Mute Branches / James
@mutebranches.bsky.social
I make music about trees and ghosts for trees and ghosts: https://mutebranches.bandcamp.com
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Us Without the World, by Mute Branches
9 track album
oklarecords.bandcamp.com
I have an album out today! Skybound post rock reckoning with the utopianism and disappointment of space travel. Let's-a go
oklarecords.bandcamp.com/album/us-wit...
oklarecords.bandcamp.com/album/us-wit...
1000xResist is bloody good then eh
December 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
1000xResist is bloody good then eh
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This was the tenth year of Cities and Memory, and I’m enormously proud to look back at the amazing things that happened this year, and hugely thankful to everyone who helped to make it possible - especially the wonderful artists who make up our global community 💕🎧
citiesandmemory.com/2025/12/revi...
citiesandmemory.com/2025/12/revi...
December 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This was the tenth year of Cities and Memory, and I’m enormously proud to look back at the amazing things that happened this year, and hugely thankful to everyone who helped to make it possible - especially the wonderful artists who make up our global community 💕🎧
citiesandmemory.com/2025/12/revi...
citiesandmemory.com/2025/12/revi...
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I keep thinking about this. I was talking to a journalist friend about Project 2025, and he was saying how so much of it is being executed with frightening efficiency. And it is all the more frustrating because everyone with the power to stop it was so thoroughly and repeatedly warned.
I mean I think the people who underestimated the fascists are the stupids in this equation. The fascists had a 60 year plan, they documented the last year of it very publicly, and they are successfully implementing all of it.
December 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I keep thinking about this. I was talking to a journalist friend about Project 2025, and he was saying how so much of it is being executed with frightening efficiency. And it is all the more frustrating because everyone with the power to stop it was so thoroughly and repeatedly warned.
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Santa Is Now Using AI
December 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Santa Is Now Using AI
taking a break from posting my Final Fantasy character names to share my NEW CHRISTMAS SONG - it's really MISERABLE and the title is QUITE SARDONIC! Down some nog while listening
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSd8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSd8...
Mute Branches - "Last Christmas, I Gave You Those Quarterly Financials You Asked For"
YouTube video by Mute Branches
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
taking a break from posting my Final Fantasy character names to share my NEW CHRISTMAS SONG - it's really MISERABLE and the title is QUITE SARDONIC! Down some nog while listening
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSd8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSd8...
oh boy tough choice between the industry that brings life affirming joy and insights on the human condition, and the industry that is singlehandedly accelerating the worst aspects of late capitalism
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
December 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
oh boy tough choice between the industry that brings life affirming joy and insights on the human condition, and the industry that is singlehandedly accelerating the worst aspects of late capitalism
A cool hundred quid says that there'll be a dance party in the new Animals Farms film with a rooster DJing or something
December 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
A cool hundred quid says that there'll be a dance party in the new Animals Farms film with a rooster DJing or something
"so james when am I getting dead great-grandchildren then?"
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
"so james when am I getting dead great-grandchildren then?"
HELVETICA IS MY WIFE
amidst all the talk of calibri and times new roman, we're ignoring the unshowy beauty of HELVETICA
December 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
HELVETICA IS MY WIFE
amidst all the talk of calibri and times new roman, we're ignoring the unshowy beauty of HELVETICA
December 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
amidst all the talk of calibri and times new roman, we're ignoring the unshowy beauty of HELVETICA
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
November 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
In general (speaking of my day job working in video for a specific sector), I winged it based on pursuing my creative interests and then made some work friends who helped me out and so on and so forth
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
In general (speaking of my day job working in video for a specific sector), I winged it based on pursuing my creative interests and then made some work friends who helped me out and so on and so forth
Serious former PM lore in my playthrough of Final Fantasy VII
November 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Serious former PM lore in my playthrough of Final Fantasy VII
yo Alexa my home dog check out this final fantasy character I just named "Keir Starmer" addressing this other final fantasy character I just called "Milhouse"
Ha ha ha James, I wish I were real so we could truly enjoy this moment together
(rest of post censored as per the Online Safety Act)
Ha ha ha James, I wish I were real so we could truly enjoy this moment together
(rest of post censored as per the Online Safety Act)
November 16, 2025 at 9:08 AM
yo Alexa my home dog check out this final fantasy character I just named "Keir Starmer" addressing this other final fantasy character I just called "Milhouse"
Ha ha ha James, I wish I were real so we could truly enjoy this moment together
(rest of post censored as per the Online Safety Act)
Ha ha ha James, I wish I were real so we could truly enjoy this moment together
(rest of post censored as per the Online Safety Act)
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autechre and lenin in russia
1994
1994
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
autechre and lenin in russia
1994
1994
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Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
the new John Lewis advert somehow straight up rips one of the most heartbreaking scenes in film of this decade (from Aftersun) and then just makes it shite
November 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
the new John Lewis advert somehow straight up rips one of the most heartbreaking scenes in film of this decade (from Aftersun) and then just makes it shite
me flirting
November 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
me flirting
I try to record a Halloween song every year and, this year, you can hear me cover one of the unsettlingly horny folk songs from 'The Wicker Man' (there *is* an audience for that, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nxi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nxi...
Willow's Song (Magnet / The Wicker Man cover)
YouTube video by Mute Branches
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I try to record a Halloween song every year and, this year, you can hear me cover one of the unsettlingly horny folk songs from 'The Wicker Man' (there *is* an audience for that, right?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nxi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nxi...
so much for these Amazin' web services amirite
October 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
so much for these Amazin' web services amirite
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The whole British government and media loves Maccabi Tel Aviv fans! The far right football fans that love to cause violence! *5 minutes later* We regret to inform you the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are far right and have caused violence
October 20, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The whole British government and media loves Maccabi Tel Aviv fans! The far right football fans that love to cause violence! *5 minutes later* We regret to inform you the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are far right and have caused violence
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WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass
WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you
WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you
October 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass
WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you
WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you
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“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs
What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?
www.thenerve.news
October 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
looking at the fog outside this morning
October 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
looking at the fog outside this morning