#eighties — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eighties, aggregated by home.social.
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being gay in Britain meant living in the shadows
I grew up in a time when being gay in Britain meant living in the shadows. The 80s were loud with music, fashion, and rebellion, but silent when it came to positive queer representation... At Sixth Form, being 'different' was enough to make people afraid to be seen with you... Music became my friend, my voice, my protection. HEAR THE VERSION THE WORLD TRIED TO BURY“Quick truth.Streaming is convenience. Bandcamp is support.If you want the real version of what I create — the full-quality […]https://jayleebenjamin.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/being-gay-in-britain-meant-living-in-the-shadows/
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Slave wages for musicians and artists on Spotify and many other major platforms, except bandcamp and Amazon
Now I'm going to be honest here, at three pence or less for each stream that you get you can see that you have to have over like 10,000 or more to even get something stupid like 10 pound and so that's not really enough money to pay for services and to save money you have to do everything yourself. So years ago I did this video and to help artists by giving them real money even if it is 50 pence for a song please go to bandcamp Click on link 🔗 for music in comments or bioWatch video by […] -
The Three‑Point Clarity Framework
article 3 part 3Your signature structure.1. Systemic HarmAggressive advertising is not a Meta problem — it is an industry problem.The same behaviours exist across Facebook, Google, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and every major platform.2. Regulatory MomentumMeta’s losses create legal precedent.States now have leverage to challenge the entire advertising ecosystem.3. Industry‑Wide TransformationIf Meta is forced to redesign its systems, every major platform will follow — voluntarily or […]https://jayleebenjamin.wordpress.com/2026/08/23/the-three-point-clarity-framework/
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Facebook: The End of “You Didn’t Ask for This” Advertising
Facebook’s advertising model is built on interruption.You scroll, and Facebook throws suggestions at you — products, pages, groups, videos, political content, emotional triggers, and behavioural predictions.This model is now legally vulnerable.Three things will change first:1. Forced Suggestions Will Be RestrictedFacebook will no longer be able to inject content you didn’t ask for simply because the algorithm predicts you might react to it.2. Behavioural Targeting Will Be LimitedThe […] -
“Symphony of Solitude” by JAYLEEBENJAMIN
"Symphony of Solitude" by JAYLEEBENJAMIN Symphony of Solitude is a song about the kind of loneliness that comes from being visibly different in a world that rewards invisibility.It’s about the years spent walking through life feeling like an outsider - not because of anything you did, but because of who you are, how you look, how you speak, and how people project their assumptions onto you before they ever bother to know you.Growing up mixed-race, gay, and visibly “not the masculine […]https://jayleebenjamin.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/symphony-of-solitude-by-jayleebenjamin/
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Music single”Symphony of Solitude” by JAYLEEBENJAMIN 2
Symphony of Solitude is a song about the kind of loneliness that comes from being visibly different in a world that rewards invisibility. It’s about the years spent walking through life feeling like an outsider - not because of anything you did, but because of who you are, how you look, how you speak, and how people project their assumptions onto you before they ever bother to know you. Growing up mixed-race, gay, and visibly “not the masculine template,” you didn’t have the option […] -
THE COLLAPSE OF AGGRESSIVE ADVERTISING: FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, AND THE NEW RULES
ARTICLE THREE parts 1For more than a decade, digital platforms have relied on a simple formula:predict what you want, push it at you, and keep pushing until you click.Facebook perfected it.Google industrialised it.Instagram and TikTok normalised it.And YouTube built an entire creator economy on top of it.But the Meta case has changed the direction of travel.The legal pressure applied to Meta is not limited to Meta — it applies to the entire advertising ecosystem.The behaviours under […] -
There's always something soothing in images of childhood. Familiar places, happy memories, time of wonders, when everything was right.
(photo of my hometown by Bruno Barbey, 1981. Source: magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/… )
#Poland #ZagłębieDąbrowskie #DąbrowaGórnicza #80s #eighties #photography
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Signing off tonight with one of my fave #LivePerformances from #PeterGabriel 🎶❤🎵🥰 with the magnificent #Africa based #YoussouNDour
#MusicVideo #RecommendedMusic #MusicFromMyYouth #eighties #NowPlaying #ListenUp #EarCandy #Music #Youtube #LiveConcert #AthensGreece #MusicJunkies #AwesomeMusic
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He was shot six times!
See you in heaven…
one day!Faaaahaar away on the other side!
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We all learned this #ChinesePeople song from #AndyLau in the 80s. I didn't know what we were singing. I'm a fan of his music & film work but am anti-nationalist (for many reasons).
#AsianMastodon #Chinese #MusicFromMyYouth #eighties #MusicVideo #Youtube #Asian #ChineseSuperstar
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CW: Looking for the name of a construction toy from my youth
Spent some time trying to find the name of some #constructionToys from the #80s or #90s that I used to play with in my #youth.
I can't quite remember the design of the bricks, so I drew four designs that I could imagine. Not sure if there was a single type of brick, or if there were two different ones that were meant to be used together.
You could lock these together to form various geometric shapes or weird structures. Either by locking the sides together, or by inserting one or two into the middle of another.
I was first reminded of these by seeing 'Plus-Plus' in a #toy shop here in Norway, but those aren't quite the same as the ones I remember growing up in the #Netherlands. #PlusPlus is rectangular, while the ones from my #childhood are square-shaped instead, and had a plus-shaped hole in the middle.
I had sort of forgotten about them again after the last time I looked for their name, but since I dreamt about them last night, I figured I'd #AskTheFediverse this time. :)
#JeugdSentiment #jeugd #MijnJeugd #JarenNegentig #JarenTachtig #eighties #nineties #MyChildhood #nostalgia
