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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 1m

your excitement is a wind beneath my winds, friend

Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 2m

save it for when I actually learn how to do what I have in mind, I've stopped-and-started with MaxMSP many times over the last...seven??...years

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 6m

I may finally become a 'real electronic musician' and learn how to use MaxMSP so I can make more dynamic, varied, and unpredictable MIDI sequencing setups for my synth improvisations

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Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 24m

Current* conditions near Houghton, MI:

View looking west from Michigan Technical University of Portage Canal Bridge. // Image captured at: 2025-10-15 23:42:15 UTC (about 8 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Houghton: 47.37 F | 8.54 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: NNW at 2.237 mph | 3.6 kph // Humidity: 88%

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 11h

White people’s insistence that other white people—especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behavior—deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.

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Redwall Feasts Bot @redwallfeasts.bsky.social · 2h

There was a thick mushroom and chestnut stew, warm sage and butternut bread, a deep dish of potato'n'onion'n'carrot bake, and a strawberry shortcake with meadowcream. After the meal, they sipped motherwort tea.

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 4h

I'm not sure and their website doesn't give any backstory

Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 5h

Found an interesting price tag in the Meijer (Carpenter Rd.) beer aisle

I am a big fan of Great Lakes Brewing, but this is too pricy

Photo of a Meijer price tag that reads, "Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald 12PK BTL 999.99/Unit Price 6.94 Per oz 12 oz"

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 6h

Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop.

You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 5h

@musicologyduck.bsky.social Promises made. Promises kept.

Photo of a six pack of Cigar City Brewing's "Jai Alai" IPA, the packaging is green and orange with white lettering trimmed with a gold outline

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 7h

The Cool Pope

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 8h

It's as if being personally and emotionally close to the target of one's appropriation/oppression excuses the act - perhaps the feeling of justification emerges from the vulnerability required by such intimacy with the subject of appropriation, but this is a fantasy (to borrow from bell hooks)

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 8h

For example, when Paul Simon describes his appropriation of the harmonic tropes of Gospel music when writing "Bridge Over Troubled Water" in a 1970 appearance on the Dick Cavett show, he emphasizes how much he was listening to the group The Swan Silvertones ("that was the music that was in my mind")

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 8h

Indeed, I think that can be said about a lot of their music - it's particularly interesting to me in this case because the vocal performance is so close to rapping without seeming to intentionally/exploitatively trade on rapping (at least that's my interpretation)

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 8h

I've been thinking alot this semester about, and working with my 'Race in US Popular Music' students to explore, the way personal intimacy is used by members of dominant groups (i.e. white people) to absolve themselves when they reproduce oppression, even/especially when their actions are blatant

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 8h

“young republicans weren’t like this when I was a young republican” is lowkey incredible posting

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 8h

the synthesizer part that comes in about 2/3 into this song sounds to me like it is meant to evoke a classic hip hop synth lead

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxth...

Cake - The Distance

YouTube video by Victor Valasiadis

www.youtube.com

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 8h

If you have nothing better to do this Thursday, stop by and hear me talk about honor

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 8h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VFO...

I Will Survive

YouTube video by Cake - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 9h

in '06, during my first year orientation at Rice, there was a white student would was vocally upset that members of the Black Student Association got to lead a large discussion during 'diversity day' and she almost derailed the whole exercise (I'm not sure if she was a republican)

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 10h

I have a slight cold that I picked up from the kids, and there is just enough postnasal drainage that my night's sleep last night got totally wrecked with coughing

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 20h

This is, uhhhh, very relatable

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 21h

Doing some late night reading by beginning this recommendation from @berrak.bsky.social!

Photo of the front cover to Hernan Diaz's 2022 novel "Trust"

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 22h

I just read a review for Tropicalia and it sounds amazing, I hope I get to try it sometime

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 23h

I don't know why this song is in my head tonight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=as-w...

Ella Fitzgerald: Anything Goes (Porter, 1934) - Lyrics Now In Video

YouTube video by davidhertzberg1

www.youtube.com

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Dr. Michelle @lipsticklitterati.bsky.social · 1d

@jtroane.bsky.social @ebonyteach.blacksky.app @dem8z.bsky.social @markanthonyneal.bsky.social please share this opportunity with grad students.

Dr. Michelle @lipsticklitterati.bsky.social · 1d

Calling all #AfricanAmericanStudies scholars, please share this #RiceUniversity postdoc opportunity with your grad students. #Rice is a great place and committed to the work: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Associate - Center for African American Studies

The Center for African and African American Studies invites applications for a one-year (renewable for a second year) Dr. Anthony B. Pinn Postdoctoral Associate in African and African American Studies...

emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com

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