Sergio

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's not that hard to eat better and work out. After a couple weeks it becomes routine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Get a friend to do exercises with. Do calisthenics at a friend's house. It's very hard to work out by yourself, but very easy with a buddy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mexico is awesome, but for some reason about half the US electorate thinks it's a hellish place. So no, it's not obvious that they're joking.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had to look it up. Not quite sure what it means, but:

https://feddit.org/post/10515288

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I would mention it casually to your manager.

Good advice, but I would ask around with coworkers first. It might be something like: the person in question has been given a reduced load because they're just coming back from a heart attack.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I’ve been using the web for as long as it has been publicly available (1993), and I remember ads were always a thing. Hell, it used to be a lot worse.

I too started using the web back in summer of 93 NCSA What's New era. At that time, the idea was that if a company just put a web page up that was their ad, but the most exciting parts were people just putting up information for free. Link ads and banner ads started in 1994 but they weren't too bad. Pop-up ads started in 1997. They were pretty bad, but most browsers got popup blockers pretty quickly (especially Netscape Navigator iirc.) Adblock 0.1 was written in 2002 and the cat-and-mouse started. But generally the web was a great place to get information. Then the social media companies came forth with false gifts, speaking lies.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah she was very pro-reddit during the API protests too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Hey redditors, if you send me five bucks I'll set up your Lemmy account for you. /jk ...unless?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Oh, you're descended from people oppressed by the French. (audience member: "that could be anyone!") Got it, makes sense now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

France jokes by Americans are usually just embarassing because they show how ignorant most Americans are about military history.

PugJesus I know you're not ignorant, so in this case it's just confusing.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (9 children)

My cousin went for a walk in their aunt's residential neighborhood, and someone called the cops on them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Reviews are good. It hits US theaters June 13th. I might actually go to a theater for it. (first time in several years, lel).

 

Gothic rock / deathrock

song link: https://altar-de-fey.bandcamp.com/track/veil-of-death

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A Split-Second - On Command (1986) (marcickxasplit-second.bandcamp.com)
 

proto-industrial / avante-garde

[Throbbing Gristle] is widely viewed as having helped create the industrial music genre along with contemporaries Cabaret Voltaire.[33] The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by [Throbbing Gristle member] P-Orridge and Monte Cazazza; on Throbbing Gristle's debut album The Second Annual Report, they coined the slogan "industrial music for industrial people".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throbbing_Gristle

song link: https://throbbinggristle.bandcamp.com/track/adrenalin

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Strap On Halo - Perish (2016) (straponhalo.bandcamp.com)
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Gothic rock.

I heard this on https://www.twitch.tv/djdeadparrot a couple days ago.

Song link: https://straponhalo.bandcamp.com/track/perish

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Cat Girl (1957) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

  • Just start watching that movie this Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
  • and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
  • I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

Leonora Johnson is a young woman who returns to her ancestral home and is told by her uncle of her legacy – she will inherit the large ancestral home and money, but also a family curse: she will be possessed by the spirit of a leopard, as members of her family have been for centuries.

...

[Director Alfred] Shaugnessy later wrote "Barbara Shelley was lovely in the film and gave a most uninhibited and dramatic performance. Indeed, she was so good in it that I believe it condemned her to a long career in horror pictures."[9]

Variety called it "weak in all departments".[10]

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This film inevitably invites adverse comparison with the more successful Cat People [1942]. Nevertheless it is not a negligible minor essay in the horror genre, after a poor start. Barbara Shelley is a little heavy-handed but none the less effective as Leonora."[11]

In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "average", writing: "Britains scream-queen-to-be's first taste of horror: faily silly, it has some chills."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Girl

 

Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid belt of Saturn are intruded upon by an anal-retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent eight foot tall robot.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079285/

P. J. Snyder reviewed Saturn 3 in Ares, and commented that: "Saturn 3 is a sloppy, shoddy production, of the sort that someone out there thinks SF fans just eat up. One hopes the producers and directors working the genre will realize this audience demands more than a leggy blond being chased by a robot. They may have such limited visions, but the audience doesn't."[25]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 31% approval rating based on 16 reviews.[26] On Metacritic, the film holds a 9/100 based on reviews from eight critics, indicated as "overwhelming dislike".[27] Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film one star in his review, criticising its screenplay for having a "shockingly low" level of intelligence, citing moments disregarding the laws of physics, the love triangle between Douglas, Fawcett and Keitel, as well as other details.[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_3

 

Power noise / industrial.

It's hilariously difficult to search the web for information about a band/musician called "converter"... but I heard this on https://www.twitch.tv/djalayt last night and she called it "power noise." It's pretty frickin awesome, really puts the "industry" in "industrial".

oh wait, the album page has some info:

Converter is the brainchild of scott sturgis, an ohio based one man electro-consortium and also the force behind the project pain station.

album: https://ant-zen.bandcamp.com/album/shock-front

song link: https://ant-zen.bandcamp.com/track/shock-front

 

EBM / post-punk

Finding inspiration in futurist writer Luigi Russolo's "The Art of Noises," the pair employs a sonic palette that mirrors the chaos of the modern industrial era. Sextile excels at regulating noise, whether the source is a percussive clang, guitar stab, synth trill, or Keehn's militant vocals ... [the album] '3' places the band's sound somewhere between DAF and Gang of Four...

album link: https://sextile.bandcamp.com/album/3

song link (with video): https://sextile.bandcamp.com/track/disco

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