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Today's show - Thank You Mr Stone.

No way definitive look back on the work of the great Sylvester Stewart aka Sly Stone, just some of the records I have and even then an hour was waaayyy too short. Loads of stuff I didn't play but here's what I did...

Sly and the Family Stone - Family Affair
Sly and the Family Stone - Luv N Haight
Sly and the Family Stone - Sing A Simple Song
Sly and the Family Stone - Deck Of Cards
Sly and the Family Stone - Rock Dirge
Sly and the Family Stone - I Ain’t Got Nobody
Sly and the Family Stone - I Wanna Take You Higher
Sly and the Family Stone - Life Of Fortune And Fame
Sly and the Family Stone - Remember Who You Are
Sly and the Family Stone - Advice
Sly and the Family Stone - I’d Never Turn You Loose
Sly and the Family Stone - Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin

Could've easily gone on a lot longer but had to go to work.
Thank you Mr Stone, bless up and safe travels through the universe Sir.

Your music will live forever.

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#Music #RSS #PirateRadio #SlyStone

Neueste (und vielleicht abwegige) These wieso #deGruyter kein #RSS anbietet. Leserzahlen sind ihn total egal. Wen interessiert schon, ob irgendwer die neueste Ausgabe mitbekommt. Dank S2O haben Bibliotheken eh keinen Überblick mehr über die Nutzung und zahlen einfach bis zum Sanktnimmerleinstag. Das ist quasi Flatratesaufen aus Verlegersicht.

How-To Geek: Why I Still Get My News and Alerts From a 25 Year Old Tool. “Catching up on the news means either dodging paywalls on traditional media sites, or wading through toxic comments on social media, right? Wrong: there’s another way. RSS has been keeping us informed for over two decades, and it’s as relevant today as ever.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/10/how-to-geek-why-i-still-get-my-news-and-alerts-from-a-25-year-old-tool/

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Today's show - Two Of Everything

Because 2 is the magic number right?

Beak>>> - The Brazilian
Beak>>> - Brean Down
Aceyalone - Forward
Aceyalone - The Guidelines
Portishead - Silence
Portishead - The Hunter
Lee Scratch Perry & Peter Harris - When The Great Wind Blows
Lee Scratch Perry & Peter Harris - Reggae Poison
The Weather
Liotia - Dark
Liotia - Afraid To Walk
Afrika Bambaata & Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock
Afrika Bambaata & Soul Sonic Force - Looking For The Perfect Beat

https://video.mxtthxw.art/w/d1z6c4KqizPpmmNdBeRd5G

#Music #RSS #PirateRadio

Calishat: Introducing MiniGladys for Fast Wikipedia-Based Search and Research. “Every time I see the AI response being generated for a basic search, I wonder how much energy and water it cost and I feel bad that I set it off. After using a number of my own tools to try and get information without doing an open search on Google, I have combined some of the elements of MegaGladys, SearchTweaks, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/09/calishat-introducing-minigladys-for-fast-wikipedia-based-search-and-research/

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Introducing MiniGladys for Fast Wikipedia-Based Search and Research

As you might imagine, I do a lot of web search in the course of my day. Often these queries are quick reference lookups; I need to find a company's social media, for example, or I want to see how to spell someone's name. Unfortunately these kinds of searches on Google are being met more and more with AI-generated results.

calishat.com/2025/06/09/introd

MINIGLADYS!

Oh y'all, I love it. Look up a topic on #Wikipedia and get quick links to official websites and reference services.

Use Wikipedia page views data to find spikes in public interest and turn those dates into #Google News searches -- Gossip Machine!

Want to monitor a topic? Create keyword-based #RSS feeds for your topic from 11 sources!

Want to search? Find related topics from Wikipedia and bundle them into Google / Google News searches.

FREE! NO ADS!

megagladys.com/mg/

megagladys.comMiniGladys - Quick Wikipedia-Based Search and Reference

Today's show - Tromboning

Miles Davis - Stuff
Spoon - Astral Jacket (On U Sound Dub)
Adrian Sherwood - We Flick The Switch
The Last Poets - Two Little Boys
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
The Weather
Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know
The Specials - Ghost Town
Peter Gabriel - Salisbury Hill
Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro
Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Geno

https://video.mxtthxw.art/w/3vHqmaR7q8CuxDXuN7UeSW

#Music #RSS #PirateRadio

Something I thought was old and boring until I tried it for myself: #RSS

I especially like it in combination with a way to sync/backup your feeds, like #FreshRSS, which I'm self-hosting. It's duct taped together for now as I first wanted to try it out, but I'm liking it so far. I had seen those RSS buttons on websites for a while and I never had a way to use them. I guess that's the fun of self-hosting: you notice a problem, and you can always find a solution.