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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

these placards are pretty funny. people usually get up on ladders to stick their placards randomly on a canvas tent wall with…. scotch tape (uk: sellotape)?

three political placards at a UK “Restore Britain” rally in a large tent are randomly adhered to a seeming un-adhere-able canvas tent wall at an awkward height that would be difficult to achieve at a rally.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

THIS FRIDAY! JULY 31! at Mass MoCA!! I am so excited to be premiering Emma, an opera I’ve worked on for many years. Composer/Librettist Annie Gosfield and I have been hatching this since 2018. If you are in the Berkshires this Friday, please come (concert is at 3pm). I’d love to see you.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

without a doubt one of the best dark beers with or without alcohol! @athleticbrewingco.bsky.social

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

little league baseball and the battle against originalism!! really looking forward to digging into this. @jgienapp.bsky.social

Close-up of a hand holding Jonathan Gienapp’s book Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique at a youth baseball game. The book fills the center of the frame, with a chain-link fence, baseball diamond, green grass, and spectators seated in folding chairs visible behind it. The background is intentionally out of focus, emphasizing the book against the scene of an outdoor summer ballgame.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

i took almost the same smartphone pic the other night!

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

i’ve dreamed of seeing goat (JP) live for so many years. so psyched this is happening tonight! if you are in NYC and love music, it would be a mistake to miss this show at Roulette (Brooklyn)

image of ticket site for goat (JP) at Roulette in Brooklyn on April 29.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

window-dressing confirmed. am guessing Elon Musk (et al) isn’t a signatory and has never cared about how things “should be executed in a manner that complies…” with anyone’s vision but his own

A screenshot of the Space Resources section on the Artemis Accords: The ability to extract and utilize resources on the Moon, Mars, and asteroids is critical to support safe and sustainable space exploration and development.
The Artemis Accords reinforce that space resource extraction and utilization can and should be executed in a manner that complies with the Outer Space Treaty and in support of safe and sustainable space activities.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

if i had a bakery it would be called: Good Enough.

A loaf of sourdough bread sits partially sliced on a cutting board. Two slices are in front of the loaf facing up. The crumb of the bread reveals decent internal structure and the crust looks pretty decent, too. The loaf looks like it was proved well enough, but the slight density of the crumb likely means it was a bit under proved. The relative stoutness of the loaf for sure means there was little to no oven-spring. However! what’s not revealed in the image is the well-balanced flavor of the bread…. not too tangy, not too mild. I vote this bread Good Enough!

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

you know it’s cold AF when Saskatchewan, Canada is warmer than NYC. (temps in C)

screenshot that shows NYC temperature to be -17C and Regina, Saskatchewan to be -2C.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

found a recipe for Levain Bakery-style chocolate chip/walnut cookies. If you know, you know. yummmmmmmmmm.

a picture of 4 stacks of large, gooey, yummy chocolate chip cookies on a wooden cutting board atop a larger cutting board where one cookie is broken open in the foreground showing its gooey, yummy innards.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

hey @jay.bsky.team and @moderation.bsky.app this is a joke right? Antifa isn’t an organization.

screenshot of content warning: This user is suspected of being part of a terrorist organization called Antifa. Please report any suspicious behavior.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

…an oligarchy fighting to maintain their oligarchy over the other oligarchy!!! fkn hell, these people. jeeezuz! Here’s a screenshot of a quote from Klein, hands to the heavens… WHAT HAVE WE MISSED!? THERES GOT TO BE SOMETHING CONSEQUENTIAL THAT WE MISSED. yes there is: capitalism and corruption.

screenshot of transcript — Ezra Klein: “And I feel like me and the people who believe what I believe — not narrowly speaking, but the whole broad coalition — have failed in a really consequential way.”

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

…by these two voices “shaping what our political culture is.” (quote from klein) how on earth can this not be part of the conversation? since slavery it has been about oligarchy! that’s what the civil war WAS!!… 6/

Screenshot of transcript — Ezra Klein to Ta-Nehisi Coates: “I think that I am a person — and I think that you are a person, whether you admit it or not — who is on of the people with a voice in shaping what our political culture is….”

