Avi Henriques 🩸

How to quit Spotify This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.

So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Album cover for Salvation. Rebecca Black is holding a gun and looking down on you like you're a worm.

SALVATION, album by Rebecca Black

sorry but it slaps, and we as a society should just accept it. She's grown beyond Friday into genuinely excellent electro-pop and I loved it. Favorite track: Sugar Water Cyanide.

#ThingsAlexLiked2025

TRUTH

Little Dutch tchotchkes on a wooden tray with rainbow enamel. Behind them are two stuffed animals, implying I too keep tchotchkes.

Like so many Jewish grandmas for generations, my nana kept tchotchkes. As a war orphan, she never got to inherit her family's precious objects. But my grandfather's mother took my nana under her wing and treated her like her own daughter. So her collection became my nana's, and is now mine.

A calico cat stands in a hallway, looking intently at the camera.

I see you are doing something that is not petting Mina.

A photo of a farm worker in a field holding a sign saying farm workers support striking Starbucks workers. #NoContractNoCoffee

Farm workers stand in solidarity with striking Starbucks workers.

Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a fair union contract for close to 4 years. Just like many farm workers, @sbworkersunited.org is fighting back against greedy union busting employers.

#NoContractNoCoffee

So far we’ve raised $4,356 to support Doctors Without Borders. I’d love to see us reach $5,000 by the weekend! 🍉

A clipped portion of a page from Draconic Codex, showing sketches of the Despair Dragon's anatomy. It has a grotesque extended tongue ending in a vaguely human-shaped mimic, and three large horns that look like eyes on its head. Credit to artist Kent Hamilton for the dragon's design!

Happy Draconic Codex release day, everybody! 🎉🐲

Please allow me to introduce my beautiful, terrible son: the Despair Dragon. I was absolutely thrilled to write these creepy lads, and I can't wait to hear the tales of how they terrified players at your table! #PF2E

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A very wrinkly pig wearing anti-dragon barding, which has magical spikes and runes on a leather harness that goes around the pig's middle.

Pathfinder is a very serious game. (From Draconic Codex, out today!)

I also think it's worth a long, hard look at why so many Jews from the former Soviet bloc fled to Israel. It's not because Jews inherently love tyranny and nationalism, though the culture of Israel encourages those things. It's because Europeans (including Russians) made life impossible in Europe.

Galaxy brain meme. Panel 1: Jonathan Harker found paprika hendl spicy because he is pathetically English. Panel 2: Hungarian paprika ranges from mild to very spicy; it's perfectly possible our friend Jonathan was served the spicy stuff Panel 3: "paprika hendl uses sweet paprika" recipes change quickly over time an dplace, Jonathan may have been served a regional variant Panel 4 (text running off bottom): PAPRIKA USED TO BE SPICER holy shit it used to be spicier before sweeter peppers were cultivated in the 1920s. plus the machine to remove the spicy pith and seeds was only invented in the 1860s. 19th century Hungarian cuisine was simply spicier than its modern counterpart. not to mention how even "mild" paprikca can cause indigestion which is why it's so frequently served with sour cream

WELCOME TO THE DRACULA PAPRIKA DISCOURSE!!

(meme from tumblr, not my own, original link seems to be dead now)

Stalin's opinion on Jews (that they were bourgeois and "cosmopolitan") is actually exactly what you see from modern leftist antisemites, along with the conflation between Zionism and the entire Jewish population.

AUGH I am literally losing my mind seeing posts from people who identify as Stalinists. If the fact that he executed literally half a million people isn't enough to sour you on him, right before he died he was planning a program to deport all Jews in the USSR to Kazakhstan. This is all on Wikipedia.

More than ever, Sama'a and her family need us now. Please give what you can.

tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily

please help if you can, share if you cannot. these are our siblings, and they need our help.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

A large polar bear sploots on the snow-covered tundra and gnaws on an old, dry piece of carcass. He's facing the camera and looks up distractedly.

Polar bears are intelligent and will look for ways to keep busy when they have nothing better to do. Gnawing on this dry carcass is exactly that - a mindless way to pass the time while waiting for the bay to freeze. #BearSeason2025 #mammals 🌿

Donate to Help covering vet bills and medication for Guts, organized by Yesenia Amador Hello! My name is Don, I'm a trans man from California currently st… Yesenia Amador needs your support for Help covering vet bills and medication for Guts

After some heavy consideration I decided to setup a gofund me for my cat Guts in order to cover her bills and medication as well as her surgery once we can get her levels under control. Every share helps a ton (please ignore the deadname 😔)

gofund.me/90ef59e4a

Call the WAISN Hotline at 1-844-724-3737 if you, or someone you know, needs assistance. We are available Monday to Friday, from 6:00am to 6:00pm to report ICE activity and for access to information and resources.

ALSO: Save this phone number. WAISN are who you should call if you see ICE in Washington.

If you have money, now is the time to donate to WAISN and put your support behind immigrants and refugees in our communities. We need to be ready, and part of that is providing monetary support to the orgs already existing who know how to do the work.

Seattle has thousands of Somali immigrants, many in my neighborhood. We go to the same farmer's market. We shop at the same stores. We share the same sidewalks. They fucking matter to me and I firmly reject the idea that any place on earth would be better off without Somalis.

This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

Selfie of a trans man wearing a shirt with an illustration of a bear's face on it, except the bear's component parts are made up of salmon. The bear has a scar across its snout and a snaggletooth like Chunk has.

Got my commemorative 32 Chunk shirt from the Katmai Conservancy! #TeamChunk

sharp cheddar. cheddar but make it sassy

KOSA, SCREEN and a lot of US bills are going through a hearing today. Calling the committee and *in your own words* explaining why these impact you negatively would do good.

democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/committee-ac...
Main Office: (202) 225-2927
Majority Office: (202) 225-3641

Very very nervous about KOSA because most of my life as a queer person is on the internet due to a lot of factors! And feeling all sorts of rage about the fact that the govt is claiming they're trying to protect children from predators by targeting queer folks, when the PRESIDENT IS A CHILD PREDATOR

Israel is still bombing Gaza

The press isn't covering it as much but it's still happening

Yeahhhh as a disabled person who works full time, most of the activism I can do is donating to mutual aid and nonprofits I trust, making phone calls, and being involved in my union. I would love to get more involved in various areas but life makes it hard.

I have not, I'll look it up!

This is DEFCON 1 priority, y'all. Call your senators, reps, call your friends and tell them to call their senators and reps about this. Call your grandma and tell her to call her senators and reps about this.

What we have here will be *gone* if these bills pass.