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Nerdy Alto

@nerdyalto.bsky.social
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Gen-X spinster, currently dogless in PDX. Nerderies include: cheese, cooking, sci-fi, fantasy, books, cello, chorus. Probably leftish? Definitely antifa. Was Princess Ardala on the bird app. She/her.

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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Revels rehearsals are underway. I did not get either of the solos I auditioned for (boo) although I am featured in an ensemble piece (yay). There is one more ensemble to audition for, which has barbershop style close harmony. Do I try for Tenor 1, Tenor 2, or Baritone? (the bass is too low)
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not sure whether to be grossly offended by this, or laugh uproariously at the typical lack of understanding of human nature this genre of statement displays. Because I saw it during a break from a choral rehearsal…
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not to be a language prescriptionist, but that is NOT what that verb means when you noun it.
a screenshot of an email header from Cardi Beauty, advertising "The Snatch You Didn't See Coming", with little eyeballs. The first line of the email indicates it's for something called "Snatched Baddie", which I assume is some sort of pigment that will make your cheeks look fashionably sunken.
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026
talent is a lie
a cartoon picture of a frog throwing a crooked looking clay vase with the words “talent is a lie, just do it anyway”
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Greetings from Rose City ComicCon, from me, my evil pikachu boyfriend, & the two baby butts I’m smuggling in my bodice.
A middle aged white woman with purple and black hair wearing a corset made of Starship Enterprise fabric. Her substantial bosom has filded in on itself giving the impression of cherub butts. It’s very tasteful and elegant.Middle aged dark haired woman wearing a spiral steel boned corset mini-dress covered in a Starship Enterprise print with a poufy crinoline standing next to a 12 ft tall inflatable pikachu variant.
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I haven't lived in Utah since I was 13, but I guess Potato Bug is a shibboleth.
A map of the united states, marked in Red where the English spoken most accurately resembles my own (Utah, West Coast states) and Blue where it does not (Deep South)
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Dina James @dinajames.com · 25/08/2026
When Rosalynn Carter passed, evil bastard Henry Kissinger followed shortly thereafter. It was surmised by some that she was allowed by the Universe to remove an asshole of her choosing from the world she left behind as a way to balance the scales. Dolly Parton has now entered the chat.
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Popcorn Guy Enjoys Popcorn While Relaxing
Alt: Gif Popcorn Guy Enjoys Popcorn While Relaxing
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
FB's algorithm just served me up a video of a literal 6-year-old cellist playing the piece I'm currently wrestling with perfectly, if you want to know how my day is going.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
If you see this, post a #StarTrek. Used to keep this pic in my cubicle. A non nerdy co-worker stopped, stared at the pic, looked at me, & said quietly - “I didn’t know you had 2 dads”. While I do look equally like these guys I didn’t have the time to explain Trek &/or how genetics works.
A middle aged dark haired white women standing between William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Repost yf you wolde lyke to see Sugar Season 3
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
So glad this was posted so those outside the path of totality can get an accurate idea of what the eclipse looked like.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Keeping the two luthiers we have in town in my prayers…
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Post you in a different era of your life. 1992, 19. College choir did a mini-European tour which I could not afford but the director needed my voice so they found a way. Everyone in hs had called my a commie for 4 yrs so of course I bought a Soviet officer’s cap in Prague.
Brunette in cat eye glasses, red bustier, black tuxedo jacket, soviet officer’s cap (probably police) and bright red lipstick.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Holodeck shenanigans with my besties.
A middle-aged white woman poses against a backdrop of Lt Cmdr Data & Geordi LaForge on the holodeck.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This new action figure throws a really chaotic Vulcan Salute.
A middle-aged woman with purple & black hair & a super cute purple peplum blouse that she thrifted holds an Old school Star Trek tricorder in a giant mock-up action figure box
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The only job I’m competent to do would be maternal grandpa’s job of singing in a nightclub band. Whether anyone would believe I should be a “Royal Samoan” is another matter entirely. Thanks for coming here & marrying a Czech lady, gramps.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I’m leading the plane in a pub sing, starting with Barrett’s Privateers.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
While I am broadly in favor of this, I’m not sure the world is ready for Guillermo Del Toro’s take on “…let[ting] the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is an extremely vintage thirst trap from about a quarter century ago, because in my current incarnation a proper thirst trap requires ever more sophisticated makeup and lighting. A pic from Chiller Con 2000 (?), where I dressed up all vampy for reasons that remain enigmatic.
