The Runaways - Wasted/School Days
Album:The Runaways - Waitin' for the Night 1977 Joan Jett – lead and background vocals; rhythm guitar. Lita Ford – lead guitar; backing vocals. Vicki Blue – bass guitar; backing vocals. Sandy West – drums; backing vocals. Production : Kim Fowley – producer. Taavi Mote – engineer. Sherry Klein – ass...
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Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts. -- Gautama Buddha
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Allison Greenfield, chief development officer of Lionheart Capital, said officials “have been deeply moved by how much Lakeside Mall has meant to the Sterling Heights community for nearly 50 …
Attention: metroDetroit™-specific content. Deal.
…but the three giant abstract sculptures are still part of Lakeside's repurposed future.
Untitled by Fletcher Benton, JC Penney court at Lakeside Mall.
Photo: Mitch Hotts, Macomb Daily
“We have been deeply moved by how much Lakeside Mall has meant to the Sterling Heights community for nearly 50 years,” Allison Greenfield, principal of Leviathan Development and chief development officer of Lionheart Capital, said in a news release. “This inspired us to create plans for repurposing the existing public art within the reimagined Lakeside. One of Lionheart’s main pillars is to reduce waste and facilitate reuse of serviceable materials and items, when possible, in the redevelopment process.”
Emphasis mine. Am I the only
Jacob Russell's Birth of a Ho’ Ass Nation 2 returns to Planet Ant this Friday and Saturday
“Birth of a Ho’ Ass Nation 2,” written by comedian Jacob Russell, takes the audience on a satirical journey of Black history moments after the Civil War.
Jacob Russell says he’s been part of metro Detroit’s mostly white improv scene for almost 13 years and noticed his peers didn’t know much about contributions Black people made to American history. The comedian, who grew up on Detroit’s west side, said that disconnect inspired “Birth of a Ho’ Ass Nation,” a satirical one-man show to “give them a perspective of how I grew up and what I was taught.”
Russell said he was inspired to write the first play, which he first performed in 2017 and has since become a series, because he wanted to offer his audience something deeper than just jokes.
Along with writing the play, Russell, 38, plays all the characters like Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, [W.E.B Du Bois](https://en.wiki
Michigan lawmakers pass almost 100 bills in marathon 19-hour session
Michigan lawmakers passed nearly 100 bills this week before breaking for summer recess. See what did – and didn’t – make the cut.
Michigan lawmakers didn’t just pass an $83 billion budget early Thursday, they also approved nearly 100 other bills during a marathon 19-hour session before finally breaking for summer recess.
Some of the bigger policy changes, such as opening the Legislature and governor’s office to Freedom of Information Act requests and expanding unemployment benefits to 26 weeks, made immediate headlines.
Read on to learn more about the "Taylor Swift bot ban" and the bill against the ludicrous "Gay Panic Defense."
Anger or hatred is like the fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it. -- Ga
Scrunter - She Wants Me To Sing In The Party
Provided to YouTube by VP Records Sing In She Party · Scrunter Soca 101 Vol.2 ℗ 2005 VP Music Group, Inc. Auto-generated by YouTube.
I defy you to not shake your sacroiliac.
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Laissez les bons temps rouler!
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This is a personal favorite. Thanks!
Empire of The Sun - Changes
Stream or download 'Changes' by Empire Of The Sun here: https://empireofthesun.lnk.to/changes Join us: https://empireofthesun.lnk.to/JoinUs Website: https://empireofthesun.co/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/empireofthesunsound TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@empireofthesun Facebook: https:/...
Note the video's title cards…
…and yet the duo is styled in homage to Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain and Kenneth Anger's Lucifer Rising. A clash of non-conflicting ideas…? Artistes: whaddya gonna do with 'em?
Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. -- Gautama Buddha
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A new study found traces of hazardous chemicals from the East Palestine disaster in 16 U.S. states.
On February 3, 2023, a freight train owned by Norfolk Southern carrying thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals derailed in the town of East Palestine, Ohio.. For days, flames engulfed the rail cars, which contained highly hazardous materials, including vinyl chloride and butyl acrylate, used in the production of plastic. A thick, tall plume of black smoke billowed from the accident site and forced the evacuation of thousands of residents. Now, scientists say that traces of this pollution was found across 16 states, spanning 540,000 square miles from Wisconsin to Maine to South Carolina.
