adam w.k. @sabbatical@qoto.org

buried my friend and former bandmate michael nicholson on thursday. he had cancer back when we recorded the salvation navy, and was clear of it a decade ago. but it came back with a vengeance.

died last friday at hospice in brantford. left behind a wife and 9 year old child. brutal stuff.

here’s some old photos with both of us! (he’s in the red toque, hugging me from behind in the first one)

@RadicalAnthro what’s the significance of the watermelon?

@alan that’s pretty awful. i’ll have to inflict it on my kids next time we have croissants

in one of my dreams last night, i was talking about playlists with someone using spotify and they asked me if there was such a thing as "apple itunes music" anymore. so i gave a breakdown of spotify vs. apple music. i still remember the specific points i made too. yikes

@Sabex because she doesn’t want to disrespect their flag by walking across it?

@thebishopgame hey if this allowed us to spend our waking hours free to do what we like and yet flush with cash, pretty sure a lot of us would be signing up

@alex quantum computing fixes this

@levisan “alive”? ha. they could only show the credits for that one

@mike meanwhile, thankful for imdb parental guides

@mike yeah, we have prime and access to a friend’s disney+, but fairly rarely watch via those services either. most often i end up watching via free (as in pizza *and* speech) sites to avoid the rigmarole and ickiness. canceled netflix some time ago. tbh if this was supplied by the major streaming services, that could be the killer feature that would get me to come back

@mike well they don’t support disney or warner bros content “due to an agreement with the studios” so that makes sense. thought that wording seemed odd. boy, am i the only one who didn’t know about these guys? hah

apparently there is something trying to do just this! https://www.vidangel.com/

haven’t tried it, and they don’t support all the streaming services right now, but seems promising!

From: @sabbatical
https://qoto.org/@sabbatical/111485801640689194

@levisan yeah, suppose so. they used to make clean versions of movies so they could be shown on planes or certain TV stations, that sort of thing. but a lot more radio

helped @whateveryouart move a couch to his art studio in a snow squall today. not the heaviest nor the longest, but probably the biggest thing i’ve put in the kei truck so far!

don’t see too many kids named ayn anymore

@lpacheco @codinghorror me too 😅

some of the music streaming services do have clean versions of albums, which i appreciate. but no video streaming services? i know multiple people whose dads hand-censored their VHS movies so the kids could watch too, and dads are still dads, so seems like there'd be demand

remember how in the 90s they had "clean" versions of movies with the sex scenes and/or worst swears taken out? i actually wish that still existed.

also seems like a service current AI could cheaply provide en masse (though the legal barriers would be large, i expect)

@levisan ah maybe that’s why i had that impression — one of my best friends from university is frisian, so no actual hate here