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Another year, another @… Year in Music! 🥳
#ListenBrainz #YearInMusic #MusicBrainz

Happy Bandcamp Friday, everyone! Please do support everyone's music as you're able. 🙏
I felt to release something in an opposite direction to the last few albums: 'Music from a Black Hole'. It has understandably received mixed responses when I play it to people, but takes me on an deep trip when listened to from beginning to end.

I listened to CNN talking heads praise the spectacular tactical success of the kidnapping
-- as if the U.S.' military capability was the relevant issue.
They spoke of a restoration of democracy, by which they meant capitalism, if they knew what they meant at all.
Then Trump said the U.S. would run the country directly. 
Once again, journalists attempt to clothe an emperor who's fine with letting it flop around for everyone to see. 
But to put it mildly,…

A Criminal Empire
The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream

Just listened to this whole thing and it's badass.
https://observesince98.bandcamp.com/album/the-bride-a-soundtrack
Producer Observe from Madison, Wisconsin has made a (mostly) instrumental hiphop (turntablist) breakbeat type record here in homage to Ta…

I listened to two AI generated presentations in the last two days. Yes, students and junior scholars were mimicking jargon they did not fully understand already before AI, but listening to them read out jargon they did not even mimic themselves is really another level of cringe. Yes, I know these are fancy words that people in our field would likely use, but you know, I was actually more interested in what _you_ think about the subject. 🙄

“How could we have known?!”
Maybe if you’d listened to those of us warning you – often times your own damn friends – instead of siding with the corporations that paid your salaries/consulting fees/sponsored your conferences/invited you to parties and bought you free booze…
🤷‍♂️
#BigTech #BigWeb

➡️ Isn't it about time people start paying a little more attention to George Monbiot?
He is on the side of 🌱 survival, and if we don't start paying attention to his analysis of our time now, future historians (if our civilisation survives at all) will wonder why he was not listened to more.
As voters, we must hurry and elect as many people as possible who think like Monbiot, or
👋🏼 goodbye democracy, goodbye environment.

Mandelson’s Fifth Column
The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.

BPI: the UK music industry had its 11th straight year of growth in 2025; album sales rose 4.9% YoY to 210.3M, aided by the Oasis reunion and Taylor Swift vinyls (Rob Davies/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/

It happened to me: I met a guy wearing a Guided by Voices t-shirt, so I excitedly started talking about my favorite GBV album Propeller (1992) and he'd never listened to that one

I listened to one of my own albums today. “Navasio” was recorded in 2009. It’s not very good. Oh well. At least I tried!
https://peteprodoehl.bandcamp.com/album/navasio

Been way too long since I listened to Andrew W.K. - instant feel good music for me.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmzP977za2bIunmGONm4dbSYKsvNghlta

Check out my hallucinated 2025 #YouTubeMusicRecap
@… and I are exploring this mystery: I've never listened to this soundtrack, for a show that came out in December 2025, but YouTube Music thinks I listened to it 114 times going back…

Gracias a una publicación de @… conocí Koito --sí, horrible nombre--, una aplicación selfhosteable para llevar el registro (scrobbling) de la música que escuchas al estilo last.fm, y ya tengo mi propio servidor funcionando con historial desde el año 2014
👉🏻

Something for the weekend.
I just listened to this old episode and thought I share it:
CLR Podcast 143 | Angel Costa
published on November 21st 2011.
#Techno

RE: https://indieweb.social/@tg/115967619782982891
"Podcasts borrowed the queue from music players. But nobody ever felt guilty about unplayed albums. "I haven't listened to all my records" isn't a confession. Podcast apps added unplayed …

As salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.

Racist-ass house dems are now saying they made a mistake voting the ICE/DHS funding bill. Go fuck yourselves, you should've listened to your constituents in the first place!

The peoples:
The tech companies:
You asked for it and we listened! We added powerful AI everywhere!!! There is no opt-in or opt-out as we know you LOVE AI and wants it everywhere!!

Been a long time since I listened to Meantime fully. This will determine whether this is my top album from 1992, or if it's Piece of Cake by Mudhoney, which I just did fully- and is another SERIOUS contender. These are my final two out of a larger list for '92, and this one is CLOSE, like some of the others. Some years are really tougher to figure out than others 😅

Helmet - Meantime

SAP has listened to customers on cloud migration, but it could still be clearer on communicating the 'why', and it should use some apps as loss-leaders, says UK and Ireland SAP User Group chair Conor Riordan.
https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/2025

SAP should offer some apps for free, says user group head
SAP has listened to customers on cloud migration, but it could still be clearer on communicating the 'why', and it should use some apps as loss-leaders, says UK and Ireland SAP User Group chair Conor Riordan.

