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Ryan Burkholder
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Father, husband, artist, musician, engineer, fixer, ME/CFS, erosive arthritis and POTS warrior.

My music project, Trakzero - https://www.trakzero.com

Instrument Farm, my tinkering outlet - https://instrumentfarm.com/
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Decent aurora shot from my backyard last night. 📷 🌃

#auroraborealis #michigan #westmichigan
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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I've got a new music album out. 😎🙌🎵

trakzero.bandcamp.com/album/melodia

#music #electronicmusic #progressiverock #independentmusician #independentmusic #grandrapidsmichigan
Melodia, by Trakzero
8 track album
trakzero.bandcamp.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Managed to overcome my ME/CFS, POTS and arthritis enough to make some music this year. 😎🙌🎵

trakzero.bandcamp.com/album/free-run

#music #electronicmusic #progressiverock #independentmusician #independentmusic #grandrapidsmichigan
Free Run, by Trakzero
5 track album
trakzero.bandcamp.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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My new maxi single, Free Run, is released. You can listen and buy uncompressed audio tracks on Bandcamp. The CD will be available in early October.

trakzero.bandcamp.com/album/free-run

#music #electronicmusic #progressiverock #independentmusician #independentmusic #grandrapidsmichigan
Free Run, by Trakzero
5 track album
trakzero.bandcamp.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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An aurora shot from a few nights ago, taken in my back yard. 📷 ⭐️✨

#auroraborealis
A green/purple aurora borealis silhouettes a large tree and small shed. Stars fill the sky.
September 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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This September …
July 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The great James Doohan, gone 20 years ago today.

He once received a letter from a fan who had threatened suicide — and he reached out to her.

“To me, it was the best thing I ever did in my life.” 💕

#RIP
July 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Leaving the lawn to seed, when it's hot and dry. So much clover! ☘️📷
Picture of my backyard in July. It's been 90 degrees and higher but I left the grass to grow beforehand and it's survived just fine. Lots of clover and seeding grasses.
July 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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#mecfswarrior #MECFS #mecfsawarenessmonth #invisibleillness #pots #potsawareness #potssyndrome #longcovid #longcovidawareness #longcovidrecovery #volunteer #volunteering #community #givebacktothecommunity #giveback #dontgiveup
May 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The Boss
The American I love, a beacon of hope and liberty, is in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration. -Bruce Springsteen, 5/14/25
May 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Ignored. Lost. Gaslighted. Friends gone. Only my wife understands. Besides the millions of sufferers.

#mecfswarrior #mecfsawareness #MECFS #LongCOVID #longcovidrecovery #invisibleillness #gaslighting #gaslightingawareness #healthcare
May 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Gaslighted by another doctor.

#MECFS #chronicillness #chronicpain #arthritis #erosivearthritis #pots #potssyndrome #mecfsawareness #mecfswarrior #compassion #gaslighting #gaslightingawareness #abuse #MedicalAbuse #HealthInsurance #Medicade #doctors #healthcareprofessionals #healthcareworkers
May 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Practicing. I used one analog mono synthesizer, an arpeggiator and some analog modular effects. One live pass. Playing around with video as well. Some neat shots of spring from my studio window, trying out different smartphone software. 📷 🎬 🎼 🎹 📹 📽️

#music

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgzU...
April 27 , 2025 - practice
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April 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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20 years ago, I published my first music album. Detached. 🎹 🎼 🧑‍🎨 🎊 💿 🖖

www.trakzero.com/detached

#music #musicpublishing #independentartist #independentmusic #independentmusicartist
April 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Happy Earth Day! 🌍🌎🌏

www.earthday.org
Earth Day: The Official Site | EARTHDAY.ORG
Visit the official Earth Day site to learn about the world's largest environmental movement and what you can do to make every day Earth Day.
www.earthday.org
April 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Time to move the forsythia to the back edge of the property so I can grow huge. It catches the spring light so awesomely.

Also, got one more bloom from the Thanksgiving cactus. 📷🌼🌵🪴
Potted plants in a north facing window. Rural backyard with a shed, woodpile, compost and a leafless deciduous tree in spring. Back light by a beautiful sunset piercing through a cloudy sky over a 40 acre farm of harvested corn with old stalks poking up.
April 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Just got locked out of my Facebook account for posting this pic and statement from Keanu Reeves (see image description. Along with these web links...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
and...
www.forbes.com/sites/kashmi...

It was a bug ridden process to get it reinstated.

#KeanuReeves #censorship
After making a few posts about Facebooks naughty behavior, Keanu spanking Elon and adding a picture of the red and blue pills... Meta locked me out of my account and disable (2) of the (3) pages I manage. The left my business page active, but Meta disabled my artist pages. Is this lousy programming or censorship? After making a few posts about Facebooks naughty behavior, Keanu spanking Elon and adding a picture of the red and blue pills... Meta locked me out of my account and disable (2) of the (3) pages I manage. The left my business page active, but Meta disabled my artist pages. Is this lousy programming or censorship? “But will a machine ever know what it feels like to miss something? Or what is it like to create something beautiful out of a moment of sorrow? Creativity does not arise from calculation but from experience, pain, love, and hope.” —Keanu Reeves (kicking Elon's troglodyte butt on the topic of AI)
April 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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If you had this in your back yard as a kid, you might want to get your brain scanned. I checked out! 😆 🫣
March 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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How to sleep after you, piss-off, everyone you know. 🤣
Cartoon of husband and wife sleeping in secret underground bunker. Keeping them well hidden and safe from modern day, troglodytes.
March 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Today we push for Long COVID Awareness. Those with Long COVID become part of the Missing Millions. The living but have no life. They deserve the help they need, the testing, the treatment, and the compassion.
Digital graphic with a deep blue background, featuring an image of Spock in a round frame edged with purple and light blue. Text in bright purple reads "What would Spock say?" The main text advocates for Long Covid research funding, listed above hashtags #LongCovidAwareness, #VoiceOfReason, #Postcards4LC, and #FundLongCovid. A hand icon is in the upper right corner.
March 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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When your education limits your imagination, it's called indoctrination.

—Nikola Tesla

#tesla
February 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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The year, 2000. My home studio. 📷

#year2000 #music #homesutdio
February 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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If you have POTS, you know.

"POTS is a disorder of the autonomic nervous system that can lead to a variety of symptoms..."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postura...

#pots #potsawareness #potssyndrome
Lady walking into the next room telling someone she is blanking on what she walked over to say. As Godzilla is attacking the city in the background window.
February 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Me, bouncing with my dad at Bounce World! Early 1980s in Wyoming, Michigan.

This was a great spot, next door to the, Studio 28, movie theater. 📷

#vintage #1980s #trampoline #wyomingmichigan #michigan
Me bouncing on a trampoline at a trampoline park, called Bounce World, in the early 1980s. Located on 28th ST in Wyoming, Michigan.
February 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Sometimes the sun makes me get outside. 😎🌞📷
My basement music studio with the sun shining so brightly in the window, I have to take a break.
February 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM