Notices by Sjoerd Levelt (slevelt@hcommons.social)

gentle reminder that on days like these, many people around you are genuinely helped by you using content warnings, and mastodon has a nifty function that makes it really easy to use them

also, don’t avoid or misspell particular names and words because you think people may have filters set up; they have filters set up for good reasons, and deliberately trying to evade those is unkind, and a little bit creepy too

always sounds to me like so much of 90s West Coast #HipHop tracks its sound and aesthetic to Roy Ayers. e.g., Dr Dre only sampled this track once, for a Detox track, but I can't help suspecting he took much more from it for his sound.

the "my life, my life, my life" tag was true Cali staple, used by Tupac, Ice Cube, Mc Eiht ("my life, my life, my life, with a tech nine").

#NowPlaying Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everybody Loves the Sunshine #vinyl @vinylrecords

I have one double LP where the sides are 1+4 and 2+3. I could have made sense of it if it were 1+3 and 2+4, as that would allow you to play it continuous if you have two turntables, but please help me make sense of 1+4 and 2+3? @vinylrecords #vinyl

this would be not great if the British Library wasn’t notorious for demanding ridiculous levels of ID evidence from its readers for registration. as it is, however, it is truly truly atrocious.

British Library hack: Customer data offered for sale on dark web

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67544504 #BritishLibrary @bookstodon

listening to A Tribe Called Quest’s We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service tonight, and I am so grateful that they completed with this album that is so suffused with love —for the music, the culture, and each other—, so that the heartbreak that was The Love Movement did not become their final word. #hiphop https://youtu.be/kQaSDJYwdh4?si=0gN_QtQeDbWxCUyb

query: any recommended instance(s) for a newcomer to mastodon who is particularly interested in literature and literary translation? (please boost!)

@litodons @translators #literature #translation

behind-the-scenes photo taken earlier in the week, of hcommons.social admin trying to get that mastodon moving again

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52509636n #HCommons

a toot from a marginal #medievodon to wish you a good afternoon and evening!

https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Sloane_MS_2435&index=43 #medieval #marginalia #medievodons