J Xavier
@jxdowd.bsky.social
Product, Industrial, & Sound Designer
Make things, make tools, & make noises.
He/Them 🥐♥️
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Make things, make tools, & make noises.
He/Them 🥐♥️
Likes or follows ≠ endorsement and do not reflect opinions of others
Look, but being a tech C-suite-y who doesn’t get the point is the strongest affirmation the post could have gotten.
November 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Look, but being a tech C-suite-y who doesn’t get the point is the strongest affirmation the post could have gotten.
Ncuti was pretty good as the Doctor but it felt like they had to write 3 seasons into 1.5 and the last half of the second was just exposition for time.
October 30, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Ncuti was pretty good as the Doctor but it felt like they had to write 3 seasons into 1.5 and the last half of the second was just exposition for time.
In the US, Fox News primetime talking heads now have an EV RE20 microphone in the bottom corner of the frame since it helps their reach when people repost their clips because they look like all the right wing podcasts. The news is aping podcasts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0arv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0arv...
Why YouTubers Hold Microphones Now
YouTube video by Tom Nicholas
m.youtube.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:46 AM
In the US, Fox News primetime talking heads now have an EV RE20 microphone in the bottom corner of the frame since it helps their reach when people repost their clips because they look like all the right wing podcasts. The news is aping podcasts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0arv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0arv...
Let me congratulate you on switching off Substack! I missed when that happened.
September 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Let me congratulate you on switching off Substack! I missed when that happened.
Broke: Y is up.
I’m having a stroke: X is up.
Correct: Z is up.
I’m having a stroke: X is up.
Correct: Z is up.
September 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Broke: Y is up.
I’m having a stroke: X is up.
Correct: Z is up.
I’m having a stroke: X is up.
Correct: Z is up.
I mean, England isn’t doing so hot either on the authoritarian politics on the rise thing. Reform and further right is basically resurrecting the British Union of Fascists while the first Labour government in decades is trying to pivot to the right, harder than the Democrats in the US.
September 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I mean, England isn’t doing so hot either on the authoritarian politics on the rise thing. Reform and further right is basically resurrecting the British Union of Fascists while the first Labour government in decades is trying to pivot to the right, harder than the Democrats in the US.
Oswald Mosley's spirit is licking its lips. Labour is a slippy slide to NuBUF.
September 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Oswald Mosley's spirit is licking its lips. Labour is a slippy slide to NuBUF.
It will be our patriotic duty to play “master of the house” and salute Trump’s spirit character, Monsieur Thénardier.
August 30, 2025 at 10:39 AM
It will be our patriotic duty to play “master of the house” and salute Trump’s spirit character, Monsieur Thénardier.
Fascism makes me disassociate from this mortal coil but I guess for him it is a great way to get to know his body.
August 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Fascism makes me disassociate from this mortal coil but I guess for him it is a great way to get to know his body.
“Vibey, vibbiy, veeby” - Mark Zuck, as his own Veni, vedi, vicci, probably.
August 21, 2025 at 4:16 AM
“Vibey, vibbiy, veeby” - Mark Zuck, as his own Veni, vedi, vicci, probably.
It’s the Pacific Rim scientists meme. The Bonds keep happening closer together. We expect a double event soon - eventually the Bonds occur in superposition and we reach bonded Bonds. It’s not just the gender of bond that’s put in a question but the existential exclusivity of the material plane.
August 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
It’s the Pacific Rim scientists meme. The Bonds keep happening closer together. We expect a double event soon - eventually the Bonds occur in superposition and we reach bonded Bonds. It’s not just the gender of bond that’s put in a question but the existential exclusivity of the material plane.
I wrote this out as a joke a decade ago and I got some serious interest, you wouldn’t be surprised to know they really liked the idea, just felt like it would be most fair if the control of the police was exclusively by the first holders, for security and stability reasons.
August 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I wrote this out as a joke a decade ago and I got some serious interest, you wouldn’t be surprised to know they really liked the idea, just felt like it would be most fair if the control of the police was exclusively by the first holders, for security and stability reasons.
I'm going to read this as a font-based thing, fully on typographical implication of "Helvetica."
August 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I'm going to read this as a font-based thing, fully on typographical implication of "Helvetica."
The Ruben missile crisis.
August 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
The Ruben missile crisis.
No. Not the discourse again! Anything but the discourse.
August 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM
No. Not the discourse again! Anything but the discourse.
I simply do not want the games.
August 6, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I simply do not want the games.
I know what you mean, but guitars are still changing. Material science has led to a number of changes in construction, neck reinforcement, machining techniques, onboard effects & PCB based pickups, active filtering, etc.
There is still plenty of room for innovation in electric guitars.
There is still plenty of room for innovation in electric guitars.
July 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I know what you mean, but guitars are still changing. Material science has led to a number of changes in construction, neck reinforcement, machining techniques, onboard effects & PCB based pickups, active filtering, etc.
There is still plenty of room for innovation in electric guitars.
There is still plenty of room for innovation in electric guitars.
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I'm looking forward to the farm-subsidy-equivalent: AI pays me 5% to not use it.
July 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I'm looking forward to the farm-subsidy-equivalent: AI pays me 5% to not use it.
Do I send some hostility toward zetekasten notes?
Hmm. *writes a note, carefully sliding it into a large box.*
Hmm. *writes a note, carefully sliding it into a large box.*
July 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Do I send some hostility toward zetekasten notes?
Hmm. *writes a note, carefully sliding it into a large box.*
Hmm. *writes a note, carefully sliding it into a large box.*
My favorite mod for the 990 is to sell them and buy a pair of 770s. Put Dekoni choice protein leather pads on. It can help to stack heavy tissue paper or a few paper towels between the ear pad and the driver to smooth the highs. The bass is bloated but it’s absolutely killer isolation from the world
June 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
My favorite mod for the 990 is to sell them and buy a pair of 770s. Put Dekoni choice protein leather pads on. It can help to stack heavy tissue paper or a few paper towels between the ear pad and the driver to smooth the highs. The bass is bloated but it’s absolutely killer isolation from the world
Fun fact, the 990 is actually semi closed already. If you disassemble it you’ll see that there’s a combination plastic+felt donut shaped stack on the inside of the grill with only a sub one inch circle in the middle that’s open to the outside. Most the leak happens from the pads.
June 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Fun fact, the 990 is actually semi closed already. If you disassemble it you’ll see that there’s a combination plastic+felt donut shaped stack on the inside of the grill with only a sub one inch circle in the middle that’s open to the outside. Most the leak happens from the pads.
Because skin swapping intellectual property as a form of theft has the potential to bring incredible value to the shareholders.
I can’t think of a nobler way to spend earth’s last resources than on the compute to do this. Who could?
I can’t think of a nobler way to spend earth’s last resources than on the compute to do this. Who could?
June 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Because skin swapping intellectual property as a form of theft has the potential to bring incredible value to the shareholders.
I can’t think of a nobler way to spend earth’s last resources than on the compute to do this. Who could?
I can’t think of a nobler way to spend earth’s last resources than on the compute to do this. Who could?