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Papa Adz

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Proud and tired dad surviving on a diet of riffs, pew pews and graps Life is short, you deserve that pizza (unless you're a Kiss fan)

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Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · Nov 15

I don't like getting too bogged down with stances so here are mine so everyone's clear:

LGBTQ+ folks are welcome

Trans rights are human rights

Abortion is health care

Men need love and to show love

POC lives matter, Nazi lives don't

Wrestling is real

Star Wars > Star Trek

Priest > Maiden

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 20h

This week's listening habits

Ayreon - The Theory of Everything
Hooded Menace - Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration
Dolmen Gate - Echoes Of Ancient Tales
Korn - Untouchables
Sparzanza - From Dust To Darkness
AFI - Silver Bleeds the Black Sun...
Modder - DESTROYING OURSELVES FOR A PLACE IN THE SUN
Tales Of A Liquid Dawn - Space Cults
Mriodom - Vlies
Cultic - Lore
sapata - Veins
Faetooth - Labyrinthine
Agartha - The Hidden
Terres Froides - Enfe
Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
Worm - Foreverglade
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Clutch - Sunrise On Slaughter Beach
Down - NOLA
Black Label Society - Blessed Hellride
Cradle of Filth - Nymphetamine special edition
Muse - Absolution
Soulfly - Prophecy
Fear Factory - Soul of a New Machine
Stoned Jesus - Songs To Sun

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 21h

I can only hope he suffered greatly

Metal Injection @metalinjection.bsky.social · 1d

Convicted pedophile, Ian Watkins of Lostprophets, was murdered in prison.

Watkins was serving 35 years for attempted child rape and child pornography.

metalinjection.net/in-the-news/...

LOSTPROPHETS Singer IAN WATKINS Murdered In Prison - Metal Injection

Ian Watkins was murdered by a fellow inmate on October 11th.

metalinjection.net

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 21h

Love that for him

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 1d

Doomanufacture

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 1d

Conan

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 1d

💨

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently the eastern Humpback whale population is back to pre-whaling levels.

Way to hump, backs.

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, that's not what they're for?! Oops...

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 1d

*boop*

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes the lack of sleep is so severe that not even having an excellent record collection and immaculately patched jackets is enough to counteract it.

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 2d

You know things are fucked when something that sounds as ridiculous as that is actually entirely plausible now.

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 2d

Sums up my feelings on LLMs and generative AI pretty well: I'm far less worried about the tech itself (though that's not great either) than I am about the dorks who stand to benefit from its use trying to convince everyone that it'll replace the human experience.

David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a great Shot debut from David Rayfield. "Writing has nothing to fear from AI – just from those who support it"

Writing has nothing to fear from AI - just from those who support it - The Shot

“We’re seeing a year-on-year decline on text,” said Facebook VP for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Nicola Mendelsohn, in a...

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed. Ascension was as good as you'd want PL to be!

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 2d

Right? Hate to admit how underwhelming I found it.

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 2d

Iirc Mikko isn't the biggest creative force in STS either, so I'm not sure how much he'd be contributing anyway.

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 2d

I am half curious to see how they'll sound without Aaron, Katatonia's last album was still pretty good with only Jonas steering the ship. Still, rather it didn't happen.

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 2d

Tbf Mikko from Swallow the Sun does a great job in Aaron's stead in a live setting. That said, I wouldn't want him to quit STS for MDB at this point.

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry for your loss mate

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 3d

Patent pending!!

Got em

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 3d

Just wait til they find out the twist at the end: the villain was an anthropomorphic penis the whole time, and he'd have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling Ayreon guest vocalists!

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 3d

Really wish TV started out good and stayed good rather than start dull and get good halfway through a season. The Witcher is another example of that, I'm on my 3rd and final attempt to get through season 2.

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 3d

I couldn't get through season 1 so you're one up on me!

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah that's a thing you can set up now. Not that I have it set up like that personally, I have notifications on for exactly 3 apps on my phone these days and they're all for messaging.

Papa Adz @bigdadz84.bsky.social · 3d

You maybe got an invite to this server handy? I'm in a couple of metal servers and by dog they're a minefield sometimes!