Musings from a musical mind.

Hey there! I'm Mandy, I'm a music teacher in Portland, and this is my blog. I was once told that in order to succeed in the music industry, you must be a musical jack-of-all-trades, and I certainly am becoming one: I sing, play piano, play percussion instruments, compose and arrange music, direct ensembles...and that's just the professional stuff! My eventual aspiration is to compose the music for films and video games. Click "+More" then "About me" for more! RAVENCLAW { wear } House Targaryen { GAME OF THRONES } JUBILEE FAN { MUTANT & PROUD } JEDI MASTER { STAR WARS } HERO OF HOPE PROSPIT DREAMER

[nixcraft]

A boy can dream, can't he?

[artsekey]

Hey, so if you have Windows 11 installed and have been losing your mind over the fact that you can't find your own files because Windows is now prioritizing internet search results first, you can fix it by following this guide:

How to Disable Windows Web Search and Speed Up Your PC

Stop the OS from pulling up web results when you just want files and apps.

As someone with over 900 GB of intentionally and properly named files on her computer (I do a lot of digital art and digital media work that requires high-volume files that function off of dependencies), this feature was making me furious. I followed the above instructions and can confirm that the method outlined solves the problem.

[ida-backwards-intherain]

Hogwarts Legacy update!

We've confirmed the plot: there's an uprising among the race of hook-nosed bankers who control the economy. (Note that the more evil they are, the bigger their noses are. There's a good one who has a big nose but he used to be evil when he was younger.) They're "rebelling" because they want their stolen cultural artefacts to be returned to them and want to not be oppressed anymore, which for some reason means they also want to massacre their oppressors' entire race, because of course marginalised people asking for liberation actually secretly want to kill you. As part of this sinister cabal's nefarious plot for white—I mean, wizard—extinction, they want to kidnap a child, because that's what hook-nosed bankers like to do, right? And their leader is willing to do anything for material gain, up to and including teaming up with fascists who hate his race.

You guys know that conspiracy theorists think Jews funded the Holocaust, right? They claim we did it so we could milk it for reparation money afterwards. And did you know they think we kidnap children? Or that we actually want supremacy rather than equality, and plan to subjugate the rest of the world for our own gain? Presumably you've at least heard the claim that we control the banks. And you know this is all very popular with the alt right, don't you? Have you also heard that this game's original head developer was an alt right YouTuber?

Don't act like this is a fucking coincidence.

No, JKR wasn't involved in the game, and it's actively intended to be trans-positive. Yes, she gets money from it, and will likely donate some of that to anti-trans causes. But even if you pirate the game so she doesn't make any money off of it, you're still going to be be playing the fucking Protocols of the Elders of Gringotts.

Fucking TALK ABOUT THIS.

[ida-backwards-intherain]

#being trans and jewish makes this such a weird time to be in the circles im in online#because all i see in protest of the game is 'its transphobic to play it!' and nothing about the antisemitism#EXCEPT from other jews#with exceptions for my beloved frienda who are part of the Surprisingly Jewish friend circle (via @jonaldronaldrolkientolkien)

If you're not Jewish, read those tags and read them again.

[hrefnatheravenqueen]

I came across this and I'm not jewish but I've seen some on Twitter say that this "goblin artefact" is in fact a Shofar. In case anybody is still doubting that the goblins in HP are pretty much a caricature of jewish people.

[wikdsushi-v2]

This image is a shofar, literally a Jewish object of worship and celebration.

Compare it to the image from the game. See the eerie similarity? This means it's deliberate.

The part about hook-nosed bankers wanting to steal a child goes back to the (originally European) myth that Jews steal Christian (wizard?) babies in order to use their blood for matzoh. (Spoiler: we don't, matzoh is parve, humans are in no way kosher.) A kid goes missing? Blame the Jews. A toddler is run down by cart that doesn't stop? It's those Jews again. Someone abandoned their child? Traded to Jews for spells or money. Did I mention that we were supposed to have magical powers, even though we don't?

This game is straight up nazzy propaganda. (I write it like that to piss them off.) Antisemitism is so open and so widespread right now that synagogues have bulletproof glass, Jews get attacked in public, and this game gets released with no questions from the corporations funding it.

Don't buy it. Protest stores that carry it! Don't put money in the pockets of assholes and bigots, whether they hate Jews, trans people, or both!

[swiftrunnerfelidae]

friendly reminder that the antisemitic "Fettmilch Uprising”, which saw the expulsion of Jewish people from Frankfurt and the confirmed deaths of two Jews, started in 1612.

So like

It’s not even particularly subtle.

[thelxiepia]

go OFF queen

[theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt]

Okay I’m currently furious that migraines are often so blindly easy to treat and I had to find this out myself at the age of 26 when I’ve been to a neurologist since I was 11 lol so I’m about to teach you two neat and fast little tricks to deal with pain!

The first is the sternocleidomastoid muscle, or the SCM muscle.

