Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

With all this talk about the merits of opera and people wanting to explore the genre for the first time, I thought it might be helpful to provide some places to start. 🧵

Finding a lot of interesting new people to follow in classical music in the last 24 hours 👀☕

This thread is now dedicated to organizing aid for trans refugees If you need help or have help to offer, please @ me Instructions and updates to follow in below 🧵 www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!

Some PUNCH cartoon classics... "Well don't just stand there — negotiate!"Roland Fiddy 1968 #management #negotiating #cats #mice #behaviour #crowds #tactics #decisions

*yeets a golden apple engraved with "To The Least Problematic" into your group chat*

Why does bluesky keep switching my moderation settings back to default? I set them the way I want them leave it alone

I'm going to ask a dumb question, but it's not my field: if I wanted to read the best works on politics and opera and in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, where do I look? Journals? Book series? Individual scholars? I love musicology but I've very limited knowledge of the field post-medieval.

...horrifying message without context, thank you

A funny-looking friend

Cockatoos like to dip boring food in tasty yogurt www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Huh. The Bengali word for this is “knowledge-sinner”

RIP to the Duck's mentions but this really has come close to approximating my favorite Twitter meme era (30-50 feral hogs)

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PSA they've switched all these back to default again even if you previously adjusted them, just in case you thought the Opera Feed was looking a little empty

Oh, to be a small bunny eating dumplings

me rn

I'd pay folding money for Bluesky to implement 'disable reposts for this user'

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Hello new people of #operasky! 👋 This is your periodic reminder both that there is an opera feed where you can view a broad swathe of the opera content on this platform, and also that, if you speak more than one language, bsky will only show skeets in English unless you adjust your settings

The Falstaff account appears to have been hijacked by Jonathan Swift

January 2026... #Archaeology 🏺

Mary Petty, New Yorker, January 5, 1952

Uh who up Händelposting

Goat down! I repeat: Goat down! www.dn.se/sverige/stor...

5yo, playing with her Playmobil sets: "the princesses are friends with the pirates" Me: "ah, that makes them privateers"

On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.

Me, trying to explain what's wrong with the church organ to our music lead, when I don't actually have the words to explain what the problem is:

A good family Christmas features all four main characters to maximize drama.

All opera plot summaries are like "Kunfre, driven to madness by the treachery of Zarnfig, flees her wedding to Bogaro and resolves to throw herself into the sea, before being stopped by an unnamed and irrelevant countertenor" and all ballet plot summaries are like "somewhere, a princess exists"

you will be visited by 12 ghosts: the ghost of christmas past, the ghost of christmas past continuous, the ghost of christmas past perfect, the ghost of christmas past perfect continuous, the ghost of christmas future simple, the ghost of christmas future continuous, the ghost of future perfect, the

“Opera breeds fanatics. There are opera groupies. Opera diehards. Opera obsessives. I’m not one of them.” OPERA WARS is coming…Available January 13, 2026. bit.ly/4lXyK39 📚💙 #operasky #musicsky #booksky @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

You know when your Advent Carol Service needs more 'O's? Fear not: Q&P is here. #CursedCarols #AwfulAntiphons

My two-year-old just said to me: "Daddy, why does everybody want to play even 17th-century music on a big French two-manual harpsichord with a coupler? Can't they just be satisfied with a smaller Italian-style instrument when it suits the repertoire?" Ugh, so true, buddy. The wisdom of youth.

Anyone here able to offer an insight on the possible significance of a descending melodic major/aeolian dominant/mixolydian b6 scale in a particular Händel aria? Google scholar is not kicking up any results I can access #Opera #Musicology #BaroqueMusic

🏊‍♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision. In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019. Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts. 1/5

BlueSky is automatically hiding posts with cuss words in them. You may want to adjust your settings:

so fuckin true my g

ok time to reset the timeline 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 BIG BOAT STUCK 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

In the mid-18th century, local musicians organised popular annual music festivals in #salisbury. This year, for the first time since their rapid decline in 1780, 'Salisbury Musick' lives once more... 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/salisbury-mu...

@redsolver.dev hi, the Opera Feed I made says it's empty all of a sudden! It was fine yesterday, is there a server issue?