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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 4h

I used to feel like half my time as an orchestra musician was spent patiently explaining, over and over, that no, orchestras have never in history paid for themselves through ticket sales; no, cutting concerts or auxiliary trumpets won't balance the books; YOU JUST HAVE TO RAISE THE MONEY.

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 10h

Long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset I am in paradise

Sunset over the Thames photographed from outside the National Theatre. Waterloo Bridge is visible under wisps of red cirrus.

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 15h

TODAY (Monday, Oct. 5) is the deadline for registering to vote for the midterms in: AMERICAN SAMOA ARIZONA ARKANSAS FLORIDA GEORGIA INDIANA KENTUCKY LOUISIANA — in-person, mail (10/13 online) MISSISSIPPI MONTANA — mail (11/3 in-person) OHIO SOUTH CAROLINA — mail TENNESSEE TEXAS npr.org/vote

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How to register to vote and check your registration status

For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Croydonites: tonight’s Britten War Requiem at Fairfield Halls is going to be quite a good one. Properly massive choir and orchestra. All 3 soloists are fantastic, really fine singers who do more than justice to both Britten’s music and Owen’s poetry. www.fairfield.co.uk/events/regen...

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Regents Opera: War Requiem | Fairfield Halls | Croydon

On Sunday 4th October, Regents Opera, Britain's most ambitious "fringe" opera company, give a performance of Benjamin Britten's epic and thought-provoking

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 October 1936. Battle of Cable Street took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel, London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley and various anti-fascist and Jewish demonstrators.

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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 03/10/2026

Mike D: Squirrel leapt from a All: TREE Mike D: Owl shocked as can All: BE Mike D: Now AdRock will tell you how this all came to AdRock: Be not afraid that’s All: BOGUS AdRock: Photography so sick all in All: FOCUS AdRock: Not magic no hocus All: POCUS MCA: Squirrel gonna get you! You’ll All: SEE!

California squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo. The image itself of a squirrel leaping out of a tree directly toward an owl that has sighted it, and whose yellow eyes are wide in surprise.

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Cis people, you really need to read this.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the reasons Dracula works and is good is cause it’s about every single middle-class British neurosis and paranoia AT ONCE

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy birthday Steve Reich appy birthday Steve Reich H ppy birthday Steve Reich Ha py birthday Steve Reich Hap y birthday Steve Reich Happ birthday Steve Reich Happy birthday Steve Reich Happy irthday Steve Reich Happy b rthday Steve Reich Happy bi thday Steve Reich Happy bir

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE functioning portaloo

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Quality analysis, not on Substack. Worth a few greenbacks!

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Whole thread but especially this

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Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Obsessed with chronicles. In 1563 Stowe thought it worth recording that the Mayor of London Sir Thomas Lodge was the first Mayor ever to wear a beard, 'ye whiche was thowght to mayny people very straynge'.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 02/10/2026

There's a new edition of THE HOBBIT & it's the one illustrated by Tove Jansson which has never been published in English before. (It was pub'd in Sweden where Astrid Lindgren picked her to do the illustrations!) Read more: tovejansson.com/hobbit-tolki... 📖 www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Tove Jansson's cover for THE HOBBIT with a very Jansson-esque Bilbo holding a shield and axe with mountains behind, Smaug flying overhead, and the line of riding dwarves as tiny silhouettes behind.

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yessss a little salacious local history for the weekend

A hardcover copy of E J Burford’s Bawds and Lodgings: a history of the London Bankside brothels c. 100-1675

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When in Prague, visit one of the few surviving medieval bollards, made to protect buildings from careening market wagons. This guy is around 600 years old...

Stone bollard on a street corner carved with a man's face with his tongue sticking out.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Epstein emails show he literally advised *all* these freaks, over decades, up til his death, on how to use transphobia as a wedge to make their expected victims more vulnerable Dems could have just not accepted Epstein's framing of trans rights as an essential part of being viewed as electable

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2

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In Quires and Places where they meme @quiresandplaces.com · 01/10/2026

Ugh, don't you hate spem mail?

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In this production it seems the Dolorous Stroke deprived Amfortas of his trousers Never seen so much Amfortass (It’s Gerhaher, he’s singing amazingly, but jesus christ get the man a pair of pants)

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When autocorrect meets Parsifal

Text message exchange with an opera chorus member:

A great deal of action is central stage
Apart from
A bit of sundry in act 2
Laundry
KUNDRY

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 01/10/2026

truculence ball

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Medieval animals drawn by people who have never seen them, I will love you forever

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tonight’s sunset. A phoenix wing of cirrostratus with a contrail

Blue evening sky. Cirrostratus clouds in the classic “mackerel scale” pattern are lit vermilion in sunset. An aircraft contrail pierces the cloud formation, likewise lit in pink

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨🎉🎉The catalogue for the groundbreaking @Folger.edu exhibit “‘To Hear Her Speak’: Black Women in Shakespeare” is live & open source. But if you are an academic, PLEASE ask your library to buy a copy. We need to show lasting interest in these times! asu.pressbooks.pub/to-hear-her-...

