iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 8h

1, 2 haferbrei, Kirby ist ein rosa Kerl 1, 2, oatmeal, Kirby is a pink guy they would rhyme if you switched languages halfway through the first line but you don't, so close yet so far

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Better to hold yourself to some standard and surround yourself with people who will do the same. Do projects you like for the love of the challenge. Don't worry about being called mediocre. And if you make it, don't worry about losing your spot. After all: "Position of the supreme is hard to keep."

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As artists, at least the message from Mozi Book 1 still holds some water, I think. It's easy to make content you don't like for the sake of getting famous. Then when you don't get the traction you expected, you turn to the grift du jour, which doesn't address the real problem. It all wears you down.

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I should caution against taking the text as gospel. These are not commandments, but artifacts of a living philosophical tradition. Zhuangzi integrates Confucian and Daoist ideas, Xunzi Confucian and Legalist. Much later, Chan/Zen formed from Buddhist and Daoist ideas.

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

To me this aspect of Mozi feels like a grab bag of counterarguments to Confucianism more than a super cohesive philosophical system. Maybe it's no wonder Zhuangzi would later call out Mo Di and the Mohists as representing an excess of argumentative ability which confuses the mind.

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In one breath Mozi encourages you to hold yourself to strict standards, to surround yourself with skilled people who will not flatter you. In another he says that music and ritual are useless drains on resources. Then he condemns offensive war as pointless and advocates for a form of universal love.

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In my role as an artist I think about this line from the first book of Mozi sometimes: "Therefore, those who attempt what seems difficult to them will obtain what they desire, but few who aim at what they desire can avoid what they dislike." (W. P. Mei) (Mohism is a strange philosophy...)

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

OK I finally summarized how I designed Cece's violin. It's slightly scatterbrained www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eGI... #immergination #electricviolin

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How I Built Cecilia Immergreen's Violin

YouTube video by Leiden Wolcloud

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

editing my first video in years only to learn Kevin MacLeod is all in on gen AI now, hate it here

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"A funny thing happened to me as I was building this mountain: I'd have an idea for a new obstacle, and I'd build it, test it, and it would usually turn out to be unreasonably hard. But I couldn't bring myself to make it easier." (Bennett Foddy in Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy)

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sometimes I have to simplify passages because they turn out not to be very musical when played by a human. But you can only simplify a 16th note run so far. The difficulty is inherent to the process of making the music; to me, practicing, sweating to be able to play it makes it worthwhile to play.

snippet of violin/piano sheet music with hidden staff text "I figured out a possible fingering for this part, so suffer"

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I guess you can just pour lighter fluid on the whole thing too and it will ignite fast, but in my experience all you get is a massive display of flames and fire at first, yet no guarantee that the big logs will stay lit after the liquid fuel is exhausted

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Even a 3000°C ferrocerium spark can't set a whole log on fire at once. It burns itself out rapidly, while the log may only be warmed a bit. You have to build up the fire from tinder to kindling to small logs before whole logs will burn.

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

even weirder that the second upload didn't require a review at all

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh great, now there's two of the same score I tried to upload, but one goes to a "Sorry about that page" and the other is still processing. Jankman, is that you in there?

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I just love how Musescore.com now puts your uploaded score through a crowdsourced review process, and that the review feedback can simply be "Visual or layout mistakes" with no further detail. Real helpful

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I learned that septabee exists and now I need all y'all to know too. also the website is amazing septabee.nekoweb.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW8Z...

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Tutorial for Septabee, a free DAW I've secretly been making for over 20,000 hours

YouTube video by Lost Robot

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

there's a German folk song about a monk going into a convent and whipping it out for a nun and a website with the lyrics explained like "this was once so common, they built tunnels between convents and monasteries so they could fuck without the public finding out" truly horny finds a way

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"enough" violin cover as promised. not the most complicated project I've put together (and the piano is Muse Keys lol) but I really enjoyed playing it youtube.com/watch?v=QQdD... #rkggk #hololive #electricviolin

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enough - Gigi Murin (violin cover)

YouTube video by Leiden Wolcloud

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the empire of chat: long divided must unite, long united must divide

