🎼 ⤑ music, and the internet..
..have come a long way. As did we, didn't we not. But only today, which appears to be.. December 2nd, 2025, I realised wistful will be the vibe of this yet another ever in need of rewriting blogpots, on music & the internet, a match made in heaven if not for what time has made of them. A touch of THC sets us on our merry way in. one. two.. 😶🌫️
RED — WCD après le Deluge
..was the first oh so cleverly compact stub header here. 😒 WCD refers to What.CD, for all intents and purposes the ancestor of RED, referring to Redacted, a private torrent tracker devoted to music. As an ancestor, it, too, of course, had origins, but this isn't a bible book where things just start begetting things begetting things.
Ah the bible.. Somehow always there to show us some narrative. For it is hell!
at the end of the road people like this
u/DevYukine @Github pave for us with,
presumably, nothing but good intentions. They come along something beautiful,
and decide to make it better, in the process however killing its soul.
Without even realising it! I'm sure, but no harm done.
Omitting the Deluge from the story for now, the soul brings us to the second
stub header that was on this entirely not gitt- or
otherwise needlessly versioned page:
Soulseek — Napster après la lettre
Save our souls! 🎶 Lest they be taken from us by the ${deezloaders}.
🎵 The patient 🇦🇺 Australian,
the greedy 🇬🇷 Greek,
the 🇲🇽 mesoamerican black
metal fan,
the 🇪🇪 Estonian treasure chest..
Who here remembers Napster? 🙂 Wistful was to be the vibe here, and Wikipedia confirms no less than 25 years have passed.
🤖 REST OF PAGE TO BE REWRITTEN BE --
Yes, deezloading, as opposed to the noble tedious art of ripping CDs, never mind vinyl. Not as it used to be, for not better, just worse – in that regard like many things, come to think of it. What regard? The loss of our souls to those of us playing games. Turn something into a game, and it will meet its end.
In earnest, Soulseek is quite something. Surviving
all the way back from yonder days –
Wikipedia tells us its initial release
was April 2001 :l – till today.. A feat as remarkable as are some of the
people on it. They just may be a reasonable reliable.. eh, cross section
of online humankind? Sure need to find me better words to describe how SLSK's
userbase does indeed reflect, paint a picture of the many faces.. ehmhuman..
soulkind.. 🤷
But! since "today" (Thursday July 10th 2025 if you must know) has officially ended about an hour ago, I'll have to postpone coming up with the bit more context. Meantime, even if with the aforementioned a-changin' times I've learnt to be less irkable, I often get irked by bad manners. Therefore, henceforth..
Some longgg overdue naming & shaming!
Someone has to be the first asshat to be named & shamed; in this case it was..
🇪🇸 u/Domly
Quite a haughty asshat! Enters a file sharing network without sharing a single
file. Then, when a plugin kindly automatically informs him of it, says he's new
❲even though later some quickly grepped
logs show the fucker having been around at least once before, in October 2024❳
and “i will be soon with more music”.
And, with the silly abundance of ellipses presumably reflecting his fiery
Mediterranean temperament, that “.............yo tengo el original” 🙂 –
referring to the original vinyl, as opposed to this shabby mp3 which he has me
downloaded “de una pagina rusa”, and is downloading himself right now.
Sanctimonious chauvinist pendejo writing in unsolicited Spanish..
Too bad his download wasn't even particularly particular, 356 people
"have" it on Discogs
ffs. Means there's probably nothing he'd ever want to find that isn't shared
plentifold by others already, so I'll never have the ephemeral pleasure of
saying “great, go listen to your /oɾixiˈnal/ vinyl then, I'll share these my
inferior rusty kilobytes with a Russian friend in need”. Nor will I ever be
gently explaining this confused fellow human soul there could be more between
heaven and earth than «/Mpt̪ɾes/», and making puffy promises never to keep.
Then again, this cross-section of online souls of course shan't consist of bad vibes only. Quite the contrary! Like IRL, most people are fine people. Some of them..
Odd, or mysteriously confusing..
