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Will
@willdarden.bsky.social
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Maverick progressive version of Ron Swanson with less drinking. Man of conviction. Prone to writing with fountain pens. Portland, Oregon.

GirlDad | Visual Artist (📷🖋️🎨) | Musician (🎸🎹) | Woodworker | Linguist (🇺🇸|🇯🇵) | Foodie | Xennial | Storyteller
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Will @willdarden.bsky.social · Nov 9
A quick introduction since I’m new here:

Looking for a few people to follow who are into music, art, food, and fountain pens.

I build guitars, speak fluent Japanese, and like to take pictures.
Sunset beach photo on the Oregon coast. A family is gathered around a bonfire on the left side of the photo and there’s a small hill with trees on the right. A few people are silhouetted against the fading sunset, which fades from bright orange near the horizon to a light indigo near the top of the photo. Sparse clouds dot the horizon in the distance. In the foreground is the darkened sand, pockmarked with footprints and debris. A man sleeps on the sidewalk in dirty, ruined clothes. He wears multiple layers, topped by a jacket and a hoody with the hood pulled over a ball cap. A water bottle sits on the ground near his head. Behind him is an older building with a real estate sign hanging from a veranda. The building appears to be concrete painted red with multiple dark green doors that are locked shut. The frames around the doors are painted bright white. The building is covered in various graffiti tags and a prominent statement says “FUCK MONEY PEOPLE MATTER MORE” in bright white paint against the red wall. A music setup in someone’s house featuring multiple guitars, amps, and a keyboard. A pedalboard sits in front of one of the amps and wires crowd the room on the floor. Guitars: - a black Gretsch hollow body with a Bigsby tailpiece. - Seafoam green telecaster with white pick guard and ebony fretboard. - a Japanese-made black Fender Stratocaster with white pick guard and maple fretboard - A deluxe telecaster with natural finish and dark fretboard - Blackguard Squier classic vibe telecaster Amps: - Mesa nomad 45 with green tolex and tan grill cloth - a Peavey - Fender Mustang - Leslie 122, with the back panels removed and facing the wall. The keyboard is a Roland Juno DS 88 Multiple people are gathered around a table to eat dinner with disposable chopsticks. Drinks, disposable tableware, and takeout food are scattered across the table. A few other items like unlit candles and a cellphone are also on the table. The scene is lit from above by a single hanging light with the background fading into the darkness. There is a large white column in the background and a wall of windows that look out on a darkened cityscape. It is night. The people around the table are eating and taking. One man in the center is leaning over the table to look at the food and talk to the people sitting down. He wears a collared shirt and a backpack. Three other men sit around the table in casual collared shirts eating with serious looks on their faces. A single Asian woman sits at the head of the table with her head shaved, wearing a black tank top. She is reaching across the table as if to serve herself some food from one of the shared plates.
willdarden.bsky.social
“They’re ubiquitous, cheap, and fun.”

Cheap? This reporter clearly didn’t do much research. 😂
January 14, 2025 at 4:54 AM
willdarden.bsky.social
Would @bsky.app be willing to make a TikTok clone? Asking for a friend.
January 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
willdarden.bsky.social
Apparently they find them in Grand Central.

If you’ve been to Grand Central, this completely tracks.
leyawn.bsky.social leon @leyawn.bsky.social · Jan 7
where does the new york times even find these people
A screenshot of a New York Times update that says: In Grand Central Terminal, Leon Chang, 26, of Brooklyn, said he had not heard of congestion pricing and asked what it was. When explained it was a toll for cars entering Manhattan, he then asked “What do you mean? What is a car?” Walking outside, we showed him a vehicle parked on the street. He gently touched the hood of the car. “You wish to forbid these majestic beasts from entering the city,” he said in a wistful tone. “It is a folly of man. The desire to tame the world around us.”
January 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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weeder.bsky.social
Can't believe I was thinking about turning off DMs today.
DM conversation between me and a sad person reads your a fag right (Actually it's you're) You guys on the left are to easy to trigger and fun to bully Did I invade your save space (Actually it's safe space)
January 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
willdarden.bsky.social
It’s starting to come together…

…and I was able to chase down the pesky ground loop that was killing my sound.
A pedalboard in a carrying case. A total of 7 pedals are shown: - A moog expression pedal - Ernie Ball volume jr - Chase Bliss Audio Automatone Preamp MK II - Boss FZ-3 Fuzz - Boss TU- 3 tuner - Chase Bliss Audio Clean - Strymon Timeline - Strymon BigSky A flowchart showing signal chain of the pedals
January 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
willdarden.bsky.social
First impressions from my new CBA Clean: calling this a compressor is like calling an RV a large car; the compression is a platform for everything from clean boost and overdrive to volume, EQ, and modulation, all based on playing dynamics.

