They had this small-gig energy about them, and Anselmo - love him or loathe him - knew how to work a crowd.
Saw Pantera about a year after this in Newcastle. They were incredible, probably the most energetic set I ever witnessed. Before the gig they were just hanging out in the car park throwing a football about. No pretensions at all.
https://youtu.be/UgOyXKanKHc #metal
This one is for all the new people on #Mastodon: did you know that the #fediverse has more than just a microblogging replacement? And that they can all interoperate with your Mastodon account?
Check them out!
Facebook replacement: Friendica
Instagram replacement: Pixelfed
YouTube replacement: PeerTube
Spotify replacement: Funkwhale
MeetUp replacement: Mobilizon
Reddit replacement: Lemmy
Podcasting replacement: Castopod
GoodReads replacement: BookWyrm
A symptom of this are changes in moderation that seem to have come from *somewhere* when what has actually happened is a class hierarchy has formed. This is not great for small communities.
I'm talking about journalists using Twitter as a symbiotic source both for content and for networking. Buzzfeed was probably the best example.
There's something to be said about how people who gatekeep. They aren't simply content with obsessing over controlling others. They are also keen on maintaining a very exclusive circle and they insist on conflating their social circle with every single space they happy to occupy.
I cannot stress this enough: the Fediverse, Mastodon... hell, the internet writ large doesn't belong to you. Your niche, your space, your presence is yours. That and that alone belongs to you.
Nothing else.
79F today. Sweating when I walked the dog. The clocks change tonight. I don't remember these kinds of temps in November, but we've had them (as a one-off) in December before. The weather has been odd, we went from highs of 80-90 right down to 50s and freezing mornings last month, now it's rebounded.
https://www.debugpoint.com/xfce-4-18-features/ such a great DE.
With the cloud cover we get in SWPA the mornings can be very gloomy. It turns the bed into glue.
Hey #twittermigration don't use the official Mastodon app. Use a 3r party one. Yea they exist.
Tusky
Fedilab
Both on Android
https://youtu.be/VSxufUoCaG8 This is really good.
FOSS, motorbikes, and photography.