Sign in

Adam Zinatelli

@aztrumpet.bsky.social
80 followers 74 following 137 posts

Principal Trumpet, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Host, Notes from the Stage Podcast Yamaha Artist I like books, bikes, and gardens. www.adamzinatelli.com

PostsRepliesMedia
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ugh Tosca gets more relevant every time I play it.
030
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“Let me dedicate this award to all of the survivors of international crimes as well as to practitioners and defenders of international justice whose passion and courage continue to ensure that impunity will not be allowed to reign.” Navi Pillay, 2026 Nobel Peace Prize
17799182
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It'S toO eXpenSIve to AcT oN cLiMatE chANGe. www.theenergymix.com/extreme-summ...
theenergymix.com
Extreme Summer Weather Produced $1.8B in Insured Losses on Canadian Prairies
Extreme weather this summer caused more than $1.8 billion in insured losses during 10 events across Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, the Insurance Bureau of Canada reports. And those costs will co...
315674
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Apropos of relatively little, It’s been a while since I posted this…
Venn diagram showing that the overlap of stable services and low density and low taxes does not exist.
14819
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh, hello Victoria
011
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Very much worth reading if you don’t known about Petrov. This is the day we celebrate and honour him, and properly feel gratitude, and other things. Relying on tech in wartime can be deeply perilous. sammatey.substack.com/p/happy-stan...
sammatey.substack.com
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
16119
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
20747501187
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m at the AGM for the Banff Trail Community Association, where a small group of residents have arrived in the hope of forming a planning and development committee. They’ve been writing letters opposing development for a year and a half, but they want the weight of the CA behind their positions.
1113
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I am so excited that “Who Needs Donuts?” is being rereleased. It is a hilarious, moving, fascinating book that will teach your children to be cool and interesting. drawnandquarterly.com/books/who-ne...
4133
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is an intersection where I cycle regularly, often with my kids. These fucking drivers man... When are we going to give a shit in this city about the safety and well being of anyone not in a giant murder machine? #VisionZero
1112
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 26/08/2026
remember: its not a data center its a surveillance data processing complex
14265342088
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
criticalmass.yyc @criticalmassyyc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
"If the minister decides to remove cycling infrastructure, it will not remove the cyclists. We’ll still be out there, just taking up space on the road with cars, making it worse for everyone." #yycbike calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
calgaryherald.com
Opinion: Transportation minister needs to stay in his lane
Cyclist rebuts ministers comments on reducing bike lanes.
1340283
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
531528347
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary." -Ursula K. Le Guin, *A War Without End*
1376145
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Matt Lie-Paehlke @mattliepaehlke.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
How is it that the fossil fuel industry is the economic powerhouse that carries the rest of Canada on its back and also it can't survive in the free market without government handouts?
12711
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
020899
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.
Iconic cartoon showing a single driver in a wide car taking up most of the street space. With many people crammed into the bus, bike and pedestrian space left over. Someone later added a voice box with the driver saying “Damn those bike paths and bus lanes taking all the space!”
8606226
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I made a reel with @unsprawling.bsky.social about salty liquorice and the personal finance benefits of living in a walkable neighbourhood.
youtube.com
The paradox of inner-city living #unsprawling
YouTube video by Unsprawling
051
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
@gartbagepod.bsky.social
000
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.
214180772620
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Ok I made the word up: Wohnungsheuchelei (housing hypocrisy)
093
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
jpbremner.bsky.social @jpbremner.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The solutions are well understood and obvious, they're just not politically attractive. Drivers can't bear to be delayed or have their primacy diminished even a little. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Calgary council looking for solutions in wake of rising traffic fatalities, pedestrian deaths | CBC News
After receiving a safer mobility report that showed a rise in major injuries and deaths resulting from collisions, councillors want city officials to bring back stronger policy investments and propose...
3196
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
It’s “disheartening,” Schwieterman said, that society “seem[s] to accept bicycle deaths as an unavoidable part of life.” Heartbreaking.
082
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I was interviewed for this article. I hate to be a Negative Nelly, but there is nothing good coming out of this council on the housing file. There is no plan, it seems to have fallen off the radar completely.
cbc.ca
How Calgary will replace blanket rezoning still unclear, after council's latest housing motion fails | CBC News
After Mayor Jeromy Farkas suggested more aggressive local area plan development could replace blanket rezoning's work to increase housing density, city council voted down a motion to follow through on...
