#CCm

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ccmhockey: Hitting the ice for the first time with the C 😁

[chelseajackarmy]

Samantha Mewis with the puck drop at the PWHL Boston game against the PWHL Minnesota tonight 27/1/24

[heykayhayes]

Helping my wife design, redesign and upgrade some of her character Hernando's outfits across the various campaigns he's in as he gets older and goes on more adventures! And he is with his companion Ector in two! -u-

[eupat]

[haveyouheardthisband]

[rideinternal]

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Tracklist:

What Did You Drag Me Into? • I Am Not Ashamed • Esther, Ruth, and Rahab • Takes a Little Time • Holy Ground • Scratches • Desire of Your Heart • Take a Chance on Me • Ones Like Us • Good Day

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[ramblingandpie]

Update on my brain!

We have a diagnosis: cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) aka brain angioma.

I will be meeting with a neurovascular surgeon to see if I'm a candidate for surgery, which is... basically the only treatment option. It looks like that depends mostly on where exactly the CCM is and if it's easy to access.

Fortunately, mine appears to be isolated rather than familial (so I'm not at risk of developing more of them) and is not in a location in the brain that puts me at high risk for seizures. So that's good, at least. It still feels like my hand and foot are coated in paint stripper (chemical burny feel) (fun fact once I accidentally got a glob of chemical paint stripper on my elbow! So I know what chemical burns feel like). I can still use a pen fairly reliably but I'll want to learn how to write left-handed. They're apparently prone to flares depending on how leaky/bleedy it gets.

Also I can't crack eggs worth a damn so um if anyone knows any cool AT for cracking eggs when your hands suck I am all ears. Shells e'erywhere when I do it on my own.

[byrdt]

[3416]

new auston content in an ad for ccm's new sticks...... phew

[chelseajackarmy]

Jeremy Swayman

[gengarghast]

I can't believe that Homestuck has infiltrated the Comic Con Museum

he's just. there. In an Official Exibit about the origins of animation.

what the Fuck

[shotofchinaco]

If you’ve ever wondered why it seems like every other station on your dial is Christian rock, EMF [the Educational Media Foundation] is a big part of your answer. From its headquarters in a Nashville suburb (the organization is slowly relocating from its longtime home of California), EMF plays the generic sounds of contemporary Christian music, or “CCM.” It is a genre that everyone from artists and critics to church leaders have decried as being somewhere between “the absolute worst” and “doctrinally unsound.” But the Educational Media Foundation has quietly become the country’s fastest-growing radio chain and second-largest station owner in the country, bested only by iHeartRadio. With hundreds of cookie-cutter stations branded as “K-LOVE,” as well as its smaller chain of “Air1” stations, EMF broadcasts on more than 1,000 signals across all 50 states and some U.S. territories, reaching an estimated 18 million listeners a week.  On the surface, EMF’s broadcasts are glaringly apolitical. They opt instead for their trite brand of Christian rock, all teed off by the same, small cast of nationally syndicated, Anywhere-USA DJs who smile through everything from squeaky-clean jokes about the drink sizes at Starbucks to prayers asking God to watch over those who have donated to the organization. But behind its politically neutral facade, the organization — and the CCM industry more broadly — appears to be an inherently conservative project. Many right-wing Christian culture bearers have long believed in the “Breitbart Doctrine” — the idea that, to change politics, you must first change culture — and have fought for decades to build a parallel popular culture free of sharp edges, hard questions, or representations of lives that veer from the straight and narrow.

[...] But EMF’s story isn’t just about bad music taking over the airwaves in service of a cultural vision that is overwhelmingly white, straight, and artistically regressive. It’s also the story of the near-demise of local radio — a longtime haven for new music, artistic outcasts, and political dialogue — at the hands of a tax-avoiding not-for-profit organization that appears to operate like a very-much-for-profit media mega-corporation. For decades, EMF has hidden behind a veneer of uncoolness while honing a signature technique: At big commercial stations and small, beloved community-radio stations alike, they’ve offered the owners an undeniable sum of money, wiped out the local presence, and replaced it with unmanned transmitters.

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Tracklist:

Good For Me • Baby Baby • Every Heartbeat • That's What Love Is For • Ask Me • Galileo • You're Not Alone • Hats • I Will Remember You • How Can We See That Far • Hope Set High

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[prettyjesusfreaks]

the one issue i have with a lot of CCM is... well, a lot of it sounds the same. there are artists - for example Tobymac, For KING and COUNTRY, and Crowder - who try to stand out, but a lot of it feels... contrived and uninspired, unfortunately. like i'm listening to the same artist for an hour straight when i listen to christian radio while i'm studying. and i think we can do better.