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@The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 If you want something purist, minimalist, distraction-less, with the option of tinkering with the CSS: WriteFreely. Downsides: If you want to embed images, you must host them elsewhere. And WriteFreely has no support for comments.

If you want something more versatile with a built-in image host/file host, if you don't mind it not being a specialised, purist blogging solution, you may check the "Facebook alternative, but better than Facebook and with a side of long-form blogging" parts of the Fediverse: Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams), Forte.

Plume is similarly purist as WriteFreely, it features both comments and a built-in image storage, but its development has come to a halt, and its own devs recommend WriteFreely.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #WriteFreely #Plume #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #LongForm #Macroblogging #Blogging

Scott Lawlor – Drone Excursion 024 (The Black Night)
#Ambient #darkambient #drone #electronic #longform #meditation #minimal #soundscape #spacemusic #Albuquerque
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://scottlawlor.bandcamp.com/album/drone-excursion-024-the-black-night

Scott Lawlor – The Origin of Supernatural Astronomical Phenomena 21 (Deluxe Edition)
#Ambient #darkambient #drone #electronic #immersive #longform #meditation #soundscape #spacemusic #Albuquerque
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://scottlawlor.bandcamp.com/album/the-origin-of-supernatural-astronomical-phenomena-21-deluxe-edition

Rasmi is a senior editor at TIME. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte keeps a variety of mementos in his office. There is a sprawling photograph of the North Sea from the vantage point of his hometown in the Netherlands, a kanji gift from Japan’s Minister of Defense, and a framed floral embroidery …#diplomacy #Exclusive #feature #longform #Magazine
The Man Who Wants to Save NATO

-- America’s Mouth Is Full of Blood --

Metal scrapes enamel. That specific sound teeth make when hygienist finds the tender spot. My mouth stretched wide by latex fingers and chrome instruments. Can’t speak. Can’t swallow. Can’t look away from the ceiling TV where CNN scrolls red banners about political assassination.

“Just a little pressure here,” she says, digging deeper.

Minnesota lawmaker dead. Husband dead. Second lawmaker critical.

The suction tube gurgles pink water. Taste of iron and mint. My tongue trapped under dental dam while democracy bleeds out on mute television. Perfect fucking symmetry.

Phone in pocket buzzes against hip bone. Can’t check it. Hands gripping armrests like I’m falling out of a republic.

“You’ve got some buildup on the lower incisors,” hygienist continues, oblivious or indifferent to the news crawl. “Have you been flossing?”

Assassination at 2 AM. Man dressed as cop. AK-style weapons. The details drip into consciousness like novocaine, numbing everything they touch. I try to nod about flossing but the tools prevent movement. Democracy’s molars crumble while I can’t even close my jaw.

Melissa Hortman. Dead at scene. Multiple gunshot wounds.

The overhead light burns retinal afterimages. Hygienist hums something unrecognizable. Country music or hymn or both. Her gloved fingers taste like institutional latex, that specific medical flavor of enforced vulnerability. I breathe through my nose. Count ceiling tiles. Try not to think about how this same helplessness scales up to continental collapse.

#politics #uspol #collapse #longform #writing #transwriter #transexperience #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #gonzo #news

A Day With An NBA Coaching Staff https://www.rawchili.com/nba/109423/ #Basketball #blast #business #featured #Indiana #IndianaPacers #IndianaPacers #interview #longform #NBA #no_yh #Pacers #top

Kowalski Room – Drifting and Phasing - An ambient introduction to Kowalski Room
#Ambient #NewAge #atmospheric #avantgarde #chillout #drone #electronic #longform #meditation #relaxation #shoegaze #soundart #soundscapes #urbanambient #Manchester
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/album/drifting-and-phasing-an-ambient-introduction-to-kowalski-room

Palestinian Refugees in Syria See Little Hope — Even After Assad

In Yarmouk, to get from one house to another, you walk through bombed-out holes in demolished cement walls.…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #ArticleType:ArticlePost #Day:Tuesday #Language:English #longform #PageType:Article #Partner:Factiva #Partner:SmartNews #Partner:SocialFlow #Subject:SpecialInvestigations #Subject:World #Syria #Time:10.00 #WC:5000-5999
https://www.europesays.com/2170881/

Searching for music to soothe a to-be-warm Friday. Slightly off the common genres but still ...

soundcloud.com/tryptology/high…

#soundcloud #longform #tryptology #music for warm days

Noise for the morning to counter both uncanny noise and silence around.

soundcloud.com/user-117182270/…

#years of denial #dark techno #soundcloud #longform

Random morning conflicts, too: The strong urge to own and use an old-fashioned vinyl music player. And the rational perception of constraints in time, space and money suggesting to avoid this endeavour already in a planning state. Some music to wake up, nevertheless.

soundcloud.com/modular-expansi…

#music for mornings #reka #dark techno #longform #soundcloud