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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 6h

And the yellow decals for the back window that announced NO RADIO

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 1d

It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 1d

In Center City Philadelphia for the No Kings demonstration (in lieu of alt text: 4 photos of a lot of people in the city, many with signs ranging from funny to livid in their messages.) NO KINGS NO NAZIS GO BIRDS

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 1d

Have fun today friends! #NoKings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZ...

SchoolHouse Rock - No More Kings

YouTube video by tennesseejed93

www.youtube.com

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 3d

Wow, I'm going to need to spend a lot of time with this one. Still kicking myself that I had to miss the Webber/Morris band last time they played The Jazz Gallery -- I'm sure it was better than whatever forgotten work or family thing got in the way that night.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 3d

Hey @governor.pa.gov let's get Pennsylvania on here as well...

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 3d

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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J Herskowitz @jherskowitz.com · 4d

Having worked through the dotcom bubble, I can say one of the worst outcomes of the AI bubble will be that a bunch of idiots & con artists will make a lot of money and surround themselves with sycophants that will tell them they are the smartest person in the room for the rest of their lives.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 4d

This is all next-level information. I'm wondering about my friends who went on as Big Time Jazz Professors and now have students who grew up with such a different feel for being 'in the pocket'. (and to do it live! It's different when Dilla did those time offsets on an MPC...)

Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 4d

The TIME FEEL www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEph...

D'Angelo, The Vanguard - Really Love (Live on SNL)

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

www.youtube.com

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 4d

Clicked immediately just to make sure there was some Shaggs on there because I knew there would be.

brett g porter @bgporter.net · 4d

Huckapoo biopic finally got greenlit?

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 14d

When we were getting ready to buy this new house earlier in the year, we promixed each other to not repeat one big mistake we had made in our previous house: we waited far longer than we should have to make some important updates to the place.

https://bgporter.net/posts/philly/renovations-part-1/

Renovations (part 1)

This week: first phase of some renovations to tweak our new house into something that fits us better

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 16d

Thanks!

brett g porter @bgporter.net · 17d

Second, no question. I'm always dizzy by the end of the end of the Chaconne in the 1st.

brett g porter @bgporter.net · 17d

Excited that I've been accepted to a composers workshop here in #Philly that's being led by PRISM Quartet, Ursula Rucker, Diane Monroe, and Tyshawn Sorey, to be concluded with a performance of a new piece that I'm yet to start.

*cracks knuckles*

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 17d

Our ruling class is not visionary. It is not innovative. It is not competent. It is a cartel of hucksters living off our willingness to be dazzled.

The Index @theindexmedia.bsky.social · 17d

Our public life has become unserious with rot.

We’re ruled by grifters who don’t care if their half-baked ideas work.

They only care if the pitch lands.

www.theindex.media/p/we-are-rul...

We Are Ruled by Used Car Salesmen and Grifters

Our Public Life Has Become Unserious With Rot.

www.theindex.media

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 20d

If it wasn't scientifically proven, could they legally sell a t-shirt proclaiming this? www.seriouseats.com/triangles-ta...

#TrianglesTasteBetter: Get an Awesome T-Shirt, Help an Awesome Cause

A few months back, I made a throwaway joke in <a href="https://www.seriouseats.com/ultimate-blt-sandwich-bacon-lettuce-tomato-recipe" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internal...

www.seriouseats.com

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 24d

You don't say.

Entertainment Weekly @ew.com · 25d

Meghan McCain slammed Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's daughter, Violet Affleck, over her UN speech: 'This is why people hate nepo babies,' the daughter of Sen. John McCain said.

Meghan McCain slams nepo babies over Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner's daughter's UN speech

Meghan McCain slammed Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's daughter, Violet Affleck, over her UN speech: 'This is why people hate nepo babies,' the daughter of Sen. John McCain said.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 25d

Decades of cheap ubiquitous digital recording makes it easy to forget what rare and primitive tools we used to work with, and in how many ways we just didn't know any better.

brett g porter @bgporter.net · 25d

The amazing thing to me: the professor who would become my thesis advisor played this for me once in 1984 and from time to time I still find myself repeating

dutiful
dutiful dutiful ducks

Listening to that entire album now with a lifetime in my ears was a treat.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 25d

An odd flashback yesterday found me looking for an old Charles Amirkhanian text-sound recording and subsequent googlage led me to this excellent piece on him by @abstracttruth.bsky.social: www.musicandliterature.org/features/201...

Restless Minimalism: Lexical Music and the Text-Sound Compositions of Charles Amirkhanian — Music & Literature

Feature by David Menestres I went all over San Francisco with a recording engineer from CBS Radio who had a Nagra, which is a really fine reel-to-reel machine. We would go into underground subway s...

www.musicandliterature.org

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 27d

I've always thought of this as "Bean Dadding"

"I guess I need to go Bean Dad what a Milkshake Duck is..."

Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 27d

There should be a word for that cognitive situation where you need to search backward to figure out what news story is leading everyone online to talk about (for example) the rapture

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 28d

Fantastic set at Solar Myth last night. The new (asterisk) tunes were fantastic, looking forward to hearing them again someday.

Mary halvorson sextet at Solar Myth, Philadelphia.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · Sep 12

So afraid to scroll and see if anyone said “Oliver and Company”. Please, no.

brett g porter @bgporter.net · Sep 12

In the 80s, the chalkboard in the office for the Theory/Composition grad students at UMiami had 3 white lines, 18” apart. The request was for 5 evenly spaced lines, and they decided to count the top and bottom edges.

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