When [David] Gay [National Atmospheric Deposition Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison] and his colleagues began their research, they expected pollution in western New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The reality, he said, was much more extensive. A low pressure system helped
Peggy Lee - It's A Good Day
Peggy Lee performing "It's A Good Day" with husband Dave Barbour in an early music video in 1950 “As I busied myself with housework, I began to sing a little ‘dummy’ melody, and the words kept popping in, so I lay down the vacuum and wrote them down,” recalled Peggy on the origin of one of her most...
$2,300,000.00 BONUS:
Tsk, tsk, Unca Walt…seems brother Roy and his bean counters forgot to pay Ms Lee (voice actor, singer and co-composer of the five original songs from the film) royalties when the Disney company released Lady on VHS in 1987—you say "copies," I say "transcriptions." Maybe they were too busy plotting the Mickey Mouse Preservation Act with Sen Sonny Bono…?
Ms Peggy Lee, Unca Walt and Sen Bono would like to inform you all that in the United States of America you may do as you ple
DTE slated to develop half of the city’s solar projects. Residents in other possible project areas would be given a chance to sell homes.
“Today, Detroit takes a step into a major national leadership role in fighting climate change,” Duggan said at the event in the footprint of the Gratiot-Findlay project. “127 city buildings are currently powered by 33 megawatts of energy per year from traditional sources, largely fossil fuels,” Duggan said. “In the next two years, we are going to build solar fields that are going to produce that 33 megawatts of energy in renewable energy, effectively generating all the power for city buildings from solar fields.”
Duggan said Monday that the program targets “some of the most blighted areas in the city” and would be “helping neighborhoods that think they’ve been forgotten.”
Homeowners in the footprint of the proposed solar fields stand to receive twice the fair market value of their homes or $90,000, whichever is higher, while renters will get 18 months of rent to relocate. Homeowners within community benefits areas surrounding the projects will receive $15,000 to $25,000 each fo
The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development confirmed the state's second detection of the invasive spotted lanternfly in Monroe County.
According to the state, a small population of juvenile spotted lanternfly was recently detected in Lambertville [Monroe County]. The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed the findings last week.
Adult spotted lanternfly. Photo: Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, bugwood.org
“The infestation was detected through spotted lanternfly monitoring traps deployed by Michigan State University (MSU), as part of collaborative survey initiatives with MSU, MDARD, and the USDA,” MDARD’s Pesticide and Plant Pest Management Division Director. Steve Carlson said in a statement. “This work is a critical component of our ongoing efforts to identify and limit the spread of spotted lanternfly in Michigan.”
isn’t the subscriber count badge useless now since Lemmy fixed their reporting of that?
You're not wrong but "fixed" is a subjective term in this case. Two of the largest instances, https://lemmy.world and https://sh.itjust.works, have yet to "upgrade" past 0.19.3, like many other instances that prefer not to be on the cutting-edge. Nevertheless, the linked shield.io badges may also give other information and not strictly the soon-to-be-redundant "total subscribers" badge.
Stay sick, scratch glass, turn blue, climb walls…but don't get caught!
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Trent Reznor, Peter Murphy, Atticus Ross, Jeordie White - Warm Leatherette
The Fluoxetine Quartet, a ray of sunshine each and every one of 'em, captured live way back in June 23, 2006 CE, circa five years after the fall of the Roman Empire.
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The minimalist classic.
A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything.
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While I absolutely love your post's formatting, I have to ask…
What's your point? Sincerely. Where are you going with this avalanche of data?
Oh, and your "Reference" column isn't live.
Ask your admin to turn it off
Thanks, I believe that's exactly what he did.
Is turning off DRM not an option for you? It is for me. That option has been there since the DRM inclusion right there in the Preferences, no about:config baloney. Now if the option wasn't included, I'd think I'd be more inclined to agree.
Points subtracted for presenting DRM as the unnecessarily unsavory and dramatic "kitten-meat deli."
Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!
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0.19.5: edits to community sidebar mangle shields.io-linked badges
Over at [email protected] we've got a sidebar with a "total subscribers" shields.io badge, like many other communities all over the Lemmyverse do. I made a simple, non-badge-related edit to the sidebar and due to what seems an aggressive image proxy, the shields.io badge address gets mangled after the edit is saved.
This is "Community Info" from [email protected] on Jerboa. At the bottom of the screen is the midwest.social/api/v3/image_proxy image.
This is "Community Info" from [email protected] on Jerboa, as an example of a working badge. At the bottom the screen is the working shields.io badge.
