#defector

[stephenist]

#reddit #enshittification #social media #information apocalypse #cultural singularity #the last page on the internet #Alex Pareene #defector #the last page of the internet

[thornescratch]

Those last two sentences, I can’t even.

#I don't know if I want them to fight or make out #MAYBE BOTH #john tortorella #Gritty #Philadelphia Flyers #Defector #link #article

[mywifeleftme]

357: Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band // Wede Harer Guzo

Wede Harer Guzo Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band 1970s, Ms Recording (Bandcamp)

I can’t 100% recall, but I’m pretty sure this was the first African record I ever bought (it was this or Nass El Ghiwane), and I wasn’t the only one—I’ve got a few friends with exactly one African record in their collection, and it’s this. When his music was rediscovered in 2016 after Awesome Tapes From Africa pressed this record (using Mergia’s own cassette copy as a source), Wede Harer Guzo became for western music nerds a part of that small company of gateway albums to the music of an entire continent. Let’s play a game of Remember Some Guys.

Remember Some Guys: That One African Record Edition

Expensive Shit Who is William Onyeabor? Wede Harer Guzo Nigeria 70 (The Definitive Story of 1970’s Funky Lagos) A dollar bin Miriam Makeba LP uh TEN$ION Remain in Light (honorary)

God I’m tired. Anyway, I’ve always had kind of an uncertain relationship with this record. Mergia’s organ can sound like a cool balm on my aching brain or… elevator music. Dahlak Band can sound like a perfect fusion of the floaty “intellectual highlife” of Celestine Ukwu and the grooves of Booker T. and the MG’s… or, what were we talking about? An entire side just past me by unnoticed, yet again. I think this has more to do with me than it does with the record… though at a cassette-length hour-plus run time, some ideas do get repeated.

(Three ellipses in one paragraph… I think that’s more than I’ve used in this whole series so far. I’m so tired of writing these things man. I’m not even really divorced, I can’t wait to leave.)

Anyway, again, at its best, the record is transcendently beautiful. The way Mergia’s organ expands and contracts like the shimmer of light on dark water on “Anchin Kfu Ayinkash,” guitarist Dawit Kassa answering his pauses with little soulful licks… there the ellipses go again. Sometimes the record feels like it’s insinuating I should go to the lobby for more popcorn. Maybe I’ll buy Raisinettes?

It’s very good I’m saying, obviously. See you tomorrow.

357/365

#hailu mergia #dahlak band #ethio jazz #ethiopia #ethiopian music #african music #jazz #funk #music review #vinyl record #awesome tapes from africa #remember some guys #defector #'70s music

[onedesertrat]

#Defector #japanese crasher crust #crasher crust

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

#pulp art #legionary #dead #death #art #artwork #cover #memento mori #skeleton #vintage pulp art #70's era #desert #defector #Illustration

[lostinmac]

Beyond Utopia (2023)

Dir. Madeleine Gavin

#beyond Utopia #movie #film #documentary #Korea #north korea #South Korea #defector #north Korea defectors #madeleine gavin #asia #china #vietnam #laos #Thailand

[woahpip]

HELL YEAH WOMEN'S SPORTS

read this defector article about the insane way volleyball is THE sport in nebraska: https://defector.com/nebraska-is-a-volleyball-school

But Volleyball Day in Nebraska also made an argument for the small. It challenged the belief held by every decision-maker in college sports these days, that the only thing distinct about a school is the number of people who watch its football games on television. That belief can’t account for what happened last night. It insists that college sports have no worth beyond football. It insists they have no culture without men. It flattens the local, the particular, the peculiar. As clips of the event went around online last night, I saw that belief in some comments and replies, which treated the whole thing like a mystery to solve: Was everyone just there for the concert afterward? Were the tickets free? Well, what else is there to do in Nebraska, LOL? Those people are annoying and mostly not well-meaning, but they did remind me why I love college fandom. The experience isn’t universal. It shouldn't be. There’s a language you speak with your friends, and your family, and your neighbors, and everyone else is just some anthropologist who will never know the half of it. What's foreign to an outsider makes total sense when you were raised on Sarah Pavan and Jordan Larson and prep tournaments in Grand Island. It makes sense to the people who know a match at Devaney is the toughest ticket in town. Schools are in places, and places are special. It is so special to be from a place. 

shout out to Maitreyi Anantharaman for this amazing article, and long live defector (the best sports website)

#you get 5 free articles a month yall so read it!!!!!!! #volleyball #women's sports #defector

[rastronomicals]

12:33 AM EST December 3, 2023:

Black Mountain - "Defector" From the album IV (April 1, 2016)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Roman Numerals

#Black Mountain #IV #Defector

[tomorrowusa]

Being paranoid goes with being a dictator. While the specifics of these revelations are largely new, Putin’s general paranoia has been on display for some time. 

