Armando Bayolo
@armandobayolo.bsky.social
St. Louis based Puerto Rican composer/conductor in the diaspora. Lecturer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. All opinions my own. Atheist. Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger. he/him
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
Damn! 😔
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 8, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Damn! 😔
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged
Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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Apple TV is bugging out in a hilarious way
December 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Apple TV is bugging out in a hilarious way
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Along with Christopher Hawthorne's beautiful obituary, I want to cite the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, a personal favorite (photo below by Mark Conmy)
Frank O. Gehry, the architect who changed the civic landscape of his adopted hometown of Los Angeles, has died
Frank Gehry, known for ebullient cultural buildings like Disney Hall who helped invigorate the field of architecture at a moribund time, has died at 96.
www.latimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Along with Christopher Hawthorne's beautiful obituary, I want to cite the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, a personal favorite (photo below by Mark Conmy)
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3 Questions:
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
3 Questions:
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
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Reminder: This vast consolidation of wealth and power at the top has not been due to neutral market forces.
There’s no such thing as a “free market.”
It is designed.
It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.
There’s no such thing as a “free market.”
It is designed.
It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Reminder: This vast consolidation of wealth and power at the top has not been due to neutral market forces.
There’s no such thing as a “free market.”
It is designed.
It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.
There’s no such thing as a “free market.”
It is designed.
It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.
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RIP Frank Gehry. Spent a lot of time in his shopping center and often visited his Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA. I sometimes walked passed his house in Santa Monica. Was nice feeling so close to great architecture.
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
RIP Frank Gehry. Spent a lot of time in his shopping center and often visited his Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA. I sometimes walked passed his house in Santa Monica. Was nice feeling so close to great architecture.
In a surprise to no one: It appears that the DHS Facebook page is run by media illiterates lacking any self awareness.
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
In a surprise to no one: It appears that the DHS Facebook page is run by media illiterates lacking any self awareness.
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This is 100% correct. The people running this country right now believe that the arts are as much a liberal indoctrination mechanism as they believe academia to be. They hate anything they can't control, anything that promotes creative and independent thought.
It's hard to even talk about the crushing losses in arts funding this year while the broader context of the world is so horrifically violent. But if you look at all of this as a struggle — either FOR or AGAINST hope and humanity — it becomes clear that the arts are in fact a key part of that story.
December 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This is 100% correct. The people running this country right now believe that the arts are as much a liberal indoctrination mechanism as they believe academia to be. They hate anything they can't control, anything that promotes creative and independent thought.
Welp! I lost Whamageddon.
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Welp! I lost Whamageddon.
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Why can’t we have nice things, too?
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Why can’t we have nice things, too?
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
People who have loud, casual phone conversations at the airport WHILE I'M TRYING TO READ!!!!!!😡😡😡😡
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
People who have loud, casual phone conversations at the airport WHILE I'M TRYING TO READ!!!!!!😡😡😡😡
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Writing is NOT a windfall generator.
Far over 90% of writers will just break even on what they write or even write at a loss.
A short few will make just enough to live on.
Very few will make bank.
In all cases this process is long and difficult.
#writingcommunity #booksky #writinglife #editing
Far over 90% of writers will just break even on what they write or even write at a loss.
A short few will make just enough to live on.
Very few will make bank.
In all cases this process is long and difficult.
#writingcommunity #booksky #writinglife #editing
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Writing is NOT a windfall generator.
Far over 90% of writers will just break even on what they write or even write at a loss.
A short few will make just enough to live on.
Very few will make bank.
In all cases this process is long and difficult.
#writingcommunity #booksky #writinglife #editing
Far over 90% of writers will just break even on what they write or even write at a loss.
A short few will make just enough to live on.
Very few will make bank.
In all cases this process is long and difficult.
#writingcommunity #booksky #writinglife #editing
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Taking a closer look at mass firings, layoffs of Black journalists as media orgs dismantle DEI
A panel of Black journalists in Chicago weighs in on the Impact of decreasing diversity in national and local media…. www.wbez.org/in-the-loop-...
A panel of Black journalists in Chicago weighs in on the Impact of decreasing diversity in national and local media…. www.wbez.org/in-the-loop-...
November 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Taking a closer look at mass firings, layoffs of Black journalists as media orgs dismantle DEI
A panel of Black journalists in Chicago weighs in on the Impact of decreasing diversity in national and local media…. www.wbez.org/in-the-loop-...
A panel of Black journalists in Chicago weighs in on the Impact of decreasing diversity in national and local media…. www.wbez.org/in-the-loop-...
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The transition to the cadenza in my clarinet concerto, On Becoming Ungathered. Elemental fanfare 4: winds. Premiere this weekend with @clarinetprof.bsky.social and the GCTYO!
November 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The transition to the cadenza in my clarinet concerto, On Becoming Ungathered. Elemental fanfare 4: winds. Premiere this weekend with @clarinetprof.bsky.social and the GCTYO!
The transition to the cadenza in my clarinet concerto, On Becoming Ungathered. Elemental fanfare 4: winds. Premiere this weekend with @clarinetprof.bsky.social and the GCTYO!
November 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The transition to the cadenza in my clarinet concerto, On Becoming Ungathered. Elemental fanfare 4: winds. Premiere this weekend with @clarinetprof.bsky.social and the GCTYO!
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"the day after Nixon launched Operation Linebacker II in Vietnam, the 29-year-old Pollini began a recital in Milan with a statement read on behalf of himself and a group of artists (including Claudio Abbado and Luigi Nono) condemning the military campaign"
Schoenberg, Op. 11 (Pollini)
Schoenberg, Op. 11 (Pollini)
November 20, 2025 at 8:24 AM
"the day after Nixon launched Operation Linebacker II in Vietnam, the 29-year-old Pollini began a recital in Milan with a statement read on behalf of himself and a group of artists (including Claudio Abbado and Luigi Nono) condemning the military campaign"
Schoenberg, Op. 11 (Pollini)
Schoenberg, Op. 11 (Pollini)
@pattonoswalt.bsky.social watching your Colbert appearance about your daughter's horror obsession warms my heart because my daughter is the same (and I guess Benicion del Toro as The Wolfman didn't scar her at all!).
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
@pattonoswalt.bsky.social watching your Colbert appearance about your daughter's horror obsession warms my heart because my daughter is the same (and I guess Benicion del Toro as The Wolfman didn't scar her at all!).
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I've never been much into Funko Pops, though I've been gifted a few. But Kayleigh Donaldson hits some salient point about collecting as a hobby, something that intersects with me right down the middle.
www.pajiba.com/miscellaneou...
www.pajiba.com/miscellaneou...
The Rise and Fall of the Funko Pop
Those dolls were once everywhere, but they could become a thing of the past like Beanie Babies.
www.pajiba.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I've never been much into Funko Pops, though I've been gifted a few. But Kayleigh Donaldson hits some salient point about collecting as a hobby, something that intersects with me right down the middle.
www.pajiba.com/miscellaneou...
www.pajiba.com/miscellaneou...
I've never been much into Funko Pops, though I've been gifted a few. But Kayleigh Donaldson hits some salient point about collecting as a hobby, something that intersects with me right down the middle.
www.pajiba.com/miscellaneou...
www.pajiba.com/miscellaneou...
The Rise and Fall of the Funko Pop
Those dolls were once everywhere, but they could become a thing of the past like Beanie Babies.
www.pajiba.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I've never been much into Funko Pops, though I've been gifted a few. But Kayleigh Donaldson hits some salient point about collecting as a hobby, something that intersects with me right down the middle.
www.pajiba.com/miscellaneou...
www.pajiba.com/miscellaneou...
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The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark