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📍: Lock 11, Napton
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📸: Photo by Quite Adept on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/20451498@N00/27130346201#canal #river #narrowboat #barge #gongoozler #england #uk #flickr #holiday #john #spring #may #russ #2016
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3 Minutes with George Conway, Candidate for #Congress (NY)
A former staunch Republican, litigator, [and ex-husband of KellyAnne, inventor of Trump's "alternative facts"] here he is today, May 7, 2026, recapping his personal journey.
Clearly, George Conway has 'evolved', and is now a #mindful, clear-eyed advocate for #truth & #law. A foe of #TrumpVirus.
As I've said, he is also quite adept at understanding the #psychology of #TrumpVirus and the #GQP / #media enablers.
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3 Minutes with George Conway, Candidate for #Congress (NY)
A former staunch Republican, litigator, [and ex-husband of KellyAnne, inventor of Trump's "alternative facts"] here he is today, May 7, 2026, recapping his personal journey.
Clearly, George Conway has 'evolved', and is now a #mindful, clear-eyed advocate for #truth & #law. A foe of #TrumpVirus.
As I've said, he is also quite adept at understanding the #psychology of #TrumpVirus and the #GQP / #media enablers.
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Restless Spirit – Restless Spirit Review By Steel DruhmWhen one thinks of Long Island, stoner doom may not be the first musical variant that comes to mind. Restless Spirit have been out to change that since 2015, dropping several EPs and 3 long players of massive, weighty music with toes in the pools frequented by Mastodon, C.O.C., and The Sword. 2023s Afterimage was a great album crushed beneath a disastrous production that made enjoyment nigh impossible. Now comes their self-titled 4th album and a bit of a course correction. It’s a lighter, more rocking effort with a sense of brightness and wistfulness embedded in the burly, beefy sound. It’s still something entirely well-suited for a biker bar, but what Restless Spirit does is put them in the same ballpark as acts like Clutch, Fireball Ministry, and Freedom Hawk, and just in time for summer sun and outdoor beer drinking. How could that be a bad thing?
The things I love about Restless Spirit are still here, as opening track “The Burning Need” ably illustrates. It’s slick, bluesy, hard rock in the vein of C.O.C. with big riffs and feedback backing up Paul Alosio’s big, soulful bellows. It’s groovy, crunchy stuff with balls aplenty and a chorus that really pops and sticks in the craw, and you’d be forgiven for thinking this came from some southern crew rather than 3 guys from New York. The goods keep coming on “Hallowed,” which is a bit more spacey and moody, but the hooks are there, and the riffs do most of the talking, as they should. There’s a vintage Monster Magnet vibe in its DNA, and the guitar work is quite agile and interesting, with moments of introspective melancholy effectively stirred into the brew. “Desolations Wake” is a big moment, taking a rocked-out, rowdy approach to entertainingly punchy places with hard-charging guitar work that reminds a lot of Freedom Hawk. It’s got enough machismo to put extra hair on your nethers and make you want to punch a boulder. This one is heading right to my fun in the sun playlist with a bullet.
Unfortunately, not everything Restless Spirit attempts is a home run, and while nothing here is bad, cuts like “Red in Tooth and Claw” feel a bit more generic and safe. While the nearly 7 minutes of “Time and Distance” pass pretty well thanks to the powerhouse guitar work and forceful vocals, it does feel a bit overlong by the end. The nearly 9-minute closer, “Phantom Pain,” features a 70s psych-rock flavor that reminds me of Wino’s solo material, and the laid-back, emotive guitars pair well with the rougher, heavy riffs. But the length isn’t entirely justified, and by the 6th minute, things start to feel too stretched out. At just over 40 minutes, tracks like these make Restless Spirit feel longer than it really is, despite a good amount of interesting ideas and solid performances across the board. On the good side, the production is vastly better than last time, feeling warm and bright. The guitars have the proper weight, and the drum sound is satisfyingly deep.
