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Robert Komaniecki

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Music theory and history professor. Will help you with your music theory homework. Dad.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · Jan 26

Putting it out there that I’d like to branch into writing more pop musicology/music theory content for general audiences. If your publication would like a music essay that is fun, informative, and well-sourced, send me a message.

Below, I’ll give examples of things I’ve written about previously:

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 3h

So then a 100% decrease would be nothing, LOL. maybe that’s it

Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 3h

What’s the most charitable read possible on this? Obviously prices going down 100% results in $0.00, anything higher is not possible. Usually I can squint and see what he means when he yaps like this but I honestly can’t decipher it this time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 5h

I cannot imagine being this mean. You are a mean person and these are bad thoughts!

Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 5h

Hating the singer of “Icky Sticky Bubble Gum” because she cares too much about dying children should definitely make you feel bad

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 5h

“What’s your cardio, running to the donut shop?” you have an eating disorder!

Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 5h

Male fitness culture is so stupid, because in this guy’s comments there are 100 dudes telling him he’s fat/undisciplined while 10,000 women saying the horniest, most lewd things imaginable

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 6h

Turns out that AI is not helping with creativity, and is instead inspiring the dumbest people alive to conjure madlibbed plagiarisms that nobody, not even the "creator," gives a shit about

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 6h

A barista recognized me from Instagram today and I don't think my wife is ever gonna stop giving me shit for it lol

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 6h

Johannes Brahms was alive at the same time as Levis blue jeans

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 7h

“The wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus” I gotta hand it to whatever nepo baby failson is handling his social media, they are truly bad at this job in a way that benefits the country

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 12h

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 9h

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, absolutely. It's a little annoying that they can all be counted as the same album for sales, it makes historical bookkeeping and comparisons more complicated.

Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 8h

4 MILLION? jeeeeeeezus christ

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 9h

‘The Life of a Showgirl’ by Taylor Swift is projected to debut at #1 in the US with 4.005 million units, @hitsdd.bsky.social reports.

It’s the biggest debut of all time.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 8h

Imagining the reaction in conservative media if President Hillary Clinton announced a Qatari air force base on US soil

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 8h

I love our community center. I lift weights and do cardio there. The girls have their dance classes there. There's scheduled toddler playtime, music lessons, karate class, sewing club, prayer services, book clubs, pickleball league, cooking classes, clothing swaps, foosball, billiards... it's great.

Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 9h

If somebody told me they were Meta’s VP of Metaverse I would laugh in their face

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 15h

Memo: Vishal Shah, Meta's VP of Metaverse, tells his team to use AI to "go 5X faster" and expects 80% of them to integrate AI into their day-to-day by Q4 (Jason Koebler/Wired)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 10h

lol

Video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown “rolling out” at TSA security checkpoints across the country | CNN

Travelers waiting in airport security lines across the country will now be met with a video where the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown.

www.cnn.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

they can see the polling

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 1d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Vancouver Sun @vancouversun.bsky.social · 1d

Conservative Leader John Rustad acknowledged Thursday that he had caucus leadership search MLAs’ phones at a Monday night caucus meeting after details of a push for a vote on Rustad’s leadership was leaked to the media. Read more:

vancouversun.com/news/rustad-...

B.C. Conservatives search MLAs' phones after media leak, while leader John Rustad says he is not paranoid

Both private and legislature-issued phones were searched. The source of the media leak was not found.

vancouversun.com

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 1d

I laugh every time I see this tweet

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 1d

Bruh Drake lost. It's done. You still arguing different is a tragic moral failure on your part. Out rapped. Outsold. Out awarded. Dissed at the super bowl while his ex crip walked on stage. And lost in a court of law. Only thing left is for Kendrick to adopt Adonis and give a father to look up to.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 1d

Drake will be rich for the rest of his life, but barring actual violence, this is the most decisive, complete, and high-profile loss in rap history, culminating in being called a pedophile to a cheering crowd during the Super Bowl. Absolutely barked up the wrong tree with this.

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 1d

Was actively delighted by the production on this Sabrina Carpenter song and found out it was produced by Jack Antonoff! I didn’t know he had this in him, where have these sorts of inspired arrangements been?!

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 1d

Is this a screenshot of a post of a photo of a paraphrased anecdote?

jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 2d

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

wtaf are you talking about

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