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Tonal Drift
@tonaldrift.com
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Tonal Drift is the solo project of producer/composer Mark Hollomon mostly focusing on Melodic Ambient and nearby genres.
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Tonal Drift @tonaldrift.com · Aug 8
#youtube #video

Visualizer for the eighth track off the "textures" album.

tonaldrift.bandcamp.com/album/textur...

youtu.be/cFf63iph0N4

That is a deepsea anglerfish, for the record.
Denizens of the Deep
YouTube video by Tonal Drift
youtu.be
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Got my anti-MAGA shots today.

Ounce of prevention, etc.
Picture of my arm showing the two band-aids from getting both a flu and covid vaccine.
September 25, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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hartshornmusic.bsky.social
OUT NOW new lo-fi vocal electronica from @voltagepoetry.bsky.social on CD, Download and streamers.

#musicsky #synthsky

voltagepoetryproject.bandcamp.com/album/sketch...
sketches of sheep show they aren't all the same [ALBUM], by Voltage Poetry Project
9 track album
voltagepoetryproject.bandcamp.com
September 25, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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musicweeklies.bsky.social
They follow you everywhere... They disappear into the darkness, but they’ll be back.
New theme is #Shadows
September 21, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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hartshornmusic.bsky.social
Our next label release is less than a week away.

Check out the thread below for more info from @voltagepoetry.bsky.social

bsky.app/hashtag/21In...
September 19, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Astronomical Rorschach test.

Astro: Looks like a rotten fish.

Therapist: Interesting. And how does that make you feel?
joegarrity.bsky.social JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 9d
The Rotten Fish Nebula, LDN 1251, resembles a decaying fish. Captured on moonless nights in Bortle 1 skies for 17.5 hrs at f/3.9 using my Askar FRA500 telescope.
High-resolution: app.astrobin.com/i/zobsjn

#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #eastcoastkin #photography
September 16, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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musicweeklies.bsky.social
We all approach making music differently.

What's three words to describe your music making? #musicproducer #composer #musicproduction
Close up of Midi keyboard
September 16, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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"Saturates"

Well done.
September 15, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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Sitting in your armchair, surrounded by a thick cloud of smoke, you’re deep in thought, staring into space, when suddenly an idea pops into your head : it’s elementary! Well, musically speaking, how does that sound?

New theme is #SherlockHolmes 🔎
September 15, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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"Some days, I don't fit in my own head"

#noAI #artSky #OriginalArt
A man sits backwards in chair, arms folded across the back of the chair. Classic studio pose. He wears a blue button down shirt and brown herringbone sport coat. His head is missing. There is a circle where his head should be. Over top, a blurred, distorted image of a head clearly does not fit in the space allowed - like it is the wrong jigsaw puzzle piece. A white border frames the entire piece. The title is at the bottom.
September 13, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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This kinda got buried under Bandcamp Friday, but the final installment of my Season Cycle series is up for pre-order and releasing on Sept 22 (Autumnal Equinox)! It's all melancholy instrumental music that conveys my feelings about this time of year. Details in the thread!
herbersmusic.bsky.social Ed Herbers @herbersmusic.bsky.social · 21d
Can't believe summer is almost over already. Autumn officially arrives September 22, and with it comes the final installment of my Season Cycle project.

Season Cycle: Autumn is less #ambient than the other seasons, and all of the songs have an emotional and nostalgic undertone.
Album Cover for Ed Herbers' Season Cycle: Winter. Depicts a close-up photo of a red Autumn leaf. The leaf is curled and there is water pooled on it. In the water's reflection, we can see the canopy of the tree
September 13, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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edwardgivens.bsky.social
maybe humanity's long tumultuous union with the earth
is like the passing of a freight train in the forest
steam! smoke!
the entire world fills with clanging noise and pistons
ground shaking
the cataclysmic destiny of the machine
and then

it's gone
#khene #lithophone #angklung #multikulti
Forest and Sun, by Edward Givens
from the album We in the Tree
edwardgivens.bandcamp.com
September 11, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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Does Betterridge's law apply here?
whysharksmatter.bsky.social David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 17d
Is Gillnet Prey Subsidizing Ontogenetic Diet Shifts and Early Weaning in Common Coastal Bottlenose Dolphins From the Southwestern Gulf of Mexico? 🧪🦑🌎🐟

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 8, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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She's floating in the air, preparing her next trick. It's Halloween before its time here:
New theme this week is Wicked Witch 🧹
September 8, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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Swapped out the IDE for the DAW and made this.
Short track for the @musicweeklies.bsky.social #Catacombs challenge. Mixolydian b6 anybody ?

soundcloud.com/tonal_drift/...
Dance of Bones 2026-09-07
@MusicWeeklies - challenge for "Catacombs"
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September 7, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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We need to go back to physical card catalogs.
astrokatie.com Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 18d
This is one of the objections I have when people talk about how useful LLMs can be for literature searches or for any kind of search, really. Even beyond the biases that inevitably (and, in some cases, intentionally) show up, part of a good literature search is seeing information *in context.*
mbkplus.bsky.social Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 18d
Part of research is wandering in the literature and making unexpected connections, finding the questions you didn’t know to ask. I don’t see a good way to do that while relying mainly on LLMs to do literature searches.
September 7, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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jyoungman.bsky.social
Now that @musicweeklies.bsky.social is back, I decided to take a crank at their Paris Catacombs prompt!

soundcloud.com/james-youngm...
The Undercity (Catacombs of Paris)
Composed for the Music Weeklies Catacombs of Paris challenge. A solo upright bass piece where the music descends, octave by octave, mode by mode.
soundcloud.com
September 4, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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"circling the square II"

#artsky #noAI

This was a bit of a challege. Create a few new capabilities for the software.
White background with a spiky yellow square in the middle. A thin green ring encircles the square. Ther are 4 smaller circles at the four cardinal directions on the green ring. THe upper circle contains an old map of world. The lower circle contains a caricature of the quarter moon in profile. THe left circle contains an infra-red picture of the upper clouds of Venus. The right circle has an early 1800's map of Mars. A representation of the Pleiades asterism is in the upper right corner. A line drawing of a comet is in the lower left. Various randomly sized asterisks are scatter about.
September 6, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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hartshornmusic.bsky.social
COMING SOON…. new album from @voltagepoetry.bsky.social

CD, Download & Streaming

Release date 25th September

#lofi
#electronica
#musicsky

Follow @voltagepoetry.bsky.social for more details across the next three weeks.
A CD cover for the forthcoming album by Voltage Poetry Project. A black and white picture of a bridge in the London Docklands.
September 3, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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musicweeklies.bsky.social
Millions of bones piled up in kilometers of underground tunnels, welcome to the Catacombs of Paris!
What does that bring to mind, musically speaking?

Compose this piece of music and post it in the comments or on our Discord.
September 1, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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"Circling the Square"
#artsky #noAI #abstract
A white background with a line of overlapping green-outlined shapes that start as a square on the left and morph into a circle on the right. Each shape is slightly rotated from the last. The name of the piece is at the center bottom.
August 30, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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hartshornmusic.bsky.social
Check out the new track from @purplerhapsodyx.bsky.social

Pay what you want.

I think fans of Einaudi might like it. 👇

purplerhapsody.bandcamp.com/track/despair
Despair, by Purple Rhapsody
track by Purple Rhapsody
purplerhapsody.bandcamp.com
August 29, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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#Artsky #abstract #NoAI

"Echoes"
Art titled "Echoes". Large blue square on the left. Two curving lines of progressively smaller overlapping squares curing to the right. Tho colors in the two lines of squares also gently morphs from blue to a yellow-green. Background is white.
August 26, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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Confirmation message of the week.

"Do you want to successfully log out?"
August 24, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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edwardgivens.bsky.social
👉😐 ̶i̶ ̶m̶a̶d̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ 😐👈
#musicsky #musicvideo
Echo People
YouTube video by Edward Givens
youtu.be
August 23, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Doppler Shift
#artsky #noAI #abstract
Series of overlapping boxes in a horizontal row. The middle one is a yellow green. The ones to the left get smaller and shade towards red. The ones on the right get smaller and shade towards blue. At the bottom are the words "Dopper Shift" and the tidal drift logo.
August 22, 2026 at 2:19 PM