Broken folk experimentalists. If you're into weird folk music with drums and drones you might like this: https://lunatraktors.bandcamp.com/https://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mlw3himyus2rSolidarity to the beautiful people of Palestine. The genocide and 'ethnic cleansing' continue, although the west — even those who temporarily paid attention — have largely decided to forget it's happening. #Nakba #Gaza [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 19:38 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlw3himyus2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mlvr6rj7q22j"Calming stations" Not historical malpractice. This was the *current* state of special education for ethnic minority children with additional needs in upstate NY until outed on social media a few months back. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvr6rj7q22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mlvfmd266s2oThis is a great little #FolkHorror yarn — vivid imagery in there, layering of times, tanglible sense of place, Wickery echoes... [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvfmd266s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mlurps5aes2gCats (1981): A music theatre piece celebrating the effects of toxoplasmosis on the human brain.15 May 2026 07:11 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlurps5aes2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mlatnqg6ak2sNeo-Victorianism in action. The UK has successfully returned to the Good Old Days, at least in terms of impoverished life expectancy. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 08:52 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlatnqg6ak2shttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mksfcmuym22wThis is the same in the arts and theatre world. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 14:58 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksfcmuym22whttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mkrp75ru3c2sCommunicating with Neurotypicals, Lesson 1: Playfulness—especially from adult males—is usually a coded dominance behaviour. Check for context clues signalling physical / sexual aggression, stereotypes about 'outsiders' etc. In the example below, the context is aggressive driving... [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 08:23 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrp75ru3c2shttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mkrlaxbcoc2s#FolkHorror for #Bealtaine! Celebrate international workers day by supporting the hard work that goes into writing books... and making albums on Bandcamp! lunatraktors.bandcamp.com [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 07:12 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrlaxbcoc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mkkugm7a6c2kNo burn quite like the cold fire of an #UrsulaLeGuin burn. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Apr 2026 15:08 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkugm7a6c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mkhvvqy2m22kThat reminds us! We've not shared our warped version of Teddy Bears' Picnic recently, inspired by a deeply cursed ice cream van that used to drive around Margate playing it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9pjcwf1FS4 [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Apr 2026 10:56 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhvvqy2m22khttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mkfk7khpvs27New owlbum just dropped. @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social have you heard it yet? [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Apr 2026 12:21 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfk7khpvs27https://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mka3h7w4wc2aGreat news everyone: I'm getting excellent scores on all these autism diagnostic questionnaires I'm doing.24 Apr 2026 08:14 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mka3h7w4wc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mk6od2xmhs2wThis seems like an appropriate time to mention that large quantities of eels —when paying tithes to your local fenland abbey of Norman aristocratic interlopers, for instance — were counted in sticks (25 eels) and binds (10 sticks, 250 eels). [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Apr 2026 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6od2xmhs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mk6ap2uxu22aPlay silly games, win silly prizes.23 Apr 2026 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6ap2uxu22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mk5vgkflfs23Tech bros: "We've invented artificial intelligence." John Scalzi: "That's just spicy autocorrect." Spicy Autocorrect: "Hello! I've made up those legal references you asked for, and also deleted all your emails and provided a million lines of buggy code for you to fix. You're welcome!" [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Apr 2026 11:21 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5vgkflfs23https://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mk5u6rbbxc23So you want to do voice work, but (like us) you're feeling run down, post-viral and generally overwhelmed? Humming! Humming is the answer. Also yawning! And together — yawn-humming, or hum-yawning. Try it, it's nice.23 Apr 2026 10:59 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5u6rbbxc23https://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mk4baqjs5s26You watched [the movies] and sided with [the narration]. None of these films taught us to distrust the perspective we were shown (apart from Starship Troopers and look how that went). [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Apr 2026 19:47 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4baqjs5s26https://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mk3eghuncs26Iraq war whistleblower Dr. David Kelly's death wasn't accidental. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jul/16/david-kelly-death-10-years-on [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Apr 2026 11:11 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3eghuncs26https://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mk3cnpukfk26We worked with Libby Bove — #MuseumOfRoadsideMagic — to soundtrack her new short ROADWYTCH, showing in two megalithic events this May: 3.5— NeoAncients, Stroud (with @weirdwalk.bsky.social, @supersonicfest.bsky.social + many more) neoancients.com 10.5— Offbeat Folk Film Fest, London offbeat.film22 Apr 2026 10:40 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3cnpukfk26https://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mjxfrfwmtk2iStuppence, stuppence, stuppence a bag! [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Apr 2026 21:25 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxfrfwmtk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mjtxxx5lqk2mThe #PostIronyCondition strikes again: what would have been absurdist satire in the 90s is current affairs now [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Apr 2026 12:40 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjtxxx5lqk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mjtrbjcz3s2xYour voice—your beautiful voice—sounds like no other. You could mask your voice with vocoder. You could smooth it out with reverb and compression. You could mimic some American accent. You could—but so can anyone, even #AI. #Singers, #AudioEngineers, #MusicProducers — let us feel the real thing? [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Apr 2026 10:40 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjtrbjcz3s2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mjp437a7es2qExcellent work on #AI — @olivia.science et al expose the uncritical, ahistorical framing of LLMs as radically new, instead of a development of chatbot technology. (Not to mention 'language machine' thought experiments pre-dating the birth of computing, e.g. Ramon Llull's 13th C. Thinking Machines.) [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Apr 2026 14:10 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjp437a7es2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/lunatraktors.bsky.social/post/3mjjkdfux7c2yJohnny Mains - the guy behind all those beautiful horror story anthologies - is 50 today! Give him a present... [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Apr 2026 09:09 +0000at://did:plc:cgt3vapiirrgoamyyrvcdccf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjkdfux7c2y