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Melliferous Oak
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melliferousoak.kind.social.ap.brid.gy
Time for my 2025 music listening data!
The way last.fm prioritises individual songs over time spent listening doesn't really do it for me, so I spreadsheeted my way out of it, tracking the amount of time spent listening to each song / album / artist.

Total […]

[Original post on kind.social]
A pair of bar graphs, side by side, showing which artists I listened to most in 2025. One bar graph shows artists ranked by time spent listening to them, the other shows the number of songs scrobbled to last.fm. The top two for both charts are Candlemass, followed by Opeth. Third to tenth places are as follows: By time spent listening: 3: Colour Haze 4: Elder 5: Pink Floyd 6: Sergeant Thunderhoof 7: King Crimson 8: Led Zeppelin 9: Cathedral 10: Anthrax By count of individual tracks: 3: Pink Floyd 4: Led Zeppelin 5: Baroness 6: Colour Haze 7: Anthrax 8: King Crimson 9: Lo-Pan 10: Deftones The lists continue to cover the top 30 for each category, which continue to diverge further due to the difference in typical song length between different artists. The only other artists to appear on both lists are Messa, Trouble, Deep Purple, Anathema, Joni Mitchell, Santana, Stevie Wonder, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Greenleaf, and Sly & the Family Stone. The number of hours played per artist ranges from around 22 hours of Candlemass, to 11.5 hours of Anthrax at number 10, down to around 7.5 hours for Pallbearer at number 30. The number of scrobbles ranges from around 240 for Candlemass to around 130 for Deftones at number 10, down to around 90 for Black Sabath at number 30. A bar graph showing how many hours I spent listening to music in each month of 2025. Each bar has a gradient of colours from pink to white to grey, representing the year in which each piece of music I heard came out. In most months I listened to close to 140 hours of music or more; this only dipped in February, April, August and October, with April dropping to less than 110 hours total. June was the only month in which I listened to more than 160 hours of music, though I also came close in July and November. Within the colour gradation, the darkest pink represents music released in 2025, while the darkest grey represents music released in 1956. White represents the year 2000. Apart from January, in each month I listened to more music from this century than last. This distribution was skewed more towards new music in months beginning with a Bandcamp Friday event. This is a dashboard showing 7 different visualisations of the music I listened to in 2025. It's a mess, and some of the charts are already improved in pictures 1 and 2. Of the others, the first is a heatmap of the time of day in which I listened to music. This can best be summed up as being mostly quiet between 2 and 9 am, and then a lot of music every day between 10 am and 7 pm, with less from then until 1 am. Next to that is a bar graph showing the time spent listening by release year. By far the most popular were songs released in 2024 and 2025, at around 3x and 2x the amount spent listening to the next highest respectively. Amongst other years, every year between 2016 and 2023 was fairly evenly represented, though the next most popular years were 1969 to 1971. The only year I didn't listen to music from, between 1956 and 2025, was 1957. The years 1957 to 1965, and 1981 to 1983 were apparently not particularly enticing to me. There is also a bar chart for time spent listening to individual albums: the top two were Bitches Brew by Miles Davis and The Stygian Rose by Crypt Sermon, both listened to for over five hours.
January 1, 2026 at 10:21 PM
melliferousoak.kind.social.ap.brid.gy
Starting the year as I mean to go on: shrinking my Windows partition and giving the space to Linux
January 1, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy
"non-consensual scraping"

Shudder worthy combo of words and happening on a server near you right now.
December 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]
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mastodon.social
December 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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stevenray.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy
Zowie cannot believe it's already #caturday again. She asked me to explain how time works, but I said I didn't understand it any better than she did.
a fluffy brown tabby cat looks up at you from the red rug she is sitting on. Her fur is very thick with lots of light and dark areas. She has white whiskers.
December 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
AI Warning: Google has been caught A/B testing replacing real article headlines with AI-generated substitutes, which are of course sometimes wildly misleading/against journalistic ethics. If you see a blatantly horrible headline in a news aggregator, check whether the site's own page matches […]
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infosec.exchange
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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tm-baumgartner.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Cool Ranch may be young, but he has discovered the optimal approach for the gloomy days of winter.

