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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 5h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 11h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 13h

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

UT Austin wants to eliminate its Black studies, Latino Studies, and gender studies departments. Tell them you won't stand for it.
UT President, Jim Davis, president@utexas.edu
UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, provost@utexas.edu
College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu
#EducationalLiberty #SaveUT

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 1d

At an academic conference and the most common conversations I've had is stuff like, "How many faculty is your school trying to fire? Do you still have professional development funds? Do you still have an English department?" Fun times!

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 1d

If I see that weird clearly ai-generated cartoon style I block the author.

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 1d

My daughter has a school assignment to write a scary story in just a few lines, and I showed her this from Clickhole, which is some of the most efficient horror scripting I've ever read.

Clickhole headline: "Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It's Like to Be In Space"

Astronaut Barry Wilmore, pictured in an orange spacesuit, says "“You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

Vladdy Jr. with his best Big Papi impression DAAAAA YANKEES LOSE

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 2d

❤️ Chicago

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3d

California joins the nation in recognizing Disability Employment Awareness Month — a celebration of the 7M+ adults with disabilities who call California home and enrich our state.

Together, we can keep growing an inclusive workforce for the fourth-largest economy in the world.

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 3d

side grumble: why don't we have the totally fine, totally free AMS-Announce anymore?

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 3d

here's a CFP that popped up in my socials that looks great, for all you music & minimalism folks—conference next spring at UM-College Park www.minimalismsociety.net/umd2026

The year 2026 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach, and Catherine Christer Hennix’s The Electric Harpsichord, all epochal works that have helped define minimalism in the world of experimental music and the popular imagination. It is also the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Minimalist Music. In this year of landmark anniversaries, the Tenth International Conference on Music and Minimalism will focus on celebrating and interrogating minimalist and postminimalist music in its many forms, examining its impact across the arts and global culture.

The Tenth International Conference on Music and Minimalism will take place May 7–10, 2026, hosted by the University of Maryland’s School of Music in College Park, MD, right outside Washington, DC. Concerts will include the music of Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Julius Eastman, Meredith Monk, John Adams, and composer and organist Kali Malone.

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 4d

If I'm gonna assign "short but necessary" anythings then...
#theyrelearning
#butwhat

a slide headed "Next class: Bach asks to speak to the manager" with a portrait of Bach and a speech bubble that reads "...and ANOTHER thing" alongside a screenshot of his famously complainy "short but necessary memorandum on a well-appointed church music"

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 4d

one of my students put me on to Arthur Russell and ahhhhh www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY6n...

Arthur Russell - That's Us/Wild Combination

YouTube video by Audika Records

www.youtube.com

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 9d

... At the Basilica site, Walter Denny Jr. shares a Mi'kmaw Catholic chant for St Anne." 5/5

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 9d

"Interacting with images and texts in the app, listeners will hear Graham speaking or singing about the importance of the ocean to the Mi'kmaw way of life, about Kitpu (the eagle), about the love of samqwan (water) and about treatises, sacred ground, and the Ancestors. 4/

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 9d

"The app-based Soundwalk has been developed in collaboration with Dalhousie University's Jennifer Bain and Cape Breton University's Marcia Ostashewski and the Centre for Sound Communities." The partnership with @dact-fragments.bsky.social —a team of plainchant scholars—invites vital reflections 3/

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 9d

From the press release: "A new Mi’kmaw SoundWalk featuring storyteller and singer Graham Marshall and singer Walter Denny Jr. is set to launch on Tuesday, Sept. 30, to mark this year's Truth and Reconciliation Day." 2/

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 9d

In Canada, yesterday was Truth and Reconciliation Day: an occasion to commit to taking steps on the path toward fully acknowledging and addressing injustices to Indigenous peoples and moving towards reconciliation. For some these steps might be on a Mi’kmaw SoundWalk in Halifax (see image below) 1/

poster reading Mi'kmaw Soundwalk: A self-guided SoundWalk in downtown Halifax: experience Kjipuktuk from a Mi'kmaw perspective with storyteller and singer Graham Marshall and singer Walter Denny, with a photo of Denny holding a drum, and at the bottom a button that invites users to download the app with a QR code to the right, and a tab that says DACT Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 9d

Newsom's pandering exposes how malleable his principles are & will not win over the many who've justifiably lost faith in a system that's failed them repeatedly—& of course he's not the only one to scramble right instead of finding ways to *affirm* principles that honor & defend basic human dignity

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 9d

but their principles do not change, and so their approval ratings are consistently high. They are trusted by a majority of people (and even those who vilify AOC vilify her because of her principles and convictions).

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 9d

we have examples of the principled leadership and calibrated messaging Bouie talks about in Bernie and AOC—we see it both in their tremendous staying power and in the frustration, which I've felt too, at their rhetorical compromise or delayed response on hot-button issues

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 9d

as good a roadmap for the political left and center left in this country as one might hope for.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)

Opinion | Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America

www.nytimes.com

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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 10d

they're out there announcing "War is peace" which is very bad but hear me out don't bother with Orwell because the best books are those that tell you what you know already

Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 10d

oh no
#TheyreLearning
#ButWhat

A lecture slide that reads: Lecture 11: Dance Like Everybody's Watching with an image showing a social dance at the French Baroque court and a pink ornamental divider on the right

a screenshot of a lecture slide with a snippet of a Sarabande from one of the Bach cello suites with the heading Next class: Compose like Nobody's Dancing (today's lecture is "Dance like Everybody's Watching"

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