Initial rework commit: Build Script POC and CSS done

I've created the main CSS layout and a proof of concept for the build
script: this will actually build any "done" _post/ file and generate
it as a workable HTML file. However, no index file generate, rss, or
gemini is implemented

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-<article>
-# Blog Index
-
-<!--NEXT-->
-1. [2023-03-18 - Music: A Tour de Chorus](/blog/music/2023-03-18/)
-1. [2023-01-06 - Music: Reworking my THR100HD](/blog/music/2023-01-06/)
-1. [2023-01-06 - How I Generate My RSS Feed](/blog/2023-01-06/)
-1. [2023-01-03 - Music Spotlight: My Top Album 2022](/blog/2023-01-03/)
-1. [2022-12-31 - RSS - A Follow-up](/blog/2022-12-31/)
-1. [2022-12-05 - CSS Themes Exist Now!?](/blog/2022-12-05/)
-1. [2022-11-06 - My Markdown -> HTML Setup](/blog/2022-11-06/)
-1. [2021-01-05 - Manjaro Followup - Breaking things!](/blog/2021-01-05/)
-1. [2020-12-17 - Manjaro Experiment](/blog/2020-12-17/)
-1. [2020-02-17 - Bread Blog (First post)](/blog/bread/#2020-02-17/)
-1. [2020-01-13 - remember/recall - what could've been a command line tool](/blog/2020-01-13/)
-1. [2019-12-09 - Lisps, Assembly, C, and Conlangs](/blog/2019-12-09/)
-1. [2019-02-17 - Venturing back into C](/blog/2019-02-17/)
-1. [2019-01-21 - First! A New Years Resolution](/blog/2019-01-21/)
-</article>
-<div id='footer'>
-  <a href="/blog/feed.rss" rel="rss noopener" target="_blank">RSS Feed</a>
-</div>
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-## My Markdown -> HTML Setup
-
-A common way I see a lot of people blog, especially micro-blog, is in [markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/).
-
-<figure>
-> Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor.
-
-<figcaption><cite>--- [Wikipedia | Markdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown)</cite></figcaption>
-</figure>
-
-It built itself on-top of common syntax prevalent on the web and was designed to be converted into simple HTML output.
-Since it leveraged preexisting syntax it was easy for new users to pick up, and is now found all over the web and applications.
-
-Since I started this website, I had been writing each page by hand using a few tools to facilitate that - and for a while I had been looking for a good way
-to try out using markdown to generate some lighter pages and these blogposts.
-
-### Writing HTML by hand
-
-When it comes to blogging a lot of platforms offer WYSIWYG editor -- allowing users to write in rich-text that then gets converted into HTML in the style of the platform.
-But for my case, since I self host this website, I decided to stick to my roots and write PURE HTML instead.
-
-HTML is fairly simple and easy once you get use to the basic structure of the system. And since I've been working in HTML almost two decades now, at the time it felt like the best solution to make a clean website.
-
-I briefly touched on my design process in [2019-01-21 - First! A New Years Resolution](/blog/2019-01-21/) outlining that I wanted to make a very lightweight and simple website. And at the time I believed the best way to achieve this goal
-was to carefully structure and craft my website's HTML by hand.
-
-This article is making the process sound far more difficult than it is -- it's mostly just tedious.
-
-
-```
-<article>
-<h2> Title </h2>
-<p>
-   Some paragraph....
-</p>
-<h3>
-<p> some subsection </p>
-</h3>
-<p> more text </p>
-... etc
-```
-
-Is essentially what the website looks like - you can view the source of this page to see -- it's very simple HTML.
-
-The benefit I found doing this, mostly leveraging [tidy](www.html-tidy.org/), allowed a very easy to edit codebase.
-And by leveraging the existing tags and their properties I also attempted to keep the styling to an absolute minimum. Using existing tags to enforce the styling I desired.
-
-Only for certain areas (tables, code, quotes) where readability is an issue do I setup custom CSS.
-
-Most of this process is actually what will continue to happen but the actual writing process will be unobstructed by the tedium of writing HTML.
-
-### Micro-blogging in general
-
-At the time of writing this, I have no ported over any of my [Gemini](https://gemini.circumlunar.space/) micro-blogs.
-This warrants a longer post, since I wrote consistently in gemini from March 2021 through May 2021 -- having only stopped due to a long move leading to a lot of server downtime breaking the habit.
-My gemini updated multiple days a week - mostly due to the extremely lightweight and limited nature of the platform.
-
-#### Gemtext
-
-[Gemtext](https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/gemtext.gmi) was the gemini protocol's standard MIME type. It was a basic markup language that relied on line based syntax. It was purposefully as lean as necessary because this was what was ACTUALLY being served to clients -- unlike Markdown which first needed to be converted to HTML, gemtext was the actual text served and rendered on the viewers client. You could customize the style of your client - but you could not, as an author, dictate how your content would be viewed. This meant the only aspects of your blog you had control over was the actual content and it's structure -- which for a blog is really all you should care about.
-
-It's syntax contained most of what I was actually using here already from HTML:
-
-  1. headings
-  1. paragraphs that were wrapped based on page-width
-  1. links
-  1. lists
-  1. quotes
-  1. preformatted-text / codeblocks
-
-Besides links - it also leveraged the same common syntaxes that markdown did.
-
-#### Gemtext links
-
-From my brief time in the IRC and in geminispace in general - a lot of the "recommendations" came from new users about providing in-line links.
-The philosophy was that by forcing links to exist on their own line - clients could configure how they wanted these to be seen and not have to worry about 
-links interfering with the text.
-
-<figure>
-> Like Gopher (and unlike Markdown or HTML), Gemtext only lets you put links to other documents on a line of their own. You can't make a single word in the middle of a sentence into a link. This takes a little getting used to, but it means that links are extremely easy to find, and clients can style them differently (e.g. to make it clear which protocol they use, or to display the domain name to help users decide whether they want to follow them or not) without interfering with the readability of your actual textual content.
-
-<figcaption>--- <cite>[gemini.circumlunar.space -- A quick introduction to "gemtext" markup | Links](https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/gemtext.gmi)</cite></figcaption>
-</figure>
-
-I felt that this provided a lot of useful limitations that removed a huge barrier for me to actually write down ideas without feeling over burdened. I also lurked in the IRC - as well as [implemented my own gemini server](https://github.com/s3nd3r5/java-gemini-server).
-
-As a quick aside -- the java server was a lot of fun! The protocol was very simple to work with for basic gemtext. I felt the ultimate downside was trying to build something for basic gemini capsule hosting (like I was using for a decent chunk of my time with gemini) - and something for developers to use as a base application server. At the time in 2021 a lot of talk was happening on IRC of users starting to look to provide more complex experiences via the protocol and I wanted a way for those interactions to be built out in Java - since most were in Go or Python at the time. This decision lead to me burning out due to difficulties splitting those responsiblities easily - where you could host along side your application - since I lacked the experience with more complex Gemini capsule applications.
