Nathan Leigh
@nathanleigh.bsky.social
composer, animator, programmer, co-artistic director of cirqueSaw
creator of remote immersive and interactive experiences POV: You Are An AI Achieving Consciousness, Void Main, and labRats
www.nathanleigh.net
www.cirquesaw.com
creator of remote immersive and interactive experiences POV: You Are An AI Achieving Consciousness, Void Main, and labRats
www.nathanleigh.net
www.cirquesaw.com
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I'd focus my anger on an organ that is forced to be more intimately connected to the base: the DSCC.
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Phone (202) 224-2447
info@dscc.org
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Phone (202) 224-2447
info@dscc.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I'd focus my anger on an organ that is forced to be more intimately connected to the base: the DSCC.
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Phone (202) 224-2447
info@dscc.org
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Phone (202) 224-2447
info@dscc.org
one thing's for sure, the next cirqueSaw show will have the most jokes in Esperanto of any of our pieces
November 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
one thing's for sure, the next cirqueSaw show will have the most jokes in Esperanto of any of our pieces
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i can be in bed by 10:30 on election night. a better world is possible
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
i can be in bed by 10:30 on election night. a better world is possible
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An “all you fascists bound to lose” sort of night
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
An “all you fascists bound to lose” sort of night
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sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively
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I guess I reflexively resist engaging with art when the creators call it "content" the same way I wouldn't order a dish that a restaurant lists only as "stuff."
October 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I guess I reflexively resist engaging with art when the creators call it "content" the same way I wouldn't order a dish that a restaurant lists only as "stuff."
i just realized that my cat's habit of scratching exactly twice on her scratch pad, then looking up at me, and then crying to request a treat is exactly the same thing as kids trick or treating and I'm here for it.
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
i just realized that my cat's habit of scratching exactly twice on her scratch pad, then looking up at me, and then crying to request a treat is exactly the same thing as kids trick or treating and I'm here for it.
my cat Commodore Welcome started purring REALLY loudly when @themountaingoats.bsky.social came on and just sat in front of the speakers and listened for the whole song. I always knew she had impeccable taste.
October 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
my cat Commodore Welcome started purring REALLY loudly when @themountaingoats.bsky.social came on and just sat in front of the speakers and listened for the whole song. I always knew she had impeccable taste.
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OpenAI will be releasing a new version of flappy bird
October 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
OpenAI will be releasing a new version of flappy bird
@sirathena.bsky.social killed it tonight! Sisters is the funniest thing they've ever done!
October 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
@sirathena.bsky.social killed it tonight! Sisters is the funniest thing they've ever done!
the thing is done and it all pretty much worked!! i'm feeling considerably less anxious about our next piece now! maybe we'll do it full out in a few months...
October 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
the thing is done and it all pretty much worked!! i'm feeling considerably less anxious about our next piece now! maybe we'll do it full out in a few months...
cirqueSaw's semi-quartarly digital art salon betaTest is tonight! we're getting ready to preview the first steps towards a new piece we're creating. i think it's gonna be a lot of fun. betaTest is free and there are still seats available here: www.tickettailor.com/events/cirqu...
cirqueSaw
cirqueSaw – cirqueSaw explores the intersection of art and technology, co-founded by partners Nathan Leigh and Nicole Orabona in 2020. They...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
cirqueSaw's semi-quartarly digital art salon betaTest is tonight! we're getting ready to preview the first steps towards a new piece we're creating. i think it's gonna be a lot of fun. betaTest is free and there are still seats available here: www.tickettailor.com/events/cirqu...
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Hear me out, but maybe it's not superb that most of the internet is hosted on three very large providers?
October 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Hear me out, but maybe it's not superb that most of the internet is hosted on three very large providers?
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I think its genuinely a virtue to accept that you could be wrong about anything and kill the part of yourself that needs to always be seen as correct and smarter than others on any given topic
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I think its genuinely a virtue to accept that you could be wrong about anything and kill the part of yourself that needs to always be seen as correct and smarter than others on any given topic
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I am given to hyperbole and I hate it; it’s the absolute WORST trait a person can have.
October 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I am given to hyperbole and I hate it; it’s the absolute WORST trait a person can have.
being a musician over 40 involves looking through your own music on bandcamp to remember what songs you know
October 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
being a musician over 40 involves looking through your own music on bandcamp to remember what songs you know
You either die a hero, or you live long enough to hear the radio segue from The Offspring into Steely Dan.
October 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
You either die a hero, or you live long enough to hear the radio segue from The Offspring into Steely Dan.
i know those metrics don't really matter. noone cares how many brushstrokes go into a painting. but this shit is really hard and thankless and traditional arts folks are weirdly dismissive about it, so metrics of how much went into a thing are way of saying "here's how much of me went into the art."
October 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
i know those metrics don't really matter. noone cares how many brushstrokes go into a painting. but this shit is really hard and thankless and traditional arts folks are weirdly dismissive about it, so metrics of how much went into a thing are way of saying "here's how much of me went into the art."
today's labRats will have the largest number of updates between shows we've ever attempted. 45 new visual assets, 3000 new lines of code, 2 new puzzles, 1 new area, a ton of bug fixes and inconsistencies ironed out. sooooo hopefully it all works!
October 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
today's labRats will have the largest number of updates between shows we've ever attempted. 45 new visual assets, 3000 new lines of code, 2 new puzzles, 1 new area, a ton of bug fixes and inconsistencies ironed out. sooooo hopefully it all works!
the code for labRats is finally stable enough to start adding some of the planned new areas to it! the first new mini-game is a fun little robot fighting game that may be very tricky to find. we'll see what happens tomorrow!
October 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
the code for labRats is finally stable enough to start adding some of the planned new areas to it! the first new mini-game is a fun little robot fighting game that may be very tricky to find. we'll see what happens tomorrow!
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There's a social media trend of people attempting to run marathons with zero training and a take that really resonated with me is doing this means that you never really fail. I think the AI people have a similar mentality. They want to be able to say they have done a thing without doing it
there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually
October 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
There's a social media trend of people attempting to run marathons with zero training and a take that really resonated with me is doing this means that you never really fail. I think the AI people have a similar mentality. They want to be able to say they have done a thing without doing it
ha haaa! I just finished the first draft of the script to a new cirqueSaw thing we've been brainstorming for a while!!!
October 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
ha haaa! I just finished the first draft of the script to a new cirqueSaw thing we've been brainstorming for a while!!!
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Microblogging is terrible. It's all context collapse and unbridled id: notifications as conversation. We need more long-form, considered discussion. The internet needs more nuance and structured thought.
October 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Microblogging is terrible. It's all context collapse and unbridled id: notifications as conversation. We need more long-form, considered discussion. The internet needs more nuance and structured thought.
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Every day is “Zorp Inc given 3 trillion dollars to launch Blooper Quarks in an effort to create the first artificial intelligence in applesauce manufacturing, universal healthcare still an impossible pipe dream”
October 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Every day is “Zorp Inc given 3 trillion dollars to launch Blooper Quarks in an effort to create the first artificial intelligence in applesauce manufacturing, universal healthcare still an impossible pipe dream”