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Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Sep 16

If I can't retire soon I'm gonna lose it. 😫

Totally needing the music today.

#music #jrock #jmetal #maximumthehormone #atarashiigakko #atarashiigako

マキシマムザホルモン『シミ feat.新しい学校のリーダーズ』(MV Special Ver.) Music Video

YouTube video by MTHOFFICIAL

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Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Sep 16

Good morning.

#sabasister #jrock

サバシスター - ハッピーなんて Music Video

YouTube video by サバシスター

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Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · May 27

Check out @paleneoofficial.bsky.social

A great band blending metal, rock and pop in a way that works. Really good musicians with some really addictive songs.

Vocal: HOHOMI
Guitar: AYARI
Guitar/vocal: REOTO
Bass: YONA
Drums: Support musicians

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX6D...

PaleNeØ - aLiVE (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by PaleNeØ

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UC @thisdudeabides.bsky.social · Apr 17

The law found him guilty 34 times.
Then, instead of enforcing the law with genuine sentencing, they let him walk, dismissed the other charges, let him run for President despite the felony convictions.
He steals the election and we all get to tumble down the rabbit hole of fascism.

WTAF America?

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Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Apr 18

Thanks to manga, I now automatically scan comic panels in the "wrong" order. 🤦‍♂️

Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Apr 9

Huh? The what?

Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Apr 3

I hate how things usually have to get worse, and that they cancelled the get better part.

Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Mar 31

A sewer, not a democracy.

There was a time when the USA at least pretended to be a force for good in the world: now it just leads the decline of civilisation, hand in hand with Russia.

Elon Musk gives away $1m cheques ahead of Wisconsin Supreme Court election

The state's attorney general tried to block the giveaway arguing it was an illegal bid to buy votes.

www.bbc.co.uk

Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Mar 28

After the cast alloy tailpiece failed on my Eastman mandolin, the company very promptly sent me a replacement part. Now the replacement has also broken (a notoriously common failure) I've resorted to a cheap imported one.

Great mandolins, great customer service, ridiculously shit tailpieces.

Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Mar 27

This song contains one of the most delightfully inappropriate guitar solos ever. (I don't mean the intro: there's an actual solo later.)

マジックアンブレラガール

YouTube video by Gacharic Spin - Topic

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Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Mar 17

Worry less about the jargon. Talk in terms accessible to people who haven't read Marx and Engels: they will be more concerned with the actual point than the semantics.

That point is that capitalism doesn't create anything but poverty/inequality. It steals what actual working people make and need.

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Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Mar 10

I have the impression that there's a hierarchy of "love" terminology. Using anime as a reference (as I'm not academic), we have 好きです (I like you), 大好きです (I *really* like you) and あいしてる (I love you).

This may be completely wrong as usual (there are usually things going on that I haven't grasped).

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Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Mar 7

Workers produce. Capitalism just empowers a tiny subset to control resources and leech the product of work. It is a tool of control and enslavement.

Without capitalism, people can still organise and work for their own mutual benefit.

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Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Mar 7

Capitalism is not the only motivator for work and production.

So far as society is concerned, capitalism and private ownership are inefficient and parasitic. Not all product is put to the uses desired by those who produce.

Economic and political jargon don't change reality.

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Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Mar 7

What is ' "wealth" proper '?
Definition of wealth from Meriam Webster

1: abundance of valuable material possessions or resources
2: abundant supply : PROFUSION
3a: all property that has a money value or an exchangeable value
b: all material objects that have economic utility

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Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Mar 7

The ordinary people of Europe thank you.

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Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Feb 8

Inconveniently, vegetarianism means I have to just use the corpses of the rich as compost to grow vegetables.

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Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Feb 8

In the beginning, I thought I was learning Japanese. 12 months on I sometimes wonder if I was mistaken.

Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Feb 8

Either that or don't fix heavy dummies to your furniture.

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Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Feb 5

I really only started to remember and recognise Kanji once I concentrated on learning them as I learned new words and sentences.

Drilling individual, out-of-context Kanji with flashcards wasted a lot of my time when done as the primary learning method.

Cards work better for me as self-testing

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Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Feb 5

That seems to me to be uncharacteristically sloppy wording if Marx really said it.

Capitalism doesn't create wealth: the labour of working people creates wealth. Capitalism merely enslaves that labour and steals the wealth.

Let's not give capitalism credit it doesn't deserve.

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Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Feb 4

Love the pic, but we always need to fact-check so we retain the high ground from where we can look down on right-wing bullshit.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/w...

Did Willie 'Whoopass' Johnson Hit a Klansman?

The details behind this image are still a bit unclear.

www.snopes.com

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Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Feb 1

Depression/futility warning:

Probably best not to watch this unless you are very confident in your abilities as a musician.

Gacharic Spin｢MindSet｣

YouTube video by Gacharic Spin Official

www.youtube.com

Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Jan 28

Ain't that the truth! Better than ever.

Metallic Baka Ⓐ 🏴‍☠️ @metallicbaka.bsky.social · Jan 28

Belated happy birthday.

When you reach the age of 64 you realise it was all of them and more.

You also realise that looking back is wasting time that could be more excitingly spent listening to the excellent new music that is always being created.