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Rob Deemer

@robdeemer.bsky.social

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Composition professor, Chair of Theatre & Dance, & Senate Chair at SUNY Fredonia, Director/Founder of the Institute for Composer Diversity (www.composerdiversity.com)

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Rob Deemer @robdeemer.bsky.social · Oct 21

Here are six highlighted charts from our recently launched ICD Orchestra Repertoire Report. You can read and download the entire report below!

www.composerdiversity.com/orchestra-re...

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · 8h

"As I'm compiling a bibliography of primary sources about orchestras and ensembles of enslaved musicians I've decided to map their locations."

silpayamanant.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/m...

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 1d

Women are too emotional to be President

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is pissed about an ad that Canada recently ran in the U.S. showing Ronald Reagan talking about tariffs in 1987.

“Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”

Trump: The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani keeps talking about affordable grocery stores and accessible bus lines, but his opponents keep insisting he’s running to transform NYC into Mecca.

Pure bigotry, nothing more.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

Eric Adams, endorsing Cuomo: "New York can't be Europe, folks ... Those Islamic extremisms that are burning churches in Nigeria, that are destroying communities in Germany, that have taken over the logical thinkings. And that's what I'm fighting for."

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 1d

Out today! A little teaser for the album due out on Nov 21st. The slow movement of her concerto is dedicated to Edward Elgar, and you can hear it in every bar…

Piano Concerto in F Minor: II. Adagio by Samantha Ege, BBC Philharmonic & John Andrews on Apple Music

music.apple.com

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Ye Olde Punk @nehoc.bsky.social · 1d

This has been verified by multiple independent sources.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 2d

the ghost of liberace is all "whew tone it down gurl"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump waves around renderings of his new ballroom, which appears to be entirely gold

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 4d

“I was just talking to someone who’s in the CIO’s office at a Fortune 25 company, and Microsoft has just given them a rate card for the coming year for their Office 365 license, and it costs extra if they don’t want the AI. That’s not a company that thinks you want AI.”

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 8d

Let this moment be a wakeup call to stop taking some of the far-left seriously.

Mamdani isn't good enough for them. Nor is Rep. AOC. Nor is Sen. Sanders. No one is good enough for them.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 7d

Tell your dog I said fuck the police.

Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 7d

Now WeRateDogs is TRIPLING THE FUCK DOWN and talking about how often cops shoot dogs

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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 9d

"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad!

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 10d

it's like they're *trying* to increase turnout

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Trump on No Kings: "They have their day coming up. I hear very few people are gonna be there, by the way. But they have their day coming up and they want to have their day in the sun."

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 10d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 11d

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump

batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 11d

The Apple cation has gained an electron.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 12d

Apple TV+ has rebranded to Apple TV

It's their 'vibrant new identity'

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Rob Deemer @robdeemer.bsky.social · 12d

Apparently you’re her vacation cottage! Good luck finding your cat 🐈

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · Aug 21

wake up babe, new key signatures just dropped.

[Adding an AI policy to my syllabus this semester, and wanted an illustration so I went to ChatGPT. Now I'm really considering just making the policy, "If you'd like me to give you grades based on stuff like this, knock yourself out"]

ChatGPT's diagram of the Circle of Fifths. Many wrong key names (including two Bs, and the enharmonic pair C-sharp, G-flat, and 100% incorrect key signatures, mostly mixing flats, sharps, and the occasional double sharp)

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 13d

it actually offends me how sloppy and careless they are. anyone who’s ever been laid off knows the panic you feel when it happens. and while obviously it’s good that they backtracked, these are people’s fucking LIVELIHOODS they’re messing with.

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 15d

BREAKING

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

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Rob Deemer @robdeemer.bsky.social · 16d

@normornstein.bsky.social…as a full professor at SUNY Fredonia, I second this request!

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 17d

THIS is the energy we’ve been waiting for. Credit where credit is due.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 19d

So far, polls unanimously find voters are blaming Republicans more than Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown www.gelliottmorris.com/p/all-the-po...

All the polls on the government shutdown so far | Weekly roundup for October 5, 2025

Also this week: Dems lead in Virginia election polling; economic sentiment is down; people are turning against sports betting; + more!

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Rob Deemer @robdeemer.bsky.social · 19d

Michael Caine: something something world burn something something 🔥

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 19d

Ouroboros should be a palindrome.

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Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social · 20d

It's finally here!! Avril Coleridge-Taylor is getting the first album ever dedicated entirely to her works. My post this week is about why Avril, her music, and the album matter

"Her compositions tell both one woman’s story, and a whole social history too."

leahbroad.substack.com/p/avril-cole...

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