Those people really need someone to explain the concept of subtext to them.
How can you not know Superman's origin story? Apart from the comics its been retold in every major movie version too. He literally is and always was (weird retcons aside) an immigrant.
Very difficult to definitively categorise this one. Read the full review here.
Quote from TBMBMC: "The Appalachian Mountains are best known for its deep and rich folklore surrounding mythical creatures and ominous happenings throughout its magical rolling hills. But the true story of the region is much less fantastical and much more despairing. The region has a long and painful history of exploitation of natural resources, abuse of labor rights, genocide of indigenous peoples, addiction, and a plague of predatory evangelism. This 5-track demo seeks to address some of the pains of the place I call home."
The fact they only realised it was wrong when it happened to them kind of shows they deserve nothing in the way of sympathy.
Polling consistently shows disapproval for Israeli actions in Gaza.
Oh the options are endless...Liz Kendall in an SS uniform machine-gunning a load of disabled people, Yvette Cooper in a Suffragette tee laughing as a load of anti-genocide supporters get arrested for holding signs, Keir Starmer taking a shit on the UK whilst Farage stands off to one side loosening his belt ready to go next.
Genital Shame released an awesome split with Lust Hag earlier in the year. You might also enjoy Amanda Yvng, Davghter, Electromancy, Feminazgul, Human Abyss, Karnstein and Mrs Frighthouse.
Hundreds of great tracks on both The Antifascist Black metal Network (hint, its not just Black Metal, there's playlists for Doom, Thrash, Drone, Dungeon Synth, Hardcore etc etc) and its sister channel Antifascist Steel for more non-extreme subgenres. There's also Catacombs of Heresy, ATENEO OCULTO and Brathory channels too.
All participating bands have given full permission for these channels to stream their stuff. And remember there are a few Invidious instances still up and running as well as things like FreeTube, Piped, Grayjay etc.
For anyone who's thinking UK, I'd advise not - we're about 4-5 years behind you in terms of imminent fascism and whilst there's still technically a chance to avert it, its very unlikely - especially since Starmer is being even more awful than the Tories.
It's Blair actually. His gvmt put through the changes to the Terrorism act in (I think) 2001 that has allowed this sort of thing to happen.
One of the ironies of this whole situation is that Yvette Cooper has expressed admiration for the Suffragette movement numerous times, including in the Commons. A movement that self-described as terrorists
If only Keith found it as easy to understand what the people of the country he's currently in charge of care about.
Just in case it wasn't obvious, the head of Kent Council is a Reform member.
Re-reading Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House" because its the best haunted house novel ever written.
Anyone who thinks the US gvmt is building camps, destroying healthcare, destroying education, vilifying local elected leaders, making the legal system toothless etc 'for immigrants' is deluding themselves.
The Devil's Library is a podcast that features atheistic Satanists talking about the books they love (or hate!)
Long term Lemmy user and books@ subscriber here! I just wanted to let this Community know that myself and a couple of my Satanist friends (we are Atheistic Satanists, I am independent of any org, they are both members of Global Order of Satan) have started 'The Devil's Library' - a podcast about books and reading where we choose then read a book and record an episode on what we thought. For the first episode (which launched two days ago) we chose Iain Reid's "I'm Thinking of Ending Things".
You can find us in the usual places - including on PeerTube - if you'd like to listen/subscribe.
(Yes, I did check with this Communities mod team that it was OK to post this).
Streaming music is damaging musicians ability to remain musicians. Spotify are the worst but none of them are great. You can buy (and therefore download, own and control) a bands music from Bandcamp, Ampwall etc. You can also usually get merch there too. The only people who make good money from music streaming are music streaming executives.
Licensing will be your biggest issue as its usually done per-country. Here's PPL (uk) pricing model for example.
And here's an overview on the subject.
Also on Invidious and findable on PeerTube if you have that.
I don;t know about your friends but I had the glum task of removing a Misfits patch from my battle jacket when I found that out :(
Yes, I'm sure you and your large team of script writers, when putting together a piece designed to make you look hardline on immigration had no idea at all that a famous immigration hardliner/fascist often used a very, very similar phrase. And you definitely had no hopes it would be seen as a coded yet deniable dog-whistle. None at all.
