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I may have seen Blade Runner too many times. 😅

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Weird coincidence that Apple TV has two different comedy shows featuring Seth Rogen and Ennis tiles...

The Badger trotted forward a pace or two; then grunted, "H'm! Company," and turned his back and disappeared from view. "That's *just* the sort of fellow he is!" observed the disappointed Rat. "Simply hates Society! Now we shan't see any more of him to-day."

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Badger, of course, seems more autistic: There was a rustle behind them, proceeding from a hedge wherein last year's leaves still clung thick, and a stripy head, with high shoulders behind it, peered forth on them. "Come on, old Badger!" shouted the Rat.

Last year it was house-boating, and we all had to go and stay with him in his house-boat, and pretend we liked it. He was going to spend the rest of his life in a house-boat. It's all the same, whatever he takes up; he gets tired of it, and starts on something fresh."

"Once, it was nothing but sailing, then he tired of that and took to punting. Nothing would please him but to punt all day and every day, and a nice mess he made of it.

Probably for the best he didn't live to see the subsequent forks then.

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I dunno, 120 seems like a good age for a wizard.

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It seems an inherent issue with being so credulous that their response to a mistranslation is "Wow, how magical! What a miracle!" rather than "Hold on a second, can we double-check the translation on that bit, please?"

I mean, I can believe a young woman had a baby, and that an old man had a walking stick / magic wand. I take issue with the supernatural parts, naturally (as it were).

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The Mexican in particular was well-sampled: www.whosampled.com/Babe-Ruth/Th...

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Recording the bassline of this almost kosmische musick style track, all clones of Moog modular, Solina String Ensemble, and Mellotron.

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Huh, TIL Babe Ruth's a British band. I'd assumed they were a Black American band, given they're a part of the hip hop canon.

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Recording the bassline of this almost kosmische musick style track, all clones of Moog modular, Solina String Ensemble, and Mellotron.

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Isn't that a mistranslation, like how Jesus's young mother was a "virgin"?

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 27/09/2026

TIL Moses had a magic wand. Absolute mad lad!

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"He is now possessed. He has got a new craze, and it always takes him that way, in its first stage. He'll continue like that for days now, like an animal walking in a happy dream, quite useless for all practical purposes."

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 27/09/2026

I'm assuming Mr. Toad has ADHD, as evidenced by his succession of travel-based hyperfixations...

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 26/09/2026

My Shavian alphabet page now lets you view it in different typefaces for comparison -- useful for basing your handwriting on. notebook.zoeblade.com/Shavian_alph...

The Shavian alphabet rendered in the serif Doolittle Garamond

The Shavian alphabet rendered in the sans-serif Inter Alia

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 25/09/2026

That's what I was doing this time, but it still distracted me until I stopped filming. It didn't help that I was using a different synth, so had to reframe the shot with the clamp.

Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 25/09/2026

Yet again reminding myself not to film myself making music, because it gets in the way of actually making the music. 😅

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 24/09/2026

On the pulsewidth, literally the width of a pulse wave: notebook.zoeblade.com/Pulsewidth.h...

A pulsewidth, or duty cycle, is simply the width of a pulse wave, as in the amount of time it spends high versus low. This is expressed as a ratio, often as a percentage.

It can be automatically changed back and forth, known as pulsewidth modulation. This is usually accomplished with an LFO.

A pulse wave with a pulsewidth of 50% is more specifically a square wave.

The principle of making the first half of each cycle longer or shorter than the second half can also be applied to other periodic waveforms, but it usually isn't, in order to simplify the design of the oscillator.

The VCS3 sports one of the very few types of analogue oscillators to seamlessly transition between sawtooth and triangle waves in this manner, as does the A-100's A-146 LFO. In the digital realm, it's the basis of PD synthesis, Casio's short-lived rival to Yamaha's FM synthesis. This is exemplified in the CZ-101.

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 24/09/2026

𐑲𐑤 𐑣𐑨𐑓 𐑑 𐑕𐑰 𐑦𐑓 𐑲 𐑒𐑨𐑯 𐑓𐑲𐑯𐑛 𐑧𐑯𐑦 𐑥𐑦𐑮𐑼-𐑦𐑥𐑦𐑡 𐑢𐑻𐑛𐑟 𐑦𐑯 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯...

Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 24/09/2026

«𐑺», 𐑚𐑦𐑒𐑪𐑟 𐑦𐑑𐑕 𐑩 𐑒𐑤𐑬𐑛, 𐑥𐑱𐑚𐑰..? (𐑦𐑑 𐑕𐑻𐑑𐑩𐑯𐑤𐑦 𐑣𐑧𐑤𐑐𐑕 𐑥𐑰 𐑮𐑦𐑥𐑧𐑥𐑚𐑼 𐑦𐑑.) 𐑲 𐑷𐑤𐑕𐑴 𐑓𐑬𐑯𐑛 𐑕𐑳𐑥 𐑨𐑥𐑚𐑦𐑜𐑮𐑨𐑥𐑟: * 𐑛𐑴𐑑 𐑯 𐑑𐑴𐑛 * 𐑜𐑰𐑒 * 𐑯𐑴𐑥 𐑯 𐑥𐑴𐑯 * 𐑑𐑮𐑦𐑤𐑛 𐑦𐑑 𐑤𐑫𐑒𐑕 𐑤𐑲𐑒 𐑿 𐑥𐑲𐑑 𐑷𐑤𐑕𐑴 𐑓𐑱𐑝𐑼 𐑕𐑦𐑥𐑩𐑑𐑮𐑦, ·𐑡𐑴𐑮𐑴..?

Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 18/09/2026

In the TV show Silo, the journalist Helen Drew briefly calls the potential underground workers molochs... that's a reference to these everything2 entries, right? First person fiction from a user who never breaks character, these have stuck with me all these years: everything2.com/user/moloch3...

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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 18/09/2026

It allows me to concentrate on one thing at a time. I hear it's common for people to intend to spend a day composing, then accidentally end up spending it, say, auditioning snare drum samples instead. I can avoid that, at least. Basically, I've stumbled across the ancient art of *linear* editing!

Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 18/09/2026

Yes, exactly! I usually compose a whole track in Reason, using SubTractor to make quick mockup patches without getting distracted by sound design details while composing. Then I import the MIDI file into Reaper and record the parts one at a time on analogue synths.

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I'm currently working on a 60s/70s style Moog/Solina/Mellotron style track, all slow arpeggios and lush strings. My patrons at patreon.com/zoeblademusic/ can hear the demo already!

A broad overview of the demo of my latest track in Reason. Although long and repetitive, it at least alternates between two sections.

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Watching The Librarians (2025), it's painfully clear that the US fascists banning and even burning books are completely disingenuous about the reasons, and that the cruelty to minorities is the point. 😔

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I'm currently working on a 60s/70s style Moog/Solina/Mellotron style track, all slow arpeggios and lush strings. My patrons at patreon.com/zoeblademusic/ can hear the demo already!

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You learnt so much business sense from that game, in a Frank Reynolds kind of way. Add extra salt to the fries so people drink more. Water down the drinks so they're getting less. The game was sponsored by a prominent bank.

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You know what was a good metaphor-based user interface? In Theme Park, you as the manager had to negotiate. You do this by extending (pay more) and contracting (pay less) your arm like they're doing, until the two arms meet for a handshake. You have to do this before the pile of biscuits runs out.

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Finally figured out Rhea Perlman and Harriet Walter are different people. It's the Ryans all over again. 😅