“Harry Potter Audiobook Packs Instantly customize your Pixel with Harry Potter Audiobook Packs to celebrate the release of Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions on Audible. One tap changes your wallpaper, icons, and sounds with elements from the audiobooks - no wand required. To begin your journey to Hogwarts, all eligible Pixel users will receive a two-month Audible free trial.(2)”

(Source: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/466181739/september-2026-pixel-drop?hl=en)

Why the hell is this garbage being bundled woth my OS?

Thanks for the heads up!

[Edit: Why the fuck is this app installing a Harry Potter Audible ad on my phone? Fuck you Google.]

Ed’s statement is working out well for him: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/ed-sheeran-tour-supporting-acts-macklemore-b3050790.html

Yup. Imagine having the ability to be heard by so many and choosing to stay quiet.

One doesn’t always need to listen to or agree with the opinions of artists, but an artist who doesn’t share their opinions is creating product, not art.

C’mon now, Sheeran is a huge name with huge power. He likely didn’t push for booting Macklemore, but he did fuck all to tell the promoter and stadium owners to pound sand and keep him on the tour. Promoters and stadium owners don’t make money without a product and Sheeran is huge product - Bland, spineless product that stands for nothing, but product.

“I choose to use my fame and platform to be a place of safety and sanctuary, to maintain diplomacy and keep conversations open, not closed. If we only focus on shouting the loudest, nothing will ever change. There are different approaches to being an advocate for change.”

Fuck off, Ed.

It would be good to flip the carrot and the stick for developers so that infill and using space within the Henday was the goal instead of chewing up farm land surrounding the city.