Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026it's genuinely so fucking funny that The Atlantic has no intellectual standards for its staff writers whatsoever 010
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The age of romanticism is funny because like half the literature is just about embarrassing rich dudes failing at life to an almost incel level. Yet the music all bangs incredibly hard and is either about killing artistocrats, building empires, or being disappointed in Napoleon 040
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Showed up to a doctor’s appointment yesterday only to find the office had been suddenly closed and the entire staff laid off with no warning or communication to patients. A private equity firm had bought the practice 72 hours before 020
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-CohenJared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 06/09/2026september issue is out 20856189
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-CohenAlan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026the web forgets its own history  1111
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026the great threat to wikipedia is not culture war bullshit or LLMs, it's media being so destroyed and fragmented, and publishing and academia so dysfunctional, that subjects that would have previously cleared notability easily now won't have enough sources to even exist 050
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-CohenFederal Bureau Of Controlling The Run @swolecialism.bsky.social · 20/08/2026lotta posts today from people who could be fighting each other in Unreal Tournament (1999) instead of on niche microblogging websites. 616915
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-Cohenmichael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 27/07/2026When I finally get back to Ithaca 433343
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 13/06/2026never forget the actual entire purpose of a "new tab" is to paste a bit of text so then later you can copy and paste it somewhere else without formatting (to paraphrase @everest.bsky.social) 080
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-CohenLincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Thomas Pynchon is the only realist writer. 1153080
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-CohenIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 30/04/2026urbanomnibus.net/2026/04/danc... and another piece I commissioned for @urbanomnibus.bsky.social dropped—this one's an interview w/Rennie McDougall by @maxy.bsky.social about Rennie's forthcoming book on dance history in NYC!urbanomnibus.netDancing About Architecture - Urban OmnibusHow have dancers and their movements shaped the built environment of New York — and how has the city shaped them in return? 192
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 30/04/2026For Urban Omnibus, I interviewed the great Rennie McDougall about his amazing new book Nonstop Bodies: How Dance Made New York City urbanomnibus.net/2026/04/danc...urbanomnibus.netDancing About Architecture - Urban OmnibusHow have dancers and their movements shaped the built environment of New York — and how has the city shaped them in return? 110
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Paul Cadmus initial sketches for Ballet Alphabet (1939) 040
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026making a little Conway's Game of Life for the terminal, adapting some 1990s bootleg BBS turbo pascal code 071
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-CohenAnne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 23/03/2026My piece with The HTML Review just came out, on a digital and physical walk I'm planning across the Korean Peninsula. It is about a personal project a few years in the making. Thank you to Max & Shelby for being wonderful, patient editors: thehtml.review/05/tell-umma... 1135
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Always funny watching the internet bros think Nietzsche wanted young men to be ruthless, rules-exempt individualists who dominate others, when he actually just wanted them to be dancers 050
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-CohenCL @corny.bsky.social · 21/03/2026created photos.connie.surf as part of the html review this year!!! so honored :^)photos.connie.surfPhotographic Memory 1132
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-CohenMaxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Issue Five of The HTML Review is here! Get to your browser for 15 excellent new pieces of web-based literature and art thehtml.review/05/ 19739
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026one of the great pleasures of using discogs to catalog records is the stunning regularity with which you acquire something that is not already part of the database. Tens of millions of releases cataloged, and still human musical production is so great that there are constant gaps 060
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-CohenNiels Leenheer @html5test.com · 13/03/2026DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user. 312800801
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Issue Five of The HTML Review is here! Get to your browser for 15 excellent new pieces of web-based literature and art thehtml.review/05/ 19739
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Today marks FIVE YEARS since I started this spreadsheet cataloging the songs stuck in my head when I wake up in the morning. It's the closest thing to a journal I've ever had - docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 1161
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-CohenCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 06/02/2026New Session Issue 4: Upheaval now live on telnet: issue4.anewsession.com featuring work by: @asterolsen.bsky.social @mbbischoff.com @ultraviolet.gay @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social ...and more! web release coming on Saturday so STAY TUNED! 48839
