annie

joined 5 months ago
[–] annie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 2 months ago (1 children)

by a state broadcasting org published by the state that held onto its colonial possessions until it was literally untenable without violence.

Nelson Mandela: "Choose peace rather than confrontation, except in cases where we cannot move forward. Then, if the only alternative is violence, we will use violence." (I feel like a boomer posting azquotes but people are going to keep erasing recorded history so I might as well try)

[–] annie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

bbc link

imagine my shock

what a fucking rag

[–] annie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah i sort of avoided the grime that was popular in the mid 2010s just because it was everywhere, I got into the older grime stuff I think partly cause i got turned on to 90s rap and rnb, so of grime i''ve heard mostly just the classics like ruff sqwad, wiley, kano, d double e, dizzee, etc., Love ukg and dance pop from around that early to mid 2000s time period too, cant go wrong there.

If I could only listen to one artist forever it might be Sade just cause they don't really have any bad tracks, they're so smooth, and the bass grooves are always sick. Also don't think they get enough credit either for changing their sound over the first 3 albums, i love diamond life and promise but her 90s/00s albums have aged better bc of that for sure

[–] annie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

the people who try to force the burden of a species worth of impact onto individuals are always just running cover for corporations n conglomerates; give them time to build society's tolerance for bleakness and whatever industrial-scale crime they're doing and internalise guilt for it before coming back to win the pr war and make money in some other slightly less evil way

[–] annie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 months ago

people will refer to landlords as a 'social group' rather than advocate for anything non-milquetoast its par for the course

[–] annie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

this bait sucks try harder

[–] annie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

listened to a bunch of Sade, Janet Jackson, and Vince Staples over the last couple days. I like UKG and some older grime too, Ruff Sqwad are one of my favs (former group of tinchy strider, did the instrumental that was used by stormzy for shut up much later)