Very excited to work this into my sound. Sample below.
December 28, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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angiestone.graysky.social
Timothy Snyder:
Introduction of Timothy Snyders latest book, which reads: 1 Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
October 26, 2024 at 7:52 AM
willdarden.bsky.social
Merry Christmas to me!

Now I just need to find TRS to TR splitters in town so I don’t have to wait a week to use it in stereo.
A Chase Bliss “Clean” guitar pedal is shown displayed on top of its packaging.
December 26, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Nobody:
No one:
Absolutely no one at all:
Me listening to the Christmas Song: So I guess the implications of this are that if you’re 93 you can just get fucked, huh
December 25, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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nonniebear.bsky.social
This 💟
December 24, 2024 at 2:52 PM
willdarden.bsky.social
Filed under: “fixed that for you”
December 24, 2024 at 9:21 PM
willdarden.bsky.social
Dear WSJ —

17 year olds cannot sign contracts or consent to sex with adults. The term we use for sexual contact without consent is “sexual assault” or “rape.”

Matt Gaetz gave a 17 year money and then raped her.

👏🏻 Stop 👏🏻 Using 👏🏻 Biased 👏🏻 Language 👏🏻

TYSM
Front page of the 12/24/24 Wall Street Journal print version.
December 24, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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rawstory.com
Opinion:
Why ABC settled a case they knew they would win — and why the Lincoln Project didn't
Since 2012, the U.S. Dept. of Justice has defined rape as bodily “penetration, no matter how slight… with any body part or object… without the consent of the victim.” To be redundant, no penis is requ...
www.rawstory.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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mattbe.bsky.social
How many Happy Meals do you need to eat before they start to work? I've just had six and I feel terrible.
December 21, 2024 at 12:02 PM
willdarden.bsky.social
Ben Folds Five’s early stuff is a perfect example of what happens when a jazz trio goes punk rock.
December 20, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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consequence.bsky.social
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr performed "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" and "Helter Skelter" during a surprise reunion in London on Thursday night → cons.lv/iY6bSW
December 20, 2024 at 3:19 AM
willdarden.bsky.social
Christmas Pro Tip: I was tired of spilling water when I water our Christmas tree, so I leaned on my #redneckengineering skills to build a watering system.

The pipe is an IKEA curtain rod and I sourced the funnel from our kitchen.
A man’s hand is holding a gray pipe with a funnel in the top. The background is a wide shot of the interior of a home with a Christmas tree featuring prominently. The pipe and funnel is an engineered tool for watering a Christmas tree directly into the stand without spilling from a jar or watering can.
December 19, 2024 at 8:06 PM
willdarden.bsky.social
Everyone in this photo trying to look hard and Luigi in the middle just looking chill.

This is a new meme template if I ever saw one.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Dec 19
seems a bit dramatic
Luigi Mangione is escorted by several police officers and Mayor Eric Adams in New York.
December 19, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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theonion.com
News Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions
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News Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions
December 19, 2024 at 3:06 PM
willdarden.bsky.social
I know more about this than I should. The accusations are ridiculous.
December 18, 2024 at 12:21 AM
willdarden.bsky.social
Project 1: Travel Guitar

The onboard amp has failed and needs replacement. Do I:

- Replace it with a 9v 2.5 watt onboard amp
- Pull the speaker entirely and replace with a multi-effect
- Wire in a Bluetooth output
A small guitar sits on a man’s lap in a family room. The guitar has a single coil pickup in the neck position and a volume knob. Cut into the guitar is a circle with a speaker grill and speaker. The guitar itself has a maple neck with black dot inlay. The body is a strat-style double cutaway finished in zebra stripes.
December 16, 2024 at 7:13 PM
willdarden.bsky.social
I don’t know who redid The Downfall about guitar gear, but this is amazing.

My family kept looking at me to make sure I could breathe even though I was laughing so hard.
December 16, 2024 at 5:25 AM
willdarden.bsky.social
Fascinating result from Grok. Whether the explanation is accurate or an unprovable deception to cover impropriety is of little import — either way it’s a significant failure.
mcuban.bsky.social Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Dec 15
I was playing with Grok 2. I wanted to see what it could do.
I asked it to create a meme it thought could go viral, giving Trump a hard time for not keeping his promise to cut grocery prices. It was ok. Then I asked it to go dark. It’s response wasn’t what I expected lol

youtu.be/f9fxeNNguzY?...
Crazy grok response to request for trump viral meme
YouTube video by Mark Cuban
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December 15, 2024 at 9:12 PM
willdarden.bsky.social
It me
A needlepoint is pictured features caricatures of different pathogens. It is adorned with the phrase, “What doesn’t kill you mutates and tries again.”
December 15, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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ec2121.bsky.social
you deserve to be loved without having to hide the parts of yourself that you think are unlovable
October 6, 2024 at 2:04 AM