Emily Lee
@sfxmaven.bsky.social
Keys, vox, social media - @Shearwaterband.bsky.social, @Lomatheband.bsky.social, the Fiery Furnaces, Snake Oil, @themagfields.bsky.social. Featured in Two Minutes to Late Night. WNET’s music supervisor. Public media consumer and advocate.
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It’s mastering week for the new @shearwaterband.bsky.social record. Though, we may have started a few new songs for the next next record in the meantime…
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It’s mastering week for the new @shearwaterband.bsky.social record. Though, we may have started a few new songs for the next next record in the meantime…
A thread after my heart
If—LET’S SAY—you were programming a Sondheim marathon for someone who doesn’t know the catalog super well but has loved everything they’ve been exposed to, what would you include? Filmed productions, cast recordings, one-off YouTube videos, really anything
December 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
A thread after my heart
Taco Bel Biv Devoe
Michael McDonalds
The Velveeta underground
December 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Taco Bel Biv Devoe
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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did… did the dog write this recipe
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
did… did the dog write this recipe
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Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
I kinda loved Hamnet, though spoiler thing I didn’t like in my reply post.
I cried and I laughed, though I mostly cried. I’m also so glad to have friends who wanted to see it as much as I did.
I’ll need to read the book next.
I cried and I laughed, though I mostly cried. I’m also so glad to have friends who wanted to see it as much as I did.
I’ll need to read the book next.
December 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I kinda loved Hamnet, though spoiler thing I didn’t like in my reply post.
I cried and I laughed, though I mostly cried. I’m also so glad to have friends who wanted to see it as much as I did.
I’ll need to read the book next.
I cried and I laughed, though I mostly cried. I’m also so glad to have friends who wanted to see it as much as I did.
I’ll need to read the book next.
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Bulgur Friday doesn’t have the same ring to it as Pizza Friday, but it’s the truth…
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Bulgur Friday doesn’t have the same ring to it as Pizza Friday, but it’s the truth…
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You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for...
🔭🐡🧪
🔭🐡🧪
December 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for...
🔭🐡🧪
🔭🐡🧪
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I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate
December 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate
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Plus, we're reducing our Bowie's Berlin Trilogy Tote Bags from $10 to $5.
We hear music downloads make a great stocking stuffer.
In the meantime, all of us at team SW send the very best to you and yours this month—and we look forward to sharing new music with you soon.
shearwater.bandcamp.com
We hear music downloads make a great stocking stuffer.
In the meantime, all of us at team SW send the very best to you and yours this month—and we look forward to sharing new music with you soon.
shearwater.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Plus, we're reducing our Bowie's Berlin Trilogy Tote Bags from $10 to $5.
We hear music downloads make a great stocking stuffer.
In the meantime, all of us at team SW send the very best to you and yours this month—and we look forward to sharing new music with you soon.
shearwater.bandcamp.com
We hear music downloads make a great stocking stuffer.
In the meantime, all of us at team SW send the very best to you and yours this month—and we look forward to sharing new music with you soon.
shearwater.bandcamp.com
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Since it's Bandcamp Friday, but we don't have anything new for you yet... for today only, we're discounting a few of our favorite bundles: both collections of Quarantine Music, Live Albums 2008-2016, and our bundle of piano sheet music.
shearwater.bandcamp.com
shearwater.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Since it's Bandcamp Friday, but we don't have anything new for you yet... for today only, we're discounting a few of our favorite bundles: both collections of Quarantine Music, Live Albums 2008-2016, and our bundle of piano sheet music.
shearwater.bandcamp.com
shearwater.bandcamp.com
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Friends- We hope these dark days are nevertheless treating you well, and that you have at least a bit of rest in store before the joys and horrors of 2026 lurch into gear. (As for us, we're about to master a new album, and hope/expect that later next year we'll finally return to live performing).
December 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Friends- We hope these dark days are nevertheless treating you well, and that you have at least a bit of rest in store before the joys and horrors of 2026 lurch into gear. (As for us, we're about to master a new album, and hope/expect that later next year we'll finally return to live performing).
For Bandcamp Friday, all of the @shearwaterband.bsky.social sheet music I transcribed for piano is on sale in a big bundle. We’ve got other bundles at a discount today as well plus the Bowie tote is only $5! shearwater.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
For Bandcamp Friday, all of the @shearwaterband.bsky.social sheet music I transcribed for piano is on sale in a big bundle. We’ve got other bundles at a discount today as well plus the Bowie tote is only $5! shearwater.bandcamp.com
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[Werner Herzog voice] He is monstrous, but in a more profound sense, Cookie Monster is also a victim
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
[Werner Herzog voice] He is monstrous, but in a more profound sense, Cookie Monster is also a victim
I'm at work looking at old music licenses we did in 1961 for a piece of music that was published in 1907 and wasn't in the public domain yet. I'm shocked.
This was before the US Copyright Act was created in 1976, so I can't imagine what a weird wild west it must have been in early TV days.
This was before the US Copyright Act was created in 1976, so I can't imagine what a weird wild west it must have been in early TV days.
December 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I'm at work looking at old music licenses we did in 1961 for a piece of music that was published in 1907 and wasn't in the public domain yet. I'm shocked.
This was before the US Copyright Act was created in 1976, so I can't imagine what a weird wild west it must have been in early TV days.
This was before the US Copyright Act was created in 1976, so I can't imagine what a weird wild west it must have been in early TV days.
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It's summer in Antarctica right now, so Minnesota is one of the coldest places in the world today (relative to typical December weather).
Record low sea ice in the Arctic means cold air there has moved south.
Record low sea ice in the Arctic means cold air there has moved south.
Coldest air on Earth today is in the US with temps up to 40 degrees below normal in the Midwest/ Great Lakes. Actual lows are as low as -20F there.
Cold US is due to widespread relative warmth in the Arctic, with record low Arctic Sea Ice extent. This “warmth” displaces the polar cold pool south.
Cold US is due to widespread relative warmth in the Arctic, with record low Arctic Sea Ice extent. This “warmth” displaces the polar cold pool south.
December 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
It's summer in Antarctica right now, so Minnesota is one of the coldest places in the world today (relative to typical December weather).
Record low sea ice in the Arctic means cold air there has moved south.
Record low sea ice in the Arctic means cold air there has moved south.
So stoked I got to see this tonight.
December 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
So stoked I got to see this tonight.
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Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
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going around my apartment turning on my lamps at 4:47 p.m. like a woman lighting the candles in her farmhouse
November 6, 2024 at 9:50 PM
going around my apartment turning on my lamps at 4:47 p.m. like a woman lighting the candles in her farmhouse
I love seeing all of the streaming services' year-end wrap ups that people keep posting to IG and tagging us in. Though seeing all of the ones still from Spotify give me a bunch of mixed feelings - switch to another service. They're a bad company.
December 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I love seeing all of the streaming services' year-end wrap ups that people keep posting to IG and tagging us in. Though seeing all of the ones still from Spotify give me a bunch of mixed feelings - switch to another service. They're a bad company.
I upgraded my wandering vacuum after all of the brushes fell off of my old one. I think I got my old one almost 10 years ago, and man, the tech has advanced since then. This guy mapped my house, greeted me, and didn’t judge me for my mess. He may have also made me a sandwich.
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I upgraded my wandering vacuum after all of the brushes fell off of my old one. I think I got my old one almost 10 years ago, and man, the tech has advanced since then. This guy mapped my house, greeted me, and didn’t judge me for my mess. He may have also made me a sandwich.