I honestly suspect that he vacillates like this in order to push what people will accept as a norm. The news cycle has moved on from him kidnapping the president of Venezuela, or threatening to invade Greenland, or colonizing Palestine or— it’s not distraction. It’s abuser behaviour.

I am rarely on Bluesky and missed this … yes I wrote a review of this fantastic book! Check it out.

"UM's endowment climbed $2 billion to a market value of $21.2 billion during the past fiscal year." And yet, staff are still being laid off due to federal cuts. Many of us haven't seen measurable pay increases to match the cost of living in years When will this university invest in its employees?

what the fuck. i'm not a robot, i promise

mid-line came to me "become un-google-able" erase digi'tal gaze #haiku

the cory booker speech has to go down as one of the emptiest political gestures of all time, right?

Three people I’ve know for over a decade died in the last week. A fourth called me out of the blue in distress. I turned 37 on Monday. Things are not okay.

I hate that this is where I’ve landed, but it turns out that the world is just irredeemably bad, and the best you can do is toil endlessly at the sisyphean task of making it a tiny bit better

It’s insane how we live in a society where there’s more accountability for football coaches than elected government officials

Ope!

"bsky is dead!" okay great this is my diary and none of you are supposed to be reading it anyway

When you know a footnote is going to be a banger and sure enough, it’s a banger

This weekend: put my hands in the dirt, stayed out late dancing, caught a soccer game with my kiddo, grilled for my in-laws. Exhausting but fulfilling holiday weekend.

My love language is offering / being offered a gig that’s going to be a great time but pays no money

People doing anything they like to survive

relistening to tracks of a finished album that i have in the can, trying to figure out what the best next steps are, and falling in love with the music all over again.

my scalding hot take is that the flute album is significantly, laughably better than the piano album -- but the flute album was never really a flute album in the first place, and that misnomer is the genesis of this whole debacle

I know I’m fried cuz I just said to my piano student “the legato isn’t legato-ing. Let’s try it again, more legato-y.”

i've got the champion's league semifinal on in the background, and CBS just broke in with a SPECIAL REPORT. i swear my heart sank cuz i'm thinking, what war just escalated or natural disaster just happened? do i get the go bag ready? instead, it's a report that a new pope has NOT been elected 😂 ok

Deleting the Pope from the group chat

9yo nephew: but do you believe [jesus rose from the dead] me: no but i respect everyone’s belief 9yo: i believe you’re squishy slug ha ha you have to respect it

new york times article a year from now, probably

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

absolutely love doing academic reading with a baseball game on mute in the background. i think i could literally do it all day, every day, for many years in a row without tiring of it. soccer is a close second.

Oops just committed a thought crime

gotta keep moving 🦈

Ah, the necessary period of re-acclimating to your instrument after taking a few days off from practicing. Everything is broken, feels like shit, you can’t remember when you have invested everything in this stupid thing

An app that gets you out of boring conversations by making your phone ring when you say a code word.

A moratorium on “skillfully weaves” and all variations thereof

Just finished my last obligation of this long ass week, which is important because the next thing I have to do is get on a plane to go to big ears (!!!)

the only way i'm responding to your facebook message is if you're my aunt in greece sending me a good morning gif

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

This machine is cowering in fear

I opened up an old songbook that used to belong to my dad and discovered this lovely handwritten note from lefty folk legend Pete Seeger.

with the vast majority of musical artists i adore, i have no idea what they're going to sound like from project to project. i absolutely love that the spirit behind the work is ever present, even if the sounding of that spirit can manifest in all sorts of different ways. this is what i'm after 1/3

The agony and ecstasy of ascap royalty day

The record that broke my brain open

draw a straight line and follow it

Bob Kaufman took a 10 year vow of silence and broke it like this. I can’t even imagine the magnitude of this moment

sometimes i forget that i am literally an entrepreneur because goddamn do i hate entrepreneur culture

you gotta hand it to Schumer for finally figuring out how to get people to show up to a reading at a bookstore

I swear to god if I ever figure out how to not be financially precarious one day, I’m gonna make so much good art

Been reading a little mythology and it seems like one of the main cross-cultural themes is, “do not, under any circumstances, get on a boat.”

@ kendrick lamar do one about schumer

If you ask me how I’m doing and I answer “fine,” please know that that’s almost certainly a lie. At any moment I am consumed by a cocktail of rage, grief, ecstasy, sorrow, or profound gratitude — or, I’m disassociating, because it’s all just too much to take all at once

Exactly this.

ah, that familiar feeling of post-concert existential dread. forgot about you. hey buddy.