This wasn't an error of ignorance, this was an error of judgement and everyone knows that.
When Reform win the next GE it will be your fault Keith.
Thats the great thing about science, you don't have to 'believe' it.
It definitely tastes different - flatter somehow. I don't know why, but it does.
Been awhile since I saw a thread like this and they're always good for at least one or two things I've never heard of before. Bonus points if the software is open source and cross platform. Extra bonus points if you link to where we can see it/get it.
My contribution: Destiny which is an anonymous, P2P, E2EE file sharing app - its basically a GUI for a Magic Wormhole implementation. Works on Linux (tarball or appimage), Win, Mac, Android (inc f-droid) and iOS. Only downside is it's not been updated for 2 years.
So, first up - our Satan Not Hatin' campaign to tackle bigotry and fascism in alt music like metal, punk, electronica, goth, neofolk etc now has over 460 opt-in participants. The campaign recently launched our second compilation album called Mortem Tyrannis - available on Bandcamp or Ampwall - and was organised by House of Heretics who are our Seattle/Washington State based Order and features 25 North American bands/artists with all money going to the ACLU.
One of our other US Orders GOS: Resurgens/Free Society Satanists who are based in Atlanta, Georgia have now added their podcast (The Ave Satanas Podcast) to the main GOS YouTube account too so you can now get twice the amount of Satanism in your ears on YT via their podcast as well as the GOS UK podcast, GOSPod that already exists there. And speaking of GOSPod, they have recently started introducing 'minisodes' which are shorter episodes that run alongside the longer full episodes - these are much more light hearted and discuss a whole range of things (so far, mainly myself and my sibling, Ligeia discussing our love of horror books!).
Speaking of our UK Order, we will be branching out to attend new flea markets across the UK. Next month we will be attending North Wales Macabre Market (Instagram link, sorry) on Saturday 3rd May at Rhyl Town Hall and the very next day Sunday 4th May will see us at The Devils Fayre - Beltane Market at Voodoo in Belfast. If you're interested in coming along you can buy some merch or just have a chat :)
Our UK Order also has a new campaign in the initial planning stages, regarding recent news that not only is the pseudoscience of conversion 'therapy' still in use in the UK, some people are also using religious abuse as 'treatments' - including ritual prayer and exorcism. We have things to say about that, so watch this space.
In the meantime, hail yourselves, hail Satan!
Hi :)
I’m a user on this instance and also mod of a community on this instance about atheistic/nonthesitic Satanism. We are not CoS, nor TST, we are called Global Order of Satan (link is in my profile). Many of our members across the world are lgbtqia+ , possibly even a majority but we don’t really keep formalised records so its hard to say for sure.
Our UK Order (of whom I am a member) are looking into starting a campaign into the religion based abuse of conversion therapy. Obviously we knew it happened but we weren’t aware things like exorcism were used and this clearly falls within our, uh, areas of interest!
This is a delicate subject and I have no wish to trigger anyone but if anyone wanted to share (anonymised) experiences they may have had with religion-based conversion ‘therapy’ (I keep using scarequotes as its clearly pseudoscience) via DM with me, they would be very helpful in giving us some background. If you are not happy with DMing then I am also on Matrix (links also in bio) or you can mail me leraje gosatan com - you can get free anonymous email forwarding here
Edit: Anonymous cryptpad form here - Markdown keeps killing the link. you'll need to copy/paste this: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/SqtKYw8b2pa%20a4u2EU0OFN9-6l5E3qGVSt9r6-U%20XQo/
I guess I might be the only person on the face of the planet dependent on PhotoGIMP so this might be useful for no-one but just on the offchance...
After updating Gimp to 3 and updating photogimp too, it was for me totally and utterly broken. I don't know enough to say why, but it was. It loaded the new splash screen but when fully loaded the whole interface was the standard Gimp one and all interface tools, layouts etc were also (as far as I could tell) standard Gimp. I searched for answers but couldn't find any. Maybe this is a 'me' issue or maybe the updates are too new or maybe photogimp doesn't have enough of a userbase to notice.
So, I've ended up rolling back to gimp 2.10 and the 2020.1 version of photogimp. However, this is not a straightforward process. Here's what I had to do (assuming flatpak).
