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Cranberry harvest on Terschelling, the Netherlands

My muse

Awet Aleu by Ashley Chappell for Elle Hungary Magazine September 2024

@storage_of_moments

art will save you, being unreasonably passionate about something niche will save you, letting past sources of joy show you the way back to yourself will save you, earnestness over composure will save you, the natural world will save you, caring for something bigger than yourself will save you, daring to be seen will save you, kindness not as a whim but a principle will save you, appreciation as a practice will save you, daring to try something new will save you, grounding will save you, love will save you, one good nights sleep will save you

my homegirl wrote a really salient essay on substack about how reliance on algorithms ultimately stifles modern day listener’s curiosity and the livelihood of music artists themselves.

open.substack.com

Your Algorithm Hates the B-Sides

Notes About Streaming from a Music Listener

i def recommend giving it a read and reflecting on your own music listening practices and habits. a favorite paragraph of mine that speaks further to the evidence that we living in a dystopia today:

“Algorithmic curation has consumed every facet of people’s lives —they search for information on AI run search engines, they exclusively buy products on social media platforms that push hundreds of ads based on the posts they engage with, they build virtual communities amongst like-minded, aesthetically aligned and desirable online users. A revival of pre-streaming label street teams and independent CD pushers would fail for many reasons, one being that they’d find the streets desolate and empty.”

imagine love and safety reaching every corner of the planet, even in the place where it feels most improbable

@ femalepentimento

The limits of the liberal imagination are going to get us all killed

decorative band, morocco, 17-1800s.