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I think if you put someone from 2005 onto a website from 2025 without the slow creep we've lived through, they'd think they had malware

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Plus if you understand Slovak/Czech: kukaj.io

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May I offer possibly the best index I've ever found for free media. It's a Library of Alexandria for this kind of thing. The one I linked is for streaming but this site has it all.

https://fmhy.net/videopiracyguide#streaming-sites

In my experience

As tiring as all this shit is, I can't in good faith continue to use spotify.

For anyone else jumping ship, I used to exportify.app to save my favorite playlists.

Your phone has gigabytes of space on it. Plenty of room to store a few thousand mp3 files. And excellent players are free.

For Android, I prefer Pulsar.

For those wanting to move their playlists to another service, SongShift is a great app for that.

And in case anyone needed another reason: Spotify uses AI almost exclusively now which is why your Wrapped sucked in 2024, and your playlist suggestions have weird nonsensical names.

I'd also recommend checking out Bandcamp. Your favorite artists tend to release albums on there and the digital versions [the mp3s] are usually cheap and affordable. And the money goes directly to the artist.

If you still prefer music streaming or want to use it for now before you switch to mp3s, I highly recommend Deezer!! It has its own built-in song importer for Spotify, has music quizzes for you and your friends, supports the artists much more financially, and has an actually functional shuffle mechanic unlike Spotify.

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how do you do, fellow Creatives™

an updated joops to match!

"The spin to pull women out of higher education and the workforce [in the United States]"

"well youve had it 6 years that's a good amount of time for that kind of thing to work"

"you should be grateful you got 3 years of use out of that thing, I'm lucky if mine last a year haha"

listen, in 1977 nasa launched the voyager spacecrafts to take advantage of a planetary alignment that takes place every 175 years. These 2 crafts were planned to flyby the outer planets of our solar system and gather data on them to send back to us. Voyager 2 launched first on the 20th of August despite its name because it was planned to reach our gas giants after its counterpart voyager 1, which launched a little later on the 5th of September.

The voyager mission was planned to end 12 years later in 1989. In that time, voyager 1 and 2 passed by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. They discovered new moons, confirmed theories about Saturn's rings, found the first active volcanoes found outside the earth, and they take close-up images of planets only seen at that point from telescopes.

On the 25th of August 1989, voyager 2 encounters Neptune, the last planet in our solar system the voyagers will meet. And that was that. End of mission. Now obsolete.

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Less than 1 year later on valentine's day in 1990 voyager 1 looked back on the planet that had built it and sent with it a world's worth of hopes and dreams and took a picture. We called it the solar system family portrait and in it, we see ourselves. The pale blue dot nestled in the darkness of space

And then commands were sent to shut down their cameras. Preserve fuel.

35 years after launch, in 2012 voyager 1 sent back to us data about interstellar space. The very first manmade object to enter it.

41 years after launch voyager 2 did the same. Still operational, still going. Still sending back to us invaluable data, teaching us about our own solar system and the suns influence in our local bubble of space.

They are expected to continue to operate until the year 2025 - almost 50 whole years after they were launched and 36 years after their mission was supposed to have ended.

48 years of harsh space travel, battered by solar winds, pulled by gravity but fast enough just to escape, pelted by who knows how much space dust and radiation.

And even after that, they still have a purpose. Each craft was given a golden record. A disc filled with human knowledge and knowledge of humans and the planet they live on. Greetings and well-wishes to any prospective extraterrestrial life that could potentially pick it up. Co-ordinates, an invite. Samples of our music, the things we love, sounds of the earth, a story of our world. The surf, the wind, birds and whales, images of a mother, our moon, a sunset. Long after the voyager spacecrafts go dark, probably long after we are gone, they will still be doing their job; educating a species about our very tiny corner of the galaxy.

They are nasa's longest-running operation.

And it was all done using 70s technology.

So excuse me if I want a phone that lasts more than 2 years or a vacuum cleaner that doesn't break down after 6, or god fucking forbid, a refrigerator that will keep my food cold my entire fucking lifetime.

Okay so we have this huge problem with forgetting about everything that’s happened by the time the next election rolls around so I’d like to keep a running list of things as they’re happening to help remind us when the 2026 midterms roll around. And please add to this if I’ve missed anything.

January 2025:

I’ll keep adding to this list as new things come up and, again, please feel free to add anything I’ve missed. I know that in this world of constant news it’s easy to forget, so let’s give our future selves a little help!

Something you can do right now about the attacks on immigrants in the US and increased ICE raids is to look up immigrant rights organizations and rapid response teams in your area. Keep phone numbers on you to report any ICE activity you spot.

In Washington State, WAISN is still operating its rapid response hotline at 1-844-724-3737. You can call or text to make a detailed report. You can also text “ICE” or “Migra” to 509-300-4959 to sign up for alerts to ICE activity.

Most states and major cities have something like this or at least a general immigrant support org. Find the one most relevant to you and be prepared to act. Remember the SALUTE system.

The Children Thrive Action Network recently put together a list of resources and toolkits for protecting immigrants. They have a list of orgs by state as well as a toolkit for building your own rapid response network to raids in case you're incredibly cool and your area is lacking.

Unbelievably fucking cool

Between that and new preventative shot, we might be able to eradicate HIV in the near future.

Do not forget this. No matter what happens do not forget we’re this close to finally ending this awful virus