New review: suspiciously good instrumental Latin fusion metal by somehow not-just-a-novelty-act band the Nuclear Power Trio. Come for the bizarre music videos, stay for the great music. https://www.angrymetalguy.com/nuclear-power-trio-wet-ass-plutonium-review/

Twitter have finally killed off my custom app's API tokens, so I guess that's the end of my Twitter lurking habit. Probably for the best.

Move over Twitter, here's the only bird site we need:
* Posts in chronological order
* Posts are actual birds
https://live.mybirdbuddy.com/

I'm not sure any of Metal Twitter has made it over here yet, but nonetheless, here is my yearly writeup of my favourite music. www.angrymetalguy.com/sentynel-and-twelves-top-tenish-of-2022/

This post by @catvalente about the endless cycle of online communities getting killed off in the name of profit and division is pretty painful reading, but very good. catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

It's the most exciting time of the year: #AdventOfCode time! This year I'm learning #Elixir.

Added Mastodon support to my Twitter client, so now I get one combined timeline. Less need for it on Mastodon - I wrote it in the first place to dodge doomscrolling, the algorithmic timeline and ads - but having everything in one place is nice.

Welp, as was probably inevitable, here is my hedge against the implosion of Twitter.

This is a @gotosocial instance because I like their privacy/safety focus; my biggest concern with the rise of Mastodon etc is how on earth we figure out how to moderate it all at scale.