Patricia Wallinga ⛵🎵
@pwallinga.bsky.social
Bluesky's favorite opera composer [citation needed]. Not tonal, not atonal, but a secret third thing. Posts about music, D&D, and loads of other nonsense | she/her | midwesterner in 🌉
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Use this YouTube link to watch my opera-- 6 PM Pacific, 9/19!
It will also work after that, but don't you want to come hang out with me? 🥺
youtu.be/e_A94tDTpWY
It will also work after that, but don't you want to come hang out with me? 🥺
youtu.be/e_A94tDTpWY
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I feel like a lot of us in the comedy world failed the world at large when we stayed silent despite knowing all about Cosby and Louis so let me say right now that Steve Martin has eaten one banjo a year for the last 25 years
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I feel like a lot of us in the comedy world failed the world at large when we stayed silent despite knowing all about Cosby and Louis so let me say right now that Steve Martin has eaten one banjo a year for the last 25 years
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When I worked at a bookstore, I quickly learned that people cannot tell the difference between Xmas music and any Baroque or Elizabethan music album that doesn't get too organ-ish. I used this to my advantage.
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
When I worked at a bookstore, I quickly learned that people cannot tell the difference between Xmas music and any Baroque or Elizabethan music album that doesn't get too organ-ish. I used this to my advantage.
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
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They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)
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I have a friend who worked on the rescue attempts and the end of life for the whale as part of the stranded marine mammal team - @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social. he says they're working to continue this partnership with the Siletz tribe which I think is incredible!!
Very interesting contrast to the infamous exploding whale story
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‘An incredible privilege and a daunting task’: Oregon tribe harvests beached whale for the first time in generations
The Siletz tribe took apart the 20,000 pound humpback after it was euthanized Monday.
www.oregonlive.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I have a friend who worked on the rescue attempts and the end of life for the whale as part of the stranded marine mammal team - @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social. he says they're working to continue this partnership with the Siletz tribe which I think is incredible!!
Pokémon Legends: Z-A has a side quest where you have to give a cop a specific ghost Pokémon that can detect negative feelings, and the first thing it does is IMMEDIATELY suss out that his wife resents him and wants a divorce
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Pokémon Legends: Z-A has a side quest where you have to give a cop a specific ghost Pokémon that can detect negative feelings, and the first thing it does is IMMEDIATELY suss out that his wife resents him and wants a divorce
I'm so fucking sure I strained my stupid voice the day before the choir concert weekend
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I'm so fucking sure I strained my stupid voice the day before the choir concert weekend
Temporarily forgot how people refer to Hawai'i and thought this woman on the bus whose hat says "Big Island Bees" was just advertising huge tropical bees
November 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Temporarily forgot how people refer to Hawai'i and thought this woman on the bus whose hat says "Big Island Bees" was just advertising huge tropical bees
Some recent cute examples I've found are that OneNote's search is fully borked and the Microsoft video editing software can't open a project if you've closed the software at any point ever
November 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Some recent cute examples I've found are that OneNote's search is fully borked and the Microsoft video editing software can't open a project if you've closed the software at any point ever
Every D&D party consists of:
November 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Every D&D party consists of:
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save me dumb keytar solo you're my only hope. or however that goes
November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
save me dumb keytar solo you're my only hope. or however that goes
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big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
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I’m gonna implore everyone here to take the W if only to experience the feeling again.
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I’m gonna implore everyone here to take the W if only to experience the feeling again.
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🙋🏾♂️ have paint. will paint weird shit on your van.
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
🙋🏾♂️ have paint. will paint weird shit on your van.
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I've been summoned, as well as @pwallinga.bsky.social and @matthewcmiel.bsky.social.
Read the article or don't, but the headline was mine and I feel pretty proud of it.
www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Read the article or don't, but the headline was mine and I feel pretty proud of it.
www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
November 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I've been summoned, as well as @pwallinga.bsky.social and @matthewcmiel.bsky.social.
Read the article or don't, but the headline was mine and I feel pretty proud of it.
www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Read the article or don't, but the headline was mine and I feel pretty proud of it.
www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Hey @andymboyle.bsky.social I found this in my to-read tab and now I am struggling not to cry at work. Come on, man
The Lord God Bird (Runner Up – PS Fiction Contest) – Philadelphia Stories
philadelphiastories.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Hey @andymboyle.bsky.social I found this in my to-read tab and now I am struggling not to cry at work. Come on, man
What I say every time I go into a bakery
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
What I say every time I go into a bakery
Microsoft Clipchamp is a great piece of software if you want your software to act like closing it for a little while is a great personal betrayal
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Microsoft Clipchamp is a great piece of software if you want your software to act like closing it for a little while is a great personal betrayal
What "keep trans kids out of sports" assholes imagine: 6'4" linebackers quitting football in droves to crush innocent little girls into a pulp
What actually happens: Kaylie from Central High can't play with her friends because she's 5'9" and that angered the PTA moms at their rivals, St. Twat's
What actually happens: Kaylie from Central High can't play with her friends because she's 5'9" and that angered the PTA moms at their rivals, St. Twat's
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
What "keep trans kids out of sports" assholes imagine: 6'4" linebackers quitting football in droves to crush innocent little girls into a pulp
What actually happens: Kaylie from Central High can't play with her friends because she's 5'9" and that angered the PTA moms at their rivals, St. Twat's
What actually happens: Kaylie from Central High can't play with her friends because she's 5'9" and that angered the PTA moms at their rivals, St. Twat's
IOCSF concert this weekend!!! I am, as always, obsessed with this choir, and we've worked our asses off for this program. Reserve your seats ahead of time at iocsf.org/tickets. Hope to see you there!
IOCSF — International Orange Chorale of San Francisco
© 2023 International Orange Chorale of San Francisco | 77 Van Ness Ave, Suite 101; Box 2222, San Francisco, CA 94102. EIN: 45-4887073
iocsf.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
IOCSF concert this weekend!!! I am, as always, obsessed with this choir, and we've worked our asses off for this program. Reserve your seats ahead of time at iocsf.org/tickets. Hope to see you there!
It's always fascinating to me listening to different choirs where you can hear the radically different priorities they have. (For the record, I'm pretty much always partial to diction and warmth. I don't fuck with straight tone as a singer, and I'd never request it as a composer.)
November 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It's always fascinating to me listening to different choirs where you can hear the radically different priorities they have. (For the record, I'm pretty much always partial to diction and warmth. I don't fuck with straight tone as a singer, and I'd never request it as a composer.)
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turning my reversible jacket around in hopes that it changes things elsewhere
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
turning my reversible jacket around in hopes that it changes things elsewhere
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"Haha bitches, I got a new scooter" is so good
I’m howling.
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"Haha bitches, I got a new scooter" is so good
Sorry/Grateful, Ballad of Czolgosz, No One Is Alone, Being Alive, Sunday. Ask again tomorrow and at least two of those probably change, though
Okay, let's hear top 5 Sondheim songs. In no particular order:
1. Now / Later / Soon
2. Finishing the Hat
3. Johanna (Act 2 Sequence)
4. Everybody's Got the Right
5. In Buddy's Eyes
1. Now / Later / Soon
2. Finishing the Hat
3. Johanna (Act 2 Sequence)
4. Everybody's Got the Right
5. In Buddy's Eyes
November 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Sorry/Grateful, Ballad of Czolgosz, No One Is Alone, Being Alive, Sunday. Ask again tomorrow and at least two of those probably change, though
Monkey King is good, but it would be 1000% better with a pants role lead
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Monkey King is good, but it would be 1000% better with a pants role lead