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@ecppdx.bsky.social
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Classical pianist, composer, and theorist from New England living in Portland, OR. Queer, leftist, pro-trans, pro-Palestine. I post about politics, music, film, and whatever else I'm thinking about.

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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 6h
Ripley was lying down and staring out the window; I decided to pick her up so she could get a better look. She doesn't love being held too much, but she was transfixed at the street outside and didn't care. When I let her go, she immediately went to the highest point on the couch she could. 🥹🤎
Ripley the dog, sitting on a couch throw pillow, positioning herself as high as she can to gaze out a window to the left
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 9h
Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon in a Weekend Update SNL skit, with Chris Kattan dress as a gay Hitler (pink armband, pink scarf) with the caption "Get out of here, Gay Hitler!"
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 21h
Scarfolk Council Public Information poster (satire/parody).

Orange background, photo at top 2/3 of a scene of teddy bears on a patch with both grass and some sand; a sand castle; two donkeys, with a strange fuzzy yellow creature riding one; false daisies in red, yellow, and white; an umbrella; and a partially-buried human skull

Bemeath it and overlapping slightly is a smaller round image of a doll or child's face in yellow and blue with orange cheeks, with a speech bubble saying "ALL IS WELL!" in a curly retro uppercase.

Copy, in black: "Despite what you may have heard, no one is dying. The economy is not crumbling. You are not being spied on. The natural world is not collapsing... Therefore there's NO NEED to discuss any of these matters in public, at your place of work, or even at home. Be content and trust your owners."  Beneath that, smaller, in dirty white: "For more information please reread."
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 23h
Oh this is just 3 Women now, got it. I mean I'm not complaining
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ooh it just turned lesbian a bit? Exciting news for this lesbian dog of ours! 🐶 🌈 I mean not to label Ripley against her will or anything, but she has literally only ever tried to hump other girl dogs, so. 🤷
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I recently picked up Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl since it sounded kinda up my alley. I'm a little ways in and homegirl pops out The Best of Bread on cassette! Sometimes it's just what you need. 🎧
A TV with an image of a closeup of someone handling a cassette tape case for The Best of Bread Me holding up an LP of the Best of Bread, bookcases filled with movies behind me and a floor lamp
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Every so often I think about Panteón Nube in Murcia, a columbarium that is one of my favorite architectural structures in the world.
A photo of the front of columbarium Panteón Nube, next to a smaller and more traditional Christian crypt. The Panteó  is a white near-cube with several large black doors that swivel and open the entire face in an angled design. A photo of the interior of Panteón Nube showing the middle floor in white marble and a heavily geometric ceiling also in white. Ahead is a window built into the geometry, glowing, the "glass" made of of white onyx. To the right are the stairs to the ground floor, where it is significantly darker.
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Comment from schmergo that reads

is he...... you know..... [imitates crab claws]....... *from Maryland*?

[emphasis theirs]
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I love how this is just making *everyone* hate Hegseth.
Fallout 4 still showing a dilapidated city street with a caption on top in green reading "Everyone disliked that."
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A post reminded me of this. Has anyone else seen The Dead Girl? I loooooved this film. The film explores how the titular dead girl's life and murder affect various other women. (This is not the same film as the horror movie Dead Girl!) The cast is utterly incredible.
Poster for Karen Moncrieff's film The Dead Girl
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Does anyone else assess films on how much they deserved it? Like, there are bad films I'm absolutely rooting for, and there are good films that I'm like "okay but still, fuck you" at them. Honestly, The End of Oak Street was the former for me! It wasn't good. But I still wanted it to be!
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
srsly calm down
"Gays will say they aren't dramatic then call something that weighs 2 grams a 'huge load'" on a rainbow-ish background
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This reminds me of Doormat Mom who calls adult children who cut off their horrible parents "ungrateful." Literally, on the cover of her book. I can't remember the last time I heard someone use the word and they weren't being completely unhinged in doing so.
Cover for the book Doormat Mom, No More!: When Good Parents Finally Say "Enough" To Their Ungrateful Adult Kids, by "Doormat Mom"
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
enjoying my commute today
A concrete barrier with the words GIRL COCK and SAD BITCHES drawn on it
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
that ratio tho
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A closeup of Ripley the dog making a weird face
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What I love about Ripley is how graceful and elegant she is when she's bed.
Ripley the dog lying on her back in bed, a rax fur blanket covering her lower half and a yellow and white zig zag blanket wrapping around her head, her paws flailing in the airRipley now staring down at the camera, her head and lower teeth exposed
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think maybe Ripley didn't like that I had a long rehearsal today.
Me lying on the couch, my head on a pillow, with Ripley the dog lying on top of the left side of my face and arm
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I saw Pennies from Heaven yesterday. The bleakness of its story is tough, but the cast, choreography, and costuming are just incredible. It'd make a good pairing with Dancer in the Dark, or Thieves Like Us for real bummers of a double feature.
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's very simple, actually.
A light blue flowchart with the opening question "Do Democrats need the votes of leftists to win elections?" with Yes/No possibilities. The Yes option flows to "The they have to offer us some policy concessions" and the No option flows to "Then it's not our fault when they lose"
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you don't need our votes, fine. That's your choice.
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is what's gonna make me become a supervillain
Messages app showing an indicator for an unread message at bottom (with red "1" bubble), a heading at top tjay says "Unread 1" whole the middle reads "No unread chats / When you have unread chats, you'll see them here."
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"8 servings / Serving size 1/8" and mixing ounces and grams should be illegal. These are brownie bites. A serving should be an approximate amount of bites. (It's roughly 4, which I had to determine for myself. Good thing I don't rely on this information to not die. 😒)
Nutrition information on a "bowl" of brownie bites that lists 8 servings per container and then a serving size of 1/8 bowl (which is just saying the same thing twice)
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have never taken a photo in Portrait Mode on my phone. Is that weird? This one looks OK! Maybe I should use it more often. 🤓
A portrait photo of me in clear acrylic aviator glasses and a brown and cream striped tee, sitting in the shade under a tree
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been accessorizing! I got this cute pouch that fits my diabetes supplies: spare pod, insulin vial, alcohol pads, Baqsimi, glucose gelpacks, and my glucose meter. For my body, I got colored adhesive overlays and a pod cover—it's October, so I went with black. 🖤👻💉
dual image showing me holding a colorful plaid canvas pack, showing contents in the second photo (glucagon, insulin, sparkling Omnipod, glucose monitor, glucose gel packs)Me, shirtless, out of the shower, in the mirror. I am turned to the side to show my glucose monitor and insulin pod on my arm, both covered in black adhesive overlay and a black plastic cap for the pod
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Me waiting in the lobby for my interview, appropriately not drinking an iced coffee
Maisie Williams in a Paper photoshoot, sitting on a black metal chair in a plywood floor against a beige background, wearing a shiny grey suit jacket and matching hot pants, knee-length black boots, a ruffled white shirt, and two large arcs of white feathers coming from either side of the back of her neck, curling overhead almost like antlers
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kramer basting himself while Newman looks on
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I keep my diabetic supplies in a small basket by the bed. Now, it just has my pods and glucose monitors, some alcohol swabs, and adhesive-remover pads; originally, it held a ton of pen needles, way more swabs, plus lancets and test strips. I don't miss finger-sticks or injections one bit!
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Criterion Collection cover for the Italian film Bitter Rice by Giuseppe Dr Santis, featuring a painting of two women working rice fields, with others in the background
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am throwing food in my face before rehearsal and somehow managed to choose only green foods to go with my very green outfit.
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Four panel comic by falseknees.com (2018)ň

