@markwyner@mas.toNothing about what’s happening is normal. Do not go about your day like it is.
Want to start small? @SrRochardBunson summarized the solid advice in a piece from @garrettbucks:
https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/114189248062851753
Then go big:
https://spencersunshine.com/2020/08/27/fortyways/
From there? Go bigger.
Yes, play. Yes, rest. Yes, drink water. But do this in the moments between fighting fascism like our lives depend on it. Because they do.
@LiveByReason
You know those music around the world videos? What about Colosus Around The Country?
#RageAgainstTheMachine , #FiveFingerDeathPunch , etc as the foundation. It would be an instant anthem and could introduce undiscovered musicians.
Montage Monday | Bloodywood – Rakshak (2022, India) / Prophets of Rage – s/t (2017, US) / Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible (1994, Wales) / Rage Against The Machine – s/t (1992, US)
Today’s spotlight is the second in our new series called “Montage Monday”, where the spotlight may be brief but is packed with a lot of music. And for no particular reason, this Montage Monday we’re going to spotlight albums spanning 30 years that have some (very well-justified) anger issues, working backward in case doing so can turn back time. One key song per album is highlighted, but titrate additional tunes/anger in as needed.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/03/03/montage-monday-bloodywood-prophets-of-rage-manic-street-preachers-rage-against-the-machine/
Want to skip straight to the music? Here are the listening links for the key songs (links for full albums in blog post):
Bloodywood – “Dana Dan” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a65A626Ed20
Prophets of Rage – “Unfuck the World” https://prophetsofrage.bandcamp.com/track/unfuck-the-world
Manic Street Preachers – “Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit’sworldwouldfallapart” https://song.link/ca/i/942562497
Rage Against The Machine – “Killing in the Name” https://song.link/ca/i/191450927
Happy listening!
Song has mention of sexual assault and violence, album cover has photo of someone self-immolating
Today’s spotlight is the second in a new series called “Montage Monday”, where the spotlight may be brief but is packed with a lot of music. Because, sometimes, you need a montage (montage!).[1]
And for no particular reason, this Montage Monday we’re going to spotlight albums spanning 30 years that have some anger issues – or, rather, address issues with very well-justified anger -, working backward in case doing so can turn back time. Each title is directly linked to its Bandcamp/Songlink in case you want to just jump straight in and forego the montage completely, though the montage this time around is really just suggestions of some key tunes. Titrate additional tunes/anger in as needed. Ready?
Bloodywood – Rakshak [bloodywood.bandcamp.com] (2022, India)[2] / Prophets of Rage – s/t [prophetsofrage.bandcamp.com] (2017, US)[3] / Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible [album.link] (1994, Wales)[4] / Rage Against The Machine – s/t [www.discogs.com] (1992, US)[5]
Bloodywood – “Dana Dan” (Youtube video [www.youtube.com]; Songlink [song.link]): You might think you don’t like nu-metal, until you hear this song/album/band. This band is bloody amazing, and the video for this song always gets me jacked up (CW: mention of sexual assault and violence). (Watch for their third LP, Nu Delhi [bloodywood.bandcamp.com], coming out later this month – one track [bloodywood.bandcamp.com] features BABYMETAL!)
I put a fist through the face of a rapist, and yeah, I tape this
For the viewing pleasure of the nameless faces he disgraces
And yeah, one day I may change his kind with my mind, but
I won’t bow to the beast, never make peace
Prophets of Rage – “Unfuck the World” (Bandcamp [prophetsofrage.bandcamp.com]): See also the entire rest of this album, the only LP from an explosive supergroup of members from Rage Against The Machine, Public Enemy, and Cypress Hill formed in the wake of the 2016 US election. So.
Give a damn, evil can’t stand, yeah
When the people take a stand
C’mon!No hatred, fuck racists
Blank faces, time’s changin’
One nation, unification
The vibration, unfuck the world!
