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Econophysicist, opera lover, traveler in time and space. The background picture shows Lorin Maazel after conducting "The Girl of The Golden West" at his farm in Castleton, Virginia in 2013.
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#News Venice’s La Fenice has approved Beatrice Venezi, 36, as music director for a four-year term starting in October. She hasn’t previously conducted the orchestra, and musicians have reportedly opposed the appointment. Thoughts? #ClassicalMusic #ItalyPolitics
Would you agree with Mark Twain, "Wagner's music isn't as bad as it sounds"? 🎶
When are you going to write a sequel? Set in Sicily, not Venice...
Bush on why he quit golf during the war: “I didn’t want some mom whose son may have died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf. I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best I can. And I think playing golf during a war sends the wrong signal.”
Senile Satan: 👇
As long as you don’t need gas, groceries, affordable healthcare, retirement savings or constitutional rights, things aren’t so bad.
Why isn’t Elizabeth Warren the Senate Minority Leader?
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
Yep. This 👇
mfw shawty asks "who's a good boy?"
The Mistake That Iranians Make About America www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...
Gifting this essay by the brilliant Reza Aslan.
Worth every minute of your time
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been for decades trying to drag the U.S. into war with Iran. Senator Van Hollen yesterday said he just hadn’t found a president stupid enough to be dragged into that war."
goooood morning it is chilly and damp but we took a nice long loop around the neighborhood to greet some friends and share some snacks, so yes, as always: Lucy Loved That Walk
#math #physics I read this caption and thought, "But Houston is a mostly Democratic City?!" But I quickly learned that Houston is also the name of a premier of a Canadian province. 🤔
#math #physics I'm genuinely surprised that Trump even knows where Ecuador is. 🙄
Things bad, dogs good
We got a new couch. I am not sure I approve yet.
One might say this is true for any candidate he endorses, no?
I've long thought that this guy's a nut job. Here, however, he does make sense.
I wonder why bsky.app/profile/neaf... got labeled a "spam account." What's wrong with posting lots of pictures of Greece? 🤔
#math #physics #classicalmusic #opera Happy "International Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day" to all those who celebrate it!
"As is so often the case under autocratic regimes, from Hitler’s Berlin to Mussolini’s Rome to Vladimir Putin’s Moscow, things go from bad to worse in stages. Today’s outrage is tomorrow’s normal. People adapt and get used to it."
Free to read
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...
This entire GOP administration is a CANCER ON AMERICA AND MUST BE CUT OUT.
They lie, they steal, they are now imprisoning citizens and murdering us. The midterms are the last chance to peacefully take back control. We MUST ALL STAND UP AND VOTE! NOW AND IN MIDTERMS.
End of story.
#classicalmusic #opera #math #physics This also works for reading. I've never been less than two years behind in my plan-to-read stack. I often finish one and buy two more. This all makes me think of Confucius: "We have two lives, and the second one begins when we realize we only have one."
Donnie Dementia Doesn't Know or
Remember The Military DOESN'T HAVE 401K's........
Scientists say the world has been warming at a steady rate. Then recently it spiked: “We’re not continuing on the same path we had before...Something has changed.” wapo.st/4abXa5w @JohnMuyskens @shannonosaka @washingtonpost
#math #physics #classicalmusic #opera I didn't really understand everything that was going on during the Bad Bunny halftime show at the Super Bowl, but since Trump hated every minute of it, I loved it. 🎶👍
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