The center of the Restless Spirit universe is Paul Alosio. His riffs and emotive fretboarding provide the foundation for everything, and he’s quite adept at crafting powerful, sinuous leads that grab your attention. Since this kind of music lives and dies by the riffs, he’s the prime mover, and move you he will as he dabbles in 70s rock and borrows from the expected wellsprings like Black Sabbath and Kyuss. He pairs his leads with an effectively rough but melodic vocal approach, and he’s at his best here, delivering with gravitas and soul. Marc Morello backs him up with thick, fat basslines that rumble and quake in all the best ways, while kitman Jon Gusman pounds away with abandon and a keen sense of groove. This is a talented trio, but their mostly good works get partially undermined by occasionally inconsistent writing and a bloat outbreak on the album’s ass-end.
Restless Spirit is a lesser creature than Afterimage and Blood of the Old Gods, but when it hits the mark, it will leave a deep impression on your ears. It’s worth checking out though, and I’m still a big believer in what the future holds for Restless Spirit. Talent abides, and spirits lurk endlessly, after all. Hail the Isle of Long!
Rating: 3.0/5.0
#2026 #30 #AmericanMetal #CorrosionOfConformity #DoomMetal #FreedomHawk #MagneticEyeRecords #May26 #RestlessSpirit #Review #Reviews #StonerRock
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Magnetic Eye
Websites: restlessspirit.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/restlessspiritny | instagram.com/restlessspirit
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which button type do you like better? words or pictures? or both? currently it's both... forgot to capture the cursor, but you can imagine it...
#SoloDev #IndieDev #GUI #GameDesign #IndieGame #VisualNovel #VN #RenPy #DungeonOfDeparture #PixelArt
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in cold, with a cold
windowside leaves and stillness
my Autumn illness#haiku #poetry #poem #poet #autumn #fall #NaturePhotography #NaturePoetry #leaves #FallColors #cold #rhyme #Canada #PNW #MapleTree #MapleLeaves
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and so, the saga of the great mystery melon has come to a close... I had to pick it cos we're getting snow tonight, and sadly it was very under-ripe as expected... the stem was starting to brown but I think this guy needed a few more weeks of warm weather that we simply couldn't provide this far north... I ate a bit of the yellow flesh around the seeds, it tasted like a mix between cucumber and the white part of a strawberry...
grow where you are planted...
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CW: spider
when the heck am I supposed to pick this magical mystery melon? this thing has been growing for like 30 days now...
also, if you look closely in this photo, there is a spider goin to town on like a wasp or something...
#garden #gardening #melon #spider #cute #VegetableGarden #bug #bugs #October
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UPDATE!
another rotund vegetable has appeared in the garden... I'm beginning to think these are less "cucumber melon" and more "melon cucumber" or maybe they're just "melon melon"the mystery of how a melon seed appeared in the garden remains unsolved...
also, you can see from the photo how well organized my garden is with no plants overlapping or intertwining within and betwixt one another... not a chaotic jungle of vegetables at all...
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I have a cucumber plant that has spread across the garden but hasn't produced any fruit all summer... that is until it decided to grow this today... it is already the size of a softball and is showing no signs of slowing... I will keep you updated...
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does this coloration look like late evening or early morning? ... or like some kind of otherworldly demonic blood tempest?
thank you for your input
#PixelArt #PixelFed #background #BackgroundArt #FeedbackWelcome
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who do you think will be TIME magazine's Sorcerer of the Year for 2025?
