Evangelicals don't read most of it anyway. There's literally a recipe for a potion to induce abortion to be given as a test to see if a woman was unfaithful to her husband.
I saw Amadeus (1984), which I never had watched before.
It was incredible; give it a watch if you haven't seen it. Of course it's largely Mozart fan fiction, but the sets, costumes, drama, acting, and (naturally) music are such a delight.
I have a ok laptop but its not the greatest, i want to have something such as a creative outlet that i can do in a simple manner? Ive thought about many of things but im unsure if i should try them? Im stuck inside alot and im bored alot aswell. I just want something to do other than light gaming and watching youtube. ...
What's your budget? You can get a ukulele or guitar for fairly cheap, and there are websites full of chords or tabs for songs. You can play hundreds of songs if you just know a few chords.
There are tutorial videos on YouTube to get you started. Play and sing along. You'll suck at first, but if you keep at it and play every day you'll get to be pretty good.
Is "Egyptian" music shown in movies etc. historically accurate in terms of instruments used? Like this one where the author claims to be "ancient" as well.
The Wikipedia article music of Egypt has a decent section on ancient music in the history portion.
But it's important to remember that ancient Egyptian history is incredibly long and varied. It's hard to pin down musical styles over thousands of years. The reality is that we don't really know what the music sounded like, so educated guesses are the closest we can get. Notation would not be invented for thousands of years.
The instruments they used provide most of the insight that we have. Here's a YouTube video of some people playing reconstructions of period instruments. This would just be a guess at the music, but it is at least informed by later tradition from around the region.
Vladimir Putin has no desire to halt Russia’s almost 4-year-old invasion of neighboring Ukraine and thinks he can “outsmart” the United States during talks with Washington about how to end the war, a senior European intelligence official told The Associated Press. ...
Even though he left after their second album, "Motorcade of Generosity" and "Fashion Nugget" will always be hugely influential to me personally, and Greg's contributions will not be forgotten for many years to come.
It's not gullibility; the reactionary right want to oppress the people they hate. It's White Christian Supremacy.
It's similar to the KKK: they weren't tricked into being hateful pieces of shit, they just are. Sure, a big part of that is that their culture is rotten with fundamentalism and anti-intelectualism, but those are cultivated and flourish because they're helpful to the cause of being hateful pieces of shit.
This is very much just a MY family thing. But most of my family members cannot stand when I eat kimchi in the house. I love it so I'm not going to stop but gosh, they get so grossed out.
I have to wonder if that's part of what made him good for the role? The series was trying to break the Trek mold anyway, so it was maybe for the best that the head of the ensemble cast didn't have any particular reverence for the source.
To cherry Bushido Ball, you need to win against five opponents without losing as any character. But after doing it twice with Yamada, I decided I wanted to play it more so I started trying cherry with other characters. After many hours of pain and suffering (and fun, of course) I've done it! ...
A screenshot of UFO 50 showing my playtime at 24 hours.
Bushido Ball is one of those games I'm surprised I hadn't seen done before. It's such a great idea: elegant in its simplicity while still having a high skill ceiling.
Over a few weeks this January, two Minneapolis sisters repeatedly left their homes and headed out to mock, insult, and record Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, who until recently was leading the disastrous and violent anti-immigrant operation of the city. The first time they heard him speak, the women, who uploaded their ...
SCOTUS rushed to get the case in front of the court when States were legally keeping Trump off their ballots due to his numerous convictions, but when regular Americans are having their 4th amendment rights trampled they can't be bothered.
Almost like they were installed to facilitate a fascist power grab.
The current reactionary stripe in the US is focused on White Evangelical Supremacy, so everyone who is not in that group is a prime target.
White Evangelicalism has lost a heap of prestige in the last 30 years, while LGBTQ+ rights have been ascendant. This is the reason why trans people have long been taegeted by the reactionary right: they want to roll back all of the gains made to sexual minorities, and trans people make the easiest targets.
They also target immigrants for largely the same reason: they're a highly visible population who doesn't conform to their ideal White Evangelical model, so they use terror tactics to oppress them.
