Bruce Hodges
@brucehodges.bsky.social
Writer | editor | more-than-decent cook. Where: The Strad (London), WRTI (Philadelphia). Music | architecture | art + design | photography | theater + film | journalism | science | climate change
Photo: Luis Barragán, Cuadra San Cristóbal, Mexico
Photo: Luis Barragán, Cuadra San Cristóbal, Mexico
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Bruce Hodges
@brucehodges.bsky.social
· Sep 25
One of the great paintings of the late 20th century, "Constructing the Grand Canyon" (1990, oil on canvas) by Mark Tansey (b. 1949), on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Zoom in to see the workers pushing blocks of text into place to create the walls
walkerart.org/collections/...
Zoom in to see the workers pushing blocks of text into place to create the walls
walkerart.org/collections/...
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Dear Bluesky,
I want to see more nerdy stuff in my feed.
Including, but not limited to:
Poetry 📝
TTRPGs 📚
Star Trek 🖖
Indie Music 🎵
Board Games 🎲
Horror Movies 🎥
Miniature Painting 👩🎨
I want to see more nerdy stuff in my feed.
Including, but not limited to:
Poetry 📝
TTRPGs 📚
Star Trek 🖖
Indie Music 🎵
Board Games 🎲
Horror Movies 🎥
Miniature Painting 👩🎨
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Dear Bluesky,
I want to see more nerdy stuff in my feed.
Including, but not limited to:
Poetry 📝
TTRPGs 📚
Star Trek 🖖
Indie Music 🎵
Board Games 🎲
Horror Movies 🎥
Miniature Painting 👩🎨
I want to see more nerdy stuff in my feed.
Including, but not limited to:
Poetry 📝
TTRPGs 📚
Star Trek 🖖
Indie Music 🎵
Board Games 🎲
Horror Movies 🎥
Miniature Painting 👩🎨
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I don't want to talk about World AIDS Day because I don't want to talk about the person I lost because I don't want to deal with the fact that he is gone and didn't get to teach me to use the cameras he gave me or be one of the people I came out to
I don't want him to be gone
RIP Bob Finney
I don't want him to be gone
RIP Bob Finney
December 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I don't want to talk about World AIDS Day because I don't want to talk about the person I lost because I don't want to deal with the fact that he is gone and didn't get to teach me to use the cameras he gave me or be one of the people I came out to
I don't want him to be gone
RIP Bob Finney
I don't want him to be gone
RIP Bob Finney
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If elves wore suits they would definitely all rock this nonsense
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
If elves wore suits they would definitely all rock this nonsense
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"As one senior researcher told me, decades of painstaking work vanished overnight in an attack by an inexperienced and ideologically driven staff intent on dismantling the bureaucracy without understanding its purpose."
A lot has happened this year. If you'd like a recap of what's happened to education research and statistics, here's my attempt. This might be a good one to listen to on your commute today. (Audio play button below headline. 16 minutes long.) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year
Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack
hechingerreport.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"As one senior researcher told me, decades of painstaking work vanished overnight in an attack by an inexperienced and ideologically driven staff intent on dismantling the bureaucracy without understanding its purpose."
Goals
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People are amazed I’m fine with eating leftover mac n cheese and stuffing for every meal since thanksgiving. Brother if I could have endless mac n cheese and stuffing in my fridge until the day I die I would die a happy man
December 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Goals
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👇
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For World AIDS Day, which is Dec. 1 and which is being ignored by the Trump administration because they dislike the World Health Organization, other countries, science, and queer people, I'm reposting a piece I wrote earlier this year. (They also hate history.) www.vulture.com/article/hiv-...
The List Keepers
The AIDS crisis shattered Broadway, and the scope of the loss has never been fully accounted for. Some kept their own records.
www.vulture.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
For World AIDS Day, which is Dec. 1 and which is being ignored by the Trump administration because they dislike the World Health Organization, other countries, science, and queer people, I'm reposting a piece I wrote earlier this year. (They also hate history.) www.vulture.com/article/hiv-...
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Garden keeps doing the things.
(Cayenne plant is relentless.)
