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David McFarlane
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musician / facilitator / teacher / fiddles around with tech a lot / really likes sounds / all views someone else's / he/him
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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · Sep 20
Any Max/Ableton/guitar types on Bluesky?

I've been working on this M4L device for a while now, which turns MIDI chords into guitar chord diagrams, and outputs the MIDI arpeggiator style

Full version just released!

gum.co/u/a6df5mvg

@cycling74.bsky.social
#MaxMSP #Ableton #Guitar #MaxForLive
Strummer – Max For Live Guitar Chord Lookup/Arpeggiator
YouTube video by Weather Systems
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dmcf.bsky.social
“Eyyy I’m waitin here”
-new york waiting for godot
December 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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pbfcomics.bsky.social
You’ll Be OK
"I'm havin a breakdown," says one crudely-drawn stick figure to another. "You'll be OK," says the second. The first stick figure exclaims, "AGGHHH", and collapses. His head and outstretched arms and legs spell out the letters O-K.
December 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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downwithdan.bsky.social
not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations
SUNO r/SunoAl Jo 6h ago Join ThrowRA1234567788777 Sick of having to come up with prompts Discussion ... Hey y'all, looking for some tips here. I like what I've made so far with Suno but now I'm kind of hitting a wall with ideas for prompts. Why doesn't Suno also have a feature to write prompts for you? Like just hit a button the says "new prompt" and then hit make song when it comes up with something that sounds interesting! Thoughts?
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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gregk.co.uk
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide. And these are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide", ", and they're getting everyone else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly.
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself

it is also free to read

youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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strategictaper.bsky.social
Music is basically a detective novel where the musicians are the suspects/criminals, the listener is the detective and of course the music is the crime. The listener tries to determine what happened and what was the motivation, while the musicians try to obscure this, so they can get away with it.
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
"ideological entrepreneur" is a great phrase for trad influencers and i for one can't wait to aggressively overuse it to the point of rendering it meaninglessness
annieknk.bsky.social Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · Oct 30
The first episode of my new series Truly Tradly Deeply is here! We dive into the evolution of the tradwife subculture, how hyper-feminine aesthetics are weaponised by the European far right, and why Phyllis Schlafly was a Lean In Girlboss 💅💖

on.soundcloud.com/srccAxW4hXnc...
Truly Tradly Deeply Episode 1: Introduction — “All I Think About Is Buying Cows”
The first episode of Annie Kelly's 6-part podcast miniseries Truly Tradly Deeply. Cursed Media subscribers have access to the first two episodes right now, plus each new episode as they are released w
soundcloud.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
If you live in Britain, your experience of 21st century government has been relentless escalating calamities by ruling parties: disastrous wars, financial catastrophe, destructive austerity, plummeting living standards, soaring prices, unaffordable housing, constant lying and comical incompetence.
Nick Tyrone @NicholasTyrone X.com Mamdani will quickly become a huge burden for the western left as his policies unravel, particularly as they have all rushed to bask in his temporary glory. It sets the stage for a string of victories for right-wing parties across the west over the coming years.
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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nancycomics.bsky.social
I' LL BE THE HIT OF THE PARTY
NANCY IS GOING TO A COSTUME PARTY DRESSED AS AN EGG
November 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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oldfriend99.bsky.social
I don't trust people who are out of the office with limited access to email. What the hell are you doing
October 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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annieknk.bsky.social
The first episode of my new series Truly Tradly Deeply is here! We dive into the evolution of the tradwife subculture, how hyper-feminine aesthetics are weaponised by the European far right, and why Phyllis Schlafly was a Lean In Girlboss 💅💖

on.soundcloud.com/srccAxW4hXnc...
Truly Tradly Deeply Episode 1: Introduction — “All I Think About Is Buying Cows”
The first episode of Annie Kelly's 6-part podcast miniseries Truly Tradly Deeply. Cursed Media subscribers have access to the first two episodes right now, plus each new episode as they are released w
soundcloud.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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north0fnorth.tgirl.gay
lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight
the video being projected behind all the performers on stage
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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dasharez0ne.bsky.social
BRING IT BACK - dashare.zone ADMIN
WHEN IN TIME DO WE NEED "ABANDONED MALL MUSIC" IF NOT NOW, WHEN DO WE NEED TO HEAR DA RUINS OF AMERICAN CULTURE FLOAT IN A CLOUD OF REVERB IF NOT NOW, WHEN SHOULD SLOWED DOWN MUSIC BE A BALM FOR DA EAR'S OF DA WORKING PERSON IF NOT NOW, AND DA TEXT : "I MISS VAPOR WAVE ,ALL MUSIC SHOULD BE OTHER MUSIC THATS SLOWED DOWN, ALL MUSIC SHOULD BE ABLOUT DOLPHINS AND STATUE'S, ALL MUSIC SHOULD SOUND LIKE SHIT " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
October 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
dmcf.bsky.social
Outsert should be a word
October 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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pantspants.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
dmcf.bsky.social
optometrist DESTROYS heckler
October 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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annieknk.bsky.social
I returned to QAA this week to talk about my upcoming miniseries about tradwives!

on.soundcloud.com/TYC72i40KAP1...
Truly, Tradly, Deeply — Inside the Tradosphere with Annie Kelly (E345)
Annie Kelly has spent most of 2025 investigating the online world of so-called “traditional wives” or “tradwives.” On this episode she sits down with Travis, Jake, and Julian to talk about her new six
soundcloud.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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alexshephard.bsky.social
this would piss me off so much if I was the brain surgeon www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Woman plays clarinet during four-hour brain surgery
Denise Bacon, 65, underwent deep brain stimulation (DBS) as Parkinson's Disease has affected her ability to walk, swim, dance and play her instrument.
www.bbc.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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roryblank.bsky.social
Neighbors 2.0
A drawing of two herky jerky figures in someone's front yard, loose, flailing skin, unnatural postures, a man with a melting face and a illfitting suit and a woman in a black dress and fishnet stockings, her head bent down as if broken, the man waves to the observer. Accompanying narration reads "there are strangers on the lawn wearing the skin of my dead neighbors. They keep telling me to 'come on out', they're doing all the 'classic' things my neighbors used to do. Saying it's 'Neighbors 2.0'. 'Everything I used to love about my old neighbors but streamlined, a leaner operation.' 'Classic things like waving, getting mail mixed up, arguing about trash bins.' All the hits. I was never really close with my neighbors when they were alive."
October 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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weeder.bsky.social
Masterful trolling, My Lord, the people are quite triggered, Your Excellency
October 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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genderedintelligence.co.uk
Over 50,000 cis women have signed the @nionwomen.bsky.social open letter rejecting the narrative that trans women are a danger to women.

The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence.

Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Background with cream, blue and yellow curved shapes with purple text over it, reading "Not in Our Name Over fifty thousand cis women have signed an open letter rejecting the false narrative that trans women are a danger to women. Add your name"
October 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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gilmorejon.bsky.social
something I've noticed is that every single research paper on how AI use cognitively impairs users always includes an obligatory sentence like "Of course, while this technology has the potential to enhance understanding and creativity," and for some odd reason there's never a source for that claim
October 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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ethanhein.bsky.social
Who is writing about generative AI from a disability studies perspective?
October 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
dmcf.bsky.social
I’m starting a YouTube channel for algae. Lichen subscribe
October 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM