Today was the last monthly instalment of Listening Bar, my main Spotify playlist. Along with a few other things I don't entirely dislike and a few things I despise, I'm currently in the process of culling some activities temporarily, indefinitely or forever due to a lot of pressure that I've been putting on myself and the resultant stress from that, as well as the need to prioritise what's really important. More...
Happy, sorry, unhappy 2026! If you are somehow having a good year, you must either not have access to the news, are a sociopath or psychopath, and/or you're super rich. Or maybe you're a species I'm unfamiliar with? Anyway, for the rest of us, I'm sure, it's been a pretty shitty year so far if not directly, observationally. The war in Ukraine is still going on, and the US is still trying to find a way to get out of it without losing face. <- And that's one part, even VS Code is attempting to write the rest of this post for me, but it's getting the war in Ukraine confused with the new war in Iran. More...