RE: https://friendsofccmusic.org/2026/04/29/netlabel-assembly-2026-sunday-august-16/ If you want to hold a session at a different time, that is highly, highly encouraged!

bit of a delay on the WordPress push, but I have seen it work once...

RE: https://friendsofccmusic.org/2026/04/29/cc-listening-party-dates-the-rest-of-2026/ looks like I got the WordPress integration working. yay!

What can I get done in an hour...

Official marketing copy alert... "Avoiding vendor lock-in has become a much bigger driver of open source adoption, and this New Stack article digs into what the 2026 State of Open Source Report reveals about how teams are balancing independence with maintenance, security, and compliance demands […]

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Avokaduo (6) Godless Cross (4) Code : Red Core (3) Disorder Faith (3) Distoxia (3). #myweekcounted 83 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue

RE: https://mastodon.social/@designbohemian/116473931112271156 Seems a bit spammy (although maybe there is an authentic etsy finds scene out there idk) but...it does look cool.

Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More: The World's Oddest Riots Episode webpage: https://everything-everywhere.com/the-worlds-oddest-riots/ Media file […]

#trailrunners, is running in Big Sur a thing?

History of California Podcast: 179 - Dr. Peter Richardson, Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine Episode webpage: https://history-of-california-podcast.castos.com/episodes/179-dr-peter-richardson-brand-new-beat-the-wild-rise-of-rolling-stone-magazine Media file […]

time for the monthly #cclp. Join at https://meet.jit.si/ccmusic

20ish minutes left in recovery ride. Not feeling super motivated to use that time. very tired from tying my PR yesterday.

probably going to go sans speaker & battery next week. It will be a long day if I end up getting dropped on a climb but temps are going to run from 44F-69F & I might need to drop a sweatshirt or something in a bin along the way. Wearing a jacket at 69F is absolutely not an option and I may run […]

I really want to listen to Reconquista (https://reconquista.podbean.com/e/episode-69-the-kingdom-of-portugal-and-the-second-crusade-part-1/) but it's so dry. Throw in a joke every once in a while! There are a few "history of portugal" podcasts out there and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Cranial Incisored (19) Saturna (18) Queen Wolf (15) Slava Lobanov & Peter Shalamov (11) Shit Tax (7). #myweekcounted 96 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue

Apparently, it's not called Bastille Day...guess that's something to keep in mind for @netlabelday The Land of Desire: French History and Culture: 30. The History Of The Picnic Episode webpage: https://www.thelandofdesire.com/2017/08/10/history-of-the-picnic/ Media file […]

One of the best arguments for the open social web I've seen, without perhaps intending to be. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/apr/15/viral-artists-social-media-videos-stewart-lee-werner-herzog #socialmedia #fediverse #socialweb

Very interesting Desert Oracle Radio: 025: UFOs and the Jungian Desert Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/desert-oracle-radio-1/025-ufos-and-the-jungian-desert Media file […]

The @friendsofccmusic #peertube video quota was raised to 50GB! I wonder if they have also make it so that we can live stream...

LLMs are just NLP on someone else's computer.

I finished History of Rome and epic though it is, it is no Pirate History or Revolutions. Nope, History of Rome comes in at number 5. Of course, since I listen to at least two episodes a week of Escape Collective a week, and Everything Everywhere is daily […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I started writing a blog with the title "It's not all bad news...but it is a lot of bad news" but my move bar says I should move and the dog probably needs to go to the bathroom. Maybe I'll have the energy to finish when I return...but I doubt it.

After just having responded to the third #curl security report for the evening I noticed a post that cheered me up... Have a good Friday everyone! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/moekatib_millions-of-people-look-up-to-steve-jobs-activity-7450947453085749248-K1w-

Was listening to History of Rome about all this stuff with the goths happening in eastern Europe and was like how did these dudes get to Iberia. This podcast did not disappoint. HistoryExtra podcast: Goths: everything you wanted to know Episode webpage: http://www.historyextra.com/ Media […]

time to drag the dog outside and then feed the cats. not a lot of energy...

RE: https://slime.global/@ticky/116421822784671505 The cats are going to take our jobs!

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Got another mastoscold yelling at me for "using the platform to promote" my photos. For the record, I don't generally sell my photos, here or anywhere else. But even if I did, I fail to see why that would be a problem. Preventing artists from making a living is a strange hill to want to die on.

I got the Mastodon button working on the site, but I don't see any evidence that being ActivityPub enabled is actually a thing... Please Welcome A23P as the CTO of FCCM https://friendsofccmusic.org/2026/04/16/please-welcome-a23p-as-the-cto-of-fccm/ #ccmusic, #netlabels, #partnerships, #technology

Alternate universe where Sting (Police) and Sting (WCW) are same person.

hmmm...

I am not saying I going to do to it, but if I did a show that in my head is called "Necromancer" where I talk to dead bands, podcasts, projects, etc...Would people be into that?

I want to do Tour de Tonka but there are other priorities. On the other hand, it's a shorter event this year. Maybe I'll wait until the two races at the end of the month to make a decision. #cycling

I get it dude. I get it... The History of Rome: 113- Three Empires Episode webpage: https://historyofrome.libsyn.com/113-three-empires Media file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/historyofrome/113-_Three_Empires.mp3?dest-id=5627

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Hibakusha (19) Queen Wolf (19) The Neptune Power Federation (16) Carsie Blanton & The Burning Hell (12) Zimní pneu (11). #myweekcounted 127 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue

So many ideas...so little time to implement them.

moving the Netlabel Assembly to August 16. I have mentioned the Assembly a few times, but I never broke the invite into time slots or invited anyone to the actual calendar invite. Just think it makes sense to spend time on @netlabelday specific stuff at this point. Also, this way, we can use […]

[eye burning] I don't tend to have strong opinions about design things, but this looks like the outcome of a coding model being told "make the most hideous website ever" https://ailandscape.org/

This meditations shit sounds pretty cool. The History of Rome: 094- Revolt and Meditations Episode webpage: https://historyofrome.libsyn.com/094_revolt_and_meditations Media file […]

very much going to be a long day

[uspol] I'll believe it when I see it, but... https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/07/politics/25th-amendment-trump-iran-war

59ish minutes left of #biketime

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Culture Shock [ska-punk UK] (37) The Neptune Power Federation (26) Record Of Tides (14) voiddweller (14) herba (13). #myweekcounted 196 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue

"When Carsie Blanton and The Burning Hell got together to make a record in a little cabin in Ireland, they brought out the silliest and most diabolical sides of each other." The sillier stuff I could do without, but still worth a listen […]

Thrifty Traveler is great: https://shortyawards.com/category/18th/other-podcast Sadly, you have to have an account to vote...but also, how else would you not make it a botfest?

Alexander the Great of Mastodonia

Intriguing, but daunting...

if the @friendsofccmusic release of the week wasn't limited to #netlabels, it would definitely be this this week: https://cultureshockuk.bandcamp.com/album/onwards-and-upwards