Remove all photogimp bits and pieces from $HOME/.var, $HOME/.local and most especially $HOME/.config
DO NOT uninstall Gimp itself.
Then revert gimp 3.02 to 2.10 like so:
First you need the commit id of previous versions of Gimp.
flatpak remote-info --log flathub org.gimp.GIMP
For 2.10 its 83b335255cc239e223ada842f99107d1d6ce51b511a8ae2a278005c2e2809242
So this is technically an update even though we're reverting not upgrading, so Gimp itself still needs to be installed. Might need to sudo the next command.
flatpak update --commit=83b335255cc239e223ada842f99107d1d6ce51b511a8ae2a278005c2e2809242 org.gimp.GIMP
Let it do its thing. When its ready, you can (optionally but I did) tell flatpak to ignore updates like so:
flatpak mask org.gimp.GIMP
When that's all done, open and run gimp and you should now have 2.10
Close Gimp.
Now download photogimp 2022.1 from the releases page, then extract the relevant files into $HOME/.var and $HOME/.local respectively.
Double check $HOME/.config/GIMP is definitely gone.
Open Gimp again and you should have photogimp back to its pre-gimp3 self.
The Army-run cemetery said it is working to follow Trump's orders on ending diversity while restoring information.
Algorithms are shaping our thoughts and behaviours in dangerous ways ~ Matthew Gaffen ~ “The Matrix” already exists—we’re not all asleep in vats being used as batteries, but to a greater or lesser extent we have all been trapped in an invisible prison, used to subjugate everyone under its influence....
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/22523265
> >There’s a reason that cookies and privacy policies (in the EU at least) have become such an online nuisance. These assurances of your safety and privacy are nothing more than a pretext to get consent. Your “anonymised” data is sold to an infinite regress of third parties, analysed, correlated and de-anonymised again. Any smart device you use, your browsing habits, banking transactions, your GPS position are all used to deduce fine grain information about you. Then weaponised against you for as much profit as possible.
Algorithms are shaping our thoughts and behaviours in dangerous ways ~ Matthew Gaffen ~ “The Matrix” already exists—we’re not all asleep in vats being used as batteries, but to a greater or lesser extent we have all been trapped in an invisible prison, used to subjugate everyone under its influence....
>There’s a reason that cookies and privacy policies (in the EU at least) have become such an online nuisance. These assurances of your safety and privacy are nothing more than a pretext to get consent. Your “anonymised” data is sold to an infinite regress of third parties, analysed, correlated and de-anonymised again. Any smart device you use, your browsing habits, banking transactions, your GPS position are all used to deduce fine grain information about you. Then weaponised against you for as much profit as possible.
When searching for communities when making a new post, it now sorts communities by popularity (fixes #77) You can now paste images to upload in the markdown editor You can now upload an image when ...
Just for admin info, latest version is 0.8.16 :)
Been awhile since I posted an update to GOS activities and whilst I'm not kidding myself that people hang on our every word or move, its a bit remiss of me/us.
So, first off, we have a new US Order, taking the total in America to three now. The new Order is called Free Society Satanists: GOS Resurgens. We don't have any rules about what an Order calls itself as we're not a big monolithic bureaucracy like some Satanist groups I can think of so they decided to use a kind of mashup of old and new. Internally we refer to them as FSS/GOSR as its less to type! They cover the Atlanta and general South area.
Next up, myself and my Swedish comrade Chantelouve of our Swedish Order Satanistiska samfundet did the first of our 2 hour shows (Contra Odium for Satan Not Hatin') for Moshville Radio on Jan 2nd. Went well, got good numbers apparently. If you want to treat your ears to some non-problematic metal and alt music, DJ'd by one person who knows what they're doing (Chantelouve) and one person who still hasn't learnt to talk directly into the mic yet (me) you can listen to the show on Mixcloud. From now on we have a regular date/time of 17:00-19:00 (UK time) on the first Thursday of every month broadcast live on Moshville Radio and then uploaded to their Mixcloud page the following day.
Satan Not Hatin' now has over 370 opt-in participants including bands, solo artists, record labels, promoters, venues and festivals, merch designers/sellers, zine writers and collectives.
Our UK Order has been asked to represent the Satan Not Hatin' campaign at Depravation Fest '25 a UK music festival. We'll be there to make sure people who might be part of marginalised communities feel welcomed and safe.
