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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 6h

I feel like I've been mostly grumpy-posting lately so here is the most joyful, playful introduction of the backing band I've ever seen in a performance

Céline Dion - Le ballet (Live à Paris 1995)

YouTube video by CelineDionVEVO

youtu.be

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 6h

I wonder if there was an aspirational or self-insert element to it that isn't working anymore with all the economic chaos?

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 6h

O.o

No. No, I am not doing any of that.

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 6h

Well I guess that's not entirely true. I do sometimes try to decode lyrics sung in languages I am learning, or like Lupe Fiasco songs which are very lyrically dense

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 7h

Oh, fascinating. That is not how I engage with music at all!

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 7h

I've never been a Taylor Swift fan, I don't generally find her songwriting/singing compelling. She's not for me, that's fine.

But all the criticism of her new album makes me wonder: why now? Has her audience just aged up enough to be ready to move on? Is it actually a decline in quality?

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 15h

My other one would be that most bestsellers are truly, deeply boring. 🤷

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 15h

(I mean slashy fanfic is fine, but I don't want that to be presented to me as a novel. Like why are you telling me cheetos are oranges? And trying to charge me money for it?) (And no I am not going to read the latest bestselling fanfic that should have stayed on the slush pile.)

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 15h

novels where the fae, vampires, etc. are truly monstrous and adversarial to humans > novels in which they are defanged in service to human hero/ines

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 17h

If it's any help to you (it's helping me), NMIXX are on Lee Mujin's show this week, part 1 today and part 2 tomorrow

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 18h

Independent news anchored in specific communities, international news located outside the US, and occassionally scrolling on here or masto

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Sam that was @sambrambling.bsky.social · 19h

Disorganized violence against regimes has a low success rate, historically.

For me personally, anyone who tries to accelerate faster than the speed of community trust can chill.

Go meditate and train for it if you're about that life.

TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 19h

I’ve been blocking folks saying, “they won’t care if protest is peaceful, they will invoke insurrection act, or just shoot you, so get violent” for weeks.

Had to do more today.

If violence is needed, it needs to be responsive, not initiative.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20h

I have blocked this person, but I keep seeing people say things like this, and I’m begging people to understand two things.

(1) Just because peaceful protest may not be sufficient to win this moment does not mean that it is not necessary.

It is.

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 1d

Next up is the beef expanding because someone favorites a sub-skeet related to it without realizing that it's a sub-skeet because the text is vague enough to be read multiple ways

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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 1d

I do not expect this fascist colonizer government to care, but it's pathetic that I had to find out about this via a skeet at 1 AM because no one ELSE is covering it, either.

If anyone has Indigenous GFMs & relief efforts to link, I'll promote them.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · 1d

Interview with Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan on Nearly Roadkill: Queer Love on the Run

JJ Pionke interviews Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan about their new book, the Nearly Roadkill Reboot, how their writing process has changed since they wrote the original in the mid-1990s, their t...

cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 1d

It feels straight Malthusian eugenics to me, but of the rhetorical coercion sort rather than the physical force version

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

portland continues to serve up a protest that confuses the feds and totally disrupts the false narrative they're pushing via propaganda channels...

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

Portland cyclists strip down in pouring rain to protest ICE facility and Trump troop deployment

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

www.oregonlive.com

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

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

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

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

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 2d

You can also reduce mental effort and increase engagement by having students color in worksheets with crayons

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

This is how a $45 shirt becomes $90 and then $180. This 2x multiplying through the chain is called keystone pricing.

So why can't the brand just sell it to a consumer for $90, cutting out the retail markup? Because if they become a retailer, they will need to raise prices to cover their new costs.

A clothing store with suits on the rack and bags on the shelf.

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 2d

Minneapolis

sahanjournal.com/public-safet...

Abdirizak Kaynan, the mosque's
imam, said a worshipper confronted the woman when the woman entered the building through the side door. The woman made repeated threats that she was there to set the mosque on fire. Kaynan said another worshipper arrived and called 911, and they were told by the operator to call 311 instead. Kaynan then called 911 himself.

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 2d

@sparklebeam.bsky.social I couldn't find many short quotes to post because she's more prone to 2-pagers than 1-liners, but here's one!

TRICKSTER DRIFT

Page 369

Just to hear something other than his own bones crunching, he sang "Someday," one of his favourite songs after he'`d broken up with Sarah.

*Stop it," the cannibalistic [redacted] said. "No Nickelback!"

"Or what? You'll eat me?" Jared said. Jared couldn't remember all the words, but he sang the bits that he could remember over and over, out of sequence, heartfelt, earnest. Cannibal [redacted] threw his foot at him. It sailed through his non-corporeal body. She furiously mojoed his body back together and shoved him back in it so she could strangle him.

"Stop singing!" she screamed, her hands wrapping around his throat, throttling him like the brainless chicken she thought he
was.

Jared sang louder.

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 2d

I tried to get a Mandarin pronunciation of a fairly common (romanized) name and it was the most white midwestern wrongness

(My Chinese skills are almost nil but I know enough to know you don't pronounce C like /ka/)

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when you could go online and fairly easily find accurate pronunciations for so many words? Alas, those days are gone.

(AI slop ruining things once again.)

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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 3d

(not just you!)

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