A good demonstration of why you don't drive through floodwaters, even if you've got a big Man-Car™️.
https://youtu.be/LyW84hLAXZo
It's a particularly good example of just how quickly things can go from "daily commute" to "Oh shit I might drown!"
As the slogan says, "If it's flooded, forget it!"
@MissConstrue, I think this is relevant to your interests.
TFW The Betoota Advocate has a podcast interviewing George Megalogenis, that is perceptive and more informative than the "real" news.
https://youtu.be/I9OKBhmmeQQ
George is always interesting, but Betoota is the dark horse.
@FediTips
Hi there. I have a question about how to view Alt Text in posts with audio media.
Recently I've uploaded some mp3 files to Mastodon posts, and I was prompted to add Alt Text, which I naturally did (see link below).
But looking back at the posts it's not clear how to view the Alt Text? On images, there's an "Alt" icon in the bottom right corner, but I can't see anything like that on the audio file. I'm using the standard web interface.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@existentialcomics/117032531179361942
"When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks." -- Eugene Debs
RE: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116793062918256142
My mind is slightly blown to realise that John Major, whom I've always considered a caretaker PM between Thatcher and Blair, was PM for longer than anyone since Tony Blair retired nearly two decades ago.
Open Source software: “How can I adapt this software to my needs?”
Proprietary software: “How must I adapt my needs to this software?”
(A thought that hit me an a seminar, that I wanted to make a note of in case I need it later to neg my workplace's over-reliance on MS Office.)
And a little bit more research reveals the "funky bass" music that also sometimes featured as Rage interlude music and sometimes as closing credits:
https://youtu.be/YojCTq-ILMY
...is the appropriately titled "Sleepless" by King Crimson:
https://youtu.be/RNvwrPWK24M
I just had my own personal WhoSampled moment with the closing credits sequence from the Australian music video clip show "Rage", familiar to generations of Australian 20-somethings.
https://youtu.be/wx7-Hr-iVJ4
I was actually fast-forwarding through an episode of Rage (to see if there was another episode of QI later on, because I'm of a certain age). And noticed this bit of footage:
https://youtu.be/tqIr6WPfgTw?t=227
I thought "That looks familiar...", so I rewound and watched the clip and I noticed that this chord also appears prominently:
https://youtu.be/tqIr6WPfgTw?t=134
Anyway, it turns out that they used an edit of the Extended Mix of "Speed Your Love to Me" by Simple Minds.
Starting at the start: https://youtu.be/zUUBPGswCLc
And then cutting to 42sec in: https://youtu.be/zUUBPGswCLc?t=42
It's always weird when you find a famous sample out of context.
After a draining, but ultimately successful, week my #mind is somewhere near the bugle solo in here:
https://youtu.be/9EEZAivzl1Q
#alternateFridayMusic
“Where is my #mind?”
One of my back-burner creative outlets is writing music using the open-source software Musescore. I write about one piece per year, if I'm lucky, but I enjoy having something to muse over in my downtime.
Here's one of the better pieces I've written, as played by the Musescore synths. It's the first movement of my "Swingphony", Op.5,6,7,8
Lindy Hop in C Ionian, 'Shadoobeedoowap', Op.5
-- by @mlazz
Often when I see the word "therapist" my accidentally mind parses it as "the rapist", and I wonder if that might be a broader problem (especially for those seeing the former about the latter).
♫ He left a card, a bar of soap and
A scrubbing brush next to a note
That said "use these down to your bones"... ♫
https://youtu.be/qKn7XAMNV-g
♫ Gold teeth and a curse for this town,
Were all in my mouth...♫
https://youtu.be/aL5XuSpaXpA
♫ I love you,
But if you treat me like shit you can just fuck off ♫
https://youtu.be/_j-pbZEhdck
This one's possibly a bit of a cheat, since it's pretty much the only lyric. Still, it's pretty good relationship advice.
♫ It was Christmas Eve, Babe,
In the drunk tank... ♫
https://youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8
♫ I don't believe in an interventionist God,
But I know, Darlin', that you do... ♫
https://youtu.be/LnHoqHscTKE
Some songs start with an opening lyric so good that it (metaphorically) makes you put down your beer and turn around to hear the rest.
I'm starting this thread so I can to jot some of the best down as I'm reminded of them, because I have a habit of forgetting them when I try to remind myself of them later.
Hi. I'm curious about how easy it is to create bot accounts.
For example, I would like to create a bot account that posts random quotes from a list of quotes.
How much programming/coding would be required under the hood, or is it something that's already supported by the Mastodon interface?
Thanks for your help to the community!
They really need to rule Like a Version covers out of scope, because it's an insult to the artists of 2025 to lose out to a bunch of reheated hits of the late 20th Century.
I finished watching Ken Burns's 12hr doco on the American Revolution last week.
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/the-american-revolution
The main surprise for me was how much the secession from Britain was driven by an active desire by the colonial elite to steal Native American land in the Ohio Valley.
We all know that colonial countries like the US, Canada and Australia are built on land theft (even if some still won't admit they know), but these were my main takeaways (off the top of my head, feel free to correct me but I'm not going to rewatch the doco to be sure):
1. After the French-Indian Wars of the 1750s (part of the global Seven Years' War), the British put a (temporary) pause on colonists from occupying land west of the Appalachians (nominally taken from the French, but still owned/occupied by Native American tribal confederations).
2. This was very unpopular and also did not stop land speculators from scouting the area, on behalf of (among others) George Washington.
3. Towards the end of the War of Independence, George Washington personally sent a general into the Ohio Valley to do a bit of a scorched-earth genocide of Native American villages (ie burning villages and crops) - presumably to clear out the existing occupants, but under some other pretext.
4. The Treaty of Paris in 1883 that ended the War of Independence royally fucked the Native Americans, even those that fought on the Colonists side.