The goal is to make life intolerable for the people they hate so that they don't have to compete against ideas that make the world a more equitable place. It's no coincidence that the reactionary right rallied around fighting diversity, equity and inclusion: they are an evangelical white supremacist coalition.
Yes, the reactionary right is often derided as stupid, but they're very effective at stealing the language of liberation from the left and repurposing it to defend the people in power.
While many of the base are indeed ignorant and misinformed, the people driving the message are meticulous and creative about finding ways to make White Evangelical Supremacy more palatable. Tucker Carlson is especially effective at laundering neo-nazi talking points for them; his constant scaremongering around the racist "great replacement" conspiracy theory and his open hatred and lies about trans people are some of the most egregious.
But it's also people like Joe Rogan who make this reactionary funnel really work: he acts like a middle-of-the-road centrist, but also sells a gentler version of the same great replacement and "gender ideology" bullshit while introducing his audience to a whole bunch of radical right-wing freaks like they're just normal people.
I guess I don't understand what you think I'm missing. I think the rise of an explicitly fascist party and the propaganda arm to support it is pretty dire.
And historically, the right has been at the forefront of new media. Talk radio has been almost exclusively reactionary since its inception, and that provided a model for new media as well. We've had nearly a century of radical right-wing radio content to hone the message and tactics. Father Caughlin was doing his radio show in 1933, wherein he took his "America First" message to the nation.
There have been more leftist new-media shows than previously, but they are still playing catch-up with the well-funded reactionaries.
The right-wing rage machine has recently been fueled by a number of things, but mainly loss in prestige due to acceptance of LGBTQ+ people & the US hiring a black president. They got a candidate in Donald Trump who swore to be their retribution, and they rallied around him because he hates all the same people, but (perhaps most importantly) also spoke to their loss in a way that other Republicans and Democrats would not.
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called out one-time ally Donald Trump for abandoning the core promises behind his “Make America Great Again” movement. ...
She's just mad that she got frozen out of the boys club. She was one of the biggest fundraisers in the party— she did her "duty" and only after she got stiffed did she figure out that there is no honor among thieves.
If this caterwauling troll had gotten her bag she'd have had no complaints. Fuck her.
Those kinds of churches very much do not preach acceptance for all people. They're more into the philosophy "if you're not with us you're against us."
Here's a 19th century song that was popular in a very conservative church of Christ where I attended as a teenager:
Onward Christian soldiers!
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before.
Christ, the royal Master,
Leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
See, His banners go!
At the name of Jesus
Satan’s host doth flee;
On then, Christian soldiers,
On to victory!
Hell’s foundations quiver
At the shout of praise:
Brothers, lift your voices,
Loud your anthems raise!
Onward, Christian soldiers!
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus,
Going on before.
There is a long list of people who are unacceptable in the eyes of conservative evangelicals; they label anything they hate or don't understand as "satanic" and make convenient excuses as to why the Bible agrees with them.
Cops will go fucking nuts on someone merely because they don't comply; their pea-brains simply cannot tolerate anyone who dares to question their authority.
Dude shouldn't have even gone into the house, he refused to leave and deescalate, then murdered a woman instead of just walking out of the door of a place he didn't even belong.
