Hello @MewProjects. Continuing from earlier, just for laughs, tried to load an xm file and got this.

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I know your intention isn't/wasn't to make this a foobar or winamp replacement, but damn, I could almost use this cute little thing as one! Plugin support would be hard, though. meep!

The internet connection here has been somewhat flaky the last couple of days, possibly weather-related, so I've been pretty much exclusively using AT&T mobile data, as it's more reliable than the fiber ISP. Go figure.

With two bars of signal, I'm getting around 450 Mb/sec down, anywhere between 7 and 22 Mb/sec up.

Tonight, I connected my iPhone 16 Pro to one of the USB-C ports of my Mac to use my phone as a wired hotspot, and I noticed lots of jitter, packet loss, and very high latency that I wasn't seeing either on the device itself, or when using it as a WiFi hotspot.
I'd think a direct connection would be better, but apparently not.

Exo to cut 73 jobs as it trims spending under Quebec mandate

cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ex…

Austerity in Quebec. CAQastrophe.

#qcpoli

The student organizers who mobilized Friday's massive action are now calling for a National Shutdown this Friday, January 30.

instagram.com/p/DT9ULZQjFUU/

Somali Student Association on Instagram: "JUSTICE FOR ALEX PRETTI & RENEE NICOLE GOOD — NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN We witnessed a historic general strike on Friday in Minneapolis. Just yesterday, ICE killed yet another community member, Alex Pretti. This ICE te

15K likes, 253 comments - ssa.umn on January 25, 2026: "JUSTICE FOR ALEX PRETTI & RENEE NICOLE GOOD — NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN We witnessed a historic general strike on Friday in Minneapolis.

^Instagram

Já vím, že vás asi naseru ale

“Víkend začíná!!!!”

Vyprovodím se sám.

Mahmoud Khalil and his legal team vowed to fight Trump administration plans to deport the Palestinian activist to Algeria, calling the move "extreme punishment" for his pro-Palestinian speech.

mondoweiss.net/2026/01/mahmoud…

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza

Mahmoud Khalil vows to oppose Trump efforts to deport him to Algeria over pro-Palestine speech

Mahmoud Khalil and his legal team vowed to fight Trump administration plans to deport the Palestinian activist to Algeria, calling the move “extreme punishment” for his pro-Palestinian speech.

^{Michael Arria (Mondoweiss)}

Hey!!

Is anyone on here a Black birth worker or know one?

For my research, I am seeking to interview as many Black midwives (and other Blk birth workers, but midwifery is the central focus) as possible and get connected to birthing centers employing Black birth workers, esp. in the US South.

If you are/someone you know is interested, pls DM me! Thanks for reading!

*pls boost!!*

#BlackStudies #ReproductiveJustice #BlackWomen #BlackBirthingPeople #Midwifery #Doulas #BirthWork #MedicalAnthro

Ok so hey #Canada #GenX especially people from #Winnipeg who spent time in Eaton Place downtown in the early 80s, because that is the specific instance of what I'm certain was in many government offices and such.

Ok. It is maybe 1980 I'm late single digits and I go downtown with my gramma a lot, and we spend a fair amount of time in Eaton Place, her doing whatever she did, and me doing a circuit of Petland, a record store on the second floor, the arcade, and near the North entrance of the South building, there was a government office of some kind.

In that government office, there was a computer. Not one that #retro heads would recognize, it was large, did simple colour graphics, and had a weird nonstandard keyboard about the size of a gigantic TV remote, on a curly cable. Possibly some sort of Unix thing and I think it was networked, presumably on the Internet.

It mostly did very boring stuff and I was just a kid, I didn't care about whatever its main functions were, but I had learned that if I entered f518, there was a graphical mystery house game of some kind.

I remember that office had a fair amount of techy stuff, like, there was a kind of pushbutton video jukebox where you could watch various promotional videos, I remember one of the things it played was a Folklorama ad with the "la-lalala-la-lalalaaa" earworm, which my older California chick cousin and I laughed at one summer day that we were all downtown.

I would really love to find out what was the deal with that computer system, though.

Pretty stoked that the feds completely misunderstand actual Americans. They especially miscalculated the willingness of white folk to stand up for marginalized members of our communities.

As with any group, we are not a monolith. They assumed it would be so and that was a bad assumption on their part.

Minneapolis showed us the way.

Let's get this done.

In this day and age, putting Dark Mode behind your app's paywall will mean I don't even try your free version.

This is especially callous for #writing and world-building apps, where a white background can literally hurt my head.

#accessibility #darkmode

Beautiful cover of Still Into You by #Paramore: youtu.be/gsXDymTulG4?si=xgRRzI…

#music #pop #ballad

Charley - Still Into You (Official Video)

Stream or download “Still Into You (Amazon Music Original)” by Charley: https://charley.lnk.to/StillIntoYouamazonFollow Charley: https://Charley.lnk.to/Follo...

^YouTube

May be hard for some to watch but is not extreme:

The killing of Alex Pretti: minute-by-minute analysis of video & stills from five different verified videos.

The videos show that Pretti "did not walk up to anybody from CBP in a threatening manner."

"There's nothing in the video evidence that we've seen thus far that would support" DHS's version of Pretti's intent.

~John Cohen, fmr DHS official & police trainer

abcnews.go.com/Politics/minute…

#USPol #Europol #AlexPretti #BorderPatrol #fascism .

A minute-by-minute timeline of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti involving federal agents

ABC News compiled a timeline based on six verified videos of the incident.

^{Gaby Vinick (ABC News)}

"Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free
"Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president," Young writes to fans. "My music will never be available on Amazon, as long as it is owned by Bezos""

rollingstone.com/music/music-n…

Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Catalog to Greenland For Free

Neil Young has escalated his way against Amazon due to Jeff Bezos' support of Trump, and is giving his music to the people of Greenland.

^{Andy Greene (Rolling Stone)}

The woman who survived
five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago last fall,
-- only to be criminally charged and then cleared,
now wants a judge’s permission to share records that
show how the feds respond when “their agents use deadly force against U.S. citizens.”

#Marimar #Martinez’s lawyer argued Monday that
top Trump administration officials continue to smear her name,
and that the White House’s false narrative about her arrest
has even seeped into writings by
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.

All the while, a standard court order bars Martinez from sharing records in her case.

Designed to protect against the improper disclosure of evidence,
attorney Chris Parente says the order has
instead become
“a prophylactic to countering a pernicious misinformation campaign mounted by the United States.”

“They are forcing the public,
and Supreme Court justices,
to have to rely solely on the government’s
inaccurate version of events,”
Parente wrote.

“This court has the power to shed light on the truth of what happened on October 4.”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigrati…

Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence

Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the entire country in the dark."

^{Jon Seidel (Chicago Sun-Times)}