▶ “My favourite species of birds are the ones named by people who clearly hate birds…
(very funny twitter thread or via threadreader– thanks Michael)

▶ Cutouts of Japanese urban buildings

▶ SoundCloud to Let Fans Pay Artists Directly

▶ music journalism: write what you think, and pay the price?

▶ how nifty are these tiny mixers – released to match the Yamaha CS01

▶ fantastic sounds that visually seem very scary… until i read someone comment the location is near them and the ice is actually 2m thick & (reasonably?) safe (oh, actually a different vid, this one is 2018)