Orangetronic
@orangetronic.bsky.social
emotional support peacock
tiny dog guardian
fragile software development™️
modular synthesizers & acoustic guitars
he/them
tiny dog guardian
fragile software development™️
modular synthesizers & acoustic guitars
he/them
this is a screaming deal
You can fundamentally rewire your brain to properly understand CSS layout... for $34.50. Can’t say fairer than that! One day left.
Oh I forgot to mention on here, Every Layout is doing the annual 50% discount too! every-layout.dev
December 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
this is a screaming deal
man this sucks so much :(
When I read the essay, I suggested an Em dash in one sentence & kid says to me, no I can't use that or it will be flagged for AI. Same goes for an essay too well written. So now, for kids who are anti-AI (they exist!), calculated mid-range striving is the bar to avoid such accusations.
December 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
man this sucks so much :(
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The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.
December 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.
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i very simply cannot imagine this scenario.
it would be like willingly romancing a bollard.
it would be like willingly romancing a bollard.
December 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
i very simply cannot imagine this scenario.
it would be like willingly romancing a bollard.
it would be like willingly romancing a bollard.
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I WAS COMPELLED TO MAKE THIS BY FORCES BEYOND MY CONTROL
December 14, 2024 at 2:01 PM
I WAS COMPELLED TO MAKE THIS BY FORCES BEYOND MY CONTROL
i am re-reading this beauty and you know what, it is just as lovely the second time through.
🌧️ hey yeah it’s launch day. had a blast making this website with the inimitable @likethecolour.red, a Bluesky Account & in many ways a dear friend whose outlook on life inspires me deeply :)
this is a project made with love for the web, friends, and reiselust. i'm excited to share it with you.
this is a project made with love for the web, friends, and reiselust. i'm excited to share it with you.
Strangers By Spring
Strangers, By Spring is a blog about escapism, romance, and rebirth.
strangersbyspring.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
i am re-reading this beauty and you know what, it is just as lovely the second time through.
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genius
PSA: This is your annual reminder that *now* is the time to buy (discounted) advent calendars, to open during January and especially February. It’s when the holidays are over but weeks of cold and dark still lie ahead that you and your loved ones really need a little daily treat to look forward to.
December 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
genius
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Stoked to share that True Terrors (@strange.website) and I have turned this riff of a post into "Strangers By Spring", a creative project about escapism, romance, and rebirth:
strangersbyspring.com
Sometimes it's really good to just sit down and make the things you wish existed in the world.
strangersbyspring.com
Sometimes it's really good to just sit down and make the things you wish existed in the world.
December 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Stoked to share that True Terrors (@strange.website) and I have turned this riff of a post into "Strangers By Spring", a creative project about escapism, romance, and rebirth:
strangersbyspring.com
Sometimes it's really good to just sit down and make the things you wish existed in the world.
strangersbyspring.com
Sometimes it's really good to just sit down and make the things you wish existed in the world.
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My Dinner With Andre do-over starring these two would go crazy.
December 9, 2025 at 1:59 AM
My Dinner With Andre do-over starring these two would go crazy.
vanishingly few things make me as furious as clicking on a link to an article and having it launch news.app, the app that should've been a website.
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
vanishingly few things make me as furious as clicking on a link to an article and having it launch news.app, the app that should've been a website.
i am revisiting some older long-form drone performances this evening.
orangetronic.com/no_return_20...
orangetronic.com/no_return_20...
orangetronic.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
i am revisiting some older long-form drone performances this evening.
orangetronic.com/no_return_20...
orangetronic.com/no_return_20...
AI sucks.
Spotify sucks.
@orangetronic suggests: quit them both, buy a record, invate some pals round, have a little dance.
Spotify sucks.
@orangetronic suggests: quit them both, buy a record, invate some pals round, have a little dance.
Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs
An impersonator appears to be using generative AI to poorly clone rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's iconic sound on Spotify.
futurism.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
AI sucks.
Spotify sucks.
@orangetronic suggests: quit them both, buy a record, invate some pals round, have a little dance.
Spotify sucks.
@orangetronic suggests: quit them both, buy a record, invate some pals round, have a little dance.
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Towncreep. Been researching a supposedly lost town in deepest Sussex that 19th century locals called "Towncreep". They said it was destroyed by "the red-haired men". Now that's a folk horror scenario for you. I'll explain in forthcoming book...
December 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Towncreep. Been researching a supposedly lost town in deepest Sussex that 19th century locals called "Towncreep". They said it was destroyed by "the red-haired men". Now that's a folk horror scenario for you. I'll explain in forthcoming book...
my guy sounds like he heard about this new fangled concept called "staying hydrated" in 1976 and has been avoiding it ever since.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
my guy sounds like he heard about this new fangled concept called "staying hydrated" in 1976 and has been avoiding it ever since.
[doctor, dribbling on themself quite a lot] and do you have a history of frymnblal?
An article in NATURE with a nonsense AI-generated graphic. NATURE.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Has everyone just stopped doing any intellectual work at all?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Has everyone just stopped doing any intellectual work at all?
December 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
[doctor, dribbling on themself quite a lot] and do you have a history of frymnblal?
… lol
“I do not wish to be understood, which no one seems to understand.”
This is what’s missing from the book. It is a 300-page meandering navel-gaze. A Joan Didion impression from someone with nothing to say, vaguely offended that readers would *expect* her to have something to say.
This is what’s missing from the book. It is a 300-page meandering navel-gaze. A Joan Didion impression from someone with nothing to say, vaguely offended that readers would *expect* her to have something to say.
December 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
… lol
if you see this, quote post it with your model of positive masculinity
December 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
if you see this, quote post it with your model of positive masculinity
anybody at a loose end tonight, we’ve got pals spinning tunes directly into the internet for all of our delectation and delight, coming at us live from paris stream.p-node.org/dab.mp3
stream.p-node.org
December 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
anybody at a loose end tonight, we’ve got pals spinning tunes directly into the internet for all of our delectation and delight, coming at us live from paris stream.p-node.org/dab.mp3
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I've seen people be like "i hate it when people refer to vampires as draculas!!!"
But reference to draculas is as a subset of vampires - it's only the little guys with dinner jackets and slicked back hair who fly at you like FYAHHH!🧛♂️
Draculas are a species and vampire is the genus.
But reference to draculas is as a subset of vampires - it's only the little guys with dinner jackets and slicked back hair who fly at you like FYAHHH!🧛♂️
Draculas are a species and vampire is the genus.
December 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I've seen people be like "i hate it when people refer to vampires as draculas!!!"
But reference to draculas is as a subset of vampires - it's only the little guys with dinner jackets and slicked back hair who fly at you like FYAHHH!🧛♂️
Draculas are a species and vampire is the genus.
But reference to draculas is as a subset of vampires - it's only the little guys with dinner jackets and slicked back hair who fly at you like FYAHHH!🧛♂️
Draculas are a species and vampire is the genus.
yes.
haha.
yes.
haha.
yes.
sometimes i see a piece of album art and then read the descriptors "new england" "ambient" "americana" and i purchase something without hearing it
The Wringing Cloth - Old Saw. 2025, Lobby Art Editions. New music for me....seen this pop up on my timeline a few times so having a gander now #nowplaying lobbyartrecs.bandcamp.com/album/the-wr...
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
yes.
haha.
yes.
haha.
yes.
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Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
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'Fragments Vol.2' by @iainsarjeant.bsky.social has arrived from the printers! 🔥
A massive thank you to everyone who picked one up... your books will be with you very soon.
Still a handful of copies available for £19 each here - anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/frag...
A massive thank you to everyone who picked one up... your books will be with you very soon.
Still a handful of copies available for £19 each here - anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/frag...
December 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
'Fragments Vol.2' by @iainsarjeant.bsky.social has arrived from the printers! 🔥
A massive thank you to everyone who picked one up... your books will be with you very soon.
Still a handful of copies available for £19 each here - anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/frag...
A massive thank you to everyone who picked one up... your books will be with you very soon.
Still a handful of copies available for £19 each here - anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/frag...
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Same location 2009 vs now
December 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Same location 2009 vs now