mayorbeetles

CultureDesk, 12 days ago to music

If you have a Samsung washing machine, you'll probably be familiar with its self-satisfied "I'm finished" chime — the 40-second jingle that plays when your wash cycle is complete. It's a version of Schubert's "Die Forelle," which was composed in 1817. Now, it's sparked an absurd copyright abuse flag on YouTube, with a Twitch streamer claiming his play-through of Fallout was demonetized because his washing machine finished while he was streaming. Seemingly YouTube's automatic scan had detected the washing machine chime as a song called "Done," which was uploaded to YouTube by a musician known as Audego nine years ago. Albino suggested that YouTube had potentially allowed Audego to make invalid copyright claims for years. Here's more from @arstechnica

https://flip.it/Ex3rOm

#Music #Technology #Lifestyle #Streaming #YouTube #Gaming #Twitch #Copyright

mayorbeetles, 13 days ago to random

Police officers came to our highschool once a month with drug dogs, we had to line up in the hallways while they sniffed us. The cops would berate us the whole time despite nobody acting up on account of, you know, the guns. They could go through your locker and throw your shit on the floor if they wanted.

Our crime was existing as children in a low income area

mayorbeetles, 13 days ago to random

whores are healers

mayorbeetles, 13 days ago to random

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”

~ E.B. White

mayorbeetles, 15 days ago to random

I need to get this tatted on the inside of my people pleasing fucking eyelids

mayorbeetles, 17 days ago to random

From r/paranormal. I hate the Rae Dunn design trend of labeling stuff in black and white...it looks worse than leaving it blank if you don't want to use it or put art there IMO

mayorbeetles, 1 month ago to nature

Also known as "lake flies," "blind mosquitoes," and "fuzzy bills," midge flies are common around bodies of water. I spotted this fuzzy feller on a gas pump by the lake.

They aren't actually mosquitoes and only some species bite, but leaving standing water can create huge swarms that deplete the biomass of lakes and ponds.

#nature #insects #entomology

mayorbeetles, 1 month ago to random

you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

mayorbeetles, 1 month ago to random

"When I hit puberty, things got really wild. I had all of these feelings pent up inside of me, and in Bullitt County they don’t exactly teach men how to express their feelings. I was sad. Incredibly lonely. Disappointed that I was gay because that meant if my family knew, they wouldn’t love me. Furious that God knew, and because of that, God didn’t love me. I felt caught between being the best little boy in the world and wanting to punch holes in my bedroom walls. I had all of these feelings and nowhere to put them.

And then in 2004, I heard a song that gave me that outlet. A song that unlocked my flair for the dramatic. A song that almost felt like my coming out anthem, even though I wouldn’t come out for another four years.

It was “Duality” by Slipknot."

Steven Carr via Queer Kentucky - "Slipknot Made Me Gay: How metal music broke down my closet door"

https://queerkentucky.com/slipknot-made-me-gay-how-metal-music-broke-down-my-closet-door/

mayorbeetles, 1 month ago to music

We see the lies in ’em
Claimin’ it's antisemitic to be anti-Zionist
I’ve seen Jewish brothers and sisters out there and ridin' in
Solidarity and screamin' "Free Palestine" with them
Organizin', unlearnin’ and finally cuttin' ties with
A state that's gotta rely on an apartheid system
To uphold an occupyin' violent
History been repeating for the last seventy-five
The Nakba never ended, the colonizer lied

#FreePalestine 🇵🇸

Macklemore - "HIND'S HALL"

#music #hiphop #rap

https://youtu.be/fgDQyFeBBIo?si=ByCC9pbByXhoh-N9

mayorbeetles, 1 month ago to random

Oh & I just want to clarify "gender is a social construct" because some people interpret that as erasure. What I mean is that stuff like gender and race aren't innate or immutable.

Historically, questions like "who is a woman" and "who is white" were answered by a combination of the church, the government, and slavers, based on whatever was most profitable at the time

An individual's gender is real. Their experiences are real. This "what is a woman, really?" shit is just goofy.

Cat_LeFey, 1 month ago to random

A lot of people living in cities don't realize that rural USA is a lot like those third-world countries a politician might describe as ‘shitholes.’

In my tiny village(which is basically a few far-apart houses and farms gathered around a swamp):

-No municipal water (we have a well)
-No sewer (septic tanks)
-No garbage disposal (burn it)
-No public school (There's one in the next town over, bus leaves at 630am, gets back 430pm)
-No public college (there's one in the next county, that means you pay out-of-county tuition which is double)
-No mail delivery (I have a PO box)
-No police (I actually love this, no complaints here)
-No fire/emergency services (volunteers are notified by the town siren, closest actual hospital is an hour flight by chopper after you've driven 40 minutes to the rural hospital, which is basically just triage)

Where do I live? In Michigan, but you'll never find my address cuz it's not even on Google Maps.

mayorbeetles, 1 month ago to Bloomscrolling

#SilentSunday #bloomscrolling #plants #nature

Cat_LeFey, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to paganism

Hail Freya, it's today's #FridayPaganPoll

Do you consider activism to be part of your Pagan practice?

#Pagan #Witch

mayorbeetles, 1 month ago to random

Are there any vetted bail funds or donations for people supplying water, first aid, etc to the student protestors?

mayorbeetles, 1 month ago to Plants

Carpet beetles nibbling on fleabane #plants #beetle #flowers

mayorbeetles, 1 month ago to Cats

🌿 #cats #caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Freya sniffing some grass, tall dandelions and shrubs behind her

mayorbeetles, 1 month ago to random

Journalists: We're activists! We're truth tellers! We're the voice for the voiceless!!

Journalists: [trying to legally doxx the jurors in Trump's trial so they can keep getting clicks from writing about him]

mayorbeetles, 1 month ago to random

I can't tell if she's doing a bit or what but Jojo Siwa thinking she's the first gay person to make pop music is so :picardfacepalm: