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Haley Olson

@theritenotes.bsky.social

composer, pianist, vocalist, educator, new music fan at large // DMA candidate at UMich πŸ’™πŸ’›

164 Followers  |  183 Following  |  34 Posts  |  Joined: 22.01.2025  |  2.0434

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So glad to hear someone else had the exact same reaction as me this morning

11.03.2025 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The time for a spine Democrats who censured Rep. Al Green are as clueless as they are feckless.

β€œTrying to appeal to a voter who will congratulate you for scolding a member of your own party for peacefully protesting fascism is a losing game because that voter does not exist.”

09.03.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 8269    πŸ” 1691    πŸ’¬ 132    πŸ“Œ 92

funniest emoji has to be this guy: πŸ™‚ totally unaware of societal problems, just happy to be here. not a single thought in that empty pate. my man

09.03.2025 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 602    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 2

The Ides of March 44 BC is notorious as the day that Roman senators wore pink to protest the actions of Julius Caesar

08.03.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 8642    πŸ” 1643    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 60
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Annea Lockwood, Composer and Artist β€” The Lonely Palette Podcast The artist and composer Annea Lockwood is not just any musician. She is an artist of sound. She is a composer of art. Her music is performance art, and her art is always, always audio-rich and musical...

new Lonely Palette podcast is an hour-long interview with Annea Lockwood
www.thelonelypalette.com/interview/20...

08.03.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

ALL OF THE DREAM

09.03.2025 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Ian Power, a smiling blonde man who very generously came to visit his friend even though she got the time wrong and made him wait at a local coffee shop with local snobs, stands next to Haley Olson, a smiling blonde woman with unwashed hair and the biggest forehead known to man (and who has just been crying because she is a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown due to her union’s strike), on a street corner in Ann Arbor

Ian Power, a smiling blonde man who very generously came to visit his friend even though she got the time wrong and made him wait at a local coffee shop with local snobs, stands next to Haley Olson, a smiling blonde woman with unwashed hair and the biggest forehead known to man (and who has just been crying because she is a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown due to her union’s strike), on a street corner in Ann Arbor

Today for @ianpoweromg.bsky.social’s birthday, I’m finally sharing this pic from 2023. Ian asks, β€œWhy did you share this to stories when your other friends go on the grid??” It’s because this is a bad pic of me imo (check the alt text), but objectively the power of friendship wins out. HBD IHP!!

09.03.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

The band Third Eye Blind was underrated and I don’t care who I offend in saying that, whether it’s the fatcats in Washington or the bigwigs on Wall Street

08.03.2025 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2399    πŸ” 103    πŸ’¬ 155    πŸ“Œ 33

Music fans what’s your favourite note? I’d have to say mine is Middle C. You just can’t beat the classics!

08.03.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1775    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 389    πŸ“Œ 71
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07.03.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 9197    πŸ” 2357    πŸ’¬ 101    πŸ“Œ 131

Me: is this a party? is this a disco?

David Byrne: *extremely deep inhale*

06.03.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 891    πŸ” 100    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 10
A white hand with red nail polish holding the new Cindy Lee album up in front of a white wall

A white hand with red nail polish holding the new Cindy Lee album up in front of a white wall

Everything is a total trash fire right now, but in other news, I haven’t been this excited to get a physical CD since maybe 2008

17.02.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was briefly in Minneapolis when the exhibit was on, and I’m so sad I didn’t get to see it πŸ™ƒ

17.02.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When Bush and Cheney crashed the economy and occupied a Middle East country, they did so with civility. Now, as Trump and Musk prepare to do the same, I fear that same civility is nowhere to be found.

by David Brooks

15.02.2025 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1170    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 6
A frog that looks upset and surprised about being picked up

A frog that looks upset and surprised about being picked up

Happy Valentines Day Everybody!

14.02.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 757    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 9
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Mr. Rogers said "look for the helpers," but his advice was for CHILDREN.

If your ass is grown your role is to BE the helper.

I wish I could find the person who said this originally, but it's been too long.

12.02.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2759    πŸ” 620    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 16
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I’m teaching online because of the snowstorm, which by default means that *we’re* teaching online because of the snowstorm

12.02.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m going to ask my Pomplampose superfan friend about this

12.02.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i love how the news every morning is like "trump has done something insanely illegal again. no, nobody really tried to stop him this time either. democrats are considering a strongly worded email"

11.02.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1317    πŸ” 214    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 8

Can vouch for thisβ€”incredibly cheesy, but also so helpful

11.02.2025 05:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve only seen them pop up in the last two years in a few upper middle class suburbs around here. Maybe they’d be in Woodbury or Eden Prairie? But they’re very mysterious to me.

11.02.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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…And also one of these purses. I don’t know where they came from, or how gained popularity, or why every mom in the Detroit suburbs owns one; I just know that they’re devastatingly ugly and if you drive a minivan, you also have a woven-strap leather purse, or at least a pretty convincing knockoff.

11.02.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Got a loaner today and was very surprised that the mortgage, the Stanley, and the 4.2 kids I was supposed to drive to soccer practice weren’t included with the package

11.02.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In 1594, Thomas Nashe wrote this truth of the ages: β€˜This trick is worth noting, that those whom he dare not united encounter, disjoined and divided he will one by one assail in their sleep.’ He was talking about the Devil, but the point stands for an awful lot of politicians. - #DICallaghan

09.02.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sadly, that doesn’t really narrow it down

09.02.2025 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

millennials will be like yeah i have a favorite opera and it's just The Black Parade (2006) by my chemical romance

07.02.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 8019    πŸ” 758    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 148
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I use my LinkedIn so infrequently that when a message like this comes up, it feels like a jump scare

06.02.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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California Wildfire Relief Fundraiser and Bandcamp Fridays in 2025

Heads up: Bandcamp is doing a Bandcamp Friday-style event this Friday for charity. Bandcamp's cut of every sale is going to support musicians affected by the California wildfires. daily.bandcamp.com/features/ban...

05.02.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 5

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