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌱
(Cayenne plant is relentless.)
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌱
December 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Garden keeps doing the things.
(Cayenne plant is relentless.)
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌱
(Cayenne plant is relentless.)
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌱
Right now:
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (@cincysymphony.bsky.social)
Cristian Mӑcelaru, conductor
Tessa Lark, violin
Carlos Simon: Tales: A Folklore Symphony
Lisa Bielawa: PULSE for violin and orchestra
Copland: "Variations on a Shaker Melody" from Appalachian Spring
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (@cincysymphony.bsky.social)
Cristian Mӑcelaru, conductor
Tessa Lark, violin
Carlos Simon: Tales: A Folklore Symphony
Lisa Bielawa: PULSE for violin and orchestra
Copland: "Variations on a Shaker Melody" from Appalachian Spring
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7
Live from Music Hall | Music Director Cristian Mӑcelaru conducts Dvořák Symphony No. 7
YouTube video by Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Right now:
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (@cincysymphony.bsky.social)
Cristian Mӑcelaru, conductor
Tessa Lark, violin
Carlos Simon: Tales: A Folklore Symphony
Lisa Bielawa: PULSE for violin and orchestra
Copland: "Variations on a Shaker Melody" from Appalachian Spring
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (@cincysymphony.bsky.social)
Cristian Mӑcelaru, conductor
Tessa Lark, violin
Carlos Simon: Tales: A Folklore Symphony
Lisa Bielawa: PULSE for violin and orchestra
Copland: "Variations on a Shaker Melody" from Appalachian Spring
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7
Today's discovery: Bränningar (Breaking Waves, 1898) twelve minutes of late-Romantic splendor by the Swedish composer Helena Munktell (1852-1919). Anyone who likes, say, Zemlinsky will find this a deeply satisfying groove
(Thanks much to @jud1960.bsky.social)
(Thanks much to @jud1960.bsky.social)
Branningar, Symfonisk Bild, Op. 19
YouTube video by Gävle Symphony Orchestra - Topic
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Today's discovery: Bränningar (Breaking Waves, 1898) twelve minutes of late-Romantic splendor by the Swedish composer Helena Munktell (1852-1919). Anyone who likes, say, Zemlinsky will find this a deeply satisfying groove
(Thanks much to @jud1960.bsky.social)
(Thanks much to @jud1960.bsky.social)
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The slice of the bread pinned onto the top is making me chuckle. Also reminds me of this:
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The slice of the bread pinned onto the top is making me chuckle. Also reminds me of this:
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The british mind cannot comprehend a sandwich with more then 6oz of protein
My fiancée’s family has the most wonderful post-Thanksgiving tradition I lovingly refer to as the pastrami pile
November 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The british mind cannot comprehend a sandwich with more then 6oz of protein
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When power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. A combination of experimental microgrids, solar panels, and storage kept power on for many businesses and residents.
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
Could Microgrids Be Puerto Rico's Answer to Endless Blackouts?
Meanwhile, feds redirect $365 million away from solar toward grid fixes
spectrum.ieee.org
November 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
When power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. A combination of experimental microgrids, solar panels, and storage kept power on for many businesses and residents.
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
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A snippet from Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia.” In act One, Scene One, Thomasina, a young girl, is learning about Fermat’s Last Theorem from her tutor, Septimus. But she is distracted because she recently overheard someone saying that they saw Mrs. Chater in “carnal embrace”:
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A snippet from Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia.” In act One, Scene One, Thomasina, a young girl, is learning about Fermat’s Last Theorem from her tutor, Septimus. But she is distracted because she recently overheard someone saying that they saw Mrs. Chater in “carnal embrace”:
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"The first of clarinetist John Carter's five-part series in which he musically depicts the history of black Americans ...
info: black-saint.bandcamp.com/album/dauwhe
info: black-saint.bandcamp.com/album/dauwhe
Dauwhe - YouTube
youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"The first of clarinetist John Carter's five-part series in which he musically depicts the history of black Americans ...