Like earlier today, being this Friday August 22nd of 2025:
🇸🇮 u/dizrabonna
Offered me some .wav's without rhyme or reason? 🤔
12:45:46 [hyptonoad] Hi - this is just an automated message. It seems you don't
share much, be better if you did. o/
12:46:18 [dizrabonna] minimal ways, hehe
12:50:53 [hyptonoad] 🤔🙂🙋
12:53:16 [dizrabonna] 😋
12:54:10 [hyptonoad] 🤔🙂 (:
12:54:25 [dizrabonna] there's something in the Fire folder for you
12:55:58 [hyptonoad] And why, perhaps, for me? :l
12:58:48 [dizrabonna] you seem like a nice guy
12:59:03 [dizrabonna] i have a hunch about online communication
12:59:59 [hyptonoad] Govorite v ugankah. (:
13:00:47 [hyptonoad] And I need to go do stuff though. :/
13:00:58 [hyptonoad] Weird comms here. May catch you later! o/
13:03:17 [dizrabonna] maybe, take care
13:03:46 [hyptonoad] 🤔
Or they just genuinely..
..just didn't get the settings all set
..like later that, and the next day, Saturday morning..
🇪🇬 u/AhmedBN
17:35:54 [hyptonoad] Hi - this is just an automated message. It seems you don't
share much, be better if you did. o/
09:35:27 [AhmedBN] I want to, I still need to understand how to do it. Sorry for
the incompetance and thank you for the message
09:36:30 [hyptonoad] No big deal!
09:43:32 [AhmedBN] I tried to put all my floders in the shared section of the
prefrences, I thought I succeded but it doesn't seem like I
did. If you have any advices I would be very glad to hear
them
09:46:18 [hyptonoad] Eh.. Right now it shows 0 shared, so a setting must be off. :/
09:47:05 [hyptonoad] Maybe you need to find some button to "rescan" shares, or
some such.
09:53:42 [AhmedBN] waybe if I could show you a screenshot
09:53:55 [AhmedBN] do you think it's possible on Soulseek?
09:55:14 [AhmedBN] Now I get it
09:55:34 [AhmedBN] I moved all my library from C: To B:
09:55:50 [AhmedBN] but I can't get to change it
09:55:54 [AhmedBN] I'll keep trying
09:55:58 [AhmedBN] thanks again
09:56:18 [hyptonoad] No thanks needed; no big deal, as I said! Let's see.
09:56:47 [hyptonoad] I now see a folder called MODMUSIC, but it's empty.
09:57:16 [AhmedBN] I think I just did it !
09:57:28 [AhmedBN] how about now?
09:57:55 [hyptonoad] Yeh works! (:
09:58:51 [AhmedBN] great ! Thanks a lot, it means a lot, I'm quit a disaster
with informatics and I'd hate to appear greedy
09:59:01 [AhmedBN] you've been very helpfull
09:59:09 [hyptonoad] You're an exception to care. (: Take care!
..and some of them truly confusing..
🇧🇪 u/kezkondizko
An actual conversation was had, but left unfinished. 🤷 Be like 📣 in the 🌫️ or of course mere 😶🌫️
20:05:57 [kezkondizko] Hoi, ik wou je een vraag stellen <...> 20:13:23 [hyptonoad] Maar dat was 4 dagen geleden <...> 12:30:16 [kezkondizko] c u next time <...> 14:16:52 [hyptonoad] Maar hmh, internet text comms <...>
All souls aboard! 🫡
🇺🇸 ⤑ well have I ever
For crying out loud! 😐 One Thomas Matthew Crooks took it upon himself to try and change the course of history, would indeed have been a direly needed latter-day Lee Harvey Oswald. He went out with a presumably noble goal, and an AR-15, and only just missed the ugly mug of the exceptionally obscene human being known as Donald f* Trump.
Ohh my, oh man. 😒 And ohh how certainly am I not the only one thinking the same thing.
What would Donald himself say, if it were the other way.. “Hunting season's open”? would be rather crude even for him, but he dam well mighthunk so. And in earnest, I for one sure hope so!🤞 Because in the face of 2020's madness, there is no other way of having it than wholly inappropriate.
For ask yourself: what future would await humanity with that abrasive dimwit at the helm of the ship of fools? The wise Zapp Brannigan would concur: Donald Trump may die, but that's a sacrifice we're willing to make. Aren't we!
F`f*ck's sake.. It just took.. A slight gust of wind? To be rid of this nasty windbag of a human.. Dammit, dammit, \%krrR\..
2/8/24 addendum: 🙌 KAMALA HARRIS! though. Oh how American she be; but suddenly, a jolt of hope, a glimpse of common sense entering the bipolar gerrymandered and supremely courted clown shit show that is US politics.
20/11/24 addendum: Well the nasty windbag got took the votes 😶 so
what's left to say. “May American democracy rest in peace...”? Madness. “And
unlike his first term there will be no guardrails.”
Maybe let's ask the ever so oblivious AI for some vapid
words that fail us: “And all the hopes that brightened up our past // Lie in
the murky shroud of darkness cast.”
