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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 3h

Democrats control state government in Minnesota but they are still cutting public higher education funding: www.highereddive.com/news/univers...

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University of Minnesota eyes $225M in budget cuts

Senior leaders attributed its financial woes to “shifting enrollment trends, unpredictable state and federal funding, and rising costs.”

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 2h

The bus pulled up right when I walked up to the stop

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 15h

I deadlifted 225 again, just once but it was easier than before

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17h

GoFundMe was a lot more effective when it was called taxes.

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 19h

We will use to-do lists sometimes, but our most commonly used lists are more specific (the dinner plan for the next few days, groceries, a record of when and how much we've medicated a sick child) Planning how we will/need to spend our time each day/week mostly occurs iteratively via conversations

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henselpushers @henselpushers.bsky.social · 19h

Henselfest announcement: The 2027 event will kick off with a performance of Jennifer Vosters’ award winning one-person play Songs Without Words (or, The Mendelssohn Play)

Performer Announcement
Jennifer Vosters
Henselfest 2027
April 1-3, Berkeley, California

Jennifer Vosters
Jennifer Vosters (she/her) is a Chicago-based writer and theatre artist. Her original solo play, Songs Without Words (or, The Mendelssohn Play), won the M.
Elizabeth Osborn Award from the American Theatre Critics Association in 2024 before touring various theatres, universities, and festivals in the U.S. and Canada. Other awards for Songs Without Words include Critics' Pick (Cincinnati Fringe), Pick of the Fringe and Audience Favorite (Green Bay Fringe), Best International Show (Saskatoon Fringe), Members' Pick and Venue Pick (Minnesota Fringe), and Audience Favorite (Elgin Fringe). A proud member of Actors' Equity Association and the Dramatists Guild, Jennifer has worked professionally as an actor, director, playwright, and occasional musician for more than ten years. She fell in love with the Mendelssohn/Hensel siblings and their music as a middle school orchestra student-so keep the arts funded in schools!
www.jennifervosters.com

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 22h

I will not quote post and respond to other posts that screenshot engagement bait from Twitter I will not quote post and respond to other posts that screenshot engagement bait from Twitter I will not quote post and respond to other posts that screenshot engagement bait from Twitter I will not quote p

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 23h

Today my "Race in American Popular Music" course read an excerpt from George E. Lewis's 2000 essay, "Too Many Notes", and I used it to emphasize the formative impact of the US enslavement of Africans and their descendants on the structures and power dynamics attendant to American Popular Music

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 23h

Desperately texting my wife, "I don't have a body like Elon Musk, right???", with the same urgency as the old guy at the end of Saving Private Ryan

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I keep thinking about Gabriel's cheesesteaks

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My seitan breakfast sausage is much better than the first batch, terrific texture and the flavor is almost there

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The only upside to this is that I haven't worn these pants in over six months and I am happy I comfortably fit into them

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the year is 2032. you were 90 minutes late to your kids parent/teacher conference after your waymo got stuck in a roundabout. your kids educator, an ai version of benjamin franklin, is asking parents if yoga pants are actually acceptable present-day attire. he wont let it go. it doesnt stop

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Laundry mismanagement has me reaching way too far down my pants depth chart today

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Sarah Fritz @sarahfritz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Madame Composer: The Virtuosic Genius of Clara is out tomorrow!! Heh😱 I did a reveal of the table of contents with all my teaser subheadings. Also sharing the book’s introduction there tomorrow! sarahfritz.substack.com/p/a-big-revi...

sarahfritz.substack.com

A Big Review & A Table of Contents Reveal

Madame Composer is here on Tuesday!

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I woke up early again, but only did grading which feels bad

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the American mind struggles to comprehend a society that doesn't treat the arts like a disposable commodity

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?

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Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 29/09/2026

Current* conditions near Houghton, MI:

View looking west of Portage Lake Lift Bridge from the Michigan Tech Lakeshore Center. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-29 05:18:03 EDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: mtu.edu // Current Temp in Houghton: 54 F | 12 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: E at 3 mph | 5 kph // Humidity: 93%

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Norm self-help book incoming, someone alert the @ifbookspod.bsky.social boys

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Spinning this as I work on dinner (sage/butternut squash/pea/Parmesan risotto)

My hand holding the cover to the LP of defunct doom metal band Lycus's brilliant and beautiful 2016 album "Chasms"

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My next Resonant Soundscapes show on Sunday, 10/18 (2p, Detroit Public Library main branch)! Hear me, Marcus Elliot, Michael Malis, @saratea.bsky.social, Chien-An Yuan, and Julie Zhu improvise a thrilling score to the silent horror classic "Häxan" (1922) in the DPL's stunning Adam Strohm Hall!

