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Making and studying the musics of Black otherworlds. 🎻 New Dangerfield πŸ“š Brown University

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They built this technology with this use case in mind.

23.09.2025 22:05 πŸ‘ 2471 πŸ” 866 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 13

For the second semester in a row, I am feeling this. Why ask me to critique an article when it's the first one I've ever read on the subject? 😭

16.09.2025 04:43 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pretty clear from Secretary of Lying @karolineleavitt’s tweet they’re just gonna try to lie their way through it.

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

09.09.2025 04:09 πŸ‘ 4617 πŸ” 1165 πŸ’¬ 414 πŸ“Œ 88

"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!"

just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement

it's 95% now

you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement

07.09.2025 15:52 πŸ‘ 5328 πŸ” 2224 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 38

People make fun of the Arkansans begging for help that they won't get after voting for someone who never had any interest in helping them anyway but I need folk to also make the connection that they are employing the strategy advocated for when you say 'Get them into office & then move them left.'

07.09.2025 19:03 πŸ‘ 126 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 3

There are so many humans making jazz music that puts you to sleep. And y'all boiled a lake for a 24/7 feed instead of making a playlist

07.09.2025 19:19 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fell asleep with YouTube going and woke up horrified to realize it had autoplayed me onto a 24/7 feed of AI-generated "jazz music"

07.09.2025 19:18 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

What this means in practice is that 14K trans people will have to quit their federal employee jobs and find jobs that cover gender affirming care.

In other words, this is a purge of trans people from the civil service.

Lavender scare.

Everyone who participates is responsible

20.08.2025 14:09 πŸ‘ 1494 πŸ” 828 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 15

Cain is the BEST! The original KFC SanterΓ­a is pretty amazing too

12.08.2025 15:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

or.... freeze rents

04.08.2025 20:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Vibrant local economies" to me does not mean "billionaires and wall street investment," I say as real estate execs from NYC and Boston colonize my city, driving up rent and forcing all the small venues to close. I'd pick any of the run-down Rust Belt towns I've spent time in over NYC any day.

04.08.2025 17:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I never realized that the people making arguments and decisions about this stuff think these cities are vibrant and beloved because of their economies. When I think of the coolest cities in this country, I don't think of the wealthiest ones. I'm not sure most other people do, either.

04.08.2025 16:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” said then-Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Oct. 9, 2023… This was not a secret. It was the proclaimed policy. And it has been followed as such, on and off, ever since.”

28.07.2025 21:25 πŸ‘ 174 πŸ” 88 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Trump blocks Taiwan’s President Lai from New York stopover Move comes as US and China hold trade talks and seek to stabilise relations

Donald Trump blocks Taiwan’s President Lai from New York stopover https://on.ft.com/4lTlOey

28.07.2025 20:46 πŸ‘ 103 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 41
The You Know I Had to Do It To Em meme guy, standing in an awkward pose with hands clasped and an awkward smile

The You Know I Had to Do It To Em meme guy, standing in an awkward pose with hands clasped and an awkward smile

me when my friend is talking to their better friend at the function

28.07.2025 21:41 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

12.07.2025 00:48 πŸ‘ 6752 πŸ” 2729 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 126

Good thing the Democrats spent the last week melting down about Zohran Mamdani winning the NYC mayoral primary because otherwise more Americans might have known that the GOP was planning to fuck them to high hell and that wouldn't have been a good use of their time

oh wait

01.07.2025 21:25 πŸ‘ 882 πŸ” 194 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 3

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

29.06.2025 11:33 πŸ‘ 5772 πŸ” 2841 πŸ’¬ 233 πŸ“Œ 229

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.

So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?

The answer is: you.

29.06.2025 18:05 πŸ‘ 14071 πŸ” 6124 πŸ’¬ 353 πŸ“Œ 268

Truly horrified by this order in way that is deeper and darker than I have felt over many truly awful merits decisions.

24.06.2025 03:02 πŸ‘ 4453 πŸ” 1202 πŸ’¬ 169 πŸ“Œ 58

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening

historians: that thing is definitely happening

star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it

news outlets: these protesters are out of control

11.06.2025 12:34 πŸ‘ 32514 πŸ” 9835 πŸ’¬ 91 πŸ“Œ 194

making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless

10.06.2025 16:30 πŸ‘ 4482 πŸ” 1604 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 61

GODDD I wish I had time to be in a rock band again. I miss being in a rock band so bad

11.06.2025 00:21 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The state Kristi Noem is from gets 40x as much representation in the United States Senate as the state Los Angeles is in. They take billions of dollars of tax money from our state every year. And yet it's not enough. They won't stop until they occupy our territory and destroy our freedom.

10.06.2025 02:07 πŸ‘ 3996 πŸ” 845 πŸ’¬ 105 πŸ“Œ 25

it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

08.06.2025 15:27 πŸ‘ 25327 πŸ” 4696 πŸ’¬ 385 πŸ“Œ 195

One of the things mentioned here is that they arrived in unmarked cars and wore casual clothing, so if staff hadn’t had the courage to tell them to go away, how would you know they were federal agents and not random adult men abducting children? This should be the biggest conservative mom panic ever

10.06.2025 01:40 πŸ‘ 3230 πŸ” 960 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 26

I've been a casual fan, but I saw her live last night at World Pride and now this and... I don't look down on mainstream music, but you rarely see someone with this level of technical skill and personal integrity gain access to these stages. We're gonna be talking about Doechii for a long time.

10.06.2025 03:04 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

a thing about plane travel these days is that the TSA policies are subtly different from airport to airport yet the TSA agents act uniformly incredulous that you do not know their specific, undisclosed-until-you-ask policies

10.06.2025 01:41 πŸ‘ 108 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 6

EXACTLY

10.06.2025 02:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stepping out the door tomorrow to kick off summer gigs at World Pride in DC! Y'all know where to go for more info. Hope to see you somewhere out there!

05.06.2025 21:33 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0