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Tom DePlonty

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Composer and software professional living in MA. Equality and justice for all, and compassion always. All unattributed pictures posted are mine. Find my music at https://paragate.bandcamp.com/ and https://soundcloud.com/tomdeplonty.

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Tom DePlonty @tomdeplonty.bsky.social · May 22

I played them in college! First time I've ever seen them on a recital program...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Feb 22

I don't believe in Hell, but if I did I would die happy knowing there was a special seating section for anyone currently railing against "the sin of empathy," and every one of those seats is made with hot rusty barbs

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Tom DePlonty @tomdeplonty.bsky.social · Feb 8

Playing with bubble glazing

Two greenware porcelain pots that were bubble glazed - the pots are white and covered with patterns made by covering the pot with pigmented soap bubbles and letting them pop, leaving a fine trace of blue bubbles on the surface

Tom DePlonty @tomdeplonty.bsky.social · Feb 4

Someone Is Wrong On The Internet.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · Feb 3

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

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💿🥂 The Mayor of Funkytown 🥂💿 @mayoroffunkytown.bsky.social · Feb 1

So, DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) is being replaced with WUL (White, Unqualified but Loyal)

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Tom DePlonty @tomdeplonty.bsky.social · Jan 30

And again - my favorite violin show piece; I accompanied a good friend who played it on his graduate recital. It’s pretty much high-class boom-chucking, but the violin line is intricate and subtle bits of time are required in various places so it requires attention!

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Jan 28

The president can veto or support legislation. He can make recommendations to Congress. But he doesn't have the unilateral right to change laws.

Trump has very little respect for the rule of law & our Constitution. He is moving us toward authoritarianism.

We must stop him.

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Tom DePlonty @tomdeplonty.bsky.social · Jan 27

Here’s something, anyway

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Jan 27

Every single Democratic senator signed a resolution Monday condemning Trump’s mass pardon of the January 6 insurrectionists.

Every Single Democratic Senator Managed to Agree on Something

Democrats are condemning Trump’s pardon of the January 6 insurrectionists in a stunning show of force.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · Jan 27

Would love to understand why every Democrat is not out there every second of the day explaining in plain English that Donald Trump has declared war on cancer patients.

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Jan 27

From a source inside the National Cancer Institute:

“Everyone is scrambling to figure out how we’re supposed to work to serve the public when we can’t engage at all.”

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · Jan 27

Saw a "Democratic strategist" say "we have to earn people's trust back." Just mind-boggling that so many don't understand how this works.

Did voters in 2024 say "I trust the Republican Party"? No. They were mad at those in power. Democrats have to get them mad at Republicans. It's not complicated.

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Tom DePlonty @tomdeplonty.bsky.social · Jan 27

"natural masculine instincts" LOL

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Tom DePlonty @tomdeplonty.bsky.social · Jan 27

Also felt here in northern MA.

Tom DePlonty @tomdeplonty.bsky.social · Jan 27

Feels like we may have just had an earthquake here (northern MA).

Tom DePlonty @tomdeplonty.bsky.social · Jan 27

I’ve voted for Democrats straight down the ballot since the early 90s, and I’ll do it again in the upcoming midterms (everyone except Seth Moulton), but what I want to know right now is where are they and when are they going to start speaking up?

Tom DePlonty @tomdeplonty.bsky.social · Jan 27

Beeswax crafts at the Topsfield Fair, Topsfield, Massachusetts

A display of flowers, swans, and a Christmas tree molded from beeswax; in the foreground a display of multi-colored flowers, made from dyed wax, mounted on a natural wax disk.

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Bill Trippe @billtrippe.bsky.social · Jan 26

Today’s light reading

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Jan 26

Now is the moment (to read George Orwell).

Now might be a good time to re-read George Orwell.

“Is it or is it not fascism” is a debate we’re going to be having a lot in the next few years, I’m afraid. And while there is perhaps an intellectual rigor to sussing out an answer, there are also …

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · Jan 26

Living in a PKD novel is less fun than I would have imagined, and I never imagined it would be fun

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Tom DePlonty @tomdeplonty.bsky.social · Jan 26

Studio of Daniel Chester French, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Studies for the Lincoln Memorial statue and the doors of the Boston Public Library are seen in the background. In the foreground is French's last (unfinished) piece, Andromeda.

A sculptor's studio, with studies and pieces in marble on display.

Tom DePlonty @tomdeplonty.bsky.social · Jan 26

“Megahit” - I hate it when the pangram is bogus

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7/4 @sevenfour.bsky.social · Jan 25

Peter Gabriel
photo Andy Fallon

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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · Jan 24

This week's Internet winner goes to...

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Tom DePlonty @tomdeplonty.bsky.social · Jan 24

Coasters. When I was making pottery more actively I used to make these small square blanks all the time, and use them to try different design and carving ideas.

A picture of five white porcelain coasters, painted with an abstract design in blue, black, and pink, with the design being similar but not identical on each coaster.

Tom DePlonty @tomdeplonty.bsky.social · Jan 23

You and I seem to have some serious musical overlap. Quasthoff's Winterreise is one of my favorite albums when I want something cold, bleak, depressing and impeccably sung and played (Charles Spencer on that album is just perfect)

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Tom DePlonty @tomdeplonty.bsky.social · Jan 23

And also taking a very gentle appeal for mercy and decency as an attack, which is telling...