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Kirsten's ambition is to complete a Masters in Jazz Piano at the Manhattan School Of Music in 2026. She's set up this BackaBudy page to raise funds and make it possible backabuddy.co.za/campaign/help-…

@Phant0mJay I'm not certain of this, but I think the synth is set to monophonic, with the portamento knob turned up quarter of the way. Which then gives it a slight bendy quality when the note jumps from a low to a higher note.

@leastfavorite_ Nvm the vocals how tf did he write the synth intro

my best friend is a producer. she is insanely gifted. i asked her what it would take to recreate adam young's vocal tone. i will never forget her answer… 'we can’t, we don’t know how to do it.'

@alicealeph0 Rude. They were also influenced by Johnny Clegg 😊 But sincerely, I think those albums had a wide range of influences, and that was a breath of fresh air at a time when a lot of the most popular bands seemed like stubborn stylistic Luddites.

cant believe millenials allowed themselves to think a band just writing paul simon graceland tracks but from the pov of collegiate old money wasps was cool

@_rorrryyy I've learnt that the Venn diagram of people who say these things, is a circle: "My dog isn't bothering anyone in this restaurant." "There are too many people on earth" "Uneducated people shouldn't be allowed to breed."

The weirdos are coming out of the woodworks because they value animals more than people.

@_rorrryyy I agree and support this cause ✅

Cape Town, where are we gonna draw the line with dogs in public spaces? Y’all chase human beings out of establishments for being homeless, but will let a smelly ass dog run around restaurants and put their paws on tables that people need to eat from, don’t piss me off.

@JamesLNuzzo Hiking etiquette says that the slowest person should never be in the front. Sara's behaviour is not uncommon. In those situations you have to make decisions for them, even if they are stubborn. Saying "They didn't wanna listen!" will not be acceptable at the funeral.

The following is a true story from my life, which is related to the contents of this article in The Guardian: In July 2009, I hiked part of the Grand Canyon with an ex-girlfriend, who I will call Sara. Sara and I were both in our 20s, and we were accompanied by four high school-aged relatives/friends. The plan was to head off early in the AM to hike the 10 miles down, stay over night at the bottom, and then hike the 10 miles up the next day. During the hike down, Sara's walking was slow, and she was pre-occupied with taking nature photos at every possible opportunity. Her slow walking was a problem because, although we started early, it was July and the sun was starting to beat down on us--something that would only becoming progressively worse with more time on the trail. As I recall, everyone in the group recognised Sara's slow walking as a problem. Everyone but Sara understood that we needed to get to the bottom of the Canyon sooner rather than later, because we were in the sun doing strenuous exercise, and we didn't have endless supplies of water. It was also the first time any of us had hiked the Grand Canyon. Sara continued her slow walking and picture taking. At multiple points, we offered to carry Sara's bag for her so that her load would be lighter and she could walk more easily. Sara refused to give up her bag. She wanted to prove that she could do the hike without help. If my memory is correct, around the 5 mile mark, the group decided to split up. I stayed with Sara, and the high schoolers went on ahead of us, walking at their "fast" (i.e., appropriate) pace. Sara continued to walk slow, and signs of extreme fatigue / heat exhaustion were setting in. Sara became unwell physically and mentally. Again, I offered to carry her bag for her. Again, she refused. Though I was fit, I was also starting to feel unwell. In fact, I don't think I've ever felt that close to health exhaustion in my life. I was also not in a good place. Making matters worse, we ran out of water, and there were no water stations for the remainder of the hike. The key reason that why we ran out of water was Sara's slow walking, which continued to expose to the sun. Moreover, when we ran out of water, we weren't even close to the end. As I recall, we were still about 2-3 miles away from the end when we ran out of water, and we didn't even know where the end was because we were unfamiliar with the trail. Also, by that time, there wasn't a single soul left on the trail--no one walking down or up. We were alone. It was an awful experience. At one point, Sara had basically given up; she sat down in the middle of the path and wouldn't move. Eventually, perhaps through motivational efforts, Sara continued walking and we got to the end. When we got to the bottom, the high schoolers told us that they were so worried about us that were thinking about calling a rescue party to look for us. We slept over night at the bottom and then hiked the 10 miles back up the next day. Remarkably, after all that, Sara still would not allow anyone to carry her bag on the way up. Sneakily, when she was not looking, we would take things out of her bag to lighten her load. Bottom line: Sara's stubbornness, her desire to prove how strong and independent she was, her lack of adequate fitness, and her unwillingness to listen to people who understood nature, physiology, and physical fitness better than her, almost killed her...and me. She caused the high schoolers significant distress, and had they stayed with us, she might have also put them at increased health risk. During the hike, Sara exhibited a set of behaviors that I wanted nothing to do with moving forward. The "alpine divorce" can work in both directions but for different reasons.

