Stella Splendens always takes me back to the 14th century.
Proud anti-fascist & bird-person
Stella Splendens always takes me back to the 14th century.
Pound by Mr. Mime.
As long as we’re wishing, I’m going with bigpox.
Solitary confinement is torture for the sake of cruelty.
It’s really annoying how people confuse cynics with skeptics.
There is nothing “skeptical” about flat-out denying the efficacy or safety of vaccines; there is abundant evidence of both. Refusing to accept plain facts because your livelyhood depends on it is just plain cynical.
Isn’t sinking what submarines are built for?
I have a friend with a daughter here in Texas who has a genetic disorder that causes serious developmental delays and seizures.
Her kid was kicked off of Medicaid last year despite being eligible, and it took months to get reinstated. She had to pay for OT, PT, GP, and drugs out of pocket in the meantime, which she couldn’t really afford, because she stays home full time to care for her daughter.
Fuck every Republican right in their ear.
The only endangered lizard he cares about is Ted Cruz after the latest poll numbers came out.
Satan 2: This time, it’s personal.
Fortunately, it seems like it’ll be irrelevant this cycle:
Judge Arteaga ruled Paxton’s suit was moot, because the county had already sent out the voter registration forms, The Texas Tribune reported.
I wholeheartedly agree!
One of the things out group does is play for dancers at reenactment events. The dance steps were recorded for a lot of the Renaissance period pieces, and it’s pretty incredible to be able to coordinate the tunes for the same dances from hundreds of years ago.
It really changes the atmosphere of an event to have music around; it’s a living connection to history.
Here is a video of a professional Renaissance recorder consort in lower voicings (the lowest I believe being contrabass) that shows how great they are. They do get a bad reputation because it’s easy to make them squeak really badly as a beginner (and especially as a young person with no musical training). They really are a great introductory instrument into early music though; you can get a plastic tenor for about $40 and it’ll be the same one professionals practice on regularly.
I got started in early music on modern guitar with a book of tabs, and it was a great way in. I later met up with a local group who pointed me towards some great resources, and I loved it so much that I wanted to go deeper by learning to play an actual period instrument. I did some research and talked to a bunch of people for advice on what to buy and finally picked one up and took some lessons at the beginning of the year. It’s a lot harder to get into than guitar, but it’s also incredibly rewarding.
I play early music as an amateur, and I’ve seen a few fun older instruments around.
I’m currently learning the renaissance lute, a bowl-backed six to 8 course precursor (sort of) to the modern guitar. It has a large period repertoire that can be played pretty accurately due to the surviving tablature and plentiful treatises on technique and style. It is a plucked instrument, they really weren’t strummed much like a modern guitar.
The older variant, the medieval lute, was primarily a strummed instrument; the musician would usually hold a quill or similar tool as a plectrum. The notation at the time was not as complete as what we are used to (and there are also far fewer sources on how to read it), but there is some very good scholarship in the field that gives us a pretty decent guess on how the repertoire sounded.
The recorder went through a kind of revival in the early 20th century, as it was a fairly easy folk instrument to mass produce while also being beginner friendly (since you don’t really need to develop your embrasure to make a passable sound). The modern variety is known as the baroque recorder, and has a standardized fingering with a more mellow sound than it’s earlier counterparts. Incidentally, flutes are likely some of the oldest instruments that humanity produced, with the oldest known example being a cave bear bone flute probably made by a Neanderthal.
BZ Basel also said Thomas was arrested the day after Ms Joksimovic’s body was found, and initially told investigators he had found her dead and dismembered her body in their laundry room in panic.
Let those who have not dismembered a family member in a panic with a jigsaw and garden shears before dissolving their pulped body in a bath of acid throw the first stone.
Well, windows keeps trying to change me.
Linux makes me want to change.
Maybe worth looking into alpha-gal syndrome?
Allen cops are worse than Plano’s
I always wondered what would happen if you dressed like this and had a chunk of dry ice in there somewhere.
Probably pretty foggy for a bit?
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I’m currently using a trick on my Windows 11 work machine to get the old UI for file explorer by going through the control panel and going up a directory.
I’ll be so pissed the day they strip it out, because their new design language is ridiculously slow and terrible for the sake of “cleanliness.”