The pre-save preview shows everything as should be. It's only when the edit is saved does the badge address get mangled.
I contacted our fearless leader, [@[email protected]]
drone shows like Disney just started
Got a link handy?
Premature Fulmination, Detroit Edition
The 66th annual Ford Fireworks is set to dazzle Detroiters next week — here are the best places to view it
There. I just saved ya the trip. No thanks necessary. For those of you still asleep, it's tonight. Act accordingly.
Happy (early) Canada Day to our brothers and sisters across the river.
Free your mind and your ass will follow…
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Premature Fulmination, Michigan Edition
As many residents and municipalities begin fireworks celebrations in the coming days, the DNR is offering tips for preventing a fire.
Possibly following in the traditions of Christmas decorations in November and summer Black Friday sales, some municipalities have been celebrating American Independence Day weeks in advance. Much of a super-genius as I am, I never really understood what's the rush. In any case, the linked article from our pals over at BridgeMichigan lists the pyrotechnic spectacles planned and already passed here in the Great State of Talktothehand-and-Belial.
Just to—ehmmm—present the other side of the coin for those who appreciated a pretty explosion, here's Planet Detroit's "Michigan fireworks add to air quality problems".
Screw humans: maybe it is time to consider a different way to celebrate the Fourth of July: from the Humane Society: "Fireworks: An explosion of fear for animals"
Oh, and a premature [Happy Canada
The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
You can listen to any of the near-infinite versions of this song…but none match the beauty and power of this version, lead vocal by the great Tony Williams. Close your eyes…
Swoon-City BONUS:
Perfection is just a way to escape from having nothing to say. -- Dieter Meier
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James "Blood" Ulmer - No Man's Land
What the feez, "Blood"? This isn't grating avant-garde or free jazz in the least! It sounds like Mssr Ulmer is channeling Jimi who's channeling T-Bone through Otis Rush!
Then again, like Grant Green used to say, It's all blues anyhow.
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That's more like it…
A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything.
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CHILD PRODIGY SPECIAL EDITION: Sugar Chile Robinson - Numbers Boogie
Detroit-born musical child prodigy Frank Isaac Robinson was known professionally as "Sugar Chile" Robinson—you can roll your eyes; it was a "different time". Robinson played with such luminaries as Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and Billie Holiday until in 1952 he said "stop." More on this wunderkind over at !detroit as today he is appearing live for a special performance at the Detroit Film Theatre's weekend screening of the 1943 classic musical, Stormy Weather.]
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If you can't see the crazy person on the bus, it's you.
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Saba featuring Chance The Rapper - Logout
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It takes a nation of millions to make a hip hop recording.
Workers of The World...Relax!
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May 2 officially recognized as ‘Negro Leagues Day’
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation on Wednesday — which also was Juneteenth — to celebrate the contributions of Black athletes in the Negro National League. The Detroit Stars was one of the original eight teams represented at the birth of the league in 1920. Years before Jackie Robinson broke ...
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation on Wednesday — which also was Juneteenth — to celebrate the contributions of Black athletes in the Negro National League. The Detroit Stars was one of the original eight teams represented at the birth of the league in 1920.
May 2 will be known as “Negro Leagues Day” in Michigan, the day in 1920 that its first game was played.
Rep. Helena Scott (D-Detroit) who sponsored the legislation to recognize the league, told a legislative committee in May 2023 that the league and its athletes stood up against racism and pursued greatness. “Without the influence of these exceptional players and the Negro League, Major League Baseball wouldn’t be what it is today, and America wouldn’t be the country that it is today,” Scott said during a state House Governmental Operations Committee hearing last year.
*Be vig
More Instagram, less learning
Without a statewide policy on how to manage cell phone use in classrooms, Michigan schools are setting their own rules.
From our friends over at BridgeMichigan, Sneha Dhandapani writes about the spreading idea in the Michigan legislature of a statewide ban on cellphones in school. Some state representatives and school districts don't think that's such a good idea…
While there is currently no bill in the Legislature to implement a statewide ban in Michigan, some individual schools and districts are experimenting with the policy, hoping to improve academics and curb rising levels of anxiety and depression tied to social media.
A study by Central Michigan University surveyed more than 600 students between seventh and 12th grade and found learning increased with a decrease in smartphone use, including at school and during homework. A separate study found that students who did not have cell phones in a classroom had higher leve
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace
~Gautama Buddha
Why, that's easy. They were voted into their roles of representation. Not by me, of course. I'm in a different district.
