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David W. Barber

@bachbeethoven.bsky.social

1.1K followers 2.1K following 2.7K posts

Internationally bestselling 🇨🇦 author. Journalist/musician/composer. Latest are murder mystery Mugshot (sequel to Hedshot) and Bach, Beethoven and the Grrrls (sequel to Bach, Beethoven and the Boys, etc.). IndentPublishing.com

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David W. Barber @bachbeethoven.bsky.social · 10m

b 1909 – Dorothy Livesay, Canadian poet (d. 1996)
d 2010 – Belva Plain, American author (b. 1919)

David W. Barber @bachbeethoven.bsky.social · 10m

b 1875 – Aleister Crowley, English magician, author (d. 1947)
b 1880 – Healey Willan, London-born Canadian composer (d. 1968). Described himself as “English by birth, Canadian by adoption and Scotch by absorption.”
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David W. Barber @bachbeethoven.bsky.social · 10m

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b 1687 – Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lutenist, composer (d. 1750)
b 1864 – Kamini Roy, British India's first female graduate, Bengali poet, social activist, feminist writer (d. 1933)
b 1872 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer, educator (d. 1958)
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David W. Barber @bachbeethoven.bsky.social · 12h

Finding Nepo

The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 16h

DEI is bad but nepotism is good

David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 16h

Meritocracy www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16h

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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David W. Barber @bachbeethoven.bsky.social · 14h

Calling it now: #Trump will make up some bullshit "American Peace Prize" so he can award it to himself.
#PeacePrize

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David W. Barber @bachbeethoven.bsky.social · 22h

b 1925 – Elmore Leonard, American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter (d. 2013)
d 1542 – Thomas Wyatt, English poet, diplomat (born 1503). Credited with introducing
the sonnet to English literature.
d 1896 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian organist, composer, educator (b. 1824)

David W. Barber @bachbeethoven.bsky.social · 22h

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b 1778 – George Bridgetower, British musician, composer (d. 1860)
b 1885 – François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
b 1918 – Fred Bodsworth, Canadian journalist, author (d. 2012)
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Ron Sexsmith @ronsexsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Now RFK says children who are circumcised too early..
have double the rate of autism
Hmm... sounds like a foreskin-gone conclusion! RS

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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David W. Barber @bachbeethoven.bsky.social · 1d

And today in karma...
#booksky

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Author Thomas Lockhaven @thomaslockhaven.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry Rex...
#library #librarian #booksky #bookban #bannedbooks #read #teachers

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

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Shannon 🦇💩🤪 GOOD TROUBLE 💙💙💙 @shannonmaebreen.bsky.social · 1d

🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼

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David W. Barber @bachbeethoven.bsky.social · 1d

b 1930 – Harold Pinter, English playwright, screenwriter, director Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
b 1943 – Frederick Barthelme, American novelist, short story writer

David W. Barber @bachbeethoven.bsky.social · 1d

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b 1599 – Étienne Moulinié, French composer, director (d. 1676)
b 1669 – Johann Nicolaus Bach, German organist, composer (d. 1753)
b 1813 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901)
b 1917 – Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist, composer (d. 1982)
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Shelby Kent-Stewart @shelbykstewart.bsky.social · 2d

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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 2d

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Deathcliff plus Hellmets @heathcliffhelms.heathcliff.cat · 2d

Brazilian waxing service called The Bush Administration.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 2d

When the Romans took over Greek cities, they would dismantle the amphitheaters and strip the blocks to build arenas.

Forsaking literature and art to promote bloodsport sounds like pure MAGA, don’t it?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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David W. Barber @bachbeethoven.bsky.social · 2d

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b 1835 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer, conductor (d. 1921)
d 1987 – Clare Boothe Luce, American author, playwright, diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Italy (b. 1903)
d 2009 – Stuart M. Kaminsky, American mystery author, educator (b. 1934)

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Allan Campbell aka Al's Patch ☮️ #GivePeaceAChance @alspatch.bsky.social · 3d

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