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
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Peals’ rare 2015 cassette Seltzer is out digitally for the first time via @thrilljockey.bsky.social — a snapshot of our early ambient experiments, from a performance inside the Bromo Seltzer clock tower to drifting home-recorded collages. On Bandcamp + streaming.
peals.bandcamp.com/album/seltzer
peals.bandcamp.com/album/seltzer
Seltzer, by Peals
18 track album
peals.bandcamp.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Hello friends! Birney-Willen here to remind you that Landscapes cassettes make great stocking stuffers.
(For analog-agnostics all tapes include digital download codes.)
Pick up a copy at @normalsbooksbalto.bsky.social E2-E4 Records, Celebrated Summer, or birney-willen.bandcamp.com/album/landsc...
(For analog-agnostics all tapes include digital download codes.)
Pick up a copy at @normalsbooksbalto.bsky.social E2-E4 Records, Celebrated Summer, or birney-willen.bandcamp.com/album/landsc...
December 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Hello friends! Birney-Willen here to remind you that Landscapes cassettes make great stocking stuffers.
(For analog-agnostics all tapes include digital download codes.)
Pick up a copy at @normalsbooksbalto.bsky.social E2-E4 Records, Celebrated Summer, or birney-willen.bandcamp.com/album/landsc...
(For analog-agnostics all tapes include digital download codes.)
Pick up a copy at @normalsbooksbalto.bsky.social E2-E4 Records, Celebrated Summer, or birney-willen.bandcamp.com/album/landsc...
Peals’ rare 2015 cassette Seltzer is out digitally for the first time via @thrilljockey.bsky.social — a snapshot of our early ambient experiments, from a performance inside the Bromo Seltzer clock tower to drifting home-recorded collages. On Bandcamp + streaming.
peals.bandcamp.com/album/seltzer
peals.bandcamp.com/album/seltzer
Seltzer, by Peals
18 track album
peals.bandcamp.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Peals’ rare 2015 cassette Seltzer is out digitally for the first time via @thrilljockey.bsky.social — a snapshot of our early ambient experiments, from a performance inside the Bromo Seltzer clock tower to drifting home-recorded collages. On Bandcamp + streaming.
peals.bandcamp.com/album/seltzer
peals.bandcamp.com/album/seltzer
I finally got around to quitting Spotify earlier this year and haven’t looked back.
This is a great guide if you’ve also been wanting to make the switch.
TLDR. It’s super easy, sound quality much improved, still able to play 99% of my obscure favorites.
This is a great guide if you’ve also been wanting to make the switch.
TLDR. It’s super easy, sound quality much improved, still able to play 99% of my obscure favorites.
December 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I finally got around to quitting Spotify earlier this year and haven’t looked back.
This is a great guide if you’ve also been wanting to make the switch.
TLDR. It’s super easy, sound quality much improved, still able to play 99% of my obscure favorites.
This is a great guide if you’ve also been wanting to make the switch.
TLDR. It’s super easy, sound quality much improved, still able to play 99% of my obscure favorites.
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I wrote about how to "win" the "culture wars," in the sense that once you start playing you have already lost.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
Culture Wars Are For Cowards
And most people don't like bullies.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I wrote about how to "win" the "culture wars," in the sense that once you start playing you have already lost.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
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oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
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for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
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Wild. We always say on the podcast that owning a car is required for effective full enfranchisement in most places of the USA because we are such a car-dependent society, but this is...next level. They say it like it's disqualifying for office.
WaPo editorial board launches a disgusting car-brained attack on Seattle's new mayor Katie Wilson.
"Who is Wilson? She does not own a car"
It's so bad you need to read it, so a gift link: wapo.st/4r2peP3
"Who is Wilson? She does not own a car"
It's so bad you need to read it, so a gift link: wapo.st/4r2peP3
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Wild. We always say on the podcast that owning a car is required for effective full enfranchisement in most places of the USA because we are such a car-dependent society, but this is...next level. They say it like it's disqualifying for office.
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Terrible to yell racism and then leave out the overtly racial origins of single-family zoning in Baltimore City
Baltimore residents, including Black residents, favor zoning that promotes home ownership as a way to build wealth and have a good quality of life. Why dismantle that with the @mayorbmscott.bsky.social administration's Bill 25-0066? [OP-ED] tinyurl.com/43psx9tb
Eroding the bedrock of single-family-zoned neighborhoods in Baltimore doesn’t make sense | Baltimore Brew
Residents, including Black residents, favor zoning that promotes home ownership as a way to build wealth and have a good quality of life. So why dismantle that with Bill 25-0066? [OP-ED]
tinyurl.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Terrible to yell racism and then leave out the overtly racial origins of single-family zoning in Baltimore City
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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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!
birney-willen.bandcamp.com/album/landsc...
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