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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 19h

I highly endorse this sentiment and would probably follow back twice as many people if I could mute individual users’ retweets in particular. I see every big politics post like 20 times as it is and some of you guys retweet SO MUCH

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 20h

The "follow" dichotomy I always struggle with is "I want to see every single thing you post" vs. "I want you to know that I like and respect you." My Following feed is so overstuffed as it is, but I hate the idea that people I don't follow back might think that I don't appreciate them!

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 23h

The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 20h

I apparently also tweeted this in 2019? IT'S JUST SO OBVIOUS

Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · Oct 30

For file-naming purposes, it would really help me out if the months, weekdays, and seasons were the same in both alphabetical and chronological order. The months will henceforth be Aanuary, Bebruary, Carch, Dapril, and so on. I will be tweeting about this daily.

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 22h

Are the odds of the 8 stars being the 8 different colors about 0.24% (i.e. 7/8 * 3/4 * 5/8 * 1/2 * 3/8 * 1/4 * 1/8) or have I done that completely wrong

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

My takeaway from all the positive comments on this map is that it's a lot easier to please people by being a splitter than a lumper. Nothing like a map with, say, between 4 and 10 regions for the whole US to start a bunch of good fights.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 2d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

That's a fun analogy! I was also thinking of it in terms of hand-crafted logic puzzles that, if you know what you're looking for, lead you through a challenging but coherent solve path

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

I did chicken out a little (asked more basic Qs and fewer big putting-pieces-together Qs) since I was doing this for the first time and wouldn't want to cause a class-wide trainwreck if I had misjudged the difficulty. But on first glance it went okay and I could be slightly more ambitious next time.

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

An original goal of that format was to be able to ask interesting, synthetic exam questions even in a short (50-minute) exam, because students would already have gotten familiar with the piece and analyzed all the basic elements of it.

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

I tried a new thing for today's midterm in my form & analysis class—gave them the piece in advance + instructions for analyzing it, and then they could use their annotated score to answer the exam questions. They will get a big chunk of exam credit as a completeness grade for doing the prep.

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

God help me, I kind of enjoy writing new exams—calibrating the difficulty, wording questions exactly right, trying to make it (if possible) a somewhat interesting experience for students who are really well-prepared

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

That look up at the umpire's face is so funny

Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 1d

maybe the greatest pitch frame in baseball history

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

Between undergrad and grad school I played most of his larger works that involve piano, and at one point he was a possibility as the topic of my PhD dissertation. I do hope to actually go back and write something for public consumption about his music someday.

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

I think I'm going to try to teach "Rain has Fallen" in an analysis class in a few weeks!

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway I actually came here to say that Barber *really* figured things out just about exactly 10 years later (1936), when he wrote his string quartet (the source of Adagio for Strings), his symphony, and also this set of songs, which absolutely fucking rips

Thomas Hampson: The complete "3 songs Op. 10" (Barber)

YouTube video by GilPiotr

www.youtube.com

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

"Straight Outta Compton" except for salon-esque juvenilia by a teenager in the 1920s

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

15-year-old Samuel Barber wrote a piano piece called "Fresh from West Chester (Some Jazzing)" and that's just adorably dorky

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

You can do it as in this recipe, or (as I do) make the old-fashioned style based on bechamel but add a teaspoon of sodium citrate for extra smoothness in the sauce www.seriouseats.com/sodium-citra...

Modern Baked Mac and Cheese With Cheddar and Gruyère Recipe

This baked macaroni and cheese recipe harnesses the amazing emulsifying powers of sodium citrate to make the gooiest and silkiest cheese sauce. It's like the boxed stuff, but even better because we us...

www.seriouseats.com

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

The flour AND the milk! With the melting power of sodium citrate you just don’t need the solids contributed by milk and can use plain water instead. (I haven’t actually done this bc I like my hybrid version.)

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

You can do it as in this recipe, or (as I do) make the old-fashioned style based on bechamel but add a teaspoon of sodium citrate for extra smoothness in the sauce www.seriouseats.com/sodium-citra...

Modern Baked Mac and Cheese With Cheddar and Gruyère Recipe

This baked macaroni and cheese recipe harnesses the amazing emulsifying powers of sodium citrate to make the gooiest and silkiest cheese sauce. It's like the boxed stuff, but even better because we us...

www.seriouseats.com

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the basic idea (very adaptable) www.seriouseats.com/sodium-citra...

Modern Baked Mac and Cheese With Cheddar and Gruyère Recipe

This baked macaroni and cheese recipe harnesses the amazing emulsifying powers of sodium citrate to make the gooiest and silkiest cheese sauce. It's like the boxed stuff, but even better because we us...

www.seriouseats.com

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

I keep a big bag of sodium citrate in the pantry (the active ingredient in Velveeta) in order to turn any cheese into basically-Velveeta. It's magic.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

people talk shit all the time about Velveeta AND YET

I use it in my fancy baked macaroni and cheese (alongside Gruyere) and I have never, ever seen anyone respond to that dish with anything less than glee

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

🤷‍♂️ I guess the two possibilities are (a) that this is some Yglesias-brain attempt to triangulate for a ""centrist"" audience (you know, that huge swath of anti-Trump, anti-trans voters 🙄) or (b) that he's sincerely opposed to trans rights. Who cares which, they're both disqualifying.

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

If saner times ever return, one of the first orders of business will be starting to undo (and frankly make reparation for) harms done to trans people. Can you *even imagine* a worse person of the nominal left to let anywhere near that absolutely necessary work.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

Another dead-center-of-the-venn-diagram post. Two in one day! I'm not worthy.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 4d

michael?
peter.

Page from fox in socks by dr seuss. Drawing of weird little four legged bugs with faces.
Text reads:
What do you know about tweetle beetles?
Well
When tweetle beetles fight, it's called
a tweetle beetle battle.

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 1d

I need to make sure the house is fully stocked up with C&H books by the time my kids are old enough

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 2d

I actually feel like the venn diagram for this post has a surprisingly large overlapping region on bsky specifically

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