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Dale Chapman @decmusicology.bsky.social · 9h

Mash up bands:

Gang of Foreigner

Parody Account @mylesdunhill.bsky.social · 9h

Mash up bands:

Reel Big Phish

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 2d

Mash up bands:

Guns 'N Oates

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 20h

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Dale Chapman @decmusicology.bsky.social · 11h

Ms. Rachel *was* right, but on the street crime bit, you're just doing the "i like pancakes/so you hate waffles" meme

Obama was referring not to protestors, but to the overblown invocations of crime that they've been using to legitimize deploying troops to D.C. and Chicago in the first place

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 12h

Tom Alter, a tenured history professor, was fired for making comments in support of socialism at a conference, based on a doctored video taped by a far right activist. If this is allowed to stand, anyone of us could be next

universitystar.com/33285/news/t...

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · Jul 6

For just $30 an hour I will watch streaming shows with your parents and tell them whether something is a flashback

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Dale Chapman @decmusicology.bsky.social · 16h

So for instance the Manhattan area code of 212 meant your finger only had to travel a short distance on the dial and cou make the call much quicker than, say, my area code of 905

(I think 905 was introduced much later, so I don’t think it reflects the same logic)

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Dale Chapman @decmusicology.bsky.social · 16h

Here’s what’s really gonna blow their mind:

The reason that particular parts of the country are associated with particular area codes is because the distance your finger had to travel on the rotary dial was an inverse proportion to how important that region was seen to be

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 19h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Dale Chapman @decmusicology.bsky.social · 18h

Sharon Angela from the Sopranos, for this line reading alone

A picture of Rosalie Aprile, wife of the late Jackie Aprile Sr., at lunch with Carmela Soprano and her friends, telling a nosy person at another table to "Eat your manicott'!" (This caption is splayed in bold red and white capital letters next to her face.)

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Dale Chapman @decmusicology.bsky.social · 18h

It's organized by leftists and academics. To borrow a phrase from our British friends, we couldn't organize a piss-up at a brewery lol

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 21h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Gary Benny @grbenny.bsky.social · 18h

Thelonious Monk, Blue Monk.
Live at the University Aula in Oslo, Norway, 1966.

#JazzSky

youtu.be/yHKl0euhZI0?...

Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk (Norway, 1966)

YouTube video by The Jazz Estate

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Dale Chapman @decmusicology.bsky.social · 18h

(To be clear, I personally think this clip is amazing)

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Dale Chapman @decmusicology.bsky.social · 18h

LOL I just taught about Monk in my jazz history class a couple of weeks ago, and shared with them this screenshot of the Twitter/X posts about this video clip when it was last posted over there

Let's just say it's adorable to see Twitter edgelords and trolls encountering Monk for the first time

Screenshot of terrible tweets on Twitter, in response to an earlier posting of this Blue Monk clip:

"This is terrible."

"Are we all pretending this is good? It sounds like a toddler playing for the first time"

"Sounds a bit off key"

"I guess I'm a philistine because this is ass"

"I would probably like jazz better but it seems that one of the musicians are always playing something different, but I can't tell which one."

"He's having a stroke. Why isn't anyone calling a doctor?"

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Dale Chapman @decmusicology.bsky.social · 21h

I guess I want to live in the timeline of the multiverse where this kind of right wing grift would be impossible

Future utopian society meme, showing flying cars, spangly-clean slick architecture, monorails, everything bathed in a sunny warm glow

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Dale Chapman @decmusicology.bsky.social · 21h

Could've given it to Sharon Angela, who as Rosalie Aprile delivers the best line reading in the history of television

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Dale Chapman @decmusicology.bsky.social · 22h

It's always projection with these clowns

Since the Tea Party at the very latest, there is no conservative/MAGA protest movement that is not astroturfed to within an inch of its life

So they think that other social movements are incapable of functioning without some deep-pocketed benefactor

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 23h

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Dale Chapman @decmusicology.bsky.social · 1d

That’s like that Volkswagen ad that ran during the Super Bowl, which is pretty cagey about, oh, the first decade or two of the car manufacturer‘s existence

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 3d

More Viking lore (targeted specifically for Bostonians) from the great Rowdy Geirsson.

A Short History of the Varangian Guard for Bostonians

Art by Matt Smith - - -Now, evuhryone knows that the Vikings were some sehriously hahdco’ah fuckin’ fightahs. ’Cept most’ah ’em actually didn’t go...

buff.ly

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Dale Chapman @decmusicology.bsky.social · 1d

I'm already hearing that USC and UT Austin are likely to fold on this. I have trouble understanding how this is going to work, how operating on the terms the administration has laid out is even possible.

I'm glad for MIT's commitment on this, and it sounds like Dartmouth will hold out as well.

Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Dale Chapman @decmusicology.bsky.social · 1d

OMG

I mean people should really know better by now. You do not want to get into a posting war with this dude.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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