This big red section is responsible for pain around the eye, cheekbone, and jaw, as well as some temple pain. Literally all you have to do is angle your head down a little, angle it away from the side that hurts, and then you can gently pinch and rub that muscle. I find it best to start at the bottom and travel upwards. The relief is so immediate! You can increase pressure as you feel comfortable doing so.

Here is a short and easy video showing this in action

The second is a fast and easy stretch that soothes your vagus nerve, which is the nerve responsible for calming you down. The vagus nerve, for those unfamiliar, is stimulated by deep breathing such as yawning, sighing, singing, or taking a deep breath to calm your anger in a tense situation.

You can stretch this out by sitting up as straight as possible (this does not have to be perfect to work) and interlacing your fingers. Put your hands on the back of your head with your thumbs going down the sides of your neck and, while keeping your face forward, look all the way to one side with just your eyes. Hold that until you feel the urge to breathe deeply or yawn, or until you can tell there’s a change. Then do the same thing on the other side. When you put your arms down, you should clearly be able to turn your head farther in both directions. If the first session doesn’t get rid of your migraine, rest and repeat as many times as necessary. I even get a little fancy with it and roll my eyes up and down along the outer edge sometimes to stretch as much as I can.

If you need a visual here’s a good video on it. I know some of the language they use seems questionable but this is real and simple science and should not be discarded because it’s been adopted by the trendy wellness crowd!

I seriously cannot believe I didn’t hear a word of this from any doctor in my life. Additionally, if you get frequent recurring migraines, you may want to see a dietician. Migraines can be caused by foods containing histamines, lectin, etc. and can also be caused by high blood pressure in specific situations such as exercise, stress, and even sex.

If any of this information helps you I’d love to hear it btw! It’s so so fast and easy to do. Good luck!

[mushroomsandteeth]

*currently suffering from a horrible migraine. Tries this*

Are you fucking shitting me it works!?

[titania-saturnine]

@thebibliosphere I don't know if it'll help, but it may be worth looking into.

[thebibliosphere]

This is something my magic physio man also taught me. It helps if your migraines are triggered by muscle tension. Not so much if you have other root causes like OP mentioned above.

[lgbtunis-moved]

"there is no such thing as ,jewish features, because Judaism is a multicultural and multiethnic religious group and has been so for over two millennia. there are no ,jewish features, because there can be Jews from any ethnicity" and "there are features (like thick curly hair or a big nose) that have been associated with judaism and are not ~typical european~ features, that are common within European jews. these features has been mocked, villainized, deemed unattractive and were linked to witchcraft and being demonic or evil, and are still used to dehumanize Jews and differentiate us" are two coexisting truths.

(ok for gentiles to reblog)

[unioncarbidesuperfan66]

anyway i said i would do this after the whole thing was said and done… when i was looking for advice i found like “paint your nails and listen to happy music” buzzfeed bullshit so

here is my short real life abortion and early pregnancy survival guide (pastebin)

other links:

How to Get A Safe Abortion, No Matter How Far Along You Are or How Much Money You Have

Check here to see if medicaid will cover your costs

Financial aid for abortions

prochoice.org has a list for each state of NAF funded clinics and free hotlines for information.

WomenOnWeb.org and WomenOnWaves.org will ship you an abortion pill if it is illegal to get an abortion in your country.

[gffa]

Happy May the Fourth! | by Columbo

[bae-guevara]

Is someone over on Reddit trying to make this happen as we speak?

[nudityandnerdery]

Also, if the sale collapses on Elon's side, he owes Twitter $1 billion. It'd be really funny.

[saydams]

[beaniebaneenie]

likes charge, reblogs cast

[void-milf]

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

[void-milf]

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

[37womenwieldingknives]

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

[afraidofamericans]

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

[queeranarchism]

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

[anarchopuppy]

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

[mayflower-gal]

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

[einarshadow]

@deadcatwithaflamethrower

[markiplier]

Starting a Coven

We’ve got pillow forts.

Reblog to join.

No cult-members allowed.

[marlene]

Some photos I took of Captain Marvel and the gang from the Marvel Universe Live tour. Tell me she isn’t rad.

[nickimlnaj]

[keepsakes-notsnakes]

wow look at this terrible role model for young girls.

[danfart-blog-deactivated2024021]

will reblog every time

[steakandcheeeese]

Why ask for a film when we can demand a whole series?

[caityjay13]

omg, but what if, what if this was done, like, The Story of Clint Barton: As Told by Kate Bishop. I think that would be HILARIOUS.

[mediavengers]

Can we? CAN WE PLEASE?

[interestinggin]

EXT. MANHATTAN - DAY

Devastation. POLICE and CITIZENS milling amongst the wreckage of the street. Lying on top of a car, clearly having fallen from a great height, a MAN, eyes closed, possibly dead.

CLINT (VO) [big intake of breath] Okay. This looks bad.

And we go into REWIND. The MAN flies upwards, flailing wildly, a bow rising up into his hand, finally crashing back through a reassembling window about SIXTY STORIES UP. PAUSE on the fist of an AIM AGENT just inches from his face.

CLINT (VO) (CONT) You cowboy around with the Avengers some.

