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Michael McCurdy
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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
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quote from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter from an American, December 5: “it could have been written in just 14 words. White supremacists use 88 to refer to Adolf Hitler and “fourteen words” to refer to a popular white supremacist slogan.”
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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found a recipe for Levain Bakery-style chocolate chip/walnut cookies. If you know, you know. yummmmmmmmmm.
a picture of 4 stacks of large, gooey, yummy chocolate chip cookies on a wooden cutting board atop a larger cutting board where one cookie is broken open in the foreground showing its gooey, yummy innards.
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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now it’s a bakery.
google streetview image of the defunct location of Slug’s Saloon (1963-1972). Now it is a bakery. During the mid-1960s Slug’s slowly started attracting regular jazz performances, developing a reputation as a musician's bar. In this period it became closely associated with free-jazz musician Sun Ra: from March 1966 through late 1967, Sun Ra and his Arkestra (billed as "Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Music") played regular gigs every Monday, and continued to play the venue irregularly thereafter. By the late 1960s the club had grown a vibrant scene in its out-of-the-way location, with performances from prominent jazz musicians including Sonny Rollins, Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman, among many others. Some of these performances were recorded, often surreptitiously, and appear on officially released or on bootleg albums. Audiences included a number of well-known artists and musicians, ranging from Larry Rivers to Paul H. Brown to Bob Thompson and Salvador Dalí. The venue saw the death of Lee Morgan on February 19, 1972, when he was shot at the bar by his common-law wife Helen Moore. The general demise of the neighborhood and his hard lifestyle as a club owner led Jerry Schulz to leave, and the club shut down in late 1972.
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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now we wait.
image of my vote for Zohran Mamdani!
November 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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you mean this?
October 31, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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i did it.
screenshot of inbox zero.
October 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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hey @jay.bsky.team and @moderation.bsky.app this is a joke right? Antifa isn’t an organization.
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September 29, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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…an oligarchy fighting to maintain their oligarchy over the other oligarchy!!! fkn hell, these people. jeeezuz!

Here’s a screenshot of a quote from Klein, hands to the heavens… WHAT HAVE WE MISSED!? THERES GOT TO BE SOMETHING CONSEQUENTIAL THAT WE MISSED. yes there is: capitalism and corruption.
screenshot of transcript — Ezra Klein: “And I feel like me and the people who believe what I believe — not narrowly speaking, but the whole broad coalition — have failed in a really consequential way.”
September 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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…by these two voices “shaping what our political culture is.” (quote from klein)

how on earth can this not be part of the conversation? since slavery it has been about oligarchy! that’s what the civil war WAS!!…
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Screenshot of transcript — Ezra Klein to Ta-Nehisi Coates: “I think that I am a person — and I think that you are a person, whether you admit it or not — who is on of the people with a voice in shaping what our political culture is….”
September 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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some important facts:
screenshot of Joyce White Vance post: Important thing to know: Grand juries only hear one side of the story. The defense doesn’t cross examine witnesses or present a case. Good prosecutors are committed to the truth & doing justice. They don’t indict cases when the defendant can contradict their case.
September 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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study last year of 2,480,797 children:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
screenshot of text from JAMA website: “Conclusions and Relevance Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to familial confounding.”
September 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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here’s the actual quote from a talk he and Angela Davis gave at Univ of Mich in Feb. Interesting how it’s been revised/altered. Same sentiment, but definitely different quote.

www.michigandaily.com/news/campus-...
Ta-Nehisi Coates: We are in a moment right now where people are asking themselves, ‘Why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy?’” Coates said. “However you take the state of democracy in America to be, and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, if you can’t fight for something that is so blatantly and obviously unjust, if you can’t oppose the 2,000 bombs dropped on schools and on hospitals, what does everything else mean?”
September 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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“You have prioritized your own profit and selfish exigencies over our democracy. There will be a great price companies pay for bending-the-knee to this fascist regime — not giving you any more of my money is a step toward the price you will ultimately pay.”
a screenshot of a confirmation page for cancelling a Disney+ subscription. The confirmation text says: “Ok, your subscription has been cancelled”
September 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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at our much beloved neighborhood park…. Sunnyside Gardens Park in Queens. Summer Fridays… park stays open until 10, the kids run wild and free and so does the beer… for the adults.
pic of outdoor bar advertising “Free Beer” at Sunnyside Gardens Park in the NYC borough of Queens… the greatest borough and the greatest neighborhood park.
September 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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i ❤️ Queens
a picture of an early September sunset over Manhattan — seen from Sunnyside, Queens. The sky is covered in a multicolored palette of pastels as the sun sets behind skyscrapers in the distance.
September 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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what a great series sweep against the Phillies at home the past 3 nights. 9 straight wins against them in Queens. Wish I could’ve been there IRL. 4 upcoming games in PHL. Hope we chisel-away their 4 game lead to retake the NL East.

LETS FKN GO METS!!
August 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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hard to choose a fav Horse Lords track, but Fanfare for Effective Freedom is pretty high up there.

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August 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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looks pretty similar:
August 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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wow look! It’s the first Resavoir album!! oh goodie! I love this recording. That’s why I ordered the LP! but i’d totally forgotten I had. also they just released a new album and while it’s good, I keep going back to this album. 21C polyglot music at its finest!! I’m gonna put it on now!
A picture of the first Resavoir album sitting on its recently unboxed cardboard packaging. Resavoir, based in Chicago, plays a mix of jazz, hip-hop, avant garde, electronica, and rock influenced excellent music.
August 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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i love getting LPs in the mail. Often (like this one) I’ve forgotten what I ordered! So it’s a gift to myself. Yay Me! Let’s see what it is in the next post…
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A picture of an LP that was shipped by the friendly people at the USPS, from the even friendlier people at the International Anthem label in Chicago.
August 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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on a low-sodium diet these days…. so, making my own peanut butter! so easy; so good.
a picture of homemade peanut butter, on a countertop, in a recycled “Teddy’s” PB jar. Food processor sits to left of full jar, taking a much needed break.
August 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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me too!!!
August 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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he isn’t going to do anything to russia. not when putin has the epstein files, the pee tape, and whatever other kompromat he has on Chump. I realize this is old hat, but some shit went down w him and russia that we just don’t know!

www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
The top level of the Soviet diplomatic service arranged his 1987 Moscow visit. With assistance from the KGB. It took place while Kryuchkov was seeking to improve the KGB's operational techniques in one particular and sensitive area. The spy chief wanted KGB staff abroad to recruit more Americans.
August 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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August 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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was coming here to say this! thanks! most people don’t know what gamma and ut are: the beginning & end of the scale, from gamma to ut (gamut), the whole thing. A hand was used to help with medieval sight singing: the guidoneon hand, which listed all the pitches from gamma(thumb) to ut (back of hand)
an image of the medieval Guidonean Hand.
August 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM