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.

On cassette tape as an effect: notebook.zoeblade.com/Cassette_tap...

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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.

On the prototype Doepfer A-100: notebook.zoeblade.com/A-100_protot...

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.

working at the nyt

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.

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.

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.)

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?

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.

On playing card indices: notebook.zoeblade.com/Index_playin...

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.

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!

Everyone loves the T-1000! ✔️ Genderfluid ✔️ Actual fluid ✔️ Touches surfaces as if stimming ✔️ No time wasting performing silly facial expressions

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

I formatted 51 different sizes of blank Akai S1000 disk images so you don't have to: notebook.zoeblade.com/Blank_S1000_...

It's that time of year, when I look at synthesisers and samplers I can't afford. That's right, it's the Vemia auction!

Reposting for the nighttime crowd. 😊

"Wolfy's just fine, honey." With a lot of help from @ninarichards.co.uk, thank you!

Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels: • YouTube Studio • Settings • Channel • Advanced settings • Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality" • Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"

This week, I have been mostly listening to: From Within 2

Really getting into the weeds here, but I believe the Akai S1000's exact maximum filesystem size is 512 MB (exactly half a GB), as it measures 8 KB blocks, and probably uses a 16-bit integer to remember which of 65,536 of them it's looking at.

Hello! I'm taking 20USD chibi commissions (oc/pets) in order to save the most before my dreamy vacation trip ; v ;!! Just send me a message if you are interested! Sharing is much appreciated <3 #commissions #traditionalart #commissionsopen

It's live!🏳️‍⚧️💜🏳️‍⚧️

Oh, just a caterpillar that keeps all the husks it shed from its head when it was smaller as a kind of elaborate hat … because why wouldn’t you? Congratulations to Georgina Steytler, who just won a wildlife photography award for this extraordinary image! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

“The Age of Dolls” is out!💃🏼 On most streaming services. (Except Spotify.🤬) 🤘🏳️‍⚧️🤘

It's hard to overstate how astounding it was that in 1842, Ada Lovelace understood that you could turn *any* kind of information into a numerical representation, manipulate it according to algorithms, and turn the new numbers back into art, music, or words.

I don't like having to lie to teams and managers, but they make it impossible to work with them unless I create a fictitious neurotypical person who makes reliable progress daily, not someone whose work is above average per quarter, but highly variable day to day.

So the trick was NOT to explain how much I got done when I randomly rolled a critical success and did a week's work in a day, because if I report "average" progress, TOMORROW when my brain refuses to do the brain stuff, I can report the appropriate fraction of yesterday's work as having been done.

Soon I learned that the people around me had a few good days, a few terrible days, and mostly a lot of "average" days. Like an actual bell curve normal distribution. I just had a truly discrete random result every day, some MUCH worse and some MUCH better than colleagues... but same mean output.

As an ADHDer, post-diagnosis I started to realize a lot of the ways I set myself up for those "so much potential/failed to live up to expectations/capable of so much more!" feedback rounds. I was always way too honest about what I was doing and how quickly/slowly...

Some things that have helped me when trying to avoid/break this cycle: - be very careful how/when you exceed expectations. Employers will just raise their expectations accordingly. always try to find the average time/effort things take and stick to that.

Sorting out my Mellotron and Orchestron sample collection

Zoë was the first supporter of The Anarchy Funhouse and I was honored when she composed music for a few episodes. You def should check out her phenomenal work! 💜

Zoë Blade, who’s been creating music for my videos for years, is on Spotify! Her version of “On the Hills of Manchuria” was featured in the CONSPIRACY video: open.spotify.com/track/0WLiK0...

This is huge. My petition got approved. It challenges the UK government to the lift the Puberty Blocker ban on the grounds that it contradicts article 8 of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child. Please sign and Repost ✊️🏳️‍⚧️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Away From Keyboard #pixelart

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

Unix has some defining characteristics too geeky for civilians, but I do wish personal computing had somehow enacted its dream of text as the universal material of the mind, shaped and reshuffled and directed and enlivened with an array of different power tools

Fun fact: Lorinda Cherry and Nina Macdonald of Bell Labs made Writer's Workbench, a suite of Unix tools for writers. By the early 80s, amongst other things, it could spellcheck, suggest how to simplify lengthy sentences, and suggest alternatives for any sexist terms spotted..!

On obscure electronic musician Rüdiger Lorenz: notebook.zoeblade.com/Rudiger_Lore...

Here's what keys to press when using Behringer's RD drum machines: notebook.zoeblade.com/Behringer_RD...