William B.
@wbrafford.bsky.social
Asheville, NC. Erstwhile Presbyterian.
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Have yourself an 8-bitty little Christmas 🎄👾
🎶 Up On the Housetop was performed using two Atari 2600 consoles playing together in stereo 🤯
The full 2003 album celebrates classic retro platforms.
⬇️ Download The 8bits of Christmas by The 8bitpeoples
archive.org/details/8bp0...
#8Bit #Chiptune
🎶 Up On the Housetop was performed using two Atari 2600 consoles playing together in stereo 🤯
The full 2003 album celebrates classic retro platforms.
⬇️ Download The 8bits of Christmas by The 8bitpeoples
archive.org/details/8bp0...
#8Bit #Chiptune
December 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Have yourself an 8-bitty little Christmas 🎄👾
🎶 Up On the Housetop was performed using two Atari 2600 consoles playing together in stereo 🤯
The full 2003 album celebrates classic retro platforms.
⬇️ Download The 8bits of Christmas by The 8bitpeoples
archive.org/details/8bp0...
#8Bit #Chiptune
🎶 Up On the Housetop was performed using two Atari 2600 consoles playing together in stereo 🤯
The full 2003 album celebrates classic retro platforms.
⬇️ Download The 8bits of Christmas by The 8bitpeoples
archive.org/details/8bp0...
#8Bit #Chiptune
I had been lurking on my old Twitter account, but I got fully logged out recently and without any access to context these dispatches are bewildering. Not that it makes a ton of sense in context but it helps a little to know who it is doing the beefing.
Just popped over to Twitter and they're deep into a fight over "Heritage Americans" and if it's acceptable to gesture vaguely at one of your 512 ancestors or you have account for all of your greatx7 grandparents or if the designation is based on whether your last name sounds anglo enough
December 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I had been lurking on my old Twitter account, but I got fully logged out recently and without any access to context these dispatches are bewildering. Not that it makes a ton of sense in context but it helps a little to know who it is doing the beefing.
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happy fourth Sunday of Advent youtu.be/SLaZ2Nka6_E
The Eighth Tune (demo)
YouTube video by William B.
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
happy fourth Sunday of Advent youtu.be/SLaZ2Nka6_E
happy fourth Sunday of Advent youtu.be/SLaZ2Nka6_E
The Eighth Tune (demo)
YouTube video by William B.
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
happy fourth Sunday of Advent youtu.be/SLaZ2Nka6_E
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This essay by the author of a recent well-reviewed book about Tolkien starts modestly and then stabs you with a Morgul-blade halfway through, where you are pinioned by a twist in the telling. You may never recover. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Why I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This essay by the author of a recent well-reviewed book about Tolkien starts modestly and then stabs you with a Morgul-blade halfway through, where you are pinioned by a twist in the telling. You may never recover. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
If you make a synth jam that you really like with presets, do you have a moral obligation to redo it with your own programmed sounds?
December 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If you make a synth jam that you really like with presets, do you have a moral obligation to redo it with your own programmed sounds?
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Pretty shot of a Baltimore Light Rail train doing its thing in the snow
December 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Pretty shot of a Baltimore Light Rail train doing its thing in the snow
I'm not sure if I watched the last two episodes of The Chair Company or if I fell asleep and had a nightmare about watching the last two episodes of The Chair Company.
December 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I'm not sure if I watched the last two episodes of The Chair Company or if I fell asleep and had a nightmare about watching the last two episodes of The Chair Company.
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Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.
CBP agents held this U.S. citizen for hours until he agreed to let them search his electronic devices
A federal lawsuit argues that perusing travelers' personal data without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.
reason.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.
Everything is weird.
December 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Everything is weird.
I used to really like the aesthetics of songs and poems about sad middle-aged men grieving their lost youth and sundry failures. Conceptual delectation isn't so easy now, huh?
December 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I used to really like the aesthetics of songs and poems about sad middle-aged men grieving their lost youth and sundry failures. Conceptual delectation isn't so easy now, huh?
