the world is so cruel to cds...why are you "burning" and "ripping" cds..you should be kissing and hugging them.....
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Oh holy shit they found Silphium alive and growing in the wild.
Like now that I am awake I need to reiterate how huge this is. It was presumed harvested to extinction by the Romans. It was a favorite flavoring and according to historians one of the best contraceptives ever known. True or not it would be fantastic to study that but it being extinct made that impossible.
This is such a huge deal! I hope they get it figured how to grow it.
The band, the music, the dance.
puts on sound 📣🎶🎵
Ok, I NEED you to understand just how insane even ATTEMPTING this was for them.
1. Playing an instrument is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Don’t think I’m stepping on any toes saying that.
2. Dancing is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Still not controversial.
3. YOU AVOID, AT ALL COSTS, MOVING YOUR BODY WHILE PLAYING A WIND INSTRUMENT. To make the correct, pleasant sounds, you need to be in the correct form. And that form involves your ENTIRE body, even your legs when sitting down.
4. “oh, but I’ve seen marching bands before and-” MARCHING BANDS HAVE ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC FIELDS DEDICATED TO FIGURING OUT HOW TO MARCH WITH MINIMUM BREAKING OF PROPER FORM. A marching band tries to be as smooth as possible while moving, so as not to jar their instrument, mouth, neck, arms, torso, or anything else.These ladies and gentlemen are BOUNCING and still playing properly, what the FU-!
5. AND ANOTHER THING! Wind instruments and dancing BOTH make demands on your breathing, so the fact that they are dancing (making you breath faster for extra oxygen) AND playing wind instruments (making you effectively hold your breath) AT THE SAME TIME is HUGE. Their lungs must be MASSIVE.
All of that also; the song is Sing, sing, sing (with a swing). If you wanna listen to some of THE SPICIEST big band ever recorded. Its a big hard song and this band does it expertly.
I will. I will say ONE thing. As a wind instrument player, and very drunk atm for unrelated reason.
Most of the point above are correct, save for the first.
Playing in syncs with other is actually easier (Imhe, ymmv) due to a stronger base beat/rhythm/placement to follow and the ability to drop out when you need a breath knowing that there is plenty of volume to cover you and and that when you pop back in, you’ll know where you are thanks to following the players around you (and which point you then provide th same opportunity to your band mates)
The other points of course stand as posited.
They are the Kyoto Tachibana Senior High School Band, and they have the nickname “Orange Devils” (オレンジの悪魔) bc of their full-orange uniform and bc they keep wining band competitions.
And yes, these are HIGH SCHOOL KIDS.
The band, the music, the dance.
puts on sound 📣🎶🎵
Ok, I NEED you to understand just how insane even ATTEMPTING this was for them.
1. Playing an instrument is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Don’t think I’m stepping on any toes saying that.
2. Dancing is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Still not controversial.
3. YOU AVOID, AT ALL COSTS, MOVING YOUR BODY WHILE PLAYING A WIND INSTRUMENT. To make the correct, pleasant sounds, you need to be in the correct form. And that form involves your ENTIRE body, even your legs when sitting down.
4. “oh, but I’ve seen marching bands before and-” MARCHING BANDS HAVE ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC FIELDS DEDICATED TO FIGURING OUT HOW TO MARCH WITH MINIMUM BREAKING OF PROPER FORM. A marching band tries to be as smooth as possible while moving, so as not to jar their instrument, mouth, neck, arms, torso, or anything else.These ladies and gentlemen are BOUNCING and still playing properly, what the FU-!
5. AND ANOTHER THING! Wind instruments and dancing BOTH make demands on your breathing, so the fact that they are dancing (making you breath faster for extra oxygen) AND playing wind instruments (making you effectively hold your breath) AT THE SAME TIME is HUGE. Their lungs must be MASSIVE.
All of that also; the song is Sing, sing, sing (with a swing). If you wanna listen to some of THE SPICIEST big band ever recorded. Its a big hard song and this band does it expertly.
I will. I will say ONE thing. As a wind instrument player, and very drunk atm for unrelated reason.
Most of the point above are correct, save for the first.
