🫱🛟🫲

Better?

People who still use smilies: am I a joke to you? :D

Amateur.

What if it’s one extra neutron? >.>

Proudly powered by WordPress.

Say no more

Relevant bit so you don’t have to dig in the article like I just did:

Billionaire Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and former Facebook board member, paid $10 million to help finance lawsuits against Gawker Media, including the Bollea lawsuit. The idea had been brought to him by Australian businessman Aron D’Souza. Thiel called his financial support of Bollea’s case “one of my greater philanthropic things that I’ve done.”[34][35][36] Gawker had published an article in 2007 outing Thiel as gay.[37][38]

You have -4 wishes. Pay up.

Vanilla and scrambled eggs

Never again

Why are you strolling around without your cape?

I’m aware. But it’s not just Palestine being censored, it’s currently anything the current U.S administration doesn’t like. So anything anti-trump/Zionist/Israel/ICE falls into this category.

I’m saying the title is misleading because it could be construed as “a social media app/platform specifically made for Palestinians”, which is what most people that haven’t heard of the app before would assume by reading the title alone.

Clickbait? The developer is Palestinian/Australian, the app’s audience is global, and it’s not just Palestine-specific. So what’s up with the sensationalised title?

Ah, that’s not gonna be necessary. Someone will vibe code an app to do it… and wait till you hear about their premium plan!

You guys don’t see what they’re scared shitless about? It’s the fear of an EU-based true open source Android fork/competitor.

Also when they say FOSS will not contribute to “economic growth”, they mean Alphabet’s. Greedy pigs.

“Hi Health, I’m Hale”

Hi. Egyptian here. And no. The music you generally hear that’s being attributed to that period is just the sensationalised Hollywood vision of what I would have been like.

What you’ll usually come across is Arabian music, not Egyptian. It’s not the pharaonic style, which I assume is what you’re asking about. It would be more akin to Coptic music.

Another missing criteria is that many instruments emerged in different eras, over thousands of years, so there’s that too.

I think the most important instruments that should be the oldest and seem ubiquitous are the Darboka (also called Tabla in present day Egypt) and the Ney.

I don’t think I’ve ever come across an Egyptian that doesn’t love the sound of the Ney on a primal level. This is what it sounds like: https://youtu.be/wYQ_ol3L9Ag

And this is the closest/most-faithful rendition of a real song that makes sense that I’ve ever come across in the wild: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ntnBuQAvFjA (by Peter Pringle)

There are also some renditions of real songs like this one: https://youtu.be/0TJR_l-uSVo

Unfortunately, I can’t enthusiastically recommend this one as an authentic example, because while the lyrics are historically real, rhe rendition is still not faithful, because they didn’t exclusively use period-appropriate instruments.

I think there are also some other examples from the recent Grand Egyptian Museum opening ceremony (at least I heard someone say that, but aren’t sure because I didn’t watch it personally)

I wouldn’t recommend those as reference material because they’re essentially promotional material designed to captivate tourists, and with a healthy side-serving of propaganda for the Egyptian audience (hence why I opted out of watching that).

Nothing new under the sun

“BEEP BEEP MOTHERFUCKER!!”

Lol

This is fantastic! A post without U.S. politics in !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world!

Sigh.

*looks around for the STOLEN stamp…* pretty sure I’ve put that somewhere around here.