There's a fire starting in your ship
Reaching a fever pitch and it's bringing 'em out the dark
Finally I can see you crystal clear
Go 'head and crash land and I'll strip your saucer bare
See how I leave with every piece of it
Don't underestimate the things that I will do
There's a fire starting in my heart
Reaching a fever pitch and its bringing me out the dark
The scars and gore remind me of war
They keep me thinking that we almost lost it all
The holes in my suit they leave me breathless, I can't help feeling
We could have had it all
Terror from the deep
You had my heart inside of your hand
And you played it to the beat
From 1784 to 1859 the Parisian diapason (concert pitch) rose steadily from 820 to 896 cycles per second, thus Gluck's French version for haute-contre became increasingly impractical. When Adolphe Nourrit sang the role at the Opéra in 1824 his music was altered. Giacomo Meyerbeer suggested to the French mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot that she should perform the role of Orfeo. The composer Hector Berlioz was a close friend of Viardot and the leading expert in France on the music of Gluck. He knew the score of "the largely forgotten Italian original as thoroughly as he knew the French", and agreed to prepare a version of the opera – in four acts – with Viardot's voice in mind: thus, he did not simply "return to the original contralto version, but rearranged and retransposed the Paris version into keys more suitable for a mezzo". In his adaptation, Berlioz used the key scheme of the 1762 Vienna score while incorporating much of the additional music of the 1774 Paris score. He returned to the Italian version only when he considered it to be superior either in terms of music or in terms of the drama. He also restored some of the more subtle orchestration from the Italian version and resisted proposals by Viardot and the theatre's director Léon Carvalho to modernize the orchestration. In the end Camille Saint-Saëns, who was acting as Berlioz's assistant on the project, did some of the minor rewriting which Berlioz had declined to do.
The Berlioz version was first presented at the Théâtre Lyrique on 18 November 1859 with Viardot as Orphée, Marie Sasse as Eurydice, Marie Ernestine Marimon as L'Amour, Mlle Moreau as L'Ombre, and Adolphe Deloffre as the conductor. The sets were designed by Charles-Antoine Cambon and Joseph Thierry, and the choreography was by Lucien Petipa. (The seventeen-year-old Jules Massenet was the orchestra's timpanist. During the rehearsals Berlioz had complimented the young player on the accuracy of his tuning.) The production was a popular and critical success, filling the house every night, and was given a total of 138 times by the company.
The US has had a reactionary streak since its inception.
The country was founded on stolen land by slavers and oligarchs. The southern States launched a rebellion because they were concerned about losing their human chattel, then after losing maintained a 150 year terror campaign against those whom they deemed "lesser." The oligarchs have been consolidating power the entire time (with a few brief hiccups). There was a large and explicitly fascist America First movement that grew throughout the 20th century while Congress and the FBI aggressively persecuted leftist leaders.
The US is a very reactionary country with historically good PR.
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$1.8 million MST3K Kickstarter brings in (almost) everyone from the old show ( arstechnica.com )
The Most Popular Romantic Comedies in America ( www.shithot.co.uk )
What do you think guys? Have they missed any good ones?
Gallup Will No Longer Track Presidential Approval Ratings | The monthly poll has been used to measure presidential performance for almost nine decades. ( www.nytimes.com )
This probably means that they did a poll, and it looked so bad for Trump that they're afraid to publish it.
"i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising" ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
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Weekly thread - What movies have you watched this week? 11/02/2026
Whats a good hobby to get into, as someones whos home alot with a laptop?
I have a ok laptop but its not the greatest, i want to have something such as a creative outlet that i can do in a simple manner? Ive thought about many of things but im unsure if i should try them? Im stuck inside alot and im bored alot aswell. I just want something to do other than light gaming and watching youtube. ...
JD Vance and his 40 cars visit Milan, Italy 🇮🇹 ( cdn.imgchest.com )
This is some serious bullshit
Putin thinks he can outsmart the US during Ukraine peace talks, a European intelligence chief says ( apnews.com )
Vladimir Putin has no desire to halt Russia’s almost 4-year-old invasion of neighboring Ukraine and thinks he can “outsmart” the United States during talks with Washington about how to end the war, a senior European intelligence official told The Associated Press. ...
[Video] Australian police repeatedly punch downed protester on in the face and kidney for demonstrating against Israeli president Isaac Herzog ( i.imgur.com )
Cake Guitarist Greg Brown Dies ( www.newsweek.com )
Even though he left after their second album, "Motorcade of Generosity" and "Fashion Nugget" will always be hugely influential to me personally, and Greg's contributions will not be forgotten for many years to come.
Forget your astral sign, which Muppet do you want to be?
Animal! Always Animal!
Always works and tastes better
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Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro Overture- Wiener Symphoniker with Fabio Luisi conducting ( www.youtube.com )
Do you think intergalactic travel will ever be possible?
