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What gall to name a song “THE CHRISTMAS SONG.”

I love the bustle of the holidays, and I love seeing my loved ones all month, but I am so glad to be in my own cozy apartment with no long-distance travel in the near future.

Bruce Hornbies and A Range

18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/10/22/marginalian-18/

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist a book by Liz Pelly https://bookshop.org/p/books/mood-machine-the-rise-of-spotify-and-the-costs-of-the-perfect-playlist-liz-pelly/21580625?ean=9781668083505)

Apple, bring Cover Flow back to iOS, cowards

I can’t overstate how much of an impact it has had on my mental wellbeing to keep a reusable travel packing list on my phone. I check off everything I either don’t need or have packed, and I can know I didn’t forget anything. I’m not running through a mental checklist on the way to the airport.

“Run Rudolph Run” is one of the most well-known songs to contain a lyric about urination

I’ve got to get home

Say, what’s in this comb

Me: “I forgot to mention one little thing: a ring.”

Santa: “Oh you mean like on the phone?? ;P”

Spotify is stuffing their playlists with cheap factory-farm music to avoid paying artists.

Soon people will be listening to AI music without even knowing or caring.

The Ghosts in the Machine

Wow I had totally forgotten about the whole #DaShareZ0ne debacle. What ever came of that? Did we ever learn exactly what happened?

Back in the 1960s, You Bought Your Christmas Music at the Tire Store https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42257785/goodyear-firestone-tire-christmas-record/

If you’re looking for a wildly different Christmas record this year: Dick Hyman and the Organ Orchestra – That Happy Christmas Feeling (1959)

#music

Wow people made quick work of knocking me out of the top spot on Short Circuit on #RowbotRally #Playdate https://play.date/games/rowbot-rally/

I can’t believe I’m saying this

But I might rewatch Gilmore Girls

I challenge you to do a “three-finger swipe undo” in Mail without also selecting a message.

Even four-finger swipe app switching on iPadOS seems to register taps for me.

Wow The Soft Bulletin just turned 25.

I’m delighted that The Substance has five Golden Globe nominations, including best picture: https://goldenglobes.com/film/the-substance/

There’s a #WordPress plugin for changing all YouTube embeds to “youtube-nocookie” embeds: https://github.com/wpexplorer/wp-youtube-nocookie/blob/main/wp-youtube-nocookie.php