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

XR Animator body tracking exposing how badly I shrimp on stream

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

hi we're a website you have used for 20 years, we have no idea if you are over 18, send us a selfie. let us connect to your camera. can we get a booty pic with panties on and one without them on? can we also get 3 different pics of your boobs any position

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

and totally worth the Sword of Copyright Claim now dangling over this video :)))))

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

downloading a windows 95 VM for the sake of a lyric video... what am I even doinghere

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hej hej hej, ba di ja, Ĉu vi plu memoras Ba di ja en septembro danci Ba di ja Neniam estis nuba tago Ni diru, ba di ja, Ĉu vi plu memoras Ba di ja en septembro danci Ba di ja Oraj sonĝoj, brilaj tagoj

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

mi vin pripensas de via koro la manon mi tenas frivolaĵoj kaj amo, memoru scias ni ja restas la amo nun estas decembro la amo ni trovis en septembro frivolaĵoj kaj amo, memoru nun ni veran partumas la amon

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the more I look at this the sillier it gets I love it

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Tawny Code Cat 🖥️😺 @tawnycodecat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm sorry for this image. I don't know what came over me, but I couldn't stop myself from making this monstrosity.

Very busy event poster reading "LZ's STREAM BIG or STREAM HOME (what does that even mean?) SEPTEMBER 2026". The URL "twitch.tv/AliceLunazera" is under "LZ". Red text after "2026" read "9 lmao", which has been crossed out in purple and purple text below reads "7 lmaoer!".

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hej hej hej, ba di ja, Ĉu vi plu memoras Ba di ja en septembro danci Ba di ja Neniam estis nuba tag'

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ĉu vi memoras La dudek unua de septembro L'afektulojn ŝanĝigis la amo Kaj la nubojn foren ĉaskuris Niaj koroj sonoris En tonalo, l'animoj niaj kantis Dum ni dancis je nokt', memoru Kiel lume la steloj brulis

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't really know how best to handle posting WIPs of music... for visual art, you can appreciate each version in a glance or by looking deeply. but if you're listening to my shitty demo recording before I polished anything? it's still gonna take the full 5 minutes to hear it all

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Kraftwerk - The Hall of Mirrors cover Wolcloud is my "he made up the person he wanted to be / and changed into a new personality". Running the model tracking is like staring into a mirror you made from your own ideals. youtu.be/JmYuZWmTkFw #kraftwerk #electricviolin #electronicmusic #coversongs

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Kraftwerk - The Hall of Mirrors (cover)

YouTube video by Leiden Wolcloud

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I cringed too hard after publishing it unlisted and made it private lol

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

one time I ate a free cinnamon roll in the dark I got from a student union event which tasted moldy, and now I'm a vtuber (sort of) (allegedly) (not really). just saying

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

got "inspired" by yam's girlfailure lecture and made this "song" in about 20 minutes which I'm not even gonna dignify with a proper publication on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHQT...

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

sometimes I write relatively intelligent lyrics. this is not such a time

don't bite the hand! don't bite the hand! don't bite, bite, bite bite!
don't bite the hand! don't bite the hand! don't bite, bite, bite bite!
(x2)

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Wolverine track" (haha get it because train) I composed this piece years ago as a piano reduction and only now got around to arranging/producing it www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN04... #violin #electricviolin #electronicmusic

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Wolverine track

YouTube video by Leiden Wolcloud

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

yeah I know at least on Wolverine they don't use Genesis locomotives with Venture cars. But I couldn't find a (cheap/free) Charger SC-44 model that didn't need some heavy texturing work, while the Genesis was available under suitable Creative Commons license terms for $0.00

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

if I make it crunchy enough, this might just work locomotive: "Amtrak General Electric Genesis P42DC" (skfb.ly/pBB8J) by OUTPISTON is licensed under CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...).

Amtrak Genesis locomotive + 4 Siemens Venture cars in Godot editor

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

it almost looks normal... just don't look on the ends or underneath (smiles)

low poly hastily textured Amtrak Midwest Siemens Venture car in Blender

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

with the big hololive branch merger, now we gotta call it serdipity or serskibi

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Leiden Wolcloud @leidenwolcloud.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I did that US dialect quiz and it said I'm from California. I've only been to California once in my life

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