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Fred Lassen @fredzo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I'll have what CATS is having thanks #tonyawards

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Fred Lassen @fredzo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

would have been defeated three times after the first three words in this spelling bee

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

There's a lot to unpack from all these AI-booing incidents, but I also just find it weird how all these commencement speakers address an audience full of graduates as if they were their employees at a mandatory all-staff meeting

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ceej @ceej.online · 20/05/2026

one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/05/2026

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

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Fred Lassen @fredzo.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

oh this is ME one thousand percent

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I've actually seen many Indians talk like this including myself at times and it's usually when you didn't do the assignment and the goddamn teacher calls on you of all people in class

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Fred Lassen @fredzo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate That's just what I say now to things

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Rick Paulas @rickpaulas.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Loops, a serialized walking audio mystery through Prospect Park. Part 1 out now. Sound on. loopsprospectpark.com

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Fred Lassen @fredzo.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

what the world needs now is for these two guys to do the dance in RRR

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Fred Lassen @fredzo.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

An incredible Tonys night for musicians. When's the last time we saw so many musicians sharing the stage with the casts?

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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Oh no! We forgot to learn from history

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 05/02/2025

"You know what’s bad for business? Fucking Donald Trump! A psycho idiot fucking shit up constantly and destabilizing the world and robbing businesses of all ability to trust the rule of law and predict the future with some degree of confidence." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-busine...

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The Business Community Is Extraordinarily Stupid

Is a dictatorship good for business?

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

In 2010, Viktor Orbán launched a power grab nearly identical to Trump's. It led to the death of democracy in Hungary. Hungarians I spoke with pleaded with me to learn from their experience — and act before it's too late. www.vox.com/politics/398...

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Their democracy died. They have lessons for America about Trump’s power grab.

Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Everyone at the Treasury Dept meeting their new boss

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emily lipstein @emilylip.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

please take a moment to enjoy this clip from the city of yes hearings that's going viral on youtube for @nyc.streetsblog.org youtu.be/6D2NF71vh4w?...

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"Where Are You From?": NYC Council Member Vickie Paladino Responds in City of Yes Hearing

YouTube video by Streetsblog NYC

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Every disease used to be called either peptic disoiritpkhsylihalssus or the Chunks

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Fred Lassen @fredzo.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

I remembered to reserve the pasta water! historic ! this day will go down

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Fred Lassen @fredzo.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

The irrepressible giddy joy on this judge's face as she runs to mark Arshad Nadeem's winning javelin throw

Judge runs out to score Nadeem's javelin throw with huge beaming smile on her face

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

Walz: I don't think it's too radical to say that kids should be fed at school. Vance: If you're finished I'd like to return to the topic I raised, this so-called "yiff"-style porn. Look at this- a man fox is pregnant with an egg and the hero of the porn wants to be in the egg

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Fred Lassen @fredzo.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

but I need to know Valtz? Waltz? Vallz? Walls?

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Miriam Piilonen @miriam-piilonen.bsky.social · 03/08/2024

who needs music theory, I’ll play a Q major chord

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

As a musicologist I have absolutely no theories about why Olympic athletes choose certain songs for their routines, I just know I liked when the horse danced to “Jolene” in dressage

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

I challenge trump to a harmonic analysis of the 3rd movement of Bruckner 9. Not so tough are you now, mr count backwards by fives from fifty

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

pretty weird to think that the usa which just had a king appointed is gonna celebrate no king day tomorrow and the country theyre celebrating the bye bye king from will have their king tell us who will run that country for the next 5 years

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Fred Lassen @fredzo.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.

An especially complex page from Max Reger's piece for organ, Ein Feste Burg, containing some intricate pedal writing along with other highly chromatic passagework

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

You've probably been wondering: "How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?" This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for History Extra, but here's an excerpt! 🧪🗃️

Table showing cost of items in the 14th C., and the equivalent value in eels.

2 doz. eggs costs 1d, or 6 eels
A gallon of the best ale costs 1.25d or 8 eels
1 sheep costs 1s 5d, or 106 eels
1 cow costs 9s 5d, or 706 eels
A 2-story cottage costs £2, or 3,000 eels

As far as I know, no one was buying cottages with eels. This is more to give you a sense of relative costs. But wouldn't it be interesting if you could buy a house with eels?

This chart leaves unanswered the question: "What about the next-best ale?" and suggests and entire spectrum of ale gradations. Which makes good sense, of course. But also, you certainly wouldn't want to spend your eels on inferior ale!

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

The electrician working on rewiring my place is named Serge and it is taking every ounce of my willpower to be an adult today

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

If you're the person who stole the package from my foyer, I hope you're enjoying Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York.

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Fred Lassen @fredzo.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

americans: HOLY FUCKBALLS OF FUCKING FUCK brits:

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Pipe organs are kind of an amazing feat of engineering if your goal is "too much music"

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Howard Sherman @hesherman.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

While Broadway shows may creatively copycat, I think it would be wise of "Sweeney Todd" to avoid jumping on the "edible mascot" bandwagon.

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Fred Lassen @fredzo.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

I was conducting a performance of sweeney todd recently and our excellent bassoonist, he's really very good, but on this day he made a small mistake and skipped two bars in the number "Kiss Me," instead of sustaining a low E whole note, he played quarter note E - rest - quarter note E - rest /1

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Fred Lassen @fredzo.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

"Periodical cicadas are best eaten when they are still white, and they taste like cold canned asparagus." cicadasafari.org

cicadasafari.org

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

unfortunately I do have to give it to Amazon for the most unhinged shipping combination I’ve ever gotten: a 64 ounce bottle of bleach and the Iliad

a cardboard shipping box containing, yes, a large bottle of bleach and a copy of Emily Wilson’s Iliad

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