Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Saturday #WRC thread.

- Woke up too late to catch stage 3, stage 4. Watching stage 3, it's so beautiful and the mid-pack is full of exciting fighting.

- "After 10km I thought ``shit, it's finished'', but there were still 20km to go" -- Tänak on tire management on this huge stage. Before this event I didn't realise how much of a force front studs need to cope with.

- Breen still second, it's impressive! Tomorrow will be exciting. I hope for snow so that Tänak has to work hard starting first on the road. Awesome that there's no drama in the top. What a rally! First time I watch big snow rally live.

- I've been thinking about whether or not people will remember Julien Ingrassia tens of years after. I think so, especially since #WRC is very clear about the fact that both driver and co-drivers win or lose.

- Amazing work of new Neuville's co-driver though demonstrates that Rally is made or broken by drivers (together with competence of co-drivers, of course).

- I find it clear that Tänak is likely to win, but what a stellar job by Rovanperä, who's likely going to get second, assuming no punts or bad fortune!

- Instead of competing under the flag of their country, Russians are competing under the flag of Russian Automotive Federation.

- It's impressive to see that despite so much Russian money, #FIA followed through with sanctions against #Russia. Or is it just #WRC?

- Portrayed on the screenshot is Martins Sesks from my home country (#Latvia), confusing the audience, as there was a choo-choo train of rally cars after some incident in #WRC2.

- Wonderful to see Takamota posting competitive times, even on cleared road... Also, amazing recovery drive after cautious mid-stage by him.
- I wonder how balanced are competitive KMs between Friday and Saturday, running the longest stage twice today could be horrible for Seb.
- Tanak shows that road cleaning is more important than ice getting stripped by cars. Seems like one can yeet a -10.6 stage even as car number seven.

Observations from #WRC rally #Finland:

- The moment cars touch the ground after jumps it feels like they get glued to the surface of the road. That Elfyn's jump looked scary and then the car landed and kind of just continued following the line... So weird to see!

- Even as a huge snow lover, I don't want to know how it feels to be a marshall on the stage. There are 11 televised starts, so it's at least 22 freezing televised minutes outside the car, but then when however many WRC2 / WRC3 cars go, I wonder if marshalls stay or get to warmth?..

It's so amazing to see Jari-Matti as a team principal of Toyota.

What a nice guy and an articulate communicator of all things rally.

How to make a horizontal navigation bar with items floating to the right in 2021? #lazyweb

#doma brand-book is very hip and is made using 100% #foss software.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/magics-voyages-universes-beyond-2021-02-25

I don't have any commentaries except for:

https://youtu.be/CQ_eDE0OMds?t=48

The only question is — when to sell my collection, now or after this lands?

I was aware that they still make music, but I stopped following them after a string of pop-folk albums, I had but a mild interest in.

So I've looked at what are they up these days, and it seems like they help teenagers, young adults and others in a more direct way than just with producing quality art.

They've started a podcast for those who struggle to cope with death or who want to know how to cope with death. Here it is: https://art19.com/shows/tunng-presents-the-dead-club-podcast

I'm not sure how good is it, but I'll give it a listen since existential fear goes hand in hand with my cognition.

Here are critically-acclaimed #folktronica hall-of-famers #Tunng in their more-electronic-than-popfolk days of glory:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IsjsZl-RZg4

This song is very special for me. It became my "new favorite" after I've decided to obtain their full discography. I used to be hooked on their "Comments of Inner Chorus" for years since its release.

"Good Arrows" in general is a strong album, but this song resonated with me in part because I could easily imagine it being played in a on Mar Sara, or a from a Space Construction Vehicle's radio, which was a fictional place I was rather invested in around that time with #BlizzardEntertainment still not openly whoring itself to fascist regimes and promoting critical and rebellious attitude.

Anyway, it made me feel like I'm "not here", which is something that I needed quite a lot back then.

I guess it makes perfect sense that back then they called the genre of their music SciFi-Prog-Folk.

#music #unreview

I don't want to mirror tweets in #mastodon, so I guess I'll focus on hobbies and a bit of freeform here and leave twitter for more professional communication, like it used to be for me around 2012—2014 (bar debugging rage threads).

Also, masto feels just warmer, friendlier and less stressful than twitter, so I don't feel mildly uncomfortable sharing my life here.

What would you like to hear from me here? What aren't you interested in?

Made gemini://soviet.circumlunar.space/sweater a bit more alive.

Remember the times of small Internet? Turns out it's more than nostalgia.

You can ethically and freely get your content across, as SMOG magazine demonstrated despite being distributed over obscure #gemini protocol.

I've archived it for inspiration: https://git.sr.ht/~jonn/smog-arc

I've been shown https://thepangaia.com.

If you need a hoodie, buy from them, they're cute.