Tracey Lindeman

thanks so much, Rine! <3

oh also, sometimes some of the more obscure stuff doesn't port over properly but if you manually search it you can usually find it

no prob! they have a free month trial fyi!

fwiw they pay some of the highest royalties to artists, tho

so, when i am on wifi, the sound quality and app functioning are great. but when i left my place, the app got choppy. i learned i had to use mp3 quality to lower the bandwidth while i'm out and about. but you can set it so that on wifi, it's high fidelity and on 5G it's mp3. annoying, but it's fine

I signed up for Qobuz (a French streaming platform) and it has significantly better sound quality than Spotify. I tested it on computer, bluetooth speaker, wired and wireless headphones and just my phone's speaker — better on all of them.

Plus they let you move over all your Spotify playlists.

Stand Up against Street Harassment September 4, 2025 Noon - 1 pm EST

If you saw someone getting sexually harassed on the train or at a coffee shop, would you feel safe intervening?

If not, let me teach you effective bystander intervention to end street harassment!

It's FREE and open to anyone aged 12+

In 1 hour, you'll learn 5 tactics!

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It has one of the lowest conviction rates of any crime in Canada.

I get why so many people are okay with piling on in this case because he's a tech CEO and we're living in a tech broliogarchy, so we hate these people.

But surveillance culture is no bueno across the board and anytime we celebrate it, we all lose in the end.

My first thought: does he write his own memos?

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

whenever i see grok screenshots i remember how it's running on methane-gas generators in a black neighborhood in memphis www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Seine swimming pool opening gives Paris mayor another jewel in her green crown Making the famed river swimmable is one of the final big projects Anne Hidalgo will inaugurate before she leaves office next year.

NEW: “The transformations that Paris made work better for everyone, including drivers.” I’m interviewed for this @politico.eu @victorglaf.bsky.social article on Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s truly remarkable city-building legacy. @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social is quoted along with many mayors.

Exemption from differential tuition fees depending on the program of studies and the region Foreign students engaged in higher education in French in the priority employment sectors may be exempted from additional tuition fees starting in fall 2023

Canada desperately needs doctors. Especially Quebec, which has a couple of programs meant to attract international students in medicine (Quebec resident tuition is very cheap compared to what international students normally pay) www.quebec.ca/en/education...

Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%

So yes this program is a SUCCESS.

The New York Times has confirmed our reporting that, amid a federal "defunding" effort, Planned Parenthood affiliates are considering whether to halt abortion care so they can continue accepting Medicaid:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

i wish for an excellent french baguette in chicago

incredible

Thousands of Amazon Workers Listen to Alexa Users' Conversations Amazon says it's to help make Alexa better at answering questions

unplug your alexas and be free

time.com/5568815/amaz...

B.C. MLA's constituency office targeted with explosive device | CBC News An email to MLAs and constituency assistants said the device detonated and caused damage to the North Vancouver office, but no one was hurt.

meanwhile, in canada

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Letter of recommendation: Vornado air circulators. I got one that can circulate air in a space up to 700 sq ft (model 810).

I put it near the AC and it spread the cool air throughout the apartment, and it's still keeping the temp down even after I turned off the AC. #heatwave

New York Times Cited 29 Times to Justify Case Limiting Trans Healthcare — Assigned Meanwhile, other mainstream media newsrooms treated the U.S. v. Skrmetti case as an opportunity to center coverage around the expected result.

New from Evan: You might know that the New York Times took a shameful victory lap the day after the Supreme Court ruled bans on gender affirming care are not discriminatory.

But what you probably don't know is that ban supporters cited NYT in their amicus briefs 29 times.

ComEd electric bills to go up more than $10 a month. Here's why. Energy-hungry data centers will dramatically increase demand for power as the U.S. races to be a world leader in artificial intelligence. ComEd and other utilities pay up front to make sure the electr...

and it's very cool that our power bills are going up this year because of the local data farms!

chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

I am down to 29.9 C thanks to two ACs

ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens GAO confirms ICE deported U.S. citizens due to systemic failures — and the agency still doesn’t know how many more it’s wrongly targeting

People (including journalists) keep posting this today as if it's relevant to the current spate of deportations but the "70 deportations" cited refers to ones done 2015-2020

Misleading headline, and journos posting without reading

migrantinsider.com/p/ice-has-de...

the article says this figure is from between 2015-2020

my apartment is 32C (89F) lol

the article says that was between 2015-2020

lupron literally triggers a state of "fake menopause" and depo is a birth control shot

neither should be used for more than 2 years in a person's *entire life* because of they cause bone loss, not to mention many physical and mental side effects

but doctors will tell patients to just suck it up

cc @themarshallproject.org

"Cruel and pointless"

Two of the drugs used in chemical castration are widely used on people with endometriosis, adenomyosis, fibroids, etc. — leuprolide acetate (lupron) and medroxyprogesterone (depo-provera)