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Mike Shirley-Donnelly (MSD)
Hi hello I am msd I make music and take photos and make art but also run a joint cat rescue / recording studio in southern new england with my partner Della. I'm still mourning Cohost closing, but at least I started blogging as a result??
Latest Posts
Am I scrolling too fiercely or I've had relatively mixed luck with computer mice over the years. I bought a Cyborg Rat 7 when I was competitively playing Starcraft 2 during the beta, so like early-mid 2010 and I didn't need to replace it...
AI Forever Work Woes Continue Unabated Photo unrelated; met a pretty metal seagull at the first beach we tried in Connecticut upon moving here years ago. Face of a villain. Absolute icon. In the last two weeks or so I've seen an...
Decades later, trying to find a singular moment in an incredibly stupid series of star trek parody youtube videos Photo unrelated, here's Mastodon looking like an absolute unit Sometime around 14 years ago my bandmates and I were...
They're everywhere, we might as well photograph them As summer starts to trundle to a close (I know, I KNOW I'm mad too) I realized that I've accumulated several weeks worth of photos of random rabbits I've photographed while out on...
I mean, I'm still here doing it anyway but I think that's fascinating Photo unrelated - I know I've mentioned this on the blog previously but a while back, Della and I started photographing the wall at the pharmacy every time we pick up...
What if we retired the 'should it be fantasy or science fiction' argument and did something different? There's a bot on Bluesky called NESBot that posts links to resetera threads and one that caught my (and a lot of people's eyes)...
Collective Soul Unlocking A Core Memory Photo unrelated. Trying to get the studio all packed up and cleaned out but also going through the photo backlog. Here's Kindy. My partner Della's music shuffle library is truly a gift. She has...
It's nice when studios get a chance to spin out independent rather than be shut down entirely With larger companies doing evil shit on a regular basis and the workers getting inevitably fucked by that, it's nice when there are stories...
Also here's a cool unrelated photo of a chipmunk Look at this little guy. They don't know what an AI model is and they're so much better off It’s nothing short of an indictment of our society at large that Aaron Swartz, one of the...
It's time someone wasn't a coward about this It's Blaugust, which means it's August, which also means that I'm hearing cicadas in full force outside; while usually that causes me to make a post about our song of the same name (I'll do...
Reflections on the impending closure of iconic independent San Francisco music venue, Bottom of the Hill from a dude who both played there AND went to shows there a lot Earlier this year I was sent an article by bandmates, friends,...
One subject, three lenses, let's fucking goooo Back in the Cohost days ["COHOST MENTIONED" ALARM SOUNDS] I used to regularly post these "one subject, three lenses" projects where I'd slap three different lenses on my camera and try to...
This one should be more fun than yesterday's Blaugust post You know those moments where you're going about your day, brushing a cat and they're like, leaning into it and purring and then suddenly you're hit with an intrusive thought...
On Monday, I came back to my day job from a weeklong vacation wherein we did birthdaversary stuff and packing / moving related activities. I rarely if ever talk about work here but one of the first things out the gate when I logged in...
A nice surprise when the meteor shower didn't pan out Lmao so remember yesterday? How excited I was about finally a night I could watch the perseids near the peak of the shower with minimal moon light pollution and clear skies? It...