Wow! Where the hell did you pop up from?! Finally, as anti-firearm as I am, a statement I can reasonably get behind! 👏 👏 👏 Thank you.
I see. You'd prefer a different kind of idiot, an idiot that would make gun ownership look good.
you undermine every attempt to actually maintain the right to defense via firearms.
From the linked article…
a machine gun capable of firing 400-800 rounds per minute, a level of firepower that quite simply overwhelms law enforcement.
…just in case your family is being attacked by, say, King Edward I of England or the FBI. We are talking about an assault weapon, not a Winchester 1897, perfectly adequate for your maintaining the right to defense via firearms. That is, if you must.
See, I know guns aren't fetish items. You know they're not a fetish item. Everybody knows guns aren't fetish items. Every gun owner claims that they know…while slowly and methodically polishing up and down that long, metal barrel with mineral oil, lost in private thought…proudly displayed in oak credenzas or hung along the wall like so many stuffed bass or marlins. Maybe even modestly stored in a softcase just under the bed. I'd bet Anthony McRae knew, too.
And this charming fellow in Indiana just yesterday knew that guns aren't fetish items.
Also just yesterday in Arkansas, this gun enthusiast and his "right to defense" knew that guns aren't fetish items.
And this firearms advocate celebrating Juneteenth over in Round Rock, Texas. They knew.
And this rifle aficionado in Cincinnati, Ohio.
And this most certainly responsible firearm owner in Lathrup Village, MI, just hours after Michael William Nash’s demonstration of his 2nd Amendment rights in Rochester Hills.
This is no longer a question of the right to defend, or own firearms, or a "well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State". Rationalize and polemicize all you want. This is a sickness. Recognizing and admitting the problem is always the first step in resolving.
We are in agreement on one thing: instead of actively trying to resolve this tragic problem, Rep. Brian BeGole et al are merely clowns.
r2 FunFact™: know how many total shootings in 2023 (and 2022) there were just across the Detroit River over in Windsor, Ontario? 11, with zero fatalities in 2023.
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Ain't technology great?…sometimes…
What We Want Now
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My pleasure! And yeah, Salt Peanuts is so much fun! It's like a Tex Avery cartoon!
Here to add that, thanks to this jumping-bean bug, crossposting is difficult: once you confirm to which community to crosspost, focus is lost, the page jumps to the top and the post title and any URL are lost. Ouch!
@[email protected] (or anybody, really), if you do file a bug report, would you mind posting the Github link? Thanks!
Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts. -- Gautama Buddha
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First off, thank you for confirming. Secondly, thank you so much for offering to file the bug report, if you think it's necessary. I still don't have a GitHub acct! 🤷♂️
2024-06-09 UPDATE: from WXYZ Detroit, Famous teen chess player visits with students at DIA, gets tour of Detroit…
Jessica Hyatt, a senior in high school in New York and a student who is just a few points away from becoming the first African American woman in the United States to earn the Chess Master title, paid them a visit at the Detroit Institute of Arts on Friday.
Then she played a 25-board Simul in the Great Hall, which means she played 25 chess players at the same time and won all 25 games, which is quite unusual.
Gee, and here I was thinking how tame the performance might be perceived. So glad I was wrong!
Then again, why do you ask? In your opinion has something changed over the years?
Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts. -- Gautama Buddha
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Thanks, oh blustery one, for that avalanche of authentic Azerbaijani audio. I'm listening to it as I write this reply. I say this sincerely: Music, like food, is one of the few things in life that can bring all peoples together, regardless of politics or dogma.
Just in case anyone has still missed the point, my only objection to this post is that it's not music. It's about music, the item in question ironically containing very little actual music. As our sidebar sez—etched centuries ago by the community elders 🤣 —post music and save the documentaries for the appropriate communities.
-- r2
My thoughts? You asked…
Wrong community, pal. Post music you like. Where's the music? I personally would've preferred this or this instead of this hour-and-a-half-ish "Human talks at camera then video ends" video.
At [email protected] I wanna hear Franz Schubert, I don't wanna hear about Franz Schubert.
I see you've ~~spammed crossposted this video to six different communities. Do you have skin in it?~~
EDIT 20:33 CEST: My mistake. I assumed you'd crossposted to six different communities but I see the video has been crossposted by different users.
