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Kristina @kristinanielsen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

“Who is a good dog? Otro Perro Bonito is a good dog!” I have driven past the Garland shelter billboard featuring this pup this week several times, and I can’t help but smile a bit. Hope he finds a good home soon where someone needs an Otro Perro Bonito. 💕 #adoptdontshop #dogsofbluesky

Picture of a dog with the name Otro Perro Bonito as shown on Petfinder.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16/04/2025

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

Seth Rogen presenting the Breakthrough Prize for physics (Getty)

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Kristina @kristinanielsen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

If you are interested in music research, consider following @worldmusictextbook.bsky.social We are five years into this project and working to build good teaching resources for undergraduate classes. It bridges musicology and ethnomusicology. Check out our new resources.

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World Music Textbook @worldmusictextbook.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

World Music Textbook is excited to announce that we have added a new section to our site and resources! Check out some of our sample lesson plans and activities that incorporate WMT chapters and resources.

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Kristina @kristinanielsen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Join us for the online Society for Ethnomusicology Southern Plains conference tomorrow! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Dr. David McDonald Associate Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington. Listening to the Nakba: Palestine and the Crisis of Response.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.

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Kristina @kristinanielsen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

So, Rand Paul, you are saying that, if we play our cards right, when this is over we will get universal healthcare in our “new new deal”? #Tariffs #Trumponomics www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-...

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Kristina @kristinanielsen.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The milkweeds that germinated and then survived a toddler accident 🙃 I’m looking forward to getting them out in their new home in the yard soon!

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Kristina @kristinanielsen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Even though things aren’t pretty in this country right now, I can say that I’m proud of the kind little person I’m raising. (Yes he had a lot of help writing 😆)

Card written by child that reads “I’m sorry I hurt you.”

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Kristina @kristinanielsen.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Gardening experiments: I set up a shop light as a grow light, and everything except echinacea and strawberries seems to have worked? I am also experimenting with some outdoor grow lights as the trees are now shading a bit. We shall see how it goes!

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Kristina @kristinanielsen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Toddler magnet discovery this week: two of the cat butt magnets can stick together.

Two cat butt magnets attached to each other

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Kristina @kristinanielsen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

From Böckenförde State, Society, and Liberty (1991). TLDR: Individual liberty requires social services in the modern state, and the state provides these services to “keep society from destroying itself.” Feels relevant this morning.

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Kristina @kristinanielsen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I’m trying yet again to see if I can’t get some milkweed going. So many things are a mess in the world, but I can put down some native plants and foster biodiversity in my own backyard.

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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Love this quote from Rebecca Solnit: Be a brick or a dab of mortar. You don’t have to be the whole wall.

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Kristina @kristinanielsen.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I think Texas is as close to a crystal ball for the next four years in the US as one can get. There is deep irony that the party against “identity politics” mows down anyone who steps out of the narrow political identity they’ve created for themselves: thehill.com/homenews/cam...

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Texas GOP civil war reaches bruising climax with leadership battle

Long-simmering tensions within the Texas GOP are spilling out into the open amid a heated battle for the state House Speaker seat. The fight underscores long-standing friction between the rum…

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Kristina @kristinanielsen.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The inconvenience of convenience: I ordered six bananas. A while ago, I thought I ordered a bag of Brussel sprouts only to find a random lonely Brussel sprout at the bottom of a bag of carrots a few days later.

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Kristina @kristinanielsen.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

If anyone is interested in online songwriting or music production lessons, Jordan has room for a few more students!

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Kristina @kristinanielsen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

In the tug-of-war about the direction of the Democratic party, why are Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema not being brought up? Here are two supposed centrists who proudly sank Biden’s agenda including a bill that would have made American lives tangibly better. Perhaps some lessons lie there.

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Kristina @kristinanielsen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Few things have the feline magnetic powers held by a pile of stripped bedding placed deliberately to discourage cat naps.

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Kit O'Connell (🏳️‍🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽) @kitoconnell.com · 28/11/2024

Here's a way to give back today. Spend some of that Black Friday money here, instead.

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Kristina @kristinanielsen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I got my book revisions to the publisher last week (Fall 2025 🤞). I have now entered my cathartic house project stage.

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Kristina @kristinanielsen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Every few weeks, I ask my three year old if he is a boy or girl since I am curious about his understanding of gender. Me: E, are you a boy or a girl? E: I’m a friend. Best answer yet. 🥹

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