-
-But it was a good experience and I got hands on experience with Certs, Netty, and SNI - which actually came in handy at my job! 
-
-### Wasn't this about Markdown?
-
-A lot of what I liked about Gemini I found missing when I returned to the World Wide Web. Writing a new post was tedious and I actually had a few drafts sitting unposted. They're probably checked into my git at this moment!
-So I thought - why not just use markdown and convert to HTML? That's what it's built for - and I already designed my site to work with minimal customization of raw HTML tags!
-
-### How I use Markdown
-
-Firstly, this blogpost was written in Markdown (with minimal HTML sprinkled in). Then I render the markdown into HTML using [Discount](https://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/). Frankly, I don't know how I stumbled across this markdown parser - I think it came pre-installed on my KDE Arch system because another KDE program used it. But I liked it, and it seemed extensible enough for my needs.
-
-This would produce the "body" of my articles - and I could then prepend and append the template-head and foot to my html output to form a blog post/web page.
-
-#### Customizations
-
-After I generated the output file, I replaced some placeholders in the templates via `sed` and then `tidy`'d the HTML. The only other major issue was Discount had no way of appending any link attributes -- so for external links I had `sed` append the `rel` and `target` attributes - which work off the assumption they're not there. A lot of my home-server scripts rely on assumptions...
-
-This is all bundled up in a simple script file so I can just supply a few arguments and the full page is re-rendered on command.
-
-### Two Sources of Truth
-
-In the sytem I devised the markdown files are really the "source of truth" but you could argue that the HTML files hold equal weigh - as they're what you're reading right now. The markdown is only useful if I render it as HTML.
-There exist nginx extensions to serve markdown as HTML so I store everything as markdown. I could also provide some heading information to the markdowns to remove the command arguments and have on boot it generate the .html files in place before launching the site... But these are all nice ideas for a later date.
-
-Ultimately, this is something I contribute to ocassionally - I don't need something too complicated. I just need to output some HTML a few times a year. So if I manually publish the HTML each time - that's likely far more efficent then re-rendering.
-
-### Learnings
-
-This is the first post that uses this - though I've converted a page over to this already. But once I worked out the kinks and built a flow that works for me - this made the writing process a LOT easier.
-Another issue was that once I `tidy`'d the HTML file - it became frustrating to edit, and I didn't always re-tidy it. Because the output is always `tidy`'d by the script - I can edit the raw markdown as needed.
-And the script generally will always output the same file (with whatever changes I made of course). This makes the editing and git history a lot clearer.
-
-I would recommend writing in markdown - or even trying out gemini - you can host your gemini capsule on the web even! (Most gemini webpages are gemini capsules converted). I am sure other "blog focused markups" also exist too.
-
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-## CSS Themes Exist Now!?
-
-Yeah news to me too! Seems like according to [the MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme#browser_compatibility)
-it's been supported since 2019 for most browsers and supported by all by now.
-
-This is so wild!
-
-### Why is this cool?
-
-Well you may have noticed this is in dark mode now (if you set your preferences to dark in your OS/Browser).
-But this is cool because it means we're no longer restricted to using Javascript and custom preferences for websites.
-
-I had assumed this existed because sites like GitHub were defaulting to darkmode despite me never setting anything in like my profile settings. But I just assumed based off of my legacy knowledge this was some custom render trick using javascript.
-
-#### Still no JS!
-
-I keep this blog JS free! While not all pages under the senders.io umbrella are javascript free - everything in www.senders.io (this blog) will always be.
-
-I try to keep that, not only for my sake, but for your sake too - a javascript free blog means the priority is reading.
-
-### Examples
-
-So I achieve darkmode in this blog by doing the following:
-
-```
-/* default / light */
-:root {
-  --background: white;
-  --font: black;
-  --quote: #eee;
-  --link: #0303ee;
-  --linkv: #551a8b;
-  --linkf: #f02727;
-  --articleborder: #060606;
-  --tableborder: #aaa;
-  --tablehead: #ebcfff;
-  --tablez: #eee;
-}
-@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
-  :root {
-    --background: #1e1e1e;
-    --font: #eee;
-    --quote: #444;
-    --link: #00d3d3;
-    --linkv: #cd78f4;
-    --linkf: #f02727;
-    --articleborder: #23ed9b;
-    --tableborder: #aaa;
-    --tablehead: #6f5a7e;
-    --tablez: #313131;
-  }
-}
-```
-
-Essentially, I leverage [CSS Variables](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Using_CSS_custom_properties) to define the specific areas I set theme specific colors (my nav bar is static regardless of dark/light mode for example).
-
-Then if the media preference is dark - I overwrite the variables with my dark mode values!
-
-Whats tricky is originally most of these values didn't actually HAVE values set - I relied on the system default for things like links and the page colors in an effort to use minimum CSS as well.
-
-I still feel like I am honoring that since I don't have to duplicate any actual CSS this way, I just have a lookup table of color values.
-
-That being said my CSS file is still only about 3kB which is not so bad. And I've actually covered most themed properties already - links, tables, quotes.
-
-#### Toggling Themes
-
-Something else I found out during this experiment is you can actually toggle the themes directly in your developer tooling. By opening your devtools and going to Inspector (in firefox at least)
-there are two buttons in the styles section "toggle light color scheme" and "toggle dark color scheme" using a sun and moon icon.
-
-This made testing VERY easy and actually is what I noticed to prompt me into looking up if this was a standard CSS thing or not. So thanks Mozilla!
-
-### Conclusion
-
-Yeah if you've never realized this check out the MDN guides on both variables (I didn't realize these got put in the standard either!) and themes!
-
-* CSS Variables: [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Using_CSS_custom_properties](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Using_CSS_custom_properties)
-* CSS Media prefers-color-scheme: [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme)
-
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-# Hormone Levels
-
-On Fedi I talk quite a bit about struggling to dial in my hormone levels. Part of that involves getting tested and such. So this page is going to be where I catalog everything so its easier for me to share more clearly whats going on.
-
-## The Problem
-
-I switched to injections from pills to injections in April of 2023. After a few weeks of injections I start to notice that over the weekend I am just wrecked. My emotions are all off, I feel like I did pre-HRT and I start getting depressed. This has been happening every weekend since starting injections.
-
-## My dosages
-
-I currently (as of August 04, 2023) on 0.15mL of 20mg/mL Estradiol Valerate injecting weekly on Monday mornings.
-
-My original dosage was 0.1mL of 40mg/mL of EV.
