Wait, is @rabble saying what I think he's saying? That's there a central moderation power in BlueSky that you can't opt-out of? Even if you use an ATProto stack totally independent of BS services? Or does he just mean you can't opt-out if you're using the BS AppView, Relay, or either?
https://wedistribute.org/podcast/s2e3-rabble-from-nos-social/
#podcasts#WeDistribute#Decentered #moderation#BlueSky
@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa
A kiwi band called Thee Golden Geese have released a dungeon crawler game as a way of publishing an unreleased album, called Goose Your Own Adventure;
https://gooseyourownadventure.com/
They played through it, including playing the songs, on a recent edition of Freak The Sheep, the kiwi music show on student radio station bFM. Listening to the podcast version right now;
https://95bfm.com/bcast/freak-the-sheep-w-chris-cudby-and-taylor-mcgregor-july-23-2025
Great fun : P
#podcasts#bFM#FreakTheSheep #music #punk#ArtPunk#TheeGoldenGeese#GooseYourOwnAdventure
Are there any good #Australian#Podcasts?
I'm not a huge fan of Jacinda Ardern, and in fact I've criticised her government with absolute candour over things like the Christchurch Call. So I was expecting to do a lot of scoffing, snorting and rolling my eyes when I listening to her interview with The Rest is Politics;
I was rather surprised when it brought me to tears. More than once.
(1/?)
"I guess that's what interests me always about these kind of 'conspiracy theory' conversations about hidden networks of people doing evil things, is that a) yes, people are doing evil things all the time that they're not telling you about, because that's how power works. And b) the way those things work I think are ... ways to understand the ways that you're being downtrodden, in society. Without making it an individualistic thing."
Simone, 2025
"... one of his examples is ... if you want a good laptop, then you want it from a company called Apple, which is run as a kind of monarchy, as an autocracy, there's someone at the top ... You wouldn't want ... your laptop designed by the local council, because it would take ages and it would be much worse."
https://shows.acast.com/adambuxton/episodes/ep253-squid
False dichotomy much Yarvin?
OMG 2 community theatre groups got a mention on an RNZ podcast, by a playwright whose work I performed with at least one of those groups, and I acted with both for years in my late teens;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/did-titanic-sink?share=07066cf0-bc2c-4c67-aee9-1836355308f7
I officially got my 0.5 minutes of fame.
"... politicians [are] going to put more pressure on supermarkets, we've heard that for years. Fundamentally the problem is that we've only got two big players in the country."
#LiamDann, Business Editor-at-large, #NZHerald, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=29744fe6-be1b-4bde-94ce-89aee9f80581
Wrong. The fundamental problem is lack of pro-competition regulation and enforcement.
(1/2)
Jane Su and Mika Horii's hit podcast “Over the Sun” started with riffs on listener emails. Now it’s a lifeline for women navigating midlife in Japan https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/07/31/lifestyle/poscast-over-the-sun-interview/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #lifestyle #podcasts #women039sissues #tbs #janesu #mikahorii
Who watches the MediaWatch? I do!
"Bitter butter battle, Saudi cash chaging the picture for sport on screen"
"Chaging"?
"I'm not taking any lectures from frick'n Chris Hipkins."
#CLuxon, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=e209c491-f7d1-421e-abf2-a68afd0c9b0b
Ooh, the nice guy mask is slipping. CLuxon is rattled!
The NatACTs are running scared. Which is presumably why they've turned to blatant voter suppression, in a desperate attempt to avoid being turfed out in 2026.
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/07/an-attack-on-free-and-fair-elections.html
Finally got around to listening to an episode We Used to be Journos. The media criticism podcast started by two Australian journalists, both no longer employed in legacy media.
A fun listen and plenty of good points made on the weird inability of some legacy media outlets to report objectively on the genocide the IDF are carrying out in Gaza;
"40 years ago, we started what I call the DIY retirement system, where people were asked to save for their own financial futures, and it looked really great on a spreadsheet. All you had to do was find an employer that would sponsor one of these 401K plans, or you could save it on your own in a bank or in an individual retirement account, but the focus was on the individual's responsibility to put money aside ..."
#TeresaGhilarducci, 2025
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-you-will-never-retire
"I continue to make 'product' though, or I continue to make a physical representation of the music that I make ... they're not big runs by any means. But I think it's important, for me, it does nothing more than denote my commitment to what I make.
... It's like making a physical thing throws [it] into the world ... like a message in a bottle to the future"
#KieranMonaghan, aka Mr Sterile, aka Vegetable Machine Animal, 2025
https://accessmedia.nz/player?EID=7d699db4-d9c7-44d1-b2fc-f67a90724092&audioOnlyMode=true
This is the talking point #CLuxon pulls out when asked about health system failures;
"Basically I think that's the hangover of a Labour government that didn't care about Auckland, focused on Wellington, shut the joint down for 2 years."
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=7c69e0c3-ba0e-47f7-a4fd-7b37a9e604d1
I'm just imagining the next tory PM blaming the previous government for health failures in Otago. Blatantly ignoring consecutive tory governments delaying and defunding the Dunedin Hospital rebuild.
"... advocacy is one of the things that we currently lack within the network and we really need to execute well on, if we want to help bring more people in. The network's growth is kind of dependent on that, and if we don't keep growing, there's some concern that we might not be able to maintain the momentum that we've built up to this point."
@deadsuperhero, 2025
https://wedistribute.org/podcast/fediforum-june-2025-recap/
I'm all for organic growth, but we don't need it to improve service.
https://omny.fm/shows/kexp-live-performances-podcast/salin-performance-interview-only
This is great organic dance music, reminiscent of the collective who did the original Cowboy Bebop soundtrack. It's fast, fresh, fidgety, fun, upbeat, and not all the appropriate thing to be listening to this close to the witching hour. But I have a podcast to finish and post ...
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