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Cake day: March 29th, 2025

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  • Whitey On The Moon by Gil Scott-Heron comes to mind. Planet is burning and they’re sending money to space.

    A rat done bit my sister Nell
    With whitey on the moon
    Her face and arms began to swell
    And whitey’s on the moon
    I can’t pay no doctor bills
    But whitey’s on the moon
    Ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still
    While whitey’s on the moon
    The man just upped my rent last night
    Cause whitey’s on the moon
    No hot water, no toilets, no lights
    But whitey’s on the moon
    I wonder why he’s upping me?
    Cause whitey’s on the moon?
    Well I was already giving him fifty a week
    And now whitey’s on the moon
    Taxes taking my whole damn check
    Junkies making me a nervous wreck
    The price of food is going up
    And as if all that crap wasn’t enough:
    A rat done bit my sister Nell
    With whitey on the moon
    Her face and arm began to swell
    And whitey’s on the moon
    Was all that money I made last year
    For whitey on the moon?
    How come I ain’t got no money here?
    Hmm! Whitey’s on the moon
    Y’know I just 'bout had my fill
    Of whitey on the moon
    I think I’ll send these doctor bills
    Airmail special
    To whitey on the moon



  • I used to run YouTube Vanced on my phone for years until Google killed it a few years ago. Since I was already paying a monthly sub for YouTube Music (been using that since the Google Play Music days and had my whole iTunes uploaded there) I decided to spend the extra 1-2 bucks a month for the Youtube Music + YouTube Premium combination, since that seemed like less effort than keeping up with ReVanced builds constantly.

    Last month I tried getting a student discount for my subscription, but after a day I got an email telling me Google was canceling my sub for an unspecified reason. I decided not to renew it, and instead downloaded ReVanced, and spent a few days redownloading all the albums I only had on streaming, and integrating those along with my old iTunes folder into my Jellyfin I already had set up for movies.

    Now I’m saving 15 bucks a month, and have regained full control over my music library. Feels pretty nice, and the Symfonium music app on Android looks 10x better than the ever-changing UIs of YTM ever did.

    Also feels great not to give a single cent to an accomplice to Israel’s genocidal mania across the middle east anymore. I had already severed ties with Google’s mail, photo storage and search a year or two ago. Get fucked Google.