-
-## The trials
-
-So my doctor tested my levels on a Thursday a week after my initial message (due to my own error missing a call to get the next day locked in). Since I wouldn't be testing for a week she asked me to do 0.15mL of the 40mg. I tested. And then tested again 1 week later.
-Both results were in the mid 900s pg/mL which is insanely high. I was averaging in the high 200-300 range on pills.
-
-So she had me immediately return to 0.1mL and then actually dropped me to 0.75mL of the 40mg and prescribed 20mg EV so I could take 0.15mL of that instead.
-
-Thus began a 6 week waiting period while I adjusted to the lesser dosage. And the feelings only got worse.
-
-## Where I am now
-
-I got my bloodwork done on the afternoon of Friday August 4th to conclude the 6 week trial and am awaiting results. 
-
-**Update**: The results came back as 253pg/mL. Awaiting call from provider.
-
-**Update**: On August 9th I followed up with my doctor about the levels and she recommended moving to a .1mL of the 20mg EV (down from .15mL of the 20mg EV) and inject every 5 days.
-
-So I am going to follow-up again in 3 weeks and report how I feel.
-
-## What Fedi has helped with
-
-Some possible things to note are:
-
-1. What day are you testing? Ideally I should've been testing the day before or morning of.
-2. I am doing weekly dosages. Some girls do every 5 days.
-3. I am generally stressed and anxious. But I can feel the hormonal difference on the weekends. Especially on Sat/Sun.
-4. I could switch to Friday injections since rarely do you test the day after. So that would allow for any day at the latter half of my injection cycle.
-
-But I suspect there is the possibility I am feeling the dip and not the actual level itself. So I feel amazing on the peak but the end of the cycle ramp down is so sever I just get depressed from it. In which case increasing frequency or other medical intervention (maybe anti-depressants) could combat this.
diff --git a/mds/blog/how-i-generate-my-rss-feed.md b/mds/blog/how-i-generate-my-rss-feed.md
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-# How I Generate My RSS Feed
-
-I only just now started supplying an RSS feed to you fine people! You can subscribe to it at [www.senders.io/blog/feed.rss](/blog/feed.rss)!
-
-I decided rather than manually generating the file contents I'd hook into my pre-existing publish scripts to be able to generate the RSS file.
-
-## Publishing blog posts - shell scripts ftw
-
-In [My Markdown -> HTML Setup](/blog/2022-11-06/) I touch on how I publish my markdown files into HTML for this blog. But what I don't _really_ touch on is the shell scripts that tie the whole process together.
-
-What I have is two, now three, scripts that feed the whole process:
-
-1. `publish-blog.sh` - the main script
-2. `compile-md.sh` - generates the HTML output
-3. `update-feed.sh` - generates/appends the RSS feed
-
-The `update-feed.sh` script is the new one I just added.
-
-`publish-blog.sh` is the primary interface, I supply the date of the post and the path to the md file and that calls compile and update to automate the entire process.
-
-Without going into TOO much detail you can view the latest versions of the scripts at [git.senders.io/senders/senders-io/tree/](https://git.senders.io/senders/senders-io/tree/).
-
-But the gist of the scripts is I parse out the necessary details, find/replace some tokens in template files I have setup for headers and footers, and concat the outputs into the final output HTML files, and now RSS feed.
-
-### update-feed.sh
-
-Source File: [git.senders.io/senders/senders-io/tree/update-feed.sh](https://git.senders.io/senders/senders-io/tree/update-feed.sh)
-
-This script is pretty interesting. I didn't want to deal with any XML parsers and libraries to just maintain a proper XML rss file and push items into the tree. Rather, I just follow a similar setup to my markdown generation. I leverage some temporary files to hold the contents, a static temp file for the previously generated content, and at the end swap the temp file with the real file.
-
-I take in an input of the publish date (this is the date from the publish script), the title, and the HTML file path. These are all already variables in the publish script, but also something I can manually supply if I need to publish an older article, or something I wrote directly in HTML.
-
-The core of the script is found here:
-
-```
-PUBDATE=$(date -d "$1" -R)
-TITLE=$2
-FILE_PATH=$3
-PERMALINK=$(echo "${FILE_PATH}" | sed -e "s,${TKN_URL_STRIP},${URL_PREFIX},g")
-LINK=$(echo "${PERMALINK}" | sed -e "s,${TKN_INDEX_STRIP},,g")
-
-# Generate TMP FEED File Header
-
-cat -s $FILE_RSS_HEADER > $FILE_TMP_FEED
-sed -i -E "s/${TKN_BUILDDATE}/${BUILDDATE}/g" $FILE_TMP_FEED
-sed -i -E "s/${TKN_PUBDATE}/${PUBDATE}/g" $FILE_TMP_FEED
-
-# Generate TMP Item File
-
-cat -s $FILE_RSS_ITEM_HEADER > $FILE_TMP_ITEM
-sed -i -E "s~${TKN_TITLE}~${TITLE}~g" $FILE_TMP_ITEM
-sed -i -E "s/${TKN_PUBDATE}/${PUBDATE}/g" $FILE_TMP_ITEM
-sed -i -E "s,${TKN_PERMALINK},${PERMALINK},g" $FILE_TMP_ITEM
-sed -i -E "s,${TKN_LINK},${LINK},g" $FILE_TMP_ITEM
-sed -n "/<article>/,/<\/article>/p" $FILE_PATH >> $FILE_TMP_ITEM
-cat -s $FILE_RSS_ITEM_FOOTER >> $FILE_TMP_ITEM
-
-# Prepend Item to items list and overwrite items file w/ prepended item
-## In order to "prepend" the item (so it's on top of the others)
-## We need to concat the tmp item file with the existing list, then
-## we can push the contents over the existing file
-## We use cat -s to squeeze the blank lines
-cat -s $FILE_ITEM_OUTPUT >> $FILE_TMP_ITEM
-cat -s $FILE_TMP_ITEM > $FILE_ITEM_OUTPUT
-
-# Push items to TMP FEED
-cat -s $FILE_ITEM_OUTPUT >> $FILE_TMP_FEED
-
-# Push RSS footer to TMP FEED
-cat -s $FILE_RSS_FOOTER >> $FILE_TMP_FEED
-echo $FILE_TMP_FEED
-
-# Publish feed
-cat -s $FILE_TMP_FEED > $FILE_RSS_OUTPUT
-
-echo "Finished generating feed"
-```
-
-Some key takeaways are:
-
-1. sed lets you do regex with delimiters that AREN'T `/` so you can substitute something that shouldn't actually ever show up in your regex. For me that is `~`.