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Acknowledgments – To Hear Her Speak

Recovers a previously hidden theater and performance history of Black women engaging with Shakespeare as actors, playwrights, costume designers, and directors.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Eric Schmitt was AG for Missouri. Setting aside the fact that his home state neighbors the Iowa Hawkeyes, the fact that he got so far out over his skis with bad information should give everyone pause. Was this similar to his conduct as AG? If he's willing to do this to Smith would he do it to you?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a brown stone building with a brown thatched roof. It's surrounded by green grass, stone walkways, and blue-gray sea. Below is a checked brown tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The one at te top shows a rocky hillside with green and straw-colored grass, gray rocks, and a tan sandy beach below. The blue waters are crashing at the shore. Below is a green herringbone tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a field of green and straw colored fields with bits of purple flowers. Below is a a series of checked brown tweed that reflect the colors in the landscape above it.

A swatch book of solid-colored tweeds. The green tweed has visible flecks of red, gold, and blue.

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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just watched Darmok for the first time after hearing about it for years. Winfield is AMAZING as the alien Captain. What an actor!

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20

Photograph of Pevensey Castle with an information board in the foreground showing an artists impression of how the view may have looked in 1066 when the sea came almost up to the walls.

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great artists should be appreciated while they’re still here.

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

MAKE ART! MAKE BAD ART! BAD ART IS BETTER THAN AI ART! YOUR WORST IS STILL BETTER THAN THE SLOP!

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Slane Squah? Ya dahling. Slane Squah

A vintage Merc rinds the conah of Slane Squah

A finetan. Sculptcha of a gel with a shell, deuntcheu kneu. Slane Squah.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

incidentally i think these guys are the patron saints of bluesky

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you can get to the last show of Third Summer Of Love tonight at the Lion and Unicorn, it's very good indeed! Well worth the trip to Kentish Town. www.thelionandunicorntheatre.com/whats-on

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What's On — LION & UNICORN THEATRE

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I bought the sheet music for John Cage's 4'33" and it's perfect. No notes.

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wish I had met him and could have told him what his writing has meant to me.

Against Entropy
The worm drives helically through the wood
And does not know the dust left in the bore
Once made the table integral and good;
And suddenly the crystal hits the floor.
Electrons find their paths in subtle ways,
A massless eddy in a trail of smoke;
The names of lovers, light of other days;
Perhaps you will not miss them. That's the joke.
The universe winds down. That's how it's made.
But memory is everything to lose;
Although some of the colors have to fade,
Do not believe you'll get the chance to choose.
Regret, by definition, comes too late;
Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.
-- John M Ford

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my power bill has gone up over 100% in the last two years please vote PETER HUBBARD and SHELIA EDWARDS for public service commission in georgia so maybe we can have some relief 😭 i am tired!!!!! (also here's a reminder to check your voter registration on a regular basis: mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/)

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GA My Voter Page

Use the Georgia My Voter Page (MVP) to check your voter registration status, find your polling location, view your county's early voting locations, review your sample ballot for upcoming elections, an...

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Archaeology @archaeology07.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A Bacchic altar found in the Roman theater of Italica, near Seville, Spain. Carved from Carrara marble in the early 1st century CE, it is one of three altars depicting the ritual dances of maenads and satyrs. Archaeological Museum of Seville.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Prospect paywall is down! These are all my articles, you lucky people www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/2821/...

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DAT Green - Prospect Magazine

The latest news, opinion and analysis for Prospect by DAT Green

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anyone remember the boxes of documents 🍅💩 stole at the end of his first term? The ones the FBI raided MAL to get back? Which he took back at the beginning of his second term? I wonder if anyone is following up what happened to those.

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reni 🦌 @reniadeb.com · 25/09/2026

this is just to say i have eaten the moon that was in my orbit and which you were probably wanting to observe forgive me it was delicious so crunchy and so cold

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Walking around whispering “throth” to myself

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Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Now with mended alternative ticket link for those who don't do Dice: www.seetickets.com/event/north-... Thanks to @ntheowl.bsky.social for spotting the breakage!

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