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@downupright.bsky.social
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Queer boi-ish from Buffalo. I'm a producer, composer, & DJ, as well as a full-stack developer. They/them. I bring startups to prod and make outlandish concept albums that intentionally mix-and-match genres, focused around a base of EDM & pop.

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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Halloween themed LLM chatbot that says "You're absolutely FRIGHT—" is this anything
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Here is a pretty solid one of me today. Fresh back from a barber cut and shave. :)
Just a cute pic of Bill
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I just put the finishing touches on the one track for "DONT YOU PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH" where the backers really forced my hand. I'm very proud of the job I've done naturally folding bizarre words into places they feel natural on this album. This one though... with the words, I had to lean into it.
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It's a long day for my Google Alerts on account of this thing where China, apparently, had a rocket that touched down upright
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Not to pat myself on the back but it's days like today I love being a songwriter with diverse tastes. It's fun to not hone in on one sound. I'm switching from the raunchiest, most explicit, sex-on-the-dance-floor track, to a beautiful and pure ballad right now. And I feel both are "me". Fun hobby!
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I made a sale on Bandcamp today and it just made my day. Pleased as punch. IDK how many of you understand just how much, for the small indie artists, a little thing like that just turns your whole week around. Never take it for granted :)
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Don't hate the yeayer hate the game
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If you're launching a new tech startup, you don't need as many NDAs as you think. If taking "your idea" would ruin your startup, it's a bad idea. Good tech startups are based on execution, which isn't stolen via a conversation. Many startups actually come from ideas that enterprises WON'T listen to.
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It's Bandcamp Friday and your great friend (and neighborhood handsome person!) Downupright is, as always, ready to go. Can I interest you in a MANIC EPISODE? Or perhaps some Radical Honesty? Or a nice ambient, good-for-work electronic OST? downupright.bandcamp.com #bandcampfriday #bandcamp
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
When a therapist asked me about my hobbies and I included reading sci-fi and playing Magic: The Gathering, he told me I was just like Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory and then gave me some advice from the show. I will never forgive that show for existing.
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Listen. I just beat this literal video game last week, and it's called Pragmata. The single, only difference in the plot is that in real life, Musk would not do anything that involved a child he would care about. #pragmata
tweet screencap: "SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES WITH HUMANOID ROBOTS"
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Finished some video games in the last few weeks and gonna use this thread to post some 2-sentence reviews of them. Pragmata: 7/10. Genuinely likeable; innovative gameplay I did not tire of. Skipped several steps in character development and too short. Bonus points: incredibly plausible sci-fi plot.
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I loathe YouTube Thumbnail Face so much that I've stopped making faces that resemble it in real life now. If something legitimately shocks me or makes me aghast I keep my lips closed and go "hmm". My two eyebrows can no longer move independently. Hands? Nowhere near my face i'll tell ya that much
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Feeling cuter than average today for some cursed reason, even though I do not feel well in general
Bill is cute. I think so anyway
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
i think when they say stuff like this, they're carefully selecting for some individual cool shit like a Beethoven's Ninth or a Wright Brothers first flight, and willfully ignoring less salient stuff like "entire populaces without smallpox" or "countries with 98%+ literacy"
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Listen, I'm not anti-Universes Beyond. I think they're fun; I do think there's too many right now. I'm just saying when I saw the below image, my first reading of it was that they would be releasing Detroit, Vegas, and Amsterdam themed sets.
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Love when I get mail (snail, or email, either) from non-profits being like "Today is your LAST DAY to donate" i am sure it is. i bet. tomorrow i won't be allowed to donate any more
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I need one of those crazy German or Finnish or Korean words that don't exist in English, for the following overly specific phrase: "I found the best possible dialogue sample that could ever have existed for this track, and it's public domain"
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Ableton Live more like slay-bleton thrive, amirite
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Buffalo, NY, July 15 2026. There are not clouds in the sky- that's a clear sky. No filters are on this photo, taken from my front porch.
the sky is a brownish orange from wildfires.
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Your intermittent monthly thirst trap. My fitness journey continues!
Photo of Bill smiling taking a selfie. Bill is getting fit!!
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
today in "i have too much online politics brain and magic the gathering lore brain simultaneously" news, I misremembered Multani as Mamdani. It didn't NOT fit though
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Darn LLMs are returning results from the future again. Is AI very silly... OR, are Polymarket/Kalshi sitting on some really explosive new technology and it's leaking. (search, if you're curious, was for if Jeffries can get primaried still this year)
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
apple music needs a toggle for "hey, for whatever reason, i am going to listen to something i normally don't, and I am asking you in advance to NOT abruptly forget my years of consistent listening history in favor of this one thing"
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Seeing a lot of @doctorow.pluralistic.net in the news today re: the new book being great! Fun fact, did you know we briefly collab'd? He did the intro and outro on last year's "Funeral Service For The Good Internet" and was great to work with. 😁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxYY...
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Downupright - "A Funeral Service For The Good Internet (1992-2014)" ft. Cory Doctorow, Caius Hubris
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
TV has given me unrealistic expectations like I could dice vegetables and they just sit there on the chopping board accepting being diced and not flying up at angles into my eye
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This makes me so, so happy.
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
@etherdiver.bsky.social saw today's update- thanks for all your hard work over the years. I have found really cool stuff through your work but I also know its a thankless endeavor
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
recently i've found it enjoyable, when i have to open LinkedIn, to simply audibly say "No" to every headline. like, out loud. "OpenAI just changed the game–" No. "Is the era of the software app ending–" No. "Musk announces humanity might–" No. Just no! It's very satisfying on a gut level!
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I think in the 25-ish years of my career, I have watched the software world generally go from 80% "The customer is always right" to 80% "The customer is a mark", and I am at least a little optimistic I will see it go back before I am done.
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I love how even modern gabber is still made mostly with drops that have the vibe of "catchphrase that would have been sunglasses-and-bleach-blonde-tips cool" in 2002, two decades later. Like right before the drop some guy is just like "AW YEAH WHO GOT THE PARTY THAT ROCKS THE JOINT!"
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
WILLIAM, it looks like you made a large charge on one of your credit cards. Your credit score has gone down. WILLIAM, it looks like you made a credit card payment. This reduces your usage of available credit, so your credit score has gone down. WILLIAM, it looks like you closed an account. This has
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Cold outreachers are hell, being in a role where I can select software vendors is hell, I am in hell. While I like the work I do, this is the most miserable my ecosystem has ever been, and I would trade it all for 2015 in a split second.
a screenshot of bills spam folder
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I'm not a NYC person (western new york state for me) but my understanding is that for each of the four major US sports there's a big, storied team, and an other team. Giants/Jets, Knicks/Nets, Yankees/Mets, Rangers/Islanders. My question is what is the ideal fandom subset. There are 16 permutations
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I'm really enjoying the new Ed O'Brien album, like a lot. It's interesting to see how he songwrites on his own since he was most notable as being "weird sound guy" in Radiohead. Also, I like non invasive music for working, and it's easy to code to.
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Watched the recently released "Buffet Infinity" on VOD last night. It's a surreal horror film made entirely out of local advertisements. Very cool and extremely up my alley, good execution too, beyond the gimmick. Still thinking about it today.
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Serious question (not looking for shitposting): It seems to me like Musk's SpaceX IPO will poison the entire NASDAQ as an index. I'm no investor, but I have my modest retirement savings, and like most non-day-traders, it's just index funds. Is it crazy to abandon the NASDAQ? (Thinking below)
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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Downupright – Troubleseekers (Original Soundtrack) A TTRPG soundtrack that goes on a nostalgic journey thru some of electronic music’s most beloved genres, from lo-fi beats to big-room trance. downupright.bandcamp.com/album/troubl... @downupright.bsky.social www.etherdiver.com/2026/05/08/o...
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Troubleseekers (Official Soundtrack), by Downupright
13 track album
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
My living space is always lackin' house til i start playing jackin' house
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
pretty reliable breakdown of actually correct "solutions to the trolley problem": 0%: switch the track 1%: leave it on the existing track 9%: actually kill the trolley driver, not anyone on the tracks 90%: prevent the manufacture of the trolley
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I am very close to posting my first three "DONT YOU PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH" work-in-progress tracks to the Kickstarter for people to hear how it's coming! We got an indie sleaze (5 words), a shoegaze (4 words), and a trap/dubstep (11 words).
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
There are two KMFDM songs that everything can be reduced to, like reducing a fraction. "Drug Against War" and "Juke Joint Jezebel". Topologically, every other track from their 40+ years is sortable into Drugs Against Wars and Juke Joints Jezebels.
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
there needs to be one of those very specific german or danish type loanwords for the following emotion: "i got cold outreached by somebody who seemed so dense i was sure they were an AI, i responded by asking them to code in python, they were a real human and got confused"
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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Fellow Blueskyers @downupright.bsky.social & @logotrope.xyz are featured in this week's Other People's Music. They offer a diverse and quirky electronic soundtrack for tabletop gaming, and weird, textured IDM, respectively. Check them out! www.etherdiver.com/2026/05/08/o... #musicsky #IDM #TTRPG
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OPM: The Passion of Lovers – Ether Diver
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"Look upon my works, ye down-bad, and thirst!"
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
if i was ozymandais i would not inscript my thing to tell people to look upon my works and despair. i think i would try for asking them to either look upon my works and giggle, or possibly look upon my works and get horny. could try both. either seems nice
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Jeff Good @lowguppy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Imagining the dead have a feed of living loved ones they can scroll like we do here and how quickly they get bored/frustrated and stop paying attention to us
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
If my ancestors could only see. If wherever their souls are resting they could look down, and see how good I am at entering nearly three dozen six-digit codes every single day. i like to think they would be proud
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I am being sequentially auto-dialed by every consecutive number in a given area code + exchange (the final four digits just increase by 1 each time). I've enabled every block unknown callers and DnD setting. But it is crazymaking to me that this can't be prevented somehow.
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Downupright @downupright.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
just had an intrusive thought. what would be more psychotic: sending a LinkedIn connection request with the content and tone of a Hinge first DM, or sending a first DM on Hinge with the content and tone of a LinkedIn connection request
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