-2. I always forget you can use sed to extract between tokens - which is how I get the CDATA for the RSS: `sed -n "/<article>/,/<\/article>/p"`
-3. `mktemp` is really REALLY useful - and I feel is under utilized in shellscripting
-
-The obvious cracks are:
-
-1. I rely SO much on `sed` that it's almost certainly going to break
-2. I don't have much other flag control to do partial generation - so if I need to do something either starting partway through or not finish the full process, I don't have that.
-3. Sometimes things can break silently and it will go through, there is no verification or like manual checking along the way before publishing the feed.rss
-
-The final two can easily be managed by writing the feed to a location that isn't a temp file and I can manually do the `cat -s $FILE_TMP_FEED > www/blog/feed.rss` myself after I check it over.
-
-But for now I'll see if I ever have to redo it. I don't think anyone will actually sub to this so I don't really need to care that much if I amend the feed.
-
-## Where to put the feed URL
-
-I never intended to provide an RSS feed. I doubt anyone but me reads this, and from my previous experience with gemini feed generation was a bit of a headache.
-
-A quick aside: I really only decided thanks to Mastodon. I was thinking during the Twitter meltdown "what if twitter but RSS" (I know super unique idea). But basically like a true "microblog". And some OSS tools to publish your blog. This got me reading the RSS spec and looking into it more - which then lead me down the using the RSS readers more (in conjunction with gemini, and Cortex podcast talking about using RSS more).
-
-But I've decided to just put the RSS feed in the blog index, on my homepage, and that's it. I don't need it permanently in the header. 
-
-## Conclusion
-
-I didn't have much to share here, it doesn't make too much sense to write a big post on what can be explained better by just checking out the shell scripts in my git source. The code speaks better than I ever could.
-
-I really, really like shell scripting.
-
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-# Mastodon and Twitter... wow!
-
-So I was aware of the [Fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse) quite some time ago.
-[Mastodon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)) is one of the microblogging social networking services
-that is.. "apart?" of the fediverse.
-
-[I joined mastodon](https://tech.lgbt/@senders) back in 2020 when I was looking into it more and it was blowing up again on sites like Reddit.
-Turns out I didn't really gel with it - primarily I realized I don't really like social media.
-
-## Twitter is on fire and I don't care
-
-So I joined Twitter sometime around 2010 because people kept talking about it and I wanted to follow some friends.
-This is pre-discord and post-skype sucking ass so my friends and I were in need of some way of sharing links and media online
-because SMS and MMS still and did suck back then too (TBH its the exact same). We'd DM eachother links and stuff and it was fun for a while.
-
-I did engage with the platform from a "I have thoughts that no one cares about, but at least I can tell Twitter" perspective. I didn't engage with it at all from:
-I follow people and hashtags because I care about the discourse. This is also when I started getting more into Reddit - which was much more up my alley so it was moderated and
-filtered for "higher tier content" (saying this now is like... hilarious - though as of Nov 2022, they're both just shitposts).
-
-In November of 2022, Twitter began to implode under god-awful leadership. And frankly, I couldn't care less... sorta.
-
-### The only good part about Twitter
-
-Apparently, Twitter is useful for distributed organization - we've seen how it works during movements to get the word out and spread the message.
-Most notably in Egypt during Arab Spring.
-
-This can happen in Mastodon - but by its nature - Mastodon is a bit... gatekeepy. And being able to just go to Twitter.com and search #hastag is very useful for this aspect.
-
-### But there is no other value, and that is like... not always a good thing
-
-But that type of organization isn't always for _positive change_. I mean, look at JKR tweeting about trans folk and Trump.
-
-## Mastodon
-
-So I didn't want this to be some history lesson. It was mostly a post about - I started using Mastodon this morning again. I find it sits nicely in this niche of blogging
-below things like Gemini or this blog - where someone would put _some effort_ into it. And mostly just get their quick thoughts out there.
-
-And I think that is fun. I am now more engaged with online creators than I was back in 2010 so I would probably want to have some YouTubers and bands migrate over so I could keep up-to-date on stuff.
-But I bet Instagram is going to win out for those - since they are already engaged on that platform.
-
-### Why not Instagram
-
-So I honestly believe if Twitter full shuts down (hard to believe but it COULD happen at this point - or at least get ditched enough for people to move on) it will be replaced by Instagram as the platform to engage with your favorite artists, creators, celebrities etc. It already is that - but its a different type of engagement. So I am curious how this transition will occur. I don't see enough general public moving to Mastodon - as the venn diagram of "how I engage with fans on this platform" is like 2/3s for Twitter instagram and there is like 1/3 that Twitter does that Instagram doesn't - and that's 
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-# RSS - A Follow-up
-
-Get an RSS reader and connect everything to it!
-
-Between switching to Mastodon for my social media allowance, and using a dedicated RSS reader has really cut down my overall consumption and wasted PC time.
-
-> this blogpost is originally posted to my gemini gemlog: [gemini://senders.io/gemlog/2022-12-31-rss-a-follow-up.gmi](gemini://senders.io/gemlog/2022-12-31-rss-a-follow-up.gmi) which is where I do most of my writing, converting some useful to share things over here. It is also where the original RSS gemlog this is a follow-up to was posted. For context, I wanted to cutback on a lot of my web consumption, wasting time and just being mindless online. So I looked to RSS to help centralize and solve this issue.
-
-## Recap
-
-So I am using [https://tt-rss.org/](https://tt-rss.org) as my RSS aggregator. It's a self-hosted RSS aggregator that, using profiles, allows you to subscribe to multiple feeds and have them "synced" between multiple devices (they're not synced, you're connecting to a central server). I like this because I don't ever have to worry about dismissing, reading, or marking anything on my phone to have it still present on my PC. And I don't have to worry about feed subscriptions or my phone pinging a bunch of feeds, or obviously, any third-party hosting.
-
-## How I've been using it
-
-So as always, please send me interesting RSS feeds! Or even your own! I am trying to read more blogs, and if you have something you enjoy drop me a DM or email! I'll share what I am following throughout this section <3
-
-### Blogs
-
-Obviously, I am following blogs, one of the last holdouts of RSS. I have a few that I follow, mostly other transfolk on Mastodon that I found had their own blogs. Most non-trans folks I follow are using gemini and still rely on the feed aggregators for that.
-
-If you're interested the two main ones I am reading right now are:
-
-1. [Erin In The Morn (substack)](https://erininthemorn.substack.com)
-2. [Selfaware Soup](https://www.selfawaresoup.com/)
-
-Which have been pretty insightful. Erin sharing a lot of US transgender news, which is good since I have dropped off using Reddit which is where I "got" my "news" from.
