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danfoley.bsky.social
@danfoley.bsky.social
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Former ice-cream designer. Also writer, data analyst, gardener, musician, cyclist - not necessarily in that order, and rarely all at once. Co-founder of Ukulele Tuesday. Code Club mentor. Reluctant pawn of the ineffable.
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danfoley.bsky.social
The world is in a state of chassis
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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mccanner.bsky.social
Like many places these days, Scotland lets the public name their snow plows. But they take it up a notch and offer a live tracking map so you can follow Thistle Grit Through, Robert Brrrns and Ice Sweeper Willie on their rounds

www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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tupped.bsky.social
Now AI art is coming at the same disgusting idea from the other end. It is an assertion that images have *no* market value, and therefore that there is no such thing as art.

This is also disgusting. It is anti-human

Because it denies numinosity of human expression (from which art actually springs)
February 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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robmellow.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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alphachromeyayo.com
It's the Suiko VS-1 if you're curious! Ages ago I made a little video about it, and knocked together a sample pack too.

Fill your boots! 💖

youtu.be/Z1ePj-sUiTQ?...
Gorgeous Suiko VS-1 synthesizer (and free sample pack!)
YouTube video by Alpha Chrome Yayo
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November 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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yungajsoprano.bsky.social
The Kurt Vonnegut letter to those high school kids is never wrong -
Letter from Kurt Vonnegut to high school students - "Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta: I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana. What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula. Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK? Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow. God bless you all! Kurt Vonnegut"
August 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM