Judd Greenstein
@juddgreenstein.bsky.social
I make music and help others make the music they want to make. Composer, co-AD of New Amsterdam Records. None of us are free until all of us are free. He/him.
My takeaway from all this pie nonsense is that some of you have not had a good plum pie.
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
My takeaway from all this pie nonsense is that some of you have not had a good plum pie.
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
Watching the Mr Plow episode of The Simpsons and I forgot that he gets the key of the city “for allowing people to get where they’re going without public transportation or carpooling”
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Watching the Mr Plow episode of The Simpsons and I forgot that he gets the key of the city “for allowing people to get where they’re going without public transportation or carpooling”
Fame! I wanna live [four fewer years] / I wanna learn how to fly [low]
Fame reduces musician life expectancy by four years, study finds
Fame reduces musician life expectancy by four years, study finds
Being a famous singer can lower your life as much as occasionally smoking cigarettes.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Fame! I wanna live [four fewer years] / I wanna learn how to fly [low]
I was on a phone call with my sisters when this box bug decided it needed to land on my glasses, for reasons unknown. To my credit I was never *scared* but it was a startling moment.
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I was on a phone call with my sisters when this box bug decided it needed to land on my glasses, for reasons unknown. To my credit I was never *scared* but it was a startling moment.
Am I eternal
Or an eternalist?
Or an eternalist?
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Am I eternal
Or an eternalist?
Or an eternalist?
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Rush Hour being quietly the most cursed franchise
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Rush Hour being quietly the most cursed franchise
I don’t know what “pie discourse” means but stone fruit pie (plum/peach/cherry) is among the greatest foods ever conceived and anyone who tells you otherwise is an emissary of Satan
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I don’t know what “pie discourse” means but stone fruit pie (plum/peach/cherry) is among the greatest foods ever conceived and anyone who tells you otherwise is an emissary of Satan
Find someone who loves you like BlueSky folks love Isaac Chotiner
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Find someone who loves you like BlueSky folks love Isaac Chotiner
This is so good ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/samaa-...
سماع [Sama'a] (Audition), by أحمد [Ahmed]
4 track album
ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This is so good ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/samaa-...
Unexpected Silkroad Ensemble appearance
Boring hobby I've picked up: Listening to a Grammy winning album in some genre I don't know much about. Probably not putting Silkroad and Yo-Yo Ma on heavy rotation but why not challenge myself a little as I work. Music that hasn't become familiar/comforting puts you in a different state of mind.
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Unexpected Silkroad Ensemble appearance
TIL! (And I grew up in NYC and lived there for the first half of my adult life)
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
TIL! (And I grew up in NYC and lived there for the first half of my adult life)
6yo wanted to listen to The Black Cauldron storybook in the car and I had forgotten
a) how into those books I was as a kid (though this was the storybook of the much inferior Disney adaptation)
And
b) how they are Temu Lord of the Rings
a) how into those books I was as a kid (though this was the storybook of the much inferior Disney adaptation)
And
b) how they are Temu Lord of the Rings
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
6yo wanted to listen to The Black Cauldron storybook in the car and I had forgotten
a) how into those books I was as a kid (though this was the storybook of the much inferior Disney adaptation)
And
b) how they are Temu Lord of the Rings
a) how into those books I was as a kid (though this was the storybook of the much inferior Disney adaptation)
And
b) how they are Temu Lord of the Rings
racism and xenophobia are costly AF
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
racism and xenophobia are costly AF
The word “cooperate” is so unfair to 6 year olds still learning to read
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
The word “cooperate” is so unfair to 6 year olds still learning to read
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Many Bothans died to get us this information
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Many Bothans died to get us this information
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📣 WESTERN MA - Join our Home Depot protest
on Black Friday, at 12 Noon, Rte 9 (Russell St.,) Hadley, MA
just outside of Home Depot
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
on Black Friday, at 12 Noon, Rte 9 (Russell St.,) Hadley, MA
just outside of Home Depot
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
November 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
📣 WESTERN MA - Join our Home Depot protest
on Black Friday, at 12 Noon, Rte 9 (Russell St.,) Hadley, MA
just outside of Home Depot
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
on Black Friday, at 12 Noon, Rte 9 (Russell St.,) Hadley, MA
just outside of Home Depot
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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It makes a loot of sense.
The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty.
Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.
The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty.
Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.
I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
It makes a loot of sense.
The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty.
Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.
The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty.
Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.
Realized that Is It Cake occupies the same space in my family now (where I’m the dad) as America’s Funniest Home Videos did when I was a kid and I can’t think of a better summation of how our culture has improved
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Realized that Is It Cake occupies the same space in my family now (where I’m the dad) as America’s Funniest Home Videos did when I was a kid and I can’t think of a better summation of how our culture has improved
Hard to miss the prescience of this show right now.
November 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Hard to miss the prescience of this show right now.
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White people get obsessed with being the legendary John Brown because they see it as how they can center themselves as white people to save Black people, they don't see being down with or in community with or following the lead of Black people as part of it, because they don't do those things.
November 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
White people get obsessed with being the legendary John Brown because they see it as how they can center themselves as white people to save Black people, they don't see being down with or in community with or following the lead of Black people as part of it, because they don't do those things.
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