pete @davidr @pluralistic Right before the musicians flip them off to their faces! lmao They didn't even catch on how they were being pwned

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trochee@dair-community.social ("Jeremy Kahn") wrote:

@pluralistic
@jmccyoung

Very proud to be an Atlanta kid today

Also there's a serious antifascist street band scene in Atlanta, and I'm glad to see it's still alive!

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cursedsql@hachyderm.io ("ck") wrote:

@pluralistic Saint Paul did a double dose of bagpipers, you love to see it

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inkorrupt@goto.antifa.club ("Subcömandante ♠️ Midas 🦄") wrote:

@isisevrinen @pluralistic

I f*cking love Atlanta Anti-Fascists! 🎺:antifa: :fcknzs:

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graymattergrcltd@infosec.exchange ("Vickie Gray") wrote:

@lemgandi @paraplegic_racehorse @Moosjazz @pluralistic And did I mention, a single Great Highland Bagpipe tops out at about 110 decibels? Definitely protest-worthy.

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Blueteamsherpa@infosec.exchange ("BlueTeamSherpa :verified:") wrote:

@jongary @pluralistic @minmi @inthehands hey! I was in a Klezmer band for a decade! Who wants me near DC?

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Flowermob wrote:

@Wolf @pluralistic which side are you on covered by Billy Bragg or for that matter the drop kicks?

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isisevrinen@mastodon.chasalin.nl ("Ellen") wrote:

@pluralistic I f*cking hate Atlanta Nazis.

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craignicol@glasgow.social wrote:

@Wolf @pluralistic does "fuck you Donald Trump... I'm not your bitch, I guess I'm Unamerican" count?

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Amc9UAAy-NM

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D_J_Nathanson@esq.social ("David Nathanson") wrote:

@Wolf @pluralistic

Tom Morello - Hold the Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61gHyyGZyXU

YG feat G Eazy & Macklemore - FDT (Fuck Donald Trump) Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHlXUmiGbmg

Lots of smaller bands, but those two are big.

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cybervegan@autistics.life wrote:

@pluralistic A more punky version by Jay Terrestrial & the Firepit Collective https://youtu.be/g03GgGGCHWA?feature=shared

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wesley@theatl.social ("Wesley Cook ⚡🚲") wrote:

@pluralistic I sent him this post and it turns out it's actually called Atlanta Coalition Ensemble but some of their members are also in Black Sheep Ensemble.

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wall_e@ioc.exchange ("wall-e / Daniel") wrote:

@FiddleSix @SrRochardBunson @Wolf @pluralistic

"CEOs come and go, and one just went;
the ingredients you got make the cake you get;
So if you get sick, cross your fingers for luck;
cause ol' Richard T. Burke ain't giving a fuck."

Still the most succinct take on the whole United Health thing I've heard

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jessamyn@glammr.us ("Jessamyn") wrote:

@koen_hufkens @pluralistic

I saw that. I know a lot of the Proud Boys are just awful people but the vibe I get is that some of them just are super fucked up people wanting to belong to something. I both enjoyed this video but also had some real sadness for those broken men.

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graymattergrcltd@infosec.exchange ("Vickie Gray") wrote:

@lemgandi @paraplegic_racehorse @Moosjazz @pluralistic Great Highland Bagpipe player here. Closing the holes may be similar, or at least once you figure out which fingers are up and down for each note, it’s straightforward.

But I would challenge any recorder player to master mistake-free bagpipe embellishments at tempo, in all idioms. That means the fingers that need to be up are up, and the fingers that need to be down are down, and there are never any “ghost” notes, or “crossing noises.”

The National Piping Centre in Glasgow has a free tutorial series demonstrating the 56 embellishment techniques in their beginner tutor book. Beginner, mind you. https://www.thepipingcentre.co.uk/learn/one-to-one/complete-highland-tutor-book-video-exercises

Put those all together, in a set of 120 bpm strathspeys. From memory. While blowing and squeezing the sheepskin bag that feeds air to the 4 cane reeds.

But, what do I know.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 Digaron-W lens, Phase One IQ4-150 back, a small amount of vertical shift.

The San Mateo Bridge, spanning the San Francisco Bay just south of SFO Airport, is relatively unremarkable except for its seemingly endless length. Sometimes known locally as the "S&M Bridge" for its frequently painful traffic congestion, looked at from the right distance, it can appear rather serine.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

San Mateo Bridge and San Francisco Bay, San Mateo, CA, 2024.

All the pixels, no toll collected, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54129314405

#photography

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

They had a stack of NYT International Edition (the rebranded International Herald Tribune) at the gate for my flight this afternoon, and i picked one up so I could feel like a sophisticated international jet-setter from the 1970's during my flight. Fortunately, no smoking section on the plane.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Oh god, that shouty guy from a few days ago is still at it. And so is the scoldy guy from yesterday.

Keeping my widows rolled up here, metaphorically speaking, for now.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

for some definitions of “peacekeeper”

https://mastodon.social/@axios/114689431380812597