So many great songs! Glad to see my man Boy Golden making it through to the International Lemmyvision!
The real treasure was the friends we made along the way! new music we were exposed to along the way! I had never heard of Angine de Poitrine before this years Lemmyvision nominations, thank you for the nominations, and the discussion!
Came for the tunes, stayed for the discussion on normalized vs inverted Borda Count.
Putin still has minions in the EU post-Orban, but no doubt the Russian position keeps getting worse and worse.
The US no longer sends any aid to Ukraine I understand, they simply are delivering equipment that EU countries have bought on behalf of Ukraine. This was a big win for Putin, but nowhere big enough. Add in EU shell manufacturing capacity growing so fast, along with just the general revitalization of EU arms manufacturing, I think the US’ support is becoming less and less critical. Given the broad support Ukraine enjoys in the US, I would expect this to reverse in a few years, so there is another clock ticking for Russia.
Honestly, putting myself in Putin’s shoes, it’s one of two things. First, he has so successfully insulated himself, he has no idea how things are going. Second, he’s just continuing to attack because to stop would mean his ouster and likely execution.
So long as Russia continues the war, Putin has an easier time of fending off potential internal enemies. Thousands of ordinary Russians will suffer and many die, but that’s a sacrifice he’s willing to make to keep holding on to power.
The longer he can hold on, the more chances subverting can change for him.
Soft-paywalled, archive.today link.
I think it’s more of an “ESH” (everyone sucks here) situation. Falun Gong is a cult, and their Epoch Times “newspaper” is pretty much trash, but China has engaged in an extensive transnational repression campaign, and one of their targets is Falun Gong.
This BBC article from 2023 focuses on an incident in New York, but touches on others.
Glad fellow Dan Mangan fans are on top of this!
Did you play 1st edition, circa 1989? The original decking rules are pretty well represented in the recent Sega Shadowrun game from 1994, just a few years ago.
It’s an entire solo dungeon sort of experience, while the rest of the group watches the decker and GM play a one on one game.
It was radically streamlined for 2nd edition on, but it took me a while to notice, since Deckers were always NPCs and decking was just exposition for years.
Forgive the formatting, I’m feeling fragile, probably from my advanced age.
I’ve got lots of time, I’m only… oh sh1t.
Okay, technically late, but I’m surprised no one nominated The Beaches - Last Girls At The Party (English). It’s probably a little mainstream for Lemmy? Seems to be getting lots of radio play, and fairly popular (or at least Canadian popular).
I’ll nominate them, if an exception can be made, even though I already nominated a couple of other songs. Otherwise, add them to the playlist and jam out. The real prize is the music we listened to along the way.
Steam, GoG, Humble Bundle, and Itch are the platforms I regularly buy PC games on. By far and away, Steam is #1. It’s got the games, it’s well integrated into everything, easy to use (especially on Linux). GoG is good, although I set up Heroic to use with GoG. It’s close, but not as many games that I want, and Heroic+GoG is a little less polished than Steam. Humble Bundle and Itch are generally too niche, although so much of my Steam library has come from Humble.
GoG was my second digital store, I resisted Steam for so long, but over the years, Steam has become my #1 source for games. It’s just so easy, plus they are relatively consumer friendly. With the revamp of Steam Families, it’s just so so much easier to have everyone playing on Steam. Plus I have a Steam Deck.
I try and buy games on GoG, set them up with Heroic, and it works great, better than EA, Epic and other storefronts, but just not quite as slick as Steam.
One day St. Gabe will be martyred, and Steam will undergo the unavoidable descent into enshittification, as to will GoG. I do not pledge undying loyalty to any platform, but Steam and GoG have been awesome for so long.
Besides, other than Itch and Humble Bundle, who even comes close in being good to use?
Just so long as they aren’t pre-paying with IOU’s. There is lots of cases with pension funds having a bunch of company bonds or other debt instruments that become worthless when the company folds (Nortel comes to mind).
I should’ve included Bandcamp links, it’s a good way to support the artists. Thanks!
Never heard of Boy Golden, and only heard this song on the radio while driving a month or so ago. Thank goodness for our modern high tech radios, I noted the song info, and it is now in my regular offline backup MP3 collection.
DIminishing Returns - Dan Mangan (English)
From Dan Mangan’s Natural Light album, released in May 2025.
Dan Mangan is a longstanding favourite of mine, and I believe I nominated Call Me Up High last Lemmyvision. As such, here’s some bonus Dan Mangan tracks:
Edit: extra plug, Dan Mangan will be doing some BC shows in September, maybe I’ll see you there!
I have lots of shelf space, but it’s full. Plus shipping is painful, so similar boat.
The filenames aren’t too big a deal, since I use directories, sub-directories, and sub-sub-directories. Still, meaningful filenames aways help.
Hilarious! Appropriating this for redistribution!
The copypasta I’ve been tweaking since this topic keeps coming up. Yeah I know, it mentions Lemmy, and we’re already here, but it’s the prepared Copypasta and talking about it now instead of scrolling through and editing is easier.
Consider making an account on a Canadian Mastodon instance. Mastodon is a decentralized open-source social media platform similar to X/Twitter. There are several Canadian based general interest “instances” where you can make an account: Mstdn.ca, TheCanadian.Social, CoSocial.ca or SocialBC.ca.
There is no one company fine-tuning an algorithm to entertain you, sell you crypto, and radicalise you, so you’ll need to do some work on setting up your feed. Check out Fedi.Directory, Interesting Accounts to Follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse and Fedi.Tips- An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse.
For some Canadian themed news sources, I recommend the following Mastodon follows:
Following #Hashtags is also a good way to stay in the loop on a topic. For now, I’d suggest #Canada and #CdnPoli .
There are also Canadian instances and other Federated services, but Mastodon is probably a good gateway. If you would like to explore the Canadian Fediverse further, join the discussion over at Lemmy.ca or Sh.itJust.Works (kind of like Reddit) or check out the scenery at Pixelfed.ca (kind of like Instagram).
Even if it isn’t your primary social media, at least you’ll have a backstop of news and a way to connect without the algorithms manipulating what to show you. Hope to see you out there.
And it’s not like Putin is going to the front, or will be impoverished.