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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??

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1mo
Today's entries are more 'yes and' of existing stuff but that's ok! When I started writing yesterday's blog post I had planned on doing about 6 but as I got through the first three and looked at the clock I realized breaking it up into two posts was for the best, so here we go. Oh and I should note: nothing in today...
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Socialism In Space, Cosmic Horror Penguins and Godzilla Fighters, oh my!! Gamescom just happened (maybe is still happening??) and while I'm basically paying zero attention to it as a conference, it does mean that things are being announced and despite having very little time for them until we move, several things...
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Did get a moon photo from a few days ago though, here's that August 25th's moon, decidedly un-eclipsed You gotta know at this point how into photographing stuff in the sky I am (and hey, if not go peruse the moonchosting tag to get a better idea) so a lunar eclipse had me so goddamn excited!! But, like many other...
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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 until 2021. Because I'm a weirdo who had already changed both my midi...
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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 increasing number of AI-focused tech people who are coming to this "I use AI every day...
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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 inflicted with a specific brand of brain poison known as "the DJO Star Trek videos"....
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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 walks and like, the best time to have edited and shared them would have been...
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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 a prescription; given our health, that means I have a seemingly infinite supply...
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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) yesterday was this: Ever since Final Fantasy VII released and hit cultural paydirt,...
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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 effectively every song she owns on shuffle at any given time so it's not uncommon...
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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 that take a somewhat different route! Coming off a report from Gamesbeat,...
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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 co-creators of the RSS protocol (among many other things) was effectively assasinated...

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