A brunette woman who is about 65% cleavage by volume, wearing black satin gloves, red fishnets and a woefully inadequate black bustier, draped provocatively on a hotel bedspread.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I have a small but growing collection of caftans that I don as soon as I am certain I will not have to leave the house for the rest of the day. This is not my only old-people trait, just the most recent addition. People told me I was an "old soul" at 9, but I think they just meant elderly.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Verify your age
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Sesame Street Martians Say Nope
ALT: Sesame Street Martians Say Nope
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I think I could eventually learn part of my brother's job - postal carrier - but I would make a lousy shop steward. I 100% could not do either of my sister's jobs, which is teacher's assistant and parent.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
There is a commonality in the ensembles I share my time & talent with - intention. I got halfway through this video by the fantastic Vox Femina Los Angeles before I realized it was very much a Midwinter Revels sentiment as well. Music is prayer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SboG...
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Can We Sing the Darkness to Light? By Kyle Pederson
YouTube video by Vox Femina Los Angeles
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I guess this is a good day to reiterate a brief manifesto: Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-Binary people are people. Six out of nine Supreme Court Justices are bigoted pieces of shit. Thank you for your time
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
@solomonrmissouri.com speaks the truth. I will never get rid of these boots because they’re leather & they were bought in 20 years ago in Ireland at a shop that had wide shaft boots for the sturdy legged miss.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I WANT TO SING WITH ELEPHANTS!
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
What in the funeral-potatoes-fried fuck is this?
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
DE: have you decided what outfit you're wearing to the ren faire on Sunday? ME: No. I really wanted to go in garb but I have the same problem with all of it. DE: boob sunscreen? (1/3)
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Yay! My audition was found to be sufficient and I will be singing with the Portland Revels for my 5th Midwinter show!
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.
An ad for 90’s medieval period show Covington Cross - three white guys and a white lady in medieval-ish garb in front of a crenellated backdrop.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Ren Faire.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
manifesting...
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 30/05/2026
let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
something frivolous that requires 1st class schmancy-pants air travel. Custom made knives (for cooking), a bespoke cello commissioned for exactly my proportions & preferences - or just travel to try every existing antique instrument until one spoke to me. Large fire-breathing dragon statue for yard.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Yeah I'm 53. I've already heard their perspectives. Already dismissed them. Turns out they're dogshit. I do not owe dipshit fascists my attention. I don't have to listen to any political perspectives. Or sports. Or opinions on 14th c. animal husbandry. SOCIAL media is not mandatory debate time.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
A Title Card from Star Trek:TOS showing The Enterprise orbiting a planet. The title is "Jeez, Just How Many Omnipotent Space Douchebags Are In This Universe Anyway?"
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It’s bad enough that I don’t get a real sticker for voting but the “virtual” one is also basic af. Can we put some license plate illustrations in the Oregon shape (the salmon is my current fave)? Ask 3rd graders to submit designs? (But thank you OR for texting when my ballot is received & counted)
The state of Oregon rendered in the dark blue of the Oregon flag, with “I Voted” in yellow times new roman font. *yawn*
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
what's the point of local govt reform when a few powerful people can still unilaterally decide the taxpayers are going to give a billionaire $$$$ to replace a perfectly fine stadium when our teachers are underpaid, people on the streets, public transit cuts, parks & rec struggling, potholes, etc.
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Moldy Bones Brown @wolfesghost.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It’s all fun and games to laugh about Ewoks eating imperials, but the Ewok didn’t evolve to eat those types of fatty foods and at best, we’re looking at a lot of Ewok diarrhea.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I am almost certain it was this one (although it may have been the recording he did a few years later with the London Phil). I had just announced I was going to learn the cello so he bought me this album to go along with his high end record player I got as a hand-me-down.
A record album cover showing Rostropovich playing the cello w/Herbert Von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic.
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I would just like legislators to have to go through the process they're envisioning. We bought a home in PDX in '22. Hot market, but not as much as CA. We had 20% down. We lost several bids not because we were offering less, but because people were paying 50% cash, which sellers prefer.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
what a coincidence, Trader Joe, for I too have a "...flavorful and supple pocket." NO I AM NOT SORRY.
The back of a package of frozen flatbread from Trader Joe's, the text of which is oddly suggestive - "Traditional Egyptian Baladi is a very thin, flavorful and supple pocket."
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Semi-bespoke women's clothing. Small # of basic, non-trendy pieces. You would come into the atelier, select your fabric, hem length, sleeve, etc, & get measured. The garment(s) would then be made to order. Plus size would NOT stop at 26, nor be drafted up from a size 6.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
ICYMI - my solo verses are in “Barnyards of Delgaty” at 1:31:50. You can hear me sweetening up the alto on “O Radiant Dawn” at 1:16:02. The whole show is a delight. Warning: bagpipes!
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Anna Magdalena Bach was not merely the transcriber of the unaccompanied cello suites, but was in fact the composer.
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Nerdy Alto @nerdyalto.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Hey everybody! Remember that thing that took over my life at the end of last year? Well the recording of the 2025 Portland Midwinter Revels - Highland Hearth is finally up! youtu.be/ns58tleUFq0
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Highland Hearth (Revels '25) FULL SHOW
YouTube video by Portland Revels
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