I had a cat named Buddy, and he would get up to a lot of mischief so we'd often refer to him as "the monster". Once you start calling your cat "Buddy monster" you'll find you're a very short distance from "monster of buddies I'm pulling your strings".
Here's Buddy after wrecking his Christmas-themed RV:
On the one hand, the idea of using linkedin as a dating website is irredeemably terrible. On the other hand, if singles who think otherwise actually follow through with it, that saves a bit of time and frustration for a lot of other people.
I guess? If the company behind chrome did not have a stranglehold on the web, the devopment trajectory would look nothing like what we've got now. It would be a wholly different browser with the same name. Obviously it would make no sense to say that shouldn't exist.
Actually, that would make a good tagline for a series of FF ads.
Or, alternatively, google could use it. Can you imagine a world without chrome?
Maybe it's possible that there are many people who are not on the fediverse today for reasons similar to why you weren't two years ago. Not that much has changed since then (other than, possibly, your own understanding).
When did you begin using the fediverse? I didn't stop being lazy until I joined diaspora in 2011.
I mean any organization that's a risk to use my data maliciously is one that can afford buying it, so I actually prefer this to my data being equally easy to access but reddit gets paid for it.
I feel like "Once" is the album where filler tracks started creeping into Nightwish, but "Ghost Love Score" is the Nightwish song. It's spectacular.
Man I thought Without Face was a band lost to time. I love the song "Weird Places".
Sandra Nasić of the Guano Apes for her appearance on Apocalyptica’s Path Vol. 2.
This song came to mind for me too. Cult is Apocalyptica's best album, but that song basically ruined my ability to enjoy it as it was made because putting it on straight-up I'm immediately disappointed by the lack of vocals in track 1.
There was another track from that album that they reworked to add a guest vocalist to, I think track 8, but that one didn't hit me as an improvement over the original.
After my teenage years it's been very rare for me to dig into a band deeply enough to learn anything about their members, so the easiest examples are all going to be women doing clean vocals, which is the one time you can (usually) explicitly tell the difference just by listening. Some of my favorite examples are Liv Kristine's work in Theatre of Tragedy, Tarja-era Nightwish, the first Stolen Babies album, and Sirenia's first two albums along with all of Tristania's discography pre-Rubicon.
I have two examples that immediately come to mind outside clean vocals:
Samantha Escarbe is the guitarist for Virgin Black and my understanding is she essentially splits the songwriting load with Rowan London. The Requiem stuff I still need to give more listens, but I think the first two albums are absolutely spectacular music. In "Museum of Iscariot" she does one of my favorite guitar solos I've ever heard.
Angela Gossow's vocals on Arch Enemy's "Wages of Sin" album are some of the absolute best in metal. I live for that shit. I never really got into anything else Arch Enemy did though.
Had to check online to be 100% sure the superPAC that mailed it was Trump-linked. I've never heard of Elissa Slotkin before, but apparently she's a US rep for another district in Michigan. Our rep is Rashida Tlaib, who is Palestinian descent, so I'm guessing the PAC's thought process in designing this was they don't want to link Harris to our actual representative so just pick some other random rep nearby.
As someone who does not want Trump to be re-elected, it's at least relieving to know how easy it will be for the democrats to counter these dirty tricks. All they need to do is have their candidate make clear public statements to clarify that she doesn't want this linked to her campaign. Of course, she'll have to clearly point out which specific parts are offensive, so people don't just think she fine with antisemitism. Explaining that being anti-apartheid is not the same as being antisemitic is pretty straightforward though, so this should be no big deal.
When my boy was a kitten we did showertime together for probably eight months. The day he grew up was heartbreaking for me, but I look back on the experience with fondness now.
We had a transparent inner curtain to our shower and he liked to stand on the tub edge between the two curtains while I would shower and watch the water come down. For a little he'd quickly come whenever I was opening the bathroom door, but after some time he figured out that not all bathroom visits are showers.
If he was somewhere else in the apartment when I turned the water on, he would absolutely bolt in, and scream while he was sprinting. Like he was upset I had started while he was in another room. It was really heartwarming for me, it was so cute and his enthusiasm was infectious.
After six or seven months he started growing up and began gradually treating showertime less like recreation and more like an obligation. Started occasionally arriving late and cranky from being woken by me turning on the faucet.
And then one day he didn't come. I knew I'd see that day eventually but it kind of hurt at the time. All in all though, those six months of showertime being his favorite part of the day are memories I really treasure.