Gleb Karakulov, a former officer in Russia’s Federal Guard Service (Федеральная служба охраны – abbreviated in Latin script as FSO), has fled Russia and is providing details of Putin’s paranoiac behavior. The FSO is roughly analogous to the Secret Service in the US – but is larger.

Mr Karakulov escaped to safety via Istanbul while on a business trip to Kazakhstan in October 2022 after accompanying president Putin on more than 180 trips over the past 13 years. It is unclear where the 35-year-old is now.

[ ... ]

The former FSO officer claims president Putin opts to stay “in his bunker” rather than make trips because he is so paranoid about an assassination attempt. The Russian president also allegedly travels with a 2.5 meter high box to prevent his secret talks from leaking and Western bugging.

He also claimed that the Russian president is isolating for a fourth year in a row, out of fear of becoming infected with Covid-19, and staff can only work in the same room as Putin once they have been in isolation for two weeks.

President Putin does not use a mobile phone or the internet, meaning his knowledge of events is filtered via the secret services - and what he watches on state-controlled Russian TV, according to Mr Karakulov.

Putin’s sources of news are his toadies and Russian state TV. They basically just tell him what he wants to hear.

Speaking about the war in Ukraine, Mr Karakulov issued an appeal to officers to come forward with evidence about Putin as a “war criminal,” saying the war is “beyond the pale” and “defies reason”.

“How many nameless victims of this war are there, how many of them are children? How many more such victims are required before you stop putting up with it?” he said.

“What is happening now in Ukraine, all this destruction, this war of aggression, terrorism, and genocide of the Ukrainian people - there is no other word for it - all this is a criminal offence.

“Our president has become a war criminal.”

I certainly won’t argue with him about Putin’s criminality.

There had been previous reports that Putin takes extreme measures to keep his poop from falling into foreign hands. Seriously.

Putin's bodyguards collect his poop on trips abroad and take it back to Russia with them, report says

Presumably, transporting Putin’s poop back to Russia was not among Gleb Karakulov’s duties. 

Putin is probably just as paranoid about attempted coups as he is of foreign intelligence gathering. His constant fear and stress are bound to have an effect on his health.

#invasion of ukraine #dictatorship #russia #vladimir putin #war criminal #genocide #putin's paranoia #gleb karakulov #defector #federal guard service #federal protective servive #fso #covid-19 #putin's bunker #putin's poop #россия #владимир путин #глеб каракулов #федеральная служба охраны #фсо #путинская паранойя #бункер путина #какашки путина #путин хуйло #путин – убийца #геноцид #военные преступления #україна переможе #слава україні! #героям слава!

[wheretwofacesmeet]

Karim x Miyana Kiss

#the dragon prince #karim #sun mage #miyana #defector #sunfire elves #kariyana #love #kariyana kiss #sun primal #sun arcanum #sun magic

[clairikine]

#sabrina imbler #defector #today’s read

[sylviii]

Lauren Theisen for Defector: "No Straights At Pride Night"

I want "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" instead of "God Bless America." I want the ushers who stop people from moving seats to take the night off. I want the beer sellers wandering the stands to carry poppers, too. I want everyone who’s ever been made to feel uncomfortable at a baseball game to know that it won't happen at this one. And I want fireworks at the end, not because I'm gay but because I love fireworks. Is this realistic? Not at the moment. But it's not enough to defend the paltry status quo Pride Nights. It’s more important to fight for a better world than it is to just anxiously protect the table scraps we're currently thrown. What we want is so much more than what the bigots are trying to take away. And sports can be part of that.

#baseballposting #this this so much this #lauren theisen #baseball #defector #pride month

[transpondster]

On the night of May 4, the Swiss yacht Alboran Champagne was sailing through the Strait of Gibraltar when a trio of orcas, two small and one large, began to attack. The smaller two shook the rudder at the back while the largest rammed the ship from the side, reported Yacht, a German boating news site. After an hour and a half, the whales had created two holes and water began pooling in the rear of the boat, rising slowly. A rescue cruiser came to collect the four people on board and tow the Alboran Champagne 11 miles back to port, but the battered yacht sank just before it reached the harbor. As the wreck of the Alboran Champagne retreated under the waves, it became the third boat sunk by a group of orcas off the Iberian coast. These orcas have been recorded interacting with boats since 2020, striking rudders and sometimes damaging the vessels, according to a paper tracking this behavior published in the journal Marine Mammal Science. But these attacks have escalated in the last year, placing the orca population in the sightlines of the terminally online, many of whom have declared the whales comrades in the entangled fights against capitalism and climate change and called for the orcas to sink Jeff Bezos's grotesquely bosomed $500 million superyacht. In a year of protests and strikes, it seemed orcas had joined the uprising. Has the animal revolution begun?