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“If revival is possible, let alone underway, it confronts mainline Christians with the limits of our own understanding. We have been identified so closely with decline for so long that it has become a weight-bearing part of our self-image.”
– Ben Dueholm
www.christiancentury.org/voices/are-w...
– Ben Dueholm
www.christiancentury.org/voices/are-w...
Are we on the cusp of a revival?
Rumors of it are premature but...
www.christiancentury.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
“If revival is possible, let alone underway, it confronts mainline Christians with the limits of our own understanding. We have been identified so closely with decline for so long that it has become a weight-bearing part of our self-image.”
– Ben Dueholm
www.christiancentury.org/voices/are-w...
– Ben Dueholm
www.christiancentury.org/voices/are-w...
@hplemke.bsky.social "Forever Only Idaho" rules. I'm really glad I checked it out.
December 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
@hplemke.bsky.social "Forever Only Idaho" rules. I'm really glad I checked it out.
If I were a billionaire I wouldn't melt my mind on social media. I'd divide my days between walking around a beautiful mountain lake, stopping when I like to read or jot down notes, and recording music in a decently outfitted but not crazy extravagant home studio.
December 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
If I were a billionaire I wouldn't melt my mind on social media. I'd divide my days between walking around a beautiful mountain lake, stopping when I like to read or jot down notes, and recording music in a decently outfitted but not crazy extravagant home studio.
I've been making some bleep bloop music for Advent. Hope someone enjoys it. youtu.be/sAu6XoGtcAw?...
O Come O Come Emmanuel (demo)
YouTube video by William B.
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I've been making some bleep bloop music for Advent. Hope someone enjoys it. youtu.be/sAu6XoGtcAw?...
I don't post as much as I did a decade ago because I got tired of being confidently wrong.
December 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I don't post as much as I did a decade ago because I got tired of being confidently wrong.
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happy bandcamp friday! i haven't completed a lot of projects lately, but i am very proud of SWEETHEART OF THE PLANETARIUM, an album of lo-fi instrumental dream pop / ambient i released this summer. it's pay-what-you-want and i'd be honored if you'd listen dragonwarrior.bandcamp.com/album/sweeth...
Sweetheart of the Planetarium, by Dragon Warrior
15 track album
dragonwarrior.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
happy bandcamp friday! i haven't completed a lot of projects lately, but i am very proud of SWEETHEART OF THE PLANETARIUM, an album of lo-fi instrumental dream pop / ambient i released this summer. it's pay-what-you-want and i'd be honored if you'd listen dragonwarrior.bandcamp.com/album/sweeth...
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Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow
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Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
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large vizier models are typically trained using backtreasoning, where the model steps backwards through a plot or scheme to arrive at the cradle of twisted desires that birthed it
November 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
large vizier models are typically trained using backtreasoning, where the model steps backwards through a plot or scheme to arrive at the cradle of twisted desires that birthed it
Unacceptable.
ICE raids a Charlotte church and arrests a member whose child was inside www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
Church members flee as federal agents arrive at east Charlotte place of worship
Witnesses say one man was detained while doing yard work while his wife and child were inside.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Unacceptable.
The economy is bad until synthesizer prices go down.
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The economy is bad until synthesizer prices go down.
I see the choices for Dems as:
1. Hold out until the Republicans kill the filibuster and then watch as reams of Trumpist legislation fly through Congress.
2. Back down and look weaker, but also stave off some disasters.
The political calculus is too complicated for me to have a take.
1. Hold out until the Republicans kill the filibuster and then watch as reams of Trumpist legislation fly through Congress.
2. Back down and look weaker, but also stave off some disasters.
The political calculus is too complicated for me to have a take.
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I see the choices for Dems as:
1. Hold out until the Republicans kill the filibuster and then watch as reams of Trumpist legislation fly through Congress.
2. Back down and look weaker, but also stave off some disasters.
The political calculus is too complicated for me to have a take.
1. Hold out until the Republicans kill the filibuster and then watch as reams of Trumpist legislation fly through Congress.
2. Back down and look weaker, but also stave off some disasters.
The political calculus is too complicated for me to have a take.