Zoë Blade
@www.zoeblade.com
Musician, writer, programmer. Analysis and synthesis. ∞ Makes music for
ContraPoints http://patreon.com/zoeblademusic
ContraPoints http://patreon.com/zoeblademusic
On synthesiser components (oscillators, filters, amplifiers, etc):
notebook.zoeblade.com/Synthesiser_...
If anyone knows of an established term for them, please let me know!
notebook.zoeblade.com/Synthesiser_...
If anyone knows of an established term for them, please let me know!
November 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
On synthesiser components (oscillators, filters, amplifiers, etc):
notebook.zoeblade.com/Synthesiser_...
If anyone knows of an established term for them, please let me know!
notebook.zoeblade.com/Synthesiser_...
If anyone knows of an established term for them, please let me know!
November 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Given the geeky people it attracts, I always suspected someone would make an S-100 bus style computer in Eurorack... Apparently Europe Card Bus is a computer format based on the same physical Eurocard format. Close enough. Anyone making sequencers for it? 😄
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Given the geeky people it attracts, I always suspected someone would make an S-100 bus style computer in Eurorack... Apparently Europe Card Bus is a computer format based on the same physical Eurocard format. Close enough. Anyone making sequencers for it? 😄
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Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
Zork is now open source
Two years ago, I wrote: Microsoft-the-company does not care about Infocom. But a lot of people in Microsoft must care. Microsoft is heavily populated by greying GenX nerds just like me. Folks who grew...
blog.zarfhome.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
My patrons over at patreon.com/zoeblademusic can now hear my latest demo, and so can you for just $1 a month!
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
My patrons over at patreon.com/zoeblademusic can now hear my latest demo, and so can you for just $1 a month!
November 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Everyone send your love to the great Burger Becky while you can
I never thought I’d get this wish. Odd seeing eulogies before I expire
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Everyone send your love to the great Burger Becky while you can
It's ridiculous that doctors assume neurodivergent people have only neurotypical friends and family members to compare ourselves to.
It runs in families, and also, that's who we're able to make friends with.
It runs in families, and also, that's who we're able to make friends with.
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It's ridiculous that doctors assume neurodivergent people have only neurotypical friends and family members to compare ourselves to.
It runs in families, and also, that's who we're able to make friends with.
It runs in families, and also, that's who we're able to make friends with.
November 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Pluribus is giving me so many questions... And I realise it's the most dramatic way to reveal things, but it's frustrating how the protagonist is the least inquisitive person on the planet.
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Pluribus is giving me so many questions... And I realise it's the most dramatic way to reveal things, but it's frustrating how the protagonist is the least inquisitive person on the planet.
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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It was always inevitable that the loudest and best-funded (by people in Epstein's emails) anti-trans freaks who spent years trying to brand trans people as sexual predators, would instantly start defending Epstein.
It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.
It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 AM
It was always inevitable that the loudest and best-funded (by people in Epstein's emails) anti-trans freaks who spent years trying to brand trans people as sexual predators, would instantly start defending Epstein.
It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.
It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.
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working at the nyt
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
working at the nyt
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i’ve told tale of my catholic upbringing. the constant psychological torture and sexual abuse. (the clergy kept their hands off me cause i had a psychotic father but to the lay peeps, i was fair game)
and nothing has changed. it’s still going on. no matter who the fucking pope is.
and nothing has changed. it’s still going on. no matter who the fucking pope is.
but please keep stanning the pope because he knows ball or whatever www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
U.S. bishops officially ban gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals
U.S. Catholic bishops have voted to make official a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals.
www.seattletimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’ve told tale of my catholic upbringing. the constant psychological torture and sexual abuse. (the clergy kept their hands off me cause i had a psychotic father but to the lay peeps, i was fair game)
and nothing has changed. it’s still going on. no matter who the fucking pope is.
and nothing has changed. it’s still going on. no matter who the fucking pope is.