-
-### Podcasts
-
-The other mainstay in RSS is podcasts. Some even say if a podcast can't be consumed via RSS, is it even a podcast? I would agree. Everything else is just a show. I don't _need_ the content to be consumable from my reader, but I'd really appreciate it if were. I am always on the lookout for more podcasts though. With the only two consistent listens being:
-
-1. [The Pen Addict Podcast (relay.fm)](https://www.relay.fm/penaddict)
-2. [Cortex Podcast (relay.fm)](https://www.relay.fm/cortex)
-
-And currently off-season:
-
-* [Backmarkers Podcast (relay.fm)](https://www.relay.fm/backmarkers)
-
-Which has a YouTube video format. Though, I honestly really don't care for Austin Evans, I just enjoy consuming some F1 content and pretending I have friends I can talk to about motor racing.
-
-While writing this section I added:
-
-* [Inside.java Podcast](https://inside.java/podcast/)
-
-I have yet to listen, some of the topics seem interesting and being infrequent gives me hope its quality over quantity. (And I like having podcasts for chores to distract my brain)
-
-### Tech News
-
-Right now I follow two main news sources in tech:
-
-1. [debian.org/news](https://www.debian.org/News/)
-2. [LWN.net](https://lwn.net/)
-
-Running servers using stable debian - it's good to know when security updates come in, as well as distro updates. And LWN is fantastic, I've been a subscriber for many years and while sometimes (Jake) can focus a bit heavy on Python news, has been always interesting to read.
-
-This is the section I plan on adding more and more to. I had other tech blogs that just felt like clutter and were pushing out daily articles that I couldn't care less about (opensource.com cough cough). But that's just me. Tech news is mainly where I want to focus - since fluff blogs are rarely my cup of tea.
-
-LWN has some links in their weekly editions for other news feeds I might consider directly subscribing too, but for now I have these.
-
-### Music News
-
-Some folk have an RSS feed for their site updates, which I appreciate. Some use sites like Squarespace but don't properly connect up the RSS feed which I do NOT appreciate.
-
-So right now I have two bandsites that DO update it seems (as their site aligns with the feed) - but the only one I'll mention is: [raisedbyswans.com]( https://raisedbyswans.com/) I've spoken of this artist in my Music Spotlight MANY times and is one of my favorites. His site, while entirely simple, is setup with RSS and has been publishing his updates consistently. I appreciate this. Always a strong rec from me!
-
-I've been toying with Music Review sites that talk about new releases in the genres they specialize in, but I haven't settled on anything that is helping me discover new music.
-
-### YouTube
-
-This is probably where the biggest change has actually come in. Having my YouTube feed fed through RSS has been fantastic. I am able to not only refresh and not miss any updates (since YouTube sometimes likes to pull updates in out of order than I don't see it because it's buried between some other videos that I'd already seen.
-
-But this also allows me one further level of filtering on my YouTube subscriptions. I can stay subscribed to channels I am interested in watching _occasionally_ but not every video, and keep those off my RSS feed. And for the "I like to watch most if not all the new videos" I can subscribe to those via RSS. So it's like the "bell" but without the app basically. And since on Mobile I do NOT use the YouTube app (so I can take advantage of the Ad Blocker in Firefox) that's great!
-
-What sucks / is tricky is actually subscribing to the RSS feeds because YouTube buried that feature now. You just need the channel_id or the username and you can subscribe using the following URL:
-
-```
-https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={ID}
-```
-
-And you can obtain the channel_id either using the URL (though with aliases now (@channelname) its rare to see a channel_id in the URL) if present otherwise a little console JS can print it out: 
-
-```
-ytInitialData.metadata.channelMetadataRenderer.externalId
-```
-A note however - you'll need to clear the console if you navigate to the next channel, at least in Firefox, it caches the result otherwise and you'll print out the duplicate value. There are some tools where you can print your subscribers list into these feed URLs and bulk subscribe. I've lost the link (and it's what I did initially) but I recommend doing the manual add at least to focus on the channels you WANT in RSS, since you can always fallback to the main subscriptions page on YouTube.
-
-But what this has given me is the ability to effectively ignore YouTube almost entirely. Ideally, I'd script something with YouTube-dl but I don't REALLY care that much, and I've gotten into the habit of closing the tab after the video so I don't stick around and get sucked into the algorithm. 
-
-What my morning looks like is sitting down, switching to my tt-rss tab, seeing what's fresh, and watching a video with my coffee maybe, then just moving on and doing something else. I still lurk Mastodon, or get sucked into my computer in some way or another, but it's been really positive! I can count on one hand how many times since dedicating to RSS I've just clicked around YouTube.
-
-### Hobby
-
-The last section which really is an extension of Blogs/News is "hobby" RSS feeds. These feed a bit into the consumerist side of life and why I keep them separate. Right now it's almost _entirely_ fountain pen related (Who'da thought this community would still be writing blogs :P) but since most of the blog posts are either about products or reviews in some way, I try and limit how much I expose myself to them. I have been working on a draft about consumerism for quite a while now and just haven't really worked it into a post that isn't just DAE consumerism BAD? low-effort Toot level. (But basically, I kinda hate how all my hobbies, and hobbies in general rely heavily on a consumerism mindset, GAS, and such). So I've been trying to be more appreciative of what I already have and such.
-
-But these blogs are nice, and often keep in the know about my hobbies and can react to anything meaningful that's being released. A good video sorta on this topic was by Adam Neely([Adam Neely -  How In-Ear Monitors are Making Better Musicians](https://www.youtube.com/v/mHoljbkyAEs)), and how his band spend $6000 on gear for their tour, but what it did was eliminate stress and enable them to more easily fine tune and control how they monitor their live performance. He touches on the fact that gear videos feed into the consumerist mindset of music making, but gear is often necessary to facilitate certain things, and setting up a portable in-ear-monitor rig for their entire band is well... unavoidable. It's just a minor aside in a much deeper video about IEMs and touring and FEEL. And quite the departure from his usual music education content. But it sums up the main thesis of my consumerism gemlog quite nicely I feel (or at least I am projecting my thoughts into a brief aside he makes).
-
-## tt-rss - in retrospect
-
-So tt-rss is _fine_ honestly, I think I need to setup a better theme, something that has a bit more contrast. I don't REALLY read in it, I just use it as the aggregator and then open the links directly. I don't mind the way it renders the full articles with images, but I do mind how GREY it is by default (in "night" theme). It looks totally customizable and I bet I can download a decent theme for it if I look. But I may spend some time doing that and try and read more in application.
-
-But other than that it's been quite the improvement over my internet experience. More RSS!!
-
-## Conclusion
-
-I need more feeds, as I do enjoy reading. So I'm always on the look out. I hate to throw in engagement-y things like "let me know" stuff but I am genuinely looking for interesting suggestions for stuff you might subscribe to over RSS. Even if it's just "this is my webblog" :) I always like reading people's things. I should troll the aggregators and look at folks capsule landings to see what is linked!
