NEW MUSIC ALERT

What if we’re beautiful

A celebration of queer joy performed by Grammy nominated Hub New Music.
https://hubnewmusic.bandcamp.com/album/what-if-were-beautiful

Did I mention my child is the violin?
My child is the one on violin.

Oh ffs, guess I'm done with Spotify.

While on the family plan subscription and with no prior interest seeding, #Spotify is currently recommending a German-language far-right white nationalist podcast to my kid, who just came to me to complain about it.

So seriously, what's a good, non-enshittified alternative to Spotify these days? Recommendations needed, what do you use instead of Spotify and why?

(Thanks for retoots.)

Morning mastodon scroll to top up my fuckit bucket

@trevorflowers this resonates so hard

I’ve become proud of my typos. They are a watermark signifying that I typed this with my own faliable fingers. An artisanal communication to 10,000 of my closest frends.

Xe Iaso writes about the risks of replacing all the jr. jobs with AI. I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately too. If there are no more junior people, who will replace the existing senior people?
https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/rolling-ladder-behind-us/

Youngest child passed a major developmental milestone today: got their own domain name and started writing a blog

@heydon these are wildly clever

@quietmarc chill-plutonium summer

please enjoy these pixel art icons that I am unreasonably proud of

@lzg sending you a congratulatory email!

My between-task gear shifter is fatigued, and I can almost hear the grinding in my head as I try to finish my context switching workday.

unglamorous

Many people avoid social media because it makes them feel worse about themselves. LinkedIn has the opposite effect. You can sleep well knowing that at least you're not *that* bad.

@anandphilipc allow me to introduce you two

https://wandering.shop/@valkyrie/114665850074701712

@valkyrie @irene
This one really hurts, but I can’t stop laughing

@karlhigley thanks. this thread is a clear communication of a correct but difficult decision. It’s not the easiest path. Thank you for doing the mental and emotional work to navigate the trash pile and protect your people. We are lucky to have you.

What if users are stupid and their feedback is stupid?

@lzg sounds like a keeper

As an intern I was in charge of doing some light carpentry to comply with some arbitrary safety regulations. I got into it and justified my over engineering with “Anything worth doing is worth doing well”.

My mentor said “Ah yes, but you know the corollary to that right? Anything not worth doing is not worth doing well.”

I think about that a lot.