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#Listening to Straightlining by hardcase #Otautahi rockers AVON DADS, released in 2025;

https://avondads.bandcamp.com/album/straightlining

#HatTip to Freak the Sheep, who played this funny and rather catchy track on the March 12 edition of their show on 95bFM. Which I catch up with from The Tron via their podcast feed;

https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/16767/16982213/freak-the-sheep-w-chris-cudby-march-12-2025

They've been playing a lot of hardcase tunes on the show of late. Long may this continue!

#music #rock #comedy #NerdRock #AvonDads #Aotearoa #NZ

Straightlining, by AVON DADS

2 track album

AVON DADS

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Fishd 2d ago

@ChrisMayLA6 Obviously, the previous control for prices was competition but given the regulators everywhere appear to have turned a blind eye to the myriad of mergers, acquisitions and mega-mergers ...

We have a system of monopolies everywhere, hiding in plain sight through sub-brands and partnerships etc.

Once monopolies are in place, there path is clear.

#hattip to @pluralistic and his book Enshittification.

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Strypey 6d ago

While adding @endurain to the ActivityPub watchlist for fediverse.party, I noticed that @forgejo has added code enabling me to add a fediverse address to a wiki page on @Codeberg, and have it automatically become a link to the profile for that address. Great stuff!

#HatTip to whoever had that idea and coded it, and also to @smallcircles for tipping me off about Endurain, and supplying the info about on the Delightful list that I was able to draw from for our listing.

#FediverseParty #CodeBerg

Strypey Mar 20

I just started reading the blog of @gilles. #HatTip to @mayel for the link to Gilles' homepage.

Anyway, I read this blog post;
https://blog.gillesdutilh.com/2025/03/the-pain-in-mansplaining/

... and saw "fediverse reactions" at the bottom. So I tried putting that URL into the @Mastodon search bar. No dice.

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#UX #FediverseUX

Strypey Mar 19

#Listening to Skip That Shit by Raiden Freeman, from the 2023 album DF2;

https://bankruptworldwide.bandcamp.com/album/df2

This is some funny shit. I dare you to listen to it. I double dog dare ya!

#HatTip to Chris Cudby of the Freak the Sheep kiwi music shop on 95bFM, for introducing me to this crackup track.

#music #comedy #electronica #RaidenFreeman #95bFM #FreakTheSheep

DF2, by Raiden Freeman

14 track album

Bankrupt Records

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Strypey Mar 13

#HatTip to the @fdroid threadiverse community, and others, for offering such rapid and thorough clarifications. Many thanks to @lnxw37a2 @hildegarde @alienghic @plm00 @Axolotl_cpp.

Thanks also to @tootbrute @kurikai for offering suggestions for other soft keyboard apps, and to @snek_boi for reminding me to format the first sentence of my Mastodon post so it becomes a good title in the threadiverse post.

Strypey Mar 9

Like a lot of people over the last few years, I've been getting really into the idea of regressing to a simpler phone that's just a phone, and demoting my touchscreen to being a pocket tablet. I've posted a few times on the #DumbPhone tag (#HatTip to @Mastodon for the feature that allows me to filter posts with a tag from a particular account). The first time in 2023, asking for device recommendations;

https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/110149459018648853

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#hardware #DigitalDetox #UX #MobileUX #DigitalHygiene