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Barbershopper (Baritone/Bass) Author (The Sky is Blue Trilogy) Synthesiser enthusiast Ni Dan in Nihon Kobudo Iaijutsu. Ryoutoutsukai practitioner (he/him).

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Fact check: Story about fisherman becoming friends with a shark is an April Fool’s Day joke Social media users have been sharing a story online about a fisherman and a shark becoming good friends after the man saved the shark’s life. This story was published as an April Fool’s Day joke in a French fishing magazine in 2006.  

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14.05.2025 13:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Something a bit different - at least I’ve not seen this - I’m using a the sequencer from the Behringer Edge to drive the Crave!
As well as changing the pitch, the velocity row is changing the filter cutoff.I’m usin

#Synthesizer
#Behringer
#Tutorial

21.02.2025 02:26 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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24.01.2025 07:28 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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23.01.2025 00:01 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Download and I’m looking forward to it.
Australia used to claim Mel as one of our own, but we changed our mind.

21.01.2025 10:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

PIAT fan here - so obviously a fan of April!
Barbershop singer (Club President and Regional Chair), Australian that grew up in the remote outback (ish), synth nerd and author of a queer dystopian trilogy (two books so far).

20.01.2025 09:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Can we get Trump to ride a horse?

17.01.2025 20:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump’s ready for the inauguration!

17.01.2025 20:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think it’s the series finale.

17.01.2025 19:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When I was a child my parents had a big black and white TV (early 70s). The rotary channel selector was a bit doggy, so my Dad had drilled a hole through it to lock it to the channel. To change channels you had to unscrew it, change channel and screw it back in.
Actually I don'[t miss that!

13.01.2025 00:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It had me when the synth kicked in!

12.01.2025 23:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm working on making a soundtrack for my queer speculative fiction trilogy. I'd like to post snippets of what I'm doing.

12.01.2025 23:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is why children (and adults) need music in their lives.

12.01.2025 20:48 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Is this gender affirming care?
(Stolen from Reddit)

12.01.2025 11:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Exceptions can be made, but without them he can’t travel to Australia - or ironically, Canada!

11.01.2025 20:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It still doesn’t find things like it used to. Everyone has games the system too well.

11.01.2025 19:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hard to find with the enshitification of Google and other search engines though.

10.01.2025 23:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hard to argue against.

10.01.2025 23:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Leon Mush - I like it.

09.01.2025 23:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One of my experiences with computers involved punch-cards. Yes, I'm that old!

09.01.2025 06:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My thoughts on assisted dying.

08.01.2025 11:58 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Even better.

08.01.2025 00:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Call it Neo!

07.01.2025 23:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

First they came for the LGBTIQ+ people and I went 'wait - that's me!'.
To be clear, they're not rounding up queer people into ovens - but they're silencing their voices and that's pretty fucked up.

07.01.2025 23:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unbelievably fucking cruel.

07.01.2025 00:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Washington Post refused to print this.

The working sketch of Telnaes's proposed cartoon, which shows Jeff Bezos and other tech tycoons kneeling before Donald Trump. (Ann Telnaes)

05.01.2025 07:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In this little video, I'm using the ASM Hydrasynth to control the Edge.
For those that don't know, the Edge is the Moog DFAM 'tribute'. I've not seen anyone control it using CV like this.
I'm sure someone with more talent than me would do some great things.
#synthesizer #behringer

02.01.2025 21:42 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Waiting for the fireworks at Brighton Beach, South Australia. Happy New Year everyone!

31.12.2024 10:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Very disturbing.

31.12.2024 02:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've just started listening to your work and you're on the list for next time I'm purchasing from Bandcamp.

27.12.2024 03:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0