There’s war in Europe. Climate change is fucking up the world faster than we can respond, and America is burning to the ground physically and metaphorically as we speak.

Tensions are a bit high.

They’re actively working with Murena to make sure /e/ works well, and you can even buy Fairphones with /e/ out of the box.

I’m also a FP5 user, FP3 before that. Never had any problems whatsoever.

Used /e/ for a while on FP3, that was mostly fine but some annoyances like the camera being less good. So I switched back to stock android. Might try /e/ again soon though.

I haven’t had any problems with apps, audio, bluetooth, anything.

For context, Ramones started out in '74, the Smiths in '82. Morrissey joined his first band, the Nosebleeds, in '77. This was a punk group. Morrissey was not a founding member, and does not seem to be particularly proud of this part of his story.

Anyway, this piece was in all likelihood not written by the Morrissey of the Smiths, but Morrissey as some unknown kid who liked fancy rock but didn’t get what was up with punk music. Which makes perfect sense to anyone familiar with his work. He’s all about being feeling desperate and hopeless about struggling to understand basic human emotions while snobbing away about some piece of classic literature or some shit like that.

This is in all likelohood a letter from some edgy unknown kid at some point in the 70s, not the opinion of a famous rock star. And a big part of the punk scene at the time was all about pretending to hate things that were popular, “I hate Pink Floyd” and all that. So in a way by sending this dumb letter he positioned himself in the scene.

He saw the Ramones in London around '78. I wonder if this was written before or after.

All that said, Morrissey is still an asshole, for obvious reasons.

The sophisticated Englishmen and their rubbish.

Also, at a certain pace for a certain time, there’s a talent in simply striking a chord.

Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-DA, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-DA, hey! ho!

Short answer is no. But I figured maybe a more detailed answer could be nice as well.

They are gradually implementing ActivityPub integration, which would make them a part of the Fediverse. At least that’s what they claim to be doing. I’ll believe it when they’re done.

They are implementing it in several steps. Be aware that this is subject to change - it could be that it has changed already since last time I got up to date, but as nobody seems to have provided a better answer yet, here we go:

• For a while, Threads users outside of Europe can enable ActivityPub from their profile page. If they do so, it’ll be possible to follow them from the Fediverse. In Europe this feature is missing, because Zuckerburg is bitter he cannot spy on us as much as he would like to.
• Threads users can see comments and likes from the Fediverse, though it’s kept separate from comments made in Threads. So far they cannot respond back to users on the Fediverse, so they cannot participate in the discussion, only see the comments.
• Threads users can follow Fediverse profiles, but not in a particularly meaningful way. It seems they can enable notifications for new posts from users on the fediverse, but the content is not integrated in their Threads stream. They also cannot search for users: They can only interact with Fediverse users that they find somewhere on Threads. So if you follow someone on Threads they can follow you back; if you comment on a Threads post and people like what you’re saying, they can follow you from your profile and follow you from there. However, they cannot look up Fediverse users who have not communicated with Threads in any way.
• The Fediblock thingy makes the Fediverse a bit smaller seen from Threads. Not really a big deal for them, but if you’re on an instance that blocks Threads you obviously won’t have much success communicating with them.

So Threads has a long way to go, but a lot of the technology seems to be in place. They receive comments and content from the Fediverse to Threads, and they shoot content from Threads out into the Fediverse. It’s just that they are keeping everything in separate channels over at threads, and they do not yet allow for federation of comments in Threads to allow for back and forth discussions.

One hell of an album.

I don’t believe you
You got the whole damn thing all wrong
He’s not the kind you have to wind up
On Sundays

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

According to Wikipedia, anyway. I’m not sure what you think England is.

The album version is fantastic, but I also recommend checking out the version live in Austin 1978. It’s an incredible concert. :)

Part of a political system is that it changes, but the House of Lords for example has roots back to the 11th century. Sure, things change through the centuries, but it’s wrong to say they are not the same. The US has gained states and amended the constitution as well.

England is England. They have laws going back until before any of that. There’s continuity all the way. Joining a union does not mean your country stops existing.

France invented constitutionalism and you were the first to adapt it after them. That’s important political history, but don’t overestimate yourselves.

England has been the same kingdom since the early 10th century.

…or disppeared. Lots and lots have disappeared.

The US has been around for less than 250 years. That’s less than four times as long as the Soviet union, which didn’t even last a lifetime.

And America’s issues are uniquely American. It has similarities to feudalism in France, but it is not at all the same.

This makes me wonder if drummers have a dominant hand. Except Rick Allen of course.

The capitalists are in charge, but they are also utterly fucked.

The last thing you want to do with a spartacus-type enemy is to make them a martyr. They already fucked up by parading him around with those guards while he looks like the second coming of Christ. Nailing him to the cross is not going to solve any of their problems.

Related to this, but also not really, is how I feel as a right handed person playing guitar.

I mean, sure, the right hand is doing some picking, but the left hand is up there doing all the clever stuff and the right hand has no idea how it manages to do any of it.

I need to give it a spin! I had my Zeppelin period back before Spotify, and as a teenager with limited means (in a forest with no internet) I only managed to get my hands on I-IV, Houses of the Holy, and Physical Graffiti. Which was already a good haul. But it’s weird to me that there are still parts of their discography that I simply haven’t listened to, despite how important to me they were back in those days.

Then again, I guess having to play the living hell out of II was why I came to love it so much, rather than having my attention fragmented between all the music in the world as it is nowadays.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion! I’ll see if I can find the record somewhere.

That’s a bit convoluted, but glad you found a workaround!

Do you find Instagram is still working well for you for this purpose?

I signed up due to popular pressure at some point, and in the beginning the chronological feed was very nice. I would use it maybe once a week or less, and like the stuff my friends had posted since last time.

Then over time, my friends’ content started drowning in I don’t even know what. Sometimes I would see a post or two, but I would never see everything they had posted since last time. It just didn’t work as a platform to use for consuming a finite amount of content.

I ended up abandoning ship. But it sucks a bit, as my friends might still be on there posting things I would have been happy to see.