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Had blood work alongside my yearly physical (because I have 🌈risk factors🌈)
The good news is that my nightly cookie habit is A1C-approved
The bad news is that my nightly cookie habit is not lipid-panel-approved

[googles the sentence: “Is Michael Barbaro a messy bisexual?”]

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

Secrets secrets are no fun…

Ooh! I’d be interested to see how well they retain their pigment dried/cooked/etc.

Do the beans inside have the same pretty marbling as the pod?? 😮

Merry Figmas to all who observe!

You should! Somebody should!

Does anyone know of any compositions EXPLICITLY for UPRIGHT piano?

Asking for a colleague, how many projects does it take before Dorico stops making you want to cry?

What piece is this?

Vaguepost to avoid spoilers:

Wait…Cate Blanchett?????

I will not support a Democratic nominee in 2028 unless they commit to mandating that graduate level seminars in Schenkerian analysis contextualize the theoretician’s praxis within the framework of his overt German supremacist nationalism

What’s much more interesting to me (especially with genre fiction, but with art in general) is is the question of “how effectively is this piece doing The Thing it’s setting out to do?”

Someone, looking at a yeast levain/leaven in the kitchen of an Indian restaurant:
I sure would like to make a baguette, but that’s a naan-starter

Perfect 😆

Not a spokesperson for all queer people, but they’re cute and feel distinctively ungendered in a way that feels rare among garments

Foods that taste great but have been victims of very successful smear campaigns:
1.) Raisins
2.) Mayonnaise
3.) Bread and butter pickles
4.) until recently, cottage cheese
5.) Well-cooked eggs
6.) Walnuts (specifically in a chocolate chip cookie)

A person with ADHD, often: oh hello mysterious bruise, how did you happen?

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Regardless of how one feels about the Catholic Church or about Pope Francis, now is a time to come together to claim that JD Vance killed him

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

Central to my research has been that the pervasive ableism behind vaccination refusal and hesitance has roots as far back as the eighteenth century. The deep fear of disability (especially cognitive or intellectual) as a fate somehow worse than contagious disease is absolutely not new.

I mean, look at how cute and symmetrical the Easter Sequence is by comparison

Anyway, I love Gregorian chant and its weird little idioms

…why?

Like, what?

Prepping Triduum music as a choir section lead and this chant is understated chaos

Definitely not the $10 block, but I did just find a cheaper one in the back of my freezer, so… 🤔