Bruce Willen
@publicmechanics.bsky.social
Multi-disciplinary artist, designer, musician
Public art + design: Public Mechanics
Music: solo, Peals, Double Dagger, Birney-Willen
Previously: co-founder @ Post Typography
Baltimore
Public art + design: Public Mechanics
Music: solo, Peals, Double Dagger, Birney-Willen
Previously: co-founder @ Post Typography
Baltimore
Thanks @baltimoremagazine.com and @llyydddzz.bsky.social for including Birney-Willen in the Big Baltimore Playlist 🤙
Five local songs you should listen to right now.
The Big Baltimore Playlist: November 2025
Five local songs you should listen to right now.
www.baltimoremagazine.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Thanks @baltimoremagazine.com and @llyydddzz.bsky.social for including Birney-Willen in the Big Baltimore Playlist 🤙
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Damn so it took a day for the Republicans to pivot to "pedophilia isn't actually that bad guys"
A fucking day lmao
A fucking day lmao
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Damn so it took a day for the Republicans to pivot to "pedophilia isn't actually that bad guys"
A fucking day lmao
A fucking day lmao
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The clocktower performance was played in collaboration with multimedia artist Zoe Friedman, and incorporated the chimes, clanks, sparks, and pops of the clock machinery working all around the band and audience. You can hear this live, unfiltered space in harmony on "Believers" from Side A now!
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The clocktower performance was played in collaboration with multimedia artist Zoe Friedman, and incorporated the chimes, clanks, sparks, and pops of the clock machinery working all around the band and audience. You can hear this live, unfiltered space in harmony on "Believers" from Side A now!
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Seltzer was a cassette-only release in 2015, and collected Peals' live performance in the Bromo Seltzer Tower clockroom on the A-side and a series of improvised living-room pieces from 2013-2014 on the B-side
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Seltzer was a cassette-only release in 2015, and collected Peals' live performance in the Bromo Seltzer Tower clockroom on the A-side and a series of improvised living-room pieces from 2013-2014 on the B-side
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Peals, the collaborative duo of Future Islands' William Cashion and Double Dagger's Bruce Willen, announce the official digital release of their 2015 SUPER RARE cassette "Seltzer" ! The first single "Believers" is now streaming. Official release date is December 5th.
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Peals, the collaborative duo of Future Islands' William Cashion and Double Dagger's Bruce Willen, announce the official digital release of their 2015 SUPER RARE cassette "Seltzer" ! The first single "Believers" is now streaming. Official release date is December 5th.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Seeing (and playing with) Stars of the Dogon and Revenge of Nigel Winston helped expand for me what music and performance could be. Thanks Ben and Corey and Brian!
Respect is due to all those who have blazed the underground trails that we are so fortunate to travel today.
@timkabara.bsky.social returns with lore and more. Enjoy this review of another CD-only release from the Baltimore underground in this week’s ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE.
@timkabara.bsky.social returns with lore and more. Enjoy this review of another CD-only release from the Baltimore underground in this week’s ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE.
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Seeing (and playing with) Stars of the Dogon and Revenge of Nigel Winston helped expand for me what music and performance could be. Thanks Ben and Corey and Brian!
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YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
👀 The Charles St LED billboard wants to remind you to listen to the new Birney-Willen album Landscapes. Enjoy!
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birney-willen.bandcamp.com/album/landsc...
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
👀 The Charles St LED billboard wants to remind you to listen to the new Birney-Willen album Landscapes. Enjoy!
birney-willen.bandcamp.com/album/landsc...
birney-willen.bandcamp.com/album/landsc...
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no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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I've noticed that there isn't much talk here about the current internecine war that is unfolding on the right, spearheaded in large part by Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I know this shit is insane and feels bad. But this is a mistake (1/)
November 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I've noticed that there isn't much talk here about the current internecine war that is unfolding on the right, spearheaded in large part by Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I know this shit is insane and feels bad. But this is a mistake (1/)
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Looking for one of our Landscapes limited cassettes? Dropped a few at Celebrated Summer Records last weekend. @albertbirney.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Looking for one of our Landscapes limited cassettes? Dropped a few at Celebrated Summer Records last weekend. @albertbirney.bsky.social
Crazy fire in lower Remington right now. Maybe at/near Studios on Sisson building?
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Crazy fire in lower Remington right now. Maybe at/near Studios on Sisson building?
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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Fight For What You Actually Want remains the savviest political strategy even though it is the least embraced by the people who consider themselves the most savvy.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/do-what-yo...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/do-what-yo...
Do What You Believe In
How to navigate a complex political world.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Fight For What You Actually Want remains the savviest political strategy even though it is the least embraced by the people who consider themselves the most savvy.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/do-what-yo...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/do-what-yo...
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No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
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wrote about ai real estate listings for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Your Dream House Might Be a Fantasy
AI has has invaded the real estate industry, dissolving the boundaries between image enhancement and false advertising.
www.thenation.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
wrote about ai real estate listings for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Looking for one of our Landscapes limited cassettes? Dropped a few at Celebrated Summer Records last weekend. @albertbirney.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Looking for one of our Landscapes limited cassettes? Dropped a few at Celebrated Summer Records last weekend. @albertbirney.bsky.social
Show me a serif that goes harder than Clarendon
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Show me a serif that goes harder than Clarendon
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“Roughly 80-89% of the world’s people want their governments to ‘do more’ to address #ClimateChange, and nearly 2/3rds are on board with that action costing them a bit. Yet most think they are the minority, telling pollsters they believe that only around 30% also want stronger climate action.”
The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion
The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.
www.thenation.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“Roughly 80-89% of the world’s people want their governments to ‘do more’ to address #ClimateChange, and nearly 2/3rds are on board with that action costing them a bit. Yet most think they are the minority, telling pollsters they believe that only around 30% also want stronger climate action.”
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What's funny is people said the ballroom would never be done because the construction clearly required doing major demolition work and he had promised not to touch it. I don't think people get this whole 'lying' thing yet.
This is insane.
“It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of," Trump said in July. “It’s my favorite. It’s my favorite place. I love it.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of," Trump said in July. “It’s my favorite. It’s my favorite place. I love it.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
What's funny is people said the ballroom would never be done because the construction clearly required doing major demolition work and he had promised not to touch it. I don't think people get this whole 'lying' thing yet.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
If AI models are derived from the whole of human recorded knowledge maybe they should be collectively owned by the whole of humanity, not a handful of billionaires.
October 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
If AI models are derived from the whole of human recorded knowledge maybe they should be collectively owned by the whole of humanity, not a handful of billionaires.
I called and wrote to @repkweisimfume.bsky.social last month to ask him to support Block the Bombs Act H.R. 3565 to limit weapons sales to Israel, and I got these AIPAC talking points in response. 😡
October 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I called and wrote to @repkweisimfume.bsky.social last month to ask him to support Block the Bombs Act H.R. 3565 to limit weapons sales to Israel, and I got these AIPAC talking points in response. 😡