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Sally O'Sullivan

@sallyomaestro.bsky.social
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"Let your music, like a sword, pierce the noise of the market to its heart." Rabindranath Tagore

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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am trying to learn The art of letting go; Or rather, recovering, That the love lost, The unheard songs and sonnets, the dismissed desires, May come home to me as warm and vibrant as ever And alight my soul. After all, if he does not want the gifts I may as well enrich myself
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Was the president shot and wounded in the ear? Is the current senator from Kentucky still alive? ...It shows how abnormal U.S. politics is right now that we have to ask these questions
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Classes start tomorrow!! So excited to begin my MM in choral conducting at the University of South Florida. I am a bull! ...I guess. Or are female students cows?
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I always think it's funny when people claim that Islam is incompatible with American values because some of its sects are restrictive towards women. They're the same people who believe women should always submit to their husbands and never choose not to have babies
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I put out a bird feeder and a bird bath at my new place (near Tampa), but I can't seem to get any birds to visit. At least the lizards are enjoying themselves...
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I keep getting new followers, and I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but I have a sneaking suspicion that none of them have actually looked at my posts. Yeah, I know they're mostly text with no pictures or videos. Listen, if you don't like to read, you *definitely* should not be following me
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's insane to me that the news media in general have apparently just accepted a social media post from Mitch McConnell as proof that he's alive. God we live in such bizarre times
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Me: Dum de dum, looking for shirts to match my skirt and GAH WTF
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
When you're a woman in musical theatre, you kind of have to resign yourself to the fact that once you pass the age of twenty-five, you automatically become fifty. And if you're tall? Forget it. I started playing fifty when I was eighteen
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I've heard some Republicans claim that since Democrats were pro-slavery in the 1800s, that means they're the more racist party now. Remember how all the southern states changed from Democrat to Republican because they hated the Civil Rights Act? Yeah, that happened way more recently
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
There are way fewer drones flying around down here than in the northeast. I don't think I've seen one. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the current administration liking FL and not NJ. The funny thing is, when they first appeared, Republicans threatened to shoot them; then they just stopped caring
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
While this news of further corruption is depressing, it is kind of funny to hear rich people complain that banks are refusing to deal with them for no good reason. Welcome to 98% world substack.com/redirect/047...
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Capital One says it shut down hundreds of Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns | CNN Business
Capital One closed hundreds of Trump Organization accounts in 2021 “for anti-money laundering reasons,” the bank disclosed for the first time in a court filing Friday night.
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Heading south early tomorrow morning, although it'll take two days to get where I'm going. Here we go... Took me decades to start this journey. Officially, I mean. I'm going to study conducting at the University of South Florida. "Am I bound for glory, Mr. Big Stupid?"
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Recently I've been looking at stuffed animals online, and I came across these peculiar characters: 1. Lobster Perv 2. Very Angry Turtle 3. "No Pictures, Please" Cat 4. Whale Who Was Caught Doing Something Naughty
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute,
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Thank you, Senator Ossoff!! It has been SO gratifying to see someone insist on answers from this administration full of people who are apparently incapable of providing direct answers to simple questions. www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
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Pete Hegseth sweats as he refuses to answer Iran war question in Senate grilling
Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia confronted Hegseth with an earlier assessment from the 14th day of the war, where Hegseth claimed Iran's military was "destroyed and... made combat ineffective"
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
W. T. F. All the lies were bad enough, but Miller's whole "protesters don't look normal, therefore they are bad" rant is right out of a Nazi script. No wonder he hates anti-fascists. www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mar...
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Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Scott Bessent - Joint Remarks at the Opening of the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism
Full text, enhanced audio and video of Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Scott Bessent Joint Remarks at the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I don't know how to be confident. I don't know how to be relaxed. I don't know how to "be myself." To be honest, I'm not entirely sure I know how to be at all. Isn't that weird? It wouldn't trouble me so much if I hadn't chosen a career where leading other people is a pretty basic requirement
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The current administration has corrupted or gutted so many of our highest institutions--the presidency, the Supreme Court, the DOJ. Now it's moving (again) to destroy our national parks. By the time this administration is gone, will any of the things that truly make America great still exist?