-
-Anyway, you should look into getting an RSS aggregator setup. It's been really impactful on cutting down on internet scrolling and mindlessness.
-
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-# Music Spotlight: My Top Album 2022
-
-The hype is real. I only recently wrote last years, so I bet your hype is nonexistent but for me I was writing that knowing full well there were some bangers waiting to be unleashed in this year end review!
-
-If you hadn't read my previous post for 2021 the link is at the bottom:
-
-> The winner was "KANGA - You and I Will Never Die"
-
-## The album pool
-
-As always the criteria:
-
-* it was released in 2022
-* it wasn't a single
-* if it was an EP it has to be substantial and intentional
-
-And the albums are...
-
-* Amining for Enrike - The Rats and the Children
-* And So I watch You from Afar - Jettison
-* Astronoid - Radiant Bloom
-* Carpenter Brut - Leather Terror
-* Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
-* Dance With the Dead - Driven to Madness
-* Elder - Innate Passage
-* Emma Ruth Rundle - EG2: Dowsing Voice
-* Giraffes? Giraffes! - Death Breath
-* God Mother - Obeveklig
-* Jay Hosking - Celestial spheres (and various other releases)
-* Long Distance Calling - Eraser
-* Ludovico Technique - Haunted People
-* MWWB - The Harvest (Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard)
-* MØL - Diorama (Instrumental)
-* Psychostick - ... and Stuff
-* Russian Circles - Gnosis
-* SIERRA - See Me Now
-* Starcadian - Shadowcatcher
-* Tina Dickow - Bitte Små Ryk
-* Toundra - Hex
-* Waveshaper - Forgotten Shapes
-
-2022's playlist (+ 2 albums from bandcamp not on Spotify):
-
-* [[spotify] senders' Releases 2022 Spotify Playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2TCd910OyZcTjQ8l8Dc0Jy?si=efd0dc6286b84062)
-* [[bandcamp] Emma Ruth Rundle - EG2: Dowsing Voice](https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/eg2-dowsing-voice)
-* [[bandcamp] Jay Hosking - Celestial spheres](https://jayhosking.bandcamp.com/album/celestial-spheres)
-
-## The Top 5
-
-In alphabetical order:
-
-* Carpenter Brut - Leather Terror
-* Elder - Innate Passage
-* Emma Ruth Rundle - EG2: Dowsing Voice
-* Jay Hosking - Celestial spheres (and various other releases)
-* Tina Dickow - Bitte Små Ryk
-
-## Carpenter Brut - Leather Terror
-
-Some metal infused synthwave, Carpenter Brut managed to release a catchy and heavy banger of an album. Featuring a few guest performers, each of these tracks are unique and catchy in what I would consider a very "same-y" genre. It's nice having an infinite supply of retro synth tracks to drive to, but sometimes it's hard for one to really break through into "oh shit yes!". Typically, Starcadian is the one to do that for me, as they add an extra layer to their tracks through their music videos (each track being an "ear movie").
-
-Throughout the year I found myself coming back to a few tracks over and over - especially when I was showering or doing some other short activity and I just wanted something upbeat and fun as heck!
-
-Some call out featured songs are The Widow Maker featuring Gunship, Imaginary Fire featuring Greg Puciato, and Lipstick Masquerade featuring Persha. I looped these three songs quite a bit. But there are quite a few more to checkout.
-
-### Favorite Track
-
-This is tough, as I looped those three songs quite a bit - each bringing their own unique energy. So I'll pick all three - my list my rules:
-
-* The Widow maker - feat. Gunship
-This track is representative of the genre. It's synthwave to the core.
-
-* Imaginary Fire - feat. Greg Puciato
-This is a metal track with synths. Greg Puciato (of The Dillinger Escape Plan fame) is one of my favorite vocalists and is immensely talented. This is probably my favorite because I can't get enough of his vocal style - the screams and the clean vocals!
-
-* Lipstick Masquerade - feat. Persha
-This is a modern 80s track. This is what retrowave was designed around and while tracks like The Widow Maker are more typical of the genre, this is the song they all are basing their sound off of. This is kill pop song.
-
-### Special Commendation - Non Stop Bangers
-
-You throw this album on and it hits you with just banger after banger. I can't keep myself from dancing. Even as I listen back as I write this gemlog I am grooving in my chair! Like Kanga last year, this is just a series of tracks that just make you dance.
-
-### Album Link
-
-[[spotify] Carpenter Brut - Leather Terror](https://open.spotify.com/album/37PW0ipoWcjx3APS1MN0ql?si=HE0-siOqTsqVlJrlL9MWTw)
-
-## Elder - Innate Passage
-
-I toot'd a bit about this album, a later release in the year, this took this year end review and flipped it on its head. I thought it was wrapped up already with a separate release this year, but this makes the decision so hard.
-
-Elder came at us with what feels like a return to form. Having previously released Omens in 2020 and a collaboration album in 2021, Innate Passage takes the best parts of those two albums and builds on-top of more "classic Elder" albums like Lore. Elder has carved out their own niche in the genre making a blend of psych rock and stoner metal, with each release leaning harder and harder into psychedelic realms. Innate Passage has this almost ethereal feeling - especially in their opening track Catastasis.
-
-I think, however, they've left the doom and stoner metal behind. Dead Roots Stirring and Elder (self titled) were certainly "Doomy" and in that "doom/stoner" metal overlap. Lore, Reflections of a Floating World are both still very "stoner metal". But is playing psychedelic-metal with a big muff automatically stoner metal? I think since Omens they're probably, as a band, firmly outside of the stoner metal field - and more soundly in some psychedelic/prog metal genre?
-
-They introduce themselves as such in their website actually!
-
-<figure>
-
-> genre-pushing rock band that melds heavy psychedelic sounds with progressive elements and evocative soundscapes. 
-
-<figcaption><cite>--- [https://beholdtheelder.com/elder-bio/](https://beholdtheelder.com/elder-bio/)</cite></figcaption>
-</figure>
-
-"Merged In Dreams - Ne Plus Ultra" is the track that flips this whole argument on its head and shows that regardless, they're still very much a metal band and one that you'll absolutely be head banging too, horn up \m/.
-
-### Favorite Track
-
-I think "Merged In Dreams - Ne Plus Ultra". A nearly 15 minute track that has everything in it you expect from Elder.
-
-### Special Commendation - Excellent Vinyl Record Cover
-
-I LOVE their record covers when they do the circular inserts. You can display this vinyl with having 3 separate views through the port, which while purely aesthetic - it's very nice!
