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The Crypt of Saint Zama / La Cripta di San Zama ⛪ for #spookysaturday

Underneath the Abbey of SS Naborre and Felice is where you can find St. Zama's Crypt. It has been a lot of things over the years (for example at one stage it was a Military Hospital and a Lazaret) During the 3rd century, in this site, there already existed the first and most important Christian center. It is said that the first archibishop of Bologna, Saint Zama, around the year 270, had improved the preexisting church, dedicating it to St. Peter. It also used to house the bodies of the first bishops - but they are no longer there! ✨

#photography #amateurphotography #church #crypt #underground #bones #altar #bishops #spooky #creepy #eerie #dark #moody #bologna #italia #italy #statue #history #spookyvibes #europe

A couple of days ago - August 8 2025 - marks the 30-year anniversary of one of the greatest albums of all time, the first album by Ben Folds Five, appropriately named...Ben Folds Five.

The first BF5 song I ever heard was the utterly joyous Underground. I remember waiting in bed most mornings for it to come onto my little clock radio - tuned to Triple J, natch - before getting up and trying to face the last few months of Year 12 (yeah, I'm old).

This album is a genuine classic of 90s alternative, piano and fuzz bass and nerdy lyrics and over-the-top exuberance. And it's still completely brilliant.

Give it a fresh listen on whatever platform you use: album.link/s/2zNa1aZ0VaGfuiNqD

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Psst: R U lookin' 4 some beauty in music?

You may find it in…

RADIO IRRTUM!
(on air from Berlin)

↓↓↓ Deutsch Version below unten ↓↓↓

Da next beautiful issue of
#RadioIrrtum! will air this Saturday, 2025/08/02, 8:00pm UTC+2, Berlin time. At Alex Berlin FM at 91MHz / DAB+ K7D around #Berlin + worldwide at https://www.alex-berlin.de/radio-livestream .

Why? What is this?

#Radio Irrtum! is a German language #radioShow exploring the sonic vastness of the #underground. Emitted transmissions may raise attention for new unheard #music all over this planets genre spectrum. Don't worry about that #GermanLanguage - it's about the #music!

This time completely with a rant about German public-sector broadcasters, their obsession with the AFD far right party, and its electors. And of course and most importantly — Music:

- FLiNTA:
#Chorals
- dark
#popMusic from #Mexico
- playful souly
#HipHop
- distorted
#DrillnBass
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#140Bass i.e. from #Peru
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#electro from #Denmark
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#experimental electronical music
- hefty
#EggPunk + #RiotGrrrl
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#AlternativeRock
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#maritimeNoir
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#Chansonesque #pianoMusic

All that, while running the new album from
#AdrianSherwood in the back. Cuz' we can.
Some of the tracks played are released under the
#CreativeCommons license, and some can NOT be found on #Sporify and the likes. Which actually is a good thing.

Anyway: If at least a bit interested in kewl new unusual
#music, tune in! 📻

And if you have questions? I'll gladly answer! Just ask!
Playlist + manuscript after the show here.
CU all (?) on Saturday.


↑↑↑ English version above, the Deutsche welche jetzt ↓↓↓

Radio Irrtum! kommt näher → Samstag, 02.08.2025, 20:00 isses soweit auf Alex Berlin (FM 91MHz/DAB+ K.7D / Stream URL oben).

Also die seltsame Funk(el)sendung, in der planetenumfassende Weiten des musikalischen Untergrunds erforscht werden.

Um einen gewissen Rant bezüglich des Umgangs der ARD mit der AFD und ihren Wähler:innen komme ich allerdings nicht herum. Davon abgesehen steht selbstverständlich Musik im Mittelpunkt:

- FLINTA: Choräle
- Dunkler Pop aus Mexiko
- verspielter Hiphop
- übersteuerter Drill 'n Bass
- 140Bass ua. aus Peru
- dänischer Elektro
- experimentel Elektronisches
- Egg- und Riot Grrrl Punk
- Alternative Rock
- Maritime Noir
- Chansonesque Klaviermusik

Im Hintergrund wird die neue Platte von Adrian Sherwood laufen. Warum auch nicht?

Creative Commons Tracks hamma dabei; sowie viel Musik, die NICHT auf Spotify ist.
Wird wieder heftig schön! Playlist + Manuskript nach der Sendung am Sonntag hier drunter. Fragen einfach stellen – ich antworte.

#noNazis #scheißAfd #noAiInMusic

As a reaction of the whole Itch thing, we decided
a) To mirror all our downloads on our own server. We also keep them up on Itch, as we don't consider them the culprits in the whole case - but we believe that it is important to decentralize the whole indie/underground/non-commercial gaming scene. Relying to one monolithic platform ain't good.
You can find our games at
https://thunderperfectwitchcraft.org/
all of them are free software, and most of them (except the "Vaults of Minos" and "Just Let Me Play Mahjongg") have also free assets.

b) To kick the pricing on "The Vaults of Minos". We talked about doing this a while ago already, and as we also want it to be available on our own server, this seems like a good time to do it. I contacted the support at steam, and expect that it will be turned to freeware there in the next few days as well.
It is - until now - our most elaborate project, we are proud about it, and recommend heavily to play it :).

You can find it at
https://thunderperfectwitchcraft.org/VaultsOfMinos/index.html

Have fun!

#game #games #videogames #digital #art #digitalart #floss #foss #opensource #libre #libregaming #free #underground #undergroundgame #gamedev #indie #indiegame #itch
The Petrified Cascade

:boost_request: If you like it, reblog it, we are the algorithm here!

🇫🇷 On ne se rend pas compte des durées géologiques pour sculpter une telle cascade. Le nombre de gouttes d’eau qui ont glissées en déposant molécules après molécules de minerais pour finir par donner un véritable œuvre naturelle. Le plus triste étant que juste par notre respiration, on ronge la sculpture. Être préservée mais invisible ou bien être admirée et détruite à petit feu ? Je ne sais pas 😕

🇬🇧 We can’t fathom the geological duration it took to carve such a beauty. The uncountable number of water drops that slide, leaving behind, mineral molecule one after one resulting in a true natural art sculpture. The saddest point being that just by our breath, we’re corroding it away. To be preserve but unseen or being admired and slowly destroyed? I don’t know 😕

📅 07/10/2014
📷 #Canon6D, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
⚙️ ƒ/10.0, ⏲️ 1/20, 🎥 24.0mm, 🎞️ 25600

#Canon #photography #pixelfed #darktable #underground #cave #LaCave #France