Marguerite M
@ad4stra.bsky.social
Science teacher. Singer and classical musician. Board game and TTRPG enthusiast. ADHD. Mom of littles, pro-vaccine, anti-capitalist. 🧡 my rescue pittie. She/her.
Not horrifying at all…
Israeli politicians have openly celebrated the renewed attacks on Gaza, with far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stating that this phase of fighting will be “completely different” from before.
March 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Not horrifying at all…
It would be funny if it weren’t so toxic and unconscionable.
Read this piece, and imagine a stout German churchgoing lady explaining, in tones of genteel outrage, why voting for Hitler in the 1932 elections was a perfectly respectable thing to do, despite the dreadful smears being put about by those awful socialists.
The joke flew so far over this lady’s head they should divert air traffic
March 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
It would be funny if it weren’t so toxic and unconscionable.
CW: slurs (used by and quoted from Elon Musk)
A former commander of an International Space Station mission counters Elon Musk’s misinformation about the current ISS mission.
Musk lashes out and calls him “fully retarded” and an “idiot.”
Musk lashes out and calls him “fully retarded” and an “idiot.”
![Andreas Mogensen
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What a lie.
And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media.
Acyn @ @Acyn •1d
Hannity: You're going to help rescue two astronauts
Musk: They were left up there for political reasons
[video of Musk on Fox News]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/bafkreiezd2lphjldltb6hmuolmbrhqc6tbn55oxjppmlbifwqi6rwpu63e@jpeg)
February 21, 2025 at 8:50 AM
CW: slurs (used by and quoted from Elon Musk)
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"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.
February 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.
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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
February 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
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This is fucking fire but also, amazingly, the judge is doing her damned best to establishing on the record that they don’t have a rational basis for their actions.
Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military:
February 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is fucking fire but also, amazingly, the judge is doing her damned best to establishing on the record that they don’t have a rational basis for their actions.
Another installment of Black History Month for classical vocal/choral music: Walk in Beauty, Walk in Light by living composer Judy A. Rose.
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In Medio: Walk In Beauty, Walk In Light - Judy A. Rose
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February 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Another installment of Black History Month for classical vocal/choral music: Walk in Beauty, Walk in Light by living composer Judy A. Rose.
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"Everything is a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works" should have to run as a nonstop chyron on every US news channel.
Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.
February 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Everything is a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works" should have to run as a nonstop chyron on every US news channel.
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Important and appropriate A1 play in the NYT print paper today for the story Kirsten Grind and I did on the 11 federal agencies that had targeted Musk companies for investigations/lawsuit that have now been disrupted in a way that benefits Musk. A free link as well.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
February 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Important and appropriate A1 play in the NYT print paper today for the story Kirsten Grind and I did on the 11 federal agencies that had targeted Musk companies for investigations/lawsuit that have now been disrupted in a way that benefits Musk. A free link as well.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
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All books are dessert books if they (a) make you happy and (b) you eat them after dinner
February 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
All books are dessert books if they (a) make you happy and (b) you eat them after dinner
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collapse came with removal of the fairness doctrine in the 80s and citizens united.
these two things fundamentally must return in order to restore balance.
let’s find a way to get a version of these back.
start local, go state, go wide.
these two things fundamentally must return in order to restore balance.
let’s find a way to get a version of these back.
start local, go state, go wide.
February 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
collapse came with removal of the fairness doctrine in the 80s and citizens united.
these two things fundamentally must return in order to restore balance.
let’s find a way to get a version of these back.
start local, go state, go wide.
these two things fundamentally must return in order to restore balance.
let’s find a way to get a version of these back.
start local, go state, go wide.
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An American flag built on the backs of Black people...
Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways
All this in New Orleans... What a moment
Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways
All this in New Orleans... What a moment
February 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
An American flag built on the backs of Black people...
Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways
All this in New Orleans... What a moment
Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways
All this in New Orleans... What a moment
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This Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.
February 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.
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You're cooking your eggs incorrectly 🐣🧪
Periodic cooking of eggs - Communications Engineering
Emilia Di Lorenzo and colleagues propose an approach to address the energy transport problem of cooking the albumen and yolk of a boiled egg at their optimal temperatures without separation. By altern...
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February 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
You're cooking your eggs incorrectly 🐣🧪
Okay, so in general as I’ve been studying a number of 20th century Black American composers (Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Harry T. Burleigh, et al) I’ve been pretty intentional about largely focusing on non-idiomatic art song.
February 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Okay, so in general as I’ve been studying a number of 20th century Black American composers (Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Harry T. Burleigh, et al) I’ve been pretty intentional about largely focusing on non-idiomatic art song.
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This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
February 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
Today I was driving back from getting nesting materials and bird seed at my local Backyard Bird Shop with my 4yo, and happened upon a stalled SUV on a reasonably well-travelled neighborhood street.
February 9, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Today I was driving back from getting nesting materials and bird seed at my local Backyard Bird Shop with my 4yo, and happened upon a stalled SUV on a reasonably well-travelled neighborhood street.