This was just sitting on the ground outside!
As if it were trash! Possibly the best thing I’ve ever come across in my entire life.
Poll: Two-thirds of Americans say ICE has 'gone too far' in immigration enforcement ( www.npr.org )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260205123043/https://www.npr.org/2026/02/05/nx-s1-5699413/poll-trump-ice-immigration-economy-approval
What’s a food you love that everyone else seems to judge you for?
This is very much just a MY family thing. But most of my family members cannot stand when I eat kimchi in the house. I love it so I'm not going to stop but gosh, they get so grossed out.
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[UFO 50] I cherried (won without a single rematch) Bushido Ball with every character
To cherry Bushido Ball, you need to win against five opponents without losing as any character. But after doing it twice with Yamada, I decided I wanted to play it more so I started trying cherry with other characters. After many hours of pain and suffering (and fun, of course) I've done it! ...
Tulsi Gabbard running solo 2020 election inquiry separate from FBI investigation ( www.theguardian.com )
Exclusive: Trump endorsed national intelligence director’s sweeping review by sending her on Georgia raid last week ...
Time to slide
Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X ( www.bbc.com )
The power of mocking Trump’s pathetic monsters ( www.motherjones.com )
Over a few weeks this January, two Minneapolis sisters repeatedly left their homes and headed out to mock, insult, and record Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, who until recently was leading the disastrous and violent anti-immigrant operation of the city. The first time they heard him speak, the women, who uploaded their ...
Fascist paramilitary invade a privately owned building while telling an Elected City Council member they don't need a warrant. (Jersey City, NJ - date unknown) ( cdn.social.linux.pizza )
cross-posted from: ...
GOP candidate for governor of Tennessee wants to execute the parents of trans kids ( www.thepinknews.com )
The prolife party is calling for death? This is a familiar pattern. How long you think until it comes out hes fucking kids? ...
MAGA ‘was all a lie’: Marjorie Taylor Greene torches Trump in scathing new interview ( www.huffpost.com )
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called out one-time ally Donald Trump for abandoning the core promises behind his “Make America Great Again” movement. ...
Elon Musk's SpaceX applies to launch 1m satellites into orbit ( www.bbc.com )
Elon Musk's SpaceX has applied to launch one million satellites into Earth's orbit to power artificial intelligence (AI). ...
My goat Lemmy is helping the neighborhood by getringbrid of invasive species.
My goat Lemmy is helping the neighborhood by getting rid of invasive species.
Cover art for "Imperial Earth". Illustration by Bruce Pennington. 1975
The church at the center of Don Lemon’s arrest had ties to Christian nationalism ( www.motherjones.com )
Poster for sci-fi opera 'Le Voyage Dans la Lune,' Edward Ancourt (1875)
I believe this is a lithograph, but I can't find anything definitive.
Fascist paramilitary invaders right before they abducted journalist Georgia Fort from her house for reporting on a protest at a St. Paul, MN church with a ICE field commander pastor. (1/30/26) ( cdn.social.linux.pizza )
Source
"Rock and Roll All Nite" Kiss (1975) ( www.youtube.com )
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/929809df-772c-439e-a3b5-7d4ce004b13c.png
Sam Raimi's "Send Help" is now Certified Fresh with 91% on Rotten Tomatoes
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/send_help
Cop gets 20 years for fatally shooting woman who called 911 for help ( www.independent.co.uk )
A former Illinois deputy has been sentenced to 20 years for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 for help. ...
XCOM: Enemy Unknown – Review and Retrospective- Is It Worth It In 2025? ( strategyandwargaming.com )
Cristoph Willibald Gluck- 'Che farò senza Euridice?' from Orfeo ed Euridice (1762); Irish National Opera ( www.youtube.com )
Why did America forget they were all immigrants saying screw you to a douche "king"? Then mount a gestapo after we fought a WW to stop another douche in charge?
California bill would ban ICE agents from jobs in teaching and policing ( www.sfchronicle.com )
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