I must be depressed again or maybe just tired, I hate myself and my lack of music ability.. but like two weeks ago I was feeling like I made it. I'm frustrated by the lack of gigs and my last jam session performance wasn't as good as I was hoping. I was also a little eepy tired guy than too.

It's just painful to get washed out by white kid 19 year olds, i dont know what to do. Its either persevere and get good or i start putting all my time and energy into something else.

Music is fucking hard and to come from where I came from and to pull it off I think in hindsight is amazing. It actually is objectively impressive to do what I've done so far. It's still not enough but fuck

If I stop being a musician look out the rest of the world.

New poll says Biden loses popular vote, but wins Electoral College. I hate the EC, but this would be a really funny outcome.

per The Guardian feed

Reuters writes from the UN HQ in Manhattan about Iran’s words to Israel’s close ally, the US:

I say frankly to the American statesmen, who are now managing the genocide in Palestine, that we do not welcome [an] expansion of the war in the region. But if the genocide in Gaza continues, they will not be spared from this fire,” Amirabdollahian told an emergency meeting of the 193-member General Assembly on the Middle East.

yeah yeah i'll believe it when i see it guy

IOF base on Dahlak Archipelago was attacked by unknowns assiliants, (help find the base)

Edit : Source

I need to at some point go by this Palestinian restaurant in my city. Broke my foot so haven't been out for a while.

If I were the one writing doctrine for a modern army I think I would provide every single squad multiple manpads. It would be one of the things I would want the highest amount of production for.

In particular against the nato (US) forces, removing their air advantage is 90% of the fight.

Manpads need to be capable of downing jets too. Not just helicopters. Need to develop mass production manpads that can take down an F35.

There is quite literally a dril post for everything

Edit: this is fake I was bamboozled

Al Jazeera:

Netanyahu crossed a red line: Israeli opposition leader
Leader of the Israeli opposition, Yair Lapid, has slammed Netanyahu, saying the PM “crossed a red line” after blaming the country’s security establishment for the failures that led to the October 7 attack.
“While IDF soldiers and commanders are fighting valiantly against Hamas and Hezbollah, he is trying to blame them instead of backing them up,” Lapid said on X.
“The attempts to evade responsibility and place the blame on the security establishment weakens the IDF while it is fighting Israel’s enemies. Netanyahu must apologize for his words.”

Update:

Netanyahu deletes controversial tweet: Report
Israeli media report that PM Netanyahu has deleted a controversial statement where he blamed the military and the Shin Bet – Israel’s intelligence services – for having assessed before the war that Hamas was deterred and wanted to come to a settlement.
We earlier reported that Benny Gantz, a retired general and member of Israel’s war cabinet, said Netanyahu “must retract” the statement, adding that “leadership must show responsibility, decide to do the right things and strengthen the forces”.

the posts going around of the journalists who have been reporting on palestine that are now dead should radicalize you, if nothing else has. you go through their accounts, you're looking at someone who is never coming back. that should make you feel something.

Nitter

An American military transport aircraft C-17 Globemaster with the call sign of a medical evacuation board is en route from Baghdad to the Ramstein base, where the Landstuhl military hospital is located.

It appears that after yesterday's attacks on US bases in the Middle East, wounded or killed US troops are being transferred.

Al Jazeera:

110 doctors and other medical staff killed so far: Gaza ministry

At least 110 medical staff in the Gaza Strip have been killed by Israeli shelling and air strikes since October 7, the health ministry says.

• More than 100 medical staff have been injured
• 50 ambulances have been attacked, half no longer functioning
• 12 hospitals and 46 primary healthcare clinics have shut down because of damage from bombing or lack of fuel
• 24 hospitals – with a bed occupancy of 2,000 – have been told to evacuate in northern Gaza

AL JAZEERA:

We don’t know about anything that is happening in other districts in the territory. Maybe there are new bombardments taking place in these areas. We don’t know how many victims. We can only hear bombardments everywhere, but we don’t know any anything about the casualties, about the situation on the ground.

We don’t know anything also about the medical conditions of doctors, medical workers, even at the Al-Shifa Hospital [the largest in Gaza]. The situation is catastrophic right now. We can no longer communicate with the international community to send our voice to the world to know what is happening on the ground. I hope that this message might reach and have an access to the world despite what we have experienced throughout the last hour.

We are now in a hospital and we are going to be live by satellite as much as we can and every single hour. So please, if you can hear us, send that message to the world that we are isolated now in Gaza. We don’t have any phone signals. We don’t have any internet connections. We found great difficulty even to communicate and contact with our relatives in different parts of the territory.

