Mute Branches / James
@mutebranches.bsky.social
I make music about trees and ghosts for trees and ghosts: https://mutebranches.bandcamp.com
Pinned
Us Without the World, by Mute Branches
9 track album
oklarecords.bandcamp.com
I have an album out today! Skybound post rock reckoning with the utopianism and disappointment of space travel. Let's-a go
oklarecords.bandcamp.com/album/us-wit...
oklarecords.bandcamp.com/album/us-wit...
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autechre and lenin in russia
1994
1994
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
autechre and lenin in russia
1994
1994
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Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
the new John Lewis advert somehow straight up rips one of the most heartbreaking scenes in film of this decade (from Aftersun) and then just makes it shite
November 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
the new John Lewis advert somehow straight up rips one of the most heartbreaking scenes in film of this decade (from Aftersun) and then just makes it shite
me flirting
November 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
me flirting
I try to record a Halloween song every year and, this year, you can hear me cover one of the unsettlingly horny folk songs from 'The Wicker Man' (there *is* an audience for that, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nxi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nxi...
Willow's Song (Magnet / The Wicker Man cover)
YouTube video by Mute Branches
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I try to record a Halloween song every year and, this year, you can hear me cover one of the unsettlingly horny folk songs from 'The Wicker Man' (there *is* an audience for that, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nxi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nxi...
so much for these Amazin' web services amirite
October 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
so much for these Amazin' web services amirite
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The whole British government and media loves Maccabi Tel Aviv fans! The far right football fans that love to cause violence! *5 minutes later* We regret to inform you the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are far right and have caused violence
October 20, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The whole British government and media loves Maccabi Tel Aviv fans! The far right football fans that love to cause violence! *5 minutes later* We regret to inform you the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are far right and have caused violence
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WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass
WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you
WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you
October 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass
WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you
WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you
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“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs
What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?
www.thenerve.news
October 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
looking at the fog outside this morning
October 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
looking at the fog outside this morning
This kind of thing never fails to crack me up
October 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This kind of thing never fails to crack me up
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Autism is not a disease.
You can’t cure autism.
"Some people don’t care what we want. They want a cure for autism, and they spend a lot of time and money looking for it. This is bad for autistic people. People should spend time and money helping us live good lives."
Words by @autisticadvocacy.org.
You can’t cure autism.
"Some people don’t care what we want. They want a cure for autism, and they spend a lot of time and money looking for it. This is bad for autistic people. People should spend time and money helping us live good lives."
Words by @autisticadvocacy.org.
September 30, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Autism is not a disease.
You can’t cure autism.
"Some people don’t care what we want. They want a cure for autism, and they spend a lot of time and money looking for it. This is bad for autistic people. People should spend time and money helping us live good lives."
Words by @autisticadvocacy.org.
You can’t cure autism.
"Some people don’t care what we want. They want a cure for autism, and they spend a lot of time and money looking for it. This is bad for autistic people. People should spend time and money helping us live good lives."
Words by @autisticadvocacy.org.
Silent Hill fergalicious
September 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Silent Hill fergalicious
guys guys they mentioned Lichfield and Disco Elysium on University Challenge
September 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
guys guys they mentioned Lichfield and Disco Elysium on University Challenge
completed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
September 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
completed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
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Keep thinking about this bit from @garbageday.email. "The American right wing finally gets to be the victims they’ve always seen themselves as."
September 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Keep thinking about this bit from @garbageday.email. "The American right wing finally gets to be the victims they’ve always seen themselves as."
im just off to the metaverse, can I get anyone anything
September 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
im just off to the metaverse, can I get anyone anything
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they should hang something cool off lamp posts like the album cover of In the Wake of Poseidon by King Crimson
September 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
they should hang something cool off lamp posts like the album cover of In the Wake of Poseidon by King Crimson
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its funny to be ruled by internet-brained idiots like this, when anyone with a passing familiarity of this internet political moment knew instinctively this was going to be an incoherent brain rotted gamer white boy who sees politics and violence as entertainment
September 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
its funny to be ruled by internet-brained idiots like this, when anyone with a passing familiarity of this internet political moment knew instinctively this was going to be an incoherent brain rotted gamer white boy who sees politics and violence as entertainment
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I have every bit as much compassion for Charlie Kirk being shot by some random person as he would have if it had been me.
September 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I have every bit as much compassion for Charlie Kirk being shot by some random person as he would have if it had been me.
Where are These New Puritans and Caroline, you Mercury Prize cowards
September 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Where are These New Puritans and Caroline, you Mercury Prize cowards
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There's a Popeye's opening in my town and a.) I thought the logo was a chicken, not the big man himself, b.) his pipe is sticking out of a separate hole in his chin? That's 🤖 right?
September 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
There's a Popeye's opening in my town and a.) I thought the logo was a chicken, not the big man himself, b.) his pipe is sticking out of a separate hole in his chin? That's 🤖 right?
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A work in progress list of films that actually feel like weird fiction, as opposed to just horror movies or ghost stories. Unsettling. Uncanny. Unresolved.
boxd.it/NXd38
boxd.it/NXd38
Weird fiction
Films that capture the sense of uncanny unresolved bewilderment that marks weird fiction, as opposed to more linear ghost stories or horror movies. Nightmare logic is another way of expressing it.
boxd.it
September 8, 2025 at 5:52 AM
A work in progress list of films that actually feel like weird fiction, as opposed to just horror movies or ghost stories. Unsettling. Uncanny. Unresolved.
boxd.it/NXd38
boxd.it/NXd38