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Ehler @ehler.musician.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Has anyone ever written about how the default Motorola text tone is the worst alert tone of any 21st century computing device?

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Crucial Track for January 30, 2026: "Children of Sanchez" by Chuck Mangione & Don Potter app.crucialtracks.org/profile/ehler…

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 01/12/2025

If you win too few games in one season, it doesn’t matter what you’ve done before, you’re fired and fans will hate you. If you win too many games, someone will pay 9 figures to leave and fans will hate you. You have to win the exact right number. Kirk Ferentz has mastered this.

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

@komaniecki.bsky.social i’m also an AI skeptic, but it was two for two here for me

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I consider myself fairly knowledgeable in music theory courses from a full curriculum in college, but there are two things I often forget. Can you guess what they are first of all?
That's a fun challenge. Based on what many otherwise knowledgeable musicians tend to forget or get fuzzy on from music theory courses, my guesses would be:
1. The difference between a French, German, and Italian augmented sixth chord - even theory majors often mix these up or forget the exact spellings.
2. Neapolitan chord function and voice-leading rules - it's a common one to gloss over or misapply.

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

My usage of this platform would go up so much if I could save/bookmark posts (Hearting them is different!!)

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

@carrietipton.bsky.social Wanting to pick your book up on Kindle, but I see epub as the only option. I assume the DRM on it wouldn’t work with ‘send to Kindle?’ Sorry, I know that’s really more of a Publisher matter.

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Okay, if you were unaware, Eric Whitacre finally got permission to publish the Frost poem that became Sleep.

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Microplastics Sommelier @eephus.mov · 29/06/2025

i’m at the taco bell i’m at the urgent care i’m at the combination taco bell and urgent care

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The singularity is awesome

Google search for “all you can eat buffet near me”
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Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I told you we’d be back

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Yeah, just use a lowercase “b” to mean flat, there’s nothing wrong with that.

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

As a tuba player who ‘got’ to play the marching band arrangement of this somehow like 11 times between high school and college: I hate this bass line so much.

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I gotta say, as someone who (mostly) likes to be busy: I wish it was more normal for people to be working at about 60% of their capacity. With that extra 40% for time and energy for the unexpected, for support for their coworkers, for delight and growth…

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Merlin Mann @hotdogsladies.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Power Brokered! letterboxd.com/merlinmann/l...

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

How’s it feel to not get to see a color, now, huh? #colorblind4lyfe

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Started brewing my coffee this morning without the pot…it sure is April. #runningthegauntlet

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Listen Severance is just so good

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Ehler @ehler.musician.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2025

My students might think I have no life, but I just got an Instagram reel for an alternate fingering for clarinet, and the extent to which that is a mirror screaming back at me “no life” is hard to understate.

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

@benstiller.redhour.com With Robbie Benson and some of the graphics we've seen on the severed floor, is it safe to say someone behind the scenes has some King's Quest inspiration?

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the hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 05/02/2025

MRS COBELL: i want the best for you mark. MRS COBELL: i want you to live más MARK SCOUT: live más? MRS COBELL: theres something i havent told you MRS COBELL: my first name is actually Ta MARK SCOUT: ta.. cobell..?

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John Gruber @gruber.foo · 05/02/2025

No question about it, I have a tab-hoarding problem, but it really is a testament to Apple Silicon, MacOS, and Safari that I'm running like this — with 706 open tabs across 50 windows — and nothing is noticeably slow.

Screenshot showing that I have 50 open Safari windows containing 706 open tabs.

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

YOU: now let me get this straight. He takes the money for the band instruments. ME: and the costumes, yeah. YOU: and he leaves? ME: No, he orders the instruments. YOU: So he takes the costume money. ME: No they get the costumes. YOU: what is the scam exactly ME: he doesn't inspire them

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👁️saac 👁️o @eyesack.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

why couldn’t they ban microsoft teams

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Got some good replies to this that I decided to gather together. If you use Markdown in your own notes system, this would be easy to copy and paste for your own list to track. gist.github.com/mrehler/8172...

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Collating replies to a BlueSky post

Collating replies to a BlueSky post. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Ehler @ehler.musician.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2025

Hoping I can get my school’s main copier in my jazz band the way it loves to jam

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15/01/2025

American teens are flocking to a new video app

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

As someone too young for MTV: what are the most classic/essential music videos of all time? I know some, but figure there are some that I need to see not on my radar. I figure since most of my network on here is classical people, what rises to the top from this should be good.

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Apple Music Classical is nice, and I don’t expect it to be great at concert band stuff, but there are no hubs or playlists for wind band as a genre

Apple Music Classical browse tab, showing lots of different angles for getting at works, but none that so much as contain the concert band under any name.

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 22/12/2024

in my latest installment of writing about wagner's ring cycle, i wrote about sieglinde as heroine, myself as sieglinde, and the ring as an allegory of rape www.late-review.com/p/sieglinde-...

late-review.com

sieglinde as heroine

part of a body of work on Wagner's Ring cycle

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

One of the telling characteristics of the AI-gen’d student essays I’ve seen is their insipid both-sidesism, fully assimilating the noncommittal banalities that tech corps demand from employees, and hovering sufficiently in a colorless nowhere of opinion where one is neither right nor wrong.

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🌅 Patricia Wallinga 🌇 @pwallinga.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Music engraver: Yes, that's left blank to facilitate page turns.

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 18/12/2024

siegmund from the ring cycle i love you so much

Now that it is over, we can see in full what Siegmund chose to do with this sad little life of his. I’ve always found it so very lovely. When we meet him, he is a wanderer in the woods, a man in exile. A crusader against injustice, depersonalized by others and alienated even from himself, he is forced to bury somewhere secret his own true name. And yet, despite falling victim to extraordinary cruelty, in Siegmund, like many Wagnerian heroes, can be found the optimism of the creative spirit. He tells stories, devises aliases, and speaks in extensive metaphors. When given the first opportunity to express himself fully, to reveal his truest feelings and desires, he blossoms into a poet. The “Winterstürme,” the love song he sings to Sieglinde, is made only more beautiful when one thinks about how long its creator has been yearning to sing it. For a very brief time, Siegmund knows the love and kindness of another human being. This is so precious to him, gives his life such meaning, that he is willing to die for it. His end is no less than a testimony to human dignity. He dies an abolitionist refusing to be enslaved. And in telling the story of this little life, there is so much beautiful music, underscored, as always by a plaintive cello line. That line, of course, resolves upwards.

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 18/12/2024

hello i'm back writing about the ring cycle and this time i lay out my favorite heterodox die walküre analysis/conspiracy theory: that siegmund is a revolutionary figure and the gods straight up murder him and use a bunch of excuses to cover it up www.late-review.com/p/the-except...

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the exception of siegmund

part of a body of work on Wagner's Ring cycle

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I just got a Sam’s club membership and I don’t like the trail mix I got. It tastes too healthy.

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 19/12/2024

muppets ring cycle when

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Ehler @ehler.musician.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2024

Lesson planning is going so well right before Christmas break

Screenshot of Drafts with reminders of things I need to bring up with my high school band. It reads:

Ehler's two dumb things and one not dumb thing

1. The krampus will eat you in hell screenshot
2. Composers love to score a good deal pun

1. You all matter to me a lot

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 14/12/2024

hello i am back writing about the ring cycle by richard wagner, a guy i am not related to, and this time i have laid out my case for re-examining the incestuous twins from die walküre (and why i am just soooo obsessed with them) www.late-review.com/p/reclaiming...

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reclaiming the wälsungs

part of a body of work on Wagner's Ring cycle

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 11/12/2023

Dasher Dancer Prancer Vixen Comet Cupid Donner Blitzen More than ever hour after hour Work is never over

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Not going to go to the effort of fleshing it out since it’s not a joke I can make for my students, but: Gymnopédies nuts

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

You need to stop what you’re doing and read this thread

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Ehler @ehler.musician.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2024

Is it good that everyone is more irritated all the time and disdainful about their day-to-day life or bad ?

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Ehler @ehler.musician.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/12/2024

If I were the mom in Home Alone, my character arc would be remembering two months into a polka tour with John Candy that I have a family I should go back to

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Ehler @ehler.musician.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2024

If I was fifty years older and somehow not a band director, I think I would be killing it writing parody songs for singing mounted fishes.

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Ehler @ehler.musician.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2024

Repeat after me: “Ehler not every first listen to a Hindemith piece is going to knock your socks off and you can’t be disappointed by that”

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I still prefer the *experience* on Mastodon, but it’s so cool to have so many classical music people on here. I wish I could use Ivory as a client and bookmark stuff. But I’m gonna be wasting a lot of time I don’t have switching back and forth.

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Ehler @ehler.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This might be my favorite read of 2024.

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