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Goblin Gower, PhD (the Ph is for Phantasm) @medievaliste.bsky.social · 1d

Shit like this demonstrates why the youth of America desperately need remedial music history classes

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

drake, amazingly, still finding brand new ways to lose to kendrick lamar

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

NEW: Federal judge dismisses Drake's defamation case against Kendrick Lamar storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The issue in this case is whether "Not Like Us" can reasonably be understood to convey as a factual matter that Drake is a pedophile or that he has engaged in sexual relations with minors. In light of the overall context in which the statements in the Recording were made, the Court holds that it cannot.

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Liner Notes Danny @linernotesdanny.bsky.social · 2d

They work so well as the foundational elements of a piece of music because they‘re universal elements of the human experience—but they’re also, specifically, elements of the human experience that people who are into BDSM have to spend a lot of time thinking about

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Liner Notes Danny @linernotesdanny.bsky.social · 2d

Of those I only know the 3rd Quartet… but yes, trust! And (more obviously) the use of sensory deprivation to heighten other stimuli, and also (in that piece anyway) *consent*—the players are essentially “cruising” a dark room, sending out nonverbal signals to negotiate how they’ll play together

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Liner Notes Danny @linernotesdanny.bsky.social · 2d

"sir, can i ask why you're drinking TWO huge beers?"
"officer, I'm..."
*turns to camera*
"Dual IPA"
*cop starts levitating*

undead girlfriend @hausofholes.bsky.social · Sep 6

One Lipa. Dua Lipa.

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Sam Amidon @samamidon.bsky.social · 3d

Read about my father, Peter Amidon, who has passed on: aosa.org/peter-amidon...

Peter Amidon, Beloved Folk Singer, Storyteller, Music Educator, AOSA Advocate – American Orff-Schulwerk Association

aosa.org

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Sam Amidon @samamidon.bsky.social · 2d

Peter and Mary Alice Amidon - Parting Friends (from the Word of Mouth Chorus album Rivers Of Delight, 1978)

Parting Friends - Mary Alice Copeland, Peter Amidon - 1978

YouTube video by Peter Amidon

www.youtube.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Liner Notes Danny @linernotesdanny.bsky.social · 2d

I haven’t stopped thinking about the piece and now have even MORE thoughts about the ways BDSM has influenced Haas’s music (the short version can basically be expressed with the old saying, “everything is about sex, except for sex, which is about power”)

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 2d

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

bit.ly

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 2d

Marmaduke, six, is reported to have been the subject of near constant vocal stimming by Ellie Mulligan, 32. In response, Marmaduke concealed a microphone within his floofy orange trousers, and he is now rich beyond his wildest dreams.

Cat records chart-topping album of autistic owner’s little songs

A cat has become one of the world’s best-selling musical artists overnight, after secretly recording his owner while she sang about him. Marmaduke, six, is reported to have been the subject of near…

thedailytism.com

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 3d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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Liner Notes Danny @linernotesdanny.bsky.social · 3d

Mollena Lee Williams-Haas shared my review and I’ve never felt so “senpai noticed me” in all my years as a critic

Liner Notes Danny @linernotesdanny.bsky.social · 7d

I reviewed 11,000 Strings by Georg Friedrich Haas for @parterrebox.bsky.social:

parterre.com/2025/10/03/t...

THE 500 FINGERS OF DR. H
"Surely you agree that piano concerti are inherently political."

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 5d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3d

GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3d

you're already seeing & will see more stories about how various attempts at reducing energy use "aren't working," etc -- those are propaganda. this is fantastic

Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 3d

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy