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here's a few examples of slightly different design but all have the mini header thing, similar font sizes and spacing, and color theming. I did web dev for a while and obviously trends come and go all the time, but I've never seen a trend completely take over this hard before

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here's another plugin site that recently redesigned. note the color highlighted text and tiny fonts. monospace is another really common indicator. and if you see monospace numbers that have a 0 with a slash in it, that's a huge flag

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aaand, while we're at it, add Isotonik the the list of plugin sites that have just converted to a new AI generated design for no fucking reason

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

this was published yesterday. literally one day after the source code was released. this shit is so fucking upsetting to me because Max for Live ports of Mutable Instruments modules have been a huge boon for my music, but now every new release is tainted by AI. real monkey's paw, deal w/ devil shit

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what's that quote that's been going around of the AI exec saying in the future every video game will be fully customized to the player? that's already happening for music producers. i gotta tune my algorithms to clean all my feeds of this depressing garbage

youtube video titled "10 firmware updates you might not have heard yet | M-vave FM-1".

the M-vave FM-1 synth was released very recently and there's a been a tidal wave of third-party firmware recently because people are making them in a single day with AI

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

plying my craft (excessive rainbow bullshit) on a tattered old hoodie

A black hoodie with parallel stitches of variegated embroidery floss running along a pocket, each line a different color in order

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

youtube has been recommending me my own video, uploaded from the same channel i'm watching from, for the past month. why does it do this???

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i need to practice drawing so i can make the reverse Fist of the Dog Medicine real

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Imaginando just released a new plugin. Normally I'd be excited because they make really high quality stuff, but I couldn't give a rat's ass anymore and I don't even need to say why

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bsky wouldn't let me post two images so here's a shot of Macula Dog actually playing live and a link to a video example. this has become a Macula Dog thread. they're everything I ever wanted to be youtu.be/kwNiBs8zcYE?...

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Macula Dog have already perfected the system. the sitting pants thing is ingenious, being able to move around but rest anywhere is a brilliant idea when you've got like 120 pounds of gear. projecting their own faces onto self-mounted (fresnel lens??) screens is so brilliant

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if I get to do enough shows, I really want to figure out how to get some kind of rig to let me mount my Push and walk around freely like that New York improv guy instead of hunching statically over gear. or at least i gotta get a tall portable table and long cables so i can stand and dance

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

last night was a fucking blast, holy shit

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Don't do this to me today, man

dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

excuse me, ableton, what the fuck does that mean?

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

cw: arachnids, wound I didn't know spider season was a competition, but I am losing. Actually I don't know who did this but my wife noticed the bruise an hour after I spotted a friend in my studio who appears to be steatoda nobilis to my best guess (identifications welcome, dimorphism is a bitch)

a big purple bruise on the side of my lower back that looks like I was kissed by someone with gigantic lips, with a tiny bite mark in the center

a small brown spider with long forelegs and a bulbous abdomen slightly larger than its thorax. the abdomen has a cream colored oval on top running from front to back, and a thin cream line along the sides, with some mottling below

spider from the previous image with a more top-down view

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

choppin up some old and new songs for my set on Saturday. this is gonna be so fuckin fun, i can't wait

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

once again reveling in the joy of getting into a new hobby and discovering the ecosystem of wonderful characters who make videos about it. Cornelius Quiring here is an absolute delight, he's like if the Mulholland Drive cowboy had a fun, chipper brother who always told him to chill out

dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

grandparents rights discourse

screenshot of a video game. a player character stands in front of a man sitting in a rocking chair. the prompt "CANNOT INTERACT WITH GRANDPA" appears over the sitting man

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i am quickly learning that needle threaders are the guitar picks of the sewing world, in that everything you buy online will have some included and soon enough you'll amass hundreds of them

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there's a hacker group called The Usual Suspects who have been steadily putting out hardware emulators for the past few years because they reversed a DSP chip a lot of 90's gear used, but they've been well-paced and high quality(I like their JP-8000). now everyone's trying to do that hastily

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does anyone remember a video going around a while ago of a glass or bottle of water with a bunch of medusae or some other plankton swimming around in it? saw Northernlion reference it and refer to them as diatoms, which they definitely ain't. i can't find the video though cuz search engines suck now

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it sucks so fucking bad how it's taken over music production. every new plugin for the past 3 months has been AI, and every week there's 3 new hardware emulations or third-party firmware releases that were cranked out in 1 day with AI. every production news feed looks like this now:

these are the fucklers. a friend told me that they can be taken sublingually, and it turns out that they will melt under my tongue eventually, but it's pretty unpleasant and difficult compared to the blue/green tabs. and *something* is off in my brain chemicals lately, whether or not from these guys

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

my college library was named after his grandson and in retrospect i regret not jerkin it in there

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ah, here's a small pic of it from my order history when i bought it

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

now there's a compelling book cover

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

huge W on the way home today. I haven't seen Runts in a store in at least a decade, but thank to halloween the local safeway had some. i haven't had these in so damn long and i miss them sometimes. they even made the bananas SOFTER than human teeth now!

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just remembered last week I was being driven around north of Seattle from Granite Falls and there was a sign that said "missing exotic cat" and had a picture of what appeared to be a fucking serval and l got so mad I died instantly

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

we're giving Mozart the D.A.R.E. treatment

A tabby and white cat sitting on the floor looking up at a TV playing Chainsmoker Cat

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this Guild Surfliner is a beautiful guitar, with one really odd choice.... who the hell uses this kind of switch on a guitar??? they took a guitar full of traditional aesthetics and then made it computer

A Guild Surfliner guitar, with heavily Fender-inspired aesthetics which make it look like it could have been designed in the 50's

three toggle switches on the Guild Surfliner which are small, black rocker switches with I and O markings for on/off, the kind of switch you only see on electronic devices like computers and synthesizers, as a power switch.

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

but i also want to get used to standing so I can play in bands and settings where it's not easy for me to get a seat. plus i'd like to get a little more active on stage and move around to bring up the energy and have fun, though i have no problem sitting on a chair in off in a dark corner like Fripp

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

my lamp was too bright. i found a good solution wife said i could post this as long as i used the word "sentinel". sentinel.

me in bed far in the corner next to a fursuit head with a lamp inside of it beaming light out of its eyes and mouth like the fucking album cover of Deloused in the Comatorium

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

not at all surprised to learn that Christian Henson was holding children hostage. thank god the negotiations were successful

"The Crow Hill Company releases Children's Choir"

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

anyone got a comfortable and easily adjustable guitar strap they recommend? i've got a few straps, but the wide comfy levy's leather one is weird and annoying to adjust, the rainbow one is homophobic because it's so smooth it slips against any clothing, the pad accessory is more uncomfy than without

A handful of guitar straps and accessories on the floor in front of a guitar with another strap on it

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

no fuckin way! you have The Creature too!

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i don't think it's the channel's plug but it's 10000% vibe coded crap

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i'm so fucking tired, man. this is how your message finds me

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

looking at job postings at the local guitar center, and the lowest range of starting pay for music teachers is much less than for seasonal sales reps. shit's so depressing. of course they disclaim that it's all pending experience and other factors, but it's still sad to see sub-minimum-wage to teach