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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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Pam Mandel @nerdseyeview.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 3h

@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 · 6h

Suggested protest chant: WHO LET THE FROGS OUT (WHO WHO WHO WHO)

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 6h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 6h

The Book of Kells is such a beautiful piece of art.

Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 14h

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 ...

www.openculture.com

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 17h

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 · 7h

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 · 8h

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.

www.kvue.com

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 13h

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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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 14h

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 12h

Shakespeare = the ultimate "there's always a tweet"

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12h

Would I could find a fine frog!

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Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks. I’ve had it for not quite 2 years & so almost all of my errands on it. I love that it’s purple!

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Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 13h

I think Cinnamon knows more than they are letting on.

Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 13h

Austin folks know where this is, but for the rest of y’all, I rode my trike to Wheatsville Co-op South. Got the obligatory photo-op w/the 🦖. (I know @americanfietser.bsky.social likes to see pics of bikes out and about, taking care of business.)

A photo of my purple e-trike. It has an orange & pink Day of the Dead themed grocery bag in the back basket. It is on the sidewalk in front of a store. Just behind it is a very large green cartoon dinosaur statue wearing my lavender bike helmet.
The dinosaur is a relative of the famous Mangiasaurus, that roamed North Austin back in the day. The South Austin cousin is smaller.

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 17h

We are delighted to announce that on Thursday 6th November, broadcaster, journalist and novelist Sally Magnusson will be coming to Stromness Library to talk about her new book The Shapeshifter's Daughter, with local historian and writer Tom Muir.

A poster for The Shapeshifter's Daughter by Sally Magnusson

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · 17h

Hello, humans! ‘Heirloom,’ my third album for @nonesuch.com, is out today. The LP documents a piano concerto I wrote for my father, Jeffrey Kahane. It’s a very personal piece—something of an aural family scrapbook. I'd be delighted if you were to give it a spin!
gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com

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Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 17h

I have a day off! My plans: cycle to Wheatsville Co-op; plant parsley & dill; read (Samantha Irby’s “Quietly Hostile Essays”); play fun harp tunes on the porch.

I’ve already done the Wordle which, tbh, I should have gotten in fewer tries! 🤔

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Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 19h

Today is John Prine's birthday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=suoJ...

John Prine - Jesus: The Missing Years | Austin City Limits TV

YouTube video by AustinCityLimitsTV

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 20h

Calling all lost Americans, new release here.

(Quite interesting, actually.) 🎹🎻

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Lost American Violin Sonatas, Vol. 1 | Stream on IDAGIO

Listen to Lost American Violin Sonatas, Vol. 1 by Solomia Soroka, Arthur Greene, Phillip Silver, Rossetter Gleason Cole, Henry Holden Huss, Henry Schoenefeld. Stream now on IDAGIO

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Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 1d

Home from the Symphony of the Hills season opener in Kerrville, TX. We began w/the Adagietto from Mahler 5 in memory of those lost in the floods. (I grew up there; this was very personal.) I played well & only cried a little. If you know the piece, the F major chord at measure 72 was my undoing.😥

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 1d

A nice writeup of Secret Society’s recent performance at Drake University by Lucy Matlock for the Times-Delphic, Drake’s student newspaper.

timesdelphic.com/83557/featur...

Darcy James Argue brings renowned jazz to campus - The Times-Delphic

The blaring, brassy sound of an 18-member jazz band filled the auditorium as the audience sat in awe and excitement. Horns resonated throughout the space as the pianist and bassist...

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Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 1d

Lol! Yes, it is unfair. When teatime rolls around and we are getting peckish, out come the tortilla chips. (Usually w/salsa.) Texas is a bit of a Hellmouth at the moment, but we have this food group right. Also breakfast tacos.

Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm. Own-goal there, my friend. Crispy/salty, as a food group, can’t be ignored. Of course, I live in a world where chips + salsa, guacamole, or queso is a lifestyle.

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 1d

Completely non-political good news:

The Martin guitar company is reissuing its 00-DB Jeff Tweedy model. I got a used one of these from the original run–number 993 to be precise. Lovely sound. A much better guitar than I am a player.

Now there will be more of them making sweet music. How grand!

Martin Guitar Reissues the 00DB Jeff Tweedy and Introduces the 000 Jr E Jeff Tweedy

C. F. Martin & Co.® is proud to announce the return of a fan favorite and the launch of an exciting new model: the 00DB Jeff Tweedy and the all-new 000 Jr E Jeff Tweedy. Both signature guitars were de...

www.martinguitar.com

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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