10000000%
As the expected Christian Nationalism EO came in, I’m seeing a bunch of “this isn’t real Christianity” noise in my mentions.
Nope.
Christian friends. 1/x 🧵
This is 💯 part of the history of Christianity, dating to Constantine, to the Holy Roman Empire, forced conversions, Inquisitions, +
Nope.
Christian friends. 1/x 🧵
This is 💯 part of the history of Christianity, dating to Constantine, to the Holy Roman Empire, forced conversions, Inquisitions, +
February 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
10000000%
So my first thought when I read this was (often my thought about the national parks) that stewardship should be given back to tribes who were the original stewards of these lands, and to revisit David Treuer’s piece in The Atlantic from 2021, “Return the National Parks to the Tribes.”
February 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
So my first thought when I read this was (often my thought about the national parks) that stewardship should be given back to tribes who were the original stewards of these lands, and to revisit David Treuer’s piece in The Atlantic from 2021, “Return the National Parks to the Tribes.”
Tonight’s offering in my ongoing Black History Month classical music series: Damien Geter’s “An African American Requiem.”
February 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Tonight’s offering in my ongoing Black History Month classical music series: Damien Geter’s “An African American Requiem.”
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At a meeting today with staffers for Senators Markey and Warren, the staffers made two concrete asks:
1. Please call or email and share your stories about how the current administration’s actions are hurting or will hurt you personally. The Senators can use these human stories to persuade those /1
1. Please call or email and share your stories about how the current administration’s actions are hurting or will hurt you personally. The Senators can use these human stories to persuade those /1
February 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
At a meeting today with staffers for Senators Markey and Warren, the staffers made two concrete asks:
1. Please call or email and share your stories about how the current administration’s actions are hurting or will hurt you personally. The Senators can use these human stories to persuade those /1
1. Please call or email and share your stories about how the current administration’s actions are hurting or will hurt you personally. The Senators can use these human stories to persuade those /1
Saw someone post “genocide is bad, actually.” That’s it*. That’s the skeet.
February 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Saw someone post “genocide is bad, actually.” That’s it*. That’s the skeet.
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NEW: The Jewish leaders who led the early X ad boycott under Musk released a new letter. We call on:
1. Companies to pull ads from X
2. Google/Apple to drop X from stores
3. People with 100k+ followers to leave X
4. Jewish orgs to speak up
5. Major shareholders to pressure Musk
1. Companies to pull ads from X
2. Google/Apple to drop X from stores
3. People with 100k+ followers to leave X
4. Jewish orgs to speak up
5. Major shareholders to pressure Musk
Analysis | Some Jewish leaders renew calls for X boycott as Musk’s power grows
Citing “Nazi salute” and antisemitic content, rabbis break with ADL in pressing advertisers, app stores to drop X
wapo.st
February 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
NEW: The Jewish leaders who led the early X ad boycott under Musk released a new letter. We call on:
1. Companies to pull ads from X
2. Google/Apple to drop X from stores
3. People with 100k+ followers to leave X
4. Jewish orgs to speak up
5. Major shareholders to pressure Musk
1. Companies to pull ads from X
2. Google/Apple to drop X from stores
3. People with 100k+ followers to leave X
4. Jewish orgs to speak up
5. Major shareholders to pressure Musk
In tonight’s edition of my classical music Black History Month series, I’m featuring one of the earliest-known l Western composers of African descent: Vicente Lusitano.
February 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
In tonight’s edition of my classical music Black History Month series, I’m featuring one of the earliest-known l Western composers of African descent: Vicente Lusitano.
Tonight’s addition to my part-time musician’s Black History Month:
Margaret Bonds: CREDO.
First, a plug for a LIVE EVENT: I’ll be singing in the chorus on this piece in March with Resonance Ensemble and Orchestra Nova: www.resonancechoral.org/resonance-nova
Margaret Bonds: CREDO.
First, a plug for a LIVE EVENT: I’ll be singing in the chorus on this piece in March with Resonance Ensemble and Orchestra Nova: www.resonancechoral.org/resonance-nova
Concerts and Events: RESONANCE NOVA — Resonance Ensemble
Music as catalyst for change. Resonance Ensemble
and Orchestra Nova NW (formerly PCSO) join
forces to present Margaret Bonds’s Credo, Caroline
Shaw’s To the Hands, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s
Dona no...
www.resonancechoral.org
February 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Tonight’s addition to my part-time musician’s Black History Month:
Margaret Bonds: CREDO.
First, a plug for a LIVE EVENT: I’ll be singing in the chorus on this piece in March with Resonance Ensemble and Orchestra Nova: www.resonancechoral.org/resonance-nova
Margaret Bonds: CREDO.
First, a plug for a LIVE EVENT: I’ll be singing in the chorus on this piece in March with Resonance Ensemble and Orchestra Nova: www.resonancechoral.org/resonance-nova