Manic Street Preachers – “Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit’sworldwouldfallapart” (Songlink [song.link]): Contents as stated.
And lastly, for the Rage Against The Machine track, we’re obviously going to have to go with “Killing in the Name” (Songlink [song.link]), seeing as, still, some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.
[Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me
The cover art is a moody painting of a large elephant emerging from the shadows, with very long tusks and gold pain on its forehead and trunk, standing behind a person kneeling down on the stone floor, looking ready to run at or pounce at something. The band name is in yellow/gold at the top center, and the album name is in smaller white font at the bottom center.] [1001otheralbums.com][
The cover art is a simple two-tone background (cream and black, each colour taking up a half triangle) with a cartoon raised fist in front of a red star. The band name is in black font in the top left corner.] [1001otheralbums.com][
The cover art is mostly a cream-coloured background with the album name at the top center in black font, band name below that in smaller font, and the track listing in very small font taking up the bottom portion. In between the band name and track listing is a triptych of paintings depicting a person wearing a bra and underwear and looking down, with an odd perspective as if the viewer was on the floor looking up. ] [1001otheralbums.com][
The cover art is a monochromatic version of Malcolm Browne's photograph of Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, self-immolating in 1963. The band name is in white font along the bottom, against a black background.] [1001otheralbums.com]
@Rob_T_Firefly@hackers.townOne odd phenomenon in captioned media is censored captions on uncensored audio. For example: this #RageAgainstTheMachine video on the official #RATM YouTube, which captioned the audible word "shit" as "(censored)". The same happens to an audible "fuck" elsewhere in the song.
This weird bit of #ableism happens more often than you'd think, not only on web videos but on mainstream TV and even home video. It's as though the standards-bearers have decided that those with #accessibility requirements can't handle the experience of grownup swears as well as the rest of us.
Rage Against the Machine’s The Battle of Los Angeles Is an Urgent Call to Arms
https://consequence.net/2024/11/rage-against-the-machine-the-battle-of-los-angeles-review/
LCD Soundsystem, Laura Jane Grace, Elliott Smith, Frank Turner, Rage Against The Machine and more feature in this week’s curated collected of punk rock, alt rock and indie music news and writing
Hey, We were complaining about so called AI doing our painting and poetry instead of our work. Yeah?
And now we have to worry it's using up our drink water?
What next?
@RamenCatholic@mindly.socialReminder that some conservatives once called for a boycott of #RageAgainstTheMachine for "becoming" too woke.
Back to posting more #BannedMusic.
Take the Power Back - #RATM
After #ChollaHighMagnetSchool teachers used this song in a #MexicanAmerican history class, Superintendent John Huppenthal issued a “notice of noncompliance” to the #Tucson Unified School District. So in January 2015, over 20 years after the song was released, #RageAgainstTheMachine’s #lyrics–along with #KRSOne’s #HipHop teachings– were deemed to be against #Arizona state law, which states that schools cannot “advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.”
@AdrianRiskin@kolektiva.socialSome people favor mandatory schooling because they're afraid kids will learn a lot of crazy shit without it but it's hard to imagine any shit crazier than the crazy shit they learn now. Land of the free? Whoever told you that was your enemy.
I knew Klee's grandmother, #RobertaBlackgoat -- and supported her with #MutualAid and telling her side of the story in the early days of the web. Rest in Power, Klee!
#KleeBenally 'Carry On'
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, April 9, 2024
"Klee, discussing resource extraction, and how the #NavajoTribalCouncil was created to sign #oil and #gas leases, quotes our friend, the gentle, soft-spoken farmer from Shiprock, who received his doctorate degree before passing, Larry Emerson.
"'There is no point in trying to #decolonize the Navajo government -- it was not right for us from the start. Its structure and process is a replica of the American system, and the American system appears to be edging toward the possibility of failure like the great #RomanEmpire.'
