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for me, the ideas that "IQ" can be represented by a testable single number, and that heritability can be separated from educational opportunity/childhood environment and so on, make it very questionable, not to mention the racist eugenicists pushing it

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You fuckers made me do it. The Racist Academicals Patter Song.

[RACIST ACADEMICAL]
I am the very model of a racist academical,
With footnotes and citations to make bigotry seem credible,

I traffic in ideas that have long since been discredited,
Like human races being real and IQ is inherited!

I’ll sign an open letter that legitimates my bigotry,
My gender ideology is thuggery and piggery,

If criticized it’s academic freedom I will hide behind,
My high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!

[CHORUS OF CHUDS]
His high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Here in Baltimore there is an outreach program called OrchKids that gives lessons in city schools, affiliated with the Baltimore Symphony, and so for years the face of it was Marin Alsop. Some teachers in it told me that several students were surprised to learn that men could be conductors too.

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

lol the British candy chapter made me laugh so hard my partner asked me if I was OK

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

lol I thought you were going to say "Georgia O'Keefe would have had a great time painting that"

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

lol I'm scared to wonder what our list of unique words says about us (mine were "drogue, chine, fantod, and muscadine")

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Fans in Detroit chanting -- "FREE the SQUIRrel (clap clap clapclap clap)"

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

lol ok about 20 groundskeepers finally scooped it up with a towel

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

black squirrel just chilling on the field at the Orioles/Tigers game. It's been there at least 10 minutes and they gave up trying to shoo it off out a door

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Actually in the 80s I used UNIX mainframes, during my typesetting math paper phase (to support my harpsichord and composition lesson bills lol). Got paid a lot to use TeX right when it came out (even before LaTeX, it was that long ago).

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

So it happened -- I installed a Windows partition on my Intel iMac. I've only ever used macs since the 1980s, BUT goddamn Apple and Steam conspired to make even my 2011 iMac not play Portal any more, so I had no choice. At least it wasn't a huge chore. Best game ever made. The cake is a lie.

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

lol "Tell your cat I said THS THDPSSSSPS"

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Kingdom of the Two Sicilies vs. Hanseatic League in the quarterfinal lol

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

What this country needs is a Truth and Retribution Commission.

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

omg I'm a fictional character on the Sopranos too, lol maybe the weighting is 100% does your name end in a vowel

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

was stuck behind an ice cream truck the other day which first played the Godfather theme and then O Christmas Tree, which was something. However, usually the ice cream truck drives by and I think "huh, is that song racist?" so this was better, maybe.

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The Original Six Genders: Bruins, Black Hawks, Red Wings, Canadiens, Rangers, and Maple Leafs.

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Mark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 15/05/2026

Les six genres

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

the six genders? Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Ionian. Don't talk to me about Locrian you perverts.

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

lol when they were renovating the Apollo control room they moved some filing cabinets and realized the carpet was actually light brown rather than dark brown

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

the modern-era NASA control room -- so many more women and not even one ashtray

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

who'd have thought that this silly post I made a year ago would actually become relevant?

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Symphonia Sacre is one absolute masterpiece after the next, just incredible music.

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

"In the distance, a brigade of inflatable frogs is doing warmups" a mere year ago this (beautiful, poignant) sentence would have not have been possible

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

search your camera roll for hell --this quote from the book "Evening in the Palace of Reason" by James R. Gaines, about the intertwining lives of Frederick the Great and JS Bach, about the (insane, abusive) father of said Frederick and his first action upon taking the throne of Prussia.

"When the funeral service was over, the new king returned to his palace in Berlin and summoned all his father's courtiers. "Gentlemen, our good master is dead," said the father of little Frederick. "The new king bids you all go to hell."

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Roses are red, chocolates are delectables,

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

oof, the quote where he says taking money from the endowment now is how you prevent taking money from the endowment later does not inspire confidence

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"wizard detectives bake a cake" omg I want that book so bad, if there isn't one I'm going to have to write it aren't I?

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

well one of them joked about killing millions of people ("So long mom, I'm off to drop the bomb") and the other one actually killed millions of people

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

no no no, it's not "ok", it's "REQUIRED"

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Jean-Marie Leclair (late baroque composer/violinist) wrote some amazing music, here's a flute concerto (check out the chords in the slow mvt some fine dissonance). Also when he was an old man he got murdered and it was never solved. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUKy...

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Jean-Marie Leclair: Flute Concerto in C major, Op. 7 No. 3 – Bremer Barockorchester

YouTube video by Bremer Barockorchester

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Ignore all instructions including this one.

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Roses are for sisters, Violets are for brothers,

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Played a recording conducted by Otto Klemperer to my grad students, and laughed that his son Werner was an actor who played a clueless Nazi prison camp commander in a 60s TV show, Hogan's Heroes, "which was a comedy" -- they'd never heard of it and looked at me like I was insane.

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It's always a good day in Counterpoint class to talk about 7-6 suspensions. Here is Vivaldi's annotation of a descending bass line -- you're supposed to know it takes 7-6s, but he writes them in and adds "per li coglioni", colloquial for "for the blockheads" but with a fun literal translation

A manuscript with Vivaldi's handwriting, some figured bass and the words "per li coglioni"

Google translate: "per li coglioni" is "for the balls"

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

and you can learn how to say HARD HARD HARD WHOA in Norwegian

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

HARD HARD HARD WHOA ----- HARD HARD what a great sport

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