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not all heroes wear capes
is it unethical to punch a nazi? No. If someone wants to systematically wipe out entire groups of people it’s not assault, it’s self-defense.
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inside a Hammond M100 organ
So many tubes. That’s part of what makes its sound so lovely A few years ago I recorded a bunch of drones which you can get here: https://archive.org/details/beckstrom_hammond_organ_drones
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I built a skyscraper library in minecraft
My world needed a tall building so I made a library. It has 10 floors and the view from the top is nice. It’s made almost entirely of stained glass, and with some nice shaders it looks awesome. As always I wanted to do a solarpunk thing. I don’t have a solar panel mod, so…
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arbitrary dress codes are stupid
I’ll just say it.. they are stupid. Working on a job site building a house? Hard hats and boots should probably be required. Going for a round of golf? Why tf does it matter if you wear denim, or – god forbid – forget to tuck in your shirt? Can you imagine how disgusting it…
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baby sparrows outside my window
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look at this baby bird’s floof!
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alternative birdhouses
we moved the birdhouse about 15 feet so the noisy chicks wouldn’t be right outside my office window giving me bird-flavored sensory overload. instead of using the birdhouse, this bird decided to use hanging planters… which are right outside my office window. One is filled with eggs and one is filled with adorable chicks. They…
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Some interesting designs on a tree
We were cutting down a dead pine today and I noticed these really cool patterns on the trunk. I don’t know what made them. I’d guess some combination of bugs and birds. Regardless of the artists’ species I enjoy their work.
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Emotions in Neurodivergent Music
I try to avoid emotion in my music. Do you?
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yes GPTBot, eat up! enjoy the maze of garbage
Check out Iocaine – it traps web bots in a never-ending maze of garbage text instead of letting them scrape your actual website The image is a screenshot of my terminal showing recent requests from my web server. Right now it’s all GPTBot, whose purpose is to scrape data to train “AI” models, or, steal…
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#bloomscrolling
have a little break
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if this kitty had thumbs she’d be outside
she has literally come close to opening doors in our house
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Book: “Simple Sabotage Field Manual”
A relic of World War II, this literature describes easy, simple ways that everyday citizens can toss wrenches in the machine, figuratively and literally. Useful if you happen to work for or with a fascist government. Purely theoretical and for entertainment purposes only. “Simple Sabotage Field Manual” by United States. Office of Strategic Services is…
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solarpunk synth modular drums?
Continuing in my obsession of African music here’s a snippet of a work in progress. It gives me a solarpunk vibe, I can imagine dusty distorted modular synths, powered by the sun of course, playing African-inspired rhythms on top of a building covered in flowers and vines if you like this, don’t just listen to…
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somebody is making biscuits
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reminds me of that “desert blues” music from northwest africa
made primarily with the Elastika physical modeling module inside VCV Rack
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saw this cute mayfly on our trampoline yesterday
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these flowers were so bright it looks like they were photoshopped in
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plants like this are so cool
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a drum loop but it’s people speaking
I loaded Samplebrain with samples of people speaking, then had it try to recreate a drum loop. All the sounds you hear are snippets of people speaking – there are no “drum” sounds
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I love this painting
“Blue Phrygian Cap” (1969) by Alexander Calder, hanging at Meijer Gardens, Grand Rapids, Michigan
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A pair of orchids
saw these lovely flowers at Meijer Gardens yesterday
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west african-inspired tidalcycles groove
Tidalcycles sequencing VCV Rack. I was obsessed with West African music when I made this. Actually I’m still obsessed with West African music.
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pandiatonic LFO chords
I made a bank of VCO’s, offset them a bit, then sent each one into a pitch quantizer. This meant that as the CV input changed, the pitches would all move together, but stay in the same key, sort of like mashing down the white keys on a piano – that’s the pandiatonic part. Then…
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the amen break but ambient
I think I used Paulstretch and/or a very long plate reverb for this
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alien communications?
Ngl I don’t remember exactly how I made this… I think I used the VCV Rack Router module to cycle through various modulation sources, then sent them to one (or more?) oscillators