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"Why is she so fixated on splitting fruit?" --Azumanga Daioh 🪓 🍉 I love manga quotes out of context
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Aria Bendix of NBC News reported that on July 1, 2025, the CDC, overseen by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., would no longer track infections caused by cyclospora and five other common causes of foodborne illnesses." Dr. Heather Cox Richardson And now there's an outbreak. See how that works?
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I disagreed with Mr. Graham on many issues, but I stand by this statement 100%
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Is Mitch McConnell like Schrodinger's Cat now, technically both alive and dead, since we have no way of verifying which is true? Or is that not how that works? I was never very good at philosophy, I'm afraid
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Just a reminder that the DOJ is still breaking the law, defying Congress and the courts, by not releasing the rest of the Epstein files. I know there's a lot of other stuff to worry about, but this lengthy, illegal pedophile cover-up is truly astounding.
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A few times I've noticed that when I tell people I'm vaccinated for COVID, they accuse me of "always believing the government." I don't know where they got that idea, but it is nonsensical as well as false. Government leaders have certainly been known to lie. You want to know who I believe?
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I was looking up information about the Sons of Liberty on Wikipedia and I found this. Yes, it's THAT John Hancock, with an awesome career summary. "Merchant. Smuggler. Fire Warden. John Hancock, coming this fall on NBC!!"
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Just a reminder that the Patriots of 1776 were protesters, vandals, and outright criminals; and if they were around today, Republicans would no doubt claim they had "George Derangement Syndrome." Happy Independence Day. ⭐ 🔔 📜 🦅 🗽 ⭐
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Confound it... Don't you hate it when you post something and then see a mistake and so you have to delete the whole thing because Bluesky doesn't allow edits? I know, I should have proofread it right the first time. Look, sometimes I just get really excited to share string instrument mishaps
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I mean, seriously. I had to have a chunk of skin removed near my collarbone because basal cells decided to set up a clubhouse there. That was eight months ago, but it left a scar that looks like I borrowed it from Frankenstein's monster. 🧟
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Now my thyroid is enlarged. They don't know why. In the past few years, my body has gotten up to all sorts of tomfoolery, and frankly I don't appreciate it.
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I love how in the new Mortal Kombat movie, Johnny Cage assumes that Lord Raiden is cosplaying as a character from Big Trouble in Little China--which, of course, he is
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I feel like many of our current issues in US politics can be reduced to this question: Should working-class people have the same rights as rich people? I would suggest keeping that in mind, especially when politicians start crying vaguely about "Communism" and "Socialism"
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I am currently in North Carolina, and I have seen many interesting creatures here. The ospreys are particularly impressive. Wish I could have gotten a picture of one flying along with a big fish in its talons--nesting season, you know how it is
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I dread these long nights When sleep runs off somewhere and my heart aches for a message that will never come
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Here's a fun game. This is the program cover for the 1891-1892 season of the Handel & Haydn Society in Boston, MA. It's authentic, I assure you; I took a picture of a page in a history book and lightened it a bit, and that's all. Notice anything about the featured composers?
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Ah yes, and then there was the time I (briefly) studied irritability in miniature wild pigs
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Aside from music, my two primary interests are books and animals. I find animal behavior particularly fascinating; this photo, for instance, illustrates the "Goat in a Wheelbarrow" Condundrum
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
When you argue frequently with white male conductors about their exclusively white male programs, you find that they generally respond in one of the following ways: 1) Deflection 2) Attack 3) Deflection by claiming they've been attacked I would never have guessed that #3 would be so popular.
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"Let me think that there is one among those stars that guides my life through the dark unknown." --Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This meme is humorous, but it also poses an interesting philosophical question. It all depends on how much power you think God has; and I'm sorry, I just don't buy that one president was sent by God but another one wasn't.
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Sally O'Sullivan @sallyomaestro.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
So far, this seems like an improvement over FB, but I'm not crazy about the character limit (I write a lot)
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