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Marian Wilson Kimber
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Musicologist, writer, half of Red Vespa, author of The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word and the forthcoming Clubwomen Activists and the Making of American Music. Posts in no way associated with my employer.
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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · Apr 13
Today's historic find: 1923, Mrs. Frank Hoffman, music chair for the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs, complains that the average woman "doesn't know a trombone from a steamboat."
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Today's historic find. Composer Mary Howe, writing ca. 1946, describing audiences complaining about modern music.
"Why is it that one piece of unfamiliar modern music on an orchestral program, especially if it is not of primer-book simplicity, or sponge-cake sweetness, is so apt to rouse an absolute fury in the souls of faithful concert-goers? They write letters of protest, they threaten never to come again." If that attitude had exists among scientist and inventors we never would have won the war for lack of drugs and airplanes
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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AMS/SMT folks: Come hear my paper about women’s clubs’ promotion of women composers before 1950 in Great Lakes C at 4 pm—the sheer numbers of composers and club events will astonish you!
November 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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19thnews.org
“This is another instance in which Trump has said one thing — that the East Wing would not be altered — and he’s altering it,” historian Alexis Coe said. The East Wing is home to the Office of the First Lady and has played a key role in women’s visibility in the White House. https://bit.ly/3JeAneF
First ladies made history in the East Wing. It was razed for Trump’s ballroom.
The East Wing is home to the Office of the First Lady and has played a key role in women’s visibility in the White House.
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November 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Halloween costume: dressed as Ibid. looking for a job, since I have been dumped from the Chicago Manual of Style.
Navy suit, white shirt, striped tie with the word Ibid. all over it.
October 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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October 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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👏👏👏 Big win here! Congrats to everyone who worked on this local effort. Judge halts removal of material from State Historical Society’s Iowa City facility. #iowa
Judge halts removal of material from State Historical Society's Iowa City facility
A Johnson County district judge Friday ordered the state to stop removing historic material from the 168-year-old State Historical Society's Iowa City research facility that it unexpectedly decided to...
www.thegazette.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Chappell Roan Unveils Midwest Princess Fund for Trans Youth — and She’s Already Raised $400K
Chappell Roan Unveils Midwest Princess Fund for Trans Youth — and She’s Already Raised $400K
Chappell Roan has announced her Midwest Princess Project for trans and LGBTQ+ youth, and the fund has already raised $400K.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists. @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools
Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...
www.propublica.org
October 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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It's also hard to convey just how much ICE is *everywhere*. The city, the suburbs, in and out in the blink of an eye. A crew doing smash and grab jobs across a massive expanse of distance. Part of the reason whistle distro is so important is because you will never know where/when you will need it.
sarahlazare.bsky.social Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 19d
It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
October 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey
October 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
exwife-of-frankenstein on tumblr: Youtube is full of ads, spotify is full of ads, tumblr is full of ads, pinterest is full of ads. Everything uses ai. Every new update makes the website/app worse. Youtube auto translates almost every video I want to watch. Sometimes pinterest only loads ads for me. Check out this new ai feature. Here's a new update that breaks ur laptop. Here's a new update that breaks ur phone. Why are u complaining about ur phone, just get the newest iphone lol. Join my patreon. Join my membership. Pay a monthly membership to get all features. Upgrade your membership to get even more features. Subscribe to netflix. Subscribe to disney. Subscribe to amazon. Subscribe to hulu. This content isn't available in ur country. This content was removed. This website was removed. This feature only exists for apple. This app only exists for apple. U need to a WiFi connection to play this game. U need an account. We need your email to finish creating this account. We need your number to finish creating your account. We need your id to finish creating your account. In order to delete your account please write an email. In order to delete your account you need a laptop. Oops our database was hacked and ur information was stolen. Ur data was sold from this random website u used once 10 years ago. Spam call. Spam call. Spam call. #IM GOING INSANE #NOTHING WORKS NOTHING
October 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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#NoKings Iowa City.
October 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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If you see someone trying to covertly take pictures or video of protesters, do not engage with them. Take thier picture and give it to the police for evidence of Doxxing, which is illegal in #Iowa under 2025 legislation that expands the definition of harassment.
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Bill would make “doxxing” easier to prosecute in Iowa
Senate File 35, introduced by Sen. Charlie McClintock, would include doxxing into Iowa’s definition of harassment.
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October 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Finally looked up how to get rid of Google‘s automatic AI answers (and the attached waste of resources) and it‘s so easy! What relief. 😅

www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
zensnapple's comment on "Is there a real way to shut off the Google AI overview for searches, or am i switching browsers and search engines?"
Explore this conversation and more from the techsupport community
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October 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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gene kelly is antifa
October 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Updated, with new links! My list of resources outlining some of the many reasons GenAI is bad news: catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
Against Generative AI – Cate Denial
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October 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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oregonian.com
Oriana Korol, a clarinetist with the Unpresidented Brass Band, was arrested after a man and federal agents barreled into band members who were standing across the street from the ICE office and playing the theme from “Ghostbusters.”

Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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An important additional detail: Most of the Unpresidented Band to which Korol belongs perform IN BANANA COSTUMES

This shit is indeed bananas
October 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
www.independent.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Still wishing hats would make a comeback.
Diane Keaton in a camel colored hat Diane Keaton in a grey felt hat with a black band Diane Keaton in a Black hat
October 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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A Message From The Frog Resistance
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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October 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)
For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary. Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from). The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe. Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky. Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat? This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight: * Waste of public resources on military theatrics. * Fraud in the name of “public safety.” * Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect. Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation. Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here. When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness. Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy. A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control. Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard. Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM