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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 12h

THE STARS AT NIGHT ARE BIG AND BRIGHT 👏 👏 👏 👏

VoteHub UPDATE - TEXAS SENATE ELECTION has gone from Tilt D to Lean D. There is also a map of the state of Texas that shows red or blue lean county by county

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

The best job in baseball is the organ player who gets to be like ok, send me this year’s pop hits

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Like I think that more right-wingers would benefit from making an effort to "reach across the aisle" to their liberal coworker than vice versa. Liberal coworker likely grew up with some right-wingers in their family or community and consciously rejected that. But a lot of righties are isolated!

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But all these strategies about "overcoming ideological bias" always seem to be deployed solely at liberals/leftists, which is ironic as they are far more likely to be acquainted with right-wing ideas (and that's often why we've moved to places / chosen professions w / fewer of them) than the reverse

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

because I don't want my students to think i'm telling them what to think no matter which way they tilt. But where I have a lot of stuff about my political opinions, it's extremely deliberate. As you said, works great for detering people I don't want to talk to to begin with!

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah I've had people act like I don't think about that stuff but it's very deliberate - as you said, partly as a filtering device (also the people who ARE cool are drawn by it). I've also lived and in red areas where you have to be more careful, and since I work as a prof I'm careful on school stuff

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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

a *moderate* treatment for ideological bias is to clean a river with someone, or another shared point of interest to focus on, and demystify how your differing beliefs could bring you to this shared interest but the *best* cure is to storm Normandy Beach

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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

curious

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

rusted and also cooked by her apartment's perpetual 90 degree heat

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also you probably know more but IME, most subtitles don't include anything about non-language audio (like sound effects, instrumental music) so it doesn't seem like it would replace the utility of closed captioning for people who are deaf/HOH

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My issue is less that I think loans are the best way to fund this (believe me as someone with a lot, I do not) and more removing any means by which non-rich students are able to major in arts and humanities fields at all

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The emojis around the mention of my profession seemed pretty snotty, and excessive when “I don’t like that the job I have that I enjoy is under threat” is not exactly an unusual position Anyway we don’t seem to be in disagreement, but also the Trump admin is not replacing this with grants

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I would also obviously prefer if it isn’t stuff they have to pay off forever as someone currently doing that with my loans, but something is better than nothing in not blocking non-rich students from being able to choose what to study

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My profession is that I am a music professor and I would like to have students who major in it to take my classes. I mean if you want to be snotty about it ok, but fewer majors will mean fewer professors hired, and fewer arts classes is good for no one

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

not that the Trump admin cares about this (until the courts / the eventual Dem Congress makes him), but pretty sure this is also an ADA violation??

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks to Trump's supposed limitations on what kids getting student loans can study, my desire for Dems to sweep this midterms like a floor has intensified, in the sense of "I would like my profession to continue to exist" Plus, restricting them to rich kids is the death knell of the arts!

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

as someone who majored in (and now teaches in a university) something that Trump apparently thinks working-class kids shouldn't be able to study, feeling this. there's a lot of stuff the upper classes love the idea of the lower classes doing that they'd never dream of for their own kids! telling!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

there's more than a hint of 'noble savage' in the way people outside the trades talk about those jobs and especially those workers. there's a reason people leave those jobs for less physically demanding ones if the option becomes available! enough salt-of-the-earth rhapsodizing!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

there are PLENTY of writers who come from a blue collar background and have worked in the trades and i can't remember ever seeing one of them publish an op-ed about how everyone should pivot to hard, painful physical labor

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Heaven was in DDR. I don't remember Everytime We Touch being in there but it could have been, it's been eons

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I feel you - 248 here! (From "the real OC," as we called it in high school)

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Everytime We Touch" by Cascada is the Manchurian Candidate signal for every remotely nerdy millennial. I was a classic rock snob in high school so I tried to deny it, but it is undeniable

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Awful: The Supreme Court just let Trump's third-country deportations move forward. Still a shot at stopping them later but unlikely. Reminder: If Dems win power, they can and should defund both the white-nationalist Office of Remigration and third-country deportations, as I argue in this piece:

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Texas, the voter registration deadline is coming up next week. If you live in Texas and want to vote, be sure to check that you are registered properly — even if you you think you did what you had to. A statewide database to check: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a super fun election to be a lifelong Democrat who lived in Texas for 7 years and has a Michigan area code, lmty

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"She's from Texas, I can tell" and it's that you looked at her phone and all of her unknown-number texts from the last month are James Talarico asking for money

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

also I'll never unsee when she and Brianna Wu were going back and forth about how attractive they found... JD Vance

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A group of major medical organizations released recommendations this morning for Covid, flu and RSV vaccination, including guidance for the general population as well as specifics for children, people over 65, pregnant people and immunocompromised people. Here's a guide.

