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[brian-in-finance]

Podcast: 🎧 Apple 🎧 Spotify

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Here’s your language lesson of the day! Jemmy gets a scolding for calling his teacher “a haggard old goat-breathed daughter of a witch”

The Gaelic translation is “Cailleach chrogsach nighean banabhuidsich le anail gobhair.”

(BTW, Duolingo new inspo for your lessons!)

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Our Gaelic consultant, Gillebride MacMillan, composed the melody for “The Swan Song” that Roger teaches the students at his Gaelic class.

Lyrics below, give ‘em a try! 🎵

Latha chaidh Calum Cille cuairt

Guile gi, gùile gi, guile gò guile go

Moch madainn tràth san uair

Guile gi, gùile gi, guile gò guile go

Chunnacas eala bhuainn

Guile gi, gùile gi, guile gò guile go

An eala bhàn ‘s i snàmh air cuan

Guile gi, gùile gi, guile gò guile go

‘s i seinn a h-òrain bàis buan

Guile gi, gùile gi, guile gò guile go

A day that Calum Cille went on a journey

[SWAN CALLS]

At a time early in the morning

[SWAN CALLS]

A swan from seen from us

[SWAN CALLS]

A white swan swimming on the ocean

[SWAN CALLS]

And singing her eternal death song

[SWAN CALLS]

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As you can imagine, creating Outlander is a HUGE enterprise! Here’s what it took to craft some of the looks in Season 7, by the numbers.

320 new military uniforms with more than 15,000 buttons

Over 200,000 yards of thread in dozens of colours used to make costumes

Over 2600 pairs of shoes and boots in stock to use on Supporting Artists

On average, 50 workers per day in the costume department — 65 on busy days!

400 - 450 wigs

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Remember… there is a lot of work makeup-wise when it comes to wounds. For a story like Walter’s leg, there has to be a lot of preparation. — Ann McEwan, Makeup and Hair Designer

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[iwasntcrazyiwasdivine333]

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With everyone sharing their Spotify wrapped and also rightfully sharing how little artists get paid by Spotify, I wanted to mention that Bandcamp Friday is tomorrow. If you don’t already know, Bandcamp Friday is held on the first Friday of every month and is when Bandcamp waives their revenue share so every purchase goes directly to the artist.

Fans have paid $192 million directly to artists on Bandcamp this year alone, so if you’re looking to support musicians (most of which are independent or are signed to an independent label on Bandcamp) then go find out if they have a Bandcamp page. You can even gift purchases to friends and family!

[observinghenrywinter]

I love people who know my tasteee

[hawkogurl]

Alright I’ll bite. Whats the first song on your Spotify wrapped/Apple Music replay made by a band with under 100k monthly listeners.

[realbigpodcastslut]

As much as I like Spotify Wrapped, I have to say this year was awful and the nail in the coffin for me.

Firstly, it was later than usual and was all AI. That isn't 100% a bad thing, but it was missing a ton of stats in favor for what AI generated genre description we were listening to through out the year. I wanted to know what my top genres were this year! What my tarot or energy was! But there was none of that, instead an AI podcast that reguritated the wrapped story and got it wrong for me. (Last time I checked by biggest listneing day couldn't have been 12k minutes as there's not even that many minutes in a week).

Spotify isn't even the best music streaming platform by far. It sucks with music quality where it is very noticible even if you aren't an audiophile. Let's compare individual plans. For 11.99 USD the highest streaming is 320kbps and doesn't have high-res. Amazon, Tidal, and Apple Music all have the ability to stream CD quality (for example Tidal is 1,411kbps) for their 10.99 USD each. And they have the same if not bigger catelogs. Oh and Tidal actually pays their artists and is clear about it (Spotify pays $0.00348 per stream, Amazon does $0.00426, Apple $0.00675, and Tidal $0.00876).

The biggest draw to Spotify for me was the statistics. I really enjoyed being able to see what I'm listening to and compare but now every other streaming service has that. I liked that. Except, each service is doing that now. And Every Noise At Once, a website I use to find great new music, is no longer updating cause Spotify laid off a ton of their staff. While it wasn't a Spotify "offical" thing, the person that ran it worked at Spotify and was a part of the daylist creation along with other things.

Another thing is the music recommendations. They suck. Spotify used to introduce me to a lot of new music but I feel like it just gives me the same five same songs. Shuffle is also rigged and anything generated has gone downhill since the layoff. There's no new layout or UI changes that have been asked for years. Like covers for playlist folders or album collections.

Spotify might have podcast integration but it SUCKS. There's so many better free options. I'm a big podcast listener and their podcatcher is the worst I've used. By far.

The only good thing about Spotify right now is the audiobooks for premium users. I liked that. Except the selection is limited you get 15 hours a month. There's other free options like Libby which is integrated with local libraries.

If you were disapointed with Spotify Wrapped this year, maybe look into some other options. Spotify has some nice features but I'm finding it less and less worth it.

[lapdogchase]

if you ever think "why bother posting my spotify wrapped/apple music replay nobody really cares anyway" think of ME. I CARE. i love that shit i love seeing what music people like and how many minutes they listened to music etc. PLEASE post them i love it i love ittttt it's like a holiday for me

[taylornation]

We’re looking back on this year and feeling like we just lived 13 lives? 🤯

Thanks for making it best year yet! 🫶 Also, since today is 123123, we gotta say it… 1, 2, 3, let’s go (to 2024), bitch!

[mrsoulstice]

Thought I was 😵 🔥🔥

[fawndollie]

hello here are some gifs i made/found instead of doing my photography assessment

eat up my children

div by @pommecita !!!

[jakei95]

Despite Everything It's Still You - An Undertale Tribute Song by NyxTheShield Now available on: SPOTIFY | APPLE MUSIC | DEEZER

[ang3linebn]

[saturns-apple]

i was dead, then alive,

she was like wine, turned to water,

and then turned back to wine...

sorry for the repost i hated the formating. anyway AUUDGEGEGGGYEHE TJEMMMMMMMMHGGYTT. ferrygabe is one of my favorite dynamics to think about and they make me violently ill.

heres the song this peice is based on