info: black-saint.bandcamp.com/album/dauwhe
info: black-saint.bandcamp.com/album/dauwhe
Today's holiday treat (with thanks to @nightafternight.bsky.social):
l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Pascal Rophé, conductor
Stéphane Degout, baritone
Bára Gísladóttir: sea sons seasons (2026, world premiere)
Mahler: Fünf frühe Lieder (orch. Berio)
Berio: Sinfonia
#Berio100
l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Pascal Rophé, conductor
Stéphane Degout, baritone
Bára Gísladóttir: sea sons seasons (2026, world premiere)
Mahler: Fünf frühe Lieder (orch. Berio)
Berio: Sinfonia
#Berio100
Pascal Rophé dirige Berio, Mahler et Gísladóttir - Avec Stéphane Degout - Regarder le programme complet | ARTE Concert
Sous la direction de Pascal Rophé, l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France interprète Sinfonia de Luciano Berio et les Fünf frühe Lieder de Mahler après nous avoir fait découvrir sea sons seasons d...
www.arte.tv
November 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Today's holiday treat (with thanks to @nightafternight.bsky.social):
l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Pascal Rophé, conductor
Stéphane Degout, baritone
Bára Gísladóttir: sea sons seasons (2026, world premiere)
Mahler: Fünf frühe Lieder (orch. Berio)
Berio: Sinfonia
#Berio100
l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Pascal Rophé, conductor
Stéphane Degout, baritone
Bára Gísladóttir: sea sons seasons (2026, world premiere)
Mahler: Fünf frühe Lieder (orch. Berio)
Berio: Sinfonia
#Berio100
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Weekend windows. Downtown Santa Cruz.
August 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Weekend windows. Downtown Santa Cruz.
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Efraïm Rodríguez, Horseman (Sequoia and beech wood, iron and ladder, 2003)
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Efraïm Rodríguez, Horseman (Sequoia and beech wood, iron and ladder, 2003)
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"I don’t see any special virtue in making my private emotions the quarry for the statue I’m carving. I can do that kind of writing, but it tends to go off, like fruit."
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"I don’t see any special virtue in making my private emotions the quarry for the statue I’m carving. I can do that kind of writing, but it tends to go off, like fruit."
On Thanksgiving Day, my hosts offered an entr'acte with a recording they love, which I hadn't heard in a very long time: Lutosławski's "Les espaces du sommeil" (1975), with John Shirley-Quirk, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic — terrific performance and recording
Les espaces du sommeil
YouTube video by Esa-Pekka Salonen - Topic
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
On Thanksgiving Day, my hosts offered an entr'acte with a recording they love, which I hadn't heard in a very long time: Lutosławski's "Les espaces du sommeil" (1975), with John Shirley-Quirk, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic — terrific performance and recording
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Production still for Dames (1934)
directed by Busby Berkeley and Ray Enright
directed by Busby Berkeley and Ray Enright
November 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Production still for Dames (1934)
directed by Busby Berkeley and Ray Enright
directed by Busby Berkeley and Ray Enright
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November 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"I miss the moss-covered vines, the tall sugar pines, where mockingbirds used to sing"
Davell Crawford = 😇
Davell Crawford = 😇
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
YouTube video by Davell Crawford - Topic
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 5:44 AM
"I miss the moss-covered vines, the tall sugar pines, where mockingbirds used to sing"
Davell Crawford = 😇
Davell Crawford = 😇
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It’s also insulting to people with addictions. It’s like making fun of someone’s appearance.
Hegseth is rotten enough without making his serious mental health issues. I dislike the guy but hope he finds help and health
We can oppose our political enemies without becoming as monstrous as them
Hegseth is rotten enough without making his serious mental health issues. I dislike the guy but hope he finds help and health
We can oppose our political enemies without becoming as monstrous as them
November 29, 2025 at 5:05 AM
It’s also insulting to people with addictions. It’s like making fun of someone’s appearance.
Hegseth is rotten enough without making his serious mental health issues. I dislike the guy but hope he finds help and health
We can oppose our political enemies without becoming as monstrous as them
Hegseth is rotten enough without making his serious mental health issues. I dislike the guy but hope he finds help and health
We can oppose our political enemies without becoming as monstrous as them