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David McFarlane
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musician / facilitator / teacher / fiddles around with tech a lot / really likes sounds / all views someone else's / he/him
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David McFarlane @dmcf.bsky.social · Sep 20
Any Max/Ableton/guitar types on Bluesky?

I've been working on this M4L device for a while now, which turns MIDI chords into guitar chord diagrams, and outputs the MIDI arpeggiator style

Full version just released!

gum.co/u/a6df5mvg

@cycling74.bsky.social
#MaxMSP #Ableton #Guitar #MaxForLive
Strummer – Max For Live Guitar Chord Lookup/Arpeggiator
YouTube video by Weather Systems
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jackbern.bsky.social
From: Jeffrey Epstein
To: Cain From The Bible
Date: March 7th, 3000BC
Subject: Re: Thinking of killing my brother? 👀👀

go for it it wouljld be extremlry sexy to invenf thr cornvept of murder snd yherefore curse mankind fur eternkity ;) ;)
January 31, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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olifranklinwallis.bsky.social
I think a lot about Parmy Olson's observation that AI companies actively push everyone to talk about existential risk, because it distracts from more prosaic current day concerns like copyright theft, conditions for data workers, energy & water use, and their financial situation
January 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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brainmage.bsky.social
Before the pandemic I was working a pickle factory, but since then we've all been gherkin from home
January 21, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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brainmage.bsky.social
Oh yeah I'm into Grindle Flop. I listen to Flungecore. I'd say my music taste is somewhere between Hyper Stuart and electroskeleton
January 21, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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luinoristoutshield.bsky.social
Jesus Christ @lukeoneil47.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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kennylogins.bsky.social
little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social I asked the produce guy at Whole Foods if they have shallots and he said what is that and I said it's the onion that's shaped like a teardrop and he said aren't they all and then he started to cry the roundest tears I've ever seen Nov 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
January 2, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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ethanhein.bsky.social
Music theory teachers! My department at NYU created an amazing free public collection of online resources and examples, including a huge body of pop examples. They want you to use it! sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nyu-...
NYU Theory Resources
This site compiles resources used in the undergraduate music theory sequence at NYU Steinhardt. Click the icons below to naviage to each of the pages.
sites.google.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:05 PM
dmcf.bsky.social
I am seeing a pattern in my recent listening
December 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
dmcf.bsky.social
“Eyyy I’m waitin here”
-new york waiting for godot
December 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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pbfcomics.bsky.social
You’ll Be OK
"I'm havin a breakdown," says one crudely-drawn stick figure to another. "You'll be OK," says the second. The first stick figure exclaims, "AGGHHH", and collapses. His head and outstretched arms and legs spell out the letters O-K.
December 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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downwithdan.bsky.social
not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations
SUNO r/SunoAl Jo 6h ago Join ThrowRA1234567788777 Sick of having to come up with prompts Discussion ... Hey y'all, looking for some tips here. I like what I've made so far with Suno but now I'm kind of hitting a wall with ideas for prompts. Why doesn't Suno also have a feature to write prompts for you? Like just hit a button the says "new prompt" and then hit make song when it comes up with something that sounds interesting! Thoughts?
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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gregk.co.uk
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide. And these are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide", ", and they're getting everyone else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly.
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself

it is also free to read

youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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strategictaper.bsky.social
Music is basically a detective novel where the musicians are the suspects/criminals, the listener is the detective and of course the music is the crime. The listener tries to determine what happened and what was the motivation, while the musicians try to obscure this, so they can get away with it.
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
"ideological entrepreneur" is a great phrase for trad influencers and i for one can't wait to aggressively overuse it to the point of rendering it meaninglessness
annieknk.bsky.social Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · Oct 30
The first episode of my new series Truly Tradly Deeply is here! We dive into the evolution of the tradwife subculture, how hyper-feminine aesthetics are weaponised by the European far right, and why Phyllis Schlafly was a Lean In Girlboss 💅💖

on.soundcloud.com/srccAxW4hXnc...
Truly Tradly Deeply Episode 1: Introduction — “All I Think About Is Buying Cows”
The first episode of Annie Kelly's 6-part podcast miniseries Truly Tradly Deeply. Cursed Media subscribers have access to the first two episodes right now, plus each new episode as they are released w
soundcloud.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
If you live in Britain, your experience of 21st century government has been relentless escalating calamities by ruling parties: disastrous wars, financial catastrophe, destructive austerity, plummeting living standards, soaring prices, unaffordable housing, constant lying and comical incompetence.
Nick Tyrone @NicholasTyrone X.com Mamdani will quickly become a huge burden for the western left as his policies unravel, particularly as they have all rushed to bask in his temporary glory. It sets the stage for a string of victories for right-wing parties across the west over the coming years.
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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nancycomics.bsky.social
I' LL BE THE HIT OF THE PARTY
NANCY IS GOING TO A COSTUME PARTY DRESSED AS AN EGG
November 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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oldfriend99.bsky.social
I don't trust people who are out of the office with limited access to email. What the hell are you doing
October 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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annieknk.bsky.social
The first episode of my new series Truly Tradly Deeply is here! We dive into the evolution of the tradwife subculture, how hyper-feminine aesthetics are weaponised by the European far right, and why Phyllis Schlafly was a Lean In Girlboss 💅💖

on.soundcloud.com/srccAxW4hXnc...
Truly Tradly Deeply Episode 1: Introduction — “All I Think About Is Buying Cows”
The first episode of Annie Kelly's 6-part podcast miniseries Truly Tradly Deeply. Cursed Media subscribers have access to the first two episodes right now, plus each new episode as they are released w
soundcloud.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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north0fnorth.tgirl.gay
lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight
the video being projected behind all the performers on stage
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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dasharez0ne.bsky.social
BRING IT BACK - dashare.zone ADMIN
WHEN IN TIME DO WE NEED "ABANDONED MALL MUSIC" IF NOT NOW, WHEN DO WE NEED TO HEAR DA RUINS OF AMERICAN CULTURE FLOAT IN A CLOUD OF REVERB IF NOT NOW, WHEN SHOULD SLOWED DOWN MUSIC BE A BALM FOR DA EAR'S OF DA WORKING PERSON IF NOT NOW, AND DA TEXT : "I MISS VAPOR WAVE ,ALL MUSIC SHOULD BE OTHER MUSIC THATS SLOWED DOWN, ALL MUSIC SHOULD BE ABLOUT DOLPHINS AND STATUE'S, ALL MUSIC SHOULD SOUND LIKE SHIT " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
October 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
dmcf.bsky.social
Outsert should be a word
October 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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pantspants.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
dmcf.bsky.social
optometrist DESTROYS heckler
October 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM