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Andrews, Julie:
🎵 My favorite things (My favourite things)
#NowPlaying #Andrews #Julie
https://butterscotchmusic.bandcamp.com/track/my-favorite-things-a-tribute-to-julie-andrews
https://open.spotify.com/track/1iCHl2R7xoEsh7CvYe5Ej0
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@jake4480@c.imMy favorite 20 LPs of 2025: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/my-top-20-favorite-lps-of-2025
Tagging a bunch of you that have helped me out finding things this year or who have expressed interest - sorry if I missed you, there's a lot…
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Nolan Potter:
🎵 My Favorite Things
#NolanPotter
https://nolanpotter.bandcamp.com/track/my-favorite-things
https://open.spotify.com/track/54WQpWDRSkzWEPQPtKqsPK
@brian_gettler@mas.toToday's #TuneTuesday is #PedalPowerSongs, tunes about bikes. This is dangerous territory, involving two of my favorite things. I'll try to control myself.
Among other things, this tune is about the city wanting to kill those of us who aren't travelling by car.
Bomb The Music Indust…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDay 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen
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Onyx Collective:
🎵 My Favorite Things
#OnyxCollective
https://onyxcollective.bandcamp.com/track/my-favorite-things
https://open.spotify.com/track/7BhHAftdMM9EtmxkOQflHO
@jake4480@c.imUgh the new Funeral Vomit got pushed to December 19 from the 10th. Which makes more sense, probably, since it's a Friday and not the Wednesday of the 10th, but it'll bump my favorite 20 of the year list to the next week in December probably. At least til after I've heard it.
The crazy thing is, I already have five things I'm looking forward to in January of the new year 🤯
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialDown to the wire but turned out to be some of my favorite things. #Wordle
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@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz @jake4480@c.imI love that everyone has different unique tastes. And many people will probably find some of the things on my favorite albums list this year to be bizarre and unpleasant. But some of the things on some of these other (mainstream AND indie) 'best albums of 2025' lists.. whew. I can't even imagine listening to these ONCE, much less multiple times 😂
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Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra:
🎵 My favorite Things
#ShawnLeesPingPongOrchestra
https://open.spotify.com/track/7vVjc6KlqZoUvdtlLU7KzE
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialPicture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/
@brian_gettler@mas.toAs an editor, one of my favorite things to read is a solid reply letter from an author that absolutely puts Reviewer2 in their place.
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.caIn the last ~6 months someone linked to their blog about using JS-free custom elements for page structure and style in place of a methodology like BEM, e.g. using `<my-element>`/`my-element {}` instead of `<div class="my-element">`/`.my-element {}`. Might have referenced [HUG CSS](https://
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
OutKast:
🎵 My Favorite Things
#OutKast
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JIDQilIIxsxwZaS5xz8Av
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson
OutKast:
🎵 My Favorite Things
#OutKast
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JIDQilIIxsxwZaS5xz8Av
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
OutKast:
🎵 My Favorite Things
#OutKast
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JIDQilIIxsxwZaS5xz8Av
