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Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · 13d

No taxation with aerial defecation.

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Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · 14d

So do you endorse Lucile Vaughan Payne's jihad against the word itself?

Lucille Vaughan Payne's Two Commandments, from The Lively Art of Writing: 1. Do not use the first person; and 2. Do not use the word "there" -- ever.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · Sep 23

I'm pretty sure the Rapture already happened, and the only person taken was Prince.

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Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · Sep 18

Playing the Dover Quartet's new album with works by Jerod Impichchaachaaha Tate and Pura Fé as our New Classical Album of the Week on WPR Music.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 30

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

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GBH @wgbh.org · Jul 18

Federal funding is gone.
But we're not going anywhere.

"Local. Trusted. Defunded." is featured on the GBH Mural in Boston, Mass., on July 18, 2025.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · Jul 17

"More than 23 mill listeners tune in to 687 public radio music stations. It would affect almost all programming, incl AAA stations with genres such as independent rock, bluegrass, folk, jazz, gospel, country, soul, hip-hop, local music. 96% of all classical music is played on public radio stations."

The End of Public Radio Music?

Bob Boilen writes about the importance of public radio music amid looming cuts.

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Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · Jul 11

No there isn't.

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Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · Jul 9

It Never Rains (In Southern Amazonia)

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Jul 9

These capybaras look like they’re about to drop the hottest rap album of all time

Three capybaras who are clearly about to drop an album

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Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · Jun 27

Imagine being in charge of the Enterprise laundry that week.

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Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · Jun 23

The Expanse except for Amos.

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Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · May 6

I'm a fan of Weinberg's op. 18 piano quintet. An interesting contrast with Shostakovich.

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Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · Apr 22

I bet Disney would pay real money for a Pope Lando II.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · Apr 17

this whole administration is like when they shut off the containment unit in ‘ghostbusters’

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Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · Apr 16

It never ceases to amaze me how noisy commercial classical recordings can be. So many birds. The Tokyo String Quartet has a full-on police chase going on in the background of one of their more recent Beethoven records.

Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · Apr 16

Classical musicians: this humble audio engineer would like to gently and politely encourage you to step softly on your nifty iPad page-turn pedals, so that I don't have to edit out each plasticky stegosaurus stomp individually.

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Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · Apr 9

I did not plan it that way - I just felt like hearing this new recording today!

Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · Apr 9

And as it happens, I'm playing Jeneba Kanneh-Mason's new recording of Price's Fantasie Negre No. 1 right this instant on wpr.org

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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · Mar 21

Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.

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Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · Mar 11

Playing the violin concerto by Amanda Röntgen-Maier on today's radio show. This is definitely a composer we should be hearing more from.

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Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · Mar 11

My whole thing here has been less about teaching and more about what the students are able to fall back on, 10 and 20 years after college.

Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · Mar 11

I agree about the value of processes of inquiry in teaching! I'm just starting to think there might be a longer-term value in a canon for the student after graduation. Especially as I see our society growing less and less curious over the past couple of decades.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · Mar 10

It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.

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Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · Mar 11

I would ordinarily support that, but I feel like that's what we've tried to do for a while, and here we are. I still think the lack of a common frame of reference is going to be a problem.

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Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social · Mar 11

There's also a strong push from a certain wing to make college even more explicitly about job skills, and if you're right, that will build an even bigger anti-academia backlash.

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