A haiku, you prefer? If it is one (for shrivelled in autumn I can't right now
be bothered to count syllables): “Dreams drowned in numbers, // chaos veils
what once was clear, // hope fades, yet still stirs.” 🦄
Onn..
🧐 November 18th, 2025
..I stumbled upon this NYT opinion piece by Michelle Goldberg, whose writing fairly consistently makes for time well spent reading. So when she picks for a title “The MAGA Crackup Might Finally Be Here”, I once again feel this odd vicarious, fleeting spark of hope for our Unitedly Stated fellow humans.
It reminded me I once ago dedicated a small directory/URL on this here site to that bawdy orange-coloured Homo sapiens specimen named Donald f* Trump, and I realised I never made an effort to formally convey my 🤢. I don't know why that guy irks me so. He's more than this sad, weirdly distinctly orange-coloured, not too bright, angry old grifter. Yes, the president of the 🇺🇸 United States of America, I am aware, but that's just.. a tragic but, one hopes, temporary state of affairs, twice as it happens.
But already as a human, he has so much nasty, trashy.. — No, I shall read the opinion piece in its entirety first, it may contain better vibes to build on.
🇵🇸 ⤑ history's sinister rhyming
Having begun this less-faux blog, I shan't refrain from utilising it the way blogs were meant to: to voice a heartfelt opinion entirely uncalled for and heard by hardly anyone.
Has anyone picked up on the eerie silence coming from Rafah? Reportedly 21.000 children are missing there. For decades on end in the Levant, history has been rhyming as it does, and it came to a macabre halt. Pure evil, brutal madness; grim relentless eradication of life, of thousands upon thousands of lives in one fell swoop. Another holocaust, what else to call this unholy vengeance?
Perpetrated by 🇮🇱 Jews no less, can't make this sh*t up — and the whole world looking the other way. Well done, Bibi and Gallant. If only there were time for The Hague.. Hitch a ride with Putin. For shame.
No words, so utterly TBC.
11/5/25 update: And how utterly continued it was.. Such cruelty and contempt, so savagely soiling our history. 😔 One upping Nazi Germany in ruthlessness – not even a century has passed, for Christ's sake. 🎵 Shalom chaverim I was taught singing in elementary school, not knowing any better. Fuck off, chaverim. To 🇲🇬 Madagascar and beyond.
but why settle for Jewish holocaust‽
..when there is 🙌 thermonuclear holocaust. A good long while ago already, the internet, one Alex Wellerstein to be more precise, gave us this Nukemap. Far too lazy to simulate a proper global nuclear holocaust, a rather pointless endeavour anyway, I focussed on my former hometown. In the absence of a proper image lightbox of sorts, you could right-click and "open image in new tab" or some such to see it in more detail. Click on the image to go simulate your own nuclear festivities. 🍄
Dropped a gentle 100 kt on it ("common in US & UK arsenal" it says), and was quite content, once again, to have moved from said hometown to a place apparently snugly out of reach even of light blast damage. 👌 The same cannot be said of most all of my loved ones. 😔 That not said then, apparently they'd only have to keep away from (about to be bursting) windows after a flash might have piqued their curiosity. I'll make sure to pass on the good advice come Christmas dinner. 🙂 Unless I forget, or for some reason an actual nuclear holocaust unfolds before then. Just imagine the surreal spectacle.. 😳 But then it'd probably start in Brussels, what with the EU, and NATO maybe, and all, maybe. Even farther away from me chosen final resting place in any case.
For a tangent within a tangent.. 🫠 Once ago, BXL was many people's belle, but nowadays, to me, an outsider to be sure, it has lost most of at least its superficial appeal. 😔 Overall not that belle anymore, quoi. Where to begin.. If just taking a wrong turn after getting off the train brings the smell of urine, and perhaps some petty theft, or perhaps religiously vibed violence.. Surely a capital lost most of its appeal?
Never mind if it harbours international Islamic terrorism. Regardless, nuclear fission
technology would suffice to finally unite merge melt the silly, no
kidding 19 mayors (or so, at last count), each running their shabby part of
our 🇧🇪 poubelle capital, into a state of.. peaceful quiet. See even nuclear
holocaust wouldn't be as depressing as it seems! 😌 Glass half full till the end.
Tired.. Too short the nights' rest, lately. Must be because of the supermoon.. I for one will probably miss the nuclear flash when it'd ever come, but just might happen to have found a state of peaceful, unnuclear quiet meself already. 🥁