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Shana The Harpy!
@shanahipharpy.bsky.social
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Harp wrangler, messy gardener, aspiring bee keeper, e-trike rider. The plucky 1/2 of the Chaski Flute & Harp Duo. Austin, Texas. ChaskiMusic.com
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Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · Aug 30
Happy #playmusicontheporchday!
We started celebrating early with a protest music sing-along. Woody Guthrie for the win!
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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 13h
20th time I’ve posted this Doonesbury since 2105.

I’m supposed to get a free set of (Trump) steak knives now.
Doonesbury
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 15h
Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Kirk (Antifa Social Secretary™️) Murphy 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 ❌👑 @kirkmurphy.bsky.social · 21h
Albertus Magnus: Official Saint of Anitifa™️.

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-C-M-F- @chrispps.bsky.social · 21h
gonna re-up frog-wielding Albertus Magnus from outside my parish given that the emerging symbols of resistance to fascism this week are inflatable frog outfits and monstrance-bearing priests
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Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 14h
Great news. Congratulations!
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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 17h
Fietser 😉
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18h
It’s pronounced cyclist.
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Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 17h
I’m pondering a 🐸 costume for October 18. Not an inflatable one, something based on a green coif-style head covering with the requisite eyes attached at a jaunty angle.
How to a Make Medieval Coif
How to make a medieval linen skullcap
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Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 19h
Blessings on them.🪉
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Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 21h
It’s a great phrase! Enthusiastic collectors, indeed.🪉
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S. J. Tucker, Song Shaper @sjtuckermusic.bsky.social · 22h
If you’re in Indianapolis or Nashville and you might enjoy helping 3 musicians find a venue/better yet host a house concert Nov 6 & Nov 11 respectively, would u let me know? The musicians are me, @gingerdoss.bsky.social and Lynda Millard, pictured below. Thx, friends! #MusicSky #WitchSky #PaganSky
3 musicians (L to R Lynda Millard, S. J. Tucker, and Ginger Doss) performing live with bass, djembe, and piano, singing & playing their hearts out.
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Dr. Disinformation 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇺🇸 (NAFO Fella) 💙 @blackhat5555.bsky.social · 1d
Hahaha
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 9d
everything is terrible so here's the Muppets channeling Hamilton and bringing me untold joy (via the brilliant brettevansmafrog on insta)
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 23h
"Enthusiastic Collectors of Gaelic Songs and Irish Harp Tunes". My article of 2013 must have been influential. The phrase has been adopted in a crowd funder to get their tunes recorded!

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Two Ladies and a Harp: the Maclean-Clephane Sisters of Torloisk on Mull (and Edinburgh)
You know how you buy a new car, and suddenly everyone seems to be driving the same white Fiat 500? It’s the same with research topics. “Enthusiastic collectors of Gaelic songs and Irish…
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Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 22h
Holy smokes, y’all! One of my favorite harpy folks has an incredible new project. Do take a look & pitch in a bit if you are able. I did. (And I’ll be eager to play the tunes.🪉)
Thanks, @karenmca.bsky.social for posting about it!
Ailie Robertson - the Maclean Clephane Manuscripts
Bringing 200-year-old harp manuscripts back to life with a new book & CD. Help bring this project to life!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 1d
Won’t some dice decide most now?

#palindrome
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Chaski @chaski85.bsky.social · 1d
After a hugely successful tour of Postcards from South America, Chaski’s 40th anniversary year has yet another concert 🎶 November 30 at Oak Branch Concerts! Bring the whole family to hear “Women’s Work”! oakbranchmusic.org #chaski40th @flautadita60.bsky.social @shanahipharpy.bsky.social
It’s the perfect way to round out your Thanksgiving weekend. Shana and Adita dressed in block with Maria Sibylla Merian scarves, holding harp, caja, bass flute, sikus, flute Visit https://www.chaskimusic.com to learn more about our 40th anniversary season! ¡Visite https://www.chaskimusic.com para obtener más información sobre nuestra temporada del aniversario cuadragésimo!
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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 1d
I don't mean to be shamelessly self-promoting today, but it's the birthday of one of my heroes—Eleanor Roosevelt. Here's my article about women's peace songs sent to her in the 1930s, made possible by the FDR Library and the National Archives system:
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“It’s up to the women”: Women’s Peace Songs for Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt’s papers in the FDR Presidential Library contain approximately seventy musical works calling for world peace, the lyrics and/or music of which were created by women. Women’s peace so...
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Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 1d
It’s a perfect morning for practicing on the porch.
A photo taken through the strings of my lever harp, with the harp’s frame framing the picture. We’re outside on the front porch, overlooking my marvelously messy garden. But the star of the show, the real focal point, as seen through the harp strings. is a gigantic black pot of orange marigolds atop a red and white cooler.
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Pam Mandel @nerdseyeview.bsky.social · 2d
i have this deeply absurd desire to see the national mall covered in portland frogs on no kings day. cities streets covered in dancing portland frogs across the nation. small town squares populated with portland frogs. a biblical quantity of portland frogs.
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Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 1d
@prestontowers.bsky.social Oh, no. I just now followed you & I’m you 666th follower! Horrors & nightmares, as my sainted mother would have said. Promise I am not the actual Devil, just a feisty old lady.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d
Suggested protest chant: WHO LET THE FROGS OUT (WHO WHO WHO WHO)
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d
cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 1d
The Book of Kells is such a beautiful piece of art.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d
The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online
The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online
If you know nothing else about medieval European illuminated manuscripts, you surely know the Book of Kells. “One of Ireland’s greatest cultural treasures” comments Medievalists.net, “it is set apart ...
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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d
Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid
Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 1d
Encouraged by the example of MIT, I wrote today to the new president of UT-Austin, my alma mater, to ask him to reject Trump's foolish and authoritarian "compact."

For other UT alums, Jim Davis's e-mail is [email protected].
Email to president@utexas.edu. Subject: President Trump's Compact. Dear President Davis, Good morning. I'm a two-time graduate of UT-Austin (BA English 1989, PhD American Studies 2003). My parents are both UT grads. I've been a visiting professor at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, and I'm a Life Member of the Texas Exes. I'm a proud, multigenerational Longhorn. I'd like to ask you urgently to reject President Trump's harmful and illegal "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." As I'm sure you know, MIT has already rejected the compact, and no doubt many other respected institutions will do so soon. Free inquiry and academic freedom are critical to the success and proper functioning of any university, and it would be tragic if UT-Austin were to sacrifice its long tradition of academic excellence by submitting to an unconstitutional and autocratic demand from the White House. It is simply not the president's right or role to dictate to any university what its faculty can teach, say, or research. He must be resisted. The UT community, and you as its leader, should stand firm against the president's direct challenge to the integrity of the University and to the prestige of the degrees we earned there. Please reject this outrageous assault on academic freedom and the University's most deeply held values. Thank you. Respectfully, Bryan Edward Stone, Ph.D.
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Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 1d
This is a pretty good account of it!👇🏻
The troubled history of Mangiasaurus, the dinosaur that 'keeps Austin weird'
The dinosaur, or "Mangiasaurus," has stood on top of the grocery store for several years, but its future hasn't always been certain.
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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 1d
It’s tradition that when you see the frogs, you show them respect 🫡

(Someone should do the Creed cut with the footage)
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