This time last year: goodbye to @Mollysdailykiss incredible #SinfulSunday project.
The beauty and joy we lose through censorship and bad laws makes me want to weep. What we do isn't dirty or shameful - what we do is GOOD, actually! https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/goodbye-sinful-sunday-good-actually/
Watch Emerson (IG: tryingtoguitar) give this Stratocaster a tune-up using our FixHub Soldering Toolkit.
#Iran's new AI Lego music video is easily the most impressive and effective foreign propaganda i've ever experienced in my life
https://x.com/JOKAQARMY1/status/2042110025762550274
#IRGC #IranWar #AI #Lego #Israel #middleEast #uspol #uspolitics #eupol #eupolitics
3 stars for "Occulta" by Maya Motayne: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/6e4a11b3-22b3-4876-8f43-fd4c947c9ed4
And looking ahead more of early May...
Thurs, May 7:
Roots and Rhythm – A Journey of Nations, at The Roxy's Lorne Cardinal Theatre as part of Jabulani Festival. 7:30pm, $10.
Community showcase at Five & Dive featuring Sam Steffen, Jesse Ferguson, & more. 7:30pm, no cover, 18+.
Prepare for the North Country Fair at The Commercial, bands TBA. 7pm, $10, 18+.
Hipster alt-country from Daniel Romano's Outfit at Double Dragon. 7pm (doors), $32, 18+.
(hopefully I'll have posted a May calendar before the following weekend)
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57s agoAnd today we have sunshine! 😊
God I hate telling people I'm from Surrey originally. They make assumptions.
Do they really assume no working-class people live in Surrey? I mean, who do they think collects the bins? Do they think they bus bin-men in from outside the Home Counties?
health sync (steps, sleep, heart rate) to Google Fit and iOS Healthkit is working - thank you for the PR michaelthatsit (github.com/coredevices/...)
Will be in the next release of @repebble.com@bsky.brid.gy mobile app!
Health: Google Health Connect ...
Spotify now lets you turn off all video
https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/music/spotify-now-lets-you-turn-off-all-video-130000034.html?src=rss&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Entertainment @entertainment-Engadget
Notes from the 2026-04-09 #SWICG #GeosocialTF meeting:
- @herebox update on geosocial work presented at AT Protocol Atmosphere conference
- @evan microsyntax for location doc PR
- FediForum session planning
https://hedgedoc.socialweb.coop/s/L0a0Gqvz4
Next meeting: 2026-05-14
Agenda: https://github.com/swicg/geosocial/wiki/2026%E2%80%9005%E2%80%9014-agenda
Thurs, Apr 30:
What looks to be a monthly jazz night at Frank's Pub, with Jacob Do Quartet. 7pm, no cover, 18+.
Classic electric blues & R&B from The Black & Blues Band, at The Commercial AKA Blues on Whyte. 8pm, no cover, 18+.
Fri, May 1:
Alt-country/cowpunk from The Uncas with The Bing Bang Boys and Nadine Kellman, at 9910. 8pm, $23, 18+.
Sat, May 2:
Funky modern brass band grooves from The Brasstactics at The Yardbird. 8pm, $34.
Mon, May 4:
Earnest anthemic folk-pop from Royal Wood at Festival Place. 7:30pm, $42-45.
2m agoThe Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client
I love the Fediverse. I have been on it for years, and it remains the only social network where I actually enjoy spending time. No algorithmic feed pushing outrage, no dark patterns, no surveillance capitalism. Just people talking to each other over an open protocol.
But every time I wanted to recommend it to someone, I ran into the same wall: the clients are heavy. Mastodon's web interface ships megabytes of JavaScript. Elk, Phanpy, Ivory, beautiful apps, but they require a modern browser, a fast connection, and a device manufactured in the last five years ...
New blog post :
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/the-fediverse-deserves-a-dumb-graphical-client.md
1m agoOnce again petitioning all of youtube to keep text on screen long enough to actually read (and failing that, at least grab a remote and pause, especially if you keep jabbering on and the text is longer).
OpenAI launches a $100/month ChatGPT Pro subscription, which offers 5x more Codex usage than Plus; the $200/month Pro plan offers 20x higher limits than Plus (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/09/openai-introduces-100-month-pro-plan-aimed-at-codex-users-heres-what-it-includes/
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p33#a260409p33
Put on some of your favorite music.
Estimates of the proportion of the population engaged in sabotage can be disseminated.
Well bollocks. I think I just got given the alcoholic version of this beer. I ordered the 0.0% version...
Garak: Okay I don't want to be cruel so I'm going to watch what I say but please don't talk to Miles for me.
Ezri: You don't trust me?
Garak: I don't want your Ensign's advice. I am going to deal with Miles in my own way.
Ezri: That's what I'm worried about.
