Notices by デイヴ (deivudesu@mastodon.social), page 2

@joachim I think for the sake of this discussion, we need to limit ourselves to the artistic *output* of these bands. Otherwise we can spend many eternities discussing (real or alleged) shite behaviour of all these people… 😁

@joachim Kinda curious who else you have in mind? 🤔

I think lots of songs over the years may complain about *use of taxes* (esp for war, policing and whatnot). But being against the concept of taxes as a whole (especially from the position of people who've done quite well for themselves and are pissed about giving back), seems very specific to that song. At least as far as I can think right now.

@joachim I mean… they literally had a hit about paying too much taxes. 🤷

Not a throwaway lyric in a song or some mention of taxes: an entire song complaining that they pay too much taxes. 🙃

@joachim broken clocks etc.

Je ne suis pas sûr que la remise en cause de *certains* courants d'extrême droite ferait de lui un centriste… Pareil pour la classe des techbros libertariens en général. Ou d'autres sous-groupes en vogue (les naturopathes nazis, les antivax racistes etc)…

De ce point de vue, le dernier bouquin de Naomi Klein dissèque bien le réagencement (et la réappropriation)…

Indépendamment du tueur lui même, je pensais surtout aux courants qui le soutiennent/soutiendraient…

@joachim Real talk: this one is really between the Stones and the Beatles.

IMHO, the Beatles played a non-insignificant role in normalising reactionary bourgeois values for an entire generation.

Meanwhile, well, every other Stones song can be summarised as "Girls are stupid and I have lots of mummy issues".

@joachim Oui, mais en même temps, il s'inscrit en droite ligne dans le redécoupage actuel de la politique (US, mais pas que), où la droite extrême s'approprie des thèmes historiquement à gauche (rejet du néolibéralisme économique)…

@joachim J'avais découvert il y a qques mois (peut-être par toi d'ailleurs) et c'est en effect génial.

Je suis en train de me dire que c'est typiquement le truc pour lequel un bookmarklet serait idéal…

@sabik @jakelazaroff @carnage4life @mekkaokereke Yup.
Mastodon's "No algorithm" feed, is a de facto "timezone and posting frequency selection" algorithm…

It's both impressive and deeply depressive that you could take that 36 year-old standup, simply replace "Reagan" by "Trump", and be one. hundred. percent. on point.

Also, Carlin was a fucking treasure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og9DV0Si8bs

#uspol #standup

@jakelazaroff @carnage4life @mekkaokereke *This*. So much *this*.
When people crow proudly about Mastodon's complete absence of algorithmic feed, all I hear is "I don't mind only reading from the loudest people in my feed"

Achieve #nihongo conversational fluency in 30 seconds, thanks to this helpful flowchart.

#japanese

@joachim Abandonment issues: intensifies.

The well-documented historical recount of Mishima's death (as opposed to the weirdly romanticised version peddled by Western scholars until a few decades ago) is not only a lot less savoury, but also filled with darkly hilarious details.

Way closer to the silliness of QAnon Shaman on January 6, than some grand mystical gesture of political protest.

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#Japan #history

While *technically* correct, in the faintest of ways, this old chestnut of orientalist history (I remember reading the same version, word-for-word, when I first heard of him, 30y ago) papers over some major steps between the "protest at Western subjugation of Japan" and "commits ritual suicide"…

The way more accurate short of it, is that Mishima offed himself after a comically bungled attempt at a military coup.

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#Japan #history

A fascinatingly detailed account of Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir's monthlong visit to Japan in 1966 by @juliacbullock@bsky.social

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/91a889221a174314ad7a56d0b2951629

(less impressed by the thoroughly westernised BS version of Mishima's death, however)

I can't believe that, in 2024, there are still Western scholars peddling the hilariously bunk narrative of Mishima committing seppuku "as a protest against what he saw as the postwar emasculation of Japan as a nation"…

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#mishima #Japan #history

@Ciaraioch I use https://skymoth.app/ to automatically crosspost my Mastodon posts over to Bsky. Was fairly easy to set up and seems to work well.

@joachim Now I'm very curious what word she was trying to say.
Though clearly her subconscious wanted to suggest other activities 😛

Wondering if I should start a spicy Activity Pub account (mastodon or pixelfed) for fun pics that are not insta-friendly… (probably mostly #shibari but maybe also an opportunity to trial candidates my upcoming exhibit 'Kitties & Boobies')

But then what's a good instance for that?
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Fuck me, it would appear my 20kg #monstera has advanced root rot… 😕

It might time to say goodbye to my trusty friend… 😭