@droidboy Certainly. I'm just sick of seeing the shame shit every day. There's no reason intelligent people need to see it, it's like politics. Not easy to filter, so I'll just have just drop anyone that does it day after day.
And by the way, how do we know trends isn't done with "AI" as well? Or maybe that was your point 🤣
Here's the weekly #OPM digest ! A one-stop guide to #music selections from 8 Fediverse #Musicians . It's a great place to get some #BandcampFriday selections, or maybe find a new favorite artist.
As always, you can find a permanent archive of these, with slightly longer writeups, at my blog. The permalink for this week's is here:
@etherdiver MANY thanks for this. One of my many faults is not staying in a lane. Or my lane is too many lanes! Quirky tries to assemble stuff that pretty much doesn't fully fit. A rap that isn't a rap (Simulation), etc.
@skinnylatte It's amazing how good vegetables, spice and nuts etc can taste when the recipe is right. We had a vegetarian restaurant near the office and they did a delicious "nut roast".
We've come a long way, because the early days featured horrible, cardboard tasting, or tasteless "vegeburgers" and such.
@paul When I see these, I can't help wonder: would it be better if like HBO, there was no free service, only paid subscriptions?
Doesn't some of the ad money go to creators of the video?
@andycarolan The menu was Japanese curry, salad with a Japanese dressing and a strawberry cake. All great and now I'm ready to make the salad dressing as it requires no special ingredient.
@andycarolan Irinically, I don't like strawberries or cake. I don't hate either, but I like cake more like a carrot cake, or the bannana cake we sometimes make.
@andycarolan By the way, my favorit pie of all time, made by only one patissier in Paris, was their pear-caramel pie. Delicious. The baker was a retired banker! Unfortunately, he sold the biz and didn't leave that recipe!
@etherdiver Honestly, in my (long) experience, the artist's favorite work are often thought of as "meh" whereas some thrown together jam is seen as really good. If you don't find a single thing on this album, you can check out blues, the jazz, the ambient etc. on other albums. I do think there's at least one good thing on each! 🤣
@etherdiver It seems that in this day and age, many people are interested in checking out no-name artists doing all their own promo (which is to say, VLPP (very low power promo).
Whatever other complaints we may have, when I started recording, a half century ago there was only cassettes in the car trunk. Now, you can reach the entire world with just an Internet connection.
@etherdiver I just took a look at Bandcamp sales from the past 60 days are the equivalent of 38,000 Spotify streams. Thank you Mastodon and Bluesky!
But wait, there's more!
I sold an album on Ko-fi and @Mirlo as well (1 each, same album).