Soul music, *really?*

Arseholes.

https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/school-book-banning-escalates-in-the-uk-as-greater-manchester-secondary-school-censors-scores-of-books/

i just mentioned this to a friend who didn’t know about it but in case you are unaware, to get music on a streaming service, artists must pay a distribution service. if they stop paying, the music gets taken down.

which means that many artists are out there paying and also not making any money because spotify now requires a thousand streams to make a fraction of a penny. spotify's playlists are increasingly filling with ai slop that is preventing people from hearing these artists.

supporting artists directly through services like bandcamp, faircamp, mirlo, etc, means that they get more money than they would make from thousands and thousands of streams.

on bandcamp friday, all their fees are waived and the money goes directly to the artist. so for example somebody paid me 6 dollars and all i lost was 37 cents in payment processor fee

edit to add: i am told that some services are a one-time fee for example cdbaby was a one time $14.99. that is still a LOT of spotify streams to recoup

From an "Other 98%" post on fb:

"Minneapolis isn’t “responding” to ICE anymore. Minneapolis is organizing to OUTLAST ICE. After weeks of escalated federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota, the Twin Cities are doing something the rest of the country keeps saying it wants but rarely builds: an everyday, neighborhood-level infrastructure that makes state violence harder to pull off in silence.

Here’s what that infrastructure looks like on the ground: Signal chats that spread sightings in minutes, people walking around with whistles, neighbors showing up fast when someone’s being cornered, and ordinary folks choosing “I’m watching” as a civic identity.

In a Jacobin interview, Minneapolis organizer Aru Shiney-Ajay describes a staggering density of participation, including neighborhood chats reaching “over 4 percent” of residents and rapid-response patrol chats that hit 1,000 people in a single neighborhood by late morning.
That matters because ICE thrives on logistics and isolation. You cannot “community statement” your way out of a federal dragnet. You have to interrupt the machine where it eats and sleeps and hides.

That’s why Minneapolis didn’t just stay defensive. It went on offense.
Activists have targeted the “pillars” that let ICE operate like an occupying force: hotels, rental cars, corporate partners, the quiet, normal places where repression refuels.

A local campaign that pushed a Hilton-branded hotel to refuse service to ICE, triggering national blowback and a corporate scramble. What makes this smart isn’t the spectacle. It’s the leverage. A regime can ignore outrage. It can’t ignore friction inside the supply chain that keeps its agents moving.

Then came the proof-of-concept flex: the January 23 “ICE Out” general strike day in Minneapolis and beyond, called by unions and community groups as a refusal of business as usual under terror.

This was a muscle-building exercise: can we coordinate, can we hold lines, can we protect each other, can we make the city ungovernable for people who think they can hunt humans here?
This is what resistance looks like when it grows up. Not just rage. Routines. Not just protest. Infrastructure.

And that’s the real exportable lesson: if you want ICE out of your city, don’t wait for permission from pundits or politicians. Build networks that make disappearance difficult, complicity expensive, and solidarity automatic."
#abolishice #Minneapolis #maga #fascism #antifascism

#Blind and #visionimpaired people, and those who design accessible #PenPaper #rpg rulebooks in my followers: How do you read roleplaying game books, and what do you do with charts, map and illustrations?

Right now, most of my rulebook is text (see https://roa.5f9.de), and relies on purely textual information to convey things. That should be decently accessible with a screen reader.

BUT: I am thinking of redoing the skill "tree" with a hex map, so that each skill learned unlocks those that are touching that hex for future learning.

So, assuming you learn the skill "Physical Combat", that has "Stalwart Defender", "Hold Ground" and "Shield Use" adjacent to it - so these are unlocked now, even though "Shield Use" is part of a different skill group.

Visually, it is pretty easy to lay out and read. But how would that translate that to a screen reader? Would it be enough to list all adjacent skills in a skills description, and then people compile the map in their head?

My design goal is to lower cognitive load and lookups wherever I can, and this is a great way to do it visually, but I fear that it'll make things a lot harder for non-seeing people?

*edit: Boosts welcome

Hallo ich bin #neuhier - dies wird ein neuer Anfang auf Mastodon. Ein guter Freund sagte, man würde meine (Hobby-)Erzählungen aus #Ostfriesland sonst nicht finden und ich glaube, da hat er vielleicht Recht 😉 also willkommen auf dem neuen Kanal von #Friesenzeit, dem #Podcast über ostfriesische Dorfgeschichten & Küstensagen zum Lauschen, Staunen & Weitererzählen, damit sie nicht vergessen werden.

Jetzt reinhören über Friesenzeit.de, Spotify, Amazon Musik oder Apple Podcasts.

Maria Corina #Machado wurde also der #Friedensnobelpreis verliehen. Und viele jubeln jetzt: Ein "Zeichen gegen Trump" sei das, eine Hoffnung für die Welt. Das Gegenteil ist der Fall. Bitte informiert Euch. Als Nachkomme chilenischer Faschismusopfer ist mir das wirklich wichtig. (♻️ via @bohrn-mena.at@bluesky)

Machado ist Teil eines globalen rechtsextremen Netzwerks, sie ist höchstpersönlich Unterzeichnerin der "Charta von Madrid" des "Madrid Forum". Da tummeln sich VOX aus Spanien und alle anderen Rechtsextremen, siehe dazu hier.
Diese rechtsextremen Netzwerke sind übrigens eifrig am Werk in Europa, ihre Achse reicht bis zur AfD und FPÖ. Wir haben dazu vor kurzem auf ostachse.com was publiziert, aber das dürften viele heimische Journalisten noch nicht gelesen haben.
Machado will in Venezuela im großen Stil privatisieren. Sie kündigte "Geschäfte in Billionen-Höhe" vor einem neoliberalen ThinkTank in den USA an. Sie wird stark von den USA unterstützt, die großes Interesse an ihrem Erfolg haben.
Machado war in den Putsch von 2002 involviert. Wir erinnern uns: Die Opposition von Venezuela wollte mit Hilfe der USA Hugo Chavez stürzen. Die Ereignisse sind von einem europäischen Filmteam dokumentiert worden, das sollten alle sehen: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2002 Venezuela Coup)
Und sie war schon immer eine Unterstützerin von Donald Trump. Das hat sie offen in diversen Interviews bekundet, schon vor seiner Wiederwahl. Sie als "Anti-Trump" hinzustellen ist also grotesk, sie ist eher Trumps beste Freundin in Venezuela.
Gzero Media: Venezuela’s opposition leader on Trump, Maduro, and why the ballot box isn’t the answer this time
Abschließend: Ich bin kein Journalist. Ich bin Austro-Chilene. Ich bin Antifaschist und Demokrat. Mein Appell ist nur: Recherchiert zu Machado, Quellen sind genügend vorhanden. Würdigt die Fakten, schaut Euch ihre globalen Netzwerke und Verbündeten an.
Und ganz zum Ende, weil ich jetzt mehrmals nach ihren Verbindungen zu Javier Milei gefragt wurde: Eine enge Freundin und Verbündete von ihm ist sie. No na, sie teilen zentrale Ansichten.