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Maine Pianist @mainepianist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Apparently, the Lamazov/Rackers duo will be performing at Colby College next Friday! Tickets are free, but you have to reserve in advance. Maybe I'll see you there... www.marinalomazov.com/duo

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Duo — MARINA LOMAZOV

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

I also think that he is simply fascinated with death and intoxicated by the idea that he can inflict death.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/09/2026

Interesting side of Hitler I was unaware of "Arguably Adolf Hitler’s greatest passion and pastime outside of his quest for world domination was his obsession with architecture and urban design." Here he is with a model of the 330-foot high triumphal arch he wanted. hitler-pics.com/2023/05/06/h...

Hitler in 1932 inspecting a model of a triumphal arch he was going to build

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Maine Pianist @mainepianist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Finally getting my YouTube channel up and running! The first of what should be many videos, since there are many pieces I would like to give myself permission to *not* practice anymore.

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Cramer Etude No 1 in C Major

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Maine Pianist @mainepianist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Finally getting my YouTube channel up and running! The first of what should be many videos, since there are many pieces I would like to give myself permission to *not* practice anymore.

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Cramer Etude No 1 in C Major

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is insane. And I have to imagine it’s wildly illegal.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

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Maine Pianist @mainepianist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jesus Christ. I was just talking with my wife about structural problems in our medical system—her late mother was a nurse, fired and blacklisted for union organizing. But even organizing can't solve it; Unions look out for their members, but who looks out for patients? There's no Patient Union...

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In 1626 a cod bought in Cambridge market was found to have inside its gullet a soggy packet containing religious tracts by John Frith, executed in 1533 for Protestant leanings - ironically during the reign of Henry VIII. I can see no propaganda value in the yarn - perhaps it's true? #WyrdWednesday

The title page pf 'Vox Piscis or The Book-Fish' published in 1627. An engraving shows the cod slit open with a little book inside it.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

One of my favorite #Roman objects: World's oldest known "Swiss army knife", including a hinged knife, fork, spoon, spike, prick, sieve, spatula. Unfortunately, there is no provenance of this multi-tool, but it’s not a unique item: There are a few more examples, e.g. one was...🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

The folding multi-tool, it is built around a silver handle and a set of folding, pivoted implements. Its most visible feature is the broad oval spoon at the left; additional utensils fold from the opposite end and beneath the handle. A dark, heavily corroded piece along the top is the original iron knife blade.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

whenever someone tells you that it's simply impossible for police to be charged with misconduct or criminal charges, you can tell they're wrong because some cops do get charged regularly — when they are whistleblowers or reformers prosecutors are actually extremely eager to help drum them out!

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Online commenter shuts down FBI agents.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Thanks to @kimoco.bsky.social for sharing this reddit thread from a local who witnessed the aftermath. Seemingly no new information on the actual shooting, only the one eyewitness account so far. www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comm...

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From the Maine community on Reddit: Ice shooting

Explore this post and more from the Maine community

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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)

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Hegelochus: The Ancient Greek Actor We Only Know About Because He Really, Really Fluffed Up His Line

Around 400 BCE, Hegelochus really messed up his line. We only know about the actor because he was mocked about it for centuries.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is amazing.

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Maine Pianist @mainepianist.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I mean... Mills bears a lot of responsibility for how shitty the Democratic race has been, but also anyone who didn't clock Platner as a liar is a fool. What, he "looks the part"? He "says the right stuff"? I've had months of avowed leftists saying they are unaware that politicians can lie!

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Maine Pianist @mainepianist.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"One may of course oppose oneself to bloodshed in all cases. But it is not serious to swim in a sea of blood and faint at the addition of another drop ... Sometimes you must stand athwart history, yelling 'Are you fucking serious?'"

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A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books

Did the Weather Underground have a point?

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Billy Binion @billybinion.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This story is a nightmare. Texas cops fired dozens of tear gas grenades into an innocent woman's home. They smashed windows and drove through her front door. Her daughter's dog went deaf & blind. Then the city left her with the bill. Six years later, her saga is finally coming to an end. A thread.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

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Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Principal pulls valedictorian from microphone during graduation speech. "‘Whether it’s the millions suffering in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan and... other countries around the world, or the families being torn apart by ICE, these are not distant issues.'" www.dailymail.com/news/article...

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Valedictorian pulled off stage after ranting about Palestine

Clayton High School senior Leen Hijaz was concluding her commencement address on Thursday when she pivoted to last-minute unapproved remarks.

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Congrats to the City of Palo Alto for beating the appeal of a lawsuit from 6 Palo Alto police officers who claimed that a black lives mural painted on a road made them sick. Yes, sick. One PA police officer even had to go to the emergency room because of this mural. padailypost.com/2026/05/29/a...

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Maine Beacon @mainebeacon.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Nirav Shah told a private landlord forum he opposes Section 8 tenant protections and rent control, and promised to stand “shoulder to shoulder” with landlords. @strim.bsky.social says the remarks reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of Maine’s housing crisis & why he won’t rank Shah in the primary.

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Strimling: Why I won’t be ranking Nirav Shah this June - Maine Beacon

Up until a few weeks ago, I’d really been puzzled about what to do about Nirav Shah in the Democratic race for governor. I have never met him, but had seen all his ads, commented on his debates, and a...

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

"On a windswept day exactly 161 years after his murder, Silas Soule’s white marble headstone attracts visitors. They leave coins sometimes on his headstone. He gets flowers, especially around Memorial Day. Last year, he got plates of food.” coloradosun.com/2026/05/10/s...

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Silas Soule died for refusing to whitewash the Sand Creek Massacre. His actions are more relevant than ever.

The army captain's letters and testimony helped unmask efforts to hide the massacre's brutal truth behind a facade of frontier myth

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

You want to know why Trump has loyalty from his base? It's certainly racism and sexism, etc. But it's primarily powered by their rage at the world for not accommodating their slack-jawed, drooling ineptitude

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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

In Haaretz ist heute ein Artikel über posttraumatische Belastungsstörungen bei israelischen Soldaten, die zuletzt in Gaza gedient haben. Ich habe einige der Aussagen im Artikel über die Verbrechen, die sie dort begangen haben, übersetzt. Dazu gehört tatsächlich eine Trigger-Warnung:

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Maine Pianist @mainepianist.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Well, looks like we're getting down to the wire! Any suggestions, @senangusking.bsky.social ?

"Rising Tensions" between the U.S. and Iran? A senile, delusional madman threatens to use nuclear weapons and "wipe out a civilization" and you talk about "rising tensions"? And, I'm sure, you'll send me another lecture about how important it is to fund the government and keep everything running and vote for Trump's judicial nominees because the Ship of Government Must Stay Afloat! Enough! The ship must come to a screeching halt! Anything and everything that brings the American War Machine to a halt is justified because its actions are ILLEGAL and IMMORAL by any possible rubric except that of the SS and the Klan! Until today, your reputation was merely that you sat on your hands and did nothing while Elon Musk perpetrated a genocide against hundreds of thousands of Africans, most of them children. After tomorrow, your legacy will be that you sat on your hands while a deranged dictator started a nuclear war. The stain on the hands of you and your congressional colleagues will not be washed out for generations, maybe forever. When I ask myself "How does Angus King think he can ever return home again?", my only possible answer is that it doesn't matter to you—you got yours, and the rest of the world can burn. We, the people of the United States, will have our Nuremberg, and its time to decide whether you'll be sitting at the prosecutor's table or in the dock.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 06/04/2026

oh good Lord Kentucky House impeached a judge, saying she abused her authority & was biased in favor of Black defendants their evidence? the judge's statement acknowledging the state's pattern of charging white defendants with lesser offenses and giving them better offers than defendants of color

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While Republicans at least gestured toward accountability in their case against Goodwine, they made clear that their impeachment of Goodman was about her rulings. Goodman, a Jefferson County circuit judge, was impeached by the Kentucky House on charges that she abused her authority in certain criminal sentencing and civil rulings. Much of the petition, submitted by former state Representative Killian Timoney, is related to Goodman’s statements about racial disparities in the justice system—for example, a case in which she noted a “clear pattern of disparate charging decisions by the Commonwealth in which white defendants are charged with lesser offenses and given better offers than defendants of color.” Timoney’s petition charged that statements like this are evidence of Goodman’s bias in favor of Black defendants.

The petition also alleged that Goodman gave out criminal sentences that were too lenient, and that she was overly skeptical of claims by lawyers representing the University of Kentucky in employment discrimination cases. Lawmakers pointed to six specific cases that were later reversed by the conservative Kentucky Court of Appeals that they said demonstrate bias.