lotta big names in the enchanting arts as always, but I think this could be the year of the conjurer
#wizard #wizards #wizardry #magic #sorcerer #witchcraft #necromancy #shaman #occult #sorcery #summoning
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Above blue jade waves
Crash of thunder in sea caves
Kaminari sound#haiku #NaturePhotography #Japan #JapanTravel #travel #poetry #poem #Ofunato #Iwate #cliff #coast #cove #sea #nature #cloudy #hiking #spring #photography #SanrikuCoast
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Above blue jade waves
Crash of thunder in sea caves
Kaminari sound#haiku #NaturePhotography #Japan #JapanTravel #travel #poetry #poem #Ofunato #Iwate #cliff #coast #cove #sea #nature #cloudy #hiking #spring #photography #SanrikuCoast
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Above blue jade waves
Crash of thunder in sea caves
Kaminari sound#haiku #NaturePhotography #Japan #JapanTravel #travel #poetry #poem #Ofunato #Iwate #cliff #coast #cove #sea #nature #cloudy #hiking #spring #photography #SanrikuCoast
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Tranquil morning sun
Bay calmed in a golden glow
Fishing boat at work#haiku #NaturePhotography #Japan #JapanTravel #travel #poetry #poem #Ofunato #photography #coast #morning #mountains #sea #SanrikuCoast #calm #sunrise
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Dreary April morn
Stroll along Lake Tazawa
Stillness, torii gate#haiku #NaturePhotography #Japan #JapanTravel #travel #poetry #poem #torii #gate #lake #mountains #rainy #nature #Tazawa #LakeTazawa #Akita #spring #muddy #photography #puddle
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Beach of black pebbles
Rainy day, coastal Japan
Camellia bloom#haiku #NaturePhotography #Japan #JapanTravel #travel #poetry #poem #camellia #flowers #beach #rainy #nature #SanrikuCoast #coast #photography
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I finished the first of four #animated #PixelArt backgrounds for the opening cutscene in my #VisualNovel
#PixelFed #background #animation #parallax #mountains #plains #Art #MastoArt #FediArt #IndieDev #SoloDev #GameArt #DungeonOfDeparture
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I've finalized 3 #pixel palettes for my #PixelArt #VisualNovel Dungeon of Departure! LET'S GO!!!
1) normal lantern lighting
2) dim flame lighting
3) green otherworldly [redacted] "lighting" (spoilers)#PixelFed #PixelArtist #MastoArt #FediArt #IndieDev #IndieGame #ColorPalette #Color #Palette #BackgroundArt #Dungeon #DungeonOfDeparture #RetroGaming #GameDev #FeedbackWelcome #ドット絵 #GameArt
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newly finished #PixelArt #Background from my #VisualNovel project... ancient cave writing in a deep, dark, underground labyrinth....
#IndieDev #GameDev #MastoArt #original #FediArt #ドット絵 #art #FeedbackWelcome #DungeonOfDeparture
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I wrote a poem today about feeling #cold
the tone of it may seem depressing, but I assure you it is not meant to be...
#poetry #poem #poet #autumn #emotions #CreativeWriting #writing #WritingCommunity #october #fall #FeedbackWelcome
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I'm estimating that I have less than half of the #soundtrack and audio for my #VisualNovel complete and it's already 348 MB... I haven't compressed the files yet, but I'm worried my total game size is going to be like 2 MB of code, 16 MB of images, and 1 GB of audio...
is that normal? can any #GameDev or #RenPy VN devs here give context from their own creations?
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BREAKING: The Seattle Mariners have batted around the Super-Duper Melonheads in the bottom of the 4th after a 2-run blast from Pablo Sanchez to make it 13-2
Sanchez is now just a triple shy of hitting for the cycle, Ken Griffey Jr. has 2 HRs on the day, veteran starter Luanne Lui has 5Ks so far this outing
#Baseball #BackyardBaseball #SeattleMariners #Gaming #Gameplay #Mariners #Homerun #SportsGaming #Nostalgia
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bruschetta, my love :blobheart:
with delicious fresh cherry tomatoes and greens from the garden - two th-yum-bs up!
#Food #FoodPorn #Vegetarian #VegetarianFood #ItalianFood #Tomatoes #Arugula #Balsamic #Garlic #Mozzarella #ItalianBread #Bread #FreshVegetables #Gardening #Vegetables #FoodPhotography
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remembering the time I chased a forest nymph through an enchanted wood and ended up lost in a maze of branches and brambles
#Forest #Trees #EnchantedForest #Brambles #Branches #Woods #Evergreen #Claustrophobia #NaturePhotography