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Eric Pinder

@operahockeyguy.bsky.social

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Actor, director, writer, bon vivant. Artistic Director of CFVA and Opera Del Sol. Gay. Sardonic. Ironic. Not iconic Working on the libretto for a hockey opera tentatively titled “Goaliedammerung”

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Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 18h

Chorus and orchestra competing to see who gets there first

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Aunt Chalupa @auntchalupa.bsky.social · 18h

Jack Eichel either book the trip to Turkey or shave it off

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Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 18h

Stopped watching hockey to listen to broadcast of Sonnambula and both the soprano and tenor are out

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Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 19h

Ironically first read this as “denigrate”

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22h

JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

CNBC
There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 1d

An 80s training montage of me preparing for a thumb war.

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Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 1d

@chucklebags.bsky.social and I were texting and he typed “theatre gays” which autocorrect changed to “throat gays” and honestly… no notes

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Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 1d

I spent WAY too much time whittling it down to eight

Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

Prince
The Smiths
Richard Strauss
Foals
They Might Be Giants
Ella Fitzgerald
R.E.M.
The English Beat

Bear Q. @adadnamedbear.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

Coldplay
P!nk
Sara Bareilles
The Irrepressibles
Lily Meola
The Wailin’ Jennies
The Chicks
A Great Big World

𝖆 𝖍𝖊𝖉𝖌𝖊𝖍𝖔𝖌 @grainneog.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

1. Linkin Park
2. Dance With The Dead
3. Bring Me The Horizon
4. Rise Against
5. The Sunshine Underground
6. CHVRCHES
7. Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats
8. Daft Punk

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Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 1d

2nd favorite:

Money - The Flying Lizards

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Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 1d

Head Like a Hole - Devo

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Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 2d

This film is now 75 years old and still holds up

Eve of Destruction: 60 Years of All About Eve - Slant Magazine

Joseph L. Mankiewicz introduced Margo Channing and her catty cohorts to the general public on October 13, 1950.

www.slantmagazine.com

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 2d

it’s just remarkable how much of what’s wrong with this country can be put at the feet of overachieving dorks motivated by bottomless self-regard and ressentiment.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to my friends who are going to let us crash in their basements when we need to flee this country

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Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 2d

That entire score is etched into my core memory

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Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 2d

Get the ball in the pocket never mind gettin dandelions pulled or the screen door patched or the beefsteak pounded

Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 2d

Am I frittering away some time on here to avoid mowing the front yard?
Huge, if true

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tim d (he/him) @timdevin.bsky.social · 2d

spotted at the local pinball place in Somerville

Gilligans Island pinball game, with the banner that says protect trans youth

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Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 2d

There are quite a few people I miss from Twitter and I wish they had accounts here, but I’m never going back there. Not even to visit

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Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 2d

Bigmouth Strikes Again
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 3d

Name Two Singles off the Same Record.

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 3d

I think it's also worth remembering how symphonies, opera & ballet became crazy popular w/ workers in post-revolution Russia bc the gov subsidized tickets & made it suddenly widely accessible

They weren't shunning it as "bougie snob art", it was framed as "I deserve to enjoy beautiful things too"

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 3d

It really sucks that snob gatekeepers framed classical as high brow music so now any time you talk about it, people assume you're trying to signal intellect

But the music itself isn't pretentious, thats cultural baggage. I just like it when sounds are arranged in a cool way, like any other genre

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Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 3d

it remains fucking bullshit that neither of these guns are fired by the final act of the cherry orchard

cropped photo of a passage from chekhov's the cherry orchard:

the clearest of days. The sun is about to set. SHARLOTTA, ASHA, and DUNYASHA are sitting on the bench. YEPIKHODOV stands nearby playing the guitar.
They are all lost in thought. [highlighted sentence:] SHARLOTTA, who is wearing an old peaked cap, bas taken a shotgun off her shoulder and is adjusting the buckle on the strap.

cropped photo of a passage from chekhov's the cherry orchard:

YEPIKHODOV. I am a man of culture—I read the most sundry books—but I still can't quite decide what direction to take, what I really want to do-live on or shoot myself, so to speak. But to be on the safe side, [highlighted:] I always carry a revolver with me. See?... (He takes out a revolver.)

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 4d

Remembering Sig Ruman on his birthday #botd

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Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social · 4d

Got called into work for some OT and lord knows we can use that money after that cruise, but still, ugh…. so don’t want to be here