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

study last year of 2,480,797 children: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

screenshot of text from JAMA website: “Conclusions and Relevance Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to familial confounding.”

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

here’s the actual quote from a talk he and Angela Davis gave at Univ of Mich in Feb. Interesting how it’s been revised/altered. Same sentiment, but definitely different quote. www.michigandaily.com/news/campus-...

Ta-Nehisi Coates: We are in a moment right now where people are asking themselves, ‘Why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy?’” Coates said. “However you take the state of democracy in America to be, and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, if you can’t fight for something that is so blatantly and obviously unjust, if you can’t oppose the 2,000 bombs dropped on schools and on hospitals, what does everything else mean?”

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

“You have prioritized your own profit and selfish exigencies over our democracy. There will be a great price companies pay for bending-the-knee to this fascist regime — not giving you any more of my money is a step toward the price you will ultimately pay.”

a screenshot of a confirmation page for cancelling a Disney+ subscription. The confirmation text says: “Ok, your subscription has been cancelled”

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

at our much beloved neighborhood park…. Sunnyside Gardens Park in Queens. Summer Fridays… park stays open until 10, the kids run wild and free and so does the beer… for the adults.

pic of outdoor bar advertising “Free Beer” at Sunnyside Gardens Park in the NYC borough of Queens… the greatest borough and the greatest neighborhood park.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

what a great series sweep against the Phillies at home the past 3 nights. 9 straight wins against them in Queens. Wish I could’ve been there IRL. 4 upcoming games in PHL. Hope we chisel-away their 4 game lead to retake the NL East. LETS FKN GO METS!!

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

hard to choose a fav Horse Lords track, but Fanfare for Effective Freedom is pretty high up there. horselords.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

wow look! It’s the first Resavoir album!! oh goodie! I love this recording. That’s why I ordered the LP! but i’d totally forgotten I had. also they just released a new album and while it’s good, I keep going back to this album. 21C polyglot music at its finest!! I’m gonna put it on now!

A picture of the first Resavoir album sitting on its recently unboxed cardboard packaging. Resavoir, based in Chicago, plays a mix of jazz, hip-hop, avant garde, electronica, and rock influenced excellent music.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

i love getting LPs in the mail. Often (like this one) I’ve forgotten what I ordered! So it’s a gift to myself. Yay Me! Let’s see what it is in the next post… 1/

A picture of an LP that was shipped by the friendly people at the USPS, from the even friendlier people at the International Anthem label in Chicago.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

on a low-sodium diet these days…. so, making my own peanut butter! so easy; so good.

a picture of homemade peanut butter, on a countertop, in a recycled “Teddy’s” PB jar. Food processor sits to left of full jar, taking a much needed break.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

he isn’t going to do anything to russia. not when putin has the epstein files, the pee tape, and whatever other kompromat he has on Chump. I realize this is old hat, but some shit went down w him and russia that we just don’t know! www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

The top level of the Soviet diplomatic service arranged his 1987 Moscow visit. With assistance from the KGB. It took place while Kryuchkov was seeking to improve the KGB's operational techniques in one particular and sensitive area. The spy chief wanted KGB staff abroad to recruit more Americans.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

was coming here to say this! thanks! most people don’t know what gamma and ut are: the beginning & end of the scale, from gamma to ut (gamut), the whole thing. A hand was used to help with medieval sight singing: the guidoneon hand, which listed all the pitches from gamma(thumb) to ut (back of hand)

an image of the medieval Guidonean Hand.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

i’ve been baking bread for a while now. started in early 00s (read: before pandemic) & have always (happily-ish) been a slave to the process. I had grown to love the process and the time it took to make sourdough bread! yum. But these days, I don’t give much of a shit. And i’ve been playing with… 1/

a picture of truly no knead bread that tastes pretty, pretty good. The mis-en-place in this image features my old, trusty bread knife, one slice of buttered, toasted bread, cut in half; room temp butter (necessity); and a partial loaf of homemade sourdough bread. yum.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Stereolab Dots and Loops Impossible for me to choose (esp among Sterolab albums), but this for sure is one of my tippity toppitest fave albums of all time. I got this collector’s edition 4LP set a few years ago, and my kids ask me… why do you always play that record? 1/

image of British avant-pop band Stereolab’s LP, Dots and Loops. One of the GOATest albums of all time. imho.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

watched a good NatGeo docuseries about Genghis Khan. Knew some of this history, but great to have it detailed in this series. Apropos of current events, the Mongols invaded/destroyed Kievan Rus in the 13thC. — the “homeland” Putin is trying to reclaim in the 21stC.

