The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

This is the lesson of 2025

Autumn 1573
Giuseppe Arcimboldo. (Musée du Louvre)

In Good Company

Enjoying this album by minimalist composer, flutist, saxophonist Jon Gibson. Nearly 5 years since his passing…

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Brutal. Constituents in Jim Jordan's (R-OH) district would have to fork up an additional $16,846 every year to keep their coverage.

fucking terrorists, that's what they are

This list pretty much sums me up and most everyone I know.

Noisy, hungry frogs sadden farmer's life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt.

Become ungovernable

Don't call it a comeback Three years later, extremists are still obsessed with me

According to the people who make money lying about me on the Internet, I have risen from the dead, crawled out of a hidey hole, or otherwise “come back” more than 50 times over the past three years—a rate of 1.38 resurrections per month.

Jesus who?

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Collage of albums released the week of September 26th taken from the endaural anticipation list

Another collage of albums released the week of September 26th taken from the endaural anticipation list

The world of music is brimming with possibility from all these new offerings, I'll be sharing my thoughts while I listen!

#ClassicalMusic Concerto Budapest launches a 3-day Bartók festival (Sept 26–28) marking 80 years since his passing. All concertos, key chamber works, plus Village Scenes and Bluebeard’s Castle, with top soloists. Streams via The Violin Channel—want details? Ask below. #Budapest #Bartok

#Music Chicago’s former 7‑Eleven at 4116 N Clark is now the CheckOut, a 60‑seat chamber venue by Access Contemporary Music. Grand Opening Festival runs Sept 13–28: 12 shows incl. Black Oak Ensemble, Kontras Quartet, and an Arvo Pärt 90 tribute—plus slushies. Who’s going? #Chicago #Classical

Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.

George Perle; Leslie Bassett: Chamber Works, by Various Artists 8 track album

CRi reissue now on bandcamp -->
George Perle; Leslie Bassett: Chamber Works (1961)
Beaux-Arts String Quartet; Walter Trampler, viola; Charles Russo, clarinet; Douglas Nordli, piano
#ClassicalMusic
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New urinal installed in DC. Can’t wait to use it

No notes

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

Congrats to @elizabethalker.bsky.social on her book 'Everything We Do Is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop,' out now on @faberbooks.bsky.social. Among those with whom she spoke for the book are Jonny Greenwood and @stevereich.bsky.social, who asserts: “Good music is good music.”

Recommended brain cleanse.

Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
Why would we destroy 70 years of Science excellence? Good question.
#Science

How a cat named Pudge became a college football sensation The Bowling Green football team is rallying around a shorthair Persian that its long snapper brought into the locker room.

“Pudge is, at the moment, the most famous cat in sports.” — @washingtonpost.com

Christoph von Dohnányi Die Frau ohne Schatten Final scene, San Francisco Opera, 1989 Ron Scherl/San Francisco Opera  Christoph von Dohnányi died yesterday in. Muni...

Christoph von Dohnányi has died, age 95. I only saw him conduct twice but both were extremely memorable.

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Pumpkin King Xenomorph in Nightmare Before Christmas.

animated movies but with xenomorphs: thread

I think that since the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men, we should take their guns first.

Everyone has a second full time job being mad at the government now

We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.

Nation’s largest RN union: Time for DHS Secretary RFK Jr. to go the wake of the latest scandal he has perpetuated, National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, today called for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of He...

This week’s actions are the latest in a pattern showing RFK Jr. disregard for science, public health, and the federal workers who keep this country safe from multiple health threats.

Nurses demand he resign or be fired immediately as head of HHS.
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This month's releases are out now.

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