Darren

I do the same with yt-dlp, though mine is still a little more manual. I have my subscriptions in FreeTube, which I use to select what I want to watch. Copy the link, run my script, then trundle to the lounge where I can watch them on my big TV.

There’s a mindfulness to that process that’s helpful to me. A conscious decision, as opposed to mindlessly absorbing content.

There’s a lot to be said for stepping back from online debates and asking whether your voice is actually valuable, or whether you’re just yelling into the void and getting yourself all pissy.

For me, I try to take the view that there’s already enough negativity, so I try to be as positive as I can in my online interactions. If someone gets needlessly arsey with me, I’ll try to sympathise with them. If they don’t react well to that, I’ll leave the thread. I’m not changing anyone’s mind, not even yours.

NJB is the shit.

I will never, never visit Fake London.

I don’t use iOS any more, but I found that a combination of Safari + adblocker + Vinegar was the golden setup. No ads, and you get to use the default iOS video player.

Duct tape the Thinkpad to the gennie and you’ve got a lovely, portable all-in-one.

Perhaps it’s because I’m old, but I kinda hit a wall a few years back where I stopped giving a shit about what famous people had to say on the internet. So on that basis, the move from Twitter to Mastodon was easy for me. Less easy was leaving behind people who I liked, but life is change, and we leave people behind all the time.

Fair play, this is top quality confidently incorrect material.

Yeah man, that shit can be hard and time consuming.

I used to do a podcast. Each episode was around 12 minutes. I’d spend a good eight hours a week on those 12 minutes, around my actual job, and would get about ten people listening. And you know that within half an hour of hearing it, they’ve forgotten it and moved on to the next thing in their queue. It’s hard to maintain enthusiasm for that.

You, The Master Driver, are amply equipped to decide what the true speed limit should be.

The beauty of this comment is that it could be in support of either position.

No no no, it’s pronounced “PNG”

So far as I’m aware, their label hasn’t dropped them. Their agents have, but fuck agents. Someone with some stones will snap 'em up in a heartbeat.

Start with their second album, We Live Here. It’s got some incredible, visceral punk on it. The Price of Life, and Humble As the Sun are top notch, but a touch more polished.

God bless Lolo for massively distorting my teenage expectations of what boobs look like.

Eurotrash

Yeah, I know, but that doesn’t lend itself to comments that get upvotes, and I’m a slag for it.

I end up dribbling because the lid gets in my way, but it’s fine because I’m helping to offset the pollution caused by a billionaire’s private jet.

They’re worth checking out, because they’re fucking great.

We Live Here is incredible.

You have to keep applying it. It’ll happen.

Get thee to messenger.com then. Save it as a PWA and its like having the app but you give Meta as little as possible.