Preston Maness ☭

I'm always a little amused when I see the progress bar transformed into a lightsaber when you're playing Star Wars music on Spotify.

#StarWars #Spotify #LightSaber

A screenshot of Spotify's Linux client, where "Rey's Theme" from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" by John Williams is playing. The controls at the bottom-middle of the app (shuffle, back, pause, forward, loop) are normally accompanied by a generic progress bar that shows the full run-time of the song on the right, the current time on the left, and a bar showing percentage finished. However, since a star wars song is playing, the progress bar instead takes the shape of a lightsaber that is slowly lighting up from left to right as the track plays.

A few other tracks are visible in the queue in this screenshot as well:

* Misty Mountains by Richard Armitage and The Dwarf Cast (The Hobbit OST)
* Wreck-It Ralph by Henry Jackman (Wreck-It Ralph OST)
* One Final Effort by Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori (Halo 3 OST)
* Rock Anthem for Saving the World by Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori (Halo: Combat Evolved OST)
* Grinder by Frank Klepacki (Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 OST)
* The Orville Main Title by Bruce Broughton (The Orville OST)

(yes, the playlist that's playing is focused on OSTs)

Like 1 Oct 2022 at 8:34 | Open on mastodon.technology

Preston Maness ☭

Congratulations to the trade unionists of Restaurant Workers United (RWU), who are in the process of unionizing Via 313, a local pizza joint in Austin. I believe RWU was formed near the start of COVID by DSA comrades with the help of EWOC (Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee). Nice to see progress being made.

#austin #atx #DSA #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica #socialism #communism #TradeUnionism #Union #Labor #uspol #EWOC

https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2022-08-12/via-313-workers-unionized-and-the-whole-service-industrys-invited/

Congratulations to the trade unionists of Restaurant Workers United (RWU), who are in the process of unionizing Via 313, a local pizza joint in Austin. I believe RWU was formed near the start of COVID by DSA comrades with the help of EWOC (Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee). Nice to see progress being made.

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Like 12 Aug 2022 at 6:18 | Open on mastodon.technology

Preston Maness ☭

The #austin subreddit recently had yet another spicy homelessness thread. This time, we had someone advocating mass murder. But apparently, that doesn't violate the #reddit content policy so long as you say "/s" at the end of it.