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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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All posts (214)
When the forecast gets it wrong (complimentary) The weather alerts for yesterday morning were really (and I cannot stress this enough) really on the fence about if it would rain or not throughout the course of the day; variations of "light rain", "mild rain" "scattered showers" kept pinging my phone and to highlight...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop I've had a rough couple of days, man! Even though I was committed to drawing these every day, I didn't get around to taking photos or editing them until now so please enjoy. Thurs 02/26/2026 - Rolycoly Coal. Lmao. It's coal. Wow. Anime UK has...
Holding on to what you got while everything goes to hell Moon photos first, then words: 2/27/2026 04:41pm 02/27/2026 9:55pm 02/28/2026 04:25am Friday afternoon I got excited because my partner Della told me how good a daymoon we were experiencing when she was trying to decide what to use for her daily instant film...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop It's been a few days since I posted the fruits of this manic project's labor, so please enjoy! Mon 02/23/2026 - Salazzle On Monday I learned about Salazzle and I gotta say, this one is skirting dangerously close to "If this were digimon, the next...
Revisiting a nearly twenty-year old website chronicling the iconic Big Muff fuzz pedal Today while accidentally cleaning out my bookmarks (Listen, I've changed browsers so many fucking times over the years that I have like a historical record of “imported from....” labyrinthian folder structures, and sometimes I...
Rad Tech Things I'm often down on the modern state of technology (mostly because it's almost all capital-driven and pivoting to "AI" nonsense) but I want to start highlighting rad things people make that show what joy tech can bring Lyra Rebane built a fully running x86 CPU that runs in CSS In our first installment...
Wanna hear me read this post instead? Myths of labor reduction compared against supposed productivity increases was ALWAYS going to equal 'forever work' Reminder that I'm a highly visual creature so I've littered photos of a cat namted Trout in the blog post that has nothing to do with cats, please understand As the...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Sun 02/22/2026 - Kirlia Today's request was "What's a pokemon that has 'Farsia' vibes" - the Farsia being a deeply stupid1, incredibly gendered femme-presenting mobile suit from Gundam AGE. Kirlia was the first one that came to mind. Now, this is...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Had a wild last few days but I'll be damned if I don't make at least 10 minutes a day to draw a pokemon. Here's the catch-up: Thur 02/19/2026 - Appleton Gotta admit I was headscratching on the 'dragon' part of this until I saw its evolutions - I...
AI is the latest iteration, but financial predators targeting musicians with false promises is kind of an institution at this point Oh btw this has nothing to do with the topic; I like having visuals in my blog posts, you'll have to forgive all the cats (or ignore the text entirely and scroll down for more cats) To...
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