Journalists here, even the citizens inside the hospital, they don’t have any access to the networks. They don’t have any kind of communication even with their neighbors. There is a great problem in the network connections. We don’t know how it’s dropped. We don’t know if it was targeted.

The situation on the ground is really terrible. Everyone is afraid, everyone is terrified. Please ,guys, if you can hear us send this message to the world that we are becoming isolated.

Al Jazeera currently only has sporadic communication with correspondents in Gaza following the latest strikes on the besieged enclave.

#Palestine / #Israel 🇵🇸🇮🇱: Communist "Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine" (#DFLP) released a photo with the message “Death ambushes await you” from #Gaza.

The photo shows a fighter with a 12.7mm AM-50 Sayyad anti-materiel sniper rifle; originally made by #Iran 🇮🇷.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1716080480708120974

That is a very serious gun.

Breaking news from Italy:

Giorgia Meloni is newly single, now is the time for any daring posters to fix her and Italy.

Israel now threatening to bomb the Gaza municipal building, which releases the official death counts

Potentially the prophecy Netanyahu is referencing?

If Palestine is the "nation or kingdom that will not serve thee", Netanyahu's statement saying they will fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah is a statement of intent to genocide.

New Hersh article

Netanyahoo won't/hasn't explained why there were no troops on the border. Hamas and Egyptian official are fighting for a cut of the UN supplies. No clear reasoning established for why Hamas is releasing hostages, but the supected reasoning is to either slow down the bombing and/or get more aid in. The raid went better than Hamas expected, but a lot of Palestinians who weren't "invited to the party" flowed out of Gaza once the walls had been breached and committed a lot of the actions that are being blamed on Hamas (but also some of the ones who were "invited" probably did some of it, too).

🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:
—
Gaza defends and fights with its flesh and blood, and the flag will not fall.

The enemy's decision to cut off all communications and internet services to the Gaza Strip, following its threats of committing more genocidal crimes and escalating brutal bombing, is an attempt by the enemy to silence the voice of Gaza, to hide images of its crimes and defeats, and to use shock to spread fear among the steadfast residents of Gaza.

What the Popular Front fears and warns against are the ongoing brutal crimes by the enemy's army and air force against defenseless women, elderly, and children, especially given the enemy's escalation of its aerial, naval, and ground bombardment.

Any enemy ground incursion attempts, no matter their form or size, will only be met with increased resistance, and the enemy will face surprises prepared by our people's resistance that they are unaware of. Our people should be confident of the readiness and capability of the resistance.

The Front warns against exploiting the communication blackout in Gaza to spread rumors and circulate the enemy's lies, urging our people and Palestinian journalists to make their best efforts to convey the truth to the masses using any available means.

The Front calls on Palestinian companies and entities to urgently find solutions that enable the residents of Gaza to access communications, warning against any negligence in this regard, especially since these communications are essential for residents to access emergency and ambulance services.

The Front also calls for an escalation of Arab popular and official efforts to stop the aggression, emphasizing the necessity of working on bringing aid, volunteers, and international delegations to the Strip to relieve its people and wounded, and to reveal the scale of the zionist crimes committed in the Strip.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
27th October 2023
Central Media Department.

I’m getting real tired of the Iranian Foreign Ministry talking shit

Yoan Tuval : US official confirms to me that key reason for IDF ground invasion delay is US request to complete preps for broader conflict.

Preps incl deployment of THAAD and Patriot air defense systems in Gulf (poss also Jordan + northern Iraq) and arrival of 2000k marines

I need a better source for this, cause if it's true that's a real dumb reason to delay, cause if Israel goes in the US is gonna need more than 2000 crayon eating marines to contain the inevitable explosion all over the Arab world

It's one thing to watch babies being pulled from rubble, the part of the brain that deals with cope can almost convince you you're looking at the aftermath of a earthquake or a natural disaster

But watching some racist conscript blast and abuse Palestinian children on live TV is another story

Iran to hold large scale military exercises next week, official announcement teaser video by the military relations office

https://streamable.com/o6oymo

The next in line:

Military sources in Eritrea reveal an armed attack on #Israeli forces at the Dahlak base in Eritrea. The attack targeted the highest peak of Mount Amba Suir, from which #Israeli forces take an observation post in the Red Sea. Informed sources: A senior officer was killed in the operation amid strict #Israeli secrecy.