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Will Anderson

@willtheanderson.bsky.social
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Oxford-based Singer | Viola Player | Arts Manager. Will do any of the above for fun or profit. Ideally both. He / Him. willtheanderson.com

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Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
*NEW POST* This week on rising misogyny & classical music "Not taking active steps to redress historical imbalance sends a message ... that classical music is a space where varying degrees of sexism and misogyny are tolerated." open.substack.com/pub/leahbroa...
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No, misogyny isn't a thing of the past
If it feels like feminism has achieved its goals, you’re not paying enough attention.
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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
can we go one day in this country without a new moral panic about the youth
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The guarded language being used regarding cops purposely shooting at journalists is only strange if you're very very stupid.
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Entirely this: I’d add that being serious about climate change is a hygiene factor for many voters. In not a single UK constituency does concern about climate drop below 50% - hitting 68% in Clacton. There’s a debate on the ‘how’ and particularly how to do it fairly but much less on the principle.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
To be clear, the centre ground on net zero is that the public are broadly supportive - even if there is some conditionality to that support. The idea that net zero is a source of significant electoral discomfort for Labour is a zombie political fact.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
My view: The “interim update” from the EHRC, and doubtless the actual “guidance” when it is produced, will try and obscure the fact that any exclusion of trans people is not compulsory, it is a choice. If anyone is excluding trans people from anywhere they are choosing to be transphobic, they… 1/8
Following the Supreme Court decision, if you are excluding trans people you are choosing to do so. You do not HAVE to, you are doing it because you WANT to. You are not defining trans people, you are telling the world who YOU are.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The argument that actually punishing Le Pen and her cronies for their crimes will only make them stronger in the long run is a little hard to swallow when we have a prominent example of a right-wing authoritarian who was very much not punished for his crimes and is now wrecking everything in sight.
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
the U.S. government is targeting legal noncitizen scholars, not on the basis of any wrongdoing, but as part of a larger assault against an educated public.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Every time I read The Great Gatsby, the final paragraph brings me to tears. Breathtakingly powerful writing:
"I'm alive!" said Gatsby, roaring past on a speedboat. He'd faked his own death and gotten away with everything. That's why they called him the Great Gatsby. "Out of the way, current!" he yelled at the water. "This speedboat is bearing me ceaselessly into the future!"
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
People say attention spans are short now, but theatrical playbills from the olden days are like: ᴍʀ ᴡᴀʀʙᴏʏs ᴡɪʟʟ ᴘᴇʀғᴏʀᴍ ONELY THE GOOD BITS FROM - 𝕁 𝕌 𝕃 𝕀 𝕌 𝕊 ℂ 𝔼 𝔸 𝕊 𝔸 ℝ - ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ ʟɪɴᴇs ғʀᴏᴍ - 𝕆 𝕋 ℍ 𝔼 𝕃 𝕃 𝕆 - ᴡʜᴇʀᴇᴜᴘᴏɴ ᴍʀs sᴀᴍsᴏɴ ᴡɪʟʟ 𝙱 𝚁 𝙴 𝙰 𝙺 𝙳 𝙰 𝙽 𝙲 𝙴
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
the fact that none of these ai dorks seem to realize that humans are capable of thought or introspection—perhaps implying they cannot do this themselves—does kind of explain a lot www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
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Opinion | AI Can Work for Us (Gift Article)
A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.
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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
it really says something that there’s not only one person this tweet could have applied to
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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Singers on December 26th
A screenshot from the BBC wildlife documentary “Asia” showing microorganisms rising out of a dark see, with the caption “with this done, their bodies are programmed to die”
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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Made it to December 9th before getting Whammed. Is that a record?
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Going to eat a bunch of magnets just to see if that's anything
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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Interstellar is just an adaption of the Queen song ‘39, right?
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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
#CatsInCases (my case, but not my cat)
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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
been thinking long and hard about how I can perform less serious music and more high victorian camp in the manner of come into the garden maud and suchlike suggestions welcome
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Pileus Media @pileusmedia.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Large Cultural Institutions — such as opera companies — want to support innovation in ways that do not challenge their primacy. As long as "opera" can be definitionally limited to things that only opera companies can do, they are relevant and superior. Open the gates too wide and the game is over.
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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
waiting room huddle chat books phones tablets laptops half an hour slips by #didcothaiku
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Will Anderson @willtheanderson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Crisp autumnal sun Long noon shadows skim the rails Dull under live wires #didcothaiku
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