Things I have learned to do to a guitar either via an instructor or sheet music:
Golpe: tapping the soundboard with your fingernail
Slap harmonic: Literally hammering the 12th fret with your picking hand
Bending the neck forward or backward
Scraping the string lengthwise
Capirote: flicking the edge of the sound hole
Rapping the soundboard or side with a knuckle
They’re like, here is your precious musical instrument, now go beat the shit out of it
Hello @MewProjects. Continuing from earlier, just for laughs, tried to load an xm file and got this.
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Cannot play file:
stranglehold.xm
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I know your intention isn't/wasn't to make this a foobar or winamp replacement, but damn, I could almost use this cute little thing as one! Plugin support would be hard, though. meep!
The internet connection here has been somewhat flaky the last couple of days, possibly weather-related, so I've been pretty much exclusively using AT&T mobile data, as it's more reliable than the fiber ISP. Go figure.
With two bars of signal, I'm getting around 450 Mb/sec down, anywhere between 7 and 22 Mb/sec up.
Tonight, I connected my iPhone 16 Pro to one of the USB-C ports of my Mac to use my phone as a wired hotspot, and I noticed lots of jitter, packet loss, and very high latency that I wasn't seeing either on the device itself, or when using it as a WiFi hotspot.
I'd think a direct connection would be better, but apparently not.
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Exo to cut 73 jobs as it trims spending under Quebec mandate
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ex…
Austerity in Quebec. CAQastrophe.
The student organizers who mobilized Friday's massive action are now calling for a National Shutdown this Friday, January 30.
15K likes, 253 comments - ssa.umn on January 25, 2026: "JUSTICE FOR ALEX PRETTI & RENEE NICOLE GOOD — NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN We witnessed a historic general strike on Friday in Minneapolis.Instagram
Já vím, že vás asi naseru ale
“Víkend začíná!!!!”
Vyprovodím se sám.
Mahmoud Khalil and his legal team vowed to fight Trump administration plans to deport the Palestinian activist to Algeria, calling the move "extreme punishment" for his pro-Palestinian speech.
mondoweiss.net/2026/01/mahmoud…
Mahmoud Khalil and his legal team vowed to fight Trump administration plans to deport the Palestinian activist to Algeria, calling the move “extreme punishment” for his pro-Palestinian speech.Michael Arria (Mondoweiss)
Hey!!
Is anyone on here a Black birth worker or know one?
For my research, I am seeking to interview as many Black midwives (and other Blk birth workers, but midwifery is the central focus) as possible and get connected to birthing centers employing Black birth workers, esp. in the US South.
If you are/someone you know is interested, pls DM me! Thanks for reading!
*pls boost!!*
#BlackStudies #ReproductiveJustice #BlackWomen #BlackBirthingPeople #Midwifery #Doulas #BirthWork #MedicalAnthro
Ok so hey #Canada #GenX especially people from #Winnipeg who spent time in Eaton Place downtown in the early 80s, because that is the specific instance of what I'm certain was in many government offices and such.
Ok. It is maybe 1980 I'm late single digits and I go downtown with my gramma a lot, and we spend a fair amount of time in Eaton Place, her doing whatever she did, and me doing a circuit of Petland, a record store on the second floor, the arcade, and near the North entrance of the South building, there was a government office of some kind.
In that government office, there was a computer. Not one that #retro heads would recognize, it was large, did simple colour graphics, and had a weird nonstandard keyboard about the size of a gigantic TV remote, on a curly cable. Possibly some sort of Unix thing and I think it was networked, presumably on the Internet.
It mostly did very boring stuff and I was just a kid, I didn't care about whatever its main functions were, but I had learned that if I entered f518, there was a graphical mystery house game of some kind.
I remember that office had a fair amount of techy stuff, like, there was a kind of pushbutton video jukebox where you could watch various promotional videos, I remember one of the things it played was a Folklorama ad with the "la-lalala-la-lalalaaa" earworm, which my older California chick cousin and I laughed at one summer day that we were all downtown.
I would really love to find out what was the deal with that computer system, though.
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Pretty stoked that the feds completely misunderstand actual Americans. They especially miscalculated the willingness of white folk to stand up for marginalized members of our communities.
As with any group, we are not a monolith. They assumed it would be so and that was a bad assumption on their part.
Minneapolis showed us the way.
