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Chris Harris

@headfirstonly@mastodon.social
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Autistic musician.
Film nut.
Culture nerd.
Comics and cartoon scribbler.
Retired training and L&D consultant.

https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music

(That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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Joined November 13, 2017
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Gloucestershire UK
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Blog:
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Personal Home Page:
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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · 5d ago
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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Replying to @muz4now@mastodon.world
@muz4now@mastodon.world B&W 602s/601s with a Paradigm sub (with an updated driver) and Cambridge Audio presence speakers for the immersive audio rig in the living room, Focal Shape 65s in the studio, and Austrian Audio Hi-X55 cans for the MP3 player. Because I live for sound.
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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · 6d ago
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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It's #InternationalCatDay ! You know what to do.
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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · Jul 27, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@rmi/116992127137444873 William Gibson knew the score, more than 40 years ago... #Neuromancer
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Rob Isaac @rmi@cloudisland.nz
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · Jun 11, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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Replying to @catmisgivings@stranger.social
@catmisgivings@stranger.social @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party I can confirm that dancing that dance at school discos was a thing, at least in the Midlands.
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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · May 07, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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Happy #DogsAtPollingStations day to all of you who celebrate. Keep 'em coming!

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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · May 04, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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Replying to @Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al
@Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al I'd pretty much put it as a certainty that Wiles's proof isn't Fermat's.
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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · May 04, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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The Star Trek TNG episode "The Royale" was on TV this evening and I'd forgotten the one thing that dates the show for me more than anything else: for Picard and Riker, Fermat's "last theorem" was still unproven.

Andrew Wiles did just that the year after the show ended, formally publishing a proof in 1995. It earned him a knighthood and the 2016 Abel Prize.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNk0QYP0w5Q

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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · May 04, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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Happy #BrubeckDay to all who celebrate it.

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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · May 04, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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Track number five on the new album really motors along, even if I say so myself. I was delighted with the bass line, and the idea to drop in a synth solo or two over the double-tracked guitars worked a treat. (I never, ever hard-pan stereo tracks all the way left and right; for me they work better if there's a little bit of space for them to sit in).

https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/track/someone-else

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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · May 03, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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The fourth track on the new album owes a lot to Heavyocity's amazing piano VST, Ascend. But there are also five stereo tracks of guitar, my trusty Fender Jazz, and a whole bunch of synth stuff as well. The result is a gentle pause, a change of pace, and something (I hope) that's entertainingly cinematic. It was great fun to write.

https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/track/introspection

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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · May 02, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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Replying to @headfirstonly@mastodon.social
@pixelfed Also: zooming in on an image sometimes works (badly, requiring you to keep two fingers in contact with the screen at all times) but often zooming is not possible at all.
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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · May 02, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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Replying to @pixelfed@mastodon.social
@pixelfed On the Android app: the three-dot menu button on someone's profile page doesn't do anything, so you have no options for blocking or muting. I have yet to figure out how to get the app to display alt text for an image. Swiping back from a post reloads the feed you're browsing rather than returning you to the point in the feed you were previously at.
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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · May 02, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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Replying to @jaypeach53@calckeymusic.social
@jaypeach53@calckeymusic.social It's taken me more than ten years to build an audience. I think you just have to stick at it, and there was definitely some screaming into the void involved in the process. Don't give up. Would I be making albums even if nobody listened to them at all? Oh, absolutely. Music is what keeps me from falling completely to pieces, and when you're #autistic like me, that is much more of a likelihood than normal. Making music brings me joy. Anything else is just icing on the cake.
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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · May 02, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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#BandcampFriday is over, and it's been one of the best I've ever had. Bandcamp even gave me a new power-up, hooray! If you bought or streamed the album, or favourited or boosted my posts about it here, thank you. It means a lot to me knowing that I'm not just screaming into the void.

The third track on the album saw me trying to emulate the work of Dixie Dregs and my hero Steve Morse. IMO I didn't do too badly getting there, either.

https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/track/small-magic

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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · May 01, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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The second track on my latest #album features two budget guitars that I absolutely love to bits: a Squier Strat and a Squier Custom II Telecaster as well as a rather more high-end Parker Fly Mojo MIDI (my precious!) Throw in emulations of a Fairlight CMI *and* a Synclavier, and I ended up with a sound that's steeped in 80s pop sensibilities...

https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/track/out-of-the-window

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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · Apr 30, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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The first track on my new #album was written as a theme tune for the sentiment against AI slop in the #FAWM Slack channel, where (for reasons which will remain obscure) tools like suno are referred to as cupcakes. Hates them, we does.

For the #entomologists out there: the buzzing noise that shifts from right to left and back is a slowed-down sample of a Death's-head hawkmoth, acherontia atropos. Because of course it is; that's how I roll.

https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/track/boots-up-cupcake

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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · Apr 30, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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Most of the time I wouldn't want to change my #neurodivergent brain for anything; it's given me abilities and insights that would otherwise be totally beyond me. I see the world from an altered perspective, and it's never boring. Overwhelming, sometimes, yes. But never dull.

But when it's ten to four in the goddamn morning and my mind absolutely will not switch off, I find myself wishing I could be a bit more normal, with a sensible sleep schedule.

#insomnia sucks.

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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · Apr 18, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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Replying to @FlohEinstein@chaos.social
@FlohEinstein @tomgwynplaine 🐍
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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · Apr 12, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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Replying to @catmisgivings@stranger.social
@catmisgivings @cazabon I saw this earlier and was intrigued, but sadly I can't shed any light on it. I'll ask my synth nerd pals, though.
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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · Apr 08, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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I'm seeing a lot of very bleak messages here at the moment from people saying "I just can't take any more." As someone who has suffered depression and burnout for the last half-century (thanks, #autism ) all I can say is: you are not alone. Don't give up. Those feelings mean that you're a decent person, and the world needs people like you more than ever right now.

My credo, as ever, is simple. When things fall apart, make art. It helps. It really does.

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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · Apr 02, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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If ever there was a metaphor for the state of things at the moment, America yeeting "Integrity" into outer space has to be a front-runner #Artemis

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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · Mar 22, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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Replying to @passenger@kolektiva.social
@passenger The book on my shelf that has stayed there since I bought it is "Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour" by John Von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, which was the result of watching "A Beautiful Mind." I completely bounced off the maths. It's *chewy*.
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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · Jan 12, 2026
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop
@cstross@wandering.shop @trottelreiner@rollenspiel.social @Soyweiser@awful.systems @techtakes HPB's acolytes, too. Gurdjieff would have been *so* into cryptocurrency as a low-effort means of making money. And Ouspensky's work is crammed with so much high level edgelord Dunning-Krugerism that it puts Musk to shame.
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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · Dec 15, 2025
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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Replying to @fabio@manganiello.eu
@fabio Notice, too, that by the end of the sequence the woman on the right has two left arms. Generative models like this have no understanding of what it is that is being represented.
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Chris Harris @headfirstonly@mastodon.social · Aug 04, 2025
Chris Harris
@headfirstonly@mastodon.social

Autistic musician. Film nut. Culture nerd. Comics and cartoon scribbler. Retired training and L&D consultant. https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/music (That thing in my banner pic is my Chapman Stick. I've been playing it for more than thirty years and it's the coolest instrument ever made.)

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Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop
@cstross@wandering.shop Shades of William Gibson's "Ugly t-shirt" from Zero History. Papers were written... http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=3099
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