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-Cohenhenry ✷ @strange.website · 01/01/2026you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.henry.codesA Website To End All Websites | Henry From OnlineHow to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want. 10325125
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-Cohennow featured in the criterion collection @anem0ne.net · 03/01/2026look how big our monitors were before the turn of the century! big ol' things that had a degauss button 4303
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 02/01/2026tonight's deep rabbit hole obsession with a genius artist who had a truncated and underappreciated career is costume designer Mary Ann Nyberg, who only did five films, but absolutely crushed them all 020
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 25/12/2025"SHOSTAKOVICH'S 5TH PLAYED BACKWARDS IN A CONCRETE SILO" by Sheet Noise is the best album TITLE of the year 040
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-CohenVal 🏳️⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Scully: Four helicopters and a string quartet? Mulder, what are you Mulder: *throws file at her* In 1971, composer Karlheinz Stockhausen reported having dreams where he learned he was from the Sirius system, 0305
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025I tried to "further the spread" of the World Wide Web as outlined in the original 1992 whitepaper. Outraged it doesn't still work come on 081
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-CohenGreg Technology ❪⎷❫ @greg.technology · 01/12/2025the latest 10k drum machines (by @maxy.bsky.social & friends) are so beautiful kubb.mingus.space 10kdrummachines.com/machines/wor... bmo-mpc.vercel.app they're all so gorgeous, so inventive..!! I wish/dream/would die for a 10kdrumhackthon and yes AM STILL procrastinating on making one.........x 171
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025The 7 Habits of People Who Read Books About Habits 060
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 06/11/2025where's the HIIT class that blasts Mozart's Requiem 080
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-CohenJeff Harris @nemalki.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Project Gutenberg is one of those places that exemplifies what the internet was initially all about: studying, preserving, and celebrating the arts, especially the written word, and Greg Newby was a huge part of that. Thank you, Greg, and rest well. 0596214
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-Cohenkatie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Along with 14 other scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders, and engineers I shared my thoughts on DEEP TIME DATA ARCHIVES for the @harvardlil.bsky.social Generational Data project with @maxy.bsky.social and Clare Stanton. What data, if any, should be stored for a century? Who decides? 💎lil.law.harvard.eduKatie Mackinnon | Library Innovation LabInterviewerIf you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do? 1101
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-CohenLibrary Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 15/10/2025LIL fellow @maxy.bsky.social asked 14 scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders & engineers: "If you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?" Their answers: lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...lil.law.harvard.eduGenerational Data Interviews | Library Innovation Lab14 Designs for Digital Preservation in 2025 1126
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-CohenAlex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I made a little toy for exploring and mixing mathematically possible backbeat rhythms! In a 2-beat 16th-note grid with kick/snare/hat, there are 1,458 combinations. And in combination, there are 2,125,764 ways to fill in a 4/4. Enjoy playing ALL of them here: salexanderreed.com/backbeatssalexanderreed.comBackbeats — 1458 Possible Rhythms — ⠀ 43712
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-Cohendisc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Retrospectively I can see that *Season 6 of Grey’s Anatomy* and *M*A*S*H* were both early expressions of a homegrown form of Australophobia that was beginning to shape and color Dwarven life... 1395
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025CHOTINER: So you wrote how many symphonies? BRAHMS: Four CHOTINER: And Beethoven wrote nine BRAHMS: Well, yes, but— CHOTINER: Mozart wrote over forty BRAHMS: Symphony numbering was different then, and also he died at thirty-five— CHOTINER: So you had more time than Mozart 1264
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-Cohennstarke @nstarke.bsky.social · 25/09/2025I am grateful to @maxy.bsky.social for including my vintage web based drum machine from 2012 in #10kdrummachines 10kdrummachines.com/machines/sdm...10kdrummachines.comStarke Drum Machine 031
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Just saw an *Iron Maiden boyfriend / Oasis girlfriend* walking hand in hand with their respective band t-shirts and dispositions it was beautiful 020
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025absolute geniuses @natanlast.bsky.social and @xor.blue made "fill harmonics" a CROSSWORD EDITOR DRUM MACHINE for the 10,000 Drum Machines project!!!! fillharmonics.com 25921
Reposted by Maxwell Neely-Cohenshelby wilson @shheeelllbby.bsky.social · 20/08/2025some recent work! shelby.cool/array-of-arr...shelby.coolArray of ArraysOngoing research and practice of off-loom bead weaving by Shelby Wilson 2238
Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Just a boy reading The Viennese Ballroom In The Age Of Beethoven in Central Park while waiting for a dentist appointment 020