Michael McCurdy
@mightyrobots.bsky.social
Percussioner. Publisher. Parenter.
I’m a ballet dad, drummer, and music publisher in NYC.
ISO: music nerds, science nerds, law nerds.
www.mantrapercussion.org
www.redpoppymusic.com
www.bangonacansound.com
www.michaelmccurdy.net
I’m a ballet dad, drummer, and music publisher in NYC.
ISO: music nerds, science nerds, law nerds.
www.mantrapercussion.org
www.redpoppymusic.com
www.bangonacansound.com
www.michaelmccurdy.net
Reposted by Michael McCurdy
WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN
this!! New York Health Act. yes! If fed government can’t ensure healthcare for all, then NYS must.
Live in New York?
Paying too much for healthcare?
Want guaranteed coverage for medical, dental, hearing, vision, long term care and prescriptions — with no copays, premiums or deductibles?
Click to tell your legislators to pass the NY Health Act 👇🏻
nyhcampaign.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/peti...
Paying too much for healthcare?
Want guaranteed coverage for medical, dental, hearing, vision, long term care and prescriptions — with no copays, premiums or deductibles?
Click to tell your legislators to pass the NY Health Act 👇🏻
nyhcampaign.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/peti...
Protect our healthcare by passing the New York Health Act | Campaign for New York Health Powerbase
nyhcampaign.ourpowerbase.net
December 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
this!! New York Health Act. yes! If fed government can’t ensure healthcare for all, then NYS must.
don’t know if any of you use the “lists” feature on bsky, but i spent some time over the t-day break making a “Science Nerds” list… which was me adding everyone i follow who is a scientist. This gives me a custom feed with chronological posts by only these folks. It took time, but works great!
December 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
don’t know if any of you use the “lists” feature on bsky, but i spent some time over the t-day break making a “Science Nerds” list… which was me adding everyone i follow who is a scientist. This gives me a custom feed with chronological posts by only these folks. It took time, but works great!
an existential horrorshow reveals a possibly fate for our planet:
“Maybe, someday, billions of years from now, some alien astronomer on a far-off planet will look in our direction…and spare a thought for the beautiful world we once were.”
“Maybe, someday, billions of years from now, some alien astronomer on a far-off planet will look in our direction…and spare a thought for the beautiful world we once were.”
Anyway here’s a cheerful piece about how the Sun will eventually destroy all life on Earth (but not by exploding, so, you know, there’s that)
Here’s how the Sun will end all life on Earth
Our home star won't go supernova, but the end of its life will be no less spectacular.
www.sciencefocus.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
an existential horrorshow reveals a possibly fate for our planet:
“Maybe, someday, billions of years from now, some alien astronomer on a far-off planet will look in our direction…and spare a thought for the beautiful world we once were.”
“Maybe, someday, billions of years from now, some alien astronomer on a far-off planet will look in our direction…and spare a thought for the beautiful world we once were.”
found a recipe for Levain Bakery-style chocolate chip/walnut cookies. If you know, you know. yummmmmmmmmm.
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
found a recipe for Levain Bakery-style chocolate chip/walnut cookies. If you know, you know. yummmmmmmmmm.
introduce yourself with five concerts you saw, but wish you’d have stayed home instead:
- Jethro Tull
- any time i had to sit through a Mendelssohn concert
- Phish
- Saint-Saëns’ cello concerto #1
- Queensrÿche
- Jethro Tull
- any time i had to sit through a Mendelssohn concert
- Phish
- Saint-Saëns’ cello concerto #1
- Queensrÿche
Introduce yourself with five concerts you *could* have seen but didn’t, and most regret missing:
Frank Sinatra
James Brown
Fela Kútì
Campaign for Musical Destruction (Napalm Death, Carcass, Cathedral, Brutal Truth, 1992)
Minutemen
Frank Sinatra
James Brown
Fela Kútì
Campaign for Musical Destruction (Napalm Death, Carcass, Cathedral, Brutal Truth, 1992)
Minutemen
November 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
introduce yourself with five concerts you saw, but wish you’d have stayed home instead:
- Jethro Tull
- any time i had to sit through a Mendelssohn concert
- Phish
- Saint-Saëns’ cello concerto #1
- Queensrÿche
- Jethro Tull
- any time i had to sit through a Mendelssohn concert
- Phish
- Saint-Saëns’ cello concerto #1
- Queensrÿche
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
RATT 1984
Tortoise 1996
Xenakis’s Oresteia 2008
Horse Lords 2019
Asa Chang & Junray 2024
RATT 1984
Tortoise 1996
Xenakis’s Oresteia 2008
Horse Lords 2019
Asa Chang & Junray 2024
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
November 28, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
RATT 1984
Tortoise 1996
Xenakis’s Oresteia 2008
Horse Lords 2019
Asa Chang & Junray 2024
RATT 1984
Tortoise 1996
Xenakis’s Oresteia 2008
Horse Lords 2019
Asa Chang & Junray 2024
i can’t wait to see Stephen Miller in a perpwalk. Don’t know how far away this will be, but i can’t wait.
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
i can’t wait to see Stephen Miller in a perpwalk. Don’t know how far away this will be, but i can’t wait.
Reposted by Michael McCurdy
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
the worst thing about Pluribus is the episodes should be 4 hours long, not 45 min.
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
the worst thing about Pluribus is the episodes should be 4 hours long, not 45 min.
HCR FTW.
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
HCR FTW.
Reposted by Michael McCurdy
on a sim tip… a deep fave of mine in the guitar/drum duo zone is the inimitable Cheval de Frise. OUTSTANDING.
youtu.be/X4TgVtUyHz0
youtu.be/X4TgVtUyHz0
Cheval de Frise - Fresques Sur Les Parois Secrètes Du Crâne [Full LP]
YouTube video by The Math Rock Collective
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
on a sim tip… a deep fave of mine in the guitar/drum duo zone is the inimitable Cheval de Frise. OUTSTANDING.
youtu.be/X4TgVtUyHz0
youtu.be/X4TgVtUyHz0
anyone looking for a badass album for today?
Music for Drums and Guitar, by Dan Weiss and Miles Okazaki
15 track album
mfdag.bandcamp.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
anyone looking for a badass album for today?
the older i get, the earlier i arrive at airports. got to LGA 4 hours early yesterday. a bit extreme, i realize. but it felt glorious.
November 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
the older i get, the earlier i arrive at airports. got to LGA 4 hours early yesterday. a bit extreme, i realize. but it felt glorious.
Reposted by Michael McCurdy
For the Record: Nov. 14, 2025.
Bobby Previte seeks donations to document his killer new band, BMOP launches a singles series, and more new arrivals and coming attractions.
Photograph: Bobby Previte by Kate Previte
Bobby Previte seeks donations to document his killer new band, BMOP launches a singles series, and more new arrivals and coming attractions.
Photograph: Bobby Previte by Kate Previte
For the Record: Nov. 14, 2025.
Bobby Previte seeks donations to document his killer new band, BMOP launches a singles series, and more new arrivals and coming attractions.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
For the Record: Nov. 14, 2025.
Bobby Previte seeks donations to document his killer new band, BMOP launches a singles series, and more new arrivals and coming attractions.
Photograph: Bobby Previte by Kate Previte
Bobby Previte seeks donations to document his killer new band, BMOP launches a singles series, and more new arrivals and coming attractions.
Photograph: Bobby Previte by Kate Previte
fük that loser and the loser emailing other losers 72% of the time about that loser. fukn losers.
Trump was a subject in 72% of the Epstein email threads.
Data visualization by WSJ:
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Data visualization by WSJ:
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
fük that loser and the loser emailing other losers 72% of the time about that loser. fukn losers.
why can’t blue states band together to create their own universal healthcare? eff the fed gov’t. blue states healthcare! seriously. why?
@governor.ca.gov
@jbpritzker.bsky.social
@governor.ny.gov
@tinakotek.bsky.social
@governorferguson.bsky.social
@govmurphy.bsky.social & other dem govs.
@governor.ca.gov
@jbpritzker.bsky.social
@governor.ny.gov
@tinakotek.bsky.social
@governorferguson.bsky.social
@govmurphy.bsky.social & other dem govs.
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
why can’t blue states band together to create their own universal healthcare? eff the fed gov’t. blue states healthcare! seriously. why?
@governor.ca.gov
@jbpritzker.bsky.social
@governor.ny.gov
@tinakotek.bsky.social
@governorferguson.bsky.social
@govmurphy.bsky.social & other dem govs.
@governor.ca.gov
@jbpritzker.bsky.social
@governor.ny.gov
@tinakotek.bsky.social
@governorferguson.bsky.social
@govmurphy.bsky.social & other dem govs.
Reposted by Michael McCurdy
the democratic party establishment hasnt learned a damn thing since they voted to allow george w bush to invade iraq. not one thing.
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
the democratic party establishment hasnt learned a damn thing since they voted to allow george w bush to invade iraq. not one thing.
Reposted by Michael McCurdy
the jig is up… hopefully. maybe. probably.
50% of workers can't afford healthcare.
People are using buy now, pay later apps to go into debt to buy groceries.
GoFundMe has 250k pages for medical bills and 40k for tuition.
… and Elon Musk gets a $1 trillion pay out.
And people think moms getting SNAP are the problem.
People are using buy now, pay later apps to go into debt to buy groceries.
GoFundMe has 250k pages for medical bills and 40k for tuition.
… and Elon Musk gets a $1 trillion pay out.
And people think moms getting SNAP are the problem.
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 AM
the jig is up… hopefully. maybe. probably.
MAMMMMMMMDANI WINS!!!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
MAMMMMMMMDANI WINS!!!!
⬇️ this right here.⬇️
I often think about how Cheney wanted revenge for what happened to Nixon, and how we live in the ruins made by that dream.
November 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
⬇️ this right here.⬇️
Reposted by Michael McCurdy
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
ICE could hire russian mercenaries — would be next level for them to get H1-B visas for their storm troopers.
ICE is struggling to hire officers — even after lowering its standards. DHS is spending millions of dollars on an aggressive television ad campaign targeting local police officers — but it's not getting nearly enough applicants.
It looks like most Americans simply don’t want to be ICE thugs.
It looks like most Americans simply don’t want to be ICE thugs.
Opinion | ICE lowered its standards and is still struggling to hire officers
DHS is spending millions of dollars on an aggressive television ad campaign targeting local police officers — but it's not getting nearly enough applicants.
www.msnbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
ICE could hire russian mercenaries — would be next level for them to get H1-B visas for their storm troopers.