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“We only need to be lucky once.
You need to be lucky every time.”

Quote Origin: We Only Need To Be Lucky One Time. You Need To Be Lucky All the Time – Quote Investigator®

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@sdarlington these were Spotify likes, so not surprising a handful not on Music. I sometimes find my Bandcamp purchases are “uploaded” to Music rather than “matched” so I’m adding to their library? At least to match my mine.

I think the reverse may be more common, bands removing their albums from Spotify. And Bandcamp in turn has few big label bands, even small ones locked into distribution deals. The whole thing is a mess lol

@sdarlington with thousands of songs, it adds up!

The disparity in numbers is from Spotify tracks that aren’t available in Apple Music. I’ve only “starred” 287 songs in my iTunes Music Library over the years, having only started recently adding one song from each album (“Why did I buy this album again?”)

I’ll probably end up trying to manually copy over the 3,527 Liked Songs from Spotify somehow. I’d like some way to listen to them in Apple Music without, you know, adding thousands of random singles to my library. Seems possible?

I did select the 3,599 songs and created a “Too Many Favorites” to dig through later. Unfortunately they’re pretty much in random order!

I was unhappy Apple’s tools to import Spotify “Liked Songs” dumped everything into my “Favorites” list. The fix was to view Favorite Songs “as Songs” (View menu) sort by Cloud Status to find the Apple Music tracks, and Undo Favorite. I’m now back to my original Favorites again.

@spiegelmama

Another unsolicited music suggestion. Come for the singing, stay for the guitars. It’s not complicated! But this one’s been living rent-free inside my head.

Allnighter, by twen

Allnighter by twen, released 04 November 2025 It’s a pillar of society And it's not what you do, you do for me Lift me up I don’t wanna come back down Lift me up I don’t wanna go And it’s the backbone of the economy And it’s the work you do, you do for free Lift me up I don’t wanna come back down Lift me up I don’t wanna go Take a trip to nowhere But always miss the sunrise Two ways I know to get there A long day, or an Allnighter Anytime of day Could be the morning I don’t need the sun to work But anytime of night Could be the start of What you’re gonna be when you wake up Lift me up I dont wanna come back down Lift me up I don’t wanna go Take a trip to nowhere But always miss the sunrise Two ways I know to get there A long day, or an Allnighter I’ll stay awake to break in The falling of the Empire Two ways I know to get there A long day, or an Allnighter A whole day wasted On the night that came before But you got your whole night ahead of you Whole night ahead of you A whole day wasted On the night that came before But you got your whole life ahead of you Whole life ahead of you Lift me up I dont wanna come back down Lift me up I don’t wanna go Take a trip to nowhere And always miss the sunrise Two ways I know to get there A long day, or an Allnighter I’ll stay awake to break in The falling of the Empire Two ways I know to get there A long day, or an Allnighter Dreaming of An Allnighter Dreaming of An Allnighter Dreaming of An Allnighter

twen (twen.bandcamp.com)

@kottke “He had a horrible ending,” Michael said. “I’m not sure what the lesson is. His life seems like a lesson in how not to live your life.”

“Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing.

Scheduling time to do the thing isn't doing the thing.

Making a to-do list for the thing isn't doing the thing.

Telling people you're going to do the thing isn't doing the thing.

Messaging friends who may or may not be doing the thing isn't doing the thing.

Writing a banger tweet about how you're going to do the thing isn't doing the thing.

Hating on yourself for not doing the thing isn't doing the thing. Hating on other people who have done the thing isn't doing the thing. Hating on the obstacles in the way of doing the thing isn't doing the thing.

Fantasizing about all of the adoration you'll receive once you do the thing isn't doing the thing.

Reading about how to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Reading about how other people did the thing isn't doing the thing. Reading this essay isn't doing the thing.

The only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing.”

-- Loopy, via strangestloop.io

* taps the sign *

Things That Aren't Doing the Thing

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@harshil to be clear, a running belt holds phone in the small of your back. I always run with a phone, accidents happen, not a Watch guy. Mostly it’s a camera. Longer runs I use tights with thigh pockets. Short runs I often just hold the phone in my hand like an animal. For context, I run 40-50 miles a week.

After five years in the Bay Area, we did the touristy thing

@bruienne the robot voices are on the record! I assume it’s a live take… they seem like math-rock players, nail the performance and just hammer it out with minimal variation. So when they’re live it’s the same thing, no cheats.

I kinda hope they don’t bother wearing outfits while recording. Then they can look at each other for cues, hard to do with a mask over your head

Think it’s time to leave Synology. First, the two-step login process I loathe (“Enter your username. Oh! Enter your password.”) Now it emails a verification code. For a disk array. In my closet.

@octothorpe what would you have done in the 1800’s? I’m thinking whaler. Or pirate. Architect?

@octothorpe I think you’d have a career, it would just be different?