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Ivy

@spiralganglion@merveilles.town

hometown 4.2.17+hometown-1.1.2

i want to smash software between my fists
and turn flittering feelings into relentless music.

programmable ink researcher at ink & switch.
feeling of computing podcast and community.

1218 Followers

85 Following

50 Posts

Joined February 11, 2026

disjoint:

she / hrt 🏳️‍⚧️

ointment:

https://ivy.boo

rejoinder:

https://feelingof.com

adroit:

https://spiralganglion.bandcamp.com

Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 2mo ago

it happened! for the first time ever, i was correctly gendered by a complete stranger. a gentle older lady at the grocery store, commentating about my 7yo daughter, "she likes to stay close to mom," and gave me a big smile. and of course i gave her a big smile back. damn that's good stuff.

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 3w ago

Replying to

Stubble

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 3mo ago

get fucked, facial hair! (first laser session: done)

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

working on accepting myself. i am enough. i am happy. i don't need anything more than i have. the things that i want to change will change in due time. just keep going.

for instance:

it's okay that not every song has every kind of idea. a song can be in 11/8 and it doesn't also need unexpected harmonic motion and voice leading. a song can have a lengthy chord progression with a dense melody and not also need 5-part vocal harmony and microsound. songs can be instrumental, they don't all need poetic lyrics that wink at some personal trauma. songs can be good even if nobody would make a youtube essay about them. just keep playing around, just keep writing about it.

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 4mo ago

oh yeah so now i can say stuff out loud like…

I've been writing a bunch of songs about dysphoria and gender confusion and all that fun stuff, its been one hell of a time hoo ~~boy~~

(quoted is just, like, half of the vocal layers in this song. there's another vocal layer on top that i didn't share cuz i wasn't out yet. also… all the other instruments. a lot going on.)
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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 4mo ago

There's a new Feeling Off Computing episode. It's a podcast talking about other podcasts talking about other podcasts asking you for money.

The episode is titled "Pay $5 Now to Find out the Gender of Your Favourite Podcaster", because people who only listen to the main feed don't get to find out until season 5 :)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/159078025

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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Here are some of the letters I made • a catenoid, designed by todd matthews and coded by me • gizmos, from inkling • "enbossed" • a sphere made of circles, eclipsed There are a few more I didn't quite finish up in time for launch, that I might sneak onto the site over the weekend ;)

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 2mo ago

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@xorlou@lgbtqia.space Hate when I do that. Thankfully getting less common. You’ll get there soon!

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

new secret journal entry

https://ivanish.ca/journal/happy-anniversary-iv

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 2mo ago

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selfie

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 4mo ago

new record — jimmy says a bad word within the first 1 second of the show

you'll never guess whose deadname it is

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

gonna make some noises wanna hang out?

edit: thanks for dropping in everyone!

VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2767387669

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 4mo ago

inexplicably weird, and totally out of character, that i look like such a girl in this video
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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

🧵
@RosaCtrl@social.vivaldi.net

social.vivaldi.net

Hysterical woman writing code: "I looooooove this trend of talking about computer…" - Vivaldi Social

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 4mo ago

this is so pretty
@narf@vis.social

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 4mo ago

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@jack@berlin.social have you seen Subnautica? wildly successful ARPG designed with the absence of combat as a core pillar. point being: combat is fun and you can embrace it unashamedly, but if you wanna avoid it you really can and should!

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 3mo ago

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@jack@berlin.social (A) totally jank. (B) insanely impressive.

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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i do not know how to voice lead such a wild chord. time to teach myself.

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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@jack yeah good show

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

this is such a well-designed website for a computer scientist

(desktop required — doesn't look good on phones)

https://www.draketo.de

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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@jack@berlin.social geometric algebra

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 4mo ago

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@jack@berlin.social given that BotW's combat was heavily inspired by Souls, and then Elden Ring's world inspired in turn by BotW's, I think you've chosen a fertile field to plant.

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 4mo ago

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@jack@berlin.social lots of ways to not do murder and keep players even more interested, if you want

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 4mo ago

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@jack@berlin.social i do like a good struggle with discomfort

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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@xavier@sunny.garden yep

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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@jack@berlin.social you using any GA for this?

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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@ma3ke ooh i'd watch that. anything with simulation and visualization is catnip for me.

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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@ma3ke What's it about?

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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@psc@mastodon.social I used to play in bands, but now live in the woods so I just work by myself. I have a decent collection of weird and broken instruments, which I write songs through and then heavily process. I put my stuff up on Bandcamp. My most recent release (Jerk) is instrumental and explores something called a Risset rhythm, so maybe go back further if you wanna hear lyrics. Enjoy, and all forms of feedback are welcome if anything occurs to you. https://spiralganglion.bandcamp.com

Spiral Ganglion

Spiral Ganglion

Spiral Ganglion

wet music for weird feelers. by ivy reese.

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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@AmeliasBrain there's only one real answer

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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@Mustbetuesday@sunny.garden i do the first one, yes! that second one is fun!!

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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@xavier@sunny.garden I think The Golden River is my fav Frog Eyes, but I haven't listened to any of the recent ones.

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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@bangskij@climatejustice.social @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net saaaammme

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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@catnip@adlsolarpunk.net no, we don't have an account here yet. no reason, just haven't gotten to it.

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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@psc@mastodon.social where can i check out your music?

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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@Gregori@merveilles.town awesome! if you scroll down on that page, you can learn about what we do :)

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 2mo ago

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selfie

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 2w ago

If you improve something by two orders of magnitude (OOM), you have to call that “twooom” you just have to. and feel free to add extra Os.

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 1mo ago

some horns

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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@forresto@xoxo.zone nooo i want to be the bike but also i'm curious how you made this! is it a cuttle?

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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@muhanga@mastodon.social that's a great tip

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 3mo ago

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@schmudde@merveilles.town @icm@mastodon.sdf.org I can't not get distracted by the Connection Machine!!

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 2mo ago

there was a period of time, maybe 2 months ago, where i was like "i need to donate all my boy clothes" cuz they made me look masc and i hated that. i'd just come out, and dressing fem was the main way that i expressed my gender and felt good about it. enough time has passed that now when i wear these boy clothes, i still just feel completely fucking fem and maybe even lightly butch in a way i like?! i don't have room in my life for all these clothes! but i can't get rid of perfectly good stuff, that's wasteful. and they make me feel hella cute. like, i feel my femininity accentuated by contrast against these boy-shaped cuts.

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 5mo ago

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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer As a listener i agree, but as a performer i like playing with lyric as a form of expression that's a bit different from the rest of the sound. Alas.

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 1mo ago

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@xorlou@lgbtqia.space oooh a fork of zed sans ai! this is appealing

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 4mo ago

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@pixelbandito@masto.method.run "gender reveal explosives" are these explosives that instead of hurting people help blast them into the full realization and acceptance of their true gender? because if so yes i've invented these and the podcast is full of them.

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Ivy @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

· 2mo ago

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@AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca i mean that is the point of the photo. me looking dark is _directly_ contrasted against the overblown bright and colorful outdoors. juxtaposition. could not be more intentional :)

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