very happy to reconnect with my weirdest friend @albertbirney.bsky.social on here, and to listen to his and @publicmechanics.bsky.social's latest album, which i am quite thoroughly enjoying whilst creating shareholder value today.

I'm in a group exhibition at Park School of Baltimore, where I’m also the 2026 Resident Artist. There's a daytime reception this Thursday afternoon — feel free to stop by! This photocopy-based installation piece from 2007 will be on view, feeling somehow more relevant today than when I made it.

Everytime I see the narrative about the violence of the left…what could be more violent than callously, needlessly letting people starve to death? www.propublica.org/article/keny...

We're a week out from Christmas, if you're interested in noisy shoegazey takes on old carols, here's an EP I released last winter. lordofoverstock.bandcamp.com/album/in-fie...

This piece by @jamellebouie.net is so good: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Baltimore musicians: who do you go to locally if you need an effects pedal repaired?

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Duo of the bass players from Future Islands / Double Dagger bsky.app/profile/publ...

Hello friends! Birney-Willen here to remind you that Landscapes cassettes make great stocking stuffers. (For analog-agnostics all tapes include digital download codes.) Pick up a copy at @normalsbooksbalto.bsky.social E2-E4 Records, Celebrated Summer, or birney-willen.bandcamp.com/album/landsc...

Peals’ rare 2015 cassette Seltzer is out digitally for the first time via @thrilljockey.bsky.social — a snapshot of our early ambient experiments, from a performance inside the Bromo Seltzer clock tower to drifting home-recorded collages. On Bandcamp + streaming. peals.bandcamp.com/album/seltzer

I finally got around to quitting Spotify earlier this year and haven’t looked back. This is a great guide if you’ve also been wanting to make the switch. TLDR. It’s super easy, sound quality much improved, still able to play 99% of my obscure favorites.

I wrote about how to "win" the "culture wars," in the sense that once you start playing you have already lost. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...

oh this is absolutely what i think. i think they feed him fake polls and outright AI slop

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...

Wild. We always say on the podcast that owning a car is required for effective full enfranchisement in most places of the USA because we are such a car-dependent society, but this is...next level. They say it like it's disqualifying for office.

Terrible to yell racism and then leave out the overtly racial origins of single-family zoning in Baltimore City

Thanks @baltimoremagazine.com and @llyydddzz.bsky.social for including Birney-Willen in the Big Baltimore Playlist 🤙

The clocktower performance was played in collaboration with multimedia artist Zoe Friedman, and incorporated the chimes, clanks, sparks, and pops of the clock machinery working all around the band and audience. You can hear this live, unfiltered space in harmony on "Believers" from Side A now!

Seltzer was a cassette-only release in 2015, and collected Peals' live performance in the Bromo Seltzer Tower clockroom on the A-side and a series of improvised living-room pieces from 2013-2014 on the B-side

Peals, the collaborative duo of Future Islands' William Cashion and Double Dagger's Bruce Willen, announce the official digital release of their 2015 SUPER RARE cassette "Seltzer" ! The first single "Believers" is now streaming. Official release date is December 5th.

Re:lrp Crossword alternative: apps.apple.com/us/app/omni-... Spelling Bee alternative: apps.apple.com/us/app/oh-my... Connections alternative: connections-puzzle.net

Seeing (and playing with) Stars of the Dogon and Revenge of Nigel Winston helped expand for me what music and performance could be. Thanks Ben and Corey and Brian!

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK

👀 The Charles St LED billboard wants to remind you to listen to the new Birney-Willen album Landscapes. Enjoy! birney-willen.bandcamp.com/album/landsc...

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

I've noticed that there isn't much talk here about the current internecine war that is unfolding on the right, spearheaded in large part by Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I know this shit is insane and feels bad. But this is a mistake (1/)

Looking for one of our Landscapes limited cassettes? Dropped a few at Celebrated Summer Records last weekend. @albertbirney.bsky.social

Crazy fire in lower Remington right now. Maybe at/near Studios on Sisson building?

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Fight For What You Actually Want remains the savviest political strategy even though it is the least embraced by the people who consider themselves the most savvy. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/do-what-yo...

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

wrote about ai real estate listings for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Looking for one of our Landscapes limited cassettes? Dropped a few at Celebrated Summer Records last weekend. @albertbirney.bsky.social

Show me a serif that goes harder than Clarendon

“Roughly 80-89% of the world’s people want their governments to ‘do more’ to address #ClimateChange, and nearly 2/3rds are on board with that action costing them a bit. Yet most think they are the minority, telling pollsters they believe that only around 30% also want stronger climate action.”

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

If AI models are derived from the whole of human recorded knowledge maybe they should be collectively owned by the whole of humanity, not a handful of billionaires.

I called and wrote to @repkweisimfume.bsky.social last month to ask him to support Block the Bombs Act H.R. 3565 to limit weapons sales to Israel, and I got these AIPAC talking points in response. 😡

“Fireflies Along the Fence” Short film by @albertbirney.bsky.social inspired by track 10 on Landscapes, the new album from Birney-Willen (a.k.a. filmmaker Albert Birney and artist/designer Bruce Willen). www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5NT...

Has anyone else noticed that central Baltimore smells like sulphur the last few days?

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement? The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy. At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

My new collab album with @albertbirney.bsky.social is out now. And it's #bandcampfriday 👀👀👀