#list week

[the-vinyl-countdown]

Die besten Alben des Jahres 2024 - Platz 50 - 26

Wir starten die Liste mit den ersten 25 Alben. Dieses Jahr war voll mit sehr guten Alben (siehe honorable mentions) und die Reihenfolge könnte sich jederzeit etwas verändern, daher sind die Plätze eher eine ungefähre Orientierung.

Viel Spaß beim Hören.

50. Lupe Fiasco - Samurai

49. Moor Mother - The Great Bailout

48. Blu & Evidence - Los Angeles/Blu & Exile - Love (the) Ominous World

47. MGMT - Loss of Life

46. ShrapKnel - Nobody Planning to Leave

45. Freddie Gibbs - You Only Die 1nce

44. Ezra Collective - Dance, No One's Watching

43. Mount Kimbie - The Sunset Violent

42. Justice - Hyperdrama

41. Khruangbin - A LA SALA

40. Foxing - Foxing

39. ØKSE - ØKSE

38. Caribou - Honey

37. Westside Gunn - Still Praying

36. Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

35. Future Islands - People Who Aren't There Anymore

34. E L U C I D - REVELATOR

33. ScHoolboy Q - BLUE LIPS

32. Chat Pile - Cool World

31. Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

30. IDLES - TANGK

29. Friko - Where we've been, Where we go from here

28. MAVI - shadowbox

27. Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement

26. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

care for gaza - focuses on providing food and essential supplies. donate here or here.

connecting humanity - securing internet access via donations of virtual sim cards (esims). if you can't afford a whole plan yourself, crips for esims is a communal pool that will use your donation to purchase and maintain esims

gaza soup kitchen - provides food, medical care, and classes for children. also has a gofundme

glia gaza medical support initiative - provides medical care through field clinics and tents at hospitals. donations can also be sent through their website.

ele elna elak - provides clean water, food, clothing, and shelter. they also have a gofundme

life for gaza - raising money for the gaza municipality to repair water and waste management infrastructure

taawon - partners with local civil organizations to provide food, water, medical care, shelter, and basic supplies

the sameer project - running various initiatives providing tents, medical care, and necessities. they have their own encampment project focused on sheltering families with children, sick and disabled members, or members in need of perinatal care

islamic relief worldwide's gaza emergency appeal - provides food, water, hygiene kits, medical supplies, and psychological support

baitulmaal - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies

gaza mutual aid fund - distributes food, hygiene products, water, and other essential supplies, including financial support. run by @/el-shab-hussein's amazing friend Mona. updates can be found on her instagram.

hygiene kits for gaza - provides hygiene supplies including menstrual products, wipes, and toothbrushes/toothpaste

anera - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, hygiene supplies, medicine, blankets and mattresses, and psychological care

palestine children's relief fund - provides supplies and support with a focus on children. also has an initiative for lebanon

dahnoun mutual aid - provides water, food, tents, baby supplies, financial support, and other necessities. updates can be found through their instagram

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

[atalana]

but seriously i do find it so funny that ford was like OH GOD MY PRECIOUS REPUTATION after bill possessed him around other people for all of one night

and then he gets back to this dimension after thirty years and this is now the photo the press associates with his name

[egophiliac]

idia was an absolute treasure this update. you agree.

Idia really went "time for me to be a hero! but in, like, a super meta way" and if that isn't incredibly in-character then what is.

and of course we can't forget

I kinda hope he and Riddle get to do another game jam again sometime! it's nice to see them get along! and now they have, inexplicably...shared skills and interests???

[forgottenbones]

Worst Albums of 2023

[badolmen]

They don’t even attempt to assassinate US politicians anymore. You notice that? Not since the anthrax scare back for… who was it, Barack? And even that… pathetic. This new generation has no respect for an honest hitman. I’m not sure this new generation has any honest hitman - you see that shit with Boeing? Sloppy, fucking disgraceful - you kill the whistleblowers before they get halfway to a lawsuit. What kind of fucking amateur is doing faked suicides the night before testimony? Goddamn greenhorns. Back in my day someone tried to shoot Ronald Reagan in broad daylight. There used to be bomb threats to Congress. I took out a few union leaders in the utilities sector myself. Today’s generation? Won’t even threaten to throw a punch - not even over on that - what’s it now, ‘X’? They got no guts. None! And they don’t even have poor impulse control to boot! Too much of that - that panopticon anxiety bullshit. “Oh what if I get a called out post???” People used to send the president letters full of bioweapons. In the mail! Today’s generation? Not a chance. All because of woke.

[nuclearanomaly]

Spite Loves...

[the-vinyl-countdown]

Die besten 10 EPs 2024

Dieses Jahr habe ich nur wenige EPs gehört, aber diese 10 waren sehr gut!