42611
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Are any of them Honda N-VANs? If not, what are even doing here?
global.honda
Honda to Begin Sales of New N-VAN e: Commercial-use Mini-EV in Japan | Honda Global Corporate Website
Honda Global | Honda to Begin Sales of New N-VAN e: Commercial-use Mini-EV in Japan
291
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Impromptu summertime hamburger night with some of our favourite neighbours. We may need a bigger garage…
2737
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
08936
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Jen Gerson: "The UCP has become a party of snivelling, weak little thieves who operate by night."
readtheline.ca
Jen Gerson: Saddle up, Alberta. We're referendum-ing
The UCP has become a party of snivelling, weak little thieves who operate by night.
68239
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
In this time when there's so much to be upset about, nothing gives me more hope than graduating classes loudly booing technocrats talking about AI at commencement speeches.
030
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Come hear not one but two brand new trumpet concertos with Kensington Sinfonia! New works by Chris Sies and Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social are both amazing, and couldn't be more contrasting. I am so, so excited for this!
eventbrite.ca
Strange New Worlds
Join us on an odyssey through sonic worlds never before heard! Minsol Kim flabbergasts on marimba, and Adam Zinatelli stuns on trumpet!
051
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/05/2026
I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.
833817807
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
A great reminder in our world of echo chambers.
npr.org
Of course we look for ourselves in art — but if we stop there, we're missing out
As I watched the new series, I only cared about Piggy — the thoughtful, smart kid stranded on an island with other boys. That made me think about what we look for in art.
000
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Important to take a second to ask yourself if you're being a prick.
0123
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
NWChiFiets @nwchifiets.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Drivers are not ok. abc7chicago.com/post/woman-a...
abc7chicago.com
Woman arrested after driving on sidewalk toward child riding bike: Police
A woman was arrested in Spokane, Washington, after she allegedly drove up on the sidewalk and nearly hit a child who was riding their bike, police said.
56591124
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I was at the Celebration of the Arts hosted by Mayor Jeromy Farkas at Werklund Centre, in the Jack Singer Concert Hall. I was standing in line to get a drink & there was Cllr André Chabot standing to my right (there isn’t much to the left of me). What follows is my version of our conversation. 1/
14319
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Ghoulothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 01/05/2026
Bring back the ancient knowledge
Things you read on a blog might make you angry. They might upset you. Stop visiting that blog. Don't waste your time posting comments. Move on and find a new blog. There are so many fun blogs on the Internet. You'll easily find a better one.
There is always another fun new blog to read online.
56165077378
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters
All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.
163184365683
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I'll take a short break from being mad about housing politics to note that in another life I was a music student at the University of Alberta, and I also spent many years trying to learn to play the pipe organ. The organ in Con Hall is a magnificent instrument and this is a travesty.
153
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
011144
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid.
010433
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The Batte Man doth knowe the trouthe
8680141
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
UCP = Cheat to Win
000
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Melissa Hogan 🇨🇦 @melissahogan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I will always find it confusing that some people think a person riding a $2000 bike to commute is a privileged elitist but the guy in the $80k truck that costs $150 to fill is the working class average joe.
451484260
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Is Angine de Poitrine mirror universe Khruangbin?
010
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
With so much to be angry about in the world right now, act locally and write to your councillor!
030
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Who is watching Calgary city council right now? I had made peace with the rezoning repeal, but I did not expect things to go so far off track with the amendments. Council is gutting every path to build housing that it can. This is a total dereliction of its duty, and Calgarians should be furious.
2497
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Just putting this here for handy reference
un.org
Definitions of Genocide and Related Crimes | United Nations
020
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Adam Zinatelli @aztrumpet.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Trans rights are human rights. This isn't complicated.
04321
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
6. We should ALL expect that our leaders, who are supposed to learn much more about the need/context for change than most of us will know, will be responsible enough to make the right decisions even when unpopular. And NOT do the opposite, which is rage-farm populist lies about change to get votes.
216223
Reposted by Adam Zinatelli
Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Midsize SUVs are standard US car bloat. They eat public space, wear down infrastructure, and add danger. ​Compare that to the Urban Arrow, the SUV of the bike world. It has a minimal footprint, is fully urban capable, and keeps streets safe. ​Yet only one is called "big".
27111