At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I find knowing I’ll revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.

▰ This year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival lineup is getting insane. They just added Marc Ribot. (More artists are yet to be announced. Someone even bigger than Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, and Lucinda Williams? Crazy.)

▰ Occasional reminder:

video games, E = everyone

music, E = explicit

▰ The ambient/techno Turing Test: I’ll know my computer is sentient when it mocks me for playing Nils Frahm’s Music for Animals and Monolake’s Cinemascope on repeat all day.

▰ Switching from iCloud to Obsidian Sync — for syncing Obsidian vaults — was a tad more complicated than I’d imagined, but it is now working for me on multiple devices. #whew

▰ Snowball playlist: heard a band, led by Roger Glenn, cover Oris Mays’ “Don’t Let the Devil Ride” live; listened to Mays’ original; listened to a version by Leo “Bud” Welch, who was on the label Fat Possum; listened to heap of songs by an old Possum favorite, Junior Kimbrough, and on and on

▰ An excellent simple (and affordable, and portable) second screen for a laptop (mine: MacBook) is an older-generation Android tablet (mine: Samsung) with both running Duet — especially stable using USB, rather than wifi

▰ Happiness is the developer of an app you use a lot adding a button/function you’d requested

▰ As posted at the end of the week: And on that note, have a good weekend. See you Monday, or maybe Tuesday.

▰ Reading: I am certainly reading far too many books at the same time at the moment, but so be it. I finished reading one novel this week, my 17th this year, Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea, and two graphic novels, Alien: Thaw (which I picked up because I like writer/illustrator Declan Shalvey’s comics, though this one he didn’t draw; Andrea Broccardo did) and Con Artists (by Luke Healy, who wrote and drew it, and who has a great line).