(EPs sind für mich alle Veröffentlichungen unter 30 min)

10. Kokoroko - Get The Message

9. Baby Rose & BADBADNOTGOOD - Slow Burn

8. Marina Satti - P.O.P

7. Amaarae - roses are red, tears are blue — A Fountain Baby (Extended Play)

6. Tha God Fahim & Cookin Soul - Supreme Dump Legend: Soul Cook Saga

5. Boldy James & Conductor Williams- Across The Tracks

4. Navy Blue - Memoirs in Armour

3. MIKE & Tony Seltzer - Pinball

2. Bon Iver - SABLE,

1. Maruja - Connla's Well

[shattered-tea-art]

Star Wars Artober | Day 1: Jedi | Kanan Jarrus

[samglyph]

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Commissions & Tip Jar

[daimiyamoto]

KYLE ALLEN

Inside Hook, by Matallana (April 2025)

[ribbononline]

Little timeskip Shauna design because I care her. deeply. She runs a little hair salon in Lumiose city

[shripscapi]

Ygritte commission for @jaehaeryshater 🩵

[heartorbit]

find another role, carry on the show

[chase-solidago]

Invasive Species and Xenophobia

Invasive species are complicated! People have a lot of feelings about them, positive and negative. Are plants that move "invaders" "colonizing", "immigrants", "citizens"? What does it mean to kill species that are from somewhere else? What if that species legitimately makes a poor neighbor and causes extinctions in other, native species? This complex, culturally-loaded issue is a foundational issue behind a lot of plant conservation and restoration.

This is a juicy and still actively disputed topic! The Guardian recently had a big article on colonialism in Botany, (tbh her views are dated and reductive, imo) and it’s come up again this week, to much hostility (cw: reddit). Yes, my region's native plant restoration came from literal nazis, but also, the impacts of some invasive species are real, not figments of a racist imagination. How do we balance these issues? What does ethical invasive management look like?

Since it’s such a juicy topic, I wanted to offer a few fun readings to share:

The Native Plant Enthusiasm: Ecological Panacea or Xenophobia?, Gert Gröning and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, 2004, Arnoldia.

THE CLASSIC 20th century German nazis and native plants paper. Made a huge splash when it came out, and you will still encounter people who paint all native plant stuff with this brush. Summary: yeah the nazis loved their native plants and used them as part of their conquering process. Also, the first prairie plantings ever, located in Chicago, were done by a racist probable-nazi for racist reasons, full stop. I’ll let him speak for himself: “The gardens that I created myself shall… be in harmony with their landscape environment and the racial characteristics of its inhabitants. They shall express the spirit of America and therefore shall be free of foreign character as far as possible… the Latin and the Oriental crept and creeps more and more over our land, coming from the South, which is settled by Latin people, and also from other centers of mixed masses of immigrants. The Germanic character of our race, of our cities and settlements was overgrown by foreign character. The Latin spirit has spoiled a lot and still spoils things every day.” - Jens Jensen

Botanical decolonization: rethinking native plants, Tomaz Mastnak, 2014, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Rather than viewing native plant plantings as an act of racially-pure occupation, Mastnak positions native plants in California as a decolonization of the sub/urban lawn. Uses a lot of quotations from 16th century English philosopher Francis Bacon, and is heavy on the philosophical musings.

From killing lists to healthy country: Aboriginal approaches to weed control in the Kimberley, Western Australia by Bach et al., 2019, Journal of Environmental Management.

This paper talks through some of the native vs invasive debate, and offers a different perspective on how to approach to plant invasive management based on cultural relations, rather than country of origin or behavior.

Beyond ‘Native V. Alien’: Critiques of the Native/alien Paradigm in the Anthropocene, and Their Implications, Charles R. Warren, 2021, Ethics, Policy, & Environment

DENSE but thorough, if you want to follow the entire history of the native/invasive debate, this has you covered. The most interesting stuff, in my opinion, is the discussion of invasive denialism, IE: the impasse of “You’re just being racist!” Vs “You know nothing about ecology!” I recommend the Discussion, which starts on page 13.

[cantpickyourgenre]

personally I do hope that all of their roommate fights are like nonsensical seven layer dips of other issues. I want to see Eddie putting coffee grounds down the garbage disposal and Buck getting really mad about it. Buck Voice: Oh, so you think you're better off without the garbage disposal? you want it to break because you don't think you need it, is that it? Eddie Voice: Oh, okay, no, I just think the garbage disposal is a grown ass adult and should speak with words if it has a problem with coffee grounds instead of playing mind games. I obviously NEED the garbage disposal, but I wish it would admit it needs me too, and it's better when we work together, not treat each other like a problem to solve. But noooo the garbage disposal has to make it all about what it doesn't like and what it doesn't need. Christopher Voice: How long until I'm away at college?