-
-The quality of the vinyl release was great, though I find any non-black Vinyl has a 33% chance of being slightly warped upon arrival. I am going to stick to traditional black vinyls from now on sadly. It's too freaking often
-
-### Album Link
-
-[[spotify] Elder - Innate Passage](https://open.spotify.com/album/5XClGjeje4c3qPjbtT898K?si=PFgsT8S_TD6hu4dwbFp3Jw)
-
-## Emma Ruth Rundle - EG2: Dowsing Voice
-
-Her second album in her "Electric Guitar" series - Emma Ruth Rundle (ERR from here on out) has released "Dowsing Voice" a haunting follow-up to last years Engine of Hell. Holy holy HOLY hell, this album is an impactful, artistic, just WOW. It's hard to describe. I was listening to it for this review and my partner, sitting behind me relaxing, said "What the hell are you listening too, this is scary!". And scary, emotional, and difficult it is. ERR stretches the use of the "electric guitar" title, as the focus here is the additional layers and voices added on-top of the main tracks.
-
-An experimental release that, at this time is only available on bandcamp, is one I don't put on frequently, but when I do am fully captivated. If you like artistic records - please check this out.
-
-### Favorite Track
-
-Probably: Keening into Ffynnon Llanllawer - I love the guitar(?) part and the wailing/vocalization. It's haunting. As a recording is amazing.
-
-Though "In the Cave of The Cailleach's Death-Birth" is the /best/ track. Put some headphones on and give this a listen! Just amazing.
-
-### Special Commendation - Album Art
-
-This album, IS ART, but the album art is just... really suiting the music.
-
-### Album Link
-
-[[bandcamp] Emma Ruth Rundle - EG2: Dowsing Voice](https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/eg2-dowsing-voice)
-
-## Jay Hosking - Celestial spheres (and various other releases)
-
-This is an interesting pick. Having released JUST in time for this year, this is an album I have been engaging with in many, many ways. Firstly, I am a patron of this performer via Patreon. They make music videos (audio only performance videos of the songs) that they compile into albums. Last year's album is probably my actual favorite and likely SHOULD'VE snuck into the top 5 because of the final track alone, which was an emotional and just epic banger of a track (Linked at the bottom of this review). 
-
-Celestial spheres is a compilation of 8 synth jams. Jay bills these as semi-improvisational, and while the YT channel is a synth nerds dream of these informative performances, the songs stand on their own. This one is no exception. Using various different pieces of hardware synths, grooveboxes, drum machines and traditional instruments - each track is unique while still carrying this /energy/ and style. It's so easy to hear Jays tracks and know it's him. 
-
-I've been following him for years and really enjoy the music he makes, and the community he's built up around his music. Due to the disconnected nature of the singles (releasing effectively as YouTube videos prior to the album drop) it's difficult to ultimately rate these in these lists since I don't get a chance to really enjoy them /as an album/ until the end of the year (the past two times happened like this where they came out around the end of the year). And on my playlist "Future, Tense" is present as it's a "2022" album according to Spotify, but was out on bandcamp in 2021, and that's when I was gifted it by Jay.
-
-So yeah - this whole section is like "disclaimer disclaimer" but if you like groovy, typically instrumental synth music - check it out.
-
-### The various other releases
-
-This year Jay released a few albums actually which I didn't want to include separately. If you enjoy this album (which was mostly comprised of 2022 music, so was the primary focus) check out the other albums:
-
-https://jayhosking.bandcamp.com/album/cinematic-works
-https://jayhosking.bandcamp.com/album/away-music-for-a-productive-day
-https://jayhosking.bandcamp.com/album/home-music-for-a-productive-day
-
-### Favorite Track
-
-Without out a doubt it's Nychthemeron. It's truly a wild track, with so much happening in it. I suspect it was his favorite too since he made an actual music video for it:
-
-[[youtube] Jay Hosking - Nychthemeron (Official Music video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka-xE3Qo3dA)
-
-### Special Commendation - Each track has a live performance attached to it!
-
-If you enjoy videos - these each have a corresponding YT video linked at the bottom of the bandcamp page.
-
-### Album Link
-
-[[bandcamp] Jay Hosking - Celestial spheres](https://jayhosking.bandcamp.com/album/celestial-spheres)
-
-## Tina Dickow - Bitte Små Ryk
-
-Tina Dickow (sometimes credited as Tina Dico, depending on the release) is a fantastic Danish singer songwriter. Since her first solo album she's really found a way to elevate what is just folk indie pop. Her songwriting, arrangements, and performances are always so rich. She knows when to strip the song back - like Chefen Skal Ha' Fri - while, has certainly a lot happening beneath the lyrics  - mixes them back a bit to let the layered vocals cut through as the song builds. Each song has so much to listen to! Picking out various instruments, layers, yet every song would work performed just her and her acoustic guitar. I find her style of pop music to be very engaging for that reason. I don't often listen to this style of music, but the production behind each track is so good it hooks me in. That and her beautiful voice - which drew me in first.
-
-It's a bit harder to talk about this album given the language barrier (I do not speak Danish!) Which is a shame, since her lyrics are often what I love about some of her previous albums. I've read the translations and done my own as a learning exercise, but there is a layer missing which is a shame given how strong this album is as whole.
-
-I've spoken about Tina before in two previous gemlogs
-([Music Spotlight: Awesome EPs](gemini://senders.io/gemlog/2021-04-27-music-spotlight-awesome-eps.gmi) and [5x5 Playlists](gemini://senders.io/gemlog/2021-05-18-5x5-playlists.gmi) (both gemini:// links))
-and is one of my absolute favorite artists of all time. I've been slowly collecting her entire discography, which can be tricky, given a lot of copies are out of print and the remaining stock/used copies are often in Europe. (And that 5x5 playlist is very telling given most of those artists have been featured in my top albums lists and were winners! Is this foreshadowing?!)
-
-### Favorite Track
-
-I shouldn't have introduced this section - it has been so hard each time! I think the title track, Bitte Små Ryk. It's got everything there, and is representative of the albums sound.
-
-### Special Commendation - Lovely
-
-This whole album is lovely. There is emotion here too, and while I don't speak the language its often very clear. But I love Tina and her music. It's lovely and hits this spot in me thats just warm.
-
-### Album Link
-
-[[spotify] Tina Dickow - Bitte Små Ryk](https://open.spotify.com/album/6YV4Gomk4iy0dUyVqPDN7T?si=e3wO7G3XTI-ZIwhOSCswJA)
-
-## My Top Pick
-
-This year has been especially hard, since I spent so much time listening to 2021s releases which are some of my favorite of all time. And between 2021 and 2022 (and mentioned in my 2021 spotlight) nearly every one of my favorite artists released an album. So I have been blessed with a lot to listen to.
-
-Anyone following me on mastodon may have seen Tina Dickow just owning my entire wrapped campaign, but with Elder releasing their album after the data collection stops for wrapped, that certainly isn't telling the whole story.
-
-And it wouldn't be a top album list if I didn't mention Starcadian being consistently in the top 10 year after year, just narrowly missing the top 5 - though technically, this release was in my 2020s list, as it was available then, but had since been pulled, and was released "officially" in 2022. Looking at what I can see it's the same tracklist, but the "inspired by" credits are entirely gone from the 2022 release.
-
-### Elder - Innate Passage
-
-Each year picking the winner is hard. Part of the reason I do this is I don't really add stuff to the list I don't like. A LOT of music comes out each year, and I add what I listen to. I don't listen to music I don't like - so by nature of the process - each album is a "top album" for me.
-
-But the top 5 is usually a mix of "omg obvs" and "yeah turns out I threw that on way more than I expected" (Carpenter Brut). But its really always a fight between those "obvs" - this year was Elder and Tina Dickow. Their releases were seriously top tier and repeat listens.
-
-Tina came in with the advantage of releasing in April, and Elder JUST released theirs at the end of November. But I did some math on my mastodon breaking down the comparison. Elder came at us with a longer albums, under half as many tracks, and over 2x the average song length (about 10min/track).
-
-They didn't waste a single second (neither did Tina) but just being such an accessible album - just direct pure energy and power - BOOM! It was great.
-
-### This should've been a tie
-
-Honestly, I was ready to call it a tie. I am actually writing this minutes before posting it, because that's how undecided I am and how close this is.
-
-Tina Dickow deserves the number one slot any other year, and both her and Elder's albums I hope to see more of in the next few years! Both are classic albums in their discographies (both albums of which I own and spin regularly). I forced myself to pick, and just knowing me, my tastes, and all  the stuff I said above - I went with Elder. But seriously, listen to this record - Tina manages to pack so much musicality in carving out a unique sound and just amazing style. I love her <3 :)
-
-And if her music isn't your jam - check out her guest tracks on the Zero-7 stuff - angelic voice.
-
-## Conclusion 
-
-I am REALLY disappointed I had to choose between Elder and Tina Dickow this year. Similarly, last year I had Raised by Swans, ERR, and Kanga! And our winner in 2020 was Bell Witch. These ARE my top six favorite musical artists currently active.
-
-I'll talk about music trends and my tastes later on. But I just wanted to emphasize how much of a banger these last 3 years have been musically and I am grateful I get to share these with you here.
-
-I am really excited for 2023!
-
-## This year's playlist (2023)
-
-[[spotify] senders' Releases 2023 Playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4zgdFBZslkcEq0xYFyME7U?si=4bc2bf7d015c4254)
-
-## Links
-
-If you use gemini:// you can check out my previous posts (until/unless I decided to port those over too)
-
-* [[gemini] Music Spotlight: Top Album 2021](gemini://senders.io/gemlog/2022-11-30-music-spotlight-top-album-2021.gmi)
-* [[gemini] Music Spotlight: Top Album 2020](gemini://senders.io/gemlog/2021-03-21-music-spotlight-top-album-2020.gmi)
-
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-Thanks for reading! I don't always crosspost - I am trying something out :)
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-# Wishlist
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-In general: Records, Gunpla, Warhammer are always welcome and likely to be most of what the following wishlist will contain.
-
-## Wishlist X-mas 2023
-
-
-### Assorted Things
-
-I'd love a jewlery holder! Any kind! My face is also puffy in the morning, so something for that!
-
-### Manga [🔗](#manga) {: #manga }
-
-| Series | Volume Range | Link(s) |
-| -- | -- | -- |
-| Run Away with me, girl | 1-3 | [B&N Series Page](https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Run+Away+With+Me%2C+Girl%22?Ntk=P_Series_Title&Ns=P_Series_Number&Ntx=mode+matchall) |
-| Our Teachers Are Dating! | 1-4 | [B&N Series Page](https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Our+Teachers+are+Dating%21%22?Ntk=P_Series_Title&Ns=P_Series_Number&Ntx=mode+matchall) |
-| Hinamatsuri | 1-18 | [B&N Series Page](https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Hinamatsuri+Series%22?Ntk=P_Series_Title&Ns=P_Series_Number&Ntx=mode+matchall) |
-
-### Records [🔗](#records) {: #records }
-
-| Artist | Album | Shop(s) | 💖 |
-| -- | -- | :-: | :-: |
-| Black Sabbath | Black Sabbath | [Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/artist/144998-Black-Sabbath) |
-| Black Sabbath | Master of Reality | ^ |
-| Iron Maiden | Iron Maiden | [Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/artist/251595-Iron-Maiden) |
-| Iron Maiden | Killers | ^ |
-| Iron Maiden | The Number of the Beast | ^ |
-| Iron Maiden | Piece of Mind | ^ |
-| Iron Maiden | Powerslave | ^ |
-| Iron Maiden | Brave New World | ^ |
-| Khemmis | Absolution | [LP Merch Site](https://www.20buckspin.com/collections/khemmis), [Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/artist/4497438-Khemmis) | 💖 |
-| Khemmis | Haunted | ^ | 💖 |
-| Khemmis | Desolation | ^ | 💖 |
-| Raised by Swans | Codes And Secret Longing (CD) | [Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/release/1173259-Raised-By-Swans-Codes-And-Secret-Longing) | |
-| Raised By Swans | Öxnadalur (CD) | [Bandcamp](https://raisedbyswans6.bandcamp.com/album/xnadalur) | 💖 |
-
-// Items marked with 💖 are things I would try for since they have official releases
-
-#### How to shop for records
-
-To shop for records generally, if the band is active/modern I try and link or share their official merch/bandcamp (generally you can websearch for the bands website where they usually link their US LP store).
-
-But otherwise using Discogs is the easiest way to shop for used records. Overall, you simply look through their releases filtering for Vinyl and the album and find a cheaper US release. Try and **avoid good or fair** quality as it usually means "pretty rough but it works". VG is my usual minimum. And do check the sellers shipping options. Sometimes, they make deals for 2+ records (like flatrate shipping) so sometimes ordering from the same store can save some money!.
- 
-And PLEASE DO NOT EVER spend a lot on a record. Usually $30 is a brand new repress cost for a 2xLP and my maximum. I would much rather have something not on the above list - knowing it wasn't a total rip-off.
-
-Speaking of represses, represses are always fine. If there are notoriously bad represses/rereleases I'd make it known. But so far only the first two Iron Maiden albums (Self, Killers) suffer from originally bad mastering - so it doesn't _really_ matter if its a repress/release or not. Its mostly purists/nerds who care.
-
-### Else
-
-Interesting Fountain Pen ink shades: [Jetpens Store](https://www.jetpens.com/Fountain-Pen-Inks/ct/3250)
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