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Your Guide to Covid, Flu and R.S.V. Vaccines This Fall (Gift Article)

Major medical groups released new recommendations on who should get the shots, citing a lack of strong guidance from the federal government.

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Deb Aoki @debaoki.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A Broadway musical based on Moyoco Anno’s manga, « Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen » with music by Duncan Sheik is debuting this month in NYC! www.memoirsmusical.com You can read the manga that inspired this show on @omoi.com & @emaqi-official.bsky.social

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Being a millennial music prof who teaches courses about popular music means your life is just this Abbott Elementary clip youtu.be/zUuExVIAfrc?...

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Abbott Elementary- "Oldies"😩

YouTube video by Bits 'n Pieces

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Freshman asked me today if I had heard of “the group Outkast”

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The New Yorker exposé on Bari Weiss from last year (earlier this year? what is time) suggested that she does come off as extremely charming when people first meet her in-person and that is a big part of how she gets ahead - but woof that does not come across through any media at all

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Great SG but Spooky @thegreatsg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bumping again, here's a video of Cloud showing Sabin who the boss is.

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And Texans please vote for Talarico, we CANNOT inflict Ken Paxton on the rest of the country

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Since this thing got so many notes: no Substack or SoundCloud here, but you can buy my 33 1/3 about Cowboy Bebop from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social and also if you’re in my home state of Michigan, please vote for Abdul El-Sayed for Senate! If you’re not, donate! Do it for the porch goose

An image of a porch goose statue inside an apartment wearing a Detroit Tigers hat and an “LGBTQIA+ for Abdul” shirt which includes a link to AbdulforSenate.com

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Random Thursday observations: it will always bug me that Sweet & Low’s logo uses a treble rather than bass clef

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And the naysayers about this article 10000% have abstracted too far - there's a person saying "some people are just passionate about things" like that's an honest and non-insane way to describe threats to firebomb a bar

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

35 now? yikes. my best friend from high school had gone to Syracuse & came back summer '91 into the Seattle bands. the big ones for us were Mudhoney & Tad; he had a dub of the "Sliver" 45 too. early fall 91 he wrote to say 'new Nirvana is good!' & i was like '? oh the 'grandma take me home' group'

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

even when there was a "private" this always resulted in no criticism whatsoever anyway. it's an excuse

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Remember everyone: Good polls are fake and bad polls are real. Your anxiety would never lie to you.

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is also far from the first time the media posted a story about random small-stakes stuff because it was funny or likely to spark discourse: see "art friend," see the libertarian bear town, etc. That's arguably what the "human interest" section in any given newspaper is for

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my favorite was "um does the left know they have the same position on masks now as Ted Cruz?" and it's like ok I also root for the same college football team as Ted Cruz, what other logical fallacies that we learned about in middle school are you going to roll out here

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Robot That Gets Killed By Aliens Early In The Movie @robot-bastard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"We shouldn't criticize in public because people will screenshot the criticism and put it on Kiwifarms" does not result in good criticism done in private, it results in *no* criticism because nowhere is private anymore.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lots of fascinating observations in this piece. A key one is that those demanding calculated moderation on trans rights are not acknowledging where the logic *or* the politics of that position actually lead, which is to a terrible place:

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be clear, my doctorate is in music, not a medical field (just because people On Here sometimes jump to conclusions about that when it's on a medical topic and I don't want to be credited with expertise I don't have), but thank you!

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's a tendency for the v real and important need for broader LGBTQ+ solidarity to turn into people co-opting specific struggles they largely don't face because people who do are "also queer" & as a cis lesbian I see a LOT of that from fellow AFAB queers re: gay/bi men's and trans women's issues

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Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her or they/them) @composerose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

that's part of it, but I think some of it is also understanding the nuances and divides within the queer community, particularly the historical one between predominantly AMAB and AFAB people. primary HIV-AIDS victims have been gay/bi men (mostly AMAB) and trans women; most "zero covid" are AFAB

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