Very depressing how all the comments to this are purely positive. yes always nice to get your thing sponsored and all but this is EXACTLY how big tech takes over alternative infrastructure. Google dosnt sponser open source conferences cause they believe in the movement
We really need to just block anyone who talks about the American military as anything other than a terrorist organisation. This 'poor, deluded soldier just doing it for college' narrative needs to die as quickly as the soldiers should.
Top trending topics on Bluesky: 1. SNL 2. Teresa Weatherspok 3. AEW Revolution 4. Danhausen 5. AEW Tag Team
Khamenei was just assassinated by the US and Israel overnight and the top trending topics on Bluesky are SNL and the AEW.
I am continually shocked how insufferably, vapidly USian the culture on this platform is.
The BDS movement launches two new tools for ethical tourism.
If you are a hospitality host, pledge to make your B&B, hostel, or hotel a Sanctuary of Peace - sanctuariesofpeace.org
If you are a traveler, pledge to drop Booking and Airbnb
from your travel plans - loom.ly/ZdTnKaI
As someone who went to the Philippines as a foreign student, adding 'HAHA' at the end of a sentence is v 🇵🇭-coded and clockable from miles away
we've started a new thing this year: open house hours every saturday morning for our friends
fresh baking, coffee, board games, people can come and go and hang out
we're the third space
One thing I'd love to ask all the ATproto boosters, and maybe I'm just missing something obvious here, but how is the atmosphere expected to survive Bluesky's inevitable enshittification with so much of the network relying on its infrastructure?
A YING YANG OF 2 SKLETON'S "HATE SOCIAL MEDIA, BUT I NEED TO WATCH MY LITTLE VIDEO'S" - WITHOUT ONE THERE CANNOT BE DA OTHER "da ying yang of life • da cosmic balance • da share z0ne • da inevitable result of all things • da acceptance of bad as a necesary counterpart to good • da share z0ne • da pendulum must swing one way in order to swing da other • da enjoyment of snack’s tempered by da knowledge of how they all end up • ada share z0ne" - WITHOUT ENRICHMENT IN OUR ENCLOSURES WOULD WE WITHER OR WOULD WE FIND THE WAY OUT OF THE ENCLOSURE,,, GUESS WE"LL NEVER KNOW - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
DA ETERNAL STUGGLE - dashare.zone ADMIN
Bing has blocked neocities and all user subdomains from its search index.
We’ve spent months trying to resolve this through official channels and gotten nowhere.
Until this gets resolved, we are recommending that people do not use Bing.
Blog post with details: blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01...
To all fleeing from Firefox due to their tone-deaf AI fumblings, please don't move to a Chromium-based browser.
Diversity in browser engines is critical for an open web. We must avoid a monopoly at all costs.
#Browsers #Firefox #Mozilla
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
Did someone mention Greenland?
Happy holidays everyone! Here's a little gift:
"Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" (Fusion Reharmonisation)
RIP Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Everyone with ADHD knows how fast you ignore a reminder, whether digital or actual sticky note, after seeing it a few times. Your mind will glance right past it, almost immediately.
Todo list apps completely forget that this happens.
Nearly six years in prison with no trial and no bail for peaceful protest, framed by the state for a state sanctioned pogrom against their own minority population. Our courts dance to the tune of the regime.
Trying to get back onto social media this year after taking a long break. Where are the instrument playing gays on this platform. #guitar #skramz #emo #mathrock
One thing I feel like I'm not seeing mentioned enough is that the entire world needs this oil to stay in the ground, not be extracted and burned by a powermad colonial empire, further polluting the ecosphere and exacerbating the climate crisis, thus ensuring even more needless death and suffering.
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"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
"All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake 'public opinion' for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.
This is a fact.
No one will ever be able to refute it."
- Lenin
More people are questioning the effect of digital tech, AI, and even streaming on culture — and some are even going back to analog!
In light of that, this week we’re replaying a great interview with @lizpelly.bsky.social about music, streaming, and Spotify.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/309_...
a red watercolor painting with a triumphant character. the text says 'I'm gonna get my sparkle back'
You will too! Let's go 2026!!!!!
A graphic showing a summary of my 2025 last.fm scrobbles. It shows: 3351 scrobbles 8 days, 24 hours 1109 artists 1624 albums 2470 tracks Top artist: Julian Lage Top album: Monument Valley 3 (Original Game Soundtrack) Top track: Raag Yaman (I) Gulab Afridi Top tags: jazz, instrumental, jazz fusion, ambient, electronic
got my last.fm wrapped
now more than ever, doing/making things yourself is an act of resistance. it's always been cool but now it's cooler than ever. at least that's something we can take advantage of. don't let yourself get beat down, learn basic skills and make yourself more powerful
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
this song is SO HYPE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYU-...
best prog jazz I have heard this year
yess tamarind jellies/candies are the best