Playing in syncs with other is actually easier (Imhe, ymmv) due to a stronger base beat/rhythm/placement to follow and the ability to drop out when you need a breath knowing that there is plenty of volume to cover you and and that when you pop back in, you’ll know where you are thanks to following the players around you (and which point you then provide th same opportunity to your band mates)
The other points of course stand as posited.
They are the Kyoto Tachibana Senior High School Band, and they have the nickname “Orange Devils” (オレンジの悪魔) bc of their full-orange uniform and bc they keep wining band competitions.
And yes, these are HIGH SCHOOL KIDS.
last night i had a dream that i was at an outdoor fair and someone asked me to sign a petition and after i signed it they were like thanks so much! go pick out a prize! so i went into their booth and it was filled with hundreds and hundreds of tiny bottles of perfume and all the perfume had names like “i saw you eating greek yogurt at the reptile house at the zoo” and “you cut down the beautiful 100 year old oak tree in your yard” and i looked up and the perfume collection was called “guys i fucking hate”
Important to note that ALL trans people are targeted by this ruling. Trans men will be stripped of all chess titles won, which can only be returned to them by “changing the gender back to a woman” (a direct quote from the ICF’s ruling). ALL transgender chess players will be marked as trans in their files.
Not trying to deflect from the blatant and virulent transmisogyny present here. Just giving a bit more info.
Erin Reed did a good breakdown of the ruling here:
The fact that chess competitions are gender-divided in the first place proves they think one [presumed binary] sex needs to be protected from the other.
And yet, with many competitions, for all the claim is that women need protecting from men, it's not until the men are threatened by the women that they actually enforce that divide.
It's still misogyny, which still leads to transphobia as well.
But I'm not actually sure it's grounded in a belief that women are inferior to men. Rather, I suspect it's grounded in a fear that men are inferior and thus can only hold their positions of power if they don't let women compete fairly.
this is a common misconception that gets brought up with a lot of gender divides - chess is not separated into men and women, but rather open and women - women can and do participate in open tournaments and some (notably: Judit Polgar, who was rank 6 in the world at her peak) actually refused to participate in women's tournaments
But I'm not actually sure it's grounded in a belief that women are inferior to men. Rather, I suspect it's grounded in a fear that men are inferior and thus can only hold their positions of power if they don't let women compete fairly.
this kind of nonsense just muddies the waters about the actual things that hold women back in games like chess, namely lack of a pipeline and lack of institutional support
Important to note that ALL trans people are targeted by this ruling. Trans men will be stripped of all chess titles won, which can only be returned to them by “changing the gender back to a woman” (a direct quote from the ICF’s ruling). ALL transgender chess players will be marked as trans in their files.
Not trying to deflect from the blatant and virulent transmisogyny present here. Just giving a bit more info.
Erin Reed did a good breakdown of the ruling here:
The fact that chess competitions are gender-divided in the first place proves they think one [presumed binary] sex needs to be protected from the other.
And yet, with many competitions, for all the claim is that women need protecting from men, it's not until the men are threatened by the women that they actually enforce that divide.
It's still misogyny, which still leads to transphobia as well.
But I'm not actually sure it's grounded in a belief that women are inferior to men. Rather, I suspect it's grounded in a fear that men are inferior and thus can only hold their positions of power if they don't let women compete fairly.
this is a common misconception that gets brought up with a lot of gender divides - chess is not separated into men and women, but rather open and women - women can and do participate in open tournaments and some (notably: Judit Polgar, who was rank 6 in the world at her peak) actually refused to participate in women's tournaments
But I'm not actually sure it's grounded in a belief that women are inferior to men. Rather, I suspect it's grounded in a fear that men are inferior and thus can only hold their positions of power if they don't let women compete fairly.
this kind of nonsense just muddies the waters about the actual things that hold women back in games like chess, namely lack of a pipeline and lack of institutional support
HOLY SHIT THE HOMESTUCK TUMBLR EXPLORER IS BACK!
basically it’s a website that a guy made so that you can scroll through every homestuck post ever made on tumblr in chronological order! it was down for a few months, which was sad because it’s really REALLY interesting for old internet nerds (and also instrumental for my archiving over on @homestuckfandomarchive!)
Oh damn okay I’ll have to check that out
you can fine it here :D