#fosterkittens #CatsOfMastodon
Photo of a gray tabby kitten lying on a slipper with his face buried inside.
December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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ash.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy
Good news, everyone!

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https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/poets-are-now-cybersecurity-threats-researchers-used-adversarial-poetry-to-jailbreak-ai-and-it-worked-62-percent-of-the-time/

@bookstodon @poetry @cybersecurity@fedigroups.social @ai@fedigroups.social […]

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November 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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fritzadalis.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
An oscillator is a cross between an ocelot and an alligator.
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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parkermolloy.com
*dusts this piece off* www.readtpa.com/p/want-to-kn...
Want to Know How Democrats Should Handle Trans Rights? Ask Zohran Mamdani
The 33-year-old socialist just crushed Andrew Cuomo by doing what many national Democrats won't: having convictions.
www.readtpa.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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twink.men
Photo of a cat being fully covered by a blanket. The cat's shape can be seen sticking out.
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy
Try my new file format, OCSV: Oxford Comma Separated Values
November 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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karolina.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy
😍👅🥰 #finncleo #catsofmastodon #fedipets #blackcat
En svart långhårig katt ligger på en filt med en mycket underhållande min och tungspetsen ute
November 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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shanoreily.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy
I interrupted a #caturday nap. Emily continues her sleepy paw work with no further interruptions. #catsofmastodon
A very fluffy tabby lays on her side on a couch with her head against a pillow. She’s very sleepy with barely open eyes and alert ears. Her front paws are crossed and belly floof is on display
November 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
melliferousoak.kind.social.ap.brid.gy
Thought it was about time I did #thursdayfivelist: it's #thenightofthelivingband. Five bands who've come back from hiatus(es).

1: Candlemass: going stronger than ever. Can't go wrong with them, but here's the seasonally-appropriate Witches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8ltdukMBoY

2: King […]
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kind.social
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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apostateenglishman.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy
Perhaps it's time to tap the chart again. Left-handed people were once seen as sinister (the word sinister, from Latin, originally meant "left" or "on the left side") so kids were forced to be right-handed. However, with advances in science it became clear […]

[Original post on mastodon.world]
Chart showing the prevalence of left-handedness since 1880. It skyrockets from 3% in the early 20th century to 12% in the 1960s, when it flatlines at remains constant to the present.
August 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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parkermolloy.com
*screams*
Several of the women I interviewed belong to religious communities that strongly oppose gender-affirming care, and yet were taking testosterone in amounts comparable to those taken by some trans men.
October 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy
Following Rishi Sunak and Nick Cleggs' move to advising tech companies, let's all wish Liz Truss well on her first day at Amazon Web Services.
October 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I'm going to start a market for "Accessibility Offset Credits".

Your site may be an unholy mess of div elements, no alt text, and terrible contrast - but you can pay to offset your accessibility sins by buying credits from sites with perfect WCAG scores.
October 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy
“In my day the computers would scream and scream when we connected them to the internet… but did we listen? No. We did not listen…”
October 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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christineburns.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy
Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical consumption greater than 200 megawatts: London, Manchester and Birmingham. By comparison, the people who want to build AI data centres here, which nobody asked for, want a supply of up to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) for […]
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mastodon.green
October 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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kyonshi.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy
every 3-4 years when they are cleaning it the authorities allow visitors into the #lodz waterworks.
They are pretty fussy about security (I guess rightly so) but they do allow pictures.

#pictures #water
Empty water reservoir with archs Empty water reservoir with archs Empty water reservoir with archs Empty water reservoir with archs
October 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]
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mastodon.social
October 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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towerwizard.bsky.social
The wizard is teaching a cantrip class at the library. They are learning prestidigitation today. It seems to be going badly.
October 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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srdas.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today.

#dascdmx
A look inside the Biblioteca Vasconcelos in Mexico City. There are columns of bookshelves seeming suspended at various levels from the ceiling with walkways connecting and that keep going into the far distance. Light from glass skylights many stories up and interior lighting are throughout. On the bottom floor, slightly lower than the camera vantage is the skeleton of a whale
September 28, 2025 at 6:12 AM