"Writing on these monsters, oil and gas extraction, and coal mining, Klee quotes #LouiseBenally of #BigMountain, his aunt, whose family spent their lives resisting coal mining, #ForcedRelocation, and the machinery of the tribal government.
"Louise said, 'The natural laws and the Indigenous Peoples were already here in a good relationship before the coming of the #colonial society who draws laws and boundaries. However, we #IndigenousPeoples will always have ties with these lands, we will continue to live that way with #nature and we will carry on.'
"Klee shares the words of his grandmother, Roberta Blackgoat, who never gave up the fight. 'The Coal they strip mine is the Earth's liver."
Although many have passed, and too many have died from broken hearts, there are those who live on, carry on.
"Klee writes, 'The remaining resisters to forced relocation have outlived the monster that was consuming our lands, stealing our water, and polluting our lungs.'
"Before passing, Klee described the monsters, the rage against the machine, and the ways of restoring balance and harmony. Klee Benally's book, 'No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in the Defense of the Sacred,' can be ordered at: https://detritusbooks.com/products/no-spiritual-surrender-indigenous-anarchy-in-defense-of-the-sacred
at April 09, 2024
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/04/klee-benally-carry-on.html
Adult sweary words
Rage against the machine in a good happy 1920s style
@markwyner@mas.toIn 2009, Rage Against the Machine played live on a BBC morning show. They were asked to not cuss during their performance. And, well, it turned out exactly as you might have imagined.
I mean, the lyrics clearly state that they won’t do what you tell them. How they didn’t see it coming is beyond me.
(Warning: F-bombs in the audio.)
Not following Tom Morello after he endorsed Alice "terf/christofascist" Cooper... what a fucking nutjob!
These fucking #posers...
I fight for the users.
I love programming and thinking and talking about thinking. I have an education (BS, MS, PhD) focused on artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
I'm an advocate of the public academic pursuit of knowledge, the scientific process, peer review, and I see open source software and hardware as an essential part of the scientific process.
I see software user rights, including security and privacy, to be protected mainly by free open source software, specifically software with a copyleft license, i.e. GPL or Mozilla.
I see the democratizing effects of the Internet, including distributed journalism and social networking, to be largely the effect of the collaborative development of free and open source software.
I am interested in free and open source manufacturing, including open source 3D printers and CNC machines. I believe open source manufacturing will be important for distributed manufacturing, allowing local manufacturing and local labor.
I see worker-owned coops as the way to safely transition from a non-democratic authoritarian top-down power structure of a traditional corporation to a democratic work environment, where the workers own the company and elect the board of directors, transitioning to democracy in the workplace.
I believe that socialism is a regulatory response to capitalism.
I believe that laws, money, corporations, and government are social agreements, and I'm in favor of democratic social agreements.
I believe in the organized non-violent boycott as a way to control capitalists and change corrupt systems.
I am a pacifist. I am against violence. I am against citizens keeping guns in cities and towns with children. I am against war.
I try to eat plant-based / vegan foods to boycott the animal industry, to help with the climate crisis, to improve my health, to avoid animal cruelty, and to avoid the extinction of species of plants, animals and ecosystems.
I have been diagnosed with Retinitus Pigmentosa, which is a disease of progressive retinal degeneration. I am legally blind, although I have about 5-degrees of vision remaining in my fovea. I'm interested in researching and developing BCIs (Brain-Computer Interfaces), specifically BCIs that function as vision prostheses that may help with conditions like RP, or the more common degenerative retinal disease AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration).
I enjoy playing computer games like Age of Empires and Rimworld. I used to program computer games when I was younger and would like to get back to it one day.
I love playing music, especially bass guitar. I've been listening to a lot of Rage Against the Machine and Enya recently.
I enjoy reading books, mostly non-fiction.
I enjoy studying religions. I've found a lot of value in Buddhism, and I meditate often daily.
Nina and I have recently had our first baby, a boy we call Tyoma.
I'm currently working at Apple on the Vision Pro headset team.
I'm sober.
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