Eery poster for this performance that shows a the partial torso vague figure lit in blue against a black background; the poster's text is in red with the film title "Häxan" largest and centered, the rest of the poster gives the event details (Sunday, 10/18; 2-4p; free; on the third floor of the Detroit Public Library main branch on Woodward Avenue) and the artist roster (included in the post's main text)

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My "Music & Meaning In Our Lives" class has just entered it's second unit where we start our cultural studies/critical theory work, I always love this part of the course because I assign a little bit of @robinjames.bsky.social's scholarship and start to illustrate how systems shape musical practice

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Taught a good class this morning (at least that's how it felt to me!)

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Healthy conversation to address society's deepest divides"

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Things have improved in certain significant ways, but I just barely missed an earlier bus which is just another in many, many inconveniences starting my day

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would characterize the mood in our household this morning as: disastrous

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jeez today has been packed with chores

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In its periodicity, this issue is kind of like the right wing Jill Stein

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's a school night but Shana and I still enjoyed the fire pit for a little bit after the kids went to bed

Photo of a beautiful fire pit burning in our outdoor fire pit at night

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Texans season is already over, lol

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Really pleased with how this turned out, the seasoning I threw together is very flavorful and the texture of the seitan is much less dense then the last batch I made I should get 12 patties from this log!

Photo of my last batch of homemade seitan breakfast sausage, it is a big log of seasoned seitan that I trimmed at each end

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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 27/09/2026

this week's Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter has been thrown like a frisbee and is headed to an email inbox near you curated curiosities + rizzy recommendations abound + I reminisce about a flyer I 'designed' for Thin White Rope, and learn about what they're up to now (it involves a singing dog)

thetonearm.com

Heirloom Tomatoes

This week: Jennifer Herrema, the Residents, Bob Ezrin, Elanor Moss, Ginny Winn, Ayman Fanous, and Mark Isham. Plus, Stoo Odom and Roger Kunkel of Thin White Rope explain the singing dog.

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So, the Texans are bad This has happened before

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As someone who has taken blood borne pathogens training for work, this is not what you're supposed to do

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield.

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are there ten other people at Michigan who know who Julia Perry is?...

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I really love this Milburn string quartet, but other Rice people might know about it (he taught there) youtu.be/Er37fngA6vM?...

youtu.be

String Quartet No. 2

YouTube video by Various Artists - Topic

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm making seitan breakfast sausage again and it smells really good, more appetizing than the first time certainly thanks to my more aggressive season and, potentially, my omission of nutritional yeast, which I've never really enjoyed

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In my "Race in American Popular Music" class on Thursday, I played the only extant recording of Julia Perry's song, 'By The Sea' (she came up in an assigned reading), which is from an archived 1953 radio broadcast I told my students that there aren't ten other people at UM who have heard that piece

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I almost asked what people's favorite most obscure music is, but, as someone with three degrees in music composition, I am just in a different league there is no way regular people can run with someone who cherishes his mp3 of the world premiere recording of Richard Lavenda's string trio

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you claim to have never heard Crazy Frog’s “Axel F,” it says more about you than it does Mr. Frog. This about virtue signaling that you are better than entire genres of music, that your friends are not in the custom ringtone game.

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Matt Wells @mattwells.com · 27/09/2026

Last day of the Minnesota State Sacred Harp Convention, today at the Landing in Shakopee, until 3pm

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" (2001)

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the subject of 'Choosin Texas's confusion, it's probably important to note that, because of streaming, the Billboard charts are based on much more ambiguous and manipulable data than before, which isn't to say that they were perfect metrics for cultural significance in the past

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 27/09/2026

Half a century after the Prestige trilogy, the tenor saxophonist marks 'Turn the Music Up' with an account of Horace Tapscott's Los Angeles, McCoy Tyner's touch, Pharoah Sanders's generosity, and a practice routine he hasn't altered since he was a teenager. #JazzSky Azar Lawrence Is the Lineage:

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Azar Lawrence Is the Lineage

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