@SpykerFX Thank you, I watched the video now. Some good advice in there

@MoosseffFGC there's a theramintrees video about rumination. all the info in that vid singlehandedly stopped ts from killing me and my mental slowly every day

genuine question is there any way to stop this

i don’t know who needs to hear this. you need to solve everything now. right now. you are running out of time

@M_of_starlight I must admit the first time I encountered the term 'maankykers' was at an architecture graduate exhibition, around 2011

@BreakinBahiyya I do believe you can play the bass badly. It's such a rich tradition spanning 6 decades. Many distracted mediocre musicians contributing to cool bands, one single note at a time.🌠

i don't see myself working as anything like could anything possibly make me happy even if i'm being kwazy and was like ya i'll be an actor, how the hell can i learn so many lines? i can't even play the bass badly

@canefires I thought of her right after I typed it! Though the classic example of the accent is podcaster Bob Perfect.

@rossouwn @fatherrwethu Dani is very offended but agrees

What would you guys say is the difference between the Durban (English) accent and the Joburg (English) accent? I think the Cape Town one is super obvious, but I think Joburg and Durban are a tad trickier to distinguish.

I hope this email doesn't find you I hope you've escaped That you're free

@edcmpbl I've never seen of any of the people he interviews for this doc, so it was informative for me to hear how their business models work: gambling sites, crypto, 0nl*fan5, monthly subscriptions. Also seeing them not know how to handle Louis' line of questioning was interesting.

Enjoyed the manosphere doc but I do think it feels about three years too late. If you’ve been on the internet at all then you know about these guys and they basically just say what they already say online in their content.

@AnimexTwts I like that it has lots of South African actors in it, cause it's filmed here in Cape Town. 😊 Using the same studio and sets used by 'Black Sails'. 🏴‍☠️

What's your honest opinion about One Piece Live Action?

@lonelysunsetz I didn't know she has new music. I heard this and thought, I hope she and her husband Koma worked on this together. And they did 😊 I like his recent songwriting, especially on the verse of Winnetka Bowling League's 'This is life'. Sorta has Wheatus vibes.

that’s miss hilary HOUSTON to yalll

@minakimes @venikunche @kevinroose Reminds me of the flawed taste tests that led to the New Coke fiasco in the 80s. People will prefer one flavour when they only have to take a sip, but wont like the flavour if they have to drink a whole bottle.

@kevinroose Has anyone done a test like this with full stories or even novels? Feels similar to how if you put up a single frame of a slop trailer people would say it's comparable to the real thing--but when you expand it over several minutes, the lack of craft in storytelling becomes stark.

We made a blind taste test to see whether NYT readers prefer human writing or AI writing. 86,000 people have taken it so far, and the results are fascinating. Overall, 54% of quiz-takers prefer AI. A real moment! nytimes.com/interactive/20…

I've always thought the central tension of LLMs are a) many people want an LLM to generate text for them but b) virtually no one wants to read LLM-generated text that someone else prompted.

@_360Genius_ Reminds me of this shareware game I played as a kid, Ancients: Death Watch

world's only first-person sheet of paper

@catehall Al Jazeera news live 😊

where are people getting their news on Iran, since this platform is utterly useless now?

@IsraelMFA Why you calling my government a 'regime' ??

South Africa, a close ally of the murderous regime in Tehran, which slaughtered thousands of its own citizens, just organized another distorted anti-Israel meeting of the "Hague Group". These two corrupt regimes, united by their hatred of Israel, recently held a joint naval exercise. We can expect the outcome of the Hague meeting to be as successful as Iran's navy, which is probably why Bolivia and Honduras had the sense to leave this forum.