Our Seattle Order, House of Heretics completed the collection stage of their campaign to help their unhoused neighbours and have already been handing out tents, sleeping bags, toothbrushes, clean kits, warm socks etc amongst their community and our Pittsburgh Order GOS: Steel City are doing the same with their Baphomet Bags campaign.
GOSPod, our UK Orders podcast, have found a couple of our episodes removed by YouTube because we used phrases that their algorithms are unable to process. For example, we did an episode about the Satanic Panic/Satanic Conspiracies and at one point one of us mentioned old conspiracies getting a new lease of life via Covid denialism and we used the word 'antivaxxer' which was enough to get the episode taken down. Ridiculous. So anyway, we made the decision to not upload any episodes to YT that might get struck off. But we will be uploading all of them to our PeerTube channel where saner heads prevail.
Forgive the self-promotion post but I thought this would be relevant! cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/19534509
> I was interviewed on Moshville Radio yesterday (you can hear the show on their Mixcloud archive) and we (Moshville and GOS) made the announcement that our Satan Not Hatin' campaign will be launching a monthly two hour radio show co-hosted by myself and my friend and colleague from the campaign DoomMetalJacket of Satanistiska samfundet (GOS Sweden). > > We'll be playing the music of our participating bands and artists (nearly 300 of them now), talking about news and information to do with the campaign and hopefully getting some of the bands/artists on to talk about their music and what participating in a campaign like ours means to them. > > Moshville Radio broadcasts live across the UK, EU and USA and archives can be found on their Mixcloud page.
I was interviewed on Moshville Radio yesterday (you can hear the show on their Mixcloud archive) and we (Moshville and GOS) made the announcement that our Satan Not Hatin' campaign will be launching a monthly two hour radio show co-hosted by myself and my friend and colleague from the campaign DoomMetalJacket of Satanistiska samfundet (GOS Sweden).
We'll be playing the music of our participating bands and artists (nearly 300 of them now), talking about news and information to do with the campaign and hopefully getting some of the bands/artists on to talk about their music and what participating in a campaign like ours means to them.
Moshville Radio broadcasts live across the UK, EU and USA and archives can be found on their Mixcloud page.
Forgive me pushing my own stuff here. As some of you know I'm a member of an atheistic Satanic organisation. We are currently running a campaign against the incursion of the far right and hate into various alt music scenes, including metal, called Satan Not Hatin'.
Today we have released a compilation album on Bandcamp called Contra Odium ("Against Hate") featuring the music of thirteen of the Satan Not Hatin' participants. They're all metal bands (plus a couple of punks) on the album and its a real mix of subgenres - Black Metal, Doom, Post, Gothic, Sludge.
Proceeds from the album will be divided amongst participating Orders (UK, Sweden, Pittsburgh and Seattle) and in turn passed on in full to charities local to each Order:
- GOS UK: The Sophie Lancaster Foundation and Hope Not Hate
- House of Heretics (Seattle): The Lavender Rights Project
- Satanistiska samfundet (GOS Sweden): Transammans
- GOS: Steel City (Pittsburgh): Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
Satan Not Hatin' - our campaign to tackle hate and the far-right in alt music scenes such as metal, punk, goth, industrial etc has released a compilation album on Bandcamp called Contra Odium ("Against Hate") featuring the music of thirteen of the Satan Not Hatin' participants.
Proceeds from the album will be divided amongst participating Orders (UK, Sweden, Pittsburgh and Seattle) and in turn passed on in full to charities local to each Order:
- GOS UK: The Sophie Lancaster Foundation and Hope Not Hate
- House of Heretics (Seattle): The Lavender Rights Project
- Satanistiska samfundet (GOS Sweden): Transammans
- GOS: Steel City (Pittsburgh): Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
Exclusive: ‘I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life’, former first lady writes in memoir
Melania Trump made an extraordinary declaration in an eagerly awaited memoir to be published a month from election day: she is a passionate supporter of a woman’s right to control her own body – including the right to abortion.
“It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government,” the Republican nominee’s wife writes, amid a campaign in which Donald Trump’s threats to women’s reproductive rights have played a central role.
“Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body? A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes.
“Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life.”