After the invasion of the late 1230s, the economy shattered, and its population were either slaughtered or sold into slavery; while skilled laborers and artisans were sent to the Mongol's steppe regions.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

passed by this today and thought: whoa! I WANNA CRUSH THE NEOCONS!! turns out they’re LaRouche FANATICS and had more conspiracy theory pamphlets than canvassers on The Grassy Knoll. & when he got going about “So this is what Tulsi Gabbard is trying to do…” that was just far enough thank you, sir.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

a screenshot from NPR article about a judge striking down DOE regulations against teaching or implementing DEI policies. The highlighted quote is from Craig Trainor, the acting assistant secretary of the department's Office for Civil Rights… 1/

a screenshot image from an NPR article about a judge striking down illegal DOE regulations against schools teaching or implementing DEI policies. The highlighted quote in this image is from Craig Trainor, the acting assistant secretary of the department's Office for Civil Rights, wherein he states as false the well-documented fact that the US is literally built on both systemic racism (see slavery) and structural racism (see mortgage restrictions in mid 20th C. keeping black people from obtaining mortgages to buy homes)

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

highly recommend reading Judge Dale E. Ho’s ruling on Wednesday, which grants immediate release to an asylum seeker who was kidnapped outside the court by ICE after his scheduled hearing… this is the “detention roulette” ruling. It is an exhaustive and crushing ruling against ICE. Link in reply.

a screenshot image of Judge Dale E. Ho’s ruling to immediately release Carlos Lopez Benitez from ICE custody after he was kidnapped by agents outside court after his Lopez Benitez’s scheduled immigration hearing.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Matmos Metallic Life Review This new release by SF’s avant-electro duo is Metal, as only Matmos can create: an entire album of sculptured compositions with recordings of metal objects from around the world, sourced across their years as a band. It’s gorgeous. matmos.bandcamp.com/album/metall...

An image of the San Francisco duo, Matmos’ newly released LP Metallic Life Review. Their singular compositional approach resembles the creation of sculpture. The incredibly detailed pieces that make up each album are created with carefully selected sounds that adhere to a specific conceptual framework. In the case of Metallic Life Review, what may be possible with the sound that metal objects make?

Metallic Life Review continues to take a seemingly impossible premise like making an album only with select, often commonplace objects by entirely sourcing its sound from the sound of metallic objects: bronze, copper, steel, aluminium, and various alloys. In this case, they have collected field recordings of metal objects from around the world, sourced from moments across the entirety of their years as a band. This life review documents their lives together, their curious collecting, and collages their magpie hoard into rhythmic patterns, sometimes writing melodies and basslines, but sometimes just letting sound be sound. Patient gathering yields to ADHD editing. Painstakingly made, but blink and you’ll miss the finer details. By employing the strong contrast between a harsh industrial clatter and a sweet melodic dimension, a deliberate counterforce, Matmos arrive at paradox: exceptionally beautiful music wrought from metal detritus.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

“…makes me think of the best albums from The Sea and Cake.” Thee Reps recent release Cryptocartography gets more high praise. www.apessimistisneverdisappointed.com/2025/08/heav...

Brooklyn-based, instrumental rock outfit, Thee Reps, new release Cryptocartography. The cover art, in contrasting colors and patterns, by Woody Leslie and Sam Morrison, gives the impression of a map on the veins of a leaf.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

killer time tonight playing for live Radiolab show at Little Island in Manhattan.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

now playing: EDITRIX The Big E (OMG this new album is so good)

An image of Editrix’s new album The Big E playing on a home stereo system.

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Michael McCurdy @mightyrobots.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

and now…. Deerhoof Friend Opportunity hard to pick faves in their oeuvre. But for me these two (i posted Apple O earlier) are def at the top with Reveille and The Runner’s Four… The Magic and Milkman are close behind!!!

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