Kyra Sims

Get more from Kyra Sims aka The Global Hornist on Patreon creating music and performance art all over the world!

My college friend @lilymischief.bsky.social, an incredible artist and musician, is going to Antarctica (!!) and making history by being the first Black classical musician to play on all seven continents (!!!) You can help her offset some upfront costs and get some cool perks in the process:

Aaah thanks so much, Abby!! ❤️❤️❤️

The AWS outage is a great reminder that Amazon’s power in the markets isn’t as a shopping platform (even though they can make or break individual small businesses at any time).
Their real revenue comes from hosting huge swathes of the Internet.

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

Did anyone else see this today and wonder wtf happened?

Oopsie, Stephen.

We all need to be learning Spanish so we can properly help these people - imagine trying to speak your non-native language when you’re scared out of your wits 💔

This is so hard to watch 😢

They’re baaack. 🤣

Repairs and all…

Ideating with Powerline 🧠⚡️🎤

Let me know what you think, aiming to make more things like this!

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

I’m queer all the time and my queerness affects everything about my life - its inseparable, for example, from my healthcare and my right to freedom of expression and my bodily autonomy - but I also have a kitchen table just like yours where issues are discussed like tariffs and egg prices

An empty booth with a sign that says “vendor removed for selling AI art #ArtBYHumans”

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

Did Carrie Bradshaw write this?

The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told

Hoo boy

Remember when people were trying to come up with a warning sign to keep people 10,000 years in the future out of our nuclear waste storage caves?

The Legionnaire's Disease cluster in Central Harlem has now grown to 58 cases. 21 hospitalized.

Tragically there has been a 2nd death.

If you live or work in zip codes 10027, 10030, 10035, 10037 or 10039 and you develop flu-like symptoms, contact a health care provider immediately.

Listening to a classical music station and the woman on the air mixed up William Grant Still and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 💀💀💀💀💀

(If you aren’t a classical music head, you can probably still guess what color both men were)

Trump was impeached, twice.

Considering posting this every day until the Smithsonian corrects its exhibit. Feel free to join me.

A MIDI Cucumber from Waitrose

Does anyone know how to connect this to Ableton?

Why would I pay for this? All I would do is silently watch the king die and the ads let me do that for free

This is so damn funny I love my mayor

There was corn propaganda on our TVs not even two years ago, this is wild

Journeying around Boston Back Bay with a flagon of mint water made and given to me by my friend’s mother, I feel like a Redwall mouse

An endorsement from the largest local union of professional musicians in the world sounds a little different than the others but the meaning is the same: solidarity forever. Thank you Local 802 AFM!

Shout-out to my Local 802 brothers and sisters!

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa.

It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;)

It's so New York.

This is huge because I was honestly assuming they'd killed him.

Bring him home; bring them all home.

Call your reps and demand they join Van Hollen in fighting back against this racist, immoral administration. reps.fyi

Baby theory that I’m currently nursing:

I think there would be a lot less random violence in the world if people were allowed to live according to their chronotypes