25 years too late, i want to thank all of you UK music pirates who left open their napster and limewire clients on 33.6k/56k dialup connections for hours at a time in the middle of the night in 2000.
when i was a teenager in the late 90s and early 2000s, canada was still recovering from a decade of hopeless grunge, there weren't many options for learning about new music aside from the radio. 99% of it was dead pop and rock. but a local university radio station (CJSR) exclusively played all kinds of music you couldn't find anywhere else.
one night, at 2am, a CJSR deejay queued up a track by a band called Lemon Jelly. after decades of despondent punk/rock/grunge, it was the most refreshing and uplifting thing i had ever heard. the kind of music that was just glad if you smiled a bit.
except, i couldn't find it anywhere. the big local shops like HMV didn't import LJ's label, and i couldn't afford to import it myself from a UK music store.
that week, i spent dozens of hours digging through every limewire/napster share i could find. and finally, i found it: someone in the UK had dumped the entire CD to 128kbit mp3s, as well as recordings from BBC 1's The Breezeblock.
a year later, i was finally able to buy their CD in-store, along with the incredible Illustrator vector artwork by lemon jelly themselves. i not only became a fan of LJ, but became strongly influenced by their low-poly vector illustration style in my own design work.
so: a belated thank you UK napsterites for sharing your music overseas 🙏
A downtempo electronica track. It begins with some spacey, slow-beat synthesized sounds echoing into the distance. A male voice says,
"Imagine if you can, what it is like to have no possessions at all. Nothing. Very few people are able to imagine such a thing - to have nothing at all. Let us, you and I, try to imagine something a hundred times harder: not just to have nothing at all, but when there was nothing at all. The very beginning of time. The dawn of history. Page one. Nothing at all. The earth itself without form. A void. Only emptiness. Formless. A dark, endless, waste of water. No living thing, no plant or tree, no bird or animal. Nothing. This is before people. Before anything at all. A void. Sitting silent. Still. And then: Nothing."
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Fighting #Blindness Canada is trying to connect people with similar eye diseases IRL. One in #yeg is at an #inaccessible rec centre. The closest bus stop is 2.5km away. If you go, you must be driven there. #motonormativity #disability #VisuallyImpaired
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Fighting #Blindness Canada is trying to connect people with similar eye diseases IRL. One in #yeg is at an #inaccessible rec centre. The closest bus stop is 2.5km away. If you go, you must be driven there. #motonormativity #disability #VisuallyImpaired
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@Chigaze @linux_mclinuxface
Let's go to Hawrelak on March 13 and count trees! 😜
If the original toot's link failed for you, try: https://www.edmonton.ca/projects_plans/parks_recreation/hawrelak-park-rehabilitation-project?utm_source=virtualaddress&utm_campaign=hawrelakparkrehabilitation
@puzzled @Chigaze @linux_mclinuxface
Ooooh I want this to be good so bad (is that a sentence). I really am hoping it won't be disappointing. There is SO MUCH that could be done with all that space that goes beyond "it's a paved loop around a grassy field and also sometimes theres a concert".
I can't wait for Heritage Festival to return home.
Hawrelak Park reopening to the public in March after extensive rehabilitation | Global Edmonton
https://globalnews.ca/news/11654551/hawrelak-park-reopening-march-2026/
#breakingNewsYeg
Hawrelak Park will reopen March 13!!
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The Fulcrum 🏴☠️ 🛠️ ⛓️💥
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Yesterday I was cutting drainage channels through the ice by my sidewalks like it was March or April. :/