Let's get this done.
In this day and age, putting Dark Mode behind your app's paywall will mean I don't even try your free version.
This is especially callous for #writing and world-building apps, where a white background can literally hurt my head.
Beautiful cover of Still Into You by #Paramore: youtu.be/gsXDymTulG4?si=xgRRzI…
Stream or download “Still Into You (Amazon Music Original)” by Charley: https://charley.lnk.to/StillIntoYouamazonFollow Charley: https://Charley.lnk.to/Follo...YouTube
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May be hard for some to watch but is not extreme:
The killing of Alex Pretti: minute-by-minute analysis of video & stills from five different verified videos.
The videos show that Pretti "did not walk up to anybody from CBP in a threatening manner."
"There's nothing in the video evidence that we've seen thus far that would support" DHS's version of Pretti's intent.
~John Cohen, fmr DHS official & police trainer
abcnews.go.com/Politics/minute…
#USPol #Europol #AlexPretti #BorderPatrol #fascism .
ABC News compiled a timeline based on six verified videos of the incident.Gaby Vinick (ABC News)
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"Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free
"Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president," Young writes to fans. "My music will never be available on Amazon, as long as it is owned by Bezos""
rollingstone.com/music/music-n…
Neil Young has escalated his way against Amazon due to Jeff Bezos' support of Trump, and is giving his music to the people of Greenland.Andy Greene (Rolling Stone)
The woman who survived
five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago last fall,
-- only to be criminally charged and then cleared,
now wants a judge’s permission to share records that
show how the feds respond when “their agents use deadly force against U.S. citizens.”
#Marimar #Martinez’s lawyer argued Monday that
top Trump administration officials continue to smear her name,
and that the White House’s false narrative about her arrest
has even seeped into writings by
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
All the while, a standard court order bars Martinez from sharing records in her case.
Designed to protect against the improper disclosure of evidence,
attorney Chris Parente says the order has
instead become
“a prophylactic to countering a pernicious misinformation campaign mounted by the United States.”
“They are forcing the public,
and Supreme Court justices,
to have to rely solely on the government’s
inaccurate version of events,”
Parente wrote.
“This court has the power to shed light on the truth of what happened on October 4.”
chicago.suntimes.com/immigrati…
Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the entire country in the dark."Jon Seidel (Chicago Sun-Times)
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The Neural voice included in recent versions of Narrator are currently only available to Narrator. We'd be happy to make them available but that is up to Microsoft to open them up at this point.
With other "neural" voices, there are a couple like Sonata and Hear 2 Read on our extra voices page, depending on what you are after: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/….
I also came across this add-on the other day: github.com/TigreGotico/phoonnx… (it's not on the add-on store yet)
Contribute to TigreGotico/phoonnx-AddonNVDA development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I haven't seen this copypasta on fedi yet. tbh it sounds like if he was in school this century he'd have been a school shooter, yikes
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I live in Minneapolis but grew up in the quiet mountain town of Boone, NC, with a pathetic squat toad named Gregory Bovino. He’s grown up to be the pathetic Nazi toad in charge of ICE, and has come to my beautiful city to terrorize, torture, and murder my friends and neighbors. He is personally going door to door, so here’s some background on him and some things you can say if you see him to get under his skin.
His father used to run a bar called The Library Club in neighboring Blowing Rock. While driving drunk one night, his dad hit and killed a woman with his car. The ensuing financial problems forced him to sell his bar and ultimately caused his parents’ divorce. Greg will be sensitive about that so be sure to name drop “The Library Club.”
“You're the reason your dad got loaded and killed JANIE MAE MITCHELL with his car, resulting in your parent’s divorce. You're the reason they split up!”
"Your history teacher, GI Jones, thinks you're a pathetic Nazi punk. No wonder you failed all his classes!”
“Remember when Mast General Store banned you for sniffing shoes after people tried them on?”
"Remember when Mr. Combs found you jerking off in the Watauga High bathroom?”
"Remember eating the Pioneer wrestling team's soggy biscuit? Is it gay to eat semen off a Bojangles biscuit or was that just an 80s thing?"
"Remember when your swimsuit fell off at Trash Can falls and everyone laughed at your micro penis?”
“Does your democrat Mom say she’s ashamed of or just disappointed in you at Thanksgiving?”
victor tsaran
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