Check out Kaleidoscope Quartet’s performance of my arrangement of “We’ll Camp a Little While in the Wilderness”, performed at PianoForte in Chicago on September 13! youtu.be/4KBjYjWcIlA Scores are available on my website at ianacook.com/composition/... #KQuartet

A little #ambient out of @vcvrack.com.

Did a new one

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Listen to what Hegseth says the U.S. military to do to “the enemies of our country” and then put them up next to Trump later on saying that, “We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy.” We in the media need to save the euphemisms and call this what it is.

Showing up to work to avoid a shutdown is apparently a minimum threshold Republicans can’t be bothered to meet.

(solemnly) You've had mail.

Every pundit article: BLUESKY IS A HOTBED OF RADICALIZATION Majority of posts in my feed: Check out this cool bug/bird/random historical personage I found! Small but vivid minority of posts: Do you think Gritty and Alf are in a polycule or nah?

I think this says it all!

We've got Gavin Newsom et al. eulogizing a version Charlie Kirk who did not exist, Trump et al. blaming his death on leftist violence that didnt happen, and the entire media apparatus denouncing Dems for dancing on his grave, something no Dems are doing. Has The Discourse ever felt more unmoored?

Hey #Chicago area, kquartet.com is en route, and we're so excited! We hope to see you at one of our concerts. DeKalb Friday 7pm, downtown Saturday 4pm, Oak Park Sunday 3pm

Charlie Kirk was a person. He might not have cared if I died, but if I don’t care that he died then I’ve already lost. I believe in the dignity of all human beings and I want to live in a society that treats each of us as sacred and ensouled.

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

Rebuttal: No, it doesn't. Thank you.

Alright, time for #Daggerheart session 0 today! AND the first time we're using @foundryvtt.bsky.social!

I would buy this album in a heartbeat (@fakemusic_br instagram) #funk #acdc

Congress, not President, has authority over DC. President has limited power under certain emergency conditions for 30 days. There’s no emergency, just Epstein distraction. Home Rule Act allows D.C. residents to elect their own leaders, controlling local affairs like public safety. DC Statehood!

Bro was flabbergasted 🤣

My Plans for the weekend...

Air Quality Alert issued July 12 at 3:15AM CDT by NWS Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN Additional Details Here.

This is nothing like Iraq or Afghanistan from a public opinion standpoint. In both cases, large majorities supported military action. This time, large majorities oppose it. Chart from the great @gelliottmorris.com. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-amer...

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

I…do not think we get to call it an anomaly anymore

This framing exists because the decision is instantly obvious as one of the legal atrocities of US history, like Dred Scot, the 1870s Civil Rights Cases, Korematsu. The Times doesn’t want to say “The Supreme Court stripped rights out of law” so instead it says “Here’s why they did it to themselves”

Have you tanked your economy? Was your birthday parade an embarrassment? Did the richest man in the world allude to you being a nonce? Did you lose your bid to challenge a sexual abuse & defamation lawsuit? If so, you need WAR! 𝑊𝐴𝑅 - 𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟

The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow

Hey wildfires, can you stop? I'd like to be able to breathe, thank you.

Let's make some music with code #tidalcycles @tidalcycles.bsky.social #livecoding #algorythmicmusic youtu.be/2fjzekm-ITU

Why are news sources reporting the reversal of the reciprocal tariffs with China as a "Trump victory" when it's actually just the least he could do to reverse his own blunders?

Will never understand those who look at the homeless and understand *themselves* as victims—of inconvenience.

part of why white supremacists & the wider right have worked so hard to falsely frame immigration as an "invasion," & why it has manufactured propaganda about a "great replacement," is to create the pretext for precisely this: an authoritarian government that gets to decide who it gets to disappear

The rats have chosen a new pope.

Hey remember when everyone said Democrats weren't as good with the economy and Trump was stronger in that area than Harris? Hmmm.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

I can't believe I'd never thought to communicate BACK to a controllers before in Max. So I made it show some pretty colors! @cycling74.bsky.social #MaxMspJitter

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

These guys are so sweet #kquartet

The world is so uncertain right now I don't think any April Fool's Day fake post would seem fake

Yesterday the vet described this birthday girl as “perfect” and I couldn’t agree more! #KipoTheWonderbeast

Why we in Kaleidoscope Quartet love Taylor! #KQuartet

Here's a bit of an ambient jam I did with the Make Noise trio of desktop instruments, plus my little baby modular. See the video's description for an explanation of the patch if you're interested. #MakeNoise #0CTRL #0Coast #Strega #Elmyra2 #modular #synthsky

Happy Valentine's Day, language friends! #linguistics #singularthey #valentines

As someone who’s looked at a lot of band promo photos, I can tell you this is (L-R) drummer, singer/guitarist, bassist, lead guitarist.

Well, I’ve felt the siren call for years, but I’ve finally dipped into the #Eurorack world. I got a case, mounted my only desktop unit that fits (the wonderful #NeutralLabs #Elmyra2), and got my first module, a #uO_c, on which I’ve just installed the Phazerville firmware. Excited to share more soon!

Join Kaleidoscope Quartet for a brand-new concert series: Cerulean. Both concerts are Saturday afternoons, May 3 and May 10. As usual, I've got several arrangements. This time we'll add a composition of mine! Tickets available here: www.kquartet.com#upcoming-con... #NewMusicSky #NewMusicMN #kquartet