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Dawn @502eire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is so funny, how have I never seen it before

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the AP did a piece both informing and humanizing this administration’s quest to gut permanent supportive housing and it features St John Center and its clients

apnews.com

What Trump’s homelessness policy means for the most vulnerable

The Trump administration is shifting federal policy and dollars away from the “Housing First” approach that has been at the heart of federal homelessness policy.

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Editors of the Chronicle quite enthusiastic about the Trumpian project of destroying American higher ed

post from me a couple months ago: "Like do you think the industry mags for other sectors that Trump is trying to destroy with tariffs and political attacks are publishing a stream of “we deserve this for being so awful” boo-hoo thinkpieces? Of course they fucking aren’t! No clue why anyone would read the Chronicle."

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Unquotepostably, Duck mentioned in the piano thread the phenomenon of "all-Steinway schools." Sometime soon I will write about how much this deal sucks for basically everyone except the Steinway company itself, even though the schools that sign up for it (understandably) act like it's really special

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Andrew Dunn @israfelcello.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Had to laugh at this from my undergrad alumni magazine because Callery pears are famously the worst, shittiest urban trees and should all be replaced with good trees. It’s like saying “We rescued this West Nile mosquito from the wreckage of 9/11 and have lovingly kept it alive to this very day 😍”

Picture of white tree blossoms underneath 1 World Trade Center with text:

REMEMBERING 9/11
This Callery pear tree survived the 2001 attack in New York City. Today the Survivor Tree is part of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. Learn about the work of lan Kerrigan '00, the organization's senior vice president for exhibitions, on page 52.

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Hi there Bluesky community! I need some help from everyone. The Nashville music community has been thrown into an unprecedented crisis, and we need help here. This needs to be shared far and wide, because there are a lot of wonderful talented people whose lives and careers are at stake.

nashvillescene.com

Nashville Symphony to Suspend Season Amid ‘Financial Crisis’ [Updated]

The 80-year-old arts nonprofit’s board voted unanimously to take steps toward overcoming a $10 million deficit in its operating budget by ending its regular season early and putting staff on furlough....

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Uncharacteristically perplexing infobox on Wikipedia about the alphabet song

"ABC Song"

Song by Traditional [??]

from the album 535 Favorite Kids Songs [??]
B-side: "Loch Lomond" [??]
Released: 1835 [okay]
Recorded: 1834 [??]
Genre: Folk [okay]
Length: 1:25 [??]
Label: Decca Records [??]
Songwriter: anonymous [okay]

Traditional singles chronology [??]
"Turkey in the Straw” (1834)
“ABC Song" (1835)
"Can You Count The Stars" (1837)

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well in a way it would be appropriate if Santangelo replaced Krukow as the color guy for SF Giants tv broadcasts because then the on-air product could suck as bad as the team sucks on the field

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after the guy who wrote the Alphabet Song died they were cleaning out his place and found more than ten thousand handwritten pages of an unfinished Numbers Song

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dankettercello @danielketter.com · 01/10/2026

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Maybe clarinetists will kill me but it is interesting that historically there are documented clarinetists who used vibrato in late 19th early 20th century (around the same time string and vocal vibrato started to widen and increase) but then it became “jazz”-coded and not allowed in Classical music

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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The music that suits my personal emotional needs the best was made by Duke Ellington in 1938 without his knowing or caring anything about me or my needs whatsoever

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I don't know about this but a long time ago I dated a classical saxophonist who adamantly maintained that the Brahms Clarinet Trio and Clarinet Quintet were better on saxophone than on clarinet

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Tier list of how mad I would be if they won the World Series: TIER 1: I will walk into the ocean Dodgers TIER 2: please no Yankees Braves Astros Red Sox TIER 3: ugh Padres Phillies Cubs TIER 4: well someone's got to win the fucking thing, and they are someone Rays White Sox Brewers Guardians

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I have a long-held crank opinion that music theory and sociology are remarkably isomorphic as academic disciplines, so I guess … music theory is computer science??

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Sometimes I feel like such a pig when I want to snack uncontrollably around midnight every night, but then I remember: I have small children! We had dinner six and a half hours ago! Of course I'm hungry! It's my SLEEPING habits I should feel terrible about!

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