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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · 2d

would be happy to share my slides with ya!

Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · 2d

giving a talk on “nontraditional approaches to teaching gender in 2025” at a conference this weekend.
and when i told my dad and brothers they were like, “what’s your presentation going to say about teaching gender? ‘don’t’?” 🥴

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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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PBS News @pbsnews.org · Jul 22

PBS News is not going anywhere.

We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air.

We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jul 9

a couple years ago i thought i was being a cool hip prof by including a clip from "mean girls" in my lecture ppt, then realized that "mean girls" came out THE YEAR MY STUDENTS WERE BORN

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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jul 9

one of my students recently referred to riot grrrl as a movement "from the 1900s" 💀💀💀

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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jul 5

actually it's like 90% NYT, 10% people worried about their pets during the fireworks 😣

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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jul 5

i'm scrolling for the first time in a week or so and having the exact same experience rn

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Jun 25

Men who think they can get away with sexually abusing women can EAT SHIT

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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jun 25

yeah 🥹

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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jun 25

for once, scrolling feels good

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · Jun 25

"Andrew Cuomo is visibly upset and people are crying"

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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jun 24

I hope new yorkers are voting (but not for cuomo) AND ALSO drinking a ton of water today... it's so hot out that the air HURTS

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Abortion Care Network @abortioncare.bsky.social · Jun 24

It’s been a brutal three years. But we have what anti-abortion extremists never will.
❤️ Most people support abortion access
❤️ Independent clinics are resilient
❤️ We take care of each other and we’ll keep showing up

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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jun 24

Important thread... on the anniversary of Dobbs, please consider donating (or even setting up a monthly donation) to an abortion fund or resource, like Keep Our Clinics or Brigid Alliance 💸

Abortion Care Network @abortioncare.bsky.social · Jun 24

Anti-abortion harassment and violence is rising.
14 states have no clinics left. More people are forced to travel for care, often further into pregnancy.
Since Dobbs, 1 in 5 patients now leave their state for abortion. That’s twice as many as before.

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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jun 24

speaking of abortion and new music, my "lil treat" today, on the 3-year anniversary of Dobbs, is a ticket for Terry Riley's 90th bday concert 🌀

Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jun 17

btw just bc i mostly skeet about abortion (and new music) doesn't mean i'm not aware of/incensed by/taking action on other elements of the global nightmare

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · Jun 22

Someone on Twitter posted that they had run into Philip Glass at their lower Manhattan polling place, saying nice things about Mamdani.

The campaign put this up as a quote-tweet within the hour.

Title card for Koyaanisqatsi, with the name of the movie superimposed on a long exposure of a complex highway intersection at night, except it's Zohraanisqatsi.

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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jun 22

I know everything is horrific rn, so please enjoy a lil nostalgia as I remember MMNY 2012, when I sat thru an 18-hr vibraphone performance of Satie's "Vexations" outside the new york stock exchange
www.therestisnoise.com/2012/06/make...

Make Music 2012 photojournal

Amy Garapic prepares to ring the closing bell. At midday on June 21, I posted a report from the Vexations marathon on Wall Street — an eighteen-hour vibraphone rendition of that short Satie piano piec...

www.therestisnoise.com

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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jun 21

ok New Music™️ people, any recommendations for MMNY today?

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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jun 20

Shout-out to the students who have the option to not think but choose to think, tho. They remind me why I fell into this whole pyramid scheme ("academia") in the first place.

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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jun 20

At this point I'm beyond wanting to give bad grades to AI-generated assignments, but reading this shit gives me SEVERE secondhand embarrassment. This class is literally "Gender, Sex, and Rock Music" and you're too lazy to write a paragraph about your favorite song?

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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jun 19

this sounds dope as hell

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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jun 19

last night my friend texted me "this concert has us doing squats" and I assumed this was some new slang term (à la "this song slaps") but no, the saxophonist incorporated audience participation that entailed literally doing squats

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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jun 17

screenshot of text messages:
Q: when u say new music do u mean chronologically new music or like New Music like ppl clapping hairbrushes together and stuff
A: Lmao the latter

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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · Jun 19

last night my friend texted me "this concert has us doing squats" and I assumed this was some new slang term (à la "this song slaps") but no, the saxophonist incorporated audience participation that entailed literally doing squats

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