BACK IN REAL TIME, the fist hits him square in the jaw. As he turns back to smack the agent with his BOW, we get our first proper look at him - HAWKEYE himself, CLINT BARTON. Blonde, muscular, probably already somewhat battered; big heart and no common sense.

CLINT is holding his own against the AIM AGENTS, in a fight that seems to be mostly punching.

CLINT (VO) (CONT) Guys got, what, armor. Magic. Super-powers. Super-strength. Shrink-dust. Grow-rays. Magic.

KATE (VO) You said magic.

CLINT (VO) (CONT) I know I said magic. It was emphatic.

It’s gonna give you a bit of a complex. These guys are superheroes. I’m a carnie with a bit of stick and string from the Paleolithic era.

A huge BLAST OF ENERGY smacks CLINT straight in the chest and he flies backwards, shattering the window, and plummeting. Flailing wildly.

CLINT (VO) (CONT) So when I tell you ‘this looks bad’?

CLINT slams into the ground, hitting the roof of the car, unconscious.

CLINT (VO) (CONT) I promise you it feels worse.

KATE (VO) Hold up. Hooooooold up.

Freeze.

That is not what you told me, bossman.

CLINT (VO) Katie, would you please -

KATE (VO) Why is it that whenever it’s time to tell the story to other people you’re suddenly cool and badass and oooh-emphatic? Why is it just me who gets to hear about your incredible screwups?

CLINT (VO) I didn’t screw up.

KATE (VO) You fell off the roof from like two feet up.

REWIND AGAIN - Clint flies upwards once more, wildly flailing until the AIM AGENT has a fist at his face, but now we’re on top of a THREE STORY BUILDING in DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN.

KATE (VO) And it wasn’t fifty bad guys, it was fifteen.

AIM AGENTS disappear, leaving only a handful.

KATE (VO.) And I’m pretty sure Spider-Man was there.

SPIDER-MAN appears in the background.

CLINT (VO) He was not.

KATE (VO) He was.

CLINT (VO) I don’t need a kid to -

KATE (VO) It was all over Twitter, Hawkdude, just get over it. The AIM dude punched you in the face -

Which is exactly what happens as we come back to REAL TIME.

- and you fell over and landed on Spidey and he knocked you over and you fell off the roof of a hipster deli.

And CLINT trips over SPIDER-MAN in the middle of the battle and plummets from the rooftop -

CLINT [yelling] Oh, SHI-

- to land on the now familiar car below, thankfully unconscious once more. POLICE cars pull up around him as the battle draws to a close.

The camera pulls up, over the BROOKLYN skyline of brownstones and docks and MANHATTAN in the distance, and we see our title:

HAWKEYE

and as if it has been drawn on by pen, suddenly someone adds in:

HAWKEYE(s)

CLINT (VO) I don’t remember asking for your input, Hawkeye.

KATE (VO) [cheerfully] You’re welcome, Hawkeye.

OPENING CREDITS

[mediavengers]

OH MY GOD LOOK AT THIS LOOKIT LOOK LOOKIIIIIITTTTT OH MY GOD I AM DEAD THIS this thiiiiiiiiiiisssss 

NOPING OUTTA HERE BEFORE I LOSE THE PLOT COMPLETELY 

[fuckyeahthescarletwitch]

Real life AU where all superhero movies have female leads. There’s a male avenger in The Avengers though and there’ll be two upcoming films with a male lead, so it’s all fair. There’s a rumor Scarlett Johansson only has a contract for a limited number of movies, so she may be gone after the third Black Widow film. Natalie Dormer, who appeared as Yelena Belova in Black Widow: The First Avenger and Black Widow: The Things They Say About Her, is rumored to take the Black Widow mantel after that. People are still excited over the possibility for a third Hulk movie, but a small number of fans is hoping they might actually make a He-hulk movie. It’s becoming impossible to tell the difference between Gwyneth Paltrow and Pepper Potts, but people love her so much, Marvel will always pay her whatever she asks for. Everyone is loving the X-men movies and Halle Berry is phenomenal in them, but maybe two solo films and four team films entirely centered around her character are enough already. Also, DC chose some relatively unknown actor to play Superman in Batwoman v Wonder Woman: Dawn of Justice, so let’s hope he does well, the character is important. The internet is crazy over Lara Pulver signing for the lead role in Doctor Strange, but tumblr still hoped for someone like Indira Varma. At least we are getting a Captain America film in 2018, and yes, it will be about Mr. America! 

[kryptaria]

Yes, please!

[bagelcrumbs]

This needs to be seen

[justice4mikebrown]

March 9

DeKalb officer shot and killed Anthony Hill, who struggled with mental illness and was unarmed and naked at the time of the shooting. 

Follow the hashtags #AnthonyHill and #Antlanta for more information.

[micdotcom]

14 powerful illustrations show that women can change the world 

Our society has a nasty habit of erasing women from its historical memory. Whether it’s because men have taken credit for their work or because their work has been ignored altogether, women who have undoubtedly contributed to our collective progress rarely get the acknowledgement they deserve.]

María María Acha-Kutscher intends to change that. See the rest of work.