Amethyst Unleashed says it's connected to 19 relays yet when I try to check which ones they are, it only lists the six that I have saved. So what are the other 13 and how do I get rid of them?

Addiction to the news cycle is as destructive as addiction to pornography.

Like rats fleeing a sinking ship.

In an odd and beautiful way, the earliest strains of jazz, along with the restless creative impulse which birthed them, lived on in the works of Sun Ra. Thankfully his singular weirdness has always alienated (lol) respectable jazz scholars like Stanley Crouch, leaving Ra for the schizos and potheads - you know, the REAL jazz fans. His stuff ranges from big band exotica to cosmic noise across more than a hundred albums. This one is a near-perfect piece of late-night listening from the 1970s, that glorious era where the rest of the jazz world almost caught up to him. #jazzstr

Lol, after a couple of months of posting prog, synth, jazz and noise, YouTube thinks I want to listen to Tool.

WE WUZ JUTES!

I always thought the notion "get woke go broke" was too simplistic. This makes a little more sense but I feel there still has to be a profit motive behind all these companies apparently lining up to commit financial suicide. I wonder if it's about driving the stock price down to shake out the small-time investors so the big investment firms can buy up more before the price rebounds. That would seem to fit the trend of aggressive centralisation that we've seen in recent years.

I've mentioned this before and I'm going to remind people again and again: in 2021 Victoria locked down for five months over 6 cases. Not deaths - cases. 6. Now they're averaging 7 covid deaths per day. It never had anything to do with protecting people.

Just look at the current state of Hollywood and tell me we don't need Leslie now more than ever.

Would you just look at this shit.

As dorky as normiecon meme-takes like "let's go Brandon" and "what is a woman?" are, they've been incredibly effective at showing just how humourless and censorious the current regime is.

I am too damn stupid to use a micro-blogging service which doesn't have an edit function.

One of the most pivotal figures in jazz as it transitioned from the big band to bop eras was Bud Powell. His career was tragically fractured and abbreviated by mental illness and as a result it sometimes takes a while for jazz-heads to find his work, but while he may be less famous than some of the other players, like Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk or Dizzy Gillespie, who gathered at Minton's for the impromtu jam sessions from which bop (and thus jazz as we know it) emerged, apparently they were all just following Bud's lead. Listen to the first track here and remind yourself that this guy only has two hands. #jazzstr