1: several birds in a tree. One says "... And every morning we woke to the sounds of waves and then ate fresh berries..." and another replies "I wish I had time for that"

2: two birds, one responding "You know, for important things in life, you have to make time" and the bird from the first panel responds "Make time?"

3: that same bird says "... make"/"time..." in two separate speech bubbles. The other bird, out of frame, responds (cut off by framing) "I mea[n] figurati[vely]"

4: the "make time" bird, its eyes wide open and white, beak agape, staring into the distance. The background is a fractal-like arrangement of light and dark blue triangles. In it are written the words MAKE and TIME
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is especially anxiety-inducing because despite every delivery company having instructions on delivering to the mailroom, many of them keep delivering to my front door, which opens directly to a sidewalk with zero security. I've had numerous packages stolen as a result.
The front of my apartment, showing windows and a door opening out onto an open sidewalk
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
amateurs
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's always this
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
These have changed my life.
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
uh
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ripley the dog in a brightly-colored geometric sweater sitting on the couch on a navy blue blanket
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I sat on a bench on the UP campus to eat dinner before this performance and um, I guess I chose a good spot for a selfie...? 😅 Also I buzzed my head and trimmed my beard today and I think they look OK!
Me in a black shirt and purple tie, in front of a wall that coincidentally says PORTLAND above my head in purple lettering (at the University of Portland)
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On the contrary, I actually prefer that my trash bins be full of fascists.
A city trash receptacle with a sign on the side that reads FASCIST FREE ZONE – NAZIS NOT WELCOME with a bunch of fascist organization logos inside of 🚫 symbols, Ripley the dog on a leash looking up next to it
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Someone was having fun at the dog park
Four B&W posters:

The Zionist WEB OF LIES [anti-media bias on Israel] 

Ain't No Such Thing As HALFWAY CROOKS [Stop Cop City]

ARMS EMBARGO NOW YOU STUPID SLUTS!

DON'T LET THEM HYPNOTIZE YOU INTO THINKING THIS IS NORMAL
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I mean same
A still from Deadloch showing a woman in a pink shirt saying "I've never seen an equal to my Rod"
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Still from a Tremfya ad showing a bleak empty space with a yellowish sky and what look like stone pillars on either side, the Tremfya logo and name at center
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I recently splurged on a silly accessory cover for my insulin pods. Of course it arrived today, the day I ripped half of the pod off while showering so now it's being secured with medical tape and I can't try it on. 😑 (Thankfully, the pod remains connected and is still dispensing insulin.)
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Duncan Sheik died of heart failure yesterday. He was 56. I basically wore out his 1996 debut; I met him in 2001 in Boston at a free outdoor concert and I got his autograph. He was very nice to me.
Cover of Duncan Sheik's eponymous debut (1996) showing a splattery abstract backdrop in green-blue and golden yellow, with the artist posed in front in a dark blue shirt
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