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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 5h

Just started an HOA meeting and it's already a disaster. I'm just glad I joined via zoom. Last place I wanna be right now is in that small meeting room with those people.

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 9h

Indeed, invisibility is a super power.

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Muppets - Ben Vereen - Mr Cellophane

YouTube video by JayB7869

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 10h

I am Pootie Tang!

Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 10h

Be still, my rock & roll heart.

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 17h

Oh look it’s a day that ends in Y & the Governor of Texas is afraid of rainbows. These dickheads are afraid of the stupidest shit: books, hair, rainbows, art… the list goes on and on.

Chron.com @chron.com · 17h

"Texans expect their taxpayer dollars to be used wisely, not advance political agendas on Texas roadways."

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declares war on state's rainbow crosswalks

"Texans expect their taxpayer dollars to be used wisely, not advance political agendas on Texas roadways."

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 19h

This is what happens when every asshole has a gun.

Chron.com @chron.com · 19h

Details surrounding the bloody string of shootings remain murky, police said.

Fatal rampage across Sugar Land and Houston leaves 4 dead

Details surrounding the bloody string of shootings remain murky, police said.

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a glorious writing agenda.

Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 1d

lmao that dude is a wild child

Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 1d

Time to get hype for talking to a 6yo about art and music! 💰

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 1d

Time to get hype for talking to a 6yo about art and music! 💰

Reposted by Audrey

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

Death by logic!

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 1d

They’re all so fantastic.

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Gowns by Edith Head

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 2d

OMG Bob the Drag Queen hooked up with a screamer & he just did the impersonation 😂

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DeJa Skye: Get Ready With Me | Bob The Drag Queen

YouTube video by Bob The Drag Queen

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 2d

Alright friends I have good news. We can listen to BBC 3 Radio here in America. WE’VE GOT NEW PURCELL UPON US!

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 2d

Further to my posts about the Purcell song discovery, you can find out more about music in English regional archives by listening to BBC R3's The Song Detectorists: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, The Song Detectorists - Episode guide

All episodes of The Song Detectorists

www.bbc.co.uk

Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 2d

Now that we ran off that terrible board member, my day job has improved exponentially. It’s amazing how much damage one person can do to a team.

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 2d

Right on. That’s 3:45pm my time. I’ve got it in my calendar.THANK YOU

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 2d

That is so good to know, cos I can tune in! Do you happen to know what time that program will air on the 24th?

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 2d

There we go. Now we’re talkin’.

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed! You’re a bright spot in a sea of boring.

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 2d

I just checked, and I can get BBC Radio 3 here in America! I’m totally putting this on my calendar.

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 2d

Men, what is stopping you from dressing this way?

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 2d

"The printed song, “As soon as day began to peep”, was written for a character called Monsieur le Prate, a French fop, in a 1691 play titled Love for Money, which lampooned a girls’ boarding school. Its author was Thomas D’Urfey, a frequent collaborator of Purcell."

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 2d

A kid just asked me what the difference between “drop” and “fall” is, and I had to think about it.

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 2d

This is so exciting I may very well blow an excitement fuse.

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 2d

🦄 my first student is a no show. I love free money 💰

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Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 2d

OMG new Purcell just dropped! Oooooo I wanna learn it.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 2d

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

Audrey @sweetaudrey.bsky.social · 2d

hahahahaha 🐼

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