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Love this album and song.

A “black mariah” refers either to a police wagon or a hearse. In the case of this poor fellow he’s got a wooden coat and he’s never coming home—the narrator is seeing the hearse coming, in the form of a big black Ford.

It gets a bit confusing when the Clash sings “no need for the black mariah” in Guns of Brixton—in that case they’re saying there’s no need for a police wagon, as the protagonist of the song has already been shot dead. Presumably they’ll need a hearse though.

Nick Cave uses the slang for a police car in the Curse of Milhaven, where the protagonist is “off to the asylum in an old black mariah”.

You’re being distracted from actually doing something.

A constant stream of awful bullshit, right to your screen. The feeling of doing something by shouting into the abyss.

Trump doesn’t care if you see pictures of him raping children or learn about all his corruption unless it is transformed into actual political action. Taking to the street, organizing, running for office, supporting those who do.

Everything is a distraction from action.

I love how the moomins only dress up to go swimming or to bed, for any other activity including skiing they just go at it naked.

For real. Whenever I eat (Italian) pizza normally around a bunch of freaks using knife and fork I just silently rejoice about my superior cultural capital.

And if OP is American, chances are those people don’t even know how to use a knife and fork properly.

They’ve changed it in recent years, apparently changed it back for the half time show.

I suspect a lot of things would have been said had the artists been allowed to say what they wanted. I’m impressed and disappointed by their professionalism.

Then again, within the constraints of not saying anything political, it seems both Bad Bunny and Green Day did a decent job getting their points across.

Puppet jealousy.

(Worth noting that the title of the post has since been corrected, and it is no longer false/misleading, just a bit random)

As a European, half time shows generally seem overproduced and kinda shit. Like Eurovision without the ironic distance, but with more corporate sponsors.

Bad Bunny was just genuinely great. Never listened to any of his work before, but what a show.

If hearing someone singing a language you don’t understand makes you feel insecure… Well, yeah, maybe you should be a little more exposed to other languages.

US Americans have no excuse for continuing to cling to their ignorance. It has gone far past the point where it’s obvious how dangerous it is.

Jeg er drittlei de forente stater.

It’s rape.

Men are always trying to come up with excuses. “She was leading me on”, “she shouldn’t have been wearing these clothes”, whatever. I’m sure the men who do it take this to the extremes of “at least I didn’t drug her”, “at least I drugged her so she doesn’t remember any of it”, whatever.

The moment one starts comparing one is lost. Rape is rape.

I have met some questionable American academics who enjoyed the Joe Rogan Experience, which has puzzled me for a while. The fact that it’s less popular among the college educated than Fox News, Tucker Carlson Network and Breitbart certainly helps reinforce my world view a bit.

But the evangelical Christians want the Jews to trigger the rapture by fighting the final huge war in israel, and I imagine the antisemites are also fine with the Jews all being sent away to israel for then to be sent off to fight a senseless war to their deaths.

Somehow they managed to start off from different angles and both end up wanting Jews to die.

Like making love in a canoe…

Yeah, it’s a valid concern, but last time I checked MAU for Lemmy seemed pretty stable. So it seems some are leaving and some are joining there, while PieFed is having a moment in its own right. :)

Yeah. January 29 was a post on reddit that did well and was kept up. Then if I understand correctly on the 6th it was posted again to the same community with a graph or something, but the post was not kept up. Nevertheless it caused a new pretty neat spike in users.

Current number is 1148. I’m on mobile right now, but if anyone runs this in R it’ll procduce an up to date graph:

mau <- c(109, 114, 114, 114, 120, 123, 370, 502, 569, 588, 602, 611, 613, 969, 987, 992, 993, 995)  
Date <- as.Date(as.Date("2026-01-24"):as.Date("2026-02-10"))  
plot(Date, mau, type="l", ylab="Monthly active users", lwd="2", main="Monthly active users of piefed.ca",  
     col="#D80621", xaxs="i", yaxs="i", ylim=c(0,1000))  
grid()  

Active users have now doubled in a week. Though it’s a slightly misleading measure as an active user that just signed up is much less reliable than an active user who signed up two years ago. But that doesn’t really matter if the purpose is to use it for promotional purposes. :)

You’re not wrong. Today’s data is from 12:20, all other days are from around 14 central European time.

mau <- c(109, 114, 114, 114, 120, 123, 370, 502, 569, 588, 602, 611, 613, 969)  
Date <- as.Date(as.Date("2026-01-24"):as.Date("2026-02-06"))  
plot(Date, mau, type="l", ylab="Monthly active users", lwd="2", main="Monthly active users of piefed.ca",  
     col="#D80621", xaxs="i", yaxs="i", ylim=c(0,1000))  
grid()  

This guy couldn’t sound more fascist if he broke into German 1930s marching songs. This video should be used in education.

Here’s the number of monthly active users, which might look more impressive to people who obsess over the Y axis:

It’s not super pretty as I just threw it together and really should be doing other things. But it’s colour matching the Canadian flag, which I hope is appreciated. :)

I guess a key takeaway is that the number of active users at Piefed.ca multiplied by more than five since late January.

mau <- c(109, 114, 114, 114, 120, 123, 370, 502, 569, 588, 602, 611, 613)  
Date <- as.Date(as.Date("2026-01-24"):as.Date("2026-02-05"))  
plot(Date, mau, type="l", ylab="Monthly active users", lwd="2", main="Monthly active users of piefed.ca",  
     col="#D80621", xaxs="i", ylim=c(0,613))  
grid()  

Because it’s constantly used by Fox News?

It’s an old word and people have different connotations. I personally associate it with union busters and railroad bulls.