This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING wat CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Today's historical find: 1938 cartoon about Harry T. Burleigh and his arrangement of "Deep River" published in a newspaper in Hope, Arkansas.

Something for a Sunday morning: youtu.be/dHr2APBhSTo?...

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

This. It's OK if your writing doesn't save lives. It's OK if your writing only saves you.

This conference has a great program of papers & music. We'll get to hear Bristow's Niagara Symphony at Carnegie Hall! I'll be talking about the Lost Cause and the reception of Foster sentimental minstrel songs in the 1890s among Black and white Americans.

Washington National Opera leaves Kennedy Center. Another exit from the iconic national arts & culture institution. Good bye. Fascism. #Fascism @anntelnaes.bsky.social #AnnTelnaes #Art #Painting #Photo #Picture #Cartoon #FreePress

We must all have ways to hold, release, some of the devastation and fury in these times of terror and rage. When we do, we may have more capacity for useful action. Because we must take action. But we must have capacity. Some words, and some resources:

Amazing and important news in Ohio #OSU @aaup.org @osuaaup.bsky.social www.acluohio.org/press-releas...

It seems to me that academic writers who theorize the archive have never actually encountered a file folder full of worn, dirty receipts from the electric company.

Amazing quote from Claudette Colvin, who just passed away. She was the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 and joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court.

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement: She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

YOU: now let me get this straight. He takes the money for the band instruments. ME: and the costumes, yeah. YOU: and he leaves? ME: No, he orders the instruments. YOU: So he takes the costume money. ME: No they get the costumes. YOU: what is the scam exactly ME: he doesn't inspire them

"Kathy, Ich am lost," Ich seyde, thogh methoughte she was sleepinge, "Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor" Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke Thei have all come to looke for America

I know a couple of underfunded institutions that I think MacKenzie Scott should give some money to. Anyone know how to write to her? (This is not a joke.)

A suspect is charged with arson in a fire that burned through a synagogue in Mississippi. Flames and smoke destroyed its library, housing Torahs. n.pr/4qiAnuk

I just spent 3 days in archives researching people and organizations that were trying to make race relations better—in 1925. Perhaps surprisingly, this gives me hope and perspective. People have been fighting the battles we're fighting now a long time. And we're going to keep fighting them.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

This old comment continues to get traction. Last semester one of my evaluations called my teaching too “old-fashioned and hierarchical.” Darn right.

Useful and clear reframing of higher ed budget crisis discourse

We put out a call for #ICEOutForGood vigils 24 hours ago. There are now more than 1000 events taking place across the country this weekend. Find yours: www.mobilize.us?tag_ids=2913...

There are so many things wrong with this I don’t know where to start.

Not to be all “back in my day”, but every time I watch an old movie and they say “mind if I smoke?” I instantly flash back to a PSA on buses in the 90s. And I feel like we need this kind of blunt messaging on public health stuff. It WORKED. It’s still in my head 30 years later.

Getting ready to present a program for local piano teachers and their students. Not easy to settle on a program but here it is.

Starting out the new year by leaving voice mails for my senators. I am so tired.

Happy New Year, BlueSky... ...and enjoy your evening. [via @YoYo_Ma X]

Hey you know what this year fucking sucked.

I was told I would do well in the military.

It's depressing to discover an excellent dissertation about women composers from 1999 that never appeared in any published form.

I have just submitted an article to a leading journal in another discipline that relies heavily on another discipline that is not musicology. Here's hoping the peer reviewers do not laugh too hard.

I don't want gen AI in my software I don't want gen AI in my phone I don't want gen AI in my email I don't want gen AI in my recipes I don't want gen AI in my safety documentation I don't want gen AI in my schools I don't want gen AI in my healthcare I don't want gen AI in my life

You will be visited by three spirits.

I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

"ICE officials are also investigating the couple for other crimes. They were found with a substantial amount of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 'What are those luxury goods doing in their possession?' asked the ICE spokesman, taking a moment to adjust his mask."

I have braved the mall and found it to be a very strange place.

I imagine Oklahoma is a right-to-work state and the graduate instructors at OU are not unionized - if they happen to be they should all go on strike as soon as possible

The old man talking loudly in the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin about how being there was like time travel.

Two older women brought me the compositions their mother had written out of the basement in laundry baskets.

It’s that time of year again. Time for the festive grumpy Beethoven ornament.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Historic find. I got this 1924 report from an archive yesterday. Somehow the "Department of Organized Good Will" seems appropriate for the holiday season.

I was on Iowa Public Radio yesterday talking about music and Jane Austen. www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk...

In honor of Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, my favorite sentence: “Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”

Happy Jane Austen’s 250th birthday! Here, Sarah Hachtman and Katelyn Peterson sing Samuel Arnold at our birthday bash concert of music from the author’s collection last February.

Did you see this? It’s amazing bsky.app/profile/laur...

Christmas ornaments: Mozart, Beethoven, and… Celine Dion?

This is one of the most important documents produced this year. At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance. I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!