Used https://radio.garden/ to listen to what's happening in Bardufoss, northern Norway. Things must be so different north of the Arctic Circle, thought I.
Playing on that station: 'One More Night' by Maroon Five. 😝
I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.
When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.
I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps.
EDIT: Replies tell me that this doesn't function in the UK without a VPN.
shows, because he was a magnetic personality, and even as the ghost at the banquet here, the force of his life is too great to be contained in a simple narrative.
Bourdain, in Parts Unknown, took gonzo journalism to the most strait-laced news network. Here, his crew give him the best tribute possible by make a gonzo, semi-structured, tribute, powered by one man's imperfect personality and reflected vibes.
There are people you can talk to. Just talk.
admits that, when it was filmed, he hadn't worked for two years because of the impact of his friend's passing. Empathy and sensitivity is shown to the final year, to Asia Argento, and to Bourdain fighting for her account to be widely heard and accepted.
The hardest part to watch was the crew member who simply says of his death, "he let me down," then breaks down.
This is a must-watch if you were ever affected by one of Bourdain's books or (...)
Just watched 'Road Runner: a Film About Anthony Bourdain. As it was a CNN film I expected it to be sanitised, and it begins with the sugar-kick of his forties, those books, getting the band together for his first travel shows.
Then, though, it takes a dark turn, and really focuses on the anguish of his crew, as they knew something damaging was happening, and wanted to be able to communicate with Bourdain, but couldn't. It's painful.
Josh Homme (...)
FACTS ABOUT MASTODON
If you are curious about leaving the cooked turkey site and going to the elephant site, here are some important tips:
1. It sucks. But then, so does every site.
2. You can still shitpost. Take great glee.
3. Picking your server instance is super important.
Ideally you should start at a large instance, and leave because it's full of white suburban NIMBY reactionaries who joined in November because they were promised 0 uncomfortable experiences in their lives and lash out whenever this turns out not to be the case.
Then you move to a smaller server where suddenly you can't talk to your friends because the admin of your instance is feuding with the admin of their instance. Then you wait a month before you can move again.
In this regard, the feudal structure of Mastodon instances is very like early 2000s message boards, whenever the admin got drunk and deleted the site.
4. You can work around the feudalism by running Mastodon yourself. It's the size of a mastodon and costs a fortune.
You can run Pleroma, which is smaller, and is also favoured by Nazis by unfortunate historical accident. Pleroma is perfectly good software that fulfils a need for something smaller than Mastodon, but also the devs are definitely not Nazis but are the other ten guys at the table.
There was a hilarious moment where the guy behind Spinster was so obnoxious he got kicked out of Pleroma and started his own fork called Soapbox/Rebased. He is now known as Soapbox Terf.
The nice people went to Pleroma fork Akkoma, which Soapbox Terf calls the "tr***y server", a review I understand they were delighted by. Try that.
There's also Misskey, which is a bit weird and Japanese, and supports cat ears right there in the protocol.
5. Any bozo who complains about your posts with assertions about the Fediverse that assume it all runs on the rules of mastodon.social is one of the suburban NIMBYs and invariably joined in November. Block and don't look back.
6. If anyone annoys you about your posting, you can improve their feed for them by blocking them from ever seeing your posts. The blocking tools are marvellous.
7. There are NO QUOTE TWEETS on Mastodon and anyone who wants QUOTE TWEETS is an invader, pollutant and corrupting influence despoiling the suburban vistas of Mastodon who only wants quote tweets so they can wreak EVIL.
So quote-tweeting is well supported in Akkoma and Misskey (and forks thereof), is in the Treehouse fork of Mastodon, and will be coming to more Fediverse software soon.
UPDATE: once enough other fedi software adopted quoting, Mastodon finally put it in, implemented gratuitously differently because fuck you.
8. In Mastodon, Eugen Rochko has achieved the creation of something greater than himself. And he will *never forgive it*.
9. The Fediverse interprets Website Boy as damage and routes around him.
10. Mastodon is yet another demonstration that worse is better. So come onto Mastodon, and *be* that worse.
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