#orcas #whales #animal revilution #defector #watch out yachts

[mywifeleftme]

222: Metal Urbain // Les hommes mort sont dangereux

Les hommes mort sont dangereux Metal Urbain 1981, Celluloid

This past summer I listened to a bunch of archived John Peel radio show broadcasts from 1978. Aside from the considerable pleasures of soaking in Peel’s dry, sardonic point of view, there was something voyeuristically thrilling about hearing how familiar punk anthems first hit the airwaves. Whether it be listening to Peel enjoy the Undertones’ “Teenage Kicks” so much he’s compelled to play it twice in a row; hearing the introduction of Los Angeles’s X to UK audiences; or even realizing that in the heart of the punk era he was still playing Van Der Graaf Generator and the Albion Band right alongside the new wavers, the exercise offered a context to the songs and era that experiencing the tracks as discrete works lacks.

It was also a reminder of just how fertile the scene was, the programmes studied with (mostly) forgotten bands who disappeared after making a handful of miraculous seven-inches. So, let’s Remember Some Guys.

Remembering Some Guys: John Peel Discoveries Edition

Llygod Ffyrnig: An incredible Welsh punk band (trans. The Ferocious Mice) with one three-track single that everyone should hear this instant: “N.C.B.”

Radio Stars: English New Wave band by one of the other guys in Sparks. They made a song about Baffin Island (called “Baffin Island”)!

pragVEC: Cool London post-punk band with synth contributions from Jim Thirlwell: “Nervous”

La Peste: Boston punk band and authors of one ink black perfect single called “Better Off Dead”

Snakefinger: Okay, the Residents aren’t a discovery, but the Snakefinger solo track “The Spot” sure was to me! It’s so good!

Tyla Gang: Pub rock that kicks the unsuspected crotch that joins Johnny Thunders with the J. Geils Band, they have at least one track that I could carve on my heart: “No Roses”

Automatics: “When the Tanks Roll Over Poland Again” was a new wave number one track in 1978! I ain’t never had heard of it neither. C’est parfait.

Fabulous Poodles: Probably should’ve found them sooner! The Who/Kinks-y rock, let’s hear “Mirror Star” again why don’t we?

Strangeways: “Show Her You Care” is pure shake & pop heaven, feels so giddy it might shake itself and you to pieces.

The Desperate Bicycles: DIY never had a truer troupe of champions and were it not for their refusal to reissue their material in any form, they might be known as punk’s Beat Happening. Try “Smokescreen”!

Skids: Art punks from Dunfermline, Scotland, they’re heavy enough to be a NWOBHM band, but with all sorts a weird skittering going on. Six times? “Six Times”!

Metal Urbain, about which more below.

Metal Urbain were one of France’s first punk bands and a Peel fav that skipped right over a few stages of evolution and hatched fully formed with 1977’s “Paris Maquis” (a reference to the WWII French Resistance) single as a “synth punk” band in the same year the Damned and the Pistols were just getting off the blocks. (The same year, incidentally, that Suicide’s first LP dropped on the other side of the Atlanic.) Employing a cheapo drum machine in place of a human percussionist, Metal Urbain were nasty, snarling anti-everything punks with a laudable hatred for fascists and some rather less laudable hatred toward women (the grotesque shocker “Crève Salope,” or “Die Bitch”). The drum machine gives their simple songs a jerking, pitiless momentum, and if most of their songs sound pretty samey, at least they’re all playing the same pretty great punk song. Singer Eric Débris sounds kinda like a harsher Joe Strummer (plus that sort of wet, venomous quality French speakers get when they snarl), and they consistently find riffs that feel like exposed switchblades.

Still, they do have a hair more range than most retrospectives grant them. The skulking “Snuff Movie” finds them traipsing onto Suicide’s streets, while “Pop Poubelle” (“Pop Trash”) pulls the archetypal punk move of dolling out a super catchy surf-inspired lick on the song about how catchy pop music sucks and is bad. 1981’s Les hommes morts song dangereux (Dead Men Are Dangerous) compilation rounds up nearly everything they did during their original run, and makes for a convincing statement: every punk fan should hear the likes of “Futurama,” “Panik,” and “Hystérie connective”—so what’s stopping ya?

222/365 

#metal urbain #remember some guys #guy remembering #'70s music #'80s music #punk #synth punk #french punk #defector #deadspin #music review #vinyl record

[cyberneticasset]

Defector- Muse

You think you're strong and you can't be broken

But your empire is dissolving

You thought, you thought I was weak

But you got it wrong

#song #lyrics #muse #defector #quwu #Spotify

[icaughtapwoperfishdom]

#31DaysOfMuseChallenge

Day 27- A song that you didn't include yet

Defector

#31daysofmuse #defector #muse #muse band #matt bellamy #dom howard #chris wolstenholme