Khamenei is preparing to flee to Russia like Assad if protests there escalate.
But tell me again, Americans, that massive protests in the USA would not be successful in removing Trump and his inner circle from power.
Yes, tell me again that it just won’t work, and that winning Congress in 11 months will definitely fix things.
All my life I have listened to American Presidents and people say that they were defenders of freedom… protectors of democracy…
And yet now, when it comes to their own freedom and democracy, they choose silence?
#delusional #usa #iran #russia #democracy #freedom #protest
https://journa.host/@timkmak/115842916219158862

I listened 20 minutes, then had to give up to conserve some sanity #wef26

RE: #AffordableHousing problem, he has also presented policy suggestions to government. Not sure they listened but they should have.
Let's increase his follower count so more of us are educated on this important issue. Smash that follow button and boost him to your followers.
#MastodonCanada #EconomicPolicy

Thank you very much Dan, you really get us! https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/115746825145674767

I listened to my inherited Flatt & Scruggs Vinyl yesterday - all ringing banjo and stuff and really deep long accents; it's really nice - I think the two I like the most are the 'Hot Corn, Cold Corn' and 'The Martha White Theme' (the latter is a jingle they did for a flour brand!)
https://youtu.be/DVgaRt6ft_g

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple
reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become
disturbed.
-- James Thurber

Institutional power, capitalism, colonialism, and an empire on the brink of war or collapse. Doncha just love escaping into fiction when the real world gets to be too much?
Yeah, 19th century fictional Britain is strikingly similar to the US today, but at least you know the fictional story will have a resolution. I don't want to spoil the story. Just know that you're in for a captivating ride with an excellent author.
Babel by R.F. Kuang
I listened to the audio book…

@… got a fine write-up in this Japanese blog! 🪗 🇯🇵
They listened to our show, liked our anti ICE episodes and bought some "This Machine Irritates Fascists" button/badges
Also some interesting comments on why the #accordion is popular in d…

2025.02.16 Mon
“This is Jeff Berner, and you’re like me, a…

Just listened to the current episode of @… and heard @… you'd like to attend 40C3, would be awesome to have you there!
We've been running the Open Source Firmware assembly for a handful of years now, will happily welc…

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@squidfunk/115739987490118848
since nobody listened to me, now you heard it from The Man: stop using MkDocs 😇
⁃ Sphinx: still maintained
⁃ API docs and cross links: work out of the box
⁃ MyST (Markdown in Sphinx): …

After a Blue Monday start (Orgy's version is my fav) looks like I'm all in on a Radio Head today.

i found these two gems at the record store up the street and, at twelve bucks each, couldn't resist. i listened to these LPs (and dream weaver and forest flower) a ton in high school.
#jazz #vinyl #vinylrecords

RE: https://sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/115766880945594462
I listened to the Lunachicks on CD back in the 90s. Theo has a vibrant, strong voice - glad the group took off during 90s punk scene. They did some work with NoFx back then too.

Dear friends,
Please forgive one more post related to this, but I’m excited to share my new album, 'Habitations', with you!
A friend listened to a few of my thoughts/the album and summarised it as "inhabited worlds - human sanctuaries and tragedies, insect colonies and their swarm intelligences, bird migrations across continents, the microcosms of mind and memory, the metal nests of decaying cities…tracing the often-surprising beauty of the perilous journey home - t…

Even before extremist Republican Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office on January 20,
progressives warned of his fascistic tendencies and plans,
often citing his platform, and highlighting what former Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls “Trump’s playbook of dictators.”
But too few people, even on the left side of the electorate, listened.
After all, those warnings have been sounded for months if not years.
“Trump is following, point for point, the playbook of …

Top Senators expose Trump’s fascist playbook
WASHINGTON—Even before extremist Republican Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office on January 20, progressives warned of his fascistic tendencies and plans, often citing his platform, and highlighting what former Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls “Trump’s playbook of dictators.

I've listened to enough episodes of Revolutions to have a rough idea of what's coming next. If you're in the US, now is a good time to do some more long-term (the system will be down for months or years) kind of disaster planning.
That means building connections with your community, because you can't do everything yourself and you may have to figure out how to get things without state/capital functioning to facilitate that.

I have never listened to a single podcast on Amazon Music, but it insists I want to listen to them. I wish there were a music service that let you disable Podcasts entirely.

I've only ever listened to a handful of 'podcasts'.
But my question is, what's the generic name for them?
"podcast": from Apple's iPod machine, and broadcast.
"hoover": from a major brand of [generic name] vacuum cleaner.
I propose "webtape". From web and (for an historical feel) 'tape recording'.

Unlike Darth #Vance, Marco #Rubio seems to believe what he says; he is neither a cynic nor a ruthless opportunist who would sacrifice everything for his own career, like Vance.
But that doesn't make him any less dangerous. His speech, which I have now listened to repeatedly, sounds like a manifesto of a …

Listening to Joan Armatrading and realising that I have not listened to enough Joan Armatrading in my life.

I have not listened to this classic in a while...
アイナ・ジ・エンド - オーケストラ / THE FIRST TAKE

• YouTube
• YouTube Music
• Invidious

After the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.

Last night I listened to a bunch of Rihanna hahahaha

Now playing yet another older death metal banger again, Mortiferum's 2021 LP, 'Preserved in Torment'. Easily one of my favorite death metal (or any metal) records ever. I've listened to this one a LOT.
https://mortiferum.bandcamp.com/album/preserved-in-torment