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Andrés Cárdenas

🇨🇴 Mixtape wrangler.

📍 Warsaw, Poland.

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@leonp I didn't know was a thing! Let me jump in with my most played track by them: Mountain Energei from The Real New Fall LP thefallmusic.bandcamp.com/trac

The Fall is also one of the bands that got me through the pandemic. I wrote a short review (in Spanish) about Perverted by Language, my favorite album and introduction to their incredible catalog.

If you had to choose just ONE album by them, which one would it be?

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Just finished watching Atlanta’s 4th and last season. Easily in my Top 5 TV Shows of all time.

Atlanta’s backdrop

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"Oh yes, tell me again about your moral superiority based on not watching a tournament taking place in a country with a long history of human rights violations and how much you enjoyed watching it 4 years ago..." 🤐

The Old Man strikes again.

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Tumblr is the social network I have used the most in my life. Even though I stopped using it last year it will always have a special place for me. Almost a decade ago someone liked my post on Tumblr, we spoke for years in the platform and well, even though we lived in different continents, last month we moved in together.

I used Tumblr for the last time in August last year, I decided to delete my blog there because (at least in every connection I tried in Colombia) everything was unbearably slow and there was an ad like every second post in my Dashboard. I honestly thought Tumblr’s death was near, but around the same time Automattic took over and they’ve been improving it ever since. First they added improved IndieWeb support and today Matt Mullenweg announced they’re adding ActivityPub support. This is HUGE.

Over 400 (500?) million users will be joining the Fediverse. Is Tumblr about to start the Open Web Revolution?

If this won’t do it, I have no idea what will then.

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Qatar 2022

I was convinced the World Cup was starting today. As someone who has barely missed a cup match since Korea-Japan 2002 not knowing the starting date just feels weird, but what isn’t about a World Cup in November? It goes to show how unenthusiastic I am about Qatar 2022.

Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much more important than that.

— Bill Shankly

It turns out there’s still 3 days to make up my mind on whether to watch or not.

Since I recently read that the only ethical way of watching this World Cup is on a pirate stream… and I dig that… I’ve been thinking about things I want to see and would hate to miss if I end up not watching.

  1. Messi lifting the Cup - Because it would put all doubts aside on who the greatest player of all time is.

  2. A goal celebration revalidating (reivindicando is the word I’m trying to translate) LGBTQ+ rights 🏳️‍🌈 - Because there’s no “jogo bonito” or “beautiful game” if you exclude people.

  3. Sadio Mané kicking a ball past the QF - Because if I’m gonna root for someone, it has got to be the first team I was ever impressed by in a World Cup. (Just confirmed Sadio is ruled out through injury 😔)

It really sucks to see FIFA destroy an amazing tournament. I guess greed does break football’s golden rule: la pelota no se mancha.

Football is the most beautiful sport in the world. If one person messes up, football doesn’t have to pay. I messed up, and I paid. But the ball, the ball doesn’t stain.

— Diego Armando Maradona

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Inspired by FollowLists, I added a Following page on my website. It’s simple and rudimentary but serves its purposes: owning my Follows. Since it’s powered by the Mastodon API there’s room for integration with other services, but for the time being, it’ll work just as a Blogroll.

Andrés Cárdenas