I feel too much like I’m cheating whenever I use off-the-shelf sounds instead of making my own from scratch. I’m sure as shit never using AI to make anything creative like music, stories, or videos.
100% agree that going a level deeper makes things wonderfully idiosyncratic and personal.
100% agree that going a level deeper makes things wonderfully idiosyncratic and personal.
that makes no sense at all and will look hopelessly naive, exploitative, or both after the bubble bursts.
i'm over here happily doing everything by hand. learning to do things yourself imbues everything with a personal touch and is so enriching. why cheat your employees out of that?
i'm over here happily doing everything by hand. learning to do things yourself imbues everything with a personal touch and is so enriching. why cheat your employees out of that?
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I feel too much like I’m cheating whenever I use off-the-shelf sounds instead of making my own from scratch. I’m sure as shit never using AI to make anything creative like music, stories, or videos.
100% agree that going a level deeper makes things wonderfully idiosyncratic and personal.
100% agree that going a level deeper makes things wonderfully idiosyncratic and personal.
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That’s no Moog, it’s a Doog!
Why, I’ll have you know I invented Shame Stickers, for all your clone-covering needs! (Note the Dorg MS-20 also.)
Why, I’ll have you know I invented Shame Stickers, for all your clone-covering needs! (Note the Dorg MS-20 also.)
November 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
That’s no Moog, it’s a Doog!
Why, I’ll have you know I invented Shame Stickers, for all your clone-covering needs! (Note the Dorg MS-20 also.)
Why, I’ll have you know I invented Shame Stickers, for all your clone-covering needs! (Note the Dorg MS-20 also.)
Whew, I made a *lot* of music for @fintoiannucci.bsky.social today! 😌
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Whew, I made a *lot* of music for @fintoiannucci.bsky.social today! 😌
For a second I thought this guy looked as startled as Kash Patel, but it turns out it *is* Kash Patel. Does he always look like this?
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
For a second I thought this guy looked as startled as Kash Patel, but it turns out it *is* Kash Patel. Does he always look like this?
Gonna try sampling some alternative percussion…
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Gonna try sampling some alternative percussion…
It’s What’s Inside is an interesting and stylish film. 🍿 With the lighting and music, it’s almost like Empathy, Inc. in the style of ContraPoints.
November 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
It’s What’s Inside is an interesting and stylish film. 🍿 With the lighting and music, it’s almost like Empathy, Inc. in the style of ContraPoints.
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I’ll allow as my pawn structure may be a tad subpar. 😅
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I’ll allow as my pawn structure may be a tad subpar. 😅
Got bored tonight and learned how to do a charlier cut (basic single-handed card shuffle). I figure it might make a fun stim/fidget.
Nina’s not impressed, she naturally already knows how to do it. 😄
And this is what happens when I rewatch Deadwood.
Nina’s not impressed, she naturally already knows how to do it. 😄
And this is what happens when I rewatch Deadwood.
November 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Got bored tonight and learned how to do a charlier cut (basic single-handed card shuffle). I figure it might make a fun stim/fidget.
Nina’s not impressed, she naturally already knows how to do it. 😄
And this is what happens when I rewatch Deadwood.
Nina’s not impressed, she naturally already knows how to do it. 😄
And this is what happens when I rewatch Deadwood.
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tomorrow we begin the process of casting the movie which is scheduled to be shot between January and April of next year. (it’s kind of a big production)
wanna cover all the bases and make sure we cast the widest net so if you’re in the NY tri-state area, an actor, and trans - I’m looking for ya!
wanna cover all the bases and make sure we cast the widest net so if you’re in the NY tri-state area, an actor, and trans - I’m looking for ya!
November 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
tomorrow we begin the process of casting the movie which is scheduled to be shot between January and April of next year. (it’s kind of a big production)
wanna cover all the bases and make sure we cast the widest net so if you’re in the NY tri-state area, an actor, and trans - I’m looking for ya!
wanna cover all the bases and make sure we cast the widest net so if you’re in the NY tri-state area, an actor, and trans - I’m looking for ya!