Before this year, Kentucky has only impeached two judges in its history. In 1806, the House impeached and the Senate removed Judge Benjamin Sebastian for receiving a foreign pension, and for his part in the “Burr Conspiracy” to push states in the then-southwest of the country, including Kentucky, to secede from the United States and form an independent nation. In 1916, the House impeached Judge J.E. Williams for misusing public funds, but the state Senate did not remove him. Now, a century later, the Senate will consider whether to remove Goodman from office, too, for her crime of being too conscious of systemic discrimination.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 31/03/2026

I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

the right is obsessed with pushing and developing humanoid robots because they think they will be able to use them as soldiers and police in order to enslave us

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16/03/2026

Under Kansas law, he must use the women's bathroom or be subjected to criminal charges in government owned buildings or $1000 vigilante lawsuits in public spaces. I think everyone can understand why this is absurd and causes more problems than it was ever intended to fix.

A selfie of Matthew Neumann, a man with a thick reddish-brown beard and glasses, sitting in a car and wearing a vibrant, multicolored shirt. He is holding up his Kansas driver's license toward the camera; the license shows his name and a male gender marker. The image includes a caption identifying him as the founder of the LGBTQ Foundation of Kansas and noting his refusal to surrender the license following the passage of a law declaring it invalid.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/03/2026

Fascinated by this glowing Seattle Times profile of longtime Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen that’s like “haha yes, there were bumps in the road, for example, he was ruthlessly anti-labor, compromised the paper’s editorial independence, and shot a dog” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Then there were the political ads, paid for by the company, that Blethen bought - full-page political ads weighing in on some of the same races the paper's journalists were covering in the news pages — causing Boardman, then executive editor, to write a column apologizing to readers.
Then, of course, there was the strike.
Seattle Times union workers went on strike over pay and other issues for 49 days, beginning in November
2000. Blethen took it personally. He had windows at the company's headquarters boarded up and a wire fence erected around the building.
During the strike, Blethen wrote a now-legendary email to a local publisher whose presses had printed the strikers' newspaper, venting his wrath.
"(Expletive) you to death," Blethen wrote. When the publisher responded with a conciliatory note, Blethen wrote "What part of (expletive) you to death don't you understand?" — and co'd every newspaper publisher in the state of Washington.

Blethen is no button-down newspaper executive, notes John Hughes, the former chief historian in the Washington secretary of state's office and former editor and publisher of The Daily World in Aberdeen. Hughes said scholar Sue Lockett John got it right when she described Blethen as "the last of the buckaroo publishers."
"The neighbor's dog, that wasn't the best," said Alex MacLeod, former managing editor, recalling Blethen's infamous imbroglio with a neighbor on Mercer Island.
Blethen was charged in 1996 with misdemeanor animal abuse for firing a pellet rifle at a neighbor's dog - Blethen admitted to shooting at the ground near the dog but said he did not aim at the animal and did not think he hit it. The dog suffered two wounds, one near its heart. Charges eventually were dropped; Blethen did not admit guilt but paid the neighbor's vet bills and had to do community service.

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Maine Pianist @mainepianist.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Every day there are horrors, but with horror comes clarity. "Live as if you were in the first days of a better nation." -Alasdair Gray

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human shaped robots: redux

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 04/03/2026

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday. Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection. A tooth infection. 1/3 tucson.com/news/local/b...

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

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Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Like if another candidate for office put me in this advertisement I would probably say something.

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Maine Pianist @mainepianist.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

What is wrong with this country? -Blind refugee, speaks no English -Police called when he wanders onto a woman's porch -Beaten, tasered, and arrested after "not complying" -Charged with trespassing and possessing a weapon (his walking stick) -Released without telling anyone -Found dead in snowbank.

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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Daily Beast: Kristi Noem has shut down plans for a new federal immigration detention center in her alleged lover’s home state after protesters made it clear it was not welcome. If deportation is the goal, why are they building massive detention centers? #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutGOP

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Maine Pianist @mainepianist.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I always try to explain to the cat what I'm doing when I build the fire, but this morning it occurred to me that the reason kitties don't understand fire is that there is no kitty Prometheus who stole fire from the kitty Gods! Too bad, I guess!

A white and orange cat, whose head is visible in the left foreground, gazes pensively at a fire raging in a cast-iron stove with the door open. A faint orange glow is visible on the cat's face.

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