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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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The "democratization of music production" is often (but not always) a scam

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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;...

Daily Dex - Dewgong, Chirachi and Charjabug

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In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Mon 2/16/2026 - Dewgong Dewgong. Get it. Like a dugong. Gen 1 was fucking on one, man. Tues 2/17/2026 -...

Daily Dex - Wartortle, Stunfisk and Luvdisc

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In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Fri 02/13/2026 - Wartortle By special request! (Reminder that you can at any time ping me anywhere I'm...

Daily Dex - Bulbasaur and Nidoran ♂

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In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Weds 02/11/2026 - Bulbasaur RNG gave me 0001 yesterday. The OG. The first lad. Which I'd memory holed into...

Daily Dex - Jigglypuff and Dragapult

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In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Mon 02/09/2026 - Jigglypuff In honor of Lady Gaga at the super bowl lmfao I get that the pokemon company has...

Discord on Discord

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I know, I know, two blog posts in one day what's become of me - but I had some disjointed thoughts about the discord announcement today that I needed to put somewhere. Enjoy....

A Super Bowl Story

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That time we played a concert at "Super Bowl City" Note: This post originally appeared on cohost.org In 2016, Team San José reached out to my band and offered us a paid slot to...

Daily Dex - Naganadel and Murkrow

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In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Both yesterday and today were selections by the kids after loading up a random 6 and them selecting two and...

Daily Dex - Horsea, Seadra and Kingdra

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In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Weds 02/04/2026 - Horsea Ok that's enough ice types for now; I didn't intentionally mean to follow the ice...

Daily Dex - Glalie (And Snowapple)

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In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Tues 02/03/2026 - Glalie It's still ice types which means there's still more than 2 feet of snow outside...

Daily Dex - Eiscue and Spheal

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In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Sun 02/01/2026 - Eiscue I know that I rag on pokemon designs fairly regularly but like this one...this...

The Snow Moon (and more)

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Three days worth of moon photos including Jupiter, camera focus AND lens adventures Finally was able to catch up with some moon photo editing; the last few days have been great...

Daily Dex - Vanillite, Snorunt and Hisuian Avalugg

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In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop I guess the ice type pokemon will continue until the snow melts or I run out of ice types. Not that I want...

Resolutions

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That time a random song about giving up on New Year's Resolutions lead to committing to a year-long project The song in question - give it a watch and turn on closed captions...

Daily Dex - Galarian Darumaka and Aurorus

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In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Tues 01/27/2026 - Galarian Darumaka Tuesday's entry was brought to you by: Sticking with the ice types theme...

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