Zoë Blade
@www.zoeblade.com
Musician, writer, programmer. Analysis and synthesis. ∞ Makes music for
ContraPoints http://patreon.com/zoeblademusic
ContraPoints http://patreon.com/zoeblademusic
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My animated segment for the Atom Anarchy Funhouse episode about ecology.
I enjoyed drawing inspiration from 90s Capcom games
I enjoyed drawing inspiration from 90s Capcom games
June 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
My animated segment for the Atom Anarchy Funhouse episode about ecology.
I enjoyed drawing inspiration from 90s Capcom games
I enjoyed drawing inspiration from 90s Capcom games
They don’t make books like this anymore
December 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
They don’t make books like this anymore
There was this bookseller, Edward Muggeridge, who, in 1860, was violently flown out of a stagecoach and onto a hard surface, bumping his noggin to the extent he had a headache and was deaf for several months, amongst other ailments.
December 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
There was this bookseller, Edward Muggeridge, who, in 1860, was violently flown out of a stagecoach and onto a hard surface, bumping his noggin to the extent he had a headache and was deaf for several months, amongst other ailments.
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The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
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Ok well first of all the LEAST important thing about making art is being good at it so write that down
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Ok well first of all the LEAST important thing about making art is being good at it so write that down
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okay!!!
The First National Website Dedicated To Documenting ICE License Plates Is Here ~ L.A. TACO
“Something like the plate tracker helps to encourage and promote legal transparency and legal accountability, especially when they're going around, switching plates, trying to hide, trying to be undet...
lataco.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:45 AM
okay!!!
I've now got an appropriate photo to start off my article on writing without distractions:
notebook.zoeblade.com/Writing_with...
notebook.zoeblade.com/Writing_with...
December 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I've now got an appropriate photo to start off my article on writing without distractions:
notebook.zoeblade.com/Writing_with...
notebook.zoeblade.com/Writing_with...
It's that time of year when people gather round our MAME setup to play some old games.
Here's an article on the Tankstick:
notebook.zoeblade.com/Tankstick.html
Here's an article on the Tankstick:
notebook.zoeblade.com/Tankstick.html
December 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
It's that time of year when people gather round our MAME setup to play some old games.
Here's an article on the Tankstick:
notebook.zoeblade.com/Tankstick.html
Here's an article on the Tankstick:
notebook.zoeblade.com/Tankstick.html
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Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
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If we could just take a fucking breath and admit "our kids are people, we don't get to decide who they are," and stop using "BUT THE CHILDREN" as a reason to attack trans people, and autistic people, and whoever else we've decided not to like, that would be cool.
December 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
If we could just take a fucking breath and admit "our kids are people, we don't get to decide who they are," and stop using "BUT THE CHILDREN" as a reason to attack trans people, and autistic people, and whoever else we've decided not to like, that would be cool.
A trick I like is to reverse something, delay it, then reverse it again, so it slowly creeps in. Though I ended up not using it this time.
December 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A trick I like is to reverse something, delay it, then reverse it again, so it slowly creeps in. Though I ended up not using it this time.
Utterly obsessed lately with Birdhouse in Your Soul, with its lyric from the POV of a nightlight, and its music with a purported 18 key changes.
December 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Utterly obsessed lately with Birdhouse in Your Soul, with its lyric from the POV of a nightlight, and its music with a purported 18 key changes.
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A related question is whether two ultrasonic frequencies can imply a sonic one, such as if they suggest a shared sonic fundamental harmonic, or cause sonic beating.
December 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
A related question is whether two ultrasonic frequencies can imply a sonic one, such as if they suggest a shared sonic fundamental harmonic, or cause sonic beating.
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With *subtractive* synthesis, on the other hand, you take a waveform that's already quite rich, with lots of simple waveforms in it essentially (such as a sawtooth wave, or narrow pulse), and then you filter out some of them. The filter's subtracting them.
Most analogue synths are subtractive.
Most analogue synths are subtractive.
December 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
With *subtractive* synthesis, on the other hand, you take a waveform that's already quite rich, with lots of simple waveforms in it essentially (such as a sawtooth wave, or narrow pulse), and then you filter out some of them. The filter's subtracting them.
Most analogue synths are subtractive.
Most analogue synths are subtractive.
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So with additive synthesis, you combine lots of (carefully synchronised) simple waveforms together to make a more complex / rich one.
December 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
So with additive synthesis, you combine lots of (carefully synchronised) simple waveforms together to make a more complex / rich one.
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Additive synthesis involves combining periodic waveforms (usually sine waves) of different frequencies and amplitudes to make other periodic waveforms. If they're all multiples of the first (lowest) one, then the combined shape as a whole still repeats exactly as often as the first one.
December 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Additive synthesis involves combining periodic waveforms (usually sine waves) of different frequencies and amplitudes to make other periodic waveforms. If they're all multiples of the first (lowest) one, then the combined shape as a whole still repeats exactly as often as the first one.
I was wondering a while back whether a periodic waveform missing its fundamental harmonic would still have its pitch identifiable. It would make sense, as the waveform as a whole still repeats at that frequency.
December 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I was wondering a while back whether a periodic waveform missing its fundamental harmonic would still have its pitch identifiable. It would make sense, as the waveform as a whole still repeats at that frequency.
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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miserable lives because they aren't allowed to know who they truly are, and instead think there's something wrong with them.
December 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
miserable lives because they aren't allowed to know who they truly are, and instead think there's something wrong with them.
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I don't want to pretend that having ADHD makes navigating the society we live in as difficult as being trans, but it's a shared fight. And there are so many parallels around what having the language to understand yourself can do. I don't want to go back to a world where people are stuck living
December 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I don't want to pretend that having ADHD makes navigating the society we live in as difficult as being trans, but it's a shared fight. And there are so many parallels around what having the language to understand yourself can do. I don't want to go back to a world where people are stuck living