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Reading this prompted a small note in my reference file, and a stop at trumpetsixth prompted another, the rare site that contributes useful nuggets to my own working knowledge rather than just consuming my attention is worth the time investment many times over compared to the usual pile of forgettable scroll content.
Honestly slowed down to read this carefully which is not my default, and a look at fiabush kept me in that careful reading mode, the kind of writing that demands attention by being worth attention is rare in a media environment full of content engineered to be skimmed not read with any real focus today.
Glad to find a site whose links lead somewhere worth going rather than back to itself for SEO juice, and a stop at vinylvessel kept that generous outbound feel, citing other